baseball weekly

My weekend (and yesterday) was all baseball, all the time. (Well, baseball and drinking... but I suppose the two go hand-in-hand.) There have been ups and downs but mostly it was four days of revelation. Here are my top five thoughts of baseball right now...

5) Brian Bruney is a bitch. Wah wah wah, I play the game the RIGHT way and K-Rod is stupid wah wah wah. OH REALLY? First of all, who the fuck are you? Oh that's right, you've never played a complete season because you're always on the DL and currently you're pitching in AA. Second of all, Frankie's saved 60+ games without blowing one... let him do as he pleases. Third - it's OK when Joba celebrates but not when K-Rod does? OH OK douchebag. PS: Maybe you'd be less of a douchebag if you gave the interview whilst not wearing an Ed Hardy shirt.

4) Yes, Castillo dropped the ball. Figuratively and literally. I can't say I wasn't upset - I was in a bar watching with a bunch of Yankees fans. If it's not bad enough that he did this at all, he did it on a little bitch of a pop-up by A-Rod. Who slammed his bat down because he was mad at himself. And when the ball was dropped, all the Yankees fans started jumping up and down and going "OH MY GOD A-ROD WON THE GAME A-ROD WON THE GAME!" Hey, guess what? A-Rod didn't win the game. A-Rod hit a plopper that any little leaguer could catch and Luis LOST the game by dropping it. If anything, Teixiera won the game by running like a man. (And I'm reticent in saying that anyway because I hate Teixiera; he should be working at a gas station in Tennesee, pumping some gas while chewing on a piece of hay.) Also, I was glad to see Castillo in the game the next day. He's got some balls, that man.

3) Fernando Nieve is quite impressive.

2) Johan Santana is still impressive, despite Sunday's game.

1) Baseball players are real people. Shocking newsflash, right? But I can't be the only one who sees these men and think they're ethereal immortal bachelors. So when I went to the AAA game last night (Chiefs/Bisons wooooo) I made my typical remarks to the guys I like (Robinson Cancel and Argenis Reyes mmmmm yes plz)... 'course I wasn't drunk and not as rowdy as normal, but they could hear me. There was a pretty obnoxious girl sitting in back of us and I thought about saying something to her (like SHUT THE FUCK UP) but I'm sure glad I didn't... she turned out to be the wife/significant other of Pat Misch, the Bisons pitcher. And then she starts talking to another girl with a baby... and up walks NELSON FIGUEROA and it's his WIFE and CHILD. (I'm discounting the fact that Nelson Figueroa was literally 10 feet away from me... hollllllyyyyy crap). Then after the game I hear kids shout "Papi! Papi!" and FREAKING ROBINSON CANCEL starts smiling and hugging them.

I kept talking sexy to Robinson Cancel and his children were three rows in back of me.

I feel like a reverse pedophile.

It really was weird to see family members of some of my favorite baseball players though. It hit me like a bag of dicks that these guys are just normal people too...