Surely Media Stardom Awaits
Every once in awhile being stuck in traffic at 11:30 in the morning results in mass media exposure. As fate would have it, while the rest of the Natosphere was sipping cocktails and scarfing down bagels at MissChatter's tailgate, I was parked on 395 with the teeming masses of humanity who responded to Stan Kasten's pleas for Opening Day attendance. (I'm sure the fact that it was a beautiful 80 degree day had nothing to do with the last second mass migration to RFK.)
In any case, I missed out on the free nosh, and on being interview for the Post's premier cable television flackfest, but I did score some column inches from Bog-Meister Dan Steinberg, who looks exactly as scruffy and disheveled as a new papa ought. Dan had some hard-hitting, investigative journalist-style questions about the soon-to-be-worldwide phenomenon known simply as GUZMANIA! You can read all about it here, though you won't find it anywhere in the ink-and-paper edition (massively overpriced at $0.35.)
Chatting with Dan did cause me to miss the first pitch, though a few innings later I'd just as soon have missed the whole game. And no sooner did I get done singing the praises of the new-and-improved '07 Guzman then he puts up an 0-fer and pulls a hammy. Shades of 2006. So that shows you what my support will do for you. (In case you're wondering, I'm voting for the Kucinich-Hunter ticket in '08. Go team!)
Most of the rest of what I have to say about yesterday's game is unprintable. Suffice it to say that I agree with Dave's assessment. It feels like things at RFK are sliding into reverse.
4 comments:
If you don't stop supporting Guzman soon he's going to break Zimmerman's hand with a baseball bat because he "looked at me wrong" and he's going to bring a kitten out to SS with him just to bite its head off.
Do you want that on your head? Do YOU?
The Zimmerman thing, no. But give me a second to think about the kitten thing.
Did you see Wilson butcher that flip to 2nd? Did YOU?
No, didn't see it.
So the Nats have 3 SSs
1)Guzman - can't hit, might be able to field
2)Jimenez - can't field, might be able to hit
3) Wilson - can't hit, can't field
Screw it. Bring on Smiley!
You completely neglected:
4) FLopez - can hit, can't play SS & 2B simultaneously
5) Belliard - might hit, can't move
but hey, this gives Manny two or three weeks to audition the all-offense 2007 Nats and decide if they're better than having GUZMANIA! and a Nookuler deterrent up the middle.
You know JimBo likes this lineup better anyway.
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