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4-09-04
The brilliant author of that brilliant article is Gerry Fraley from the Dallas Morning News. Thanks Bupp.
4-04-04
So... my former boss (a.k.a. The Bupp) that now lives in Dallas sent me this from the local news. I'll try to get a name so I can give the author credit, but this was most enjoyable:
Loose lips sink A-Rod's phony ship
Yankee goes overboard in bashing Rangers - whom he turned tail on
01:45 AM CST on Wednesday, March 31, 2004
SURPRISE, Ariz. - The Rangers face the New York Yankees for the first time this
season on May 21 at The Ballpark in Arlington.
Whoever pitches for the Rangers in that game must do one thing.
Buzz Alex Rodriguez with a fastball.
Spin him. Give him a bow tie.
Knock him down. Plunk him in the ribs.
The Crown Prince deserves it.
Rodriguez, third baseman for the struggling Yankees, offers a rare peek into his
true narcissistic character in the April 12 issue of ESPN The Magazine. In a
first-person article, Rodriguez shows himself to be the biggest phony in the
game.
And most self-absorbed.
Everyone in the Rangers' clubhouse should be insulted by the former captain's
words.
In the piece, Rodriguez wrote he was "overcome with a sense of depression last
season" with the Rangers. Rodriguez wrote there were times the frustration
became so great that he did not want to go to the park. "I hit rock bottom in
the middle of the season," Rodriguez wrote. "I remember driving home with my
wife, Cynthia, after a game and telling her, 'I just don't see the light. Where
is the light? What am I in this for?' " Poor, pitiful Alex.
Rodriguez apparently thinks three losing seasons with the Rangers bothered only
him. Everyone with this club has suffered. There will be more suffering as the
Rangers slowly rebuild.
Rodriguez did not have the stomach for that.
He got his money ($252 million over 10 years) and jumped ship.
As Rusty Greer said in January, "I don't know if I'd want to jump into a foxhole
with him."
Greer can spot a fraud a mile away.
Rodriguez also calls moving to the Yankees "the biggest challenge of my life"
but expects that to motivate him.
'I don't have a ton of October experience," Rodriguez wrote, "but I think I'd be
better with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the World Series
than I was in the heat of a Texas summer with 22,000 people in the stands and
our team already out of it."
Why? The truly great players perform at their best no matter the situation.
Paul Molitor will go into the Hall of Fame this summer. Baseball people still
marvel over a Molitor factoid. His time to first base never changed.
Molitor ran full-speed on base hits in April and on grounders in September. He
ran full-speed for winning teams, and he ran full-speed for losing teams.
Crown Prince Alex runs full-speed when it pleases him. He does expect a full
paycheck on the first and 15th of every month.
Rodriguez offers other examples of his disingenuous nature.
Those young players that drew him to the Rangers as a free agent and in whom he
had so much confidence?
"I would have never gone to Texas if they had told me 'Alex, it's going to be
you and 24 kids,' " Rodriguez wrote. "Never."
His prediction after being named captain on Jan. 25: "We're moving this train in
the right direction. ... We're going to be very good very soon."
Fooled you.
A few days after the farcical scene of becoming captain, Rodriguez and his wife
were "packing to go back to the losing in Texas."
Rodriguez was honest about one thing.
"I can stay up all night ... playing GM and wondering what I would do in certain
managing situation," Rodriguez wrote.
While with the Rangers, Rodriguez tried to usurp the authority of general
managers and managers. He liked to call pitches and propose deals to owner Tom
Hicks, who gave him too much latitude.
Rodriguez is an elite player headed to the Hall of Fame. Had he settled for that
distinction rather than recommending the signing of free agents such as
right-hander Esteban Yan and helping push former general manager Doug Melvin
out, his time with the Rangers might have turned out differently.
Rodriguez debuted with the Yankees on Tuesday morning in Japan. He struck out
twice in a loss to Tampa Bay.
Rodriguez had a similar debut with the Rangers in 2001. His pratfalls included
tripping over an untied shoelace while playing the field during a loss to
Toronto in Puerto Rico.
That started three difficult seasons for the Rangers. They will have more
trouble this season, but they are better off without the Crown Prince.
2-16-04
Baseball as we know it is officially over and I find it extremely offensive that Pete Rose is banned from baseball but George "Let Me Just Buy Myself A Pennant" Steinbrenner, Scott "I Am Satan" Boras, Tom "I'm A Complete Dickhead That Has NO FUCKING IDEA HOW TO RUN A BASEBALL TEAM AND LOOK HOW THIS BLEW UP IN MY FACE JUST LIKE LAURA SAID IT WOULD" Hicks, Alex "Greedy Hypocritical Bastard" Rodriguez and Bud "Evil Idiot Commissioner" Selig are still allowed to ruin THE WHOLE GODDAMN SPORT FOR EVERYBODY. Shit Lips in pinstripes. I give it two months before he jacks the honorable Jeter out of the shortstop position and I can only hope that karma will finally catch up to that ASSHOLE YANKEE TEAM AND THEY ALL GET JOCK RASH AND ARE UNABLE TO PLAY FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
Shelly would like it added that Barry "Steroids" Bonds isn't helping things and Pete Rose is banned for doing something that had zero impact on the game he played while Barry is allowed to break records using illegal drugs that DO impact his game and I quite agree with her. I HATE YOU BUD SELIG!
2-15-04
Laura is appalled at the trade that is thus far going through with Shit Lips to the Yankees and Alfonso Soriano to Texas as Shit Lips JUST DID A BIG PIECE about how HAPPY HE WAS TO BE A TEXAS RANGER and THERE SHOULD BE NO TRADE ALLOWED ANYWAY, as he signed a no-trade-clause which was HIS IDEA to stay there for 10 years, TEN YEARS! HE WAS SO BIG on the whole NO TRADE THING, and he listed that as one of the main reasons he didn't sign with Seattle even though everybody knows it was all about the money, and here it is just a couple years later and he is DESPERATE TO GET OUT and SO SORRY SHIT LIPS, but you can rot there you wanted to be there so bad and if Selig lets this go through I will RIOT because it is wrong on so many levels I may have an aneurysm and can I just say I TOLD YOU SO ALEX RODRIGUEZ! I TOLD YOU (well, I SAID, I've never spoken to you directly) THAT YOU WOULD RUE THE DAY YOU SIGNED THAT FARCE OF A CONTRACT AND LOOK AT YOU NOW! WILLING TO MOVE TO THIRD BASE TO GET OUT! YOU STUPID, GREEDY, HYPOCRITICAL, LYING SACK OF SELL OUT CRAP!
Laura gets the rest of the 2001 wrap ups up. Go there now.
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Laura gleefully enjoys Alex Rodriguez wanting out of Texas. Did she predict that or what? It's detailed very well how she said this would happen in the 2001 wrapups, which she promises to get up soon.
Laura laughs her ass off when the A-Rod trade to Boston doesn't work and A-Rod remains in the hell of his OWN DELUDED MAKING.
Laura is majorly relieved that Edgar has decided to join us for one more year. You can't keep a good man down.
M's sign Ichiro, Joel Pineiro, Gil Meche, Eddie Guardado, Scott Spiezio, Rich Aurilia and Raul Ibanez and unload Jeff Cirillo and Carlos Guillen. Kickass.
M's don't sign Mike Cameron. Laura's heart breaks.
Laura has words with Glenn and Kevin who act like disloyal asstards by not being sad about Cammie leaving.
We say goodbye to Artie. Laura is displeased.
Laura becomes violently ill when Jeff Nelson signs with the Texas Assrangers.
Laura goes to Mariner Fan Fest 2004 with her friend Val and meets Jay Buhner (again), Bret Boone, Norm Charlton, Dave Niehaus, Bryan Price, Bob Melvin, Chuck Armstrong, Howard Lincoln, Joel Pineiro, Scott Spiezio, Julio Mateo, Dave Valle and Rick Rizz. Could you just PEE!
Laura gave out her website cards to all of them because she is that big of a geek. We also met Cute Don, the security/microphone guy, who assisted us in our website promoting. We liked him a lot, even though he said he was a Red Sox fan. Gross.
Bob Melvin is the nicest man on the planet. Seriously.
Laura is greatly saddened at the loss of Kazu, but looks forward to spending the money and fervently hopes we won't stoop to dealing with Scott Boras as he should be banned from baseball.
Rumor has it we're after Pudge. Laura likes the catchers we have. She likes Pudge too, but not as much as Dan or Ben and believes if we're going to deal with Boras, Greg Maddux is the way to go.
