Hope Springs Eternal
Many of you who know me know I am a Yankee fan. I live near their spring training facility and try and make at least a dozen games every spring. This year I only made 3 due to traveling so I missed out on a lot.
I have only become a baseball fan in the last few years but I have learned to really appreciate the game. I used to think it was the most boring game ever and couldn’t imagine sitting through it with the sun beating down on me and crowds of people drinking and spilling, warm beer in the Florida sun. It sounded like torture rather than something fun to do with an afternoon or evening. Now I can really enjoy a game. It doesn’t hurt that we have a dome here in Tampa where the Rays play, who by the way are a really good team and crazily enough have been predicted to go all the way to the series again this year! Over the sox and the Yankees??????? I can’t see it but at least it will make the games worth attending after last year’s huge let down.
Baseball is called the thinking man’s game. It’s the only game where the defense has the ball and it’s the only major sport without a time clock. It’s slow at times but can be every bit as exciting as a fast break or long pass for a touchdown now that I am starting to understand the game more. I have learned to respect the cat and mouse game between the pitcher and base runners. The strategies of the game are really amazing as well. Righty vs. lefty statistics and how they play out in comparison to lefty on lefty. I always wondered why they would bring in a left handed pitcher to face a lefty hitter…then it was explained to me about baseball being a game based almost entirely on stats and numbers. I would have never thought it that way. I thought a guy pitched it to a guy who tried to hit it to guys who tried to catch it. I never knew or cared to know the intricacies of the game.
I have gotten to know a couple of the Yankees and a few Phillies and a few Rays players over the last few years. I have a friend who used to work at the original Hooters in Clearwater and I would go there a lot to see her and have dinner. It’s right down the street from the Phillies spring facility and I have spent time talking to several players over the years. But one night I was sitting outside and looked up and here comes Derek Jeter with 2 other guys who turned out to be Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada. I had a ball in the car as I had been to the Blue jays and Reds game that day so I went to get it and have Jeter sign it since he is my son’s favorite player. I walked up to the table and asked Derek to sign it for me which he did, and I went back to my table. When my check came for my food it said "paid by Bernie and Jorge." I said to my friend "who the hell are Bernie and Jorge?" and I hear a voice behind me say "those are the 2 guys who were sitting with me that you didn’t ask for autographs." Jeter handed me a menu with all 3 of their signatures on it made out personally to my son which was so nice, other than now he is older he thinks it’s strange that it’s on a Hooters menu. To this day when I see Derek we laugh about it. He hooks me up with great tickets and gets me stuff signed for my son any time and has been one of the most respectful and sweetest people I have ever met. He gets a bad rap as a playboy but he is just a really nice guy who is comfortable in his own skin and happy.
Now that the regular season has started I can’t help but be excited about games to watch and the 162 games that come down to the final few for a few teams, and so many others go back home for the winter with the "Next Year" state of mind. Hey, they do get millions of dollars win or lose but still I think no matter how much they make they want to win.
I know it’s weird for a girl to be so into baseball, especially a porn chick, but it’s got a great pace and allows you to relax and enjoy a conversation with a friend and a hot dog with a beer in the sun, or the air conditioning in my case 🙂 and the guys are real guys, many whom I’ve met are down to earth and still go back to the Midwest or wherever they are from when the season is over, no matter how many millions of dollars they make. To me that is much more endearing than a guy getting famous and moving to LA or somewhere celebrity-ish and forgetting that he grew up in Baton Rouge or Topeka or Toledo.
Baseball has faded into a secondary spot as America’s game with football becoming so popular and with night games and black outs for local games a lot of people don’t even get a chance to watch it on television anymore which is sad to me. But thank God for the new MLB channel! 🙂 I don’t watch many games but I highlights are always fun to catch before bed.
This coming weekend the Rays play the Yankees in St Pete and I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday, right behind the Yankees dugout in AJ Burnett’s seats who is also one of the nicest guys out there. So if you see me at a game make sure you say hello and I hope your team does well this season! 🙂
here are some pics from the game the other day too 🙂
Damn Mariah! As a lifelong Yankee fan (who still hates Steinbrenner), this is cool to read. I’m “jelloose”. Bernie Williams hasn’t been a Yankee for a while. When did that incident happen? Bernie’s exactly two days younger than me, I once read. I was a little league all star as a kid and I play guitar (as Bernie does) so he was always my favorite player. Classy and talented guy. I hate the way they just let him go after his last year. I’m a dodger fan now too now that Joe Torre (with Mattingly and Bowa) leads the Dodgers.
Lookin’ good, btw.
thanks babe! 🙂
That happened in Bernie’s final year so it was 2006? or 2007? it had to be 2006 because it was when I lived in Clearwater.
My son is an avid Dodger fan and he likes the Red Sox!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 I’m just glad he likes baseball but he’s not so much into the Sox since no more Manny and Big Papi together. Thank god. 🙂 but again, I’m happy he enjoys the sport.
I sent Cindi a few other pics but she didn’t post them!!! Cindi, wtf?????
you can see more of the photos here http://blog.mariahxxx.net
Good posts lately by the way 🙂
Did Mariah Milano just call me babe? 😀
Well, that makes up for all the shittalk I’ve ever heard on this and other sites.
Yeah, it had to be ’06 as it was his final year.
He signed with the Yankees organization on 9/13/85, his 17th birthday! That piece of shit Steinbrenner later sought to trade him, of course.
’95 was Bernie’s breakout season. He hit .429 in the MLB’s first ALDS best of 5 game series, but the Yanks lost in 5 to the Mariners (which had A-rod, Edgar and Tino Martinez on the team). Then the Yanks and Bernie would go on to win the WS in 96, 98, 99 and 00.
Red Sox? Is your kid just trying to rebel since you’re a Yankees fan?
If Steinbrenner hadn’t been such an abusive piece of shit, Torre would’ve won his 5th WS title with the Yanks, but the Yankees loss is the Dodgers gain, and even though Joe don’t have as much to work with he enjoys his job a lot more now that he doesn’t have to deal with “The Boss”.
I read on your blog you got that foul ball from Texiera. I see you with A.J. as well. My step dad gave me an A.J. shirt which he got when he was there via his company’s Legend’s suite at Yankee stadium.
yes i was sitting right behind the plate and he fouled one straight back into the screen and it got stuck in the bottom of the screen so I lifted it up a bit and pulled the ball out 🙂
I met AJ last year and we have emailed a few times and he has gotten me tickets if Jeter doesn’t. I will be at 2 of the 3 games here in St Pete this weekend.
I don’t know much about the Steinbrenner issue but I do know people all say he has done a lot for the city of Tampa and he has built little league fields and he funds free baseball clinics for kids year round. well, the Yankees do. But that sucks about Torre, but I like Girardi too. He looks really cute with his braces lol
Thanks again BABE 😉
George Steinbrenner III is a great spoiled piece of shit baby, meddler, adept at insulting, humiliating, spying on and firing players and staff. He disrepecfully bad mouths managers and players when they don’t play well and creates a really bad atmosphere. Ken Griffey Jr. said the Yankees is one team he would never play for. The Boss also publically chastised Derek Jeter for “partying too much”.
Steinbrenner is also known for pressuring and changing off-field employees (including various publicity directors), sometimes chewing them out in public. Former sportscaster Hank Greenwald, who called Yankee games on WABC radio for two years, once said he knew when Steinbrenner was in town by how tense the office staff was.
On July 30, 1990, Commissioner Fay Vincent banned Steinbrenner from baseball for life after he paid Howie Spira, a small-time gambler, $40,000 for “dirt” after Dave Winfield (one of my favorites) sued him for failing to pay his foundation the $300,000 guaranteed in his contract. Subsequently Winfield later entered the Hall of Fame as a San Diego Padre. You can also read about Winfield’s laments about The Boss in his autobiography. “Winfield: A Player’s Life”.
Unfortunately, Steinbrenner was reinstated in 1993.
It’s amazing Pete Rose is banned from baseball and Steinbrenner isn’t!!!!
It’s also amazing the Yankees have won as many times they have in the years he has been the owner with the climate he creates. Before the CBS broadcast corporation bought the Yankees, they used to win every decade. Yankees never won during the abysmal CBS ownership (between ’64 and ’72) and after Steinbrenner bought the Yanks, they won the WS in 77 and 78 but wouldn’t win again for another 18 years in ’96 under Joe Torre. When the Yanks have won it has been IN SPITE of their owner’s presence and influence!
In his first 23 seasons, he changed managers 20 times (including my all time favorite Yankee manager Billy Martin on five separate occasions. The way he treated Martin was humilating and I think is what helped lead to Martin’s early demise.) In July 1978, Martin said of Steinbrenner and his $3 million outfielder Reggie Jackson, “The two were meant for each other. One’s a born liar, and the other’s convicted.” The “convicted” part of Martin’s comment referred to Steinbrenner’s connection to U.S. President Richard Nixon: he was indicted on 14 criminal counts on April 5, 1974, then pleaded guilty to making illegal contributions to Nixon’s re-election campaign and a felony charge of obstruction of justice on August 23. Steinbrenner was personally fined $15,000, while his firm was assessed $20,000 for the offense. On November 27, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended him for two years, but later reduced that amount to fifteen months, with Steinbrenner returning to the Yankees in 1976. U.S. President Ronald Reagan pardoned Steinbrenner on January 19, 1989, in one of the final acts of his presidency.
Another notable policy instituted by Steinbrenner is a strict grooming policy for males for professionalism-based reasons. One thing I like about the Red Sox is they let them wear their hair the way that want to. I have more of a Samsonesque philosophy and believe players should be allowed to look they way they want. Steinbrenner made Thurman Munson, Bobby Murcer, Sparky Lyle, Roy White, Goose Gossage, and Don Mattingly alter their appearance, the latter who was benched for refusing to comply.
Yogi Berra had a 14-year feud with the boss. In 1985 Steinbrenner promised Berra a full chance as manager, then fired him in the third week of the season. Berra vowed to never return to Yankee Stadium so long as Steinbrenner owned the team.
Conservative political pundit George Will once described Steinbrenner as an “error machine” and a “baseball dumb-o-meter.”
great post…I knew about some of it but not about him being banned from the game or any of that. Amazing they still have a team. what an idiot!
Thx Mariah,
It’s a subject of interest to me, as well, so here’s some info and thought:
Pete Rose is a good guy and a great player and should be reinstituted into baseball, even if he had gambled. Steinbrenner’s, on the other hand,
is a piece of shit and should have been kept out. However, money talks, Steinbrenner’s son didn’t much care for running the team and major league baseball had no desire to see its premier franchise flounder.
When King George took over the Yanks he knew little about baseball, he obviously knew much less about the fine art of bringing out the best in people, but he pledged what turned out to be a lie: that he would
not be a hands-on owner.
Before the advent of free agency in 1976, professional athletes were essentially bound to the team that they originally signed a contract with. If a team did not want to renew a contract with a player, they could place them on a “reserve list” which prevented any other teams from signing the player. Professional athletes then had very little hope of playing for another team unless they were traded or released from their contract by the original team.
The combination of Steinbrenner’s spoiled child antics, autocratic abuses along with the all invasive NY media has been quite deadly for some superstar players bought by the Yanks who couldn’t handle it.
Steinbrenner was has been criticized for ruining baseball with inflated payrolls. Steinbrenner paid Catfish Hunter from the Oakland A’s an unprecedented $2.85 million for four years, over $700,000 a year when top stars like Carl Yastrzemski made $100,000 a year and Dick Allen was the highest paid player in the game at $200,000 a year. He then bolstered his pennant-winning 1976 team for the
following season by acquiring Reggie Jackson, the 1973 American League M.V.P. when he was with the A’s., with a $3 million, 5-year contract.
Steinbrenner’s an idiot who thinks the more money his pays someone the better they are supposed to perform. But it takes an amazing amount of
talent to make into and then excel in the big leagues in the first place.
Yes, the Yankees were the team of the 20th century, but ever since the Yanks were taken over by a corporation and then an autocrat, and considering
the great advantage Steinbrenner has had with his excessive cash flow coinciding with the advent of free agency, I’d say the Yankees have been the greatest disappointment or failure.
Between 1963 through their WS win last year in 2009, the Yankees with their far and above inflated payrolls have only won 7 times!
Between 1923 (when the New York Highlanders became the Yankees and Yankee Stadium was born) and 1962 (the last year the Yanks would not be owned by a corporation or autocrat) the Yankees won 20 World Series. That’s means they went, on average, all the way ever other year! And again, this was before there
was such a thing as free agency and the concept that you can buy and import the best players from around the leaque. The Yankees were truly a phenomenon!
After George got reinstated to baseball, he cooled down a bit and became more humble, and a little less of an asshole, which is what helped pave the way for Joe Torre to lead a talented team without George shitting on and putting everyone down every chance he can when they have a funk in performance.
Joe was the Yankees manager for 12 years, but in the end spoiled asshole Steinbrenner had to scapegoat Torre for not winning it all, leading to Torre’s departure for Los Angeles.
Bernie Williams is Puerto Rican, like Reggie Jackson. Know how many titles Don Mattingly won with the Yankees: 0. This Yankee shit still makes me sick. Before 96, NY was a basketball town. No one even followed baseball but the diehards until the Knicks playoff runs were over. Then they win the series last year. Newsflash, these guys are all in their mid thirties at least and unless they bring in some young talent they aren’t gonna get back to the series many times. Though they’ll always spend the money. Look at the Mets though. Ever since Omar Minaya took over they’ve been spending like the Yanks and have done nothing but choke.
Pete Rose WAS a great player but was and still is a piece of shit. I had the pleasure of being at a bar where he was drinking and the shit that he was saying for these fags that were licking it up was just insane. Man is a scumbag
What did he say, Al?
hey Jeremy, I am going to the game today Rays Yankees 🙂 I have 2nd row visitors dugout seats 🙂
I will get you something signed if you’d like. Who is your favorite player?
Please email me mariah@mariahxxx.net as I probably won’t check this board again before I go. Sorry I didn’t ask you sooner, I meant to yesterday and got busy.
I’ll take pics 🙂
xoxo
Mariah
OMG, Mariah!
I can’t find the words to express myself now! You bring new meaning to the phrase “love doll”!
In case you get this (I’ll email you as well)
In this order, whoever and as many as you can get!:
1. Derek Jeter (of course)
2. Mariano Rivera
3. Alex Rodriguez
4. Andy Pettite
5. Jorge Posada
6. C.C. Sabathia
7. A.J. Burnett
8. Robinson Cano
9. Curtis Granderson
10. Mark Teixiera
Jeremy, it was one of the biggest scenes of douchebagness I’ve ever experienced (in person of course, cause if we count LIB…) He was going on about his on and off the field exploits but it was in such a crude and obnoxious way. For a guy who has image problems, it’s the exact oppositte of how he should be conducting himself in public. Should he be in the Hall? Of course, there’s no morality statistic.
What kind of Yanks fan wants A-Rod’s signature before Petite or Posada? Is it a $$$ thing, tell me it’s a $$$ thing.
Was a great game to go to Mariah, CC almost had a no hitter as you know…
Wow! What a game! 10-0. C.C. went 4 outs shy of a no-hitter! I turned on the tube just in time to see Cano knock in the first two runs.
I think they should’ve kept Matsui this year. Last year they thought they’d let either him or Damon go, but they’re both gone.
hey guys…I got home at 5am and it’s now 9:45 and I’m up and getting ready to go look at a house I could KILL myself for staying out so late! lol
The game was really great for a while then it just became a blow out but CC getting the no hitter was keeping it worth staying for. When Zobrist got that hit it was like the air was let out of the Trop and people were leaving like crazy. I stayed until the last at bat because I was meeting a friend and didn’t want to get caught up with the exiting traffic madness.
Arod made 2 amazing plays diving for balls down the line and the second was great because he threw out Upton who can fly. Hate him all you want but that guy is fucking great!
I then stopped by a local strip club right by my house to see a friend who is a bar tender there because I wasn’t ready to go home yet and the girls working were a big disappointment except for one I’d say who was thick in the right way. I heard the girl who was sitting in front of me with her boyfriend saying this same thing and we started talking and turns out she does webcam shows at home, all solo. She asked if she could shoot with me sometime, and fellas, this girl was REALLY hot little blonde with a tight body. I said sure, who am I to turn down a hot girl for some content? We ended up back at her house where I proceeded to fuck her with a strapon while her man had to hear it through the bedroom door! 🙂 It doesn’t suck to be me! She is going to hopefully join me for my Free live webcast on tuesday night too! Another new recruit entering this wild world we live in! 🙂
enjoy your Sunday, now I’m late!!!!!!!!!
Al, A-Rod’s one of the greatest players in baseball. That’s why I have him 3rd on the list. Also his post season performance last year was exceptional. Mariah got me his, AJ and Nick Johnson’s John Hancock (he was part of the ’96 team), so I’m happy.
Those short term Yankee memories. Guy had ONE good post season in his entire career. Before last year he was considered a bona fide choker in the post season. Petite juiced but came clean the right way.
Come on, Al, you’re just “jellus” because your a Mets fan. Btw, I do cheer for the Mets whenever they actually have a post-season run, which is about as often as the Jets or the Nets.
A-rod’s a 2x gold glove, 12x all star, 3x MVP, world series champ, hit over 50 HR and 200 in the same season, he’s the youngest player in history to hit 500 home runs, the youngest shortstop to play in an all-star game and he’s considered one the best all around baseball players in the history of baseball (and that’s well over 100 years of history). He also became one of only two players (besides Jimmie Foxx) in Major League history to compile at least 35 home runs, 100 runs and 100 RBIs in eight consecutive seasons.
And as far as being a Yankee, A-rod’s the first Yankee to win an AL home run batting title since Reggie Jackson.
Yeah, and I suppose, Alex’s signature would be of the the most monetary value. Go figure since he’s got the richest contract in baseball history.
Also, it ain’t easy playing in NY under that scumbag Steinbrenner because he’s an ABUSER! And abusers have an amazing way of bringing out the worst in people and making it difficult, if not impossible, to excel, enjoy and feel good about themselves. But last year he redeemed himself for being only human.
I’m not a Mets fan, however I if they make the postseason I’ll root for them, as I would the Yanks. I didn’t get into baseball at all until I became an adult so I don’t get emotional like some fans are have to pick between the Mets or Yankees.
All of those points aside, he still juiced and Ken Griffey Jr has to be considered the greatest homerun hitter of that generation. Additionally, A-Rod is kind of weird. Doesn’t really matter because Albert Pujols will perhaps go down as the best offensive player ever, even amongst the juicers.
and Mariah, why do label any type of criticism of any kind hate? If I wanted to hate on A-Rod I can have a field day with him. For example, his ex wife Cynthia is beautiful and he was stepping out with Madonna. Madonna, not only about 20 years older than him but one of the most tagged celebrities ever. But on the flipside Madonna is in great shape for any age. Between C-Rod and Madonna, I’m goin to Cynthia and he’s just a retard for doing that.
I don’t know what “weirdness” you’re talking about, or what that has to do with his performance. Baseball players have all juiced as much as male porn stars. There were supplements but there was no law laid down as of that time. The whole testing thing is ridiculous. They should just test everyone , make all their announcements at once instead of piecemeal, and get the whole fucking sad thing over with already. Everyone knows they’re being tested now so that means the numbers A-rod’s put up last year can’t be contested, right?
Madonna’s a whore, she probably initiated it as a “I did him” accomplishment thing for her endlessly needy ego, and now he’s over it.
He’s a great player but if I was a Yankee fan I’d go for Petite and Posada’s autograph first, but I’m not into the whole autograph thing anyway
I’m just as much of a baseball fan, in general, Al, as a Yankee fan.
p.s.-wow, in the short sentence above, cindi, it goes on moderation. i wonder what word set it off.
You never get the feeling A-Rod is not playing with a full deck? Kind of like an athletic version of Michael Jackson
I don’t care if the guy acts like Pee Wee Herman and Gilbert Gottfried’s illigitimate love-child, as long as the guy can hit.
no matter what you say about Arod, he’s awesome. I do think he’s an asshole and I have been told that by other players. The guy’s real position in shortstop and he gave it up out of respect to Jeter who is not as good at short. Arod had a good post season because he finally had a lineup where he got to see some pitches with tex in the lineup. he didn’t have that protection the previous years. that is a big issue
Other teammates say A-Rod’s an A-Hole? I guess you can’t name names. A-Hole in what way? He definitely does some audacious stuff on the field at times. I wouldn’t say Jeter’s not as good at short, but that was the deal for Alex coming over that he’d move over to 3rd. Tex didn’t do shit in the playoffs.
Here’s some quotes by Alex Rodriquez:
“Be respectful. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Respect the lowest rank and the highest rank and you’ll never get in trouble.”
“I want to step forward. I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes doing it. If I do, too bad.” (kind of contradicts last quote)
“We (Derek Jeter and I) want to kill each other. I think we both drive each other and motivate each other. But, when we’re off the field, we’re like family. I think the nice thing about it is we became good friends before we even made it to the big leagues. That makes it more of a healthy relationship.”
“I’m having a hard time finding a date. I don’t trust any women I meet. I’m very skeptical.”
Whoa A-Rod just got a basehit, knocked in two runs vs. Angels…
Madonna’s a crazy whore:
New York Daily News:
Pop icon Madonna is using kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star Alex Rodriguez into believing they are “soulmates,” the ballplayer’s estranged wife is telling friends.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/07/03/2008-07-03_arods_wife_tells_pals_she_believes_madon.html
Girardi needs to have Granderson bat 1st in front of Jeter instead of fucking 7th behind Posada! What is he thinking? He’s a great batter and base stealer. Hello?!
That’s complete bullshit Mariah.
1. He didn’t GIVE Jeter anything. Jeter was the Yankees shortstop, end of story. I agree he was a better shortstop but what kind of PR move would it be to demand a position from a living baseball legend. At that time A-Rod was just a guy with big stats and a bigger paycheck, nothing more. Value is about rings, production in the clutch. Jeter is the definition of clutch. Furthermore one can argue that placing A-Rod at SS would have fucked with the chemistry so for that team keeping Jeter was the right move.
2. I don’t give a fuck if everyone else in the lineup was swinging with their dick, when you get paid the money A-Rod gets paid, you get hits wherever you are in the lineup and whoever else is in the lineup, period.
3. Until they won the series one could just as easily argued that bringing A-Rod to the Yanks was a mistake considering the they could have got 2 or 3 really good players for that. They gave up Soriano who had very similar numbers at a fraction of the price.
4. Lastly why has Jeter’s image remained so clean despite fucking everyone in music, hollywood and NY? HE NEVER GOT MARRIED.
AND, if I may add, your boy choked horribly in the series against Boston where they lost after being up 3 games to 0. I remember my friend had the broom out after game 3 and after game 7 said I’m throwing my Yankee cap out.
Jeter’s a smart guy (which is maybe why he never got married) and always The Yankee on the team. He’s never to my knowlege said a stupid thing is his baseball life and he’s handled that piece of shit Steinbrenner as well as possible (which is far from easy). I still recall Jeter making more amazing plays on the field than A-rod. A-rod made the adjustment to 3rd, which further shows how valuable he is.
Soriano? That guy was majorly inconsistent, especially at 2nd base. He was becoming the way Chuck Knoblauch was. Getting rid of him was a good move, I think.
I remember having a very bad feeling in ’04… even as the Yanks were up 3-0 and fans in the seats at Fenway were wearing bags over their heads. I even told a Red Sox fan this, and I turned out to be right. Since 1901, they’ve won 7 World Series, so good for them. The Bambino curse ended with the end of the 20th century.
Defensively, Jeter’s perceived value always benefited from being a Yankee. He can make a reasonably tough play and Michael Kay is ready to suck his dick saying it’s the greatest ever. That one where he bloodied his face up was hot though. I like Jeter, and no to my memory he’s never said anything stupid and is pretty much a class act all the way. Sometimes he kinda looks like Quagmire from Family Guy though. Giggity, giggity.
It’s ok Al, being Kay is okay. And I give you a thumb’s up to whatever you want to put your thumbs up, too!
Well I won’t name names but I have been told that Arod doesn’t speak to the young guys on the team. He doesn’t want to hang around after he’s out of a game.
for example, when he was taken out of the All Star game a few years ago when it was tied he showered and went home. Jeter was there until the last pitch 5 innings after he was taken out of the game.
A perfect example is Arod didn’t even come out of the dugout during warm-ups last Saturday until after the national anthem. Everyone else was out there stretching and running except him. He ignored all the requests for autographs while Jeter took 5 minutes to sign some for a few of the kids. Same goes for CC and Joba and AJ and Tex and Cano. Everyone took a few to sign at least for the kids but Arod. he ignored them completely.
Hey J please send me the address again. Its on my pc at home and I’m in LA now 🙂 mariah@mariahxxx.net
thanks!
Go Yankees! Go Rays! lol
Maybe A-rod wasn’t even gonna sign any balls until he saw you ask last Saturday, and then he stopped and said “Sure!”
I remember last year when Manny Ramirez was taken out of the game late in the game, he just went to take a shower. The Dodgers ended up losing, and while Torre defended Manny, in actuality, it’s like they say of the crowd being the 10th man.
It’s hard to have much of a team spirit like the old days. Players jump from one team to the next like the MLB is one big swingers party.
I think one of the best A-Rod moments was during the press conference when he admitted using roids and the one reporter asked him a question and it took a solid 30 seconds of making thinking looks, drinking from water and figiting for him to answer. Of course there also was the Katie Couric interview where he flat out lied about ever using any PED, then went on to explain that he wouldn’t want to achieve success like that. Before the roid thing I called him Gay-Rod, but now there’s A-Fraud and A-Roid.
Look, his name is A-Rod. That means he’s a dick, right? Either way, he still kicked ass in the playoffs last year and he couldn’t have been juiced up then, right? So, the man definitely has talent. Why do you call him “Gay-Rod”?
Thats the same paradox Bonds has though. He had a hall of fame career before he even got roided up, so how can he be denied?
He can’t, but you still should put an :”*” next to his name.
You ever go shopping at the 99 cents store? Hey, sometimes you can get some good deals in there. Anyway, I once picked up a Mark McGwire sorting folder just for the novelty of it, and the cashier didn’t even charge me for it. I thought, “How appropriate” as it isn’t even worth the paper it’s printed on.
Jose Canseco certainly feels vindicated. Then again, if he had a better career would he have ever even written that book?
He claims that up to 85% of MLB players took steroids. I guess the Bash Brothers should now be called “The Bogus Bash Brothers.”
Also, on May 26, 1993, during a game against the Cleveland Indians, Carlos MartÃnez hit a fly ball that Canseco lost sight of as he was crossing the warning track. The ball hit Cansceo in the head and then bounced over the wall for a home run. “This Week in Baseball” rated this incident as the greatest baseball blooper of all time (sort of like Canseco’s career). lol.
I remember that Canseco play. I’ll give Jose one thing, he saw and spoke about what’s going on. To this day Tony Larussa and Dusty Baker say that they never knew their guys were on roids and HGH, bullshit! Steinbrenner always gets my blood boiling. I think I’ve read the Peter Golenbock book, “Wild, High & Tight” about George and Billy Martin’s relationship about 100 times, each time it makes me angrier. Billy could always sell tickets and often could get a mediocre team play better, as a Cub fan I always wish he would have managed them. But George, like almost everyone else, enabled Billy and did nothing about his drinking and his lifestyle. Billy’s widow was the worst leech of all. Maybe is Henry Steinbrenner hadnt been such an asshat, George might have been different, but the same may have been said for Billy and his mother. I could go on about Reggie Jackson, but I may punch a hole through the computer screen.
I’ve got that book, Larry. It was kind of annoying reading it in regards to how it would jump from Steinbrenner’s biography in one chapter to Martin’s the next. I bought the book to read about Billy Martin, but of course, the author shows how critical Martin’s story (and ultimate demise) was connected to King George, the Stupid, who’s life and story I was also forced to study in the process.
Steinbrenner was an ABUSER. All that negative energy, insults, threats, humiliations made Steinbrenner an evil, destructive force. It wasn’t until he got humbled after being temporarily banned from baseball, that he became less of a destructive, asshole influence… at least for a little while…
After he fired Martin for the 5th and last time, Billy vowed never again, and he ended up dying, in an accident while driving drunk on X-mas eve in 1989. I blame George in large part for that.
An abuser dominates, manipulates, interrupts and steers the conversation, not allowing others to be heard or understood, thus not respecting or knowing them, as well.
We live our lives by peoples understandings of or
their projections upon us. If someone puts you down there are only two choices, to take that in and allow that person’s energy to damage you, or to disassociate from that person.
An abuser gives an abusee no choice. How much abuse is a person supposed to take? George abused Joe Torre alot, especially toward the end, and basically gave Joe no choice but to not continue as the Yankees manager. Then King Asshole George, the Brilliant makes sure that the Yankees ceremony over the closing of the original Yankee stadium did not acknowledge Joe Torre during the retro highlights, even though Joe won the Yanks a World Championship for the first time in 18 years, and then 3 more in the next 4 years.
I really feel sorry for Billy Martin. 5x he was hired and fired by that asshole. He put his heart and soul into Baseball. He was fiery, made the game exciting, the team always got better, he gave everything he had, but because The Yankees would lose a series or 3 games in a row, King George would have to publically abuse, humiliate and/or fire him.
Billy Martin. There will never be another one like him. He used to make guys steal bases. That’s what makes baseball dynamic; I’ll take a hitter with a great batting average who can run and steal alot of bases over a home run champ, any day. Even a great home run hitter usually hit’s no more than 30-40 per year in a 162 game season. I loved watching Ricky Henderson, not only could he hit homeruns, but I can’t count all the times he’d score a run without even getting a hit. Get a walk, steal second, steal third, then tag and get home on a shallow fly ball to the outfield! Now that’s baseball!
Btw, did you see Manny’s pinch hit homer today? Awesome!
Jeter’s kinda/sorta our neighbor now, or at least he will be when the house is finished (which gives up the ghost on where I live; not that anyone cares but hey). My kid’s sole concern is that he be moved in by Halloween because, as she put it, “Mom, he’s going to give out full size candy bars! People in big houses and on tv don’t mess around with fun size!” Oy, out of the mouths of babes, huh?
I ran into him at the island 7-11 a few times; much better looking in person and seems pleasant.
Oh yeah, Jeter and Minka Kelly are getting married in November.
Ugh, I sound stalkerish; sorry. I’m not, it’s just that the local papers report on any and all things Jeter now that he’s moving onto the island.
that Canseco play has been played over and over again… If everyone did juice, everyone has to go in then. One thing I don’t like is how Mike Piazza is having his eligibility questioned even though there has never been a link to him in steroids. Mind you, he was always a pretty big guy.
hey guys sorry have been working. Jeremiah, my son has staked a claim to that ball but I will get you another one in the next week I promise. 🙂 This time I’ll try and get more signatures on it as well.
Canseco had a pretty good career. He hit almost 500 homers and was the first 40 40 player ever. Say what you want but if the pitchers are juicing the hitters have to juice and vice versa so it’s a chicken and egg situation. Steroids don’t put the bat on the ball and that’s the hardest part of any of it.
Davis Island 🙂 Nice digs. I looked at a condo on Harbour island last month that I love but think I’m gonna stay on the beach side of things.
If they hit stupid numbers in the mid to late 90’s but didn’t in the years before or after, then there’s a pretty good chance they juiced. Look at Brady Anderson…he hit what 50 that one year and never hit 10 before or after…well something drastic like that 🙂
Aw Bummer, are you in NY, Mariah? I don’t want a bunch of Tampa Bay players’ signatures (no offense).
Hey mom, what part of L.I. is Jeter/U at? Nassau? Suffolk?
yeah, but juice gave them the strength to knock it out of the park instead having it caught
I’m in LA but I am going to have AJ get the sigs and have his agent mail it to me 🙂
Tampa is 10 and 3 and are predicted by baseball prospectus to go to the series vs the Phillies so having some sigs might not be so bad 🙂
My son saw the ball and wanted it and I told him he already had those sigs but he didn’t have just those 3 on one ball he said. I couldn’t really say no because it was his ball. don’t worry, I already text AJ and he says he’ll get it for me.
And Mom didn’t mean New York she meant the island here in Tampa called Davis Island.
If you ever get me any Tampa Bay signatures, Mariah, please get me Carl Crawford because he’s the shit; he hits well and is gonna have a lot of steals this year. If he was a Yankee, they’d be going nuts for him (I wish the Yankees would play Granderson at leadoff, btw, like they should). For Tampa it’s mainly pitching (and Crawford) that keeps them winning. Any signatures from pitchers Matt Garza (in particular who’s currently 3-0 with a microscopic ERA), David Price or Jeff Niemen would be o.k., too. I still think the Yankees will prevail, though, but Tampa should give them a good run, as they are, so far.
Nice L.A. weather, we’re having…
Davis Islands in Tampa, immediately south of downtown. Jeter’s house is on the west waterfront and the largest in Hillsborough Co. (slightly more than 30,000 sq. feet of living space w/a six car garage). The rest of us? Eh, serf quarters next to that beast!
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/realestate/comparing-derek-jeters-home-to-local-landmarks/1041539
That’s a nice place for him to live at during spring training season.