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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The new series will follow the lives of five wives, ex-wives and girlfriends of professional Baseball players as they struggle to balance relationships, friendships and chaos. The Baseball Wives are: Anna Benson (wife of retired Arizona Diamondbacks’ Pitcher Kris Benson), Tanya Grace (ex-wife of retired Chicago Cubs’ First Baseman Mark Grace), Chantel Kendall (ex-wife of Kansas City Royals’ Jason Kendall), Brook Villone (wife of Ron Villone) and Jordana Lenz (linked to no particular athlete in particular – but I’m sure she has an MLB ex or two somewhere).
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1. JimMusComp misses old primer... Posted: November 29, 2011 at 05:55 PM (#4002967)[EDIT] I didn't even watch the trailer - just read the names. Dear God, weep for humanity. And Herman Cain.
I wonder if she's a slumpbuster.
I graduated from high school with the wife of a former MLB player. I was quite relieved to see her name wasn't in the intro.
They had her on local radio a couple days ago, and she said that she's Nyjer Morgan's ex-girlfriend.
Just when I thought the fall TV season was disappointing, the ladies come in for save!
Not just wives, but ex-wives and ex-girlfriends.
I didn't even watch the trailer - just read the names.
I just read the first name - Anna Benson - and knew this would be a trainwreck. Although at least this allowed me to learn that Kris Benson pitched for the Diamondbacks.
When you're dredging the absolute bottom of the baseballing community, you take whatever you can get?
Mark Kotsay.
There aren't enough slang words for women's breasts. I nominate "dingers".
You may disagree, but Brad Penny's wife is that girl on Dancing With the Stars, Karina Smirnoff. Less SFW pic here (bikini). Karina watch out for that whale! Oh, its just Brad Penny.
Edit: Just Googled Kotsay's wife. Wow. She is gorgeous.
with an ass to die for
- Compared to football, or basketball, a lot of baseball players have to go though the minor leagues, which means meeting a different type of groupies.
- Baseball players on the whole don't have a 'posse' that they have to upkeep like basketball or football players do. So they spend less money on themselves, you don't hear about Albert Pujols paying over a million per year just on upkeep on his mansion like Shaq does.
- There's little financial reason to do this show if you're currently happily married to a player.
Matt Kemp's girlfriend.
Or to be kinder, mostly non-groupies/non-gold-diggers. I wouldn't be surprised if marriages that happen pre-fame/wealth last a ton longer than those that occur post.
- Baseball players on the whole don't have a 'posse' that they have to upkeep like basketball or football players do. So they spend less money on themselves, you don't hear about Albert Pujols paying over a million per year just on upkeep on his mansion like Shaq does.
Why do basketball and football players do this? Are they collectively a lot dumber than MLBers?
I think it is partly because they become famous at a much younger age. Football and basketball guys are nationally known stars out of high school with the potential to make huge amounts of money. Unless you're Bryce Harper, no one knows who baseball players in high school are.
I'm not following. Wouldn't having a 'posse' to upkeep mean spending less money on yourself?
Can't the athletes just hang out with their teammates and keep their money?
Sir Mix-a-Lot didn't say anything, just shook his head and walked away.
Liquidity? Baseball players don't really cash in until they hit free agency, while football or basketball players get major league bonuses on their first contract. Plus, it's probably tough to put a posse together when you're on the road 100 days a year and spend the rest in a single A town.
I'll wait for The Newt Wives Supertrailer!, thank you.
that is not an ass. that is two thighs that join directly to a back. that is the body of what Tom Wolfe once called a "boy with breasts".
Which is not to say I would kick the girl out of bed for eating crackers, but her so-called ass is probably her worst feature unless your tastes are Sanduskian.
Sadly it sounds like Mrs. Darvish will be gone by the time he gets in the league.
Impressive. Just impressive
Brian Roberts wife is pretty hot.
Too bad about Derek Jeter's break-up.
Nick Swisher is married to Joanna Garcia...who gets a Freaks and Geeks bump.
Cole Hamels and Zack Greinke as well.
I recently started watching Friday Night Lights, it's pretty crazy that Minka Kelly is the third hottest girl on the show.
13. There aren't enough slang words for women's breasts. I nominate "dingers".
Just from this thread, you've got edmundos, seabiscuits, backpfeifengesichts, zops, meatwads, and Friday Night Lights. And now, bubbles.
nah, Gonfalons. Gigantic gonfalons!
Way long ago in my college days, my favorite trailer from the X rated theater in town was about some sorority porno film. The announcer exclaimed, "She was the titular head of the sorority -- AND WHAT A SET OF TITULARS". It became a meme of my group of friends. I still crack up whenever I think of that.
Please don't tell me you think Tyra is hotter. I could see the argument for Julie Taylor...maybe...but not Tyra.
I think Anna Benson has lived a hard life. She looks terrible. And, it looks like there will be an episode where the housewives get a visit from...
CHUCK KNOBLAUCH'S WIFE!!!!!!!
I assumed this was a well-established fact? In my view, it goes basketball -> hockey -> football -> baseball -> tennis -> golf.
Not with Robert Smith retired, but John Daly still playing it doesn't...
So did I. I was kind of hoping she would be on the show.
I assumed this was a well-established fact? In my view, it goes basketball -> hockey -> football -> baseball -> tennis -> golf.
I don't see much reason to think that baseball players are smarter than football players.
Fewer blows to the head seems like a pretty good reason.
Does that mean catchers are the dumbest players on the baseball field? Because that would seem to go against conventional wisdom.
They don't call catcher gear "the tools of ignorance" for nothing...
From my experience covering a lot of these sports, I'd at least throw the bottom one to the top. Competitive golfers, in general, were the most incurious group of athletes I encountered.
You can't make this stuff up . . .
Unless it's the shows producers trying to goose interest in the first episode by having one of the stars go off the rails. In which case, you can...
Although you get a real classic interview now and then.
For instance Ilya Bryzgalov, bonus marks for content, delivery, interaction with the reporter. He's a star. He even does MATH. Off the top of his head!
Don't worry about me. I'll get along OK.
Athletes? With servants carrying their clubs for them? I'll settle for sportsmen.
Take hockey out, and what you've basically created there is a racial version of the Bill James defensive spectrum.
Yes to both of them. Easily.
So if baseball bans batboys, then ballplayers can become athletes too. Yippee!
this younger generation does not respect tradition.
Well, we HAVE gotten ridden of the bullpen golf carts...
I think people are waiting for the premier of C-SPAN's The Ladies of the State Department - where Albright, Clinton, and Rice live in an embassy compound together and fend off advances from international badboys like Moamar Gaddaffi.
Don't forget about Julianna Zobrist
Aki Iwamura's wife is a cutie too
Is she trying out for some werewolf/vampire tween movie?
Yeah, a man who carries a heavy load for his player during the contest is directly comparable to a kid who runs out to clear the field of debris.
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