Mark Teixeira

Born on today's date, Mark Teixeira.

"I have no problem with anybody in New York, anyone, saying you're overpaid. Because I am. You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike Trout making the minimum, you're crazy valuable.

Mike Trout hats

Make it stop!

The Angels assigned Mike Trout a $510,000 contract

$20,000 more than the league minimum.

Apparently they told him he is making good progress and if he keeps working on his game and keeps improving, he can be a productive player; and then MAYBE there might be a little more in the budget for him next year!

Aw come on now!

Surely reasonable minds can disagree on this Cabrera/Trout MVP thing!

That WAR stat is not supposed to be taken literally!

Thank the Lord we can say goodbye to these deceptive MVP ads!

 

 

I mean I don't see how you can blame Cabrera for Benghazi just because of that DUI arrest.

And Trout's birth certificate is probably legit. And if not, an affidavit from his birth mother and the delivery room nurse certainly should be enough!

SO glad this is over!

I see Cabrera won both the popular and Electoral College vote!

 

And he won all the swing states!

I guess that is enough to give him a mandate to govern.

I also think that Trout needs to broaden the base of his party. Latinos and Asians just didn't go for him.

Can't win a national election with just surfers and Disney people.

He's got four years to figure it out though.

Random thoughts from today's Tigers game

 

1. Mike Trout has a "noodle-arm" of Johnny Damon proportions. Slow as molasses, Delmon Young on second base and hitter hits a "medium-deep" can of corn. Young is tagging and looks like he is going! Trout catches the ball and Young is really going! I am thinking WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?! Any outfielder will throw him out easily from that depth! Having a hard time processing this information! Trout uncorks a slow-motion rainbow and Young easily beats the throw. Obviously our third base coach, Gene Lamont knew all about Trout's arm. Carefully watched Trout's next throw which was from the fence and was another rainbow which barely reached the cutoff man. MLB will run on him at will.

2. Prince Fielder and Delmon Young hit back to back VERY LONG bombs off Ervin Santana. Santana does not knock down or pitch inside to the next batter, Brennan Boesch. Santana can't pitch on my team. That 5.46 ERA is deserved.

3. Fox Sports Detroit game host, Shannon Hogan walks by with microphone in hand. I say to my friend "During every broadcast, my Tiger twitter followers say she is fat." "They're high." "Agreed. They also say she is a ditz." "Well, you know...."

4. I mentioned that Scott Downs looked like a refugee from one of those 80's Andrew McCarthy films. No response. From ANYONE ! It was no doubt that nobody around me knew who Andrew McCarthy was and NOT because it wasn't funny or clever! It was hot out and stuff too.

The dude is apparently quite a multi-tasker!

Did you know that new Angels player Mike Trout....

....is younger than Frankie Muniz was in the last year of Malcolm in the Middle?

Well it could be true!

I mean I'm not gonna figure it out on a calculator or anything.

I did hear that Mike Scioscia's grand kids used to babysit him though.