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Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves, Lunchtime Edition
Zero Credibility
Stephen Smith wrote me the other day after I passed along thirdhand something from USA Today columnist Bob Nightengale that Nightengale isn't exactly the most reliable source. No surprise, then, to learn from him that the Angels will move "within five years" to Monterrey, Mexico, and the A's will move to Anaheim. Stephen has more on this, tracing it back to a 2001 Peter Gammons column. Yeah, Arte bought the team and spent all that money (and made himself look marginally foolish in the process) trying to associate it with the greater LA metroplex, just so he can take it to ... big market Monterrey?The Score Bard Blogs The Dawgs
Rickety Henderson and all, complete with pictures. Now I'll have to go to some Armada games.Raul Mondesi And His Downsized Career
A couple pieces here about Raul Mondesi; first, Blue Think Tank sighs over what might have been, and Mondi's greatest day as a Dodger. Second, Steve Dilbeck of the San Bernardino Sun pounces on Mondi for his mediocrity and the distractions that pursued him throughout his career."He was very generous with other people," Lasorda said. "He took the sportswriters in spring training from the Dominican Republic down to Wal-Mart, told them to get a push cart and pick out whatever they wanted. He's a good guy."Mondesi is in some ways one of the most compelling characters to come out of the Dodgers system in years, and a real biography of him is called for. It will be a job for a writer with a subtle turn of phrase and a keen eye for the ironic, and even comedic. Like teammate Eric Karros, Mondesi personifies the late-era Dodgers: immense promise overshadowed by ultimate failure to perform.A good guy who was just that, good. Not great, not spectacular, and in the process may have reached his end as a player. A player who was never able to quite continue the career he started with the Dodgers.
Derek Jeter, God's Gift To Journos With Deadlines
Derek Jeter is the face of the game, quoth Tim Kurkjian, but such softballs don't go unchallenged at BTF; nonetheless, could Jeter's fantasized fantabulousness have anything to do with New York being the hometown of zillions of deadline-writers, and only one team with a (consistently) winning record over the last five years?
Comments:
Right... because the owner is Hispanic. Good enough for the bastion of journalistic integrity that is USA Today! You know, I wish some of this talk about limiting “unnamed sources” would spread to the sports pages.
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