Report: Selig stepping down after 2012
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Nov 28, 2009 
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According to Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune, baseball commissioner Bud Selig plans to step down at the end of his current contract, which runs through the 2012 season. That deadline is three years away, but as it approaches, the job will become one of the running stories in all of baseball. Selig was involved in some of the most significant changes in the game’s history, as well as some of the games brightest and darkest moments.
By they way, tip of the hat to MLBTradeRumors for pointing the way to Rogers’ story.
Enter George W Bush, out of retirement
Selig will most likely be remembered for his mishandling of the steroids situation, but he did a lot of good as well. I think re-alignment and the wild card have made the game and the playoff system more interesting and fun to watch.
Bud,
Don’t let the door hit you on the rear end as you’re leaving.
First Oprah, now This!!!
My weekdays just got much more boring.
I think Condi Rice would be more likely than Bush.
Who’s Oprah?
Plase don’t elect Bob Costas,he’s pro salary cap(from STL) and wrote moneyball! He wants to be the commish.
To even consider Rice is crack,Bush is just plain stoopid,neither qualified!!
later dude
O P R A H ,the most powerful person on TV!!
She is starting O.W.N(Oprah Winfrey Network)on cable.
She owns DR Oz,RachelL Ray,and use to own Dr Phil shows. She also is part owner in the cable channel oxygen.
They can’t make it sooner?
Erin–If you like Charles Grodin and I do(even the Beethoven movies)you must see Midnight Run. One of the funniest movies I’ve seen.
I was wondering when Selig step down, its about time. It was an informative writeup on Eduardo Nunez, I think Ashmore nailed it. ive seen the kid play a lot in Trenton. His only real plus tool is his strong arm; his defense isn’t good and methinks he is overrated.
Marlins have decided to trade their young ace Josh Johnson,for a handsome package of prospects.He’d make a good # 4-5 in the AL,possibly.
It’s George Bush’s job to refuse.
Hopefully someone more forward-thinking takes his place and instant replay can finally clear up the continual umpiring mess.
bush=something else to mess up!
In response to Abdababdaserser November 28th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
“I think Condi Rice would be more likely than Bush.”
Rice wants NFL Commissioner job. Not saying she’d get it, but she’s a football fan from her Notre Dame and Stanford days.
Baseball needs a person who can think,not a bafoon.
New thread, please…
Bush? The way things are going the current pres. is going to need a job by the time Selig is out
Speaking of Selig, the termination date of the current Basic MLB Agreement is December 11, 2011 – I think. With Bud on the way out and nothing to lose, it’s an interesting time to be negotiating over things like hard slotting and regulating international player markets. Same time, MLBPA’s new head Michael Weiner has already been griping about MLB collusion designed to depress free agent salaries. Does the new MLBPA head have to make his bones, does Selig go out with a bang? Does a continuing poor economy press both sides to be reasonable? Interesting times ahead.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!
Current President at least has a brain,can’t say bush does,alcohol killed too many brain cells!
Bring in somebody who won’t tolerate cheating,get rid of November baseball,and will allow Pete Rose to come into the HOF.His offense pales in comparison to the Selg-roid era.
Dear Uncle Bud,
Please please please don’t go. Without you we’d have to play by the same rules everyone else does. There would be no more exclusive windows to negotiate with and we’ll no longer be able to trade for prime time players without having to give up equal value. Please stay. We love you.
Larry Luchino
President, Boston Red Sox
“Baseball needs a person who can think,not a bafoon.”
And you need a dictionary. It is best to double check your spelling when you are calling somebody else a BUFFOON!
SATURDAY 8:31am: ESPN’s Buster Olney hears that Halladay’s preferred destinations are the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, or Phillies.
Look at how quicly Stinksniffer Boston Olney came out with this update.
Everyone knew the Yankees were not the only team that Roy would accept a deal to, and everyone knows where the Yankees go, the Red Sox are attached to the Yankees jock strap.
But Boston Olney had to make sure to get the news out there.
Finally the spineless Commissioner decides to leave the game but not before fans get to hear 3 more years of how economically sound baseball is.
Why would George Bush want to subject himself to more abuse by a biased press? The job of the commish is a thankless task, regardless of what you do. Just like the job he just left.
IMO, Selig was not as bad as he has been made out to be. His public appearances are dreadful, and make him appear clueless. If he was as good around the media as David Stern, he would be much better thought of. He did institute the WC and interleague, which have been good for the game, although interleague is getting tiresome.
I don’t know how he could have handled the steroid issue differently, aside from the Mitchell report. It is widely assumed that Bonds, Sosa, and McGwire did PEDs, but still there are people who insist they did nothing wrong because there was no positive test. Bud couldn’t just go up to players and accuse them of cheating, and the union was the major roadblock to any testing. They even drug their feet after being confronted by congress.
As far as the Mitchell report is concerned, Selig’s biggest mistake.
lol. So Selig resists overtures from a group of owners asking him to stay. Could it be a group headed by the Florida Marlins?
Mark in Tampa
Here’s how he could have handled the steroids issue better. By not hiring a Red Sox organizational member to run the probe. He knew exactly what he was doing when he hired him, and I hope nobody ever forgets the biased info and dishonesty put forth by George Mitchell. But of course, Bud used the garbage about that loser Mitchell helping create peace between countries or some BS like that.
The only peace that George Mitchell ever helped with was the 2 pieces of **** Manny and Ortiz.
Oh, and he very well could have investigated David Ortiz for a possible suspension, especially after Ortiz lied blatantly, rather than investigate ARod, after ARod was the most forthcoming of any other athlete pre-Agassi.
Selig leaving,music to my ears.He will forever be the Commish that looked the other way during the baseball era.Letting and approving A known roider McGwire work on a baseball team.While never being held accountable for his allege steroid usage is rank.
Hopefully not another NL owner that comes in with bias for the NL,like Selig has done.He’s the reason for Luxury tax,Revenue sharing,and the much hated 5 game division series,that extends baseball to the cold months.
Because of Selig teams that should be sold or moved to areas that will support them,is why they receive corporate welfare to keep their doors open.Their owners pocket the money.
These welfare teams(bottom feeders) should be required to spend a minimum of 70mm,since they receive that ,or more in subsidies from other teams, that are punished for being successful,as well as the 30mm from MLB yearly!!
I’ll believe that he is stepping down when he actually steps down.
CR9,
I acknowledged that the Mitchell report was his biggest mistake, especially insisting on the names coming out when Mitchell himself advised Bud that it would be better w/o the names being public.
Anyway, the horse was out of the barn at that point. I think the main criticism Bud gets for the steroid era is in not taking steps to curtail it before 2003. My view is that the biggest obstacle prior to 2003 was the union. I don’t know what he should have done. Call out McGwire and Sosa during summer ’98? Everybody else, media especially, was fooled too. Many fans thought something was amiss, but again, it was just speculation w/o any real knowledge.
“See No Evil” would be a wonderful title for a book on Selig.
Bud was a good capitalist – he represents the owners afterall and he was a used car salesman. He did a good job exploiting the economic opportunities within the game, with the help of the MLBPA. Hard to say he did as much for the quality of the product, however.
The re-birth of baseball after the last strike was fueled by steroids and PEDs, with a willful blindness that Selig will increasingly come to be blamed for. The Mitchell Report was nothing but a cynical, dirty trick – a desperate way out for owners and the union. It had the desired effect; it gave everyone a reason to walk away from PEDs once and for all and to stop worrying whether some other player was gaining a competitive advantage through chemistry. It took away the benefit of participating in the “drug culture” in MLB.
The Collusion Cases are another dirty chapter in Selig’s rein, another case of willful blindness that’s hard to swallow.
Still, they haven’t killed the game yet. But they haven’t stopped trying to either.
austinmac
November 28th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Erin–If you like Charles Grodin and I do(even the Beethoven movies)you must see Midnight Run. One of the funniest movies I’ve seen.
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Thank you! I’ve heard that’s a good movie, I’ll have to check it out.
Mark in Tampa
I was not insulting or disagreeing with you. I was just using your point to rehash George Mitchell and his phoniness and dishonesty and to get my joke in about the only peace he has ever helped.
IMO, though, I dont care that people used steroids. I care that players are treated differently for it, and teams, namely the NYY, are treated differently for it.
All I ever hear is that the Yankees had all these drug users, but IIRC, the only one of the players to “use” with us was Andy and his HGH.
And you never hear anything about the middle of the lineup of that 86 year curse being broken.
Tanyon Sturtze getting pounded during the Varitek attacking Arod game. Why was there no suggestions or inferences made about that. 3 guys pounding Sturtze by the dugout were Ortiz, Kapler, and Nixon. What do they all have in common besides being Red Sox? Varitek attacking ARod for no reason, and then getting praised in the media? Roid Rage, anyone.
Phillies are not in the hunt for Halladay.Money is the reason.they feel they have fielded a good team already.Thy can’t afford Halladay.Sawx have LF 3B 1B SS,to settle first.
Plus a huge contract for Halladay,with Beckett,Paperlbon is looming at next seasons end.
Nesn has the article up with no men of the other supposed teams interest
“CR9 (Red Sox farm system = Hydra, except cut off one head and 6 more grow back)
SATURDAY 8:31am: ESPN’s Buster Olney hears that Halladay’s preferred destinations are the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, or Phillies.
Look at how quicly Stinksniffer Boston Olney came out with this update.”
This is the same Buster Olney who wrote the seminal book on the Yankees dynasty. Now somehow he is a Boston groupie?
I am certainly not going to put myself in the position of being Bud Selig’s advocate! I have no love lost for the guy, I just think he was unfairly maligned for the most part. But, some of it was certainly justified.
Just curious, because I see it a lot, what does IIRC stand for?
After 2012 is 3 years and $50 something million dollars paid to him too late.
Selig unfortunately never learned the lesson that when you point a finger at someone else, there are some fingers pointing back at you. He takes credit for the economic growth of the game (some of which he deserves) but none of the blame for the struggles the game has gone through (some of which he deserves).
I was amused recently when an interviewer (I think Costas) asked Selig since he is so encouraging of McGwire returning to baseball to work for the Cards; would he be as encouraging of Bonds managing the Giants or Clemens becoming pitching coach for the Astros.
pat,
What was his answer?
If you look at pictures of Ortiz,Ramirez,and Veritek,Damon,Kevin Millar,and Trot Nixon, their bodies are
way different,now.
The Mitchell report conveniently left out the beantown players(roiders.)
McGwire for the Hall? Sorry Chjad, stick to the small stuff like the Rule 5 draft. Maybe you need to go back to Scranton for more seasoning.
Other roid guys will probably get in, but they are complete player. Big Mac was a one dimensional player, and that dimesnion came from a needle. This one is crystal clear and you got it wrong.
If you want a good Charles Grodin movie, see the original “The Heartbreak Kid.” It’s a classic, unlike the Ben Stiller version which is awful.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068687/
George Mitchell was compeletely worthless. If law enforcement didn’t give him a crack at Radomski, every other name he had was already exposed.
I guess it’s meaningless since 9 out of 10 players are on HGH and fans don’t care as long as their team wins. The most annoying thjing is Yankee fans cheer A-Rod, which is fine, but then come on here and call Boston the Roid Sox.
Ignore roids if you want but we still have more tainted titles than Boston.
“seminal book on the Yankees dynasty. Now somehow he is a Boston groupie?”
You conveniently forgot two important words there. I feel the need to add them in for you.
Seminal book on the “END OF” the Yankees Dynasty. And although the Yankees did not win for another 8 years, they still remained a dynasty, making it to the playoffs year after year.
The title of his book showed Boston Olney’s desire for it to be the last night of the Yankees dynasty.
Olney was also the guy who praised Clay Buchholz and Jon lester for their no hitters, but on ESPN earlier this year, he tried to take away from David Cone and David Well’s perfect games.
He said the perfect games were against an inexperienced lineup and a minor league lineup, respectively. This coming from the guy who covered the Yankees during those perfect games.
IIRC
If I remember correctly.
It means that I sometimes misremember
things. And of course, Roger got insulted for using an actual word.
McGwire and Sosa hitting balls out the park at an unheard of rate,and Selig just stood by.
Roger Maris’s family had to watch THE NIGHT McGwire broke Maris’ record,with the manufactured juice ball McGwire hit, that surpassed Maris’record,and got into the TAINTED baseball books.
Selig thought they saved baseball was and was grateful,and looked the other way!
Rich in NJ
November 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
If you want a good Charles Grodin movie, see the original “The Heartbreak Kid.” It’s a classic, unlike the Ben Stiller version which is awful.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068687/
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Anything would be better than the Ben Stiller version. LOL
Thanks. I’m getting lots of good Grodin movie tips today!!
Jim
Not sure how you would quantify how we have more tainted titles than them.
Unless you’re a Red Sox fan, LOL.
But there is a difference, which is perfectly acceptable for why Yankees fans can insult the Roid Sox and cheer our own team.
Our players come out and admit their usage, or are attacked for years in the media for denial (whether he is honest with his denial or not).
The Red Sox not only do not admit their cheating ways, the media, namely ESPN, will do anything it can to cover it up and make the Roid Sox out to be the clean sox.
The question George Mitchell should have had to answer is/was: Why didn’t he talk to Paxton Crawford?
The reason McGwire has surfaced again,is because he get less than 25% of the votes to get in the HOF and to clean up his image.If he gets in the Hall,so should PETE ROSE ,who never was suspected of roid usage, SHOULD get in too!!
I’m not busting on the Red Sox. We just won a WS with A-Rod. He’s a great player, but he did NOT admit to ‘roid use, he was outed.
Mark in Tampa
He said he was encouraging when the Cards spoke to him about hiring McGwire and as for Bonds, Clemens or others, he wouldn’t answer hypothetical questions.
Selig: good riddance.
The 3 best to occupy the position in the last generation or so had the shortest tenures: Peter Ueberroth, Bart Giammatti, and Fay Vincent.
The HOF means nothing. The all-time leader in hits is out as well as one of the best players of all time (referring to Bonds) are not in, but Rabbit Maranville is.
I’m trying to think of other Charles Grodin movies I’ve seen, but I can’t think of any. What is Midnight Run about ? Is it a comedy? I don’t like the premise of the original Heartbreak Kid, so I wouldn’t see that – the character sounds like a jerk.
2012 isn’t soon enough
Betsy-Grodin
I collect top 10 movie lists from people I know. ‘Midnight Run’ has made a few of them. All you need to know is that DeNiro is the other lead actor. It is worth seeing.
Is Jim Pir-One back under an alias? Olney is hardly pro-Sawx. That’s just the drum that needs beating this winter. Like it or not (loving it actually), the Sawx are controlling the market because they have more holes to fill and more money to burn than us. We can sit back and pick our spots.
Wait
Now we’re getting into semantics. ARod, while he was outed, admitted to what he did. Ortiz boldly lied.
ESPN and every other media outlet, including the Clogfather, bashed ARod for not being forthcoming.
ESPN and most every other media outlet, took the side of Ortiz as if he was telling the truth.
Jokingly, I wonder how Ortiz convinced his irregular heartbeat in 2006 that he did not use steroids!
Neither A-Rod or Ortiz was forthcoming.
Yes A-Rod admitted to juicing and Ortiz didn’t, but there were certainly things he lied about in that press conference. I’m not taking away all blame. Not to mention that we had Giambi on our team when we beat the Sox in 03′. Giambi never admitted to juicing, but he hit 2 HR’s in that game 7.
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He may not be pro-Sawx, but he is without a doubt, anti-Yankees.
If McGwire can coach heck why not Conseco,bring them all back to mess up the game up further!!
I mean, we don’t know which players juiced and which didn’t. Scotty Bro had his best year in 98′. Who’s to say he didn’t juice?
TOP 5 Reasons Bud is leaving in 2012
5. There are still plenty of used cars to sell in Milwaukee
4. The WS Games are too @#%&*! cold to go to at his age
3. He’s gonna part like it’s 1912
2. Will be replacing Oprah on day talk show
1. Bud uses the Mayan Calendar
Wait
Giambi used drugs prior to coming to the Yankees.
ARod was outed for a single positive test in 2003. He did not have to come out and admit to 3 years of usage. He did. Nobody else has. And some people lie and claim that they were not even told they tested positive.
Bob, I’ve never seen a movie with DeNiro, can you believe it? All his movies are bloody and violent – I can’t deal with that.
Bonds hasn’t been retired 5 years and I won’t even get into Pete Rose.
Come on, the press confrence was a joke for A-Rod.
And I’ll eat my WS hat if Giambi wasn’t juicing in 03′.
M, I do believe most sportswriters are anti-Yankees…and definitely favor the Red Sox.
I’m not sayig A-Rod doesn’t deserve credit, he does, but I’m not exhonerating him of all blame.
I don’t believe MOST writers favo the Red Sox.
I do believe ESPN does, but I see no bias in the MLB Network, for example.
Im not going to go further into this.
Red Sox fans just call Yankees cheaters and that’s the end of it.
You are claiming things or suggesting things are possible that have no proof at all. (Bro in 98 and Giambi in 03.)
Meet The Parents was bloody and violent?
Dang! I missed that part
I dont get MLBNetwork. Wish I did. I could then exonerate myself from ESPN.
So what proof is there of the juicers in 04′? We suspect, but who do we know?
We don’t even know if Big Papi was lying.
Just because the Red Sox fans call us cheaters doesn’t make it right for us to do the same. I’m exhonoerating no teams from blame. We ALL cheated. No championship is any less valid than any other.
Bud leaving-might we see George Bush vying for the job??
I never saw Meet the Parents……..
Wait, I do like MLB. Maybe I overstated the case – I wonder if it’s even mostly the anchors on Sportscenter or Baseball Tonight that don’t like the Yankees/favor the Sox.
Forget it – I can’t post thanks to the filter, but suffice to say that Timmy K and Jayson Starks are fair most of the time……and Gammons does respect the Yankees.
It just seems like national sportswriters in general think of the Yanks as big bad bullies while the Sox are like the Cubs – cute underdogs.
Betsy
Everywhere you look on ESPN, there is another one.
Commentators also.
I heard an exchange between Dick Vitale and Dan Schulman during last night’s UCONN/Duke Game.
Prior to the exchange, I had heard Schulman was a Red Sox fan on numerous occasions. Yesterday, when Dick made mention of the Yankees winning the WS, Schulman dismissed it repeatedly.
Sean McDonough is another, he used to lead the broadcast team for Friday Night Fenway 5 years ago on ESPN.
Jack Edwards, formerly of ESPN, works for the Bruins, as the Bruins lead stinksniffer.
I could go on all day, but I’ve got to watch UF/FUS in 20 minutes.
Gammons respects the Yanks, but he is SOOO a Sox fan.
“Meet The Parents was bloody and violent?”
Well, there was the pool volleyball incident.
Betsy,
You never saw the Godfather Part II? Whether or not you can deal with violence, part I and II are must see for anybody.
“Is Jim Pir-One back under an alias?”
Isn’t it obvious?
Betsy-
Attached is a list of DeNiro movies:
http://movies.yahoo.com/mvc/dl.....lSQ–
UF/FSU
And Timmy K is somewhat fair. Jayson Stark is not. And Stark’s favorite thing to do during chat wraps is to insult Yankees fans for thinking that every player wants to come to them. In my estimation, there are fans from both the Yanks and the Sox that send questions to Stark asking if their team can get Mauer and so on. But Stark only answers the questions sent from the Yankees fans and responds with an attack on Yankees fans in general.
I say in my estimation because I have sent numerous questions identical or very similar to those that he has answered of Yankees fans proposing trades or signings, posing as a Red Sox fan, and he never responds.
I FOR ONE,was glad that Alex didn’t get MVP for the WS,or the ALCS.Yankees would still be reading about his failed roid test in 2003,distracting from the WS win.
Plus the sports writers weren’t going to reward the guy they hate.
crawdaddy
November 28th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
“Is Jim Pir-One back under an alias?”
Isn’t it obvious?”
No, I’m not Jim Pir-One.
I do not throw out insulting names to players who do not get hits against the Red Sox. Or to pitchers who shut down the Yankees.
A-Rod deserved to be co-MVP w/CC in the ALCS. While it would have been annoying to hear about the failed 03′ test, he still deserved it.
Please, he didn’t win and we still heard about it.
Mark, I’m not interested in mobsters and that kind of thing. Oddly, the History Channel often airs a special on The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre (narrated by Paul Sorvino) and I can watch that, even though there are some very bloody scenes (I guess because it’s in black and white). I’ve never seen any of the Godfather movies….
Oh wait, I did see a De Niro movie, Analyze This (but not the sequel)…….Yankee Trader, thanks for the list!
Pop the champagne.
“I’ve never seen any of the Godfather movies….”
Well, IMO The Godfather I and II is/are one of the best films I’ve ever seen. It does romanticize what they were up to, rationalizes it as no different from what corrupt politicians and cops were doing. But the acting and directing (and screenwriting – don’t want to forget how important screenwriting is) were superb.
Murphy, that’s what I’ve heard…I just have a very hard time with movies with any amount of blood. I doubt I could make it through the first hour of either of those movies, lol
I don’t care if you have zero interst in the mob and mafia-you HAVE to watch The Godfather and Godfather II.
Movie to stay away from-Citizen Kane. Supposedly the best movie of all time, but I watched it and was hugely disappointed.
Wait, actually I find Al Capone and the history of his time in Chicago very interesting…..because it’s history.
I saw Citizen Kane years ago,I think when I was in high school. I don’t remember loving it or hating it – it was not a movie I would ever see again, that’s for sure.
The Godfater romanticizes the era of course. The mafia were evil, murderng pigs. But they’re still great, great movies.
Selig vowed that another baseball strike like that of ’94 would never happen again under his watch.
He saw the way of getting back fans and putting rumps in seats through turning a blind eye and being the biggest cheerleader for the McGwire / Sosa onslaught of ’98 which backfired.
In the biggest act of buffoonery, he hired a Director of the Red Sox (George Mitchell) to do a report riddled with holes.
Any credit he takes is unjustified.
De Niro was great as ‘Fearless Leader’ in “Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Movie” and as ‘Bruce Pearson’ in “Bang The Drum Slowly”.
Citizen Kane is a great movie.
Wait, the romanticizing doesn’t bother me – when you watch a movie, you generally identify with the main characters (or else, why would I want to spend 2 plus hours with characters I hate?)………the blood does. I just can’t stomach blood. If it means I have to miss a couple of the greatest movies ever made, so be it……
Did I hear right Selig’s leaving? Oh happy days!
I know lots of people absolutely worship Citizen Kane, but I hated it. Damn depressing, and I knew rosebud was on the sled from the beginning.
Suit yourself, Betsy.
Just thought I’d mention, the Godfather movies don’t have as much blood as people think.
There’s GB again, touting Rocky and Bullwinkle. I may have to rent that movie just to say I saw another DeNiro movie – I imagine there isn’t too much blood in that one.
Phil, I may have been too young to appreciate Citizen Kane……I didn’t really get it at the time. I do remember that Agnes Moorehead from Bewitched was in the movie,lol.
One of my favorite movies of all time is the Miracle Worker…….
“Citizen Kane” was Orson Welles at his best…both acting and directing. It was, in fact, history. It was the life of William Randolph Hearst, or, at least 75% of it was pulled from Hearst’s life. About 20% of the movie was Welles’ life.
Godfather I and II are the best movies ever made. It takes some people a long time to be able to sit down and take them both in, but when they do they are blown away.
I know a lot of people who said, “yeah I watched some of it, it was boring” who only later see the whole epic and are floored.
Those films are less about the mafia and more about the American dream and the dynamics of family. Yeah, it’s wrapped in a nice seductive gangster package, but there are deeper meanings within those 2 films that make them timeless and great.
The only equivalent story telling wise I’ve seen to those two films was the entire series of Hbo’s The Wire and Mad Men on AMC. Lost is also epic but in it’s early days it had some filler episodes that didn’t exactly advance the overall story.
The Godfather I and II, The Wire and Mad Men do not have one wasted moment in them. It’s like watching a novel. Brilliant stuff.
Totally unrelated-I’m watching the Chambliss HR game on Yankee classics. Gotta love that right after Brett ties the game, the Yankee pitcher (don’t even know who it is) throws over Mayberry’s head the very next pitch and nobody bats an eyelash.
GB, yep – I remembered that. Maybe one day I will rent it again – there’s lots of free time during the off-season.
GLove, I wish I had the stomach for violence because I probably would love the Godfather movies. Oh well, lol – not much I can do. I’m not even saying the violence is gratuitous – I’m sure all of it is in service to the storyline.
I loved Lost early on……..I dropped it a few years ago when I realized that I cared more about certain characters than the show did. That show became all about Kate (gross, I hate her), Jack and Sawyer.
anyone think this has to do with the world ending in 2012?
Betsy,
Lost is worth picking up again. Benjamin Linus, Daniel Farraday and Desmond themed episodes are brilliant. There’s been some great Locke, Sayid and Sun centered episodes the past few seasons as well.
GLove, it’s hard because I become attached to characters. I loved Charlie and Claire – they dropped EmilieI De Raven like a hot potato, basically. I’m sad that I had to drop Lost because until I became disillusionedm, I adored it. The pilot was phenomenal – one of the best tv shows I’ve ever seen (episodes, that is). Maybe only the finale of the Fugitive topped it. I may consider buying the DVDs if the last season sounds ok…………One actor I just love from that show is Terry o’Quinn – he’s brilliant (before that he was known for being the original Stepfather, lol). I also thought Michael Emerson was brilliant………..
If the world ends in 2012, it’s only because it will be the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park
I mean birthday.
Well well,Marlins are willing to to trade their ace a young Josh Johnson for prospects,just so they don’t have to pay him his due.
“anyone think this has to do with the world ending in 2012?”
…No?
They used to make us watch Citiizen Kane in hs every year.
Betsy – high on pie
I’m trying to think of other Charles Grodin movies I’ve seen, but I can’t think of any. What is Midnight Run about ? Is it a comedy? I don’t like the premise of the original Heartbreak Kid, so I wouldn’t see that – the character sounds like a jerk.
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If you don’t like it, I will pay your rental fee.
Betsy – high on pie
November 28th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
“If the world ends in 2012, it’s only because it will be the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park”
Now be nice Betsy!
Just kidding…you did make me laugh.
Betsy, I’m not sure if anyone told you the Midnight Run plotline. DeNiro is a bounty hunter taking Grodin back to the authorities to testify against the mob and the mob is trying to stop his return and get back the money Grodin stole from them. The best part of the movie is the relationship between DeNiro as his usual tough self and Grodin with his dry, dry persona.
A spanking brand new thread Yankee fans!!———>