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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves, Morning Edition
Help Wanted: Lederer Handicaps The GM Races
Rich Lederer opens the newspaper and finds a bunch of Help Wanted ads for general managers.OK, here is how I see this game of musical chairs playing out. Gillick or Bowden will wind up in L.A. If pressed to name one or the other, I would say Bowden. Gillick (60%) or Hunsicker (40%) will end up in Philly. Hunsicker or Andrew Friedman will get the nod in Tampa Bay. Either Kevin Towers will land in Boston to be reunited with Larry Lucchino, his old boss in San Diego (see photo below of pending press conference), or look for Hunsicker -- if he hasn't been gobbled up elsewhere -- to be the one to worry about what to do with Manny. Sandy Alderson will appreciate Epstein's talents and offer him the Padres job should Towers bolt for greener pastures.There's more over there; the ads themselves are pretty clever.
Venom In The Easy Chair
This time of year it's hard to get much reporting on baseball, so when faced with T.J. Simers or nothing -- well, is that a choice or an equivalence? Anyway, today's piece interviews Lasorda:Happy days are here again for Lasorda, still the Dodger cheerleader in the minds of most, I'd imagine — past blemishes aside. But now he's hitched his legacy to McCourt, a certified disaster as a baseball owner to date.At last!...
"I'm sincere," he said. "Hook me to a lie detector. I'll bet my lungs I'm telling the truth. I love Frank and Jamie McCourt. Set up a lie detector, and when I pass, you apologize to them for challenging my loyalty and love for them."
I said I'd find a polygraph, and ask about pitching to Jack Clark and trading Paul Konerko. And if I do have to apologize, I'll give the McCourts a call, and never get a return call.
"You're really something," Lasorda huffed. "I read those letters in the paper about you, and it's not love. You know what, I might be the only friend you have."
Grandstanding Senators At It Again
Professional jackasses Jim Bunning and John McCain have introduced a new steroids bill into the Senate:"We have heard a lot of talk from professional sports leagues that they would do something to clean up this mess, but so far it has been just that: a lot of talk," Bunning said Tuesday during a conference call with reporters. "Hopefully Congress' action will light a fire under their feet to come to an agreement before we do it for them."What difference does it ultimately make? The senators will never be satisfied with anything the major leagues do, and don't particularly care whether their ideas are bad or even unconstitutional. It's pure grandstanding and angling for votes; who cares if they're slowly turning the country into a prison camp where everyone's blood, breath, and urine are subject to immediate presentation to some officious cop?
Comments:
I'll bet you get lots of "black helicopter" jokes tossed your way.
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# posted by 
: 11/01/2005 10:10:00 AM
: 11/01/2005 10:10:00 AM
Actually, I can say (as the person who spends more free time with him than anyone else) that he doesn't get many "black helicopter" jokes thrown at him. In fact, what he does is simply defend the continued need for the rights guaranteed US citizens in the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. Most folks like those, hence the lack of jokes about defending them.
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