Cincinnati Reds starter Bronson Arroyo remembers when he signed a three-year, $11.35 million contract in 2006 with the Red Sox. He was traded six weeks later.
“The longer you play the game,” Arroyo says, “you realize there’s no loyalty. I wanted to stay in Boston, gave them a discount, and got shipped out. It makes you little leery of people’s intentions.”
What Bronson doesn’t mention is how his agent told him not to give the Sox a discount because it would make him easier to trade. Hell, I entitled an entry “Oh, Bronson, what have you done?” the day it was announced that he signed the new deal. Everyone saw what was coming except Bronson. Which to this day, makes me very sad. Man, I miss him back in Boston.
“You have to consider everything. You have to put all the numbers together,”
That beauty is from Mr. Albert Pujols. Your National League MVP for 2008. The reason it’s noteworthy? Here’s what Prince Albert had to say in 2006 when Ryan Howard beat him out for the MVP award:
“I see it this way: Someone who doesn’t take his team to the playoffs doesn’t deserve to win the MVP”
Whoopsie. It’s worth noting that not too long after he made that statement in 2006, he backtracked on it when it was pointed out what a dick it made him sound like (well, I’m sure no one called him a dick to his face).
“I always dreamed of becoming a professional,” [Eri] Yoshida said at the news conference. “I have only just been picked by the team and have not achieved anything yet.”
16 years-old and she’s smart enough to point out that nothing has been achieved yet. Just to stop the naysayers in their tracks. Kick ass, girl.
And this gem from Kristian Connolly. A Cooperstown native who started a website to, unsuccessfully, get the “Hall of Fame Game” back in Cooperstown.
“No longer should Cooperstown be known as the ‘Home of Baseball,’ but instead it should be known as the ‘Tomb of Baseball,'” she said in a statement. “For 68 years, kids have been able to enjoy connecting with their modern heroes of the diamond, but now they’ll be replaced by kids who will watch old men whose playing careers they did not witness, ghosts whom they know nothing about.”
The game is being replaced by a legends and old-timers game on Father’s Day. The HoF Games were stopped by Bud Selig after last year’s (which got rained out) because of scheduling issues. This is one of the few things I actually agree with old Bud on. Now, I absolutely understand that the people of Cooperstown might be a little single-minded here since it’s the biggest thing that goes on out there…but for this woman to insult the elders of the game, frankly, makes me want to shake some freaking sense into her. The world doesn’t revolve around you, darlin’, and there are plenty of people who would pay good money and enjoy the opportunity to see the likes of Brooks Robinson play ball again. So stuff a sock in it, lady.
I leave you with eye candy, because we haven’t had enough of that lately:
Javier Lopez (2008) Photo by Kelly O'Connor
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