The Daily Nooner
Where the hell have I been? I am just a slacker plain and simple. I seem to have lost my inspiration lately; I guess that is what it is. It reminds me of this great song by The Refreshments, Blue Collar Suicide, the lyric in the chorus goes like this “I can't write cause she's got all my inspiration, And she can't count all the pills I took.” That is what I feel like right now, something has stolen my inspiration. I guess it really is the dog days of summer, those hot hazy humid days just take so much out of you. And this week in the Palmetto State the heat index has been well over 100 degrees, so I am zapped.
Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come
Say what you want people, but baseball is still our past time. Yeah football gets the big TV numbers and you will point to the amount of retards that play fantasy football. But I write about all sports on this website, and nothing elicits the number of passionate responses as has baseball. We have people trying to ban each other from the site because of outlandish comments; that has never happened. We have people comparing a career .274 hitter with a 4 time world champion and sure fire Hall of Famer. Listen Jose Reyes Fan Club; I think he is a nice ball player, but lets take it easy with saying he will be better than Derek Jeter; wait at least until he hits .300 for a seasons or gets 200 hits, please.
Oh. You strenuously object. Then I'll take some time and reconsider
President Bush has made what many consider to be his most important decision as President and nominated John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court. Roberts is definitely a conservative nominee, but what else would you have expected from Bush. However, Roberts seems well respected across party lines and has a fairly impressive record and career at the age of 50. Most obviously the key issue that is being pointed to with Roberts is his stance on abortion. He has been part of the Regan/Bush white house since 1982 and formerly worked as a clerk for Judge William Rehnquist. Most people agree he will be a judge along the lines of Rehnquist, who also may soon be retiring. It is no surprise that Bush’s first nominee was going to be a conservative, but if Rehnquist retires it remains to be seen whether or not he will go with some a little more moderate. Go ahead Josh, blast away on the right wing!!!!
Why aren't we flying? Because getting there is half the fun
Is the Tour de France over yet? This thing is out of control. Seriously, could there be anything more boring than watching a bunch of skinny guys ride their bikes around all day. There is no drama in who is going to win this, ever. Not just in the Armstrong dominance era, but once this thing basically gets out of the mountains the last 4 days are anti climactic. All the leader does is ride along side his nearest competitor for the last 35 minutes of the race. The only thing worse than watching this thing is; A. seeing highlights of it & B. me complaining about it, so I am done!!
I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work
Looks like Larry Brown is not going to stay unemployed very long. And I thought he was having health problems and could not coach, oh that tricky Larry Brown. I mentioned to Dave Odom that Brown and the Knicks were talking about their head coaching position and that a $10-12 million offer was on the table, and he said to me “what’s to talk about?” I couldn’t agree more, how could Brown not take the job? Think about it, it is a no lose situation. He takes the job maybe they get better, he gets 110% of the credit. Say they still suck, who cares, they have sucked for years. He can quit at anytime because of “health concerns” and Isaiah Thomas will still get blamed for all of the organizations failures. I heard someone make a great comparison about Larry Brown: If you are hooking up with a girl who is cheating on her boyfriend with you, you should never actually date here. Once she gets sick of you she will cheat on you with some other guy. It is so true, that is all Larry Brown is, a cheating girlfriend. When the stories broke about the Cav’s GM job he repeatedly stated that he would only coach the Pistons next year, that this was his final stop; this guy has had more final stops than Bill Parcells.
Oh, Eddie... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now
Baseball is providing us with such new fads this year in the second half of the season. Kerry Wood is on the DL with arm trouble, who would have thought that? This guy is a pitching machine, his arm is like rubber. Wood is a slightly better than .500 pitcher with a bad arm, that’s it folks. It is a shame because in that bad arm he has some nasty stuff, but the guy still has never really learned how to pitch and his arm will be completely shot by the time he ever does learn. The Oakland A’s are making a huge second half run. I mean nobody could have seen this one coming. This team is hot, and will remain hot till season’s end. Clearly they are a team to be reckoned with in the post season; the have a deep rotation Zito, Harden, Danny Haren and Joe Blanton, that powerful lineup with the like of Scott Hatteberg, Mark Ellis and the venerable Erubial Durazo. Oh wait, I have seen this game before. Remember when the A’s had the big 3 pitchers (not to be confused with the Mets Big 3, Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson, combined 87-106 .450 W% & 4.52 ERA, sorry Mets) and couldn’t get out of the first round of the playoffs? They also had 2 American League MVP’s on that squad, and could not get out of the first round, so please stop talking about the fucking A’s. Lastly, it just would not be late July if teams weren’t interested in acquiring and overpriced under achieving pitcher. Enter, AJ Burnett a career .500 pitcher. A guy who has never started more than 30 games in a season. A guy who has had 3 years worth of arm trouble just to get back to full time status this season. A guy who somehow threw 7 complete games one season but only threw 204 innings? A guy who is slated to make almost $4 million this season and over $5 million next season if he gets arbitration.
Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come
Say what you want people, but baseball is still our past time. Yeah football gets the big TV numbers and you will point to the amount of retards that play fantasy football. But I write about all sports on this website, and nothing elicits the number of passionate responses as has baseball. We have people trying to ban each other from the site because of outlandish comments; that has never happened. We have people comparing a career .274 hitter with a 4 time world champion and sure fire Hall of Famer. Listen Jose Reyes Fan Club; I think he is a nice ball player, but lets take it easy with saying he will be better than Derek Jeter; wait at least until he hits .300 for a seasons or gets 200 hits, please.
Oh. You strenuously object. Then I'll take some time and reconsider
President Bush has made what many consider to be his most important decision as President and nominated John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court. Roberts is definitely a conservative nominee, but what else would you have expected from Bush. However, Roberts seems well respected across party lines and has a fairly impressive record and career at the age of 50. Most obviously the key issue that is being pointed to with Roberts is his stance on abortion. He has been part of the Regan/Bush white house since 1982 and formerly worked as a clerk for Judge William Rehnquist. Most people agree he will be a judge along the lines of Rehnquist, who also may soon be retiring. It is no surprise that Bush’s first nominee was going to be a conservative, but if Rehnquist retires it remains to be seen whether or not he will go with some a little more moderate. Go ahead Josh, blast away on the right wing!!!!
Why aren't we flying? Because getting there is half the fun
Is the Tour de France over yet? This thing is out of control. Seriously, could there be anything more boring than watching a bunch of skinny guys ride their bikes around all day. There is no drama in who is going to win this, ever. Not just in the Armstrong dominance era, but once this thing basically gets out of the mountains the last 4 days are anti climactic. All the leader does is ride along side his nearest competitor for the last 35 minutes of the race. The only thing worse than watching this thing is; A. seeing highlights of it & B. me complaining about it, so I am done!!
I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work
Looks like Larry Brown is not going to stay unemployed very long. And I thought he was having health problems and could not coach, oh that tricky Larry Brown. I mentioned to Dave Odom that Brown and the Knicks were talking about their head coaching position and that a $10-12 million offer was on the table, and he said to me “what’s to talk about?” I couldn’t agree more, how could Brown not take the job? Think about it, it is a no lose situation. He takes the job maybe they get better, he gets 110% of the credit. Say they still suck, who cares, they have sucked for years. He can quit at anytime because of “health concerns” and Isaiah Thomas will still get blamed for all of the organizations failures. I heard someone make a great comparison about Larry Brown: If you are hooking up with a girl who is cheating on her boyfriend with you, you should never actually date here. Once she gets sick of you she will cheat on you with some other guy. It is so true, that is all Larry Brown is, a cheating girlfriend. When the stories broke about the Cav’s GM job he repeatedly stated that he would only coach the Pistons next year, that this was his final stop; this guy has had more final stops than Bill Parcells.
Oh, Eddie... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now
Baseball is providing us with such new fads this year in the second half of the season. Kerry Wood is on the DL with arm trouble, who would have thought that? This guy is a pitching machine, his arm is like rubber. Wood is a slightly better than .500 pitcher with a bad arm, that’s it folks. It is a shame because in that bad arm he has some nasty stuff, but the guy still has never really learned how to pitch and his arm will be completely shot by the time he ever does learn. The Oakland A’s are making a huge second half run. I mean nobody could have seen this one coming. This team is hot, and will remain hot till season’s end. Clearly they are a team to be reckoned with in the post season; the have a deep rotation Zito, Harden, Danny Haren and Joe Blanton, that powerful lineup with the like of Scott Hatteberg, Mark Ellis and the venerable Erubial Durazo. Oh wait, I have seen this game before. Remember when the A’s had the big 3 pitchers (not to be confused with the Mets Big 3, Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson, combined 87-106 .450 W% & 4.52 ERA, sorry Mets) and couldn’t get out of the first round of the playoffs? They also had 2 American League MVP’s on that squad, and could not get out of the first round, so please stop talking about the fucking A’s. Lastly, it just would not be late July if teams weren’t interested in acquiring and overpriced under achieving pitcher. Enter, AJ Burnett a career .500 pitcher. A guy who has never started more than 30 games in a season. A guy who has had 3 years worth of arm trouble just to get back to full time status this season. A guy who somehow threw 7 complete games one season but only threw 204 innings? A guy who is slated to make almost $4 million this season and over $5 million next season if he gets arbitration.
4 Comments:
Right out of the gate....I love the movie quotes!!!
OK, the Reyes/Jeter debate; sure there may not be any merit to it since Jose is so young and Jeter has accomplished so much, but it really doesn't seem to be as far fetched as people...sorry, Yankee fans, make it out to be. Reyes has more shere talent in his fragile hamstring then Jeter does in his entire frame, however Jeter trumps him in intelligence and heart, I doubt anybody in the league has more heart then Jetes! But as far as on field play, Reyes has just as good a chance to be as good if not better then Derek Jeter. Let's not forget my opening remark about him started with the phrase, "Rings aside..." Since Jeter wasn't the only one contributing to those championships and was just a piece of a massive puzzle, also like to point out that since he became the "leader" of the team, he has not one 1 championship, even with all that bank behind him!!
However, let's look at this young kid who suffered through injuries last year, shall we? Every year that Reyes has been a pro he has finished with a better fielding percentage then Jeter and his range factor blows him out of the water... He is currently on pace to be near 200 hits and has already stolen more bases just half way through the season then Jeter ever has. He should finish the year with over 100 runs scored, 200 hits, and 60 SB ...not bad for a kid's first full season in the majors. Just imagine what he'd do with a the lineups around him that Jeter played in!!!
If Reyes is so f-ing good, why can't he lead the Mutts out of the bottom half of their division?
Hey give the kid a chance.... This is his first full season, and he may have 200 hits by years end. You can knock him after he's played for 10 years....but at least nobody suspects he's gay!!!
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