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Friday, August 15, 2008

Baseball Musings: Pinto: Bad Year for Tek

Not only is Jason Varitek not hitting in the final year of his contract, he’s also getting divorced:

Jason Varitek had nothing to say today, at least to us, about his divorce. And there are few details in the documents filed in Gwinnett County, Ga. Seems the Sox catcher and his wife, Karen, split June 7 and are living separately. In his complaint, filed at the end of July, the team captain contends the marriage is “irretrievably broken” and there are “no prospects for a reconciliation.”

I have a friend who Varitek tried to pick up a few years ago, despite the fact she was on a date with her future husband. Sometime after that encounter she saw Varitek’s wife on TV and realized they looked alike. Seems Tek used the Roger Clemens MO of dating women who looked like his wife so people who just glanced at the couple would think that indeed was his spouse.

Thanks to Calcaterra…wife…hmmm.

Repoz Posted: August 15, 2008 at 10:58 PM | 26 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. The Kids Are Enright (1k5v3L) Posted: August 15, 2008 at 11:06 PM (#2904839)
So Tek sucks at hitting on women too.
Maybe his power of Juju is just weak...
   2. robinred Posted: August 15, 2008 at 11:13 PM (#2904850)
O Captain
My Captain!
   3. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: August 15, 2008 at 11:23 PM (#2904864)
Josh Wilker wrote about this today too.
   4. Golfing Great Mitch Cumstein Posted: August 16, 2008 at 12:08 AM (#2904910)
Banging Heidi Whatney does not help one's hitting?
   5. Francoeur Sans Gages (AlouGoodbye) Posted: August 16, 2008 at 12:28 AM (#2904925)
Varitek the lyrical catcher?

"Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female world.

The obsession of the former is lyrical: what they seek in women is themselves, their ideal, and since an ideal is by definition something that can never be found, they are disappointed again and again. The disappointment that propels them from woman to woman gives their inconstancy a kind of romantic excuse, so that many sentimental women are touched by their unbridled philandering.

The obsession of the latter is epic, and women see nothing the least bit touching in it...

Because the lyrical womaniser always runs after the same type of woman, we even fail to notice when he exchanges one mistress for another. His friends perpetually cause misunderstandings by mixing up his lovers and calling them by the same name."
   6. Fred C. Dobbs Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:04 AM (#2905120)
Wow, so now the Sox have a former 'roider and an adulterer on their team...they should have just signed Bonds when they had the chance.
   7. We don't have dahlians at the Palace of Wisdom Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:13 AM (#2905132)
Isn't the whole point of adultery to cheat on somebody that doesn't look like your spouse?
   8. Darren Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:20 AM (#2905136)
I don't know Dave Pinto, but shouldn't this read "I have a friend who says..."
   9. Justin 'The Cespedobear' T Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:23 AM (#2905139)
You know who else it's a bad year for? MLB.tv subscribers who have to hear this stupid ####### douche physics professor (ooooh!) go on about Sharp televisions. I will never, ever, buy another Sharp product. Ever. Good marketing, ########.
   10. RJ in TO Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:26 AM (#2905142)
Different strokes and all.


Of course it's different strokes. If he wanted the same strokes, he would have kept doing his wife.
   11. Tike Redman's Shattered Dreams (shayborg) Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:50 AM (#2905159)
You know who else it's a bad year for? MLB.tv subscribers who have to hear this stupid ####### douche physics professor (ooooh!) go on about Sharp televisions. I will never, ever, buy another Sharp product. Ever. Good marketing, ########.

Seriously. "Luckily, I am one." Jesus, how smarmy can you get?
   12. Enrico Pallazzo Posted: August 16, 2008 at 03:52 AM (#2905161)
Ryan wins the thread. That is all.
   13. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: August 16, 2008 at 04:39 AM (#2905182)
There are much, much more annoying things in this world than physics professors, supposing that guy actually is one, which he probably isn't.

Real physics professors are a big part of the reason there still is a world.
   14. Justin 'The Cespedobear' T Posted: August 16, 2008 at 04:56 AM (#2905192)
He is. He teaches at Pepperdine. And nobody said physics professors are the most annoying people in the world. This guy is incredibly annoying, however.

And I fail to see what it is that supposedly makes physics professors the world's foremost experts on HD television. It's just one of those things where I try to envision the meetings at which this idea was concocted and approved of. They must have been off the charts on the unintentional comedy meter.
   15. Dan Posted: August 16, 2008 at 05:02 AM (#2905196)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds that ####### commercial annoying. I think that professor guy is pretty creepy too.

Is the quote in post #5 from Milan Kundera? I think it is, but can't recall which book.
   16. Tike Redman's Shattered Dreams (shayborg) Posted: August 16, 2008 at 07:33 AM (#2905239)
There are much, much more annoying things in this world than physics professors, supposing that guy actually is one, which he probably isn't.

My dad is a physics professor, and he's nowhere near as irritating as that guy.
   17. Phil Coorey. Posted: August 16, 2008 at 09:02 AM (#2905246)
You know who else it's a bad year for? MLB.tv subscribers who have to hear this stupid ####### douche physics professor (ooooh!) go on about Sharp televisions. I will never, ever, buy another Sharp product. Ever. Good marketing, ########.


That commercial shits me so far sideways , its not funny.

Why I forget to mention on chatter how much I hate it is beyond me
   18. tfbg9 Posted: August 16, 2008 at 12:34 PM (#2905264)
Plus, you don't have to be some mid-life crisis, sell-out physics professor to know that Sharp HDTV's totally blow,
and Sony completely rules!

Sony! Sony! Sony!
   19. Darren Posted: August 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM (#2905266)
Thanks for saving the world, physicists! Go invent some more bombs.
   20. OCD SS Posted: August 16, 2008 at 02:48 PM (#2905340)
That physicist reminds me of Mr Joshua from Lethal Weapon.
   21. madouble35 Posted: August 19, 2008 at 11:29 PM (#2908976)
I registered just so I could comment on how lame that guy is. I specifically googled it because I wanted to make sure I wasn't the only one who wanted to kill that idiot. It is every single commercial. Why can't they just stick with the commercial where everyone says their name, just so I can see Victor Martinez whisper "I'm Victor Martinez"
   22. sardonic Posted: August 19, 2008 at 11:43 PM (#2909017)
Is the quote in post #5 from Milan Kundera? I think it is, but can't recall which book.


I'm pretty sure it's ULB, and describing the male protagonist, Tereza's husband (his name escapes me at the moment).
   23. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: August 19, 2008 at 11:44 PM (#2909022)
Welcome to the site. If you enjoy our shared hate, why not consider matching tattoos?
   24. Misirlou's got a busy day, he's wearing a vest Posted: August 20, 2008 at 12:01 AM (#2909067)
Real physics professors are a big part of the reason there still is a world.


Because if Newton hadn't invented gravity, we all would have flown off the planet into space by now?

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