Comments | ayrdaomei: Buster Olney and Jim Caple are my boyfriends, yo.

ayrdaomei

Buster Olney and Jim Caple are my boyfriends, yo.

Feb 27, 2006 10:48

From The Great Baseball Classic Debate --

Buster: Don't get me wrong. Personally, I don't care whether a player participates. But the possibility of being deemed unpatriotic scares some players to death. That's why A-Rod is in his mess, because he cares so much about how he's perceived and doesn't want to be seen as dissin' the Dominican or the U. ( Read more... )

this is not a tag for entries about alex

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1trackmind February 27 2006, 08:04:44 UTC

No one is going to question anyone's patriotism or say that the terrorists win if A-Rod doesn't show up (though the Bush administration might start eavesdropping on their infield chatter).

I love it!

ayrdaomei February 27 2006, 10:12:02 UTC

Too bad Jim Caple's already MY boyfriend :-P

1trackmind February 27 2006, 10:34:58 UTC

I can't have him on alternate Thursdays or something?

ayrdaomei February 28 2006, 06:03:35 UTC

you can have him during the offseason :-P

nyychick23513 February 27 2006, 09:07:01 UTC

No one else really cares whose uniform he wears

that's note really true, though...some of my NY friends related how alex was blasted by latino fans on radio shows for choosing to play for the U.S. meanwhile hideki matsui is being made out as a bad guy in japan for choosing to opt out of the stupid thing entirely, being called unpatriotic and the like. as stupid as it seems, people do take it seriously.

personally i think the whole thing's a joke, and the fact that guys are being villified for not playing and are being pressured into playing is pretty damn lame.

*/end mini-rant* ;p

ayrdaomei February 27 2006, 10:10:30 UTC

that's note really true, though...some of my NY friends related how alex was blasted by latino fans on radio shows for choosing to play for the U.S. ... meanwhile hideki matsui is being made out as a bad guy in japan for choosing to opt out You know what similarity I see in both of those situations? They're both guys who took their merry time making decisions related to this thing, which, if you ask me, is what has fed the backlash they're getting. I'm not positive, because I wasn't paying him near as much attention, but I think I saw at least two stories on Hideki's Will he? Won't he? status before I finally saw a story that he wasn't going to play. Meanwhile, I have no doubt that there were probably some people upset that Alex decided to play for the U.S., just like there were some people who thought it was ridiculous that he even considered playing for the Dominican. But if you ask me, if he'd come right out and picked a side instead of acting like picking a side was some tremendous statement about who and what he was and he ( ... )

remindmeofthe February 27 2006, 11:37:20 UTC

*cheerfully waves icon*

I especially enjoy your tag.

ayrdaomei February 28 2006, 04:05:51 UTC

**joins you**

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ayrdaomei February 28 2006, 04:03:42 UTC

Heh, I love Buster, too. I wish he were the default go to guy whenever Greeny's out on Mike & Mike, 'cause he's usually on point, and fun to listen to ( ... )

1trackmind February 27 2006, 15:48:38 UTC

Did you see?

ayrdaomei February 28 2006, 03:53:37 UTC

I did! Pretty cool.