The Things I Hate Most

Wow, I didn't know anybody cared about the NBA. I wasn't even aware that anybody cared enough to get mad about it. I was listening to Dan Patrick's interview with David Stern and, basically, Dan told him exactly what you guys are saying. Dan said it was a conspiracy theory and the punishment actually benefited the aggressor. Stern's response: rules are rules.

Rules are rules. I've been a Suns fan since day one. I hate the NBA, but if I had to choose a team it would still be the Suns. And I would make Paul Westphal the GM. They did get screwed. But rules are rules and Mr. Amare came off the bench and that entitles him to a one game suspension.

But save yourself the misery and watch something better.

Larry...everyone's entitled to their own opinion. But smashing hockey right to my face is risky. C'mon. Hockey is a GREAT sport.

I appreciate the stats, Jose. Although it's fairly difficult to strike out looking. But since you're so concerned and interested, here's my line.
1st - Groundout to third.
3rd - Line drive basehit to left
5th - Walk
6 - Homer to left

20-8 was the final. Good guys.

The post-game, beer consuming conversation came to our most hated athletes. Spawned by our hatred for all things NBA. I thought I'd pass on my ten most-hated baseball players, and the reasons why.

#10 - Jose Reyes: My kind of baseball player, but why the hell does he have to whine and moan every time a strike is called against him? Shut up and play ball. Quit looking for the camera.
#9 - JD Drew: It's too bad he's never really been THAT good. Then I'd really hate him. But bottom line is that he's a money dweller. And he's overpaid.
#8 - Michael Barrett: It's tough to hate a guy that's not really any good. At all. But the kid's a Cardinal killer.
#7 - Carlos Zambrano: Shut up and pitch.
#6 - Johnny Damon: Speaking of money dwellers. This guy had the entire city of Boston at his fingertips. He was the poster boy for baseball. He was everywhere. Then he split town to play for the hated Yanks and take more money. They once said that 2004 Boston team was "a bunch of idiots." Damon is the biggest one of them all.
#5 - Barry Bonds: Steroids aside, this guy is a jackass asshole. His own recliner? His own TV? Jackass. Asshole.
#4 - Gary Sheffield: It all stems from one play. A couple years back. Ball goes into the corner, Gary goes after it, fan interferes, Gery throws punch. It happened. It was obvious. The camera's caught it. The fan was in the wrong as well, I'll admit. And I wouldn't have cared so much about the play but my cousin Paul swears to his grave that the fan threw a punch (when, in reality, he simply got excited, reached down, and tried to grab a ball - it happens EVERY SINGLE GAME. Why would a fan throw a punch at Gary Sheffield? This doesn't make sense. Was he sitting there telling his buddy: "hey, Mike, if someone hits a ball into the corner this game and Sheffield somehow happens to be right in front of us as the ball passes, I'm going to throw a cheap shot at him. It'll be perfect.") Paul also swears that Shef didn't throw a punch in retaliation. Why he feels the need to wrongly defend a Yankee (at the time) is beyond me. The fan got excited, Shef threw a punch (and missed). And he landed in my top four because of Paul.
#3 - Derek Jeter: Solid ballplayer. I mean GOOD. But ESPN makes this guy out to be the second coming of Christ. He's not from Nazareth, people. And the play a couple years ago where he caught the ball in fair territory then dove into the stands for no apparent reason wasn't THAT great of play. It happens all the time, but ESPN glorified it and made it the PLAY OF THE YEAR? C'mon. This was the same season Jim Edmonds went 25 yards back on a ball against the Reds, scaled the wall, and with his backhand took a homerun away that was a good four feet over the wall. Jimmy's play was ten times better than Jeter's. And Jeter's ugly.
#2 - Alex Rodriguez: One of the best players in baseball. Bottom line. But for some reason, in 2004, he felt the need to swat at Doug Mirabelli's glove in the ALCS to knock a ball out on a play at first. This is something a sore losing, schoolboy pansy does. THEN he proceeds to pretend he did nothing wrong, the way a three year-old girl cries to her mommy when someone takes a piece of her toy train set. The cameras were on, he was guilty. Own up to it and be a man. For crying out loud.
#1 - Roger Clemens: Wow. He's not that good. What he is though is a self-indebted, attention-wanting, over-paid, old man. The last time he pitched in the powerful American League, his ERA was near 4.00. He can only last five innings. And, brace yourself, he took steroids. The league covered it up. Wow. I really really really dislike this guy.


In a New York subway series, I'm taking the Mets. EVERY SINGLE TIME. But that won't ever happen because Carlos Beltran can't hit Adam Wainwright when it counts. Therefore, the Mets will never get back to the series.

That was knee-buckling. Who's your top ten? Go Cards.