Jeter, Mantle, and Bush
I was saving this for when I found a picture of it but couldn't find one. It's from last night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann 02-14-07. I certainly don't agree that they did this but then again I'm no longer buying baseball cards.
And my finely tuned PT Barnum sense tells me this is a publicity stunt, but it‘s a good one. Yes, I promise, this will be the last baseball card reference for a while, but look at the brand new 2007 Topps card of Derek Jeter of the Yankees. You see the guy behind him in the dugout, the guy on the left, with the bat on his shoulder, it‘s the late Yankee immortal Mickey Mantle, who died a few months after Jeter‘s first big league game.
But wait, there‘s more, in the crowd, to Jeter‘s right, the fellow in the suit waving to everybody and blocking the view of everybody in those nice 135 dollar seats, looking like he doesn‘t know where his seat went, President Bush. The Topps spokesman jokes the president must have been at the game that day. Just for the record, the photo shopping did not put Waldo anywhere in the background and most importantly, if Mickey Mantle was in uniform for the Yankees last year, why in the hell didn‘t they DH him in the playoffs against Detroit?
And my finely tuned PT Barnum sense tells me this is a publicity stunt, but it‘s a good one. Yes, I promise, this will be the last baseball card reference for a while, but look at the brand new 2007 Topps card of Derek Jeter of the Yankees. You see the guy behind him in the dugout, the guy on the left, with the bat on his shoulder, it‘s the late Yankee immortal Mickey Mantle, who died a few months after Jeter‘s first big league game.
But wait, there‘s more, in the crowd, to Jeter‘s right, the fellow in the suit waving to everybody and blocking the view of everybody in those nice 135 dollar seats, looking like he doesn‘t know where his seat went, President Bush. The Topps spokesman jokes the president must have been at the game that day. Just for the record, the photo shopping did not put Waldo anywhere in the background and most importantly, if Mickey Mantle was in uniform for the Yankees last year, why in the hell didn‘t they DH him in the playoffs against Detroit?
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I always confuse Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly and that Carl Matthews guy. Is Olbermann the one with the hair part? Or is he the angry one? Or is he the one who says "sir" a lot? Either way, I hope he keeps up the good work.
I love this stuff. What makes Zito think he needs to change anything? He wasn't really struggling at all. Plus, he's throwing in the national league. Righetti is right. Changing arm angles and body plane can affect your curveball. I would do it all the time when I pitched.
Now he's got a point when he says you've got to use your legs. Your legs should be like a spring that's loaded and ready to pop. Oh well, they've got pitching coaches looking at mechanics and film. And I'm a washed up sling shotter from south Simpson with a bum knee. Ah hell.
Zito is a flake. He reminds me of a young fireballer named Ricky Vaughn who decided he was going to change things up kick ass with finess stuff. Well, you know what, he got his ass kicked good, and by less hitters than the guy who led the league in nose hair. The real problem was that Vaughn put on five years, thirty pounds, and one jail sentence for cocaine, all during one off season. Or so they had us believe. But I think more time might have passed. I think they might have had us all in some kind of freeze time chamber. Ahh, hell, but what do I know. I'm just a washed up old fourth outfielder from North Simpson with a brother with a bum knee.
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