Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Ever since Joe Lavin announced he’d bought a copy of Jose Canseco’s Vindicated earlier today, people — OK, some people — have been curious what EXACTLY Canseco said. After the jump, the selections from Vindicated concerning Alex Rodriguez.
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Ever since Joe Lavin announced he’d bought a copy of Jose Canseco’s Vindicated earlier today, people — OK, some people — have been curious what EXACTLY Canseco said. After the jump, the selections from Vindicated concerning Alex Rodriguez.
(UPDATE: As you probably would have expected, Simon & Schuster asked us to take down their excerpts, and we have complied. But you still know what’s in them, not that you shouldn’t buy the book anyway.)
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Well, this is kind of cheating, considering the Oakland A’s already played this morning, and lost, but we hope that having 1/162 of the season over already won’t make you distrust our predictions any more than you already do.
So, here goes:
1. Los Angeles Angels Of Anaheim: We actually never like picking these guys, and not just because of their name. But they still seem to be the class of this division over here.
2. Oakland Athletics. We will always, always pick these guys one spot higher than they actually should be. Damn you, Michael Lewis!
3. Seattle Mariners: Put us in the camp that believes last year was an overperformance, rather than the start of something exciting, Bedard or no.
4. Texas Rangers: Hopefully they’ll be able to overcome the loss of Sammy Sosa. We’re not sure we have, not yet.
We would love to hear justifications as to how a team other than the Angels win this division. Tomorrow, the National League Central.
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Matthew Berry, whatever you do in this world, you’ve made a Midwestern boy happy this Tuesday morning. We don’t believe it, at all, but you know, no matter what, it’s quite the fun next chapter.
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
The timing could have been better for Alex Rodriguez, who sat down for a soul-searching interview with the New York Daily News on the same day that Jose Canseco was touting a new book, claiming that A-Rod took steroids. That publicity could have been used for damage control! At any rate, A-Rod tells columnist John Harper that he wishes he would have signed with the Mets instead of the Rangers, and that his opt out/opt-back-in drama with the Yankees was due in part to his daughter’s fondness for her toys.
“My wife and daughter both love New York,” said A-Rod. “Four days after I opted out (and was living in Miami), my daughter says, ‘I really miss my bedroom and my toys in New York.’ I wanted to shoot myself. I said to my wife, ‘What the — are we doing?’ “
Hey, that’s as good a reason as any! More A-Rod wisdom:
“I went for the contract when my true desire was to go play for the Mets,” Rodriguez said of his decision to ink his $252 million deal with Texas eight years ago. As A-Rod looked back on the events of the past offseason, he seemed haunted by the idea that in breaking free of the Yankees he could have made another decision based strictly on money and wound up as unhappy as he was in Texas for three years. … “So to make the right decision just feels really good,” Rodriguez said, “versus being taken down a road where I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, where am I? Oh, $400 million to play in some place I hate? Great, I’ll blow my — head off.’
You see, Alex Rodriguez just wants to be loved. And that is sure to happen in New York, the only place where you can hit .314 with 54 homers and still be burned in effigy.
Well, if this steroids thing gets too hot, maybe he can play in Toronto.
A-Rod Regrets Saying No To Mets, Doesn’t Make Same Mistake With Yankees [New York Daily News]
A-Rod Hates Him Some Texas [Deuce Of Davenport]
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
We don’t know how we missed this from Jeff Passan’s excellent column on Japanese-Iranian pitcher Yu Darvish, but apparently the fella, in addition to being the Sports Elvis of Japan right now, isn’t afraid to take it all off.
Yes, in Japan, the 20-year-old pitching phenoms aren’t destroyed by Dusty Baker; they’re featured nude in national magazines.
He stands 6-foot-5, is model skinny and resembles no one else in the stadium, the product of an Iranian father and Japanese mother. He’s undeniably good looking, and he knows it, having peeled off his clothes for a nude magazine spread last year.
You know, this would have totally helped Zack Greinke’s mental state.
In other indecent exposure news, a Brit soccer coach apparently made some bondage video. Talk about an idea made for Bill Belichick.
The Man, The Myth, The Mystery: Yu Darvish [Tremendous Upside Potential]
Paul Jewell Likes To Role Play [Unprofessional Foul]
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
Far be it from us to tell Pac Man Jones how to live his life, but … well … promoting parties in which you promise to “make it rain” seems to be just asking for trouble, doesn’t it?
Don’t ever change, Pac Man … don’t … you … change.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, we must clear out our Sunday night and Monday morning.
Continue Reading March 25th, 2008
We reported earlier that the attached poster involved a party that Pac Man Jones was hosting. This was not, in fact, true. The club itself has even apologized, in an email to Pro Football Talk:
“This is KAY-P contacting you on behalf of Club Nite concerning an event that was suppose to feat. Pacman Jones. We are apologizing to him and his family for the misunderstanding. We were informed by a false represenatives who lied to us saying that they could book Pacman Jones. After getting in contact with the real represenatives we discovered that Pacman Jones was not aware his name was advertised for an event and we also found out that he was not even accepting offers to host events. Again we would like to apologize to Pacman Jones, his fan and family.”)
It can’t be easy being Pac Man Jones. Even when you don’t do anything wrong, people try to make other people think you did.
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