Friday, April 15, 2011
I don't get it.. I'm confused.
Hello World. So, for those who follow me on facebook you might have seen my post on Ivan "Pudge" Rodriquez. If not, you can see my battle with Vinnie Paz's brother, a great friend of mine, and basically,older brother figure to me as well here --> www.facebook.com/planetaryAOTP . It's actually pretty comical. Here's where I stand with Baseball and the steroid era. One, Ivan Rodriguez was NEVER accused and ever was in the steroid talks. If so, it came and went and nothing was done about it and he was never "caught",I guess. I stated Ivan was amongst the top 3 catchers if not thee best catcher to ever play the game of baseball. Him and fuck'n Vinnie, thru text, as usual, bust my balls and want to claim he is a fraud basically. He wasnt as good as to say , he was top 3 , and no way in hell he is the greatest. I don't know if its the Italian thing but Lenny wants to fight with me about Mike "fat slob" Piazza who wore pitchers out because he couldn't reach the fuck'n mound between pitches. Offensively, Piazza was statistically the best catcher EVER. Now, my point is the catcher position is more focused on being great defensively more than offensively. Which , Pudge defensively was a maniac, and THIS can not, by any way be because of alleged steroid use. I don't feel any of these guys who had greater than Hall of Fame careers should be denied a spot. These guys were great players and basically made their marks before they even experimented with steroid use. So , for Ivan to be looked at by these two morons as a fraud , or as high as top 10 even , to me is outrageous. Ivan had a .302 career battng average, played in 14 all star games, and started in 12. 13 golden gloves,295 hrs (for a steroid user , isnt much). 1217 Rbi's,and the oh so impressive 124 stolen bases. He threw runners out on his knees almost daily. The only two catcher I will let you say were better are Johnny Bench, and Yogi Berra. BUT , i still feel Ivan can be respectfully considered #1. Are these guys kidding me, or trying to make me kill myself from stress? Please leave a comment or your thoughts on this. I wanna know how people feel. And if Paz or Lenny Paz are reading, I hope you's are happy cause now I'm all RILED up ! pause.
I know i have to leave you with some hip hop so I'm going to throw it back on this topic. Do the knowledge.
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I agree with you (and I'm only coincidentally Rican). Simply put, he is one of the best catchers of all time and even if rumors about him were to surface, it really wouldn't change that fact. The skills he displayed throughout his career are not the type that result from juice. I think the whole steroid thing is screwed up anyway. If you're talking about restrictions that have officially been in place since whatever year, fine...any player that gets caught from that point should have to deal with the consequences. Manny just f*cked himself out of the HOF with this last issue. But all this shit about going back in time to snag players when it was more MLB's fault for not enforcing anything, is just stupid. On one hand it's their way of trying to make up for their past failure, but really all it's done is destroy its image and reputation. They should have adjusted/created their drug rules and concentrated on enforcing them from that point. Even when we discover players who have used, we can never know its real impact on their performance so what's the point? It does more harm to MLB's legacy than improve it. Could Pudge have used something at some point, sure. And so could have Piazza. And so could have Omar Vizquel for that matter. I'm sure the public would be stunned to know the actual # of players to ever use. Maybe one took something that gave him more power, maybe another took something to help him heal quicker. My #1 issue is that MLB was not enforcing anything. #2 is that we don't know how much whatever substance helped to improve stats, if at all. Worry about the CURRENT state of MLB and stop trying work backwards. Anyway, Ivan Rodriguez can easily be considered the best ever and anyone who does not have him in the top 3 would not be able to pull enough reasons out of their ass to back up the argument.
ReplyDeletewhy would you even listen to those two idiots about baseball....i'm in your corner about pudge.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that I don't know about baseball, so I can't leave a comment about it..
ReplyDeleteHowever, I just admired your greeting "Hello World" cause I'm Asian, therefore I awkwardly use English now.. to send this message to you :) Thank you for considering world-wide hip-hop fans!