Friday, October 23, 2009

Booth Review: Comin' Back from the DL...

I would like to apologize to my large fan base for my nearly one year hiatus from blogdom. I got an actual job. But I’m back, snitches!

Steve Phillips, former bad GM of the Mets and current TV personality for ESPN, got a lot of heat this week for having an affair out of wedlock. But, the embarrassing part is the hideous she-woof he was sleeping with. This broad, Brooke Hundley, is not only super crazy, but she has a gullet. This lady sent threatening e-mails to his family, stalked his kids on Facebook and crashed her car into his house. She is a wild, ugly beast. And, knowing Steve, he probably traded his wife, two smokin’ hot babes and a prospect for the rights to her…

Despite my passion for New York Mets baseball, and the Yankee hatred that comes with that territory, I find myself rooting for the 2009 Yanks this postseason. I have tried to figure out why this change of heart has occurred, and I think I have hit on why I am rooting for the Empire. Here are the 5 reasons justifying me being on the Yankees bandwagon this postseason:

5. I Live in New York city- I grew up in upstate New York, but now I work in the center of the apple, and there of course is a different vibe here. I can’t get away from these Bronx Joeys, so I might as well embrace them.

4.The Mets Suck- Normally I beef with Yankee fans all season about who has a better team in NY, who has a better shortstop, etc., but this year we sucked so badly that the argument was killed by June. We were so terrible that Yankee fans even stopped rubbing it in by mid-July. So, come October, I don’t have the same bitter taste in my mouth or constant torment by the Yankee faithful. Makes it easier.

3. New Yankees- Aside from his stint with the Braves, I have always thought highly of Mark Tex and I’ve long been a C.C. fan. You’ve got to love his style; he’s an old fashion inning-eating work horse. By adding new guys that I had liked on their old clubs, I now distaste the Yankee roster significantly less. Johnny Damon still swings and throws like a girl. A girl that I hate.

2. A-Rod- I have always been a supporter of A-Rod as a Yankee, largely because Yankee fans hated him so much. Since this has indisputably been the year of A-Clutch’s domination, I get a small victory for that.

1. The Phillies- I hate Philly, The Phillies, Jason Werth, Sweet Hair Hamels and the rest those smug pieces of shit. As soon as Carpenter and Wainwright lost their bouts against the Dodgers, it seemed inevitable to me that no one in the NL would test the Phillies, and I think that Yankees have the best chance to stomp out their hopes in the World Series.

Damn Steve Phillips! Brooke Hundley? Looks more like Todd Hundley…

If you haven’t seen this story, in anticipation of their meeting on the gridiron this weekend, Chad Johnson and Jay Cutler have been tweeting smack talk between each other. Tweet beefing. Only two douche bags would do something like this...

Note: I am aware that Chad Johnson is no longer named Chad Johnson, and even broadcasters have pandered to this. I refuse to call him ‘Ocho Cinco.’ It’s just his number in a different language, and not even a dead or absurd language, its Spanish. I’m pretty sure more people speak Spanish then English. It’s fucking stupid.

Sure, Steve Phillips might have lost his wife, split his family and put his career at risk, but I bet it was all worth it to see the look on John Kruk’s face when he had to fork over that five bucks.

David Stern is often considered to be the best commissioner in all major American sports, but I would beg to differ on that front. First of all, I am very concerned that Mr. Stern is too attached to the idea of globalizing the league, literally, which I think would add length to an already too long season, and dilute the competition. I also don’t know if the foreign audience would like to adapt from the fast paced international game to the more set NBA style. Risky. But, that is not why I bring up David Stern. The NBA has had a rebirth in the past few years and is in a position now, with its young stars, to really take off. With that said, its peculiar to me why Stern would choose to open up the NBA season on the same day as game 1 of the World Series. Football can battle for ratings with the MLB postseason, but if the NBA thinks it can, it is sorely mistaken. If the NBA wants huge opening day numbers, which I’d assume they do, they would be better off having their opening night be a bridge from game 1 to game 2 of the series. It seems to me that this scheduling move was either an oversight by the league office, or an ego move by David Stern that is sure to backfire.

Well, The Phillies and Yankees may win the pennant this year, but it looks like Steve Phillips certainly took down the ‘Wild Card.’ Crazy bitch. I will say this about her crashing her car into the Phillips' house: Steve has always preached that you gotta go hard into home. Call her nuts, but dont you dare say she isn't fundamentally sound...

Did you know they made a movie about "Where the Wild Things Are?" It used to be a book.