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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

N.Y. Daily News: Lo Duca calls WFAN

Meh...I just found out that Rays honcho, Stuart Sternberg...used to call into John Sterling’s crapantheon sports radio show back in the early 70’s!

On Monday’s cheers in the dugout: “I wasn’t there. The last few games - I’m on the DL. They have a policy here, the Nationals, when you’re on the DL you stay home. But they let me come on this trip because I live here.

“I don’t know. I’m not a big fan of it to be honest with you. I’ll be honest with you. You know, we’re struggling. Guys are just trying to have a little fun. I think they saw Figueroa getting a little upset, so they amped it up a couple of notches. I do think it’s a little bush league. At first it started off as a little fun, until he got mad. I don’t agree with it. But, also, Nelson Figueroa has nine wins in the big leagues and he needs to keep his mouth shut.”

On being named in the Mitchell Report: “I apologized. It’s something I did a long time ago. The perception, and people think that, hey, he did it last year. No. I did it a long time ago. And it was a mistake I did. I wish it would have never happened. It’s something I’ll have to deal with. But, you know, I’m sort of glad. I think it was a monkey that’s been on my back for a long time that finally flew off. It was something that I’m not proud of, obviously.

“I don’t view myself as a cheater. Obviously it’s something I did. And obviously it’s something that helped me. But, you know, a lot of people don’t realize I got into a bad collision and got run over at home plate one year, in ’95 in Double-A. And I got it prescribed to me by a doctor. A lot of guys did it. There’s a lot of guys in front of me that did it. Like I said, I’m not making excuses. It was part of survival. You want to be at home or you want to be playing? That’s the way it was. I apologized for what I did, but that’s plenty true.”

Repoz Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:39 PM | 16 comment(s)
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   1. Chris Needham  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:00 PM (#2781031)
I'm trying to think of a non-nanny-protected word to use here.

Does douchenozzle make it through?
   2. Hang down your head, Tom Foley  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:04 PM (#2781037)
########## used to.

Does Christ-humper?
   3. Repoz  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:08 PM (#2781042)
I no longer have a favorite team, but whatever team, horse or girl LoDouchebag is on...I hate 'em.
   4. Dedicated to Esoteric but he wasn't listening  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:09 PM (#2781043)
Okay, I'm no fan of Lo Duca (or his pathetic bat/arm) either, but constant howls of douchenozzlery (ooh, what a great term!) seem rather unfair here. The guy has owned up to it. Sure, you let a man talk long enough in a position like this, he'll start to make some excuses ("I got run over at the plate!") but he keeps returning to his basic culpability. He hasn't dodged it. No weasel-wording.

So whatever. Lo Duca may be a former juicer and a jerk for other reasons, but let's give it a rest for now.
   5. PreservedFish  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:15 PM (#2781057)
"I do think it’s a little bush league ... But, also, Nelson Figueroa has nine wins in the big leagues and he needs to keep his mouth shut.”


This is actually a fine take on the situation.
   6. AJM  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:32 PM (#2781094)
constant howls of douchenozzlery (ooh, what a great term!) seem rather unfair here. The guy has owned up to it.

He's a douchenozzle for things unrelated to this article.
   7. Raskolnikov  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:37 PM (#2781105)


This is actually a fine take on the situation.


No it isn't. If it's bush league, it's bush league. Who cares whether it's a superstar or a fringe player making the comment.
   8. Rich  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:53 PM (#2781124)
Meh...I just found out that Rays honcho, Stuart Sternberg...used to call into John Sterling’s crapantheon sports radio show back in the early 70’s!


Give it a rest, you creep.

/Sterling
   9. 6 - 4 - 3  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 06:55 PM (#2781127)
If it's bush, it's bush

Exactly. And Lo Duca doesn't like anything that features bush.
   10. Crashburn Alley  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 07:06 PM (#2781145)
As much as it pains me to do this as a Phillies fan who had to listen to his "dancing" tirade after the Phillies swept the Mets at the end of August, there's nothing wrong with anything he said quoted above.
   11. Chris Needham  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 07:25 PM (#2781189)
The douchenozzlery has to do with him -- whether he's right on the point or not -- going on the radio station of the team his CURRENT team is playing to rip the actions of his teammates. If that's not a first-class ######### (nanny, cut me some slack!), I don't know what one is -- and I look in the mirror every day!
   12. Crashburn Alley  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 07:38 PM (#2781216)
Oh, he is definitely a "douchenozzle," but I don't think that anything about this particular incident speaks to it. So what, are visiting players not allowed to appear on local radio stations on the road? Are players not allowed to be honest and critical of their teammates?
   13. Chris Needham  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 07:43 PM (#2781227)
Sure.

Sure.

Not together though.

What does it serve other than himself? A good teammate doesn't do crap like that.
   14. Lassus  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 07:58 PM (#2781250)
Didn't David used to be fast? Yikes.
   15. Brian Oliver  Posted: May 14, 2008 at 08:15 PM (#2781305)
Are players not allowed to be honest and critical of their teammates?


They most certainly are.

But then they are open to being called a douchenozzle
   16. OsunaSakata  Posted: May 15, 2008 at 07:52 AM (#2781637)
And Lo Duca doesn't like anything that features bush.


Krista Guterman, Christina Alisio and Sonia Flores would strongly diagree.
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