Extractions: Its a remarkable day, that day when the big press conference is called. The occasion means all hands on deck for the hometown media, with loads of national and even international reporters around, too. They all gather together to cover the biggest baseball news story in baseballs off season. A franchise has just signed a player to a mega-contract that will make him . . . The Most Expensive Player in the Game And why shouldnt a major contract signing be major news? A listing of select, ultra-rich baseball talents is a roster of All Stars and superstars. In the last twenty years, the gold-plated honor roll has included: Alex Rodriguez (2001-03), Kevin Brown (2000), Albert Belle (1997, 1999), Garry Sheffield (1998), Cecil Fielder (1996), Bobby Bonilla (1992-94), Darryl Strawberry (1991), Robin Yount (1990), Orel Hershiser (1989), Ozzie Smith (1988), Mike Schmidt (1985, 1987), and George Foster (1986). Not a bad collection of talents. Of course, when such a huge signing is announced, fans are invited to fairly swoon. With a superstar ball player on the ball club, everyone might be tempted to scoop up season tickets and daydream about the future. Fans can figure the locals have just bought a playoff team, at least. Or a Championship. Maybe even a multi-title dynasty.
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Extractions: I have witnessed the heated debates over this topic. They all start in similar fashion. Over the course of watching a game, something will ultimately spark a conversation involving Charlie Hustle. Then the verbal duel begins. They start with a friendly sparring of words and end with either an agreement to disagree or in need of friends having to intervene (the level of ancillary participation depends upon the amount of alcohol that has been consumed). Most times I sit back and enjoy the show because the answer is staring them right in the face.
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Extractions: Good Riddance, Albert Belle By Brian Carnell Wednesday, March 7, 2001 The baseball world is finally rid of Albert Belle, who was a poster child for spoiled, self-indulgent athletes. But what made Belle probably the worst behaved professional athleted of the 1990s was that on top of spoiled and self-indulgent, Belle was just plain mean. How mean? Who can forget the 1995 World Series in which Belle directed a string of obscenities at NBC reporter Hannah Storm. Storm was waiting in the dugout for a prearranged interview with Kenny Lofton, but that didn't stop Belle from taking offense and trying to throw Storm out. Later he actually tried to excuses his behavior by saying he thought Storm was Leslie Visser. How mean? In 1996, Belle was leading in home runs when he belted his 21st out of the park. Belle requested a meeting with the fan who caught the home run. It's customary in that situation for the fan to give the home run ball back in exchange for an autographed ball. Belle proceeded to cuss out the fan and told him he wouldn't be getting sh for the home run ball (and the fan left the park with the ball). The same year he threw two baseballs at a Sports Illustrated photographer (he once beaned a fan with a baseball during a game after the fan taunted Belle about his much-publicized bouts with alcoholism). In another infamous incident, after a couple kids threw eggs at his condominium because Belle refused to hand out candy. Belle got in his car and came darn close to running down one of the kids. He was charged with willful disregard of safety and fined $100.
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Extractions: TV We'd Like to See: Captain's Log, StarDate 2001.3.16..."we've entered orbit around a type-B planet on an observational mission. It seems that the local inhabitants of this planet are suffering from a mass delusion rooted in a belief that they somehow possess prescient knowledge not available to ordinary beings. This delusion that rested with a few has grown through media exposure to become the norm among the people that follow these so-called "chosen ones"; we are here to observe their behavior for ourselves, and to report back to the Federation, who has grown concerned about these beings' status among their peers, when there appears to be little reason for it. Mass hysteria? Apathy? Stupidity? Who knows? But we must...find...out..." Turning, the Captain addresses his first officer. "Mr. Thrift, what can you tell me from the tricorder readings on the planet?" "Well, Captain, It appears that the planet is lush with greenery, with the occasional large expanse of green plastic laid over concrete and a couple of large domed structures. There are numerous life forms, and I'm getting several readings of concentrated toxic energy forces...one from an area called Shekawgo, another from an area called Bawston, one in a overall toxic area known as Lalaland, and a fourth one which appears to be waning in influence in an area near a large body of water known as Ballmer." "That's IT, Mr. Thrift. We're at the right place. This is the planet of...The BASEBALL PEOPLE !!!"
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Extractions: By Allen Barra One of the greatest ballplayers of the last 20 years went down for good the other day from a hip injury, and forget the bang, I don't even think I heard a whimper. Albert Belle, a better ballplayer than Bill Mazeroski, Kirby Puckett or most of the other players elected to the Hall of Fame in the previous decade, will probably never play again, which means that we are spared the spectacle of his long face and somber stare at a Cooperstown podium in 10 or 11 years. What a relief! Suppose they gave a Hall of Fame induction and nobody came?
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Extractions: 09:14 PM CDT on Saturday, July 2, 2005 By JEFF MILLER / The Dallas Morning News Legal complications currently prevent Kenny Rogers from making any public statements regarding Wednesday's altercation with a cameraman. Ironically, a former player known as the gold standard for major league misbehavior during the 1990s surprised many reporters last weekend in Louisiana with exemplary conduct and even some contrition. Albert Belle indicated he'd do many things differently during functions connected with his induction into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. The Shreveport native all but had folks who had never met him thinking that a visit from Cindy Lou Who made his heart grow 10 times its size. Rangers/MLB Rogers' tirade Incidents come fast, furious; is it coincidence?
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Extractions: Hearing David Byrne Random Recap #5: OH Giggidy As you might have noticed by my lack of posts, the life of LeBlog has been quite packed, but just give me time before I realize the blog is #1 and life is #2. Tomorrow the celebration of LeAkron hits Vegas so this should be the last post till mid next week. Enjoy the randomness: Albert Belle Yea thatâs right I said Albert Belle. The Indian's bad boy who punched a fan because of a little name change to Joeyâ¦Joey..Joey. But to most he was known more for a little corking incident referred simply as âBatgate.â In case you forgot here is a little summary: On July 15, 1994, Belle's bat was confiscated by umpire Dave Phillips after White Sox manager Gene Lamont voiced his suspicion that the bat was corked. The Indians knew it was corked, and set out to replace the bat, which Phillips had put in his locker. During the game, Indians pitcher Jason Grimsley wriggled through a crawl space above the ceiling above the umpires' locker room, dropped through an escape hatch, and replaced the corked model with a conventional one. "My heart was going 1,000 miles a second," said Grimsley. "I just rolled the dice, a crapshoot."
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Extractions: Three years ago, the Lords of Baseball vowed that these labor negotiations would be different. No more Commissioners counseling moderation, no more peace for its own sake. They wanted to win so badly that they were willing to destroy the 1994 season and damage the 1995 season to get their way. How ironic that the hardest-line owner of all drove his colleagues to surrender. By repudiating their own negotiator, the owners lost that advantage. Even sympathetic fans and reporters turned on them. The “dishonorable owners” became the villains: they had hired Randy Levine to reach a labor agreement, then reneged after Levine did his job. Acting Commissioner Bud Selig, who had assured the Players Association that Levine spoke for him, now abandoned him. Hiding behind anonymity, others went further. One unidentified NL owner suggested: "What we should do is put Randy against the wall, blindfold him and shoot him for treason.”
Extractions: by Philip Michaels June 10, 1999 Back in the heady days of my youth, when I still had dreams of replacing boyhood hero Dusty Baker as the starting leftfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, there were few greater thrills for me on Saturday morning television than The Baseball Bunch. Harder hitting than The Smurfs, more relevant than Hong Kong Phooey, The Baseball Bunch took perhaps the two most important things in any young man's life arcane points of baseball fundamentals and wacky pratfalls and combined them into one beautiful half-hour. The show's concept was brilliantly simple: Each week a ragtag bunch of youngsters would head down to the local baseball diamond where they'd get schooled on the finer points of the game by Hall of Famer and spray paint pitchman Johnny Bench. And, in between lessons on hitting the cutoff man and laying down a sacrifice bunt, the San Diego Chicken would come along to amuse the children with his special brand of buffoonery. He'd spill a bucket of balls all over the field or trip while rounding third base, as Johnny just shook his head sadly. Cesar Geronimo and the rest of the Big Red Machine never pulled this kind of crap, Johnny's exasperated look seemed to say. It was a laughable premise, of course. Hall of Fame catchers simply
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