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| Name: | gary |
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| Gender: | Well the men don't know, but the little girls understand... |
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| Member since: | January 23, 2002 |
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justgary has posted 404 links and 2345 comments to SportsFilter and 13 links and 328 comments to the Locker Room and 4 columns.
One pitch: "Have faith in the Yankees, my son," Hemingway's old man says to the boy. "Think of the great DiMaggio." If Ernest Hemingway was alive and writing today, those words would be: "Think of the great Rivera."
posted by justgary to baseball at 01:07 AM on July 04 - 7 comments
A.B.C. Teams: All But the Championship: NBA teams that watched their window of opportunity open and close without a title.
posted by justgary to basketball at 05:25 PM on April 10 - 7 comments
Top 10 Worst First Pitches: Including Mariah Carey in heels and Carl Lewis not running.
posted by justgary to baseball at 03:27 PM on April 09 - 20 comments
Let the Record Be Unbroken: Five opinions on what records will be difficult, or even impossible to break.
posted by justgary to general at 04:37 PM on March 04 - 22 comments
Baseball Words: The words we use in baseball are so much more well, let's say gentlemanly and childlike and comfortable. Just about every word or phrase can of corn, bang-bang play, dinger, tater, gopher ball, round-tripper, sinker, slider, sounds like something a small child came up with long ago. A fight is a rhubarb. A rundown is a pickle. A knuckleball dances. And when there are men standing on base, you can still say that there a ducks on the pond.
posted by justgary to baseball at 06:31 PM on January 30 - 8 comments
1. I don't get the age thing. If she was 12, 14, 15, Okay. But 17? In half a year she'll be able to do anything she wants, with the exception of drinking. I don't believe on that magical day she turns 18 something happens and suddenly she's fair game. It's seems almost comical.
2. I'd have more sympathy if she was still just an athlete. She's not. She's been everywhere since the olympics trying to keep her name in the public eye. That's fine. I still see Mary Lou Retton in infomercials. If she wants to be a celebrity she's going to have to deal with negativity, whether she creates it or not. That's celebrity, taking the good with the bad. Might as well get use to it.
3. I am, in fact, a heathen.
Now, I found out that one couple has a daughter involved with gymnastics on a fairly high level...she attends a private school that is geared towards gymnastics.
And if the onion used her, I'd find it over the line. As soon as she's on Dancing with the Stars and making red carpet trips at the MTV music awards I'd be fine with it.
posted by justgary at 09:42 PM on June 22
The Yankees, for the first time in years, actually look like they're enjoying themselves.
They're basically under the same rules, and the same manager, as last year. George wasn't an influence last ear either.
Winning teams look like they're having fun, losing teams don't. It's a chicken and egg situation, and we're on different sides. In other words, I don't believe the Yankees are winning because they're a happy, go-lucky club. I think they're happy, go-lucky because they're winning.
And just as a PS to my previous comment, I wasn't saying defense can't make the difference. I haven't watched enough Yankee games or looked at the stats to know how good their defense is. Just pointing out that fielding percentage is a poor gauge for judging how well a team fields. It's batting average for hitters. Important, but not near as important as other factors.
posted by justgary at 11:56 PM on June 03
Don't get me wrong, not committing errors is a good thing, but it's a pretty poor gauge for fielding prowess. You can't commit an error on balls you don't reach. Not to mention any names. Jeter.
They signed the top 2 pitchers and the top hitter during the off season. If they end up being the beast of the east, those are your reasons.
I do like this comment from Joba:
"They say we're not athletes, but I think I proved some people wrong," said Chamberlain, who also threw eight innings of two-run ball in the victory.
Pitchers are more often than not the best athlete on the field until they reach the majors and have to specialize. Surprising comment, though it did come from Joba.
posted by justgary at 07:34 PM on June 02
As to Viagra...glad I don't need it :)
I recently read that viagra was becoming a problem with high school and college kids. However, um, good they have it, they want it better.
I mean, Arod has as much talent as anyone in baseball. He's in the .000001 percentile of athletes, and he used steroids. I don't think need has much to do with it.
posted by justgary at 05:32 PM on May 09
I suppose it's just like anything else... I mean, Clemens and Pettitte were pitching for the Yankees championship teams when they were supposedly juicing.
There's suspected steroid users on every single world series team since 1995, with the 2000 yankees having the most: Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, Chuck Knoblauch, Andy Pettitte, Jason Grimsley, David Justice.
I doubt many people other than the whatshisname who kept a needle with DNA from Roger Clemens' ass will have actual "evidence" that these other players are juicing. Another sad note is going to go to the first person who "isnt" actually using them but gets accused in this witch hunt. I'm sorry but it wouold be difficult to refute for any player at this point.
Your sad note seems to be a strawman argument until it actually happens. Unless you doubt the mountain of evidence against Clemens and Bonds, the last 2, manny and arod, have failed test. I don't see much finger pointing without merit. Actual evidence? I'm not sure what you want. Video of injections?
It's going to be difficult to get actual evidence when you have players doing everything they can to avoid it (though I disagree that the ton of paperwork in the Bonds case, Pettitte's own words, and failed tests aren't 'actual' evidence).
posted by justgary at 05:29 PM on May 09
The sadness comes because the 2004 and 2007 World Series championships won by Boston are now tainted.
Well, I guess that's a personal decision, but I find it pretty ridiculous. I know some Yankee fans are jumping on this, and I know some Red Sox fans have always called the Yankee victory over the Sox in 2003 tainted because of Giambi, and I don't agree with either, though other than here I can't muster enough passion to argue the point.
If you just assume, as you're doing, that Manny was juicing in 2004, then you have to take each player that's juiced and assume they've done it their entire careers. That means pettitte was juicing during the Yankee championship years, etc.
Add to that it seems to be pretty much accepted that a huge number of players were juicing on every team, and you can't just pick Boston's accomplishments as tainted. You have to call every championship in the steroid era tainted. They're playing on a level field.
So put an asterisk over the entire era. Just realize you're ignoring the greenie era which lasted much longer than the steroid era.
What sucks about this whole subject is players like Griffey Jr won't hold the records that Bonds (or other cheaters) do. Besides Cy Young, what record in baseball doesn't have an asterisk? The cheaters get their names in lights. Sucks.
The same exact thought was being said about Arod not too long ago. Thank god arod, clean and natural, was going to break the home run record.
I doubt griffey has ever done steroids, but I certainly wouldn't be shocked by anything now. And anyone claiming they're positive a certain player is clean is in denial. Players with all body types (bonds, clemens, manny, etc.) have used steroids. I'm guessing that griffey has escaped any speculation because rather than do well later in his career, or even get better, he's pretty much broken down and sucked (ok, sucked is kind of harsh, but in comparison...).
posted by justgary at 02:50 PM on May 08
Any nuggets of wisdom smith had were smothered (for me) by his obnoxious persona. Good riddance. I'm simply amazed there are people that will miss him.
posted by justgary at 07:49 PM on April 17
My guess is that Beckett said "get your ass back in the box and shut up."
I'm hoping, after the appeal, that it comes out what he said.
posted by justgary at 12:38 PM on April 17
When suspending a pitcher it should be however many games suspended times 5.
36 games? So we're going to start suspending pitchers a fourth of a season that 'might' have intentionally thrown at a hitter? Brilliant.
Beckett even coming across like this so soon after the Angels have had a teammate die in a tragic manner, in their park, is bound to piss off Major League Baseball and fans alike.
Oh come on. It should have nothing to do with anything on the field. What beckett did is either right or wrong, intentional or not, but you really think in the middle of that he's suppose to think "wait, the Angels have been through a tragedy"? That's ridiculous.
Bob Watson is a stooge who spent quite a bit of time in the Yankees' organization before getting his job in the Commissioner's Office.
He walked towards Abreu yelling and pointing at him, which cleared the benches. I don't think he should have been suspended either, but that's enough of a threatening gesture to start some brawls.
You're putting a lot of blame on Beckett without having any idea what he said coming off the mound. Bottom line, the umps were there, saw everything, and not only didn't think Beckett was throwing at anyone, but that he handled it well. Watson overruled the umps. That's troublesome.
But it does seem to be a consensus, here, elsewhere, Scioscia, that it was Beckett seemingly being unapologetic that give him the fine, that leads one to believe he WAS throwing at Abreu.
Which means I guess it's not the intent, but the reaction. So the 4th time Joba throws at youkilis' head he can once again give that "who me?" puppy dog look and all will be fine. Are fans really that gullible?
posted by justgary at 11:06 AM on April 17
What was wrong with Annika Sorenstam's pitch?
Yeah, I didn't get that one either. I guess they expected a 90 mph heater on the corner.
I could watch the Mariah Carey video all day. It's surreal.
posted by justgary at 04:37 PM on April 09
That makes his viewpoint worth hearing, even if he is often a desperate and sad glory hound.
It's worth hearing, but just as easily disregarded when he has nothing. And that's what he has here, absolutely nothing except a guess.
He wasn't guessing before, he knew. And he had nothing to lose by sharing. And he shared it all. And he has nothing left. And he's been gone from the game long enough that he won't be having anything new.
He might be right, he might be wrong. But at this point his guessing is no more worthy than anyone else's.
posted by justgary at 06:57 PM on April 08
If Ramirez was a Yankee, would he react in the same way?
No, he'd cut it in a minute.
If they upset Ramirez enough I could see that happening. There's been talk of moving Jeter, and I don't think the money would faze New York, even in this economy.
posted by justgary at 09:12 PM on March 29
Wow. I'm sure the sox would take him back. Lugo and Lowrie, 2 for 1.
Please?
posted by justgary at 01:58 AM on March 29
One pitch
Hmm, should work now.