47 Games and 28 Innings Later
The year was 2006, Sele, Tomko, Saenz (and his 7 personal caterers)
The team sucked and the chemistry wasn’t much better…
Wait, I take that back, the doesn’t include when Shuey and Martin were toghether.
Not good Canadian Russ Martin, rather good ole vet Tom.
Tom Martin…enough said, he’s not worth my time.
The man sucked at pitching and had a man crush on a guy named Shuey, but if that wasn’t enough, the Dodgers are bringing Tom back for Spring Training this year, aren’t we lucky!!!
It was 2006, in the heart of Kentucky…
Barbaro became the champ, he was the best, definitely not lucky.
19 other horses watched as young Barbaro became the champ.
He became an icon, a legend, a picture on a stamp.
Barbaro made people millions, that too, not bad.
Just weeks after Kentucky his fortune turned, and the world was left sad,
For Barbaro was at the Preakness, running for the Triple Crown.
Quickly it all ended, Barbaro was on the ground.
His leg was ruined and his life was now up in the air,
Millions upon millions of Barbaro’s fans all began to miss the sight of the wind amongst his hair.
His owners were left with a difficult question of what to do?
Was Barbaro worth honoring or should he be made into a bottle of glue?
Luckiy for us, a year after he passed, the decision has been made.
His ashes were spread on January, 29th on a warm Kentucky day.
The spires of Churchill Downs now have a legend in its air.
Always remember, Barbaro was a horse who had the heart of a bear.
The NHL All-Star Game is about thirty minutes away and the anticipation of seeing Anze Kopitar is unbearable. Anze’s the man, albeit one ugly mofo. He competed last night in the fastest skater competition and we learned he’s not the fastest man. Despite the disappointment in Anze, Alex Ovechkin made the night amazing with some things he attempted in the new Breakaway Challenge. Words cannot describe what was attempted, all I know is, it further puts shame toward Nate Robinson and the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. (Dwight Howard excluded)
(((While Marian Gaborik was going, Rick Dipietro was mic’d and in net, on one of the moves, he gets deked and he ends up doing the splits trying to stop a wrap around. Well, listen to him after the move, the Open Mic = Priceless)))
The other part of NHL All-Star Saturday Night that was well worthwhile was seeing the best commercial of the year several times:
Mike Lieberthal, a two time All-Star, a Gold Glove winner, and a Jew, has decided its time to hang his jock strap up and move away from the game of baseball. Mike’s career began back in 1990 when the Phillies selected him with the third pick in the draft. Mike was taken in the round before such players as Mike Mussina, Jeromy Burtnitz, Garrett Anderson, Troy Percival, and everyone’s hero Paul Bako.
(Sidenote: The 1990 Draft Sucked; Aside from Chipper Jones [#1 Pick], the majority of round 1 was awful [Adam Hyzdu, Midre Cummings…http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?year_ID=1990&round=1&draft_type=junreg]
But back to the important story, on Saturday, Michael Scott Lieberthal held spoke at the Garciaparra/Hamm Soccer Classic where he said, “”I’m done,” Lieberthal said on Saturday. “I decided a couple weeks after the season ended. If [the Dodgers] had picked up my option, I probably would have played one more year. But I didn’t want to go anywhere else.” It’s going to be tough to be a Dodger fan this year knowing that they more or less aided in the ending of Lieby’s career.
(Sidenote: After declining the option on Lieberthal, the Dodgers signed free-agent Gary Bennett to a one-year contract to back up Martin….GARY BENNETT)
Mike’s career as an All-Star catcher was centered around his first thirteen seasons in the big leagues as a Phillie. During this period, Mike hit 150 home runs and he drove in 609 runs. Mike’s career started off in 1994 when he played in 24 games and hit .266 with one home run and 5 RBI’s, as stellar as 1994 was for Mike, 2007 was a year that will never be forgotten. The Dodgers signed Mike to a 1.15 million dollar contract to backup Russ Martin. Unfortunately for the home town hero, Grady Little was a Nazi and ultimately hated playing Lieberthal. In the ’07 season, Mike played in a grand total of thirty-one games where he failed to hit a home run and drove in a grand total of one run. With that said, SOMEHOW, Baseball References is convinced that at the age of 35, Mike Lieberthal is most similar to Jason Varitek, the starting catcher of the World Series Champs. That my friend, is like saying Olmedo Saenz should be Mr. Universe.
Mike Lieberthal, you will be missed.
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Did You Know…
-Lieberthal has hit the 5th-most home runs of any Jewish major league baseball player, behind Hank Greenberg, Shawn Green, Sid Gordon, and Al Rosen, and is 7th on the all time list in hits and RBIs.
-Lieberthal’s is listed as Jewish by the American Jewish Historical Society.
- Dwight Schrute has a bobblehead doll of Lieberthal on his desk.
-Lieberthal is tied with Shawon Dunston in 416th place for the most home-runs hit in MLB history.
Steroid user Barry Bonds asked a federal judge to dismiss perjury charges against the steroid user Wednesday, arguing that the indictment is “scattershot” and noted for its “striking inartfulness.”
The lawyers said “the questions posed to him by two different prosecutors were frequently imprecise, redundant, overlapping and frequently compound.”
Prosecutors asked Bonds several times whether personal trainer Greg Anderson supplied him with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs beginning in 2000. Bonds answered “no” or “not at all,” but his lawyers argued that the questions were not clear.
Bonds’ lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to either toss the case or order prosecutors to streamline the indictment, which cites 19 different instances of Bonds’ alleged lying.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
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So…apparently, Mr. Bonds thinks he can get a FEDERAL JUDGE to dismiss a case that has taken several years to build out the window, because he thinks its tricky and clever. I’m speechless. Although, I think this may put Bonds up for Dumbass of the Year.
Remember the days of Paul Depodesta? Remember how Depo would act retarded yet the team would win the division or at least make the playoffs? Remember last season when Uncle Ned gave Juan Pierre more than the few pennies he’s worth? Well, Uncle Ned’s at it again!! Ned and team have given the team crash dummie Jason Repko a one-year, $487,500 contract. In 406 AB’s, Repko is hitting a tremendous .232 with a mere 104 strikeouts. (Joe Beimel has a career .233 average) While I must say, I have always been a fan of Repko, it just makes NO SENSE TO SETTLE BEFORE ARBITRATION!!! What the hell does Repko have going for him? Sure he’ll run into a wall or the starting shortstop, but he’s always hurt and when he does play, he’s not very good. Even the Dodgers should have been able to convince most arbitrators that Repko wasn’t worth this settlement. When Dodger fans are paying that extra $20 for their season seats, remember the $487,500 Jason Repko will be making. (Yep, he too will make more than the President of the United States)
ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick is reporting that former Dodger Brett Tomko has signed a contract to play for the Kansas City Royals this upcoming season. Yep, you read that right, BRETT TOMKO. Tomko is a piece of crap in a good year, and well he’s AWFUL in most normal seasons. Tomko’s illustrious careeer began in 1994 when he decided he was too good to be selected in the 20th round by the Dodgers (Imagine if he had been a Dodger for more than the two years he was). SOMEHOW, the Reds saw something in Tomko and took him in the seecond roundd of the ‘95 draft…(???, How is that humanly possible? A blind scout?) Perhaps the moment for which Tomko will ultimately be remembered for is his impact in getting Ken Griffey Jr. traded to the Reds, Tomko was one of 4 players traded to the Mariners. Just two seasons after being a piece in a trade for Griffey Jr., Tomko was involved in another trade, this time to the Padres for Ben Davis, Alex Arias, and Wascar Serrano. Now if that doesn’t show his true value, I’m not sure what would.
More recently, Tomko has spent time as a Dodger, (unfortunately) as a Dodger Tomko pitched in 77 games, he won just 10 while he lost 18. Over Tomko’s final 33 appearances as a Dodger, he won an amazing 2 games. That’s a 6% winning percentage. That’s not bad, that’s horrendous. Brett managed to be listed as Dodger Blues “A-Hole of the Moment” 3 times in 2007. Brett Tomko was so popular amongst his teammates that Olmedo had no idea who the hell he was, “Olmedo Saenz calls me “Mike” and I’m not sure what that means. He started laughing, so I guess I’ll go along with it.”
- Brett Tomko
At the end of the day, I think the Royals got themselves a steal. They’re getting a guy who Baseball Refrence claims is similar to some great pitchers, guys ranging from Jeff Weaver and Matt Clement to Ismael Valdez and Darren Oliver.
