The other day, I said this in a post about David Ortiz: Please note that I wrote an entire article praising David Ortiz without ever using the word “clutch”? I think that “clutch” is ridiculously overrated — for reasons I will explain in another post, sometime soon… Well, “sometime soon” is now. There are three… Read More »
I’ll be honest with you. As recently as the 2004 postseason, I thought David Ortiz was a fluke. The reason is simple: watching Ortiz play for the Twins in 2002, it was clear that he was not a very good hitter. He could not reach a pitch on the outside corner, and he could not… Read More »
In his ESPN.com blog entry for today, Buster Olney said this in a discussion about whether he will vote for Mark McGwire in the Hall of Fame vote: My quandary is this: How can I withhold a vote for McGwire while voting for a half-dozen to a dozen other players from the era who I… Read More »
From yesterday’s ESPN.com chat with Rob Neyer: Zach (Tampa,FL): Hey Rob, Im wondering why everyone is always all over Barry Bonds for alledgedly using steroids when we have an admitted user in the league named Jason Giambi. Why isnt everyone all over him when he crushes a homerun or want to strip his MVP award?… Read More »
A few more quotes from Ozzie Guillen in the aftermath of last week’s idiocy:
So Ozzie Guillen got mad at newspaper columnist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times, and this is what he said: What a piece of s*** he is, f****** fag. Guillen defended his use of the term “fag” with this: I don’t have anything against those people. In my country, you call someone something like that… Read More »
mis·no·mer n. An error in naming a person or place. Application of a wrong name. A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object. A few weeks ago, I was watching Baseball Tonight, and John Kruk said: One of the biggest misnomers in baseball is that left-handed hitters can’t hit left-handed pitchers.… Read More »
In his latest article on ESPN.com, Tim Kurkjian talks about switch hitters. I assume he got thinking about this after a couple questions about Melky Cabrera in his May 25 chat. In that chat, Kurkjian mentioned that Cabrera is one of the rare switch hitters who throws left-handed — according to Kurkjian, 91% of switch… Read More »
Jason Grimsley got caught with human growth hormome (HGH), and I couldn’t be happier. Why? Because now baseball will do something about it, either by choice or by congressional force. I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said about Grimsley, except that I am overjoyed. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Barry Bonds’… Read More »
Move over, Joe Morgan. There’s a new idiot in town! I wrote the other day about the Rick Sutcliffe Myth, as perpetuated by Tim Kurkjian. Now, I don’t want anyone to think I am picking on Sutcliffe, but I just have to say: the guy is a moron.