Reminds me of the scene in the first Spiderman movie, when Norman Osborn (Willem Defoe) has a conversation with himself in the mirror..."what do you mean I'm the bad guy?" "You are the bad guy." "But how could that be?" "It's true." Enough Alex...come clean, hell, people respect McGwire more for admitting it...
Translation: Now that testing is much more prevalent and thorough, don't expect a late career surge from me...be happy with brilliantly mediocre for the length of my contract, because any boost I get will be all natural.
And in the end it was Aviles, the team's #1 infield sub and Lavarnway, the back-up catcher manufacturing the run against a bunch of guys with numbers in the 80s and 90s...but you keep believing that it was Boston's low As against NYs Low As...
It wasn't the article...it was the headline. The Yankees pursued him as Jeter's replacement (thus the reference) but got outbid by the Jays...the story goes on to say that he would have supplanted Jeter at short, pushing Jeter to center and moving Grandy to left...
As a Yankee fan, I can say this with no problem whatsoever...comments like yours make Yankee fans sound excessively arrogant. Was it law of averages that gave them Lincecum and Cain on the same staff? No...it was doing what teams do...scout good players and sign them. Their pitching was head and shoulders better than Philly and Texas...so they won. Please, they won 5 World Series and 17 NL pennants in NY...they have 4 pennants and a WS since moving...they are doing just fine.
As someone who lives in LA, I'll tell you...everyone. Despite what folks outside of this area think, the INSTANT the Dodgers become relevant again, they will leave the Angels in the dust. Angelenos are just waiting for a reason to love their Dodgers again. Oh, and relative to your earlier post about KARMA, this dbag McCourt is someone who needs to get bit by karma...
Not sure I get this...he was a mostly average pitcher who had some great moments and had some awful moments...but he never did anything bad...he was a great clubhouse guy and a fantastic teammate, by all accounts. So where does karma come into play? Since karma is about how a person acts and NOT how they perform, you can say all you want about his pitching failures, but don't drag karma into this, you end up sounding like an idiot.
Burnett is a PR nightmare, unfortunately. He is a great 5 inning pitcher, and once every two times through the rotation, that's OK...but the hard lesson the Yankees have learned is that they need their starters to go a minimum of 6 and are better when they go 7, so they can hand off to a mix of Joba, Sori, DRob and Mo...the rest of the bullpen is solid, but the end-of-the-game, 1 inning guys are great. Hughes is younger, Garcia is more reliable...Burnett is expensive and expendable.
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