“It’s a great story, it’s Roy Hobbs without a gunshot,” gushed Tony Kornheiser on PTI today regarding the inspiring tale of St. Louis’ reliever turned PCL slugger Rick Ankiel. “It’s the best thing we can say about sports. It’s not dog fighting and it’s not steroids and it’s not making it rain in a strip club.” The equally restrained Rob Dibble of XM Radio insisted today that Ankiel would “absolutely, without question have a ten year career as a major league outfielder.”
While I’m not nearly as moved as either of the gents above, nor as touched as Will Leitch for that matter, I would like to see another organization follow suit. To be specific, what’s stopping the Atlanta Braves from giving Mark Wohlers a shot at the outfield in September? Particularly on days when the overworked Willie Harris might otherwise patrol left field against the Mets.
Congrats to recently waived Yanks starter Kei Igawa, who might be going from the heat of a pennant race to uh, the heat of a pennant race.
Similar recognition is due to former Padres farmhand Rick Guttormson, who this week became the first player to fail a drug test in the long and storied history of Japan’s professional ranks. Neifi Perez just left a text message — he’ll be really impressed when Guttormson flunks for a second time.
Neifi Perez sounds like a very smart person, for a moron without a brain.
Goddammit!!! Igawa is my favorite Yankee. Hopefully the Pads won’t pay the bulk of his salary and at least I’ll feel a certain sense of satisfaction that Bernie Steinbrenner is paying him to give up dingers in the NL West.
I just read that Bloomberg clip. That Lynn needs to get the pole out of her ass. For godsakes, the MTA is a state-run agency, not city-run. Call out Spitzer for attending whatever he attended that day before you whine about the mayor. And what’s he supposed to do? Stand up Glavine’s ceremony and go out to Bay Ridge and rebuild all those houses that were hit by the tornado? Goddamit, I just hate people.