Tirico Suave

You know how occasionally some crotchety old baseball writer or one of the idiots on Around The Horn will pad their insipid argument with something along the lines of “Players don’t care about these newfangled stats. They just want to go out there every five days and throw strikes. You really think Zack Greinke cares [...]

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Pic via here.
So, MLB’s best defensive player of 2009, Franklin Gutierrez, didn’t win the Gold Glove award. Worse yet, all around inferior baseball player and former Mariner Adam Jones took home the award instead. Luckily, one of the perks to being a Mariners fan is having the sublime USS Mariner around to talk us irrational [...]

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But I just can’t quite put my finger on It.

Original mess can be found right here.

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OK, let’s break down FOX’s latest gaffe from the Yankees’ parade. This one deals with World Series MVP Hideki Matsui and the fact that he’s — gasp — Japanese!

Six-second mark: Fox’s waspy reporter gets a glimpse of Hideki Matsui. His discovery and ensuing yelp is akin to Steve Irwin stumbling upon on a python/crocodile orgy. [...]

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Tim McCarver went on Big Mikey’s show this afternoon to discuss the impending Phillies vs. Yankees World Series.
Because Big Mikey has a disturbing Mickey Mantle fetish, the talk eventually shifted in that direction.
And this was the result . . .

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Via hard-hitting journalist Rickey Reilly:
Swisher, who does not seem to need sleep, has been known to drag players to his favorite karaoke bar, where he sings a terrific version of Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody.”
Like Nick Swisher and the Yankees, Kings of Leon hold a hollow place in America’s blackened heart.
Is that not perfect?

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Contrary to popular belief, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia is not the hoofed mammal that everyone craves him to be.
Not surprisingly, Mr. A-ROTIC kicked off the horsey talk after last night’s victory over the Angels.
Via Harvey’s favorite columnist:
“You know, CC gets loose after 90 pitches,” Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez said. “He’s a horse. He’s a [...]

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Via:
After looking at replays, I’m not sure I believe the replay of the first one. I said in my heart I thought he left too soon. But the replay showed that he didn’t. (emphasis mine) We go in and watch replays regularly after every game, even during the regular season. That’s part of our procedures.
Other [...]

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Via the Boston Herald:
“Those comments probably came right after the Red Sox lost, so I’d bet they were said in the heat of the moment, when he was very frustrated,” [Billy Wagner's] agent Bean Stringfellow said yesterday. “That’s probably not the best time to take comments like that as gospel.”

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I don’t want to make that much of this and I understand the Angels just won their division and want to pay tribute to a fallen teammate, but dumping tons of beer and champagne on the jersey of someone killed by a drunk driver seems no different to me than going to David Carradine’s grave [...]

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