For every Barry Bonds or Rafael Palmeiro, there’s a Jason Grimsley or Guillermo Mota. In light of the news that the Mitchell Report, to be released Thursday, will contain approximately fifty names of former and current MLBers, expect some unheralded middle-relief pitchers to be on that list.
Here are three random players I predict to be named:*
(1) Vinnie Chulk (Giants) – Barry’s partner-in-crime
(2) Brendan Donnelly (Red Sox) – put an asterisk on the 2007 championship
(3) Tanyon Sturtze (inactive/retired) – my favorite Yankee in 2004-2005
*These predictions are based on absolutely nothing. Except scientific fact.
11 responses so far ↓
gnopple // December 12, 2007 at 10:30 am |
Jerkbag,
If it’s Donnelly, it wasn’t last year. Here are my guesses:
(1) Antonio Alfonseca (Phillies) – that’s how he grew the extra finger)
(2) Danys “Danny” Baez (O’s)
(3) Rudy Seanez (free agent) – he did nothing for the Sox in 2003. Though Giamboid managed to make quite an impact against the Sox that year.
Also, I find it amusing that your favorite Yankee in 2004-05 was from Gnopple and Tim Lahey’s hometown of Worcester, Ma.
(2)
MJ // December 12, 2007 at 12:09 pm |
“Jerkbag, [i]f it’s Donnelly, it wasn’t last year.”
Why? What was the information cutoff date? Were 2007 users not to be included?
But the reality is that a once-and-future member of the Red Sox Board of Directors would never betray “La Famiglia” by putting one of his own on the list.
“Though Giamboid managed to make quite an impact against the Sox that year.”
Which one? Jason or Jeremy?
gnopple // December 12, 2007 at 1:42 pm |
Both hurt us, unfortunately.
I’m not saying that the Sox are all clean. There will be some former sox on the list. With the exception of maybe Nomar and Hillenbrand, I think most of the Sox on roids/hgh hurt us more than helped us. We shall see.
Giamboid is a good name, though, right?
gnopple // December 12, 2007 at 1:43 pm |
BTW — I think 2007 users were under the current testing scheme and were penalized as they were caught. Most of the MItchell stuff is prior to that, I believe.
MJ // December 12, 2007 at 3:50 pm |
“Giamboid is a good name, though, right?”
Absolutely. And you can ask John Stevens; I detest Giamboid.
MJ // December 12, 2007 at 5:50 pm |
Since the name Tanyon Sturtze was evoked today, I’d like to inform you that “Sturtzie” has been offered an invitation to spring training with the LA Dodgers.
That means Proctor, Sturtze, and Torre are together again for their rotator cuff menage-a-trois.
http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20071212&content_id=2323827&vkey=pr_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la
John Stevens // December 12, 2007 at 5:53 pm |
That’s a beautiful thing. I wish nothing but the best for Tanyon.
MJ // December 14, 2007 at 9:49 am |
As expected, George Mitchell tapped a dance all over the Yanks and made sure his paymasters in Boston got a clean bill of health.
A U.S. Senator compromises an ethical mandate to deliver a paid-for report with a tidy little bow on it? I never saw that one coming. Snooze…
John Stevens // December 14, 2007 at 11:42 am |
Essentially, the report legitimizes gossip, and it does so selectively. While I generally favor the dissemination of information, I think that releasing the names was not only pointless, but it undermined the actual purpose of Mitchell’s commission.
MJ // December 14, 2007 at 12:28 pm |
“…but it undermined the actual purpose of Mitchell’s commission.”
Only if you assume that the purpose of the report was for something other than giving Selig the ability to take a half-baked piece of paper back to the Capitol Building in DC so that he could tell them “see, one of yours told us that we were bad but they were worse. So shine your flashlight on Don Fehr, not on us.”
The commission was compromised from the very beginning.
music // January 7, 2008 at 11:12 am |
very interesting.
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