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Frayed Knot wrote:
Does that mean Mike's a Scientologist now?


btw, there's nothing worse than tabloids that refer to the kids of celebs by their first name only - and by extension the idea that that's all they have to do knowing that their readers are so tuned into these mini-celebs that first names are all that's required.

Well, there's probably something worse.


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Marlon Anderson, Tony Tarasco and Brian Daubach show up in this overly flattering SI profile of Bryce Harper, though not because Harper is projected as an Anderson-Tarasco-Daubach type.

Oh, and Tarasco's still high:

Harper, a travel-baseball phenom out of Las Vegas at 10, an SI cover boy at 16 and a $9.9 million signee at 17, is the most well-known minor leaguer since Michael Jordan. But Jordan was a novelty, not a prospect. Harper is the most scrutinized prospect since....

"Jackie Robinson," says Tony Tarasco, a former major leaguer and a Nationals minor league coordinator who has become Harper's player-development Yoda. "You have to go back to Jackie Robinson to find anybody who goes through this much scrutiny. It wasn't like this for [stephen] Strasburg. Wasn't like this for Alex Rodriguez."

Jackie Robinson? Surely Doug Harris, the Nationals' director of player development, with 21 years in pro ball as a player, scout and executive, would find a different comparable for Harper. Independent of Tarasco, Harris offered, "This is really unfair and it's totally different, but if I can make a comparison to one guy that has been scrutinized like this, it would be Jackie Robinson. And it's unfair because it was a different standard. He was under a microscope in an era when we didn't have Internet, didn't have cellphones.

"Now, Jackie Robinson had his life threatened. I'm not comparing Bryce to that. But as far as nonstop scrutiny? Absolutely. Day to day."


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If I had to compare Bryce Harper's situation to one guy's, I would say Ted Williams, landing his bomber in Korea when it was on fire. But that's just me.


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Robinson was speedier, and had less power than Harper.

To me, he's more of a Rosa Parks-of-guys-who-wear-wrestling-makeup-on-a-ballfield.


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I guess I'm making too much of one incident, but if he's such a precious commodity, and there's such an historical level of scrutiny on this guy, why is he being placed in the emotional and developmental care of Tony Tarasco?


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Who better to keep him relaxed and loose?






Yeah, I don't know.


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Again, I don't want to make too much of it. Tarasco seems like a decent guy and a committed baseball lifer, and as I mentioned in another thread, there's few enough African-Americans applying these days for that job (though I gather he's mixed-race). Maybe his position was that, if Corey was going to deal with the pressure by getting high, the least he could do is stick by him and act as a wingman. (Keith told of how he'd deal with a deep slump a handful of times in his career by getting roaring drunk, but not until he was sure he had a wingman looking out for him.)

Anyhow, at least he got Corey to some medical care, instead of doing the paranoiac stoner thing of "Oh, God, oh, God! Get it gogether, man! Come on, Mark, snap out of it! We are so screwed! You gotta stop Mark, or we are so screwed! Where's my phone? WHERE'S MY PHONE?! Dude, it's Tony. I'm with this rookie pitcher and we are so STOKED but now he's sort of gone all still and shit and there's foam coming out of his mouth. I KNOW DUDE, I KNOW! Yeah, he's got a pulse, but his eyes aren't focused and he's not responding and shit! Where did you get this weed? NO, I'M NOT BLAMING YOU BUT... hello? hello? Oh shit! Oh, SHIT!! Mark, man, it's Tony! THINK, TONY, THINK! Ok, you totallly weren't here. You go around the corner, you place an anonymous call. WHERE THE FUCK AM I EVEN AT MAN!? WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?? YOU'RE SUCH A FUCKUP, TONY! And GODDAM YOU, JEFFREY MAIER! If I ever get out of this I'M GOING TO KILL THAT KID! Oh, man, snap out of it, Mark. Oh, Jeez, I just pissed myself..."


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Lo Duca doing color for the East Little League regional on ESPN. Not bad, he's nailing these Italian names from Paramus.


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I was wondering the other day for some reason whatever became of LoDuca. Of all the Mitchell Report guys his story was about as pathetic as they came (caught red-handed paying by personal check; subject of speculation by team executives that he'd take them if traded, etc etc).

Insert obligatory joke about how he'd prefer to be doing commentary for 13-year-old girls tournament here.


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Don't know if any of you care or not, but I've located and met up with 1962 Met Choo Choo Coleman. He should be making a few appearances in the NY area in the coming months, which I'm sure will make some of his former teammates very happy. He's been out of the spotlight some 45 years now.


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Met Hunter wrote:
Don't know if any of you care or not, but I've located and met up with 1962 Met Choo Choo Coleman. He should be making a few appearances in the NY area in the coming months, which I'm sure will make some of his former teammates very happy. He's been out of the spotlight some 45 years now.


That's cool, Bub!


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"@AdamRubinESPN: On this date in 1973, Willie Mays hits his final major league homer, No. 660, for #Mets off Cincinnati's Don Gullett."


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Met Hunter wrote:
Don't know if any of you care or not, but I've located and met up with 1962 Met Choo Choo Coleman. He should be making a few appearances in the NY area in the coming months, which I'm sure will make some of his former teammates very happy. He's been out of the spotlight some 45 years now.


That's cool, Bub!

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Lenny Dykstra, arrested for indecent exposure.

Just when you think he hits rock bottom...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/25/national/a181641D39.DTL&tsp=1


Former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been charged in Los Angeles for allegedly exposing himself to women he met on Craigslist.


Craig Swan must be disgusted his list is being used for such unsavory purposes.


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Good for Darryl. Hell, great fro Darryl. But that headline confuses, o Supermarket News. You've got to read deeply to understand that "Darryl Strawberry Helps Open Food Desert Store" means he's helping provide a desert oasis and not actually growing the desert or something.


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He'd change his ways, but he's no big fan of evolution: hooray for "Hot" Carl Everett.

Everett, 40, was taken into custody just before 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 2 at a 5,800 square-foot home he and his wife own in the 7200 block of Majestic Manor in Colleyville.
Details are not known but according to a police report, the retired Florida resident is charged with assaulting and injuring a family member.
According to published reports, he was arrested in April for allegedly pointing a gun at his wife's head in Florida.


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