This was a surprising passage to read from Buster. I’m thrilled he wrote this. Really. It’s about time someone from the MSM is saying this, particularly the parentheticals:
Only now, instead of Bonds and Sosa and Palmeiro and McGwire, it is Ibanez who is propping up some big numbers in front of them — and is anybody surprised when there is skepticism? (As a note: Some of the mainstream media outrage to the Jrod column was fascinating, because some of the same writers who have said they will never vote for a player they suspect of using steroids are saying it’s wrong for others to blog about their own suspicions of players’ steroid use. Think about the laughable inconsistency there.) Ibanez insists he’s clean, and we have no reason to doubt his word. Assuming he is clean, the circumstances are wildly unfair to him. But those elements were not put in place by Morris, who just happens to be part of a generation that does its communicating via e-mail and Twitter and blogs — rather than through word of mouth, as a lot of writers did in the late ’90s and the earlier part of this decade, as they stood alongside batting cages and speculated on who did steroids and who didn’t. My own standard as a journalist is that I won’t speculate, in print, on who does steroids and who doesn’t, at least without proof. I don’t think any news organization should. But if Morris and others do so, after being lied to time after time after time, you really can’t blame them.
Morris did nothing to erode the credibility of Ibanez. He only posed questions that are reasonable, because we’ve all seen aged star after aged star insist that they were innocent, only to be proven that they are liars. Like Charlie Brown, fans like Morris have had the proverbial football yanked out from in front of them time after time.
Please, I beg you: Try this at home. But do it near a big glass window and have the video running.
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I just love that someone did this analysis to answer this question: Should I get a Plastic Beer Bottle or the Souvenir Cup? I’ll give you the conclusion here, but there’s a also “volume analysis” (see picture to the right).
Based on the assumption of a average of 20 ounces in the Souvenir cup (taking head and spillage into account) and the fact you keep the cup, the Yankees Souvenir Cup is the better buy for your money as it costs $1.00 extra and provides a possible 4 – 8 extra ounces of beer.
From a convenience point of view the plastic beer bottle is the better buy. You do not need to leave your seat or run a risk of spilling any beer in transit. You do not need to carry a cup around when you are done or take gamble as to the actual amount of beer you are paying for.
Brilliant!!!!
There’s also a wonderful list of “Things You’ll Need”, which includes:
- Ticket to Yankee Stadium
- 21 + Years Alive
- Money
- Want For Beer
I think I can satisfy all of the above, minus the ticket. Anyone got tickets?
Sosa, who is sixth on Major League Baseball’s career home run list and last played in 2007, had long been suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs, but until now had never been publicly linked to a positive test.
Yet another one bites the dust.
Sammy Sosa, who joined with Mark McGwire in 1998 in a celebrated pursuit of baseball’s single-season home run record, is among the players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year.
The disclosure that Sosa tested positive makes him the latest baseball star of the last two decades to be linked to performance enhancers, a group that now includes McGwire, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez and Rafael Palmeiro.
And now we’re going to have to continue to bleed out the balance of the 104, 103 102 names not currently known. Which is equal parts dumb, sad and painful. I’m still torn on this. Should the 102 left in anonymity be kept there until someone outs them, or should MLB and the MLBPA agree to release the list and just get it over with? There’s a poll to the upper left; please vote.
…you might be a pompous a$$hole. Or worse.
I’m all for this kid doing whatever it takes to get to the majors as soon as he’s able. I’m not going to chastise his parents for having him skip his last 2 years of high school if someone wants to pay him major loot. It’s no different than having an exceptionally gifted student; let’em be Doogie Howser. What’s so marvelous about high school anyways?
The Prom is overrated anyways. Unless you like fake tans (I love me some Oompa Loompas), renting someone else’s clothes, overpaying for a limo….
But wearing your eyeblack like you’re some badass WWE wrestler tells me you just might be a giant d-bag. I reserve the right to change my mind if proven wrong.
Moving on…
Sara K., a FOTB, has a great posting at her place. I think it’s satire. Not sure. Here’s part of it:
In a statement read by his agent, Scott Boras, Rodriguez said, “I am shocked at Palin’s assumption that her daughter would be an unwilling participant in sexual activity with me. I am far better looking than Levi Johnston. Besides, she doesn’t have the musculature that I normally crave when I am on the road. Levi is as cute as Jetes, though. Not as cute as me, but cute like that guy on American Idol.” When reminded by a reporter in a post-game press conference that the daughter who actually attended the game was Palin’s 14-year-old Willow, the Dominican-born former love interest of Madonna replied, “Age is nothing but a number. Hey, we’re all dumb and stupid when we’re young. Right, Yuri?”
Happy to contribute any time, Sara!
“Harry Doyle”, aka Bob Uecker, was in Cleveland to toss out the first pitch in the game between the Brewers and the Indians. As a way to honor the 20th anniversary of “Major League“, Uecker threw out the opening ball and Rick Vaughn bobbleheads were given out.
Yes, Monday night’s schedule says “Interleague,” but the game will also be about “Major League” — a flick still near and dear to the hearts of Tribe fans, 20 years after its initial release.
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But in true Hollywood fashion, the Tribe’s home games in the movie weren’t, of course, shot in Cleveland Municipal Stadium. That honor went to Milwauke County Stadium, which makes the Brewers tie-in for Monday’s promotion all the more appropriate.
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At least a real baseball stadium was used. The actors playing Tribe players certainly weren’t real ballplayers. (And please spare us the obvious punchline that the real Indians players of the 1980s might have been better off pursuing acting careers.)
But the makers of the movie wanted a cast capable of playing ball on camera and making it look realistic. Charlie Sheen (Rick Vaughn), Tom Berenger (Jake Taylor), Corbin Bernsen (Roger Dorn), Dennis Haysbert (Pedro Cerrano) and Wesley Snipes (Willie Mays Hayes) all held their own.
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I had heard Charlie was a good player in high school and Berenger could play pretty well, and he hit well, but he couldn’t throw,” Ward said. “Corbin was a very good player, and Dennis was a really good player who actually hit a few real home runs while we were filming. The one person who really wasn’t a player was Wesley, but he was such an amazing athlete that he learned to play baseball in about three weeks.”When it came to finding an actor to handle the role of the Tribe’s acerbic broadcaster, Harry Doyle, Ward had a natural fit in Bob Uecker, the longtime Brewers play-by-play man who also had a starring role in the TV sitcom hit “Mr. Belvedere.”
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Not exactly a “blogger gets a major MSM gig, quits his job” story, but I thought this was at least worth a mention. Wrong sport and not quite a “blogger”, but huge congrats to Mike Florio of profootballtalk.com:
I think the next interesting football-related journalistic battle line might be how many clicks NBCSports.com can take away from the field by acquiring profootballtalk.com. Today, NBC will announce it has reached a deal with PFT that will allow the site to exclusively license its content to NBCSports.com. Mike Florio, the dogged founder and writer for the site, is giving up his day job (lawyering) to devote more time to PFT, so NBC could be getting even more valuable content than PFT has been publishing. The move is effective July 1. PFT’s best month had 1.7 million unique visitors to the site; that’s going to skyrocket now.
1.7 million visitors in a month? Wow. I’ve heard/read that it takes roughly 1M hits/month to generate enough ad revenue to quit your day job.
Guessing I will be here for some time.
Over the last nearly 18 months, I’ve been lucky enough to conduct interviews with some insiders within the game. From an agent (Matt Sosnick), players (Darryl Rasner, Eric Hacker), a former manager/player (Mike Hargrove), a professional writer (Jeff Pearlman), to a current assistant GM (Paul DePodesta). My goal is to bring you interesting perspectives from those in and around the game, people who you might not hear from every day. As always, I hope to continue to be so lucky to do more of these types of interviews.
My latest interview is with Robert Tuchman, founder and president of New York-based TSE Sports & Entertainment, a global leader in sports and entertainment promotion. He’s also the Executive VP of the corporate division. In addition to being the leader of an organization responsible for corporate sponsorships and outings, Robert somehow found the time to write the book “The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live“. Click here for the website.
I choose Robert not merely because he wrote a book about the best sporting events to see live, but also because of his story about making it in the sports and entertainment industry.
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…Bryce Harper, Phenom, College of Southern Nevada (after earning his GED at age 16).
Harper, a 16-year-old who just completed his sophomore year, has registered at the College of Southern Nevada, where he plans to attend classes in August and play for the Coyotes next season.
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Bryce Harper and his mother, Sheri, recently went to CSN and signed enrollment forms and his letter of intent to play baseball. Harper is aiming to earn his GED test credentials in the fall.
So not only will Boras have a “once in a generation” pitching talent with Strasburg this year, he could have Harper next year. And he’ll have his gun in the back of the Nats (in all likelihood) yet again this time next year. At 16, I was just hoping to get a car. He’s contemplating a multimillion dollar draft bonus. Of course, I wasn’t a 6-foot-3-inch catcher who hit .626 with 14 home runs and 55 RBIs along with 36 stolen bases.
A review of Harper can be found here: Behold! The Baseball Jesus!
That’s about as absurd a way to win/lose a game as I have ever seenAnd they pump out worthless drivel like this*:
The big deal is that the Sox and Yankees don’t play each other again until Aug. 6. So New York can win every game for the next eight weeks; the Yankees can win 40 in a row or more. But no matter what they do, they’re going to be constantly reminded that they are 0-8 against the Red Sox.
It’s pretty terrific when you think about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Boston Globe. What’s the matter, Dan, no more “Curse” books to write?
And the truth is, from one Yanks fan: Losing to the Sox always sucks. Eight in a row is really painful. And I lost not one wink of sleep over it the past few nights. I give a ton of credit to the Sox for doing it everyway possible and for being a very smart organization.
But can the MSM stop with the blogger bashing when they are tossing this horsesh*t out there as “professional content” that you can only learn in a classroom taught by Geoff Baker?
* Thanks to my bro for bringing this to my attention
