Pro Baseball Central | Part of the Sportsday Radio Network » S Books http://www.probaseballcentral.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:15:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “WHO’S YOUR MAC DADDY”, AND IF HIGHLANDER FANS GO TO THE WORLD SERIES DO THEY MAKE A SOUND? http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2009/10/31/%e2%80%9cwho%e2%80%99s-your-mac-daddy%e2%80%9d-and-if-highlander-fans-go-to-the-world-series-do-they-make-a-sound/ http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2009/10/31/%e2%80%9cwho%e2%80%99s-your-mac-daddy%e2%80%9d-and-if-highlander-fans-go-to-the-world-series-do-they-make-a-sound/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:49:08 +0000 Steve Keane http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/?p=2206

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Great, great post today by James Kannengieser over at Amazin’ Avenue commenting on a post by Jeff Pearlman on Mark McGwire becoming the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals where Pearlman gets all righteous slamming McGwire with the tired old cheater line.

Kannengieser brings up the Amazin’ Tuesday even that Pearlman attended and I was there. I have all of Pearlman’s books and I read his blog and SI.com columns as well so yes I’m a fan of his but I don’t always agree with him on his positions.

I agree with Kannengieser, Bill James, Rob Neyer and Tom Tango on this over blown media scream fest about PED’s in baseball. We live in a world of physical enhancement from face lifts, to Botx injections to pills that give men erections for four hours and no one gets outraged but a baseball player, who a grown ass men by the way, making decisions to take something that would either bring them back from injury faster or enhance their ability to play better that was not against any of the rules of MLB until recently.

If you really want to be outraged, turn your anger at the Federal Government who is wasting your tax dollars in trying to prosecute (very unsuccessfully) athletes for using PED’s

It seems the biggest loser so far this World Series is the Rich Folks Fortress in the Bronx. I thought it was just my middle aged ears that couldn’t hear the crowd noise but after reading and talking to some fans who were at the games, it seems the Grey Poupon  crowd just ain’t into cheering. It could also be that real fans A/K/A Poor Bastards in the upper deck and bleachers are closer to Van Cortlandt Pak than they are the playing field and their veil disgusting comments float like a fart in the wind. Sad. Here we Mets fans have a ball park that seats you closer to the action plus we are more passionate and involved in our team than our neighbors in the Northern boro but have a team that can’t find it’s way back to post season baseball. It’s even sadder when a Mets-Phuck Face series in May has more passion that the Fall Classic.

]]> http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2009/10/31/%e2%80%9cwho%e2%80%99s-your-mac-daddy%e2%80%9d-and-if-highlander-fans-go-to-the-world-series-do-they-make-a-sound/feed/ 0 SIX INNINGS-JAMES PRELLER http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2008/12/08/six-innings-james-preller/ http://www.probaseballcentral.com/2008/12/08/six-innings-james-preller/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:31:39 +0000 Steve Keane http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/?p=1005 Jame Preller is a big time Mets fan and and an author  of children’s books.  His latest book is Six Innings which intertwines a Little League championship game with Game 6 of the 1986 NLCS. If you’re a parent, grandparent or aunt or uncle or if you are looking for a gift for a child this Christmas put down the video game and  buy them a book. They will be pissed off at first but later on they’ll thank you down the line  as there is no more important skill in life than reading and it is a shame that there are kids in this country that have reading problems or are apathetic to reading that it is a damn shame.  One book that would make a terrific gift this season would be Six Innings.

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