Even with the PA Primary commanding my attention, I have had time to mull over the ridiculousness that continues to be April baseball:
- Memo to Hank "Sonny Corleone" Steinbrenner: Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! Do you really think that shooting your mouth off will make winners of your dad's(ie not your) team? Joba Chamberlain (above) belongs in the bullpen, at least for right now. Maybe for good. He's got a closer's mentality and an awesome fastball. Starters are much easier to find than a lights-out closer. And Rivera will not last forever. Regardless, you, Hankie-boy, have no baseball sense and have never earned anything in your life. So crawl back in your hole and let the baseball people do their thing.
- Miguel Tejada lied about his age? Why, he seemed like such an honest and forthcoming person, with his "B-12" shots and clubhouse negativity. But, do we really care about this? He was 19 and poor, and not 17 and poor; would this really have stopped him from being signed? The answer is no.
- Mike Jacobs and Nate McClouth: please pinch yourselves before this gets out of hand. You guys aren't this good, are you??
- Frank Thomas was released this week, joining Kenny Lofton, Mike Piazza, among others, as unemployed 1990's superstars who can still contribute. Damn youth movements...
- Congrats to John Smoltz on his 3000th strikeout. One of baseball's true class acts.
- The Dodgers still can't hit. In fact, they stink. My suicide watch continues..
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Now if Smoltz could keep his arse from being planted on the bench, maybe it will be a good season for the Bogmen.
I hate Hank Steinbrenner. He makes George look pretty tame.
I think the Yankees are trying to overtake the Red Sox as the most annoying team in my mind. Still Red Sox, but Hank is helping to close the gap. Speaking of the Yankees, they will pick up Thomas when Giambi gets hurt. The same might be said for Lofton when Johnny Damon gets hurt. They will come down with Gagne-itis, you know, the breakdown of the body as a result of too many injections of performance enhancing drugs (Sheffield just came back from this). Did anyone think the Dodgers could hit? It seems that they got Andruw Jones Version 2.0, the version that couldn't hit.
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