Monday, October 29, 2007

Biggest Jerk of The Day Contest

First things first: congratulations, NE'Guy, on your team winning the most boring World Series I've ever seen. I fell asleep in the middle of two out of four games, and it would have been three out of four if my friend Rondal hadn't baked me cookies (in a very masculine, heterosexual way).

Now, for our contestants:

In this corner, Alex Rodriguez, who opted out of his contract:

-by text message
-through his agent
-without returning multiple phone calls from Yankee owners, let alone accepting their offer to sit down and talk in person
-during the World Series
-more specifically, during a World Series game that he also declined to attend to accept his Hank Aaron award -- from Hank Aaron -- due to "family commitments."

You, sir, are a classless jerk, and I pray to all the gods in whom I don't believe (and who, in turn, clearly didn't believe in the Rockies' destiny neither) that you win the MVP playing for the third-place Giants every remaining year of your career.

In this corner, Hank Steinbrenner, who responded by saying:

- "If you don’t understand the magnitude of being a Yankee and understand what that means, and being the highest-paid player in baseball, I think it’s pretty obvious.”
- “If we’re going to make you rich and we’re going to give you the privilege of being a Yankee, you’ve got to show us you want to be here.”
- and, finally, “Does he want to go into the Hall of Fame as a Yankee,” Steinbrenner said, “or a Toledo Mud Hen?”

You, sir, are a classless jerk, and I will save those quotes for the next time a Yankee fan tries to explain that everyone else in baseball dislikes them because of their success. No, we dislike you because of your overwhelming arrogance, as perfectly exemplified here.

But of course, neither is the worst person in the world.

3 Comments:

Blogger New England Guy said...

I thought it was a very exciting world series (those AAA guys can put up a heckuva fight sometimes) but I fell asleep during three out of 4 games because they insist on playing these games on La-La time and then jamming them full of commercials to really drag them out. (Why does FOX sports think its cool to have its pregame analysts shout nonsense over background noise- are they taking hints from their brethren in the FOX News)

I only hope Mike Lowell's exploits force the Sox to keep him at 3d over A-Rod next year- the only good reason to snag him would have been to deny the Pinheads. So the sons of George have so far lost 56 home runs and 4 WS titles and there's still Rahja, Jeter, Rivera, Posada and others to alienate yet.

Cities use get the sports ownership they deserve.

11:00 AM, October 29, 2007  
Blogger Irene Done said...

If cities get the ownership they deserve, what does that say about Dallas -- where we have Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones and the bland, aloof, unwise Tom Hicks?

Wait. Maybe I don't want to know.

6:15 AM, October 30, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was at Game 4 and almost fell asleep! Okay, not really, but I am willing to trade Brian Fuentes to ant team for anybody, even a bat boy. He is very tallented but loses concentration at the most inopportune moments.

Still, here in Denver we are very grateful for the ride the Rockies gave us, and excited about next year, when our rookies will have World Series experience. I hope I don't jinx the Rockies by saying we shouldn't have to wait 86 years to win that Title.

1:30 PM, October 30, 2007  

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