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MOVIESSomeone on the Philadelphia Phillies or the New York Yankees could be Mr. November…
With playoffs around the corner, it’s time to look at the current division leaders!
Gay rights and gay marriage have been hot topics this year. For as main stream as homosexual lifestyles have become, there are still no openly gay major league baseball players, which leads to the question: Is Baseball Ready for Openly Gay Players?
What other team evokes such strong feelings of love and hate? The New York Yankees provide intensity and passion for both fans and foes.
Name: Jose Canseco
Crime: Destroying America’s Pasttime.
It is certainly within the boundaries of feasibility to call Canseco a scoundrel, a fiend, or a ‘roided up sideshow. But just like Aldo Raine’s Nazi-hunting wrecking crew, their dastardly deeds were but a necessary evil. The “nahtzies” weren’t playing by the rules, so neither would they.
Canseco, for all of his crimes, was equally necessary.
The man who broke the Gheri Curl Color Barrier instantly burst on the scene as the new power-hitting prototype, looking like Blaze from American Gladitors sans the tangible homoeroticism. He was a 40-40 guy, one half of the Bash Brothers and patient zero for the Steroid Era, personally injecting basically everyone who did it.
Instead of letting his tiny-testicled disciples live in anonymity, Canseco pulled the sports equivalent of a busted mob enforcer turning states evidence. He brought everyone down. The last heroes of the game – Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, Madonna – were all implicated in a vicious memoir dripping with the blood of the guilty and Walmart generic bronzer. They all went to Congress (yes, that Congress) and adamantly denied Canseco’s allegations, calling him reckless, ridiculous, and a douche.
But no one sued him. And they all went down.
The supports keeping baseball out of deep cable continue to fall every season, most recently with the Storybook 2004 Red Sox being exposed as cheaters. Canseco is directly responsible for the downfall of the game, but you can’t call him an a*shole. If he wasn’t right every single time, he’d be a d*ck. If his actions didn’t shine a light on an industry entirely based on helping athletes cheat, he’d be a douchebag. If the purity of baseball didn’t actually have a shot now that the needles have been removed, he’d be a motherf*cker.
But instead, he’s just another necessary basterd.
Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz are reported to be on “the list” of the Major League baseball players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs is 2003.
…how bad are they? The Mets are so bad that Mr. Met is going to replace the Zoloft egg as a mascot for depression.
They say when you go back in time, you’re not supposed to mess with anything, because crushing a butterfly can cause a chain reaction that could wipe out the British Isles (I love, by the way, how everyone’s agreed on the rules of things that don’t exist. It’s like someone getting angry that a unicorn’s sh*t isn’t rainbowy enough). This rule applies to sports as well: the signing of Wayne Gretzky in Los Angeles expanded the league to too many teams in an apathetic southwest that drove the sport from prime time to deep cable. The Tuck Rule started a dynasty, derailed the Greatest Show on Turf, and doomed the Raiders to league doormat (they played in the Super Bowl the next year, but were unable to attend; korean schoolgirls donned the black and gold against the Bucs. True story). Time will tell if what happened yesterday will actually be as impactful, but at least one team, probably two, will be affected for years to come.
The Ravens extended outside linebacker Terrell Suggs to a gigantic six year, $63 million contract. The obvious ramification is that the star OLB/DE/mutant will be staying in Baltimore until well after the world ends according to the Mayan Calendar. But the other big one is that the Carolina Panthers are likely in a lot of trouble. Read More
