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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Keener than your average Joe Keener…Jonah speaks.
EH: You’re a big proponent of baseball adopting more uses of instant replay, but that doesn’t seem likely with Selig still in office. Realistically, how long do you think it will be until baseball joins the 21st century and uses the advances in technology to improve the quality of the game?
JK: The next time I correctly predict what Bud Selig will do will be the first. I will say you have to look at this the way you would any piece of collective bargaining. I would guess that if Selig pushes for replay, that means he needs to make a concession to umpires. Same way you’d think that stricter drug testing would be a slam dunk, but it requires/required owners to make it palatable for players.
I will say this, though: It’s just another in a long list of short-sighted (non-)decisions by the most overrated Commissioner of any major sport who’s ever presided during my lifetime. When Bud Selig makes his Hall of Fame speech, I look forward to jeering him with chants of “1994”, followed by me breaking down and weeping. Then throwing monkey feces at him.
Repoz
Posted: November 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM | 5 comment(s)
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Ya'know, sports is the one area where a real meritocracy exists. Milton Bradley gets a bad rap because Milton has done and said some dumb things.
Johnny Estrada went from catching regularly in the NL to being out of the major leagues the NEXT SEASON for being a jerk.
Shea Hillenbrand hit 21 homers one season, wandered around the majors for a season and is now on the street complaining that the world hates him for being a jerk.
Do I need to continue? Do I really need to highlight how pulling out the race card on behalf of Milton Bradley is beyond dumb?
The man has issues. BECAUSE he can get on base he still has a tenuous hold on a major league job. Period.
Give me a break..........
I will resist looking that up because I have heard the phrase somewhere but cannot place it.
D*mn this old memory. Fire circuits! Work D*mmit!!
Forgive my oh-so-stereotypical film noir reference, but the guy that Bradley reminds me of is the Eli Wallach character (named Dancer) in The Lineup. He needed a "keeper," in the person of an aging, philosophical, sexually ambiguous hood (played by the great character actor Robert Keith). Ultimately this didn't work out so well in the film, but apparently it had kept Dancer from self-destruction for...awhile, at least.
Maybe that's what some team needs to do with Milton. Lest we get blasted for racism, let's not call it a "keeper," but merely a "companion."
Of course, this guy can't be on the field, but he can shield Milton from any off-diamond run-ins and "manage" his media interactions.
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