Anyone catch David Alan Grier’s Chocolate News on Comedy Central? Last night’s show featured a skit where they tried to get more black folks interested in baseball (African-Americans only make up 9% of the league). Check it out… it’s pretty funny
Troy’s mother (Niecy Nash) had me crackin up “make it rain on them hoes baby!!”
Did we really need MLB Players Association to report that there is evidence that teams acted in concert against signing Barry Bonds before we knew that Barry Bonds was being hated on in such a major way?
I love white folks.
But the real question becomes: why is there a delay in the filing of a grievance? Sadly, Barry’s agent Jeff Borris said, “I am convinced based on MLB’s actions in 2008 that they will never let him wear a major league uniform ever again.”
Not only is this my favorite show on television, I made a post nine months ago about “Lie Detector Questions For Your Favorite Athletes”. The idea is now coming to life thanks to the good folks at Fox, Jose Canseo may not be my favorite athlete, but he’ll be on the show for our entertainment and I cannot wait.
David Vassegh on am570radio.com has the scoop:
“As I reported first on the PMS Show on Thursday afternoon, I have learned that former MLB Slugger, Jose Canseco will be in the hot seat on Fox’s Reality Show, “Moment of Truth” Canseco already has taped the episode and according to my source that was in attendance.
[D]uring the taping Canseco was asked if he ever injected Mark McGwire with steroids and if he ever corked his bat amoung other questions that were asked during the taping.
…The way the reality show works is the contestant in the chair takes a polygraph test prior to going on stage and is asked the same questions. If the anwsers the contestant gives on stage matches the polygraph then, they continue to advance and get more money.”
There should be no shortage of ex-disgruntled (and broke) professional athletes that can go on the show for money.
Just wanted to take a few moments to congratulate Ken Griffey Jr. on the impending trade to the Chicago White Sox. He’s had many hard injury filled losing seasons in his career, and now he can finally finish it with a legitimate playoff contender.
Between hitting his 600th career home run and being shipped to Chicago, I’d say 2008 hasn’t been that bad of a year for Griff. If the Oakland A’s don’t make the postseason, I’ll be rooting for Ozzie and Ken.
I came across this CBS Sportsline article of the Top 50 Jerks In Sports. The list is mostly crap, but they did have an interesting and funny tidbit on Albert Belle.
This remains one of the best written descriptions of pure jerkiness ever conceived. It comes from former New York Times baseball writer Buster Olney:
“It was a given in baseball circles that Albert Belle was nuts. … The Indians billed him $10,000 a year for the damage he caused in clubhouses on the road and at home, and tolerated his behavior only because he was an awesome slugger. … He slurped coffee constantly and seemed to be on a perpetual caffeinated frenzy. Few escaped his anger — on some days he would destroy the postgame buffet … launching plates into the shower … after one poor at-bat against Boston, he retreated to the visitor’s clubhouse and took a bat to teammate Kenny Lofton’s boom box. Belle preferred to have the clubhouse cold, below 60 degrees, and when one chilly teammate turned up the heat, Belle walked over, turned down the thermostat and smashed it with his bat. His nickname, thereafter, was ‘Mr. Freeze.’”
Naturally, after reading this I went to Wikipedia to see if I could dig up any other “Crazy Al” stories. I came up empty for the most part, but I DID find out he plead guilty to stalking a hooker in 2006.
In February 2006, Belle was arrested on suspicion of stalking a woman who was identified in court as a former licensed escort. He was again arrested in charges related to the same case on May 17, 2006. On July 27, 2006, Belle plead guilty to one count of stalking and he was sentenced on August 24 to 90 days in jail and five years supervised probation. Belle had attached a GPS tracking device onto her car and obtained her phone records. Belle issued an apology to the woman stating, “I have made mistakes in my life, but I have admitted my mistakes and learned from them to be a better person.”
The great ones are always a little wonky in the head.
