September 17, 2010

Apropos of nothing, a picture of a Ron Washington Baseball Card from 1989:

posted by Ufez Jones at 01:49 PM on September 17, 2010

I'm too biased to comment on whether he should be suspended or not (both because of my rooting interest and the fact that I hate Kevin Hartman). But if he is, I can't see it happening until after RB's game with LA next Friday. I don't think The Don wants to keep Henry out of a matchup against Beckham.

posted by goddam at 02:11 PM on September 17, 2010

Some interesting comments by Ichiro in this article:

"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't hurtful to be called selfish," Ichiro says. "But the irony is 2001 was actually my most selfish season, yet I won the MVP. Now how do you explain that? It was my first year here and I was the first Japanese position player to come over, so I had no room for failure. Out of necessity, I had to be totally consumed with myself. I couldn't be concerned if the team lost 100 games that year, I only had the capacity to worry about my own performance. But as self-absorbed as I was, at the end of the year, they said, 'You were the greatest player in the league,' and voted me MVP. Gradually, as I established myself by consistently producing similar results over several years and developed latitude for the team, all of a sudden what was once an effort worthy of MVP is now branded selfish? It was illogical. That's exactly what I mean by ambiguity in people's appraisals."

posted by rumple at 09:13 PM on September 17, 2010