Wednesday, June
30, 2004
Wow, your at the game and you have a cell phone...yea dork!
If you watch any Baseball at all, you have seen
them (hell, maybe you have been one of them). The
Jack-n-Apes who sit around home plate, get on their cell phones,
and wave to somebody watching them on TV.
You see me waving…yea…hey look, I’m still waving
huh? Ooohh, you can see me again?...I’ll keep waving then.
Can’t the director of the broadcast do something
about this? Maybe blur them out or put an ad in front of
their face? As soon as you see a fan around home plate put a cell
phone to their ear, throw up a Viagra logo or a Sportscenter is
next!
I readily admit, when I call people dorks it’s the
pot calling the kettle black. But at least I keep it to the
confines of the local comic book shop or Bloggin page.
If one day you find yourself next to one of these
people, give them a solid punch to the arm as soon as they start
waving. Now that is something I wouldn’t mind
seeing!
Friday, June
18, 2004
Barry the Bozo.
Bonds wonders why he doesn’t get more
endorsements or why people don’t like him or the press doesn’t
support him. Well an interview he had with Gorden Edes
of the Boston Globe shows us at least (if not Barry),
why few people like him.
In the interview Barry was asked if he would
ever play for Boston,
“Boston is too racist for me,” Barry said “I
could never play there.”
His statement came from only word-of-mouth and
not personal experience.
Look, Boston has a old rep for being racist and
I'm sure that is what he was making reference to. But
the fact is Barry has led a very privileged life (not that
it’s his fault) and probably doesn’t personally know what real
racism is. Not like the kind his dad Bobby or Hank Aaron
experienced (he got death threats when he came close to Babe
Ruth’s homerun record).
I give credit to Barry for speaking his mind in
this very p.c. sports interview times (has Tiger ever said
anything really?). But unfortunately every time Barry
speaks his mind, we see how out-of-touch he is and it reminds
us why we dislike him. |
Saturday,
June 19, 2004
If the A's only had a closer.
If you’re from the traditionalist school of
Baseball you might think that closers and saves are overrated.
I’m not so sure you would still think that if you took a look
at what Eric Gagne has done for the Dodgers and then look at
what happens when you don’t have somebody like a Gagne.
Gagne is perfect right now with 17 saves and as
a team the Dodgers only have one blown save. On the
other end of that are the Oakland A’s who just blew another
save against the Chicago Cubs today. As a team they have
14 blown saves. Let us say they ended up losing nine of
those games. If they had Gagne, they would have nine
more wins giving them the best record in Baseball and would be
up 2 ½ games on the closest team.
You can’t beat a quality starter but don’t
underrate a solid closer. He can make decent team good
and a good team a pennant winner. |
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