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9 Random Thoughts While Watching the Yankees are up 77-35
- I think the whole Congress/Media/Roger Clemens steroids thing is disgusting. The media is full of self-loathing hypocrites that made a bunch of money off of the steroid era and are certainly partially responsible to blame for it but now have crawled up onto their self righteous horses made of wax paper. Roger is probably guilty but is this really something congress needs to worry about? How many people died in the Middle East today? How many people are living in the streets of America? How many people don’t have a job tonight and are in danger of losing their home? Too many and what is congress worried about?
Flipping Roger Clemens and making an example of him. I hope everyone on that committee loses their next re-election bids. What happens when they lie? Nothing. Remember Ole Bill Clinton? This whole thing is just stupid.
Dear Bud Selig, An Open Letter #3 on how to fix the MLB: Recruit Men Like Mark Cuban
Dear Bud,
This letter continues my thoughts for you on how we can save the MLB. I realized how timely these letters are this weekend. Think about how good things are going right now for baseball.
With the exception of the AL West all of the races are tight. The AL east is an absolute heavy weight fight. The Central is interesting and the whole NL has compelling story lines
and
yet
people aren’t watching. That’s annoying. It made me think that maybe we don’t need to fix baseball but we might need to tweak the MLb a little bit more, which of course, is what these letters are about. To this point we’ve covered two fairly simple possibilities:
Posted in Media, Open Letters To Bud Selig, Opinion, mlb
Tagged Baseball, Bud Selig, Mark Cuban, Ownership
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Dear Bud. An open letter to address the issues of change for MLB. Alternately titled: If I were commissioner
This is a series of posts written as open letters to Bud Selig. The point is to throw out some proactive ideas on how to “fix” major league baseball.
Dear Mr. Selig,
I don’t really feel comfortable calling you Bud yet, but that might change. This letter is the first in a series of letters in an attempt to open a dialogue about how we can fix MLB. Let me be honest, I make a huge distinction between baseball and MLB.
Baseball as a game is just fine. It’s a beautiful game that moves like a wonderful sensual dance.
Posted in Media, Opinion, mlb
Tagged Baseball, Bud Selig, CBS sports, ESPN, FoxSports, Jason Stark, Ken Rosenthall, mlb, Sports Media
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Great Quote #4
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico
A-Rod, 600. A distraction in waiting?
Last night A-Rod hit his 599th home run. It was a crushing shot that leapt off of his bat. It actually showed off his strength. Just the pitch before he looked completely overmatched.
On the homerun pitch he almost looked as if he lunged at it. The sound of the crack gave it away though. It sounded like a fifty cal rifle going off. It was an immediate attention grabber, like the pretty girl walking down the street who knows she pretty. In the room I was in, heads snapped around.
Bring on the Phillies
What’s up with the Phillies? Tonight’s game should be epic with Doc pitching against CC but seriously why are the Phil’s so bad this year? They’re scoring is down. What bat did they lose that has brought them to this? The Yankees open a three night stand tonight with Doc’s team, then they do some cross town bashing late this week. I think they could easily go 5-1 if not 6-0.
Contraction: An Opening Argument
Contraction.
I know, it’s a dirty word. Merely saying it to some people causes their eyes to bulge and their stomachs to contract with copious amounts of acid.
But this post starts my argument for it. Anyone who has been around me for any amount of time knows that I consider the National League to be mostly quad A ball. That is to say that it is barely a step above triple A ball. I recently heard Vince Scully say that we have “watered our summer wine.” He went on to say that he thought we were trotting out 3 or 4 teams each night that are nothing more than AAA teams.
9 things I think I think today but might not think tomorrow
9 things I think I think today but might not think tomorrow or the next day….
- Derek Jeter is hurt. He just looks slow to his left as if he can’t push off with his right leg. His swing is a little herky jerky. He just doesn’t look like Jeter.
- In tonight’s game, Cervilli threw Cora out in the second. The replay shows Cano’s tag hitting the left hand.
- David Wright’s career is not going to go back to what it was.
Why!!! The Javier Vazquez deal just stinks
Seriously, why did we trade for Javier Vazquez? I want to think that Brian Cashman is a smart guy and defend him when people talk about his stupid moves in the past.
I want to tell them that George Steinbrenner made him do those stupid moves and as the owner of the tea, he has the right to make stupid decisions. I may not like it, but that’s the owner. He can do what he wants with his money. But then he goes and trades Melky for Javy.
I said then that I didn’t get it (I didn’t have this blog then, so you’re going to have to trust me here) and I don’t understand it today. I mean, I know that Melky is not exactly a future Hall of Famer, he’s not going to be a guy that makes the 100 greatest Yankees of all time, but honestly are we a better team today because of this trade? No. Are the Braves? Yes.
It just doesn’t look like Javier Vazquez can pitch in the bright lights of New York. Why fight that? Why try to change reality? Are we going to trade Gardy for Jeff Weaver next? Somehow, I doubt it.
Posted in Javier Vazquez, Pitchers, Players
Tagged Bad Trades, Baseball, Brian Cashman, Javier Vazquez, Yankees
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George Will and Joe West Drinking the same Drink…
Yesterday (Sunday, The 11th), Gorge Will was on MLB Network George Will was interviewed about the length of games. George dropped a beautiful load of illogicality. George said something to the effect that Joe West worked the plate at an Orioles game the night before and the game only went 2 hours and some odd minutes (I think it was under 2.5 but I don’t want to pay for the transcript of the interview). Then Georgie gave us a beautiful throw away line. He said, “The final score was 3-0.”
George, maybe you should go back to writing articles debunking Global Warming.