Lenny from Indy

I watched this clip 10 times.

Will the parents teach the children sportsmanship?

This was each team’s payroll for this past MLB season.  Look at some of these numbers?  Holy mackerel!

How great is it that the Minnesota Twins (#24) are at the bottom of this list but they beat the Detroit Tigers (#5) to make it into the playoffs?  Kudos Twins!

Maybe baseball does need a salary cap.

1. New York Yankees $201,449,189
2. New York Mets $149,373,987
3. Chicago Cubs $134,809,000
4. Boston Red Sox $121,745,999
5. Detroit Tigers $115,085,145
6. Los Angeles Angels $113,709,00
7. Philadelphia Phillies $113,004,046
8. Houston Astros $102,996,414
9. Los Angeles Dodgers $100,414,592
10. Seattle Mariners $98,904,166
11. Atlanta Braves $96,726,166
12. Chicago White Sox $96,068,500
13. San Francisco Giants $82,616,450
14. Cleveland Indians $81,579,166
15. Toronto Blue Jays $80,538,300
16. Milwaukee Brewers $80,182,502
17. St. Louis Cardinals $77,605,109
18. Colorado Rockies $75,201,000
19. Cincinnati Reds $73,558,500
20. Arizona Diamondbacks $73,516,666
21. Kansas City Royals $70,519,333
22. Texas Rangers $68,178,798
23. Baltimore Orioles $67,101,666
24. Minnesota Twins $65,299,266
25. Tampa Bay Rays $63,313,034
26. Oakland Athletics $62,310,000
27. Washington Nationals $60,328,000
28. Pittsburgh Pirates $48,693,000
29. San Diego Padres $43,734,200
30. Florida Marlins $36,834,000

Congrats to the Philadelphia Phillies on making it to the World Series for the second year in a row.

How does a team that has won a championship in a city, then does the unthinkable and returns to the World Series keep focus over the loud chorus of “Why can’t this be the Eagles?”

Kudos Phillies.  Kudos to your team and your fair weather fans!

Now that Major League Baseball is about to finish up 162 pregames, it’s now time for baseball to begin!!!  Let’s face it the playoffs are the only thing worth watching when it comes to baseball.  And, what better way to kick off the baseball games that count that with Yankees legend, Bernie Williams jamming out “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” smooth jazz style!!!!

Take it away #51!!!!!!!!

Excellent.

Let’s rewind back to April 9th, 2009, a dark day in Los Angeles Angels history.  22 year old pitcher Nick Adenhart died in a car crash in Fullerton, California.  Moments like April 9, 2009 can crumble a team to its core or bring them together.  For the Angels, it was the latter. The Angels clinched the American League West.  After an easy 11-0 victory over the Texan Rangers, the team celebrated after the game by dousing each other in various forms of alcohol.  It’s what baseball players do when they celebrate.

That’s how it works in baseball, a simple formula when you look at it:  Win = douse teammates in alcohol.  The Angels, remembering Nick,  took one of his jersey’s out and the team included Nick in the celebration by doing what baseball players do when they win, doused the jersey in various forms of alcohol.

People are upset by this.  Literally, people are questioning poor taste by the Angels.  Because, Nick was killed by a drunk driver.  Are you kidding me?  have we become that vapid of a society that we cannot remember, nay, honor friends in the way you see fit?  Is this the first year a baseball team celebrated winning a division by spraying each other in copious amounts of alcohol?  Let’s check…

The 1979 Los Angeles Angeles

The 2004 Boston Red Sox

The 2007 New York Yankees

The 2008 Tampa Bay Rays

A picture dating back to 1979 shows not only that the Angels doused themselves in alcohol, they even poured a beer on Richard Nixon’s head.  As you can see this is not new.  Baseball celebrates this way.  It always has and it always will.  Sometimes tradition works.  What the Angels did for Nick Adenhart was a good thing.  For one moment baseball was about the team, friendship and respect.  Finally a story in baseball that didn’t discuss giving one player 40 million dollars for 4 years.  THAT’S A GOOD THING!!!

Did I really have to write this?  This seems like common sense.  Celebrate the memory of those missed from your past.  We’re not emotionless robots.  Duh.

Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the hearts of Massholes (that’s people from Massachusetts) by leading the HGH and steroid fueled Roid Sux to what now is a somewhat tainted 2004 World Series*, said that he has “some interest” in running for the seat held for nearly 50 years by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Schilling, a big ass Republican supporter, wrote on his blog that while his family and video game company are high priorities, “I do have some interest in the possibility.”

The 42-year-old retired pitcher lives in Medfield and campaigned for President George W. Bush in 2004 (WIN) and Sen. John McCain in 2008 (FAIL).

Here is Schilling’s resume:

Why people know him:  3 World Series – Arizona Diamondbacks – 2001 and Boston Roid Sux – 2004* & 2007*.

Big moment:  Game 6, 2004 American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees.  Blood from an injured ankle seeped through his sock.

Sad moment:  Philadelphia Phillies pitcher.  Was a big part of that 1993 World Series appearance.  They lost.  That 1993 Phillies team is looked back on now as a roid rage team.  Philly sucks.

Personal stats:  Married with 4 kids.

As you would figure, the massholes were decidedly happy.  They probably said something like, “Erra… this is wicked awesome!  Every Wednesday will be clam chowdaaar day!  Will he be able to ban the Yankees from the land.  I hate the Yankees.  Grrrr!”

His possible competition within the Republican party in the land we should have never stole from the British is Former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and state Senator Scott Brown.

His possible competition from the Democrats could be people like U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch of Boston, Michael Capuano of Somerville, John Tierney of Salem, as well as Ted Kennedy’s nephew former U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II.

Who has already made the move:  State Attorney General Martha Coakley has taken out papers to sign up for the Democratic campaign.  She also has refused comment.

Ted Kennedy passed away last week from a brain tumor.  He was 77.

Masshole land (Massachusetts) will be holding a special election to replace him is scheduled for Jan. 19.

You know just as well as I do that a pitcher for the Roid Sux in that section of the United States would be a guarantee win against anyone he runs against.

Story source: Yahoo

Curt Schilling:  Blog