I spent last night partying like a rock star (playing video games, making popcorn, and then going to bed while watching George Lopez on Nickelodeon). Now, onto some linktacular links...
Probably the most important news of the day...Paul McCartney, not a member of Red Sox Nation...or is he?
Winning isn't everything, but making money is. It's true, the Marlins are totally content finishing 4th or 5th every year in the NL East because it maximizes their profits. Even when they field good teams (I wonder how many people in Miami have heard of Hanley Ramirez?) people do not go. Why spend $634 Million for a boost in attendance due to the honeymoon effect only for your fans to stop caring once the novelty of a new ball park wears off? Well, at least it will have a retractable roof...
Wait, AT&T is more expensive than Fenway? I call bullshit. Fenway beers are small and over priced, just like everything that is not a Fenway Frank. I just had the pleasure of going to AT&T to watch the Giants play (Do I even need to say I made sure to go when Timmy was on the mound) and let me tell you one thing that everyone knows...coolest modern ballpark in the land. A lot of it has to do with the setting, which is beautiful, and the intimacy, which is great, and the garlic fries, which are delicious. I had a beer, 12 oz, paid $5.75, and went on my merry way. You really want to damage your wallet? Get a crab sandwich out in center field for 15 bucks. Anyways, at Camden in Baltimore...$5.75 for a 16 oz. draft. Fantastic.
I choose...baseball ethics... I was good at ethics, so good that my teacher only allowed me to talk 3 times per class. Did I say I was good? I meant I challenged the teacher who then docked me a grade because I didn't talk enough in class. It should come as no surprise that when he found out my Senior Superlative was 'Most Politically Conservative' that he ignored me for a whole week. He is also the perfect example of why having an Ivy league education does not mean you are educated...but it does mean you can repeat what the editorial page in the New York Times tells you to think. Anyways, this is an article written by a crappy philosophy professor (sorry for the redundancy there) in which he bloviates about how to teach philosophy, why he is so good at it, and why he is left thinking that there is something wrong with taking steroids by using philosophy to answer a question that cannot be answered. My favorite part is that he seems to believe, in conclusion, that we should give players a better response for why taking steroids than 'it just is' by using philosophy to show them why it is wrong. Hmmm, i thought that because it is cheating and against the rules of baseball was enough (2004 to the present...pre-2003 is a simple answer. It was just a crappy thing to do, but it was legal, so you can't really blame people when there is an incentive to use a product that does not result in a negative consequence...which is something you learn is Economics and not Philosophy).
J.P.Ricciardi is a full blown moron. I have to say something about this. At first I thought there was no way in hell Halladay would be traded. Then I saw that the Phillies, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Yankees were about to get into a bidding war and then I started to think that it might happen. Then I realized that J.P. Ricciardi is probably biggest ass of a GM in baseball today. He dangles his star player, the face of his team, out to the media for a month, negotiates through interviews, and then sets the price so high that no team would ever think of trading for him. Of course, Ricciardi doesn't care, gets a deal in place, and they pulls the rug out from under the Rangers (Yes, I think Ricciardi did it and not Halladay. If I was Doc I would want to get away from Ricciardi even if I had to play for the Nationals). Look at the deals that got done that were massive...Holliday to St. Louis, VMart to Boston...PEAVY TO THE FREAKING WHITE SOX, and not one of these deals was a created from a full blown media war brought on by one GM who wanted to disrupt his team for an entire month.
Neftali Feliz is sick. We all know he can throw gas...but a 100MPH fastball that tails in on a right hander it not a fun pitch to hit.
Thats all for this morning...back with more in a bit.
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