As someone who has found the New York Yankee career of Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez both fascinating and baffling, I watched with interest the flare-up yesterday during which Rodriguez, trying to expedite his trip back to first base from third after a foul ball, cut across the diamond instead of retracing his steps across the basepath. His path took him across the pitchers' mound, which greatly upset A's pitcher Dallas Braden. ("He should just maybe watch his captain a little more often," Braden said afterward, in the umpteenth instance of someone setting up a "Goofus & Gallant" situation between Rodriguez and Yankee-for-life Derek Jeter. Wait, how has that not become a blog concept yet? I call dibs!) Now, to hope that a lightly fictionalized version of the incident shows up on the forthcoming, Mexico-set season of Eastbound & Down.
Isn't that just it though? If it had been some backup catcher straight out of Triple A who played for, i dunno, the Pirates who crossed the mound and Roger Clemens* who had the screaming fit about it, wouldn't the entire thing be seen in precisely the reverse?
*You know what I mean, whoever the Roger Clemens of right now is. I'm struggling to think of a current pitcher with the same combination of pedigree and unlikeability as A-Rod.
@conklin I know baseball, and I can't come up with a pitching avatar for arod.
@MisterHippity Yes, on the scrotum reference, though the structure and consistency of the mound is part of the pither's defensive game. arod the centaur prancing about could do some serious damage.
Yankee entitlement is an ok subject, but what we really need are more Phillie fan depravity posts.
Also, the Mets still need a new 2B/GM/Mgr/#3 & 4 starters/and two lefties in the pen. If they warm Nieve up again tonight I'm going to start sending pictures of Chad Bradford and Darren Oliver to Omar's office every day until he gets either the point or the boot.
That was a weak blowup. Knocking over some cups onto his own head somehow?? Braden should watch some old video of Paul O'Neill.
Regretting to inform y'all but Mexico proved too problematic so new Eastbound season takes place in Myrtle Beach.
NOOOOOOO!!!
OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE GREATEST TV SEASON EVER!
Michael Pena killed it in Observe & Report.
And Ana de la Reguera… looks like Ana de la Reguera.
Italics fail.
So taking a shortcut back to first base is like calling the pitcher's mother a whore?
There's so much about baseball I don't understand …
It's not taking the shortcut, it is doing it across the pitcher's mound.
Also, that arod is a giant bucket of moldy douche.
Isn't that just it though? If it had been some backup catcher straight out of Triple A who played for, i dunno, the Pirates who crossed the mound and Roger Clemens* who had the screaming fit about it, wouldn't the entire thing be seen in precisely the reverse?
*You know what I mean, whoever the Roger Clemens of right now is. I'm struggling to think of a current pitcher with the same combination of pedigree and unlikeability as A-Rod.
So it's stepping on the mound that's the problem?
I guess the mound is symbolic of the pitcher's scrotum, so A-rod just symbolically stomped on the pitcher's balls?
Yes, I see … I think I'm beginning to understand baseball a little better now.
@conklin I know baseball, and I can't come up with a pitching avatar for arod.
@MisterHippity Yes, on the scrotum reference, though the structure and consistency of the mound is part of the pither's defensive game. arod the centaur prancing about could do some serious damage.
(Centaur story on Deadspin: http://deadspin.com/5394232/a+rod-news-from-the-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up-department)
(Am I even allowed to link to one of Denton's sites?)
Yankee entitlement is an ok subject, but what we really need are more Phillie fan depravity posts.
Also, the Mets still need a new 2B/GM/Mgr/#3 & 4 starters/and two lefties in the pen. If they warm Nieve up again tonight I'm going to start sending pictures of Chad Bradford and Darren Oliver to Omar's office every day until he gets either the point or the boot.
Hey, they've been on the road! But tonight they're facing Kris Benson in Arizona, so perhaps Anna will show up…