Showing posts with label Mark Teixeira. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Teixeira. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Gotta Love Barkley


It was a Dewey week this week. Antoine Walker, Vincent Jackson and Jason Richardson all received DUIs within a few days of each other. And let's not leave out Charles Barlkey, who was stopped driving under the influence last week. The best part? He calmy explained to the officer that he was just trying to get a blow job. Hey, sorry for partyin.

But what I don’t get: you make tons. Just get a driver, bro. And what happened to the good ole days when a cop would recognize an athlete and let him slide? What are athletes not revered anymore? C’mon now. First pilots, then astronauts, now athletes? If people stop worshipping movie stars next, we won’t have anything left.



Mark Teixeira was officially introduced as a Yankee on Tuesday. Did you see this chooch at his press conference? I’m not sure, but Tex might be a Bro. He’s kind of hiding it in this press conference but the signs are there: he lets his wife decide where he wants to go, he makes corny jokes and laughs at them himself and he has a slightly annoying tone of voice. I’m saying toss a backwards hat or some gel on him and he’s a frat-bro, no doubt.

Couple things here, if you clicked on the link to see the press conference:

-He knew TWO WEEKs before Christmas he wanted to be a Yankee?? WTF!!?? How did this drag out for so long then? How come no one in the media knew this, and all thought the Sox were the favorite? And why the Hell did Boras let John Henry and Theo fly out to Texas?

-His wife told him to be a Yankee? Listen Lee, or Leigh, whatever it is: mind your business. What do you care where your multi-million dollar mansion is going to be? Guess what? IT”s GOING TO BE FIRE. It’s a mansion! You’re getting $180 million! You’re telling me you’d rather be in cramped, dirty New York than a nice mans in Brookline? OK.


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Finally, this is an interesting story out of Florida. Gators’’ defensive coordinator Charlie Strong, who is black, feels that part of the reason he hasn’t gotten a shot at being a head coach is because of an interracial marriage (his wife is white). This comes a few weeks after Auburn chose Iowa State coach Gene Chizik over Buffalo coach Turner Gill, another black man marriage to a white woman.

During that fiasco (remember Charles Barkley?), ESPN reported that two SEC coaches said Gill got passed over because of his interracial marriage.

I don’t even know what to think of this. Is it racist? And if so, against which race? It almost implies that if they had black wives they would be fine. And what if a white man going for a coaching job had a black wife? What would happened there? In my opinion, I feel like these schools would discriminate against him as well.

It’s just something about the South. The Good Ol’ Boy environment will never change down there.

And what about an Asian coach? What would happen there? Could a Chinese man marry a Japanese women and get away with it because the Southern officials wouldn’t know? This is what goes through my twisted mind when I read this stuff.


-Slick Nick (who would certainly celebrate after a touchdown, but wouldn't spike his own nuts)

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Baseball on Christmas....




I can't even lie to any of you and say that I am not disappointed that the Red Sox did not sign Mark Teixeira. I wanted him in a Red Sox Uniform pretty badly...and how can you not? His career averages read like this: .290 batting average, .541 slugging %, 36 HRs, and 121 RBIs, along with gold glove play in the infield. The dude is a beast, there is no doubt about it.

HOWEVER, great teams are not made up of a bunch of individual stars making millions of dollars. If the Yankees have proven one thing in the past is that they have the ability to drastically underachieve based on their payroll. I saw a stat on SportsCenter last night which showed the payroll of the Yankees lineup...just their 1-9 everyday projected lineup to be about $124 million. That is an absurd amount of money, and the Yankees might not even be done yet. Crazy to think about how much money they have at their disposal....and to be honest you really can't even hate on them. If you have the money why not spend it? The Steinbrenner kid may just be out of his mind, but at least he wants to win, and he is not afraid to spend national income of Russia trying to do it. The Yankees have scary talent....but it doesn't always translate into World Series rings, and hopefully for the Red Sox Teixeira will just be another overpaid star on an already overpaid roster. Like I said though....HOPEFULLY.

Moving on to how this effects the Red Sox.....SHITTTTTTTTT. The injuries of Lowell, combined with the injuriy / slowing production of David Ortiz really scares me. You can't expect Pedroia and Youk to put up near MVP years again. What you can expect is for the pitching staff to be a little bit better. Beckett will have a better year, and Lester should be a great number 2 throughout the entire year. Dice-K still scares the living shit out of me, but he has proven to be effective. You throw in Masterson and Wake at the end of the rotation along with a solid bullpen that got one man deeper in the off-season and I think they are a solid group. Definitely going to be one of the top staffs in baseball....let's just hope we can put up some runs.

Hopefully the Sox can still land a good bat....there are a couple of guys out there. At this point I'd love to land Adam Dunn and watch him hit 45 HRs and strike out 245 times while hitting .250. Sox need some more production somewhere in their lineup, give me a big bat pleaseeeeeeeeeeee.



And oh yeah....the Rays are still going to be good. The AL East is going to be a battle again, I just hope the Red Sox are still in it October again.



Merry Christmas Eve to y'all. ONE.