Sunday, September 23, 2012

miguel cabrera...

First, let's not mistake him for suspended Melky Cabrera who has voluntarily taken himself out of consideration for the National League batting title.  Melky's .346 is ten points higher than Andrew McCutchen of the declining Pittsburgh Pirates.  When I saw the Pirates play in San Diego on August 20, they were something like 13 games over .500, now they are 3 games under .500.

Anyway, lets get to Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers is on the verge of winning the Triple Crown in the American League.  Miguel is tied with Josh Hamilton of Texas with 42 home runs and is leading the league in batting average .332 and RBI with 131.  A Triple Crown constitutes leading the league in home runs, runs batted in, and batting average.  The last time a player won the Triple Crown was 1967, by the great Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox, more commonly known as Yaz.   Yaz had 44 home runs, 121 RBI and batted .326.  Very similar to Miguel Cabrera's current numbers and Miguel has 12 games left in the regular season.

Rookie sensation Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels led the AL in batting for what seemed like virtually the whole season, but has slowed down as of late, but I wouldn't count him out at .325.   Trouts batting average has dropped about 20 points in the past month.

I'd really like to see Miguel Cabrera win the Triple Crown.  45 years is a long time to wait for another Triple Crown...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

yunel escobar...

Shortstop for the Toronto Blue Jays suspended only 3 games for wearing eye blacks with "maricon" written on it.  Apparently, it wasn't a day that eye blacks were necessary and a picture of Escobar on that fated day shows he also had sunglasses on the brim of his cap.

I live in Cali and I have heard latinos calling each other "maricon" in jest.  I know it's a derogatory term against gays.

What was Escobar thinking?  Now Escobar says he has gay friends and a matter of fact,  his hairstylist is gay.  He said he was joking and among latinos it's generally accepted to use that word.  Again, I heard it amongst latinos many times, but to write it on an eye black is fucking stupid!

Latin ballplayers make up a good percentage of major league baseball, but unfortunately they have been caught using performance enhancing drugs and suspended more than american ball players.

Baseball needs to educate these players more about PEDs and the social implications of calling each words that are hurtful to gays.

I'm sure messages written on eye blacks will be banned by MLB, like the NFL since Tebow was writing religious messages on them.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

55...

That's the amount of electoral votes the state of California has.   270 is needed to win the Presidential election.  358 total electoral votes.  

curt menefee...

That fat fuck studio host on the NFL on Fox keeps calling San Francisco- San Fran.  It's pissing me off!  Doesn't a producer have the right mind to tell that idiot Menefee that it's unacceptable to call San Francisco- San Fran?  It's only acceptable to call San Francisco- the City and San Francisco...