Habla blah blah

Steve:
So if Fox fired Steve Lyons for "habla'ing" something stupid, will they please also fire Tim McCarver for, you know, being the embodiment of stupid?

 

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Mike:
Guess they'd had enough of Psycho and were just waiting for him to say something objectionable no matter how much of a stretch.

 

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Steve:
I'm not even sure exactly what was the so-called offensive part. The "butchering" of Spanish or his suggesting that Piniella took his wallet and since Piniella is Hispanic (who the frig knew?) and that, in the logic of the politically correct universe, implies Lyons was saying all Hispanics are thieves?

 

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Mike:
And if you're going to fiah Lyons, why not Piniella as well for using the "like finding a wallet" metaphor in the first place?

 

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Steve:
Meanwhile, how many more postseason series losses by the A's do we have to endure before they finally stop using the adjective "successful" to describe Beane and Oakland?

 

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Mike:
Yeah, I mean it's great and all that they play Moneyball and make the playoffs every year blah blah blah fishbiscuit, but c'mon, it's time to raise the bah a bit.

 

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Steve:
They love that crap over in Oakland, though. It's what they've "come to know and love over the past eight years."

 

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Mike:
I love it when Beane apologists point to the Red Sox demise in '06 as evidence that they've somehow plugged in to the baseball Rosetta Stone as, last time I checked but I could be mistaken, the Red Sox have actually won a pennant in the past 8 years.

 

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Steve:
Well, you know, winning is way the fuck overrated when compared to "evolution as status quo."

 

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Mike:
I don't even know what the frig that means.

 

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Steve:
Me either. All I know is if Nature evolved as slowly as the A's, we'd still be dragging our knuckles when we walk.

 

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Comments

[Ice Princess]

Apparently the A's agree with HB - The fired Macha... Must be all his fault they forgot how to hit against Detroit.

[yazbread]

Kaz,

I think a couple of post-docs are in order before you really get bitter about the entire process. As to the cigarette bit, you probably couldn't find anyone in your lab that smoked.

[Billy Mahty]

Rob in CT - I must be a masochist. I like A-Rod and I think the Yanks should keep him. I think they need to fire his shrink and tell him to start figuring his shit out on the field, not on the couch.

I think that eventually he will turn it around in the postseason, deliver the dropped shoulder and the bitchy slap at the right time, and he'll prove himself. The guy is young and has a lot of good years ahead of him. He'll probably win the mvp again.

ESPN had a story over the weekend suggesting that the Red Sox would be a good trade partner for A-Rod. I don't see that happening.

I love Irish coffee.

[bosoxed]

i would put A-Rod at short and let manny go where-ever he wants. i dont see A-Rod approving that one, though.he would still be hounded by the fans. if he wants laid back love, the angels are his best bet.

[Rob in CT]

Kaz - Really glad I could lighten the mood. I would love to see someone submit a Soxaholix-inspired dissertation. Would be as well-read a dissert as ever there has been. Good luck my friend. Your title reminds me of my wife's publication back in the day on Somatic T-Cells. I got roped into editing it for grammar and did a bunch of tpying on that bad boy. Still break out in a cold sweat remembering her moods as she went into the home stretch with that.

Billy - I can't conceive of the Sox looking seriously at A-Rod after the trading fiasco back in Feb of '04. Bosoxed is right, the Fenway Faithful would eat him alive.

[NewEngland SportsGuy]

Hey now, Oakland is successful. They won their first playoff series before folding to the Tigers. Look at it this way....they made it further than the Sawx and saved $75 million.

Don't mind me...I'm still upset that our infield isn't Andy Marte, Hanley Ramirez, Freddie Sanchez, Anibel Sanchez on the mound, and Josh Bard behind the plate.

[paddy24]

Dave S. and Jason O. as usual right on the mark. What Beane has done IS remarkable. The A's don't advance because of their low payroll. Give Beane an extra fifty million and he'd be in the World Series every year. Theo is a train wreck. He will never live down the Hanley Ramirez fiasco.

[paddy24]

All of my play-off picks have been wrong. It's hard to handicap, though, with the unwatchable brand of baseball this post-season. I can't believe any of the four N.L. teams even had a winning record, based on what I've seen. Tom Glavine, Steve Trachsel, John Maine and Oliver Perez? Not exactly Seaver, Koosman and Matlack.