Case of the Mondays: In which suspicions are raised
The two-thousand and six World Series of baseball:
Kenny Rogers had some sort of a brown substance on his hand in the first inning last night. He claims it was dirt, fair enough in my book. Rogers was still quite masterful after it was wiped off heading into the second inning so, you know, if it was pine tar or something else, nothing quite changed all that much when he wiped it off.
But, I’ve had dirt on my hand before, wet dirt as he claims, even. And I must say it doesn’t leave a residue on my hands after I wash it off as was the case with Rogers (referring to the split screen of his hand FOX showed during the second inning).
ESPN claims to have reviewed tapes from Kenny’s first two playoff starts, and a similar substance was noticed on his hand. Bum! Bum! Bum! Perhaps this played into his 23 scoreless innings of pitching this postseason? Maybe, maybe not.
Enough of that triviality, my head is spinning. Series is tied at 1-1.
National Football League:
It was a Sunday of long field-goal kicks in the closing moments of competition for victory. Such as this game involving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Philadelphia Eagles. Or this one betwixt the Chargers and the Chiefs. Peyton got a little banged up, but still rolled on the Redskins. Pittsburgh continues to confound, dropping a game in OT to the Falcons.
Our Bear sat idle. We image Brian Urlacher dreaming about destroying this man all weekend.
The Association:
Preseason-ness is upon us. Please peep the post directly below this one for a nice little moving picture treat.
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Exposing Kenny Rogers as a cheat is a redeeming quality for Hi-Definition Television. I had thought of abandoning the technology entirely thanks to Albert Pujols’ giant lip herpes.
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It’s funny how much ESPN is playing this Kenny Rogers story up. If he cheated, the ump would have thrown him out. I’m not sure what was on his hand, but I’m fairly confident in his ability not to be stupid enough to put pine tar on his hand before every camera in the world focuses on him.
We might be drastically overestimating Kenny Rogers’ intelligence here. This is also the person that attacked a camera crew somewhat arbitrarily and insists on jumping around like a fucking moron after every pitch.
Yea!! How dare he get excited about winning a world series game. Perhaps it would be better if he did a riverdance impersonation after a strikeout, or pretended to putt the baseball using a bat as a putter. Then he would be hip and cool and celebration would be ok!
Guy:
He can celebrate after the game all he wants. He can even celebrate during the game, even after every inning. Whatever. But every fucking pitch doesn’t warrant jumping around, fist-pumping, yelling at himself, etc etc etc. A little restraint would be nice, and would go pretty far in reassuring me about The Gambler’s mental state, about which I have serious doubts.
So I guess we should reevalutate MJ’s psyche for fist pumping after draining shots. And how dare he shrug his holders after hitting his 6th three in the NBA finals versus the Blazers. What a jerk.
I think you are making a gross exaggeration about ‘every pitch’ being celebrated.
No. MJ was perfectly normal, because unless it was the end of the game, the most he would do was an understated gesture - like a quick fist pump, or the shouder shrug thing (God that was awesome).
But Rogers displays some form of unsolicited, uncontrolled emotion just about every pitch, regardless of the outcome. Watch him. If he misses the zone, he’s back out on the mound yelling at himself; if the ball is hit, he spins around dramatically to see if it will be caught, then marches around the infield while the ball is thrown back in; if he strikes someone out, well, look out.
I have no problem with emotion - and also, let’s not compare MJ’s artistic license to that of Kenny freakin’ Rogers - as long as it’s genuine. It seems now that Kenny has had success with this new “emotional” approach, he uses it simply for the sake of using it. Which, in my mind, makes him a total douche.
What’s funny is that that bothers me far more than a little pine tar on his palm.