Don't forget Lugo, they'll need someone to blame for when the house gets busted.
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Except for that unfortunate ambush of Eck he pulled off a couple of years ago..
The more I look at it, the more I see X standing in the middle of the house watching Gomes and the rest like a frustrated mom with too many kids.
Are you referring to this lone tweet that JBJ posted thanking Eck for the motivation after Eck criticized him? A single tweet hardly constitutes an "ambush" and it was five years ago to boot. Who gives a flying shit?
View: https://twitter.com/JackieBradleyJr/status/630503913930780672
Foulke's a God now?
Good list, but I'd sub in Nomar for Lansing.
This is an old argument, but it seems disingenuous at best to describe it as "thanking" Eck. He's not expressing gratitude there, he's delivering snark, and setting up a photo of him buddying up to Eck in order to deliver the snark more effectively is not a good look. But on the scale of athletes' misbehavior toward media people it's very small beer, and insufficient evidence to a support a charge of general douchiness.
I understand that it was snark. I probably should have put thanking in quotes. I agree with you that it is minor and a poor attempt at humor certainly doesn't indict the guy's overall character.
Um...yes, that is exactly what I was referring to. I got the timeline wrong though that has little bearing on my opinion on the matter. And I'm struggling to understand why an ambush needs more than one event to be described as an ambush?
This is a great analysis, and I'm there too. (So @ElcaballitoMVP might therefore change his mind).
In 2004, I'd have wanted no part of living with Nomar... but everytime I've seen him over the last few years, he seems relaxed and cheerful. I'm old enough that Yaz is indelibly down as my #1 favorite player of all time, but I wouldn't want to live with him for five minutes. Nomar is definitely top 5 in terms of how much I loved watching them play in their prime, and he seems to have aged really really well.
Also if I'm living with Youk, the brother-in-law might drop by and that'd be a great bonus.
FWIW, last season I was at a Dodgers game and Nomar was providing commentary for the TV broadcast....from the left field bleachers. And in between the action on the field he took pictures with everyone and signed autographs, all with a big smile.
I think Nomar was one of the last players victimized (for the lack of a better term) by the vociferous and mostly negative media environment of the 90s and early 00s. He was bombarded day in and day out by reporters and radio talking heads (and listeners/callers) mired in a long drought from positive outcomes despite his having unmitigated success on the field as a player. As toxic as some might find the Felger and Mazzs amidst the unprecedented run of success of the last 20 years, it was way worse during the decade prior to the arrival of Belichick/Brady and the Idiots. I think it wore Nomar down. He always was the happy-go-lucky, smiling player until the meat grinder of Boston wore him down. It should be no surprise that many years removed from that and playing in general, he's in a much better place.
It’s really hard for me to choose between Papi and Pedro, and I’m more inclined to lean towards Papi... however... I always thought Youk looked like a major asshole. Might be a nice guy, but he looks like a jerk. So I assume we wouldn’t get along. Varitek seems like a good dude. So I’m going with House 2, by a hair.
Ha. I've posted it on SOSH somewhere before, but here it is. I was 15, Pedro was in his prime and my little brother (4 or 5 yrs old) and my Dad went to get autographs before the game outside the players parking lot. We'd lay on our stomachs and reach under the fence and players would sign stuff as they walked by.
We're out there with a pretty big crowd, with a few guys my age near me and they had heckled a few players here and there. My Dad actually asked them not to be rude to Pedro. Pedro walks by, ignores all of us pleading for his autograph and doesn't sign a thing. Bummer. One of the kids near me yells, "Pedro, you never sign anything!"- that was it- and, well, Pedro went off. He stopped, turned back to the crowd and walked up to the gate. He picks out who he thinks said it, lucky me, and points at me and says, "You! You're a fucking asshole! I'll remember your face. You'll NEVER get my autograph" and my jaw hit the floor. I replied, "Pedro, we love you", not really sure what else to say. He proceeds to continue his rant about how he signed for 2 hours the night before and no one appreciates that or anything else he does for the city and how he was sorry that the kids had to hear this before storming off.
That pretty much ended the autograph session and everyone started to go in for the game. As we walked past the players lot entrance, a team employee stops us and says "Hey, Pedro is really sorry for what just happened and wants to give you something. Can you wait here a minute?" Okay...Pedro realized he screwed up and he's going to make it right. We wait a few mins, the employee comes back with an autographed ball. So we walk away happy. And then I looked at the ball and said, "Dad, this says Tim Wakefield". Wake had entered just before Pedro and must've heard what happened and signed a ball for us. That ball is now referred to as "The Tim Wakefield autographed ball that Pedro wanted to give me for calling me a fucking asshole". Pretty memorable day at the ballpark.
Nope. He was one of the last guys to show up before the game, which is why everyone took off after he yelled at me. Incredibly, the Sox lost 22-1 to the Yankees that day. Pedro pitched the next day and lost 3-1 to Pettitte, according to the internet. Quite an experience.