Comments on: Happy birthday, A-Rod

By: Celsius 451

Celsius 451 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:17:24 +0000

It’s not the Yankees so much as the Union and the court system holding baseball fans and owners hostage in favor of overpaid players and a lop-sided/rigged competion aspect to the game. Pete Rozelle should have been Commissioner of baseball. He made everyone competitive in the NFL. Green Bay went from a 1-10-1 record to the NFL championship in three years. We will never see the Pittsburgh’s and Kansas City’s competitive, again, in baseball. The small market teams just develop and then lose their best players to Yankees and Cubs and Red Sox and Dodgers money. Wheee, what fun, year after year.

Thank God for Hockey’s salary cap. Not a perfect system but I love the change from the days when Montreal coulddraft every prospect in Quebec (see Geoffrion and Beliveau) and the Rangers could draft every kid who could play stickball coming out of Newark.

Screw baseball which thinks the rest of us are just here for the benefit of the Player’s Union. Really happy my Phillies stole a World Championship, a year ago. Never expected to see that, a second time. Two rings in 28 years.

By: Celsius 451

Celsius 451 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:05:58 +0000

How about A-Rod having a baby by Madonna and calling it: A-God.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:57:05 +0000

what a horribly unprofessional post to make as a member of the media.

By: Cip

Cip — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:49:59 +0000

How about everyone getting off his back? Truth is i actually like the guy more this year after everyone got on em for his personal life, the surgery, the roids and the book in which torre ripped on em….he is taking it like a champ playing 3rd basebase really well and being a very important part to his team

By: cc

cc — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:21:28 +0000

“Kate Hudson is another loud mouth Hollywood a-hole who thinks everybody wants to hear her position on politics.”

22figure8—You must be thinking of someone else. Kate Hudson has NEVER talked about politics which is something I really like about her. She learned from her stepdad Kurt Russell to shut up about politics. They had to move to Colorado when she was young so he could hunt in peace. While she doesn’t share his right-of-center stances I’m sure, she has never spoken a word about it.

By: comment

comment — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:27:23 +0000

cliff

i would celebrate only if you were in the building

By: Anthony M

Anthony M — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:27:53 +0000

Carp isn’t going after an assistant to the traveling secretary position. He is more interested in a player development position! :-)

By: Blurm

Blurm — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:26:20 +0000

I’d get him a chicken.

By: BroadwayBlue

BroadwayBlue — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:13:58 +0000

Just to get the hockey juices following: while I readily admit the Rangers- Islanders rivalry is one of the better sports rivalries, the ice has been tilted in NYR’s favor recently & will remain so for the foreseeable future. I’ve been keeping quiet throughout all this nonsense about the Islanders & Garth Snow rebuilding the right way. As I’ve maintained, you can’t make chicken salad from chicken feathers, & the majority of the Islander young players are definitely chicken feathers. We’ll obviously withhold judgment on Tavares and give Bailey some more time, but other than Okposo & possibly Bergenheim, the Islanders will not be a contender with the likes of Tambellini, Gervais, Nilsson, Hillen playing regularly. Also hurting the team is the owner, who continually thinks & operates as if he’s smarter than the rest of the NHL.
As I Rangers fan, I was a little concerned when Wang named Neil Smith as the G.M., but, replacing him with Garth Snow & their crack management committee eased that concern. While it shouldn’t be hard picking an overall #1 in any draft, Snow & the Islanders then forfeited many of the picks they amassed last year by trading up & taking an offensive defensman, Calvin de Haan, at #12, when all the scouting services had him going toward the end of the 1st round. Most analysts felt de Haan would probably have been there at #26- where the Islanders next picked. Furthermore, how would their rebuilding look if they had taken Luke Schenn or Nikita Filatov instead of Josh Bailey to go along with Tavares? There’s really no reason to candy-coat it, the Islanders will not matter in the hockey sense for the some time. Don’t be surprised if they get another top 5 pick in next year’s draft. Then again, the way the NHL works now, to become a contender, a team needs to be lousy for more than a couple years. Take a look at Pittsburgh: Crosby- #1 overall, Fleury- #1 overall, Staal- #2 overall, Malkin- #2 overall only because Ovechkin went #1, Ryan Whitney, who they used to get Chris Kunitz, #5 overall. Same goes for the Black Hawks. After more than a decade of being awful, they went to the conference semis. Why was Dale Tallon, prior to his removal for almost screwing up the signings of their RFAs, lauded for his “rebuilding”. Let’s face it, if a team is in the middle of the pack, it will need a lot of luck & the signings of a significant free agent or 2 to become a serious contender.

By: No Country For Old Rangers

No Country For Old Rangers — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:11:32 +0000

happy birthday a-fraud. hope your cousin delivered those steroids you were hoping for. baseball is a joke.