Monthly Archives: June 2006

Ozzie follow-up

A few more quotes from Ozzie Guillen in the aftermath of last week’s idiocy:

Ozzie Guillen is a moron

So Ozzie Guillen got mad at newspaper columnist Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times, and this is what he said: What a piece of s*** he is, f****** fag. Guillen defended his use of the term “fag” with this: I don’t have anything against those people. In my country, you call someone something like that… Read More »

Today’s Pet Peeve

mis·no·mer n. An error in naming a person or place. Application of a wrong name. A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object. A few weeks ago, I was watching Baseball Tonight, and John Kruk said: One of the biggest misnomers in baseball is that left-handed hitters can’t hit left-handed pitchers.… Read More »

Switch Hitters

In his latest article on ESPN.com, Tim Kurkjian talks about switch hitters. I assume he got thinking about this after a couple questions about Melky Cabrera in his May 25 chat. In that chat, Kurkjian mentioned that Cabrera is one of the rare switch hitters who throws left-handed — according to Kurkjian, 91% of switch… Read More »

The Impact of Jason Grimsley

Jason Grimsley got caught with human growth hormome (HGH), and I couldn’t be happier. Why? Because now baseball will do something about it, either by choice or by congressional force. I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said about Grimsley, except that I am overjoyed. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Barry Bonds’… Read More »

Today’s Pet Peeve

My current pet peeve, as seen at the end of this comment on an article I read: Just my 0.02 cents.