It’s rather disturbing that the league would feel it necessary to tell players not to bring guns to the game.
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Tag: baseball
Too much celebration could result in a hangover
Part of me knows that Mets fans and the Mets organization would have put together the same kind of celebration, but it was difficult to watch this morning, sitting with Annie in the waiting room while my sister-in-law had some routine tests done.
It wasn’t so much the players, but the people on NBC that made the entire spectacle difficult to listen to (I was trying to read and not watch), along with some of the peripheral folks. The introduction of all players, including those like Xavier Nady and Chien Ming Wa, who spent the bulk of the year on the DL, as if they were integral parts of the journey, just prolonged it.
It is over for now, but this a well-constructed team at its core — Sabathia and Burnett in the rotation, perhaps the best infield in baseball, some solid outfielders, though some of the cogs are aging — so we may have to endure the same thing next year.
My only hope is that the Mets rebound, get healthy and find the missing pieces to surround David Wright, Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran and Johan Santana and get back to the playoffs and make a run a world title.
The nightmare begins
I can’t watch the World Series this year, not with the two teams I hate most playing against each other. Root for the Yankees? The Phillies? Baseball is over, as far as I’m concerned. I’ll watch the Knicks, knowing they’re not supposed to be very good — and thinking about a 2010-2011 season with LeBron James, Chris Bosch or Dwayne Wade in the orange and blue.
Break up the Pirates!
It’s one thing to trade big-leaguers for prospects when you’re out of the race, but it’s another to just dump players in return for marginal minor-leaguers. This especially is so when you’re one of the teams getting money from the league’s revenue-sharing agreement.
If ever there was an argument for teams to be required to spend or forfeit the extra revenue, it is the Pittsburgh Pirates. They were barely a Major League club when the season started. Now they’re barely double A.
Hey now, you’re an All-Star
The 80th Major League Baseball All-Star game is in progress with the American League leading 2-0 in the top of the second and I’m watching the Rachel Maddow Show because I just can’t stomach these overhyped exhibitions.
I lost interest in the game years ago, for a number of reasons and for no reason at all.
The current attempts to re-energize it and make it seem relevant have done little to change my mind. I’ll probably check in with the game from time to time, but the fact remains that my baseball season is on hold until Thursday.
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