Someone in MLB that still has at least one or two brain cells that actually function has to step up and stop these opening days overseas. The Red Sox just defeated the Oakland A’s 6-5 in 10 innings (Manny Being Manny went 2/4 two 2b and 4 RBI I love MANNY) in a game that should have been played at Fenway or the Al Davis Mausoleum but no some old white guy in MLB Office decided it was the right thing to do to play this game in Japan. So Sawx fans got up at 6AM and A’s fans got (or never went to bed) at 3AM and to top it all off from what I’ve read this morning DirecTV lost the signal on ESPN2 and NESN so fans were shout out for most of the game. Fucking brutal!
As most of you al know I have no use for A-Fraud in fact I was glad he never signed with the Mets in one of the only things Steve Phillips ever did right in his Mets reign of failure but after reading John Harpers piece in the Daily News today I honestly believe him when he says the feels he made a big mistake when he didn’t take the Mets offer and sign with the Blue and Orange. That’s why he says he dumped Scott Boras as he didn’t want to make the same mistake twice:
Someone needs to cut this article out and paste it on Oliver Perez’ locker.
With all the sky is falling over Mike Pelfrey and El Duque lack of effectiveness this spring John Maine’ blossoming has been under the radar so to speak.
I know My Big Fat Obnoxious Talk Show Host (MBFOTSH) and his little Poodle Partner are big money men for WFAN but it would have been nice if a couple of afternoons this spring they could have put on a few Mets games from Florida. MBFOTSH and the Poodle talk about the NCAA Tournament ad nausea but never talk basketball during the regular season. Same with the NBA and NHL? Are you kidding they would never lower themselves besides it would cut into their sports they really enjoy tennis, horseracing (Francesca shouldn’t hang around the paddock to much as someone might throw a saddle on his fat arese) and berating callers?
I’ve yet to watch the new shows on SNY but I did see Joe Benigno on SNY last night and every time I see him I have get the urge to play the numbers. When I was a kid the book maker in our neighborhood looked just like Joey Bada Bing from the hair style to the clothes. I work in the corner butcher shop all through high school and when I would deliver meat and groceries to our customers I would also take their numbers and money for the bookie. For those of you foreign to the “numbers” in what was called the Brooklyn number, the last three digit of the mutual handle at either Aqueduct or
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This post was written by kranepool on March 25, 2008
You never cease to amaze me. Too funny.
Someone needs to take the Poodle behind the shed and shut it up for good.
I am sorry, I cannot get warm and cozy with A-Fraud about how he opted for less money. His contracts have been totally insane. They have damaged baseball. I long for baseball to be played for the Game, with a decent paycheck, not for the Big Money. I favor regulation of salaries to keep them rational, low ticket prices, and for teams to be owned by their city governments (something like GB Packers), not private owners, so if the team makes a profit, it is for the muncipal budget.
What baseball player would turn down, say, a million dollars a year to play baseball, if that were the ceiing? The rest of us work for a small fraction of that, an play ball for fun. In the meantime, most fans can no longer afford to see their teams out at the ballpark. I used to go, in the 1960s, with the Borden’s milk carton coupons (ten got you General Admission and a great day at Shea). Bring back that magic, instead of $30 million salaries!