"Gimme a frickin break"
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Ketchuplover

Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 04:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just heard that the Milwaukee Brewers are going to keep Jose Hernandez out of the line-up for their next two home games to spare him from the humiliation of breaking the single season strike out(batting) record at home.

He has 188. The record is 189.

The Brewers have 99 losses so far. I think they've humiliated themselves and their fans rather nicely. What's a little more?

Yo Jose:If you don't want to be humiliated DON'T STRIKE OUT SO FRICKIN MUCH. GROW UP.

To the Brewers & Mr. Hernandez I say "Gimme a frickin break"

Dear reader please feel free to comment on the above subject matter or vent your spleen on something that makes you say "Gimme a frickin break"

Ketchuplover

Monday, September 23, 2002 - 03:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Way to start a thread ketchuplover.

Rig

Monday, September 23, 2002 - 03:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll contribute, Ketchuplover. I think he should have to play and bat in his regular position, unless he is injured, or there is some game-strategic reason to change the lineup. Records that have been orchestrated are tarnished, imo. For example, the DE for the Giants (I can't think of his name right now) was handed the record for sacks because Favre "layed down" and let him sack him, just to give him the record. It doesn't seem sportsmanlike.

__Tera

Monday, September 23, 2002 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
AAArrrggghh SPORTS! IMO nothing is more pitiful than athletes not "playing the game" so to speak.

In my case I was saying gimme a frickin break a few months ago during a Formula One race. The teammate of Michael Schumacher (the king of all pointy cars) was about to win a race. He was forced (by the team owner) to stop before the finish line so Schumacher could cross the line first and go on to win and get the almighty points.

Sia

Monday, September 23, 2002 - 10:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ketchup, I'm with you and Rig; keeping Hernandez out of the batting line-up taints the stats and makes such statistics meaningless. It compares with daytime soap operas juggling numbers to convince viewers that both CBS and NBC are the "most-watched network" in the women 18-49 demographic. Means nothing to me!

My pet peeve regarding baseball is that the players are horribly overpaid in comparison to people who make a REAL difference in the world (like teachers, for example), yet ball-players and other "professional" athletes threaten to strike if they aren't given every imaginable perk!