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Real fast: Who was the MVP of last year’s All-Star Game? Remember? It was Miguel Tejada, pre-B-12, back when everyone considered him a real Team Leader and Stand Up Guy. The guy will be there tonight too, and we hope you enjoy tonight’s All-Star Game, because, well, you’ll almost certainly forget about it by this time next year.
Come to think of it, our last two All-Star memories are Roger Clemens getting shelled a couple a years ago, and, of course, everyone’s favorite All-Star moment, the “tie game” with a befuddled Bud Selig, shrugging, looking lonely and very, very tired.
David Pinto over at Baseball Musings will be live-blogging this business … assuming the game doesn’t get rained out. Which would be awfully fun.
Anyway, it’ll be fun to see if Joe Buck and Tim McCarver can avoid saying the words “Bonds” or “indictment.”
By the way, it’s nice to have those two back on a national stage, isn’t it? Isn’t it?
MLB All-Star Game [MLB.com]
Continue Reading July 11th, 2006
Real fast: Who was the MVP of last year’s All-Star Game? Remember? It was Miguel Tejada, pre-B-12, back when everyone considered him a real Team Leader and Stand Up Guy. The guy will be there tonight too, and we hope you enjoy tonight’s All-Star Game, because, well, you’ll almost certainly forget about it by this time next year.
Come to think of it, our last two All-Star memories are Roger Clemens getting shelled a couple a years ago, and, of course, everyone’s favorite All-Star moment, the “tie game” with a befuddled Bud Selig, shruggling, looking lonely and very, very tired.
David Pinto over at Baseball Musings will be live-blogging this business … assuming the game doesn’t get rained out. Which would be awfully fun.
Anyway, it’ll be fun to see if Joe Buck and Tim McCarver can avoid saying the words “Bonds” or “indictment.”
By the way, it’s nice to have those two back on a national stage, isn’t it? Isn’t it?
MLB All-Star Game [MLB.com]
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It was a mistake, as they later admitted, for the Phillies to allow Brett Myers to pitch just two days after he was arrested for punching his wife in the face on a crowded Boston street. But a bigger mistake, we think, might be the team’s owner claiming that Myers’ wife is a liar. Quoth Bill Giles, one of the Phillies’ limited partners (he owns 15 percent of the team):
I don’t know that I’m privileged to say [what happened with Myers and his wife]. I’m not the spokesman for the Phillies. I do know what really happened was a lot less than what the public thinks happened and that’s the sad part because some bystander saw something that really didn’t happen. Brett was trying to help his wife. … One of our employees [marketing manager Debbie Nocito] saw the whole thing. She said, ‘He did not hit her at all, and he didn’t grab her hair or anything.’ So all the reports were untrue, from what I understand.”
This, of course, not only contradicts what Myers’ wife claimed, but also what several witnesses told police. In fact, he’s the first person to have directly contradicted the police report at all. We’re not here to say that team owners probably shouldn’t comment about how women who claim their starting pitcher husbands punched them on a crowded city street are lying … but he probably shouldn’t do that.
Q&A With Bill Giles [Philly.com]
Bill Giles Must Go [Phillyville]
Brett Myers Punched His Wife In The Face [Deadspin]
(UPDATE: The Phillies PR team, finally getting its head out of its proverbial arse, has sent out Phillies president David Montgomery to say Giles was “mistaken.”)
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It was a mistake, as they later admitted, for the Phillies to allow Brett Myers to pitch just two days after he was arrested for punching his wife in the face on a crowded Boston street. But a bigger mistake, we think, might be the team’s owner claiming that Myers’ wife is a liar. Quoth Bill Giles, one of the Phillies’ limited partners (he owns 15 percent of the team):
I don’t know that I’m privileged to say [what happened with Myers and his wife]. I’m not the spokesman for the Phillies. I do know what really happened was a lot less than what the public thinks happened and that’s the sad part because some bystander saw something that really didn’t happen. Brett was trying to help his wife. … One of our employees [marketing manager Debbie Nocito] saw the whole thing. She said, ‘He did not hit her at all, and he didn’t grab her hair or anything.’ So all the reports were untrue, from what I understand.”
This, of course, not only contradicts what Myers’ wife claimed, but also what several witnesses told police. In fact, he’s the first person to have directly contradicted the police report at all. We’re not here to say that team owners probably shouldn’t comment about how women who claim their starting pitcher husbands punched them on a crowded city street are lying … but he probably shouldn’t do that.
Q&A With Bill Giles [Philly.com]
Bill Giles Must Go [Phillyville]
Brett Myers Punched His Wife In The Face [Deadspin]
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The family resemblance is striking
Famed actor, director, comedian, poet, and interpretive dancer Ron Howard was beaming ear to ear last night. And who could blame him? His younger brother Ryan Howard won the 2006 Home Run Derby, not to mention a huge, double phallic trophy.
While the Home Run Derby was extremely boring insanely exciting per usual, the crowd did not get what they paid to see. Being held in Pittsburgh, the Steel City wanted to see one of the hometown boys win the Two-penis trophy. So when after chanting his name for 30 minutes straight an 82 year old Willie Stargell emerged from the dugout to compete, the crowd went bonkers. While there were a few confused naysayers who pointed out that “Pops” passed away in 2001, none of that mattered to the majority of the Pittsburgh crowd.
As Stargell strode to the plate, he lightly doffed his cap, only intensifying the cheers. But before he could even get one swing in, Pedro Martinez, who has a certain cold spot in his heart toward husky, jovial old men, beaned him in the face, effectively knocking him out of the competition. However, as he left the field on a stretcher, he gave the crowd a thumbs up, just before they put him in the hearse. And the crowd went wild.
Oh well. Maybe next time.
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Dan Serafini was a journeyman pitcher in the late ’90s, not doing much to distinguish himself, save for maybe being traded for Brandon Pernell. (Note: Brandon Pernell is no one of note.) But a Cubs fan looking to muse on all matters bloggish decided to name his site Serafini Says, because he used to run into the pitcher walking his dog around Wrigley.
Well, one day, our intrepid blogger received an email asking for an interview with the Twins flagship radio station, WCCO. Though he had never even implied that he was, in fact, Dan Serafini, he thought it would be fun to play along, assuming someone would, doing even a modicum of research, discover he wasn’t actually the pitcher and call bullshit.
No one did.
As we wrapped it up, my questioner said thanks, and said goodbye, simply hanging up, and not saying a thing about the interview. I wondered if I had been found out and had to wait until the Twins Weekend Magazine show that Saturday to see if I would be receiving my (or Dan’s) fifteen minutes. Sure enough, the interview was played in its entirety minutes before the Twins regular pre-game show.
We live in a world where there are accidental Dan Serafini impersonators. The Internet is so scary sometimes.
Dan Sarafini [Baseball Reference]
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Dan Serafini was a journeyman pitcher in the late ’90s, not doing much to distinguish himself, save for maybe being traded for Brandon Pernell. (Note: Brandon Pernell is no one of note.) But a Cubs fan looking to muse on all matters bloggish decided to name his site Serafini Says, because he used to run into the pitcher walking his dog around Wrigley.
Well, one day, our intrepid blogger received an email asking for an interview with the Twins flagship radio station, WCCO. Though he had never even implied that he was, in fact, Dan Serafini, he thought it would be fun to play along, assuming someone would, doing even a modicum of research, discover he wasn’t actually the pitcher and call bullshit.
No one did.
As we wrapped it up, my questioner said thanks, and said goodbye, simply hanging up, and not saying a thing about the interview. I wondered if I had been found out and had to wait until the Twins Weekend Magazine show that Saturday to see if I would be receiving my (or Dan’s) fifteen minutes. Sure enough, the interview was played in its entirety minutes before the Twins regular pre-game show.
We live in a world where there are accidental Dan Serafini impersonators. The Internet is so scary sometimes.
Dan Sarafini [Baseball Reference]
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Ron Artest playing in the summer league hasn’t been quite the exciting thrill ride we were hoping for, although it did give him ample time to sit down for a lengthy interview with the fine people at the Sacramento Bee.
They hit every topic available, including his thoughts on his new coach, his old coach, and his Bonzi Wells death threats.
The in-depth Q&A also goes into his ongoing music tour, pictures of which we’ve been looking for since about…well, since it started.
Q: What was life on the bus like?
A: It’s crazy. It’s tiring. It’s like you go to one city, do a job, then drive like 10 hours. It’s kind of like the NBA, but the music life is so much crazier. The road is just crazy. And when we go overseas, we’re going to fly, obviously, but we’re going to drive to every country. I didn’t know in Europe that all the countries connect, so we’re driving to every country we’re going to. That should be pretty cool.
In case you’re more like Ron Artest than you think, here’s a link to a map of Europe - verification that yes, all the countries do indeed “connect”.
Not that we’d know. We’ve long used this site to state with pride the pride we have in taking pride with our public school education at esteemed Pride High School. Not surprisingly, we’re vastly undereducated, a fact that was pointed out to us the other day by a good friend, who added (with a bit of venom) that “it’s not like it’s funny when you brag about it, either.”
Brag about it? Brag about it? Look, we’re not bragging about it, we’re simply stating that we’d never have gotten where we are today with some silly private school upbringing. What - you think we want a job?
We spent yesterday on our knees shouting “MAMMMMBAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” to the heavens, in the middle of a crowded graveyard. Do that from your cubilcle, you monkey.
(If any of you can actually do that in your cubicle, and you get it on tape, we totally want to see it, by the way.)
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