There’s a Mercury News Editorial that makes the case for Barry Bonds becoming a leader for cleaning up baseball. .. ? So Bonds who supposedly used the juice, and used it successfully I might add, to become this super hitter. .. Who would really be loving the stuff to this day I would guess if he didn’t get charged with using it. .. Should be the guy telling our young ball players “just say no, do as I say not as I did” type of thing? And really, the question of course isn’t “hey it’s [click to contimue reading...]
As you probably know there has been this little war or words going on between Bobby Jenks of the Boston Red Sox & his former manager Ozzie Guillen of the Chicago White Sox. Apparently no one gave these guys the memo that once you’re grown up you end come off looking like a knucklehead if you start calling other people names through the media. .. If you do this personally who cares. No one, including myself, will ever stop doing that even through we ALL got that memo. .. What the heck, it relieves stress. [click to contimue reading...]
David Wilder formally of the Chi White Sox was formally charged with taking kickbacks from young prospects. If you don’t know the story then here’s the deal: David was the Senior Director of Player Personnel for the White Sox who apparently according to the Chicago Tribune “The indictment alleged that Wilder and two former Sox scouts, Jorge Oquendo Rivera and Victor Mateo, fraudulently inflated the signing bonuses of Latin American prospects and then had the players kick back the extra money to them over the more than three-year scheme. In all, they pocketed about [click to contimue reading...]
Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner turns 80 years old today and there’s a big shin-dig at Yankee Stadium in his honor. His health these days not the best and his kids are running the show’s daily operations (how’s that for winning the lottery). As far as accomplishments go under Steinbrenner this team has taken home 11 pennants and 7 World Series Championships. And this my friends is where championships in pro sports are won: First at the front office then on the field. Here’s an owner with granted deep pockets and a wildly successful franchise but he [click to contimue reading...]
Carlos apparently lost it in the dugout yesterday and has been suspended indefinitely as described in this article. .. Huh.. Not sure but I’ll bet he’s suspended with pay. Man, just imagine if real world jobs were like that. Anyway one of the things I really, truly LOVE is the fact that sweet Lou Piniella said “That’s something that can’t be tolerated. He came in after he got the third out and he started yelling and screaming. It was embarrassing. … There’s no excuse for this, none at all, no excuse whatsoever.” .. This is [click to contimue reading...]
So when does tradition translate into stupidity? Look no further than major league baseball. You see “we’ve always had human beings make the calls it’s part of the tradition of this grand old game”. Right… try telling that not only to amanda Galarraga who had his perfect game stolen from him but to Jim Joyce who blew the call, has apologized and is sort of extremely hated by everyone in Detroit. Here’s the youtube video, yeah I know it’s 7 minutes long but trust me just put your ADD on hold.. watching the two outs prior [click to contimue reading...]
Yeah, yeah they caught Edinson Volquez using steroids and suspended him for 50 games… yeah yeah. … Soooooo they suspended a guy for 50 games he wouldn’t be playing anyway since he’d be recovering from an elbow injury. .. That’s like suspending me from dating Pamela Anderson. Guess what? I wasn’t on the roster anyway. .. who knows why . … But beating your chest yakking about a 50 game suspension does sounds tough, you’ve got to give it that. Anyway I could go into an in depth analysis but if you want to be bored [click to contimue reading...]
It never stops does it? Now the people on Capitol Hill (most of which are physical slobs who eat terribly, never exercise (except their mouths) and can’t wait to call up baseball players to hearings so they can rub elbows) are looking to… are crying to.. ban smokeless tobacco, aka chewing tobacci. So this group of super-humans are going to save all of us from ourselves.. Now you know the drill, first you parade all the knuckleheads who lost part of their face due to mouth cancer or something, we all cry a little (because [click to contimue reading...]
MLB has announced it will become a responsible environmental steward or something like that in green-speak. Basically translated into English this usually means that it will try to use less resources of energy and material stuff while conducting the business of baseball. … But specifically they will be only using this computer program to collect data to monitor things such as energy usage and how much of this energy comes from renewable resources etc (just go to all day games…done . I just saved them a billion carbon credits on lighting. Although none of us [click to contimue reading...]
Joe, Joe, Joe…you’ve really done it. People are ticked off and now are dredging up stuff like in 1995 when you ejected the Met’s manager and bench coach over a late lineup card (first time I heard this one but if true it seems like Joe hates to be late…play, play, play and let’s get the hell out of here…it’s a GAME … it suppose to be FUN .. I want to hang at the park and ENJOY it .. it is not my JOB ..sheesh). Here’s some links as to what other’s are saying [click to contimue reading...]
