(my geographically undesirable pocket pet interest)
in other news i hear the third baseman is probably pretty sure he's coming back as are the guy that catches the ball, and the guy who throws the ball. so it's a pretty good day.
(while watching what looked like a bad blind date being filmed in the romantic monster seats)
remy: i swear to god don, i think the best approach is to sit very calmly, look deep into her eye, and say "how you doin?" orsillo: you're gonna have two long innings, you gonna throw that out there the beginning of the next inning too? you gotta have something more than that! remy: you can always fall back on "how you doin?" cause she might be doin different, like two minutes from now than she was doin three minutes ago, know what i mean? [some other stuff] remy: and then there's that famous line, "i noticed you were sitting here alone. [pause] you shouldnt have been." orsillo: "are your legs tired? cause you've been running around in my mind all day!"
[baseball happens]
remy: let's go back to the guy! [they watch more of the date] orsillo: [unintelligible] look, his eyes almost popped out! he looked like large marge! remy: she has no intention... look at her! .......... poor guy, i feel bad. orsillo: it's not going well and he knows it!
2. nevermind that they, oh, donated a million dollars to the school and are playing an exhibition game there next spring. why mention minor details like that?
3. i'm a bored child. [temporarily edited out to add to picture]
The most notable piece of information coming out of ESPN's Sunday Yankees-Red Sox telecast had nothing to do with the network's attempts to portray Daisuke Matsuzaka as a man who has reinvented the art of throwing a baseball.
...ESPN created its own fib with a sequence video of Boston's four-HR barrage. At the end of the third inning, replays of each dinger aired. The fourth, hit by Jason Varitek, was followed by a reaction shot of a stunned Boston GM, Theo Epstein, saying, "Oh my God." This replay was taken out of sequence. Epstein went gaga after J.D. Drew hit the second HR. ... After their great Dice-K buildup, Miller/Morgan/Gammons didn't offer a credible critique of the pitcher's performance, which did not come close to matching all the hype. Perhaps the most honest analysis came during a shot of Alex Rodriguez in the Yankee dugout. His lips, and his Dice-K comment, appeared easy to read: "He's got nothing." . . . Late in Braves-Mets Friday, the SNY crew, led by Gary Cohen, decided it was a good idea to discuss how opponents could be upset over A-Rod's recent HR celebrations. For the SNY guys to go down this road was strange.
They were markedly absent in 2006, not raising a similar question after a Mets celebration was touched off by David Wright's game-winning hit off Mariano Rivera. The SNY guys also have not pursued a similar curiosity - or condemnation - over the Mets' orchestrated dugout dances usually led by the great Jose Reyes. [bob raissman]
i think we can safely eliminate joe torre and kim jones
9.21.2006
from 9/15:
I'm going to protect the names of the guilty, in part because I did not hear it myself, but was told by someone I trust impeccably. But a member of a major electronic media outlet walked into the office of one of tonight's managers and said, "Hi, Love Muffin."
Are you kidding me?
Do ya think we could at least pretend we're professional?
