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Johnson retires....Pearlman is grateful

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Jan 7, 2010.

  1. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    Dykstra was an asshole. Daulton was ok. He's kind of fucked up in the head now but then, he was fine.
     
  2. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    I spent a smidge of time around that 93 Phillies team. They had a key player from Richmond and we did a pretty big postseason section.
    Daulton I can support fully as being an ass. Dykstra didn't come off that way. I needed some sitdown time and he came in early on a Saturday to give some schlub from 250 miles away an audience. Others told me he was like that. Never once said "dude," either.
     
  3. fishhack2009

    fishhack2009 Active Member

    So Tiger's decided to go straight?
     
  4. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    One of the whiniest things I've ever read. No jokes.
     
  5. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    I had a decent experience talking to Bonds, pre-roids and pre-Aaron chase. Never talked to Johnson. Had Will Clark make a veiled threat against me one time. So in the N_W biggest prick you ever covered sweepstakes, clark wins the pissing match. I swear I saw circumcision marks on his neck.
     
  6. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    nahh... it was a smegma ring
     

  7. Dude ... I'm eating.
    Ugh.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    From what I've heard, Kent was far worse than Bonds ever was and Clark was far worse than Kent.

    I've never understood why baseball players are so much worse to deal with than NFL, NHL and the NBA. From my vast experience writing NHL playoff sidebars, I always thought hockey players were very easy to deal with and thought similarly about the NFL and NBA.
     
  9. Michael Echan

    Michael Echan Member

    Classic. That will never not be funny.
     
  10. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    I only ever talked to Jeff Kent once, and he was great that day. But I too have heard that the majority of time he was an unbearable prick.
     
  11. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    Not that this excuses bad behavior, but I think it's the sheer number of games. Twice as many as bkb and hockey. Baseball players see writers every day. With the other sports, their exposure to the media isn't as much. Or maybe the individual nature of the sport just naturally attracts jerks. Who knows?
     
  12. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    There's an apprenticeship you don't have in the other sports.

    A guy like Kent might have signed a bonus, but after a humble way of living in the minors, he thinks he doesn't need to bend over for anyone when he gets to the big leagues. Whereas a slug like JaMarcus Russell signs a $32M contract and heads straight to the top of the depth chart.
     
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