SHEFFIELD is only 1 homerun away from the 500 mark and there are several majorleaguers who look to eclipse milestones this season…
600
Alex Rodriguez needs 47
500
Gary Sheffield needs 1
Carlos Delgado needs 31
400
Jason Giambi needs 4
Vladimir Guerrero needs 8
The Mets have two guys on that list who could reach the 500 plateau this season if they stay healthy. I’m not so sure about CARLOS DELGADO getting 31 HRs this season though. I could actually see SHEFFIELD and DELGADO sharing 1B duties.
I’m also not someone who wants to put an asterisk next to the player’s names of those who played in the current era. Keep in mind that BABE RUTH played baseball when many of the game’s best athletes were forbidden from competing.
If the league had remained integrated from the start who do you think would have been the greatest home run hitter?
TERRELL OWENS brought some of this ignominy on himself as well, but isn’t that always the case when an athlete steps outside of the box? The NFL in particular is quick to use their media lackeys to posit the outspoken and competitiive star player as someone who lacks the concept of putting the team first. RANDY MOSS caught this characterization previously, ANQUAN BOLDIN and PLAXICO BURRESS more recently.
I’m certainly not defending any of these dudes actions off the field either, but where was the outcry when BRETT FARVE held the Green Bay Packers contractually hostage?
I don’t care if T.O. has a monster season wherever he ends up playing because he won’t be in a Cowboys’ uniform. I’m mad that the owners made this decision to appease a ravenous, bloodthirsty press corps. Or they did it to satisfy the morning drive-in radio listener who thinks he could be a general manager but views the sports landscape from the prism of the 1950’s prior free agency. I wonder what JACKIE ROBINSON would have said if free agncy was available to him?
The best news I think I have read in the last few weeks is the proposed return to major league baseball of one DENNIS ‘Oil Can’ BOYD.
There was a time in the late 1980’s when all of these huckleberry county ass fools named DENNIS were a problem in professional sports. DENNIS RODMAN, DENNIS GREEN and DENNIS ‘Oil Can’ BOYD.
At 49 yrs old Oil Can could be considered to be “off his rocker” for thinking that he could return to pro baseball, but when you have SATCHEL PAIGE as a spiritual hero there is nothing that is impossible.
I wish the Mets would pick up this unusual free agent since he shouldn’t be too costly to sign. The man hasn’t pitched professionally for nearly twenty years.
Quiet as its kept I think Oil Can might still be younger than ORLANDO ‘El Duque’ HERNANDEZ who played against SATCHEL PAIGE in Cuba.
How do you have a show called Eastbound & Down and you DON’T play the anthem for trucker trash culture? That’s a fail off the bat.
The second strike is all this hype about a baseball sitcom and then NO baseball. What is the deal with that?
The third strike was the writing which might have been on strike at the time. You are fucking out Eastbound & Down.
The good thing for you guys is that there are nine innings.
The truth about television show premieres is that they are often less hit and more miss. Home Box Office however has a ridiculous track record for their original programming so you can expect at minimum a certain level of entertainment. Where their series ‘Flight of the Conchords’ is smart, and unassuming in its wit, ‘Eastbound & Down’ is predictable with its punchlines. I’m not saying thats a bad thing at all, but HBO has spoiled us rotten with quirky, hilarious shit like LARRY DAVID’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’. Its a little weird for me to find myself giving a shit about Kenny Powers who is the lead character in ‘Eastbound & Down’. CYE’s Larry made his selfishness and stupidity amusing. EB & D’s Kenny Powers is just grating.
The same people who brought us shit like ‘Talladega Nights’ and ‘Step Brothers’ along with the same actor who featured in ‘Tropic Thunder’ and ‘Pineapple Express’ have teamed up to give us nothing like the hot shit I just mentioned. Where ‘Eastbound & Down’ fails is that the writing seems to have been set up for a laugh track. Characters aren’t just one dimensional. Some are non-dimensional. And I can’t force myself to laugh at a holograph. The writers need to sit down and decide what they want to do with this character who is supposedly a former major league player of the highest caliber all the while being a cretin of the lowest possible moral fiber.
I’m not saying that it can’t work, but someone needs to come in and refine the show. DANNY McBRIDE is funny as the lead even though he is working with some cliche’d bits. The show should have dealt with his downward spiral from the majors. Kenny Powers should have been that guy that snorted cocaine off a stripper’s ass cheek. That is the outrageous the show needed as opposed to showing us a nude shot of McBride in the shower at the middle school his character is supposed to be teaching at. Nude shots and profanity are all golden when they are done right, but when they are done wrong, they are just gold-plated like the slum jewelry on Jamaica Avenue.
I’m going to give ‘Eastbound & Down’ at least one more shot because the creative team behind Funny Or Die has to still have some funny left inside of them. Also because my folks from Cornerstone Marketing make sure that I stay invited to shit that I love with no reservation. If ‘Eastbound & Down’ doesn’t make it to sweeps week (does cable even give a fuck about that shit?) don’t blame DP dot com. Blame the fact that JERRY REED’s theme song from ‘Smokey & The Bandit’ was nowhere to be heard.
