Championship*
Actually, let's try this:
New York Yankees, 1996 World Series Champions*
Oh shoot, I forgot about this one:
New York Yankees, 1999 World Series Champions*
After Tuesday's utterly stupefying and shocking bombshell of a revelation that Grimsley quit using steroids to focus on HGH, Jim... Wait a minute... I distinctly recall Grimsley being on the... Excuse me for a brief moment...
New York Yankees, 2000 World Series Champions*
Ok, where was I? Oh right. After the story of Grimsley being busted by Feds for receiving HGH broke on Tuesday, Friday morning brings more utterly stupefying and shocking revelation of a bomshell that Jim Leyritz has used pretty much every drug ever found in a major league clubhouse (not including the 1980's Mets clubhouse, which was restricted only to coke, crack cocaine, and minute traces of heroin).
I'm absolutely stunned by this news. I mean, come on, what are they going to tell us next, that the world is round and that Columbus didn't really discover America?
I actually had another post ready to go on Tuesday night, but a computer crash lost the file. I didn't feel like writing about it again and the post was crappy anyway. On second thought, anytime we can publicly (proceeding on the unfounded assumption this blog is "public") humiliate and roast a beloved Yankee is good times for me. You would think. I thought so. In reality, I take no humor in this and Jiambi and Sheffield being implicated by BALCO anymore. It was funny last year. Now it's just boring old news. Instead of covering the Tigers, Pujols, Papelbon, Pedro, A-Rod's unclutchness, the young Marlins, Soriano, and all the million other great stories that they should be covering, the media is basically going to whore this story out until kingdom come. And kingdom will come when Donald Fehr and Bud Selig come to a new agreement that will test for HGH, the new drug of choice. And I'm sure our wonderful lawmakers will push them there by having a travashamockery of a few Congressional hearings on this matter instead of things that ACTUALLY matter.
(Tangential Political Rant: Why is it baseball gets this crap from Congress while the other sports get nothing? Uncle Cliffy got a puny five-game suspension for violation of NBA's substance abuse policy, yet I don't see Henry Waxman of California marching David Stern's ass to the podium to defend NBA's drug policy. Dear Mr. Waxman, California has a lot more problems that you should be worrying about. And 325 pound linemen in the NFL are running 4.8 40's. Um, okay. If you think that sport is clean, I've got some Enron futures that you might be interested in. Why does baseball get all the heat and the attention from Senators and Congressmen? Tennis, anyone?)
Buster Olney (repeatedly) and Jayson Stark have already written on this. Gammons, the one and only HOFER, decided to write about the amateur draft, god bless him. Tom Verducci has been all over Bonds like a fat kid on cake. I'm sure Rosenthal is bound to weigh in soon enough. As much as I love reading these guys on a daily basis, I'm going to stop for awhile. I just don't care. I'm sick of it. I don't want to hear about steroids or HGH or greenies. I've made up my opinions about the era and close to nothing is going to change my mind. I'm sure most of you feel the same way. Just go away.
And to the Yankee fans out there, I'm kidding about the asterisks. They're stupid. As stupid as 73*.
****
In other news, Mark Wohlers is pissed as hell.
****
Papelbon blew his first game of the year for the Sox, but picked up the victory. He didn't pitch badly at all. He came into the 8th inning with two outs and men on 1st and 3rd. Most people are right in saying a closer is tested only after he experiences failure. They are curious as to how he will respond after this blown save. I'm not. He needs to get shelled and the team to lose in a big spot. They won the game tonight. I doubt his confidence wavers after this. I'll be curious if/when he blows a 3 run lead at Yankee Stadium in October.
****
I'm pretty sure Ned Yost is tearing his eyeballs out right now. The Brew-ha-ha's took a 6-0 lead after two innings tonight, and proceeded to lose the game 10-6. How, you ask? It's one thing to lose when the wind is blowing out and guys are teeing off like it's homerun derby. It's another thing to do it because you cant throw a strike. The Cardinals managed to score 8 runs in the 3rd and 4th innings, most as a result of walks:
S. Rolen, walk, scored on double.
H. Luna, walk, scored on single.
Y. Molina, walk, scored on, um, walk.
A. Miles, walk, scored on groundout.
S. Taguchi, walk, driving in a run, scored on double.
J. Encarnacion, walk, scored on double.
That's 6 walks in 2 innings, and every one of them scored. Throw strikes dammit!
****
I'm browsing the rest of the league. I should be asleep by now, but having opened an account this past week at Bodog, I'm more curious beyond my fantasy players. Tonight's three picks:
Red Sox (Wakefield) -150 at $7.50
A nervous moment here and there, but I'm up $5.
Net: +5
A's (Haren) +138 at $5.00
I was ecstatic when I made this pick last night against Unit. I'm pissed that by game time tonight, the line had moved to +155. I don't know how to feel given that the Yankees just scored 4 in the 7th to move within a run. If there was ever a time for Huston Street to step up, the time is now!!!
11:47pm: Two outs in the ninth, with A-Rod up. This game is as good as over. Cha-ching!
11:49pm: Ball game over, thaaaaaa Yankees lose! Gimme my $6.90 Bodog!
Net: +11.90
Last but not least (ok, least)
Tigers (Bonderman) -110 at $5.50
I was sure Chacin would not last long. The Tigers lineup is deep. The Jays are too, but Bonderman's ERA is deceiving. He's much improved from last year.
I tune into the game in the bottom of the 7th, with the Tigers up 5-2. Zumaya gets through the inning scoreless. In the 8th, Jamie Walker gets the first out and in comes Fernando Rodney. After a Shea Hillenbrand homerun, the score is 5-3. Okay at least, he didn't walk. It's only a solo shot. They still have a two run lead. 'Tis a shame, but little did I know, the Tigers would not get another out... until Shea Hillenbrand batted again.
Single.
Walk.
Single.
Single. Game tied. Too bad the pain is not over.
Triple. 7-5.
Single. 8-5
Double. 9-5.
Single. At least a run didn't score.
Sac Fly. Okay fine. I'm tuning into another game.
Instead of sushi and Sapporo tomorrow, it's lamb and rice takeout from a Middle Eastern food cart, or what #1 lovingly refers to as "terrorist food." No doubt our Commander-in- Chief would accuse me of giving comfort and aid to our enemies, but I don't care, the Tigers lost and I'm out $10.50 on a bullpen implosion and their special white sauce is damn good. And no, we're not racist.
Net: +6.40
New York Yankees, 1996 World Series Champions*
Oh shoot, I forgot about this one:
New York Yankees, 1999 World Series Champions*
After Tuesday's utterly stupefying and shocking bombshell of a revelation that Grimsley quit using steroids to focus on HGH, Jim... Wait a minute... I distinctly recall Grimsley being on the... Excuse me for a brief moment...
New York Yankees, 2000 World Series Champions*
Ok, where was I? Oh right. After the story of Grimsley being busted by Feds for receiving HGH broke on Tuesday, Friday morning brings more utterly stupefying and shocking revelation of a bomshell that Jim Leyritz has used pretty much every drug ever found in a major league clubhouse (not including the 1980's Mets clubhouse, which was restricted only to coke, crack cocaine, and minute traces of heroin).
I'm absolutely stunned by this news. I mean, come on, what are they going to tell us next, that the world is round and that Columbus didn't really discover America?
I actually had another post ready to go on Tuesday night, but a computer crash lost the file. I didn't feel like writing about it again and the post was crappy anyway. On second thought, anytime we can publicly (proceeding on the unfounded assumption this blog is "public") humiliate and roast a beloved Yankee is good times for me. You would think. I thought so. In reality, I take no humor in this and Jiambi and Sheffield being implicated by BALCO anymore. It was funny last year. Now it's just boring old news. Instead of covering the Tigers, Pujols, Papelbon, Pedro, A-Rod's unclutchness, the young Marlins, Soriano, and all the million other great stories that they should be covering, the media is basically going to whore this story out until kingdom come. And kingdom will come when Donald Fehr and Bud Selig come to a new agreement that will test for HGH, the new drug of choice. And I'm sure our wonderful lawmakers will push them there by having a travashamockery of a few Congressional hearings on this matter instead of things that ACTUALLY matter.
(Tangential Political Rant: Why is it baseball gets this crap from Congress while the other sports get nothing? Uncle Cliffy got a puny five-game suspension for violation of NBA's substance abuse policy, yet I don't see Henry Waxman of California marching David Stern's ass to the podium to defend NBA's drug policy. Dear Mr. Waxman, California has a lot more problems that you should be worrying about. And 325 pound linemen in the NFL are running 4.8 40's. Um, okay. If you think that sport is clean, I've got some Enron futures that you might be interested in. Why does baseball get all the heat and the attention from Senators and Congressmen? Tennis, anyone?)
Buster Olney (repeatedly) and Jayson Stark have already written on this. Gammons, the one and only HOFER, decided to write about the amateur draft, god bless him. Tom Verducci has been all over Bonds like a fat kid on cake. I'm sure Rosenthal is bound to weigh in soon enough. As much as I love reading these guys on a daily basis, I'm going to stop for awhile. I just don't care. I'm sick of it. I don't want to hear about steroids or HGH or greenies. I've made up my opinions about the era and close to nothing is going to change my mind. I'm sure most of you feel the same way. Just go away.
And to the Yankee fans out there, I'm kidding about the asterisks. They're stupid. As stupid as 73*.
****
In other news, Mark Wohlers is pissed as hell.
****
Papelbon blew his first game of the year for the Sox, but picked up the victory. He didn't pitch badly at all. He came into the 8th inning with two outs and men on 1st and 3rd. Most people are right in saying a closer is tested only after he experiences failure. They are curious as to how he will respond after this blown save. I'm not. He needs to get shelled and the team to lose in a big spot. They won the game tonight. I doubt his confidence wavers after this. I'll be curious if/when he blows a 3 run lead at Yankee Stadium in October.
****
I'm pretty sure Ned Yost is tearing his eyeballs out right now. The Brew-ha-ha's took a 6-0 lead after two innings tonight, and proceeded to lose the game 10-6. How, you ask? It's one thing to lose when the wind is blowing out and guys are teeing off like it's homerun derby. It's another thing to do it because you cant throw a strike. The Cardinals managed to score 8 runs in the 3rd and 4th innings, most as a result of walks:
S. Rolen, walk, scored on double.
H. Luna, walk, scored on single.
Y. Molina, walk, scored on, um, walk.
A. Miles, walk, scored on groundout.
S. Taguchi, walk, driving in a run, scored on double.
J. Encarnacion, walk, scored on double.
That's 6 walks in 2 innings, and every one of them scored. Throw strikes dammit!
****
I'm browsing the rest of the league. I should be asleep by now, but having opened an account this past week at Bodog, I'm more curious beyond my fantasy players. Tonight's three picks:
Red Sox (Wakefield) -150 at $7.50
A nervous moment here and there, but I'm up $5.
Net: +5
A's (Haren) +138 at $5.00
I was ecstatic when I made this pick last night against Unit. I'm pissed that by game time tonight, the line had moved to +155. I don't know how to feel given that the Yankees just scored 4 in the 7th to move within a run. If there was ever a time for Huston Street to step up, the time is now!!!
11:47pm: Two outs in the ninth, with A-Rod up. This game is as good as over. Cha-ching!
11:49pm: Ball game over, thaaaaaa Yankees lose! Gimme my $6.90 Bodog!
Net: +11.90
Last but not least (ok, least)
Tigers (Bonderman) -110 at $5.50
I was sure Chacin would not last long. The Tigers lineup is deep. The Jays are too, but Bonderman's ERA is deceiving. He's much improved from last year.
I tune into the game in the bottom of the 7th, with the Tigers up 5-2. Zumaya gets through the inning scoreless. In the 8th, Jamie Walker gets the first out and in comes Fernando Rodney. After a Shea Hillenbrand homerun, the score is 5-3. Okay at least, he didn't walk. It's only a solo shot. They still have a two run lead. 'Tis a shame, but little did I know, the Tigers would not get another out... until Shea Hillenbrand batted again.
Single.
Walk.
Single.
Single. Game tied. Too bad the pain is not over.
Triple. 7-5.
Single. 8-5
Double. 9-5.
Single. At least a run didn't score.
Sac Fly. Okay fine. I'm tuning into another game.
Instead of sushi and Sapporo tomorrow, it's lamb and rice takeout from a Middle Eastern food cart, or what #1 lovingly refers to as "terrorist food." No doubt our Commander-in- Chief would accuse me of giving comfort and aid to our enemies, but I don't care, the Tigers lost and I'm out $10.50 on a bullpen implosion and their special white sauce is damn good. And no, we're not racist.
Net: +6.40
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