NYC's Weak Sisters, 2007 (part III)

[metirish]

In the Daily Snooze there is more about A-Rod and his penchant for a certain type of stripper....

A-Rod likes the she-male, muscular type

[Guest iramets]

metirish wrote: In the Daily Snooze there is more about A-Rod and his penchant for a certain type of stripper.... A-Rod likes the she-male, muscular type

"He loves to text dirty," said a strip club insider.

Also when he's running down to first base and the fielder has got the ball securely in his glove, he'll play a little dirty, too...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Runnin' Scared
Speed on the Bases
Does Jason Giambi's blabbing mean he wants to be one for the Angels?
by Allen Barra
May 30th, 2007 11:31 AM

Trying to dope out — if you'll pardon the expression — what's going in the Jason Giambi drug opera is like trying to figure out the plot of Pirates of the Caribbean, particularly since each season seems to bring a new sequel. While we await some statement from Commissioner Bud Selig stemming from last week's meeting with Giambi and MLB representatives, let's review the facts that are not in dispute.

First, there is Giambi's very intriguing comment to USA Today: "I'm probably tested more than anybody else [in baseball]." What, exactly, did he mean by that? According to the terms of baseball's drug agreement with the Players Association, there are only two provisions for testing a player more than any other. The first case occurs if a player tests positive for steroid use — but if Giambi had recently tested positive for steroids, the revelation would be public, so that can't be it. The second scenario occurs if a player tests positive for amphetamines (classified by the DEA as a "Schedule 2 drug," considered less serious than steroids, which are Schedule 3.)

Giambi merely apologized for the use of "that stuff," but never specified what stuff he was referring to. The New York Daily News reported that Giambi tested positive for amphetamines in the past year, but did not identify its sources. Their sources may well be nothing more than the Basic Agreement and an ability to put two and two together. If Giambi was given more than the random tests specified in the Agreement, and he had not been known to have tested positive for steroids, it could only have been amphetamines he was referring to.

This raises a larger question that so far has not been answered. Why would Giambi — who surely knew where his disclosure would lead — say this to USA Today? Under baseball's policy, when a player tests positive for any banned substance, only five people are informed — the four-man team which comprises Major League Baseball's Health Policy Advisory Committee (HPAC) and the player. Let's make this as clear as possible: If Jason Giambi tested positive for amphetamine use, which appears to be the case, he would not have to tell his agent, his team, the commissioner, or even his own union. The connection between Giambi and amphetamines wasn't leaked by the Yankees or by MLB; it wasn't "leaked" at all. It was made by Giambi, in the form of an apology, in his comments to USA Today.

So why would Jason Giambi spill the beans (or the pills) on himself? It's no secret that the Yankees have been trying to avoid paying the sizable remainder of Giambi's contract. As ESPN.com's Rob Neyer shrewdly observed, this has happened before. "In 2004," Neyer wrote on his blog, "Giambi batted .208 and the Yankees tried to void his contract. In 2005 and 2006, he walloped the ball and nary a word about his contract was heard. In 2007, Giambi's hit 5 homers in 37 games [as we go to press, six home runs in 40 games] and the Yankees are trying to void his contract again. You can't blame them; considering Giambi's performance this season, if he was on your roster, would you want to give him $26 million next year? Or $43 million over the next two years?"

No, we can't blame the Yankees, but we also don't think they have a legal leg to stand on. The only grounds for voiding Giambi's contract would be steroid use after the drug policy went into effect in 2003, for which there is no evidence. Giambi's contract may well contain clauses that specify other drug-related reasons for termination, including pre-2003 use, but as a source close to the Players Association points out, "It makes no difference what's in [Giambi's] contract if it violates what's in the Basic Agreement."

What then, is likely to happen? We don't know, but an intriguing subplot may have emerged at precisely the moment the Los Angeles Angels came to town last weekend. Though he claims to have no knowledge of how the rumor of a Giambi-to-Angels trade got started, it's obvious that no team would be a more perfect fit for Giambi. Since he's a lousy fielder and must DH, Giambi would have to play in the American League. There are three American League teams on the West Coast, and Giambi is hugely unpopular with the fans of one of them: his old team, the Oakland A's. This leaves the Seattle Mariners and the Angels, and the Angels have two big advantages: They're a contender, currently leading the Western Division by four games; and they play their home games close to where Giambi grew up. And the West Coast is far enough away for a player who wants to escape the brutal scrutiny of the New York media.

Giambi has a no-trade clause in his contract and can steer a deal in any direction he wants. In other words, if the Yankees want to get rid of him badly enough, Giambi is in a position to force them to negotiate with the Angels. From the Yankees' perspective, it wouldn't be as good as terminating his contract, but at least in a trade they'd get something of value.

Would we be giving Jason Giambi too much credit for designing and executing a scenario that got him to the Los Angeles Angels? Perhaps, but let's see what shakes out between now and the All-Star game.

[Benjamin Grimm]

]And the West Coast is far enough away for a player who wants to escape the brutal scrutiny of the New York media.

I'd have to ask Barry Bonds to see how that's working out for him.

[Willets Point]

I think that Giambi article is relevant to this thread too.

[A Boy Named Seo]

"It's game time, dipshit."

[soupcan]

"You won't shatter my dreams Derek Jeter"

Love it.

[Guest sharpie]

Now his foot hurts so he'll be out the next three weeks. Lotta Giambi in the news lately.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2888734

[soupcan]

]Would we be giving Jason Giambi too much credit for designing and executing a scenario that got him to the Los Angeles Angels?

Yes.

[nymr83]

a wild game at Fenway, it was 5-3 Yankees before Lowell and Varitek went back-to-back, then Jeter made it 6-5 and i turned it off in disgust. I turn the TV back on looking for "Cops" and the game is still going....its 11-6 Red Sox!

[Centerfield]

Isn't it funny how Jeter's two errors (without which the Sox would not have taken the lead) gets buried in the accounts of the game?

[Elster88]

No. Historically the tabloids and Yankee fans gloss over Jeter's mistakes. You didn't know this?

[metirish]

Abreu is a brutal fielder...I mean fucking brutal.

Seo that's brilliant.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

"Clemens had originally planned to start Monday night at the Chicago White Sox. He scratched himself from the outing on Saturday because of what the Yankees said then was a fatigued groin, an injury that he first felt during a minor league outing May 28."

--- Some sports writer is laughing his ass off that he got to use "scratched himself" and "fatigued groin" in the same sentence.

Wait for the New York Post to get loose with a story about how "StrayRod's" groin should be really fatigued, and for Yankee-hack Tom Verducci to rave about Clemens' strength to overcome groin fatigue and what a tribute it is to his inner-Yankee.

Then Suzyn Waldman to scream "ROGER CLEMENS' GROIN IS OK!!!!" when he takes the field for the first time.

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: Isn't it funny how Jeter's two errors (without which the Sox would not have taken the lead) gets buried in the accounts of the game?

AS were his two GiDPs in that game.
BTW, guess who made the last out as the tying run in tonight's MFY game after they had scored three times in the 9th?




Just for you CF

[Guest iramets]

Frayed Knot wrote: Just for you CF

That's good, though I checked to see that they had my (least) favorite Jeter shtik, and sure enough, it was #33.

Of course, that's also a bit of obnoxious, diva, "someone should throw a fucking fastball through his helmet" moment that Jeter shares, every goddamned at bat, with Mike Piazza, so maybe we shouldn't talk this one up so much, hey? There are probably people here who will deny that Piazza ever did such a thing in his life, much less every fucking at bat.

[Centerfield]

Fantastic. My favorite is #74.

[Guest iramets]

I must say, I have a problem with #72. Isn't the standard complaint about Range Factor that having a real good fielder next to you would REDUCE your RF numbers?

[Guest Edgy DC]

You know, I hope he does remain visible after he fades. Because when he inevitably does, all that nauseating fawning is going to go somwhere, and David Wright is a better guess than most.

[stevejrogers]

Don't look now, but the Yanks have a "stretch" going.

Taking two out of three in Boston and winning two out of the first three in Chicago. Coming up is Pittsburgh at home, DBacks, and Mets at home, then on the road for Rockies, Giants and Orioles before ending the month at home against Oakland.

The Sawx are supposedly heading into the toughest part of their schedule with a trip to Arizona this weekend, then facing the Rockies and Giants at home, followed by an Atlanta-San Diego-Seattle road trip before finishing the month at home vs Texas.

For some reason I have this feeling that we'll be looking at the standings July 1st and the Yankees will be around 5 to 7 games behind.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

The thought of such a run may make you feel funny Steve, but it just makes me feel nauseous.

[Elster88]

STFU

[Willets Point]

I split off and locked the first two months of this monsterously long thread.

With all the Yankees obsession here these days we should probably just make a Yankee forum.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Elster - "STFU"

I hope that I am correct in assuming that this was not directed to me.

[stevejrogers]

Rockin' Doc wrote: The thought of such a run may make you feel funny Steve, but it just makes me feel nauseous.

I didn't say it made me feel funny, I'm just saying I feel a run coming. I doubt it will be sustained though, despite all the "history" of the two teams as MFY love to point out.

[metirish]

First base shuffle.

Posada,Phillips and Damon all played first base last night,auditions for the job?

[Guest cleonjones11]

The real fun will be when the MFY's 2 1/2 back pass us...This Mets team as formulated very well may miss the post season alltogether....

[seawolf17]

Are we in the same league as the Yankees?!? When did this happen!?!

[nymr83]

it happened in the minds of cleon and other BS fans

[Guest cleonjones11]

If any of you dont watch to see where we are compared to the MFY'S of the American league I would have to doubt you

The BS part is uncalled for. The New York Mets look old and unfocused. It is my opinion that there is more going on in the Mets lockeroom than a group of coworkers getting along.

I wouldnt be shocked to see a Zambrano-Barrett situation come up. I think you've got a Loduca/Glavine gang and a Beltran/Franco gang with a disgusted David Wright and Willie Randolph watching hoping it doesnt get any worse with no other solution obvious than WINNING GAMES.Period.