Posts Tagged ‘ALEX RODRIGUEZ’
Cheap Seats Daily: Marbury a Wizard? Can You Party AND Maintain House Ethics? Wake Up Call for Hoop Dreams? Letterman Loses Pride, Battle With Palinites?
As he was heading off the air, I’m pretty sure I heard Dave Feldman at Fox-5 report last night that the Wizards are going to work out Stephon Marbury today.
Did anybody tell Abe Pollin?
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Lebron’s come and gone. But we only have to wait a week for the next celeb sports doc extravaganza: Luis Tiant will be at the E Street Cinema downtown on June 22 for red-carpet screening of “The Lost Son of Havana,” a film about the ex-Indian- Twin-Red Sock-Yankee-Pirate-Angel’s trip back to the Cuban capital, which is his Akron.
After the screening the movie’s producers will throw a bash across the street from the theater at the ESPN Zone. But don’t expect much. In the invitation the party’s organizers just sent out, they’re promising that: “Light refreshments will be served in accordance with House Ethics rules.”
House ethics used to lead to the wildest parties in town. Jack Abramoff mussed up everything.
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Sign of the times or the Times? Despite a big write-up in Sunday’s Washington Times, the Hoop Dreams Scholarship fund had to cancel its next big fundraising event for lack of interest.
Cal Ripken, Please Confess to Taking Something
After Alex Rodriguez’s moisty ESPN interview acknowledging what sure smells like a small portion of his actual drug use, baseball’s almost ready to put the dirty dealings of its Dead Balls Era™ in the rear-view mirror.
Almost. There’s still one holdup: Cal Ripken hasn’t been nailed yet.
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Own a Piece of Hist*ry!
Jose Canseco, who will someday be viewed as the Deep Throat of the Dead Balls Era™, is offering fans and anybody else the chance to buy a bat, base, and cleats that back in 1988 factored into his becoming the first player in major league history to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs in the same season.
In the sales pitch on his personal Web site, Canseco points out that “Only two players have been able to accomplish this since, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds.”
Quite a club. Canseco, Rodriguez and Bonds will someday be viewed as the Murderers Row of the Dead Balls Era™. (Get used to it!)
Perhaps these items have been on sale for some time, or Canseco’s not a student of the game: Ex-Nat Alfonso Soriano pledged the 40/40 frat in 2006.
BTW: The asking price for Canseco’s detritus is $9,995.00.
