Sunday, November 16, 2008

...A COLD DAY IN HELL...

***RED SOX SUSPEND MANNY?***
Better late than never, but the real story is: They sent Manny an official letter after the July 23rd Game against the Yanks, informing him that he was suspended WITHOUT pay for refusing to play. Manny then agreed to play and the matter was dropped. Scott Boras, splitting his hairs as usual, said Manny was NOT suspended, that "intention to suspend" was not suspension. Right, teams threaten to suspend their best hitter all the time. May I remind you, Scott, that "intention to run to first fast" is NOT running to first fast, either.

***A NEW KIND OF PLAYER MOVE***
The resident 'genius' in Detroit, Jim Leyland, is considering moving his CATCHER to shortstop. This is good news only to Derek Jeter, who should now have some competition as "The worst shortstop in baseball." Maybe it will work, maybe it won't, but it will be interesting.
The Tigers, who finished last in their division with the the 8th highest payroll in baseball, have announced a ticket price increase for 2009. If I'm a Tiger fan, I don't think I'd want to pick up a newspaper anymore.

***MINNESOTA IS MINNESOTA***
This little item has GOT to tie into the Twins somehow. 13 restaurants in Austin, Minnesota have Spam on the menu. Spam! Apparently these restaurants won't pay for 'prime meat' either.

***WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' ANNA BENSON***
When players get traded, they bring their own glove. Nick Swisher brought something a little hotter: his girlfriend, Danielle Gamba. We can't put pictures on this blog, so I recommend you look this babe up. This is certainly Picasner's idea of "hot stove."

***SAD NEWS FOR THE JUD***
A lifelong Yankee fan, one of Jud's favorite players was Oscar Gamble, a left-handed outfielder with a 12-pound afro. He had to wear a cap two sizes larger to fit it over the afro. Well, sorry Jud: the afro's gone...completely. Oscar is now bald. Oscar was once quoted as saying, "When I'm at bat, I'm in scoring postion!"

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