Friday, January 23, 2004

 

Pepper

Some quick hits, covering baseball stuff that has happened while I was away:

Pete Rose: Thanks for the admission, but we knew that already. Please, go away.

I saw the year's first Baseball Tonight on ESPN the other night. I can't tell you how great it was to see it on the air again. I'm going to miss Bobby Valentine, though; he really added a lot to the show last year. Best of luck to him at his new managing gig in Japan.

A-Rod for Manny, aka The Trade That Would Not Die. I have no idea why the Rangers would want to make this deal, if they're trying to improve their team. It makes no baseball sense. I strongly suspect that A-Rod's passive-aggressive pushing to get out of Texas drove Hicks over the edge. Frankly, they deserve each other, but I'd love to see A-Rod in Boston, because I love watching titanic monoliths rampaging through major cities.

Pac Bell, er, SBC Park. The "S" stands for "soulless." Not because they changed the name--they can call it whatever they want for $30 million. because they evidently have no clue that "SBC" is a name that is as dull as accounting, while "Pacific Bell" was one of those rare corporate names that was both evocative and descriptive of the company's services. What does SBC stand for? Nothing. Just letters. Thanks for the cash, guys, but give yourselves more credit and take back the better name for the company.

Lunch break is over. Time to put the bat away and...oh wait, I could use this bat to fix these computers, couldn't I? Hehehe.

Jefferson 1:34 PM

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