Boobies!

LeatherPenguin

Cash? Is this the end of the Shopping Spree?

Christmas is still two days away.

Go buy Manny for Hank's stocking and watch all of baseball's heads asplode.

ESPN - Sources: Mark Teixeira, New York Yankees agree to 8-year deal

Hank's Getting Nuts Like Daddy

so they're lusting after Manny.

Stop, you fools. While Manny would certainly bring the psychodrama potential to nose-bleed levels (seriously, Girardi would likely end up killing him after waking one morning to the NY Post running a front page of Manny and Madonna boinking in Macy's window as A-Hole lies curled in a fetal position on the Herald Square pavement with one thumb screwed in his mouth and the other screwed in his ass), you silly young spawns of Darth Boss George should just STFU and leave this kind of crap to Cashman.

And if you really, really, really need to throw even more truckloads of money at someone (good God, you've already committed a quarter billion to two freaking pitchers and one of them screams "PAVANO!") to justify your Steinbrenner-hood bona fides, do everyone a favor: make your target Teixiera.

Throw gobs and gobs of money at Teixiera, because if you don't, and Tex ends up in Fenway, while WE end up with Manny and all the insanity he carries....

well, let's just say it would be against your interests to ever dare leave Tampa Bay unless you're riding in an up-armored Humvee.

It Must Be REALLY Tough Economic Times

I mean, c'mon! All he can get from the Skanks is 7 years and $161M?? That's just barely Santana money. Oh well, at least there's still Food Stamps and WIC to help him pay the bills.

A One Sentence Reason Blyleven Belongs in the Hall

The Baseball Analysts: Another Addition to the Bert Blyleven Series

2009 Hall of Fame

Here's the list:

• Harold Baines
• Jay Bell
• Bert Blyleven
• David Cone
• Andre Dawson
• Ron Gant
• Mark Grace
• Rickey Henderson
• Tommy John
• Don Mattingly
• Mark McGwire
• Jack Morris
• Dale Murphy
• Jesse Orosco
• Dave Parker
• Dan Plesac
• Tim Raines
• Jim Rice
• Lee Smith
• Alan Trammell
• Greg Vaughn
• Mo Vaughn
• Matt Williams

For me it's the ones I have in bold.

Andre Dawson gets into 2 HOF's: Baseball and Jerri Curl

Jim Ed and The Hall

From Nick Carfado:

"Hall of Fame ballots will be in the hands of voters soon. This year, Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson appear to have the best chance to get in.

Longtime Red Sox publicist Dick Bresciani has brilliantly made a statistical case the last few years for Rice, who will be on the ballot for the 15th and final time.
Last year, Rice was named on 392 ballots (72.2 percent), just 16 votes short of election. According to Bresciani, it was the 21st time a player received more than 70 percent but less than 75 percent. On all 20 previous occasions, the player eventually was elected.

There have been five such instances in the last 20 years: Gaylord Perry, Orlando Cepeda, Bruce Sutter, Gary Carter, and Rich Gossage. A few more of Bresciani's points:

Rice ranked among the top five in AL MVP voting in 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, and 1986. He is the only player to finish among the top five in AL voting at least five times between 1963-2005. He is one of 16 major leaguers to place among the top five in MVP voting at least six times. Of the 12 Hall of Fame-eligible players on this list, 11 are in Cooperstown, including eight who were elected on the first ballot. Rice is the only exception.

Rice is one of only 10 players to lead a league in runs, hits, home runs, and RBIs over a 14-year span. He and Rafael Palmeiro are the only players to accomplish the feat who are not in the Hall of Fame. Among the eight Hall of Famers on this list, five were elected on the first ballot.

Rice is one of 14 players to post four or more seasons of 200 hits and 100 RBIs. Among the retired players on this list, only Rice and Steve Garvey are not in the Hall of Fame.

From 1975-86, Rice was the most dominant player in the AL. During that stretch, he led the league in 12 categories and ranked among the top five in two others. He led the league over that period with 350 home runs, but unlike most sluggers of his day, he ranked fourth with a .304 batting average. He collected the most hits over that period and also ranked first with a .520 slugging percentage. He legged out 73 triples, including 15 in 1977 and 1978."

If the Goose is in then Rice should be as well

Shea Stadium; Citi Field; TAXPAYER PARK!

It's pure, delicious schadenfreude for this fan of the Yankees to see the Mutts get caught up in the Citigroup bailout mess:

The New York Mets theme song for the 2009 season is 'We built this Citi.' The question is whether the Citi will stand.

Questions about whether the humungous 20-year, $400 million naming rights deal that the bank agreed to two years ago for the new Mets stadium would stand up, began when the global financial crisis started. Then the 53,000 jobs cut at Citi, the second largest single job cuts in terms of volume in history. And last night, the government injecting $20 billion into Citigroup.

Citi's $400 Million Deal With Mets Stadium: Will It Stand? - CNBC.com

Ain't very warm in here so far

What the fuck is up with the Hot Stove this year? ESPECIALLY the Sox and Skanks!

Nick Fucking Swisher?

No-Co to the Royale's with Cheese?

C'mon, Theo and Cash! Let's make some DEALS!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know the winter meetings aren't til the 8th of December but fer chrissakes get something MOVING!

Roid Rage?

Me thinks the apple falls not far from the tree here

Just wondering what his possible step-mom would have done...

The Torch is Passed

LeatherPenguin: End of an Era

Where have you gone....?

Just looking over the upcoming possible free agents and the following are the teams without a former Red Sox great that'll be available (total number of FAs):

Kansas City (2)
Minnesota (4)
NYY (9) -- I can't believe there's NOT A SOUL here who played for the Sox
Seattle (3)
Texas (5)
Colorado (6)
Florida (4)
San Diego (3)
San Francisco (2)
Washington (2)

Amazing that 19 other teams have at least ONE former Red Sox player on the FA list. Just goes to show what Curt Flood and Marvin Miller accomplished...

Joba + Firewater = County Time

I have to admit that at 23 years of age I could be seen having an adult beverage or two at a 'Gentlemen's establishment' in the Combat Zone.

However, I didn't get so riled up by a Skank fan that it could've possibly cost me my driving privileges.

Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson could not be reached for comment...

C'mon Already!

Will you Feckless Fenway Fuckwits put these bitches in the ditch and get on with it?

Manny is looking at the Phillies' pitching, and saying, "Yes. There will be blood."
(okay, Manny couldn't be caught talking that way on a good day, but you know what I mean.)

Torre is just balls bouncing off the the floor laughing at the ridiculous of this.

Who ARE these TBS guys?

I recognize one voice (the younger, black guy, who from following the chatter seems to have once been a player, but I can't place him), but for the life of me, I have no idea who these two other people talking at me actually are.

Granted, much of the time I've had the TV on mute, so if they introduced themselves, I guess I missed it.

But who are these shits? I've watched enough games that I should have picked up at least one name.

Dear Manny,

keep kicking.

Show's Over

Good Luck to the Red Sox; I think the Angel's will eat you alive.

Then, again, you guys were always a pain in their ass.

But if it happens, ... PLEASE GOD!

Give it to the Cubs.

Sigh....

All I got to look forward to is Moose getting #20... and it looks like God is gonna piss all over it.

Really, at this point I don't even wanna burn shit in the fire pit. I'd rather give it to the Salvation Army's thrift store and ask them to say a prayer for my psyche.

It’s More Than Likely I’m Gonna Be a Blubbering Idiot Before This Day is Done

I'll probably be a sobbing like an absolute fool.

Don't you DARE tell me there's no crying in baseball.

I'm telling ya...

if it wasn't for these kids I would be a hair's width away from suffering a psychotic break and going on an all-out Mutt fan killing spree.

And Pat Venditte is just too cool for school. If he pans out he is gonna drive opposing managers absolutely insane.

Also, I wouldn't have gained something like 15-20 pounds (every time I walk into the bathroom I can hear the scale (manufactured by an oufit called, I shit you not, "Borg") snigger as I act like it isn't really there), thanks to their "all you can eat" ticket scheme... which means I'm gonna have to kick my ass at the gym for the next three weeks so I won't look like a beached whale when we go down to our time share in St. Thomas in mid-October. Oh friggin' JOY!