Why Don't You Look Around And Make Sure We're Okay?
This entry was posted on 3/8/2006 1:21 PM and is filed under Random Thoughts, Rant, Clean Sox.
Do you think there were a few million obvious reasons that influenced David Wells' decision to rescind the trade request? It's one of those situations where a player and his agent overvalue the player. 41 years old with a bad knee and talk of this being your last year pretty much puts you on par with a bucket of baseballs and a case of Extra Strength Tiger Balm. I'm glad Boomer is potentially back. I say potentially due to his health issues. I enjoy watching him pitch and I'm glad he's on my team, because I was so tired of seeing him kill the Sox year in and year out. On top of that, he's a colorful character who likes to pop off at the mouth. Judging by his latest salvo tossed at the Commish I'd say he's in mid-season shape.
Is it me or does Manny Ramirez
look like the Predator? Make a point to observe his obvious physical growth along with the new dreadlocks and
there are obvious similarities.
When I was in high school there were a lot of my fellow athletes taking amino acid supplements. I was always turned off by it even if they weren't illegal. I always felt that if you needed an edge beyond your physical skills and brains then you weren't good enough. What's going on with the steroids scandal and
Barry Bonds in particular is just sad. I'm not suprised by any of this. It's been going on in the Olympics for a long time, but steroids robs us of what is fun and pure about baseball. It's a sport that fat guys can succeed in (See
David Wells) and it amazes me that you would need the juice to succeed. However, and I'll comment on this more later this season, I'm convinced that steroids allowed more mediocre players to keep their jobs than it rose superstars to superstardom.
Kirby Puckett was another in a long line of guys that "we almost got". He definitely makes the top 5 in that list along with the entering their primes John Wetteland and Sammy Sosa (although now tainted), Bernie Williams (We got Damon the next year, but I was disappointed.) and Carlton Fisk (oh wait). Everyone passes in their own unique way, but strokes are not fun.
You'll be missed Kirby.
On a positive note Lenny DiNardo will be making his only non-injury depleted starting line-up start of the year for team Italia in the WBC. Go get em Lenny...even with that maximum 65 pitch limit.
