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Someone in Toronto has big balls…..
Jul 28th
Apperantly the Toronto Blue Jays have told teams they won’t trade middle reliever Scott Downs unless they are blown away with an offer.
Whoever is GM of this franchise has real balls to seriously ask the Yanks for top prospect Jesus Montero for Downs!
Apparently he thinks Omar Minaya is GM’ing the Yanks. Yeah this makes a lot of sense, Montero was the main piece in a deal to bring Cliff Lee to Bronxtown and now that that deal fell through, why the hell wouldn’t the Yanks agree to trade him for a middle reliever!
Trade the best pitcher in baseball (Doc Halladay) for a crappy set of minor leaguers and ask the world for a crappy middle reliever. I guess GM’ing isnt for everyone.
Isiah Thomas just contacted the Blue Jays brass to give him some tips on how to successfully ruin a franchise this well since he never had the chutzpah to offer Eddie Curry for Pau Gasol.
And the Dipshit award for 2010 goes to…..
Mar 24th
ANDRAY BLATCHE!!! Congradulations!!!!
Wizards’ Blatche refused to play
The Washington Wizards‘ Andray Blatche(notes) may be 6’11″, but he’s looking pretty small right about now. He apparently refused to play for his team last night while they were getting handed the twelfth defeat in a row, according to Reuters. This one came at the hands of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Head coach Flip Saunders took Blatche out in the first quarter to talk to him about his work on defense and then the four-year pro refused to go back in. “I took him out of the game because I wanted to talk to him about not getting back on defense,” Saunders told reporters. “He didn’t want to hear it.”
Saunders told him that if he didn’t want to be spoken to or coached, he wouldn’t play. “We had coaches go up to him three different times. He just said he didn’t want to play,” he said.
Not a good move by Blatche.
Whats even funnier was the Wizards were actually printing THIS MOST IMPROVED FLIER FOR BLATCHE BEFORE THE GAME!
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Mar 23rd
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Chuck Knoblauch beats his wife up….
Mar 17th
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5001643
HOUSTON — Former major league infielder Chuck Knoblauch has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault on his common-law wife.
According to court records, Knoblauch entered his plea Tuesday in exchange for deferred-adjudication probation. Successful completion of his one-year probation could mean the conviction on the assault of a family member would be expunged from the record.
Knoblauch also was fined $1,000. Knoblauch’s attorney didn’t return a telephone call Tuesday.
According to a criminal complaint, Knoblauch’s wife told police he hit her in the face and choked her at their Houston home in September.
The 41-year-old Houston native played for the Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals from 1991-2002. In 12 seasons, the 1991 American League Rookie of the Year and four-time All-Star batted .289 with 98 home runs and 615 RBIs.
I guess all those taunts from Yankee fans finally got to Knobs.
It was reported that he reportedly slugged her when she wouldn’t stop pestering him to not teach the children how to field.
Part of the terms of his punishment are that he can only teach his boys, Matt, Tim and Phillip how to hit and baserun but is never allowed to show them anything fielding related until they are 18 and can deal with the emotional toll that will cause. Batting stance techniques are in the gray area and it’s not known if that would be allowed.
