Or, why Yankee and Cowboy fans really pay $15 per Heineken?
FOX’s weekly MLB telecast with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver is getting increasingly annoying, and last night’s game between the Red Sox and Yankees was the worst (or best, if you want annoying) yet.
Much of the broadcast was filled with all the mystery and intrigue surrounding the "last minute" extraction of Jorge Posada from the line up, after Posada reportedly told Manager Joe Girardi that he needed a "mental health" day off.
But as we heard more innuendo and rumor, could it have been that Posada was miffed about hitting in the 9 spot in the line up, even though his .165 average is so bad even Mario Mendoza would blush?
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Hmm, to me that last part is equivalent to Jorge telling Cashman to go dry-hump a tangle of razor wire, so what is the real story here?
First off, I think Jorge needs to toss all of his wife’s mobile devices in the East River, because she’s not helping by posting something in conflict with what her husband’s boss (Joe Girardi) was quoted on camera as saying after the game. Now it’s true that Girardi may just be backing up his boss, but I don’t think so.
A lot of folks have been saying that Posada was pouting about being in the 9 hole in the batting order, which I also don’t buy at all. My take on Posada (and I hate the Yankees) is that he’s a pro, and always has been a pro. He knows he’s been awful, and that as he approaches age 40, he knows his days as a productive ballplayer are just about done. I just think he’s not (quite yet) ready to step away from the game because his pride is justifiably enormous. He doesn’t want to go out with a whisper, or worse, the way Steve Carlton went?
Carlton, after being one of the greatest pitchers of all time just couldn’t go away at the end, and played with 7 teams in barely three seasons before hanging it up. I say "barely three season’s" because in his final year (1988), he posted a 16.76 ERA over four games, giving up 5 homers in a little over 9 innings before he finally knew what we’d all known since early 1986.
I think we’re seeing more of what we witnessed this winter, when the Yankee front office played a little hardball with Derek Jeter, and told all of us that they think their captain is done as a star, but we’ll give you a $50 million dollar parting gift. Posada has the greater part of $13 million coming to him this season, and maybe that’s making it a bit tougher too?
For the Yankees, this is really what pundits mean when the say "the wheels have come off," but you know what…they are wrong.
This is what happens when the wheels won’t come off, and I know, because it is literally happening to me as I write this.
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| I like it with a little salt & lime |
The Yankees can spray all the PB Blaster on Posada that they want, just as they pounded Derek Jeter with that sledge-hammer, and it would appear both of them for now will be taking the Steve Carlton path off the main stage. The big saving grace with Carlton was he never spoke to the media the last 15 or so years of his career. In a way, not unlike Jeter, who has never told us anything, really, ever. Maybe Jorge should rent some scuba gear and go diving for his wife’s Blackberry and Ipad before it gets rusty? I’d send him what’s left of my PB Blaster, but I drank the rest of it with a little salt and lime.
On a different note, have you seen the story about the concession business that serves the fat cats at Yankee and Dallas Cowboy games those $15 beers? Oh, I’m sorry, the beers are really $12 and change, but patrons are told that a 20% gratuity is added, even though that "tip" is not given to the server.
Lovely. Makes me want to attend a game, drink 10 Heineken’s, give the server a $100 tip each time, and then throw the bottles at Jerry Jones or the Bosses boys so they can redeem them for the deposit. I think they need the cash.
Oh yeah, there was the game last night too. Wow, all this entertainment, plus a baseball game!
The Sox shutout the increasingly inept Yanks, and I can’t help but think this really is the year the bottom falls out in New York. Mix Jeter and Posada with Ivan Nova, Phil Hughes, Bartolo Colon, and Freddie Garcia, and that’s bad enough. But then toss on a fast fading ARod, a .213 hitting Nick Swisher, and a .250 hitting Mark Teixeira and this team would be in last place except for 4 guys. However long Sabathia, Cano, Granderson and Martin can carry this team won’t be long enough to keep them from being a .500 team or worse if things don’t change pretty soon.
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When Joe Buck asked her about how she felt when the Red Sox finally won a World Series in 2004, Sarah actually said the feeling was "bittersweet."
Huh?
From there, things morphed and oozed uncomfortably until Sarah said she wasn’t a ‘real’ Red Sox (or baseball) fan (I think I had that figured out), but did have some (random) statistics she could talk about.
I couldn’t believe when McCarver took the bait and asked her to lay it on America.
Sarah spoke about the late and immortal Dock Ellis, and how he had (claimed to have) taken LSD before pitching (a no-hitter) in the majors, and how "all pitchers should take LSD before they pitch."
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Only problem I see with this is that in all the acid I took back in the day, there was always speed mixed into it, and MLB has banned amphetamines, so might be some work to do, as we wouldn’t want players being suspended. Could you imagine Manny on LSD? Would the drug be restricted to use by pitchers only?
Where have you gone Red Barber, a FOX audience turns it ringing ears to you.
Baseball fever, catch the rush!
This has been brought to you by PB Blaster, $15 Heinekens, and Gomer and Goober’s Auto Parts.
Sha zam!
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