Rob Neyer guessesB.J. Upton is the next to get a long-term deal from the Rays. Back on April 24th, Jayson Stark wrote that the Upton family "has its own ideas about the market value of both brothers."
I really don't give a $hit about that a$$booger :) The reason I hated pierzynski is because every time with runners in scoring postion he grounded into a double play. :~( It drove me insane. He sucks.
Wow. Wow. I saw that link and said to myself "that oughtta be good". Having read it I still can't believe it's possible for any one person to be SUCH a douchebag. And I'd still bet the farm that he kicked Conte in the balls, no matter what he says.
I can kind of understand why SF hates AJ. In a different kind of clubhouse than the Sox, he probably grates on a lot of nerves. What I will never understand is the hatred that LA has for him. You can be pissed at Eddings for the call or Escobar for tagging him with the wrong hand, but what did AJ do wrong? Nothing.
And as a semi-funny note, Soxmachine had a great split for AJ:
* vs. Minnesota and Los Angeles: .519/.581/741 (27 AB)
* vs. Seattle and Toronto: .125/.222/.188 (16 AB)
Small sample size, but AJ seems like shoving it in people's faces.
“The story about me playing cards and not going over the hitters is not true. I told them I’d be there in two minutes, and I came over there two minutes later."
That is such bullsh!t. If you are a big league catcher and you have pitchers and pitching coaches telling you it's time to go over hitters, you do not say "fine, but you are all going to wait for me to finish playing cards." Whether it's two minutes or any other amount of time. The fact that AJ has to qualify the statement ("When they say I didn't go over pitchers they are lying...BUT I should point out that yes okay I did make them wait a little, whatever") shows that he is full of sh!t and he knows it.
The reason why AJ is hated in LA is the ChiSox-Angles ALCS in '05...the (non)swinging (dropped?) 3rd strike. As a baseball fan, I dislike him for playing such a large part for contributing to such a huge, disputable play to the worst ALCS, which gave way to the worst World Series, which gave way to the worst World Series Champions in the past 30 years. Other than that, his supreme douchbaggery does not help.
Good call Futureprospect3, I was thinking B Fu was an Anaheim fan who still hasn't gotten over it.
(For the most part) even Cubs fans have come to terms with the fact that Bartman didn't help the Cubs, but it was not he alone that lost the NLCS for them. In the same way the dropped third strike was not the deciding play of the ALCS. Had they retired Crede (who hit the game-winner) the game would still be tied. It was also not the deciding game of the series. How can anyone really be mad at AJ for that play. You're taught as a player to run anytime you even THINK it may have been a dropped third strike - that's what he did.
I am obviously biased towards the Sox just as B FU is biased against the Sox, but it's hard to argue that it was a bad LCS when it was so historic (4 consecutive complete games for Sox pitching - especially in an era where one complete game is rare)
I've had all this bile built up towards Pierzynski. But reading that article makes me feel like I could love him again... not.
Posted by: barnetto | May 16, 2008 at 10:39 AM
I really don't give a $hit about that a$$booger :) The reason I hated pierzynski is because every time with runners in scoring postion he grounded into a double play. :~( It drove me insane. He sucks.
Posted by: AriGoldisaG | May 16, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Hey A.J., where did you get that ring? San Francisco? Oh wait ...
Posted by: OmegaMan | May 16, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Wow. Wow. I saw that link and said to myself "that oughtta be good". Having read it I still can't believe it's possible for any one person to be SUCH a douchebag. And I'd still bet the farm that he kicked Conte in the balls, no matter what he says.
Posted by: asm | May 16, 2008 at 01:20 PM
And kicking Conte in the raisins is bad because ...?
Posted by: OmegaMan | May 16, 2008 at 01:27 PM
I can kind of understand why SF hates AJ. In a different kind of clubhouse than the Sox, he probably grates on a lot of nerves. What I will never understand is the hatred that LA has for him. You can be pissed at Eddings for the call or Escobar for tagging him with the wrong hand, but what did AJ do wrong? Nothing.
And as a semi-funny note, Soxmachine had a great split for AJ:
* vs. Minnesota and Los Angeles: .519/.581/741 (27 AB)
* vs. Seattle and Toronto: .125/.222/.188 (16 AB)
Small sample size, but AJ seems like shoving it in people's faces.
Posted by: Silver | May 16, 2008 at 02:56 PM
“The story about me playing cards and not going over the hitters is not true. I told them I’d be there in two minutes, and I came over there two minutes later."
That is such bullsh!t. If you are a big league catcher and you have pitchers and pitching coaches telling you it's time to go over hitters, you do not say "fine, but you are all going to wait for me to finish playing cards." Whether it's two minutes or any other amount of time. The fact that AJ has to qualify the statement ("When they say I didn't go over pitchers they are lying...BUT I should point out that yes okay I did make them wait a little, whatever") shows that he is full of sh!t and he knows it.
Posted by: DanyaRomulus | May 16, 2008 at 03:06 PM
The reason why AJ is hated in LA is the ChiSox-Angles ALCS in '05...the (non)swinging (dropped?) 3rd strike. As a baseball fan, I dislike him for playing such a large part for contributing to such a huge, disputable play to the worst ALCS, which gave way to the worst World Series, which gave way to the worst World Series Champions in the past 30 years. Other than that, his supreme douchbaggery does not help.
Posted by: B Fu | May 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM
im gueesin B-FU is a cubs fan thats just jealous because we actualy won a world series in the past century
Posted by: futureprospect3 | May 18, 2008 at 01:35 PM
Good call Futureprospect3, I was thinking B Fu was an Anaheim fan who still hasn't gotten over it.
(For the most part) even Cubs fans have come to terms with the fact that Bartman didn't help the Cubs, but it was not he alone that lost the NLCS for them. In the same way the dropped third strike was not the deciding play of the ALCS. Had they retired Crede (who hit the game-winner) the game would still be tied. It was also not the deciding game of the series. How can anyone really be mad at AJ for that play. You're taught as a player to run anytime you even THINK it may have been a dropped third strike - that's what he did.
I am obviously biased towards the Sox just as B FU is biased against the Sox, but it's hard to argue that it was a bad LCS when it was so historic (4 consecutive complete games for Sox pitching - especially in an era where one complete game is rare)
Posted by: ChiSoxSLIM | May 21, 2008 at 07:59 AM