My favorite team, the Mets, have finally completed addressing two of the teams problems. The other day they released secondbaseman Luis Castillo and today pitcher Oliver Perez.
Castillo got a bad rap from Mets fans. He really didn’t do a bad job for the team. He just wasn’t able to hit for power (but how many secondbasemen are?) and his range was suspect since he had bad knees.
Castillo is most infamously known for dropping a game-ending pop up against Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees a couple of years ago during one of the subway series games.
Castillo got a bad rap from Mets fans. He really didn’t do a bad job for the team. He just wasn’t able to hit for power (but how many secondbasemen are?) and his range was suspect since he had bad knees.
Castillo is most infamously known for dropping a game-ending pop up against Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees a couple of years ago during one of the subway series games.
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| Luis drops it |
That particular flub recently made a top-ten worst plays of all-time highlight reel on the MLB network right along side the time Jose Canseco had a ball bounce off his head for a homerun while he was with the Texas Rangers.
Sidenote…one thing I thought that was funny about the Castillo dropped ball was that the TV team covering the game that day interviewed A-Rod immediately thereafter as if he was the star of the game.
That wasn’t who I would have interviewed that day. I would have run into the dugout with my cameraman and microphone and asked one real simple question that every baseball fan had on their mind at that moment – “How the hell did you miss that ball?”
Sidenote…one thing I thought that was funny about the Castillo dropped ball was that the TV team covering the game that day interviewed A-Rod immediately thereafter as if he was the star of the game.
That wasn’t who I would have interviewed that day. I would have run into the dugout with my cameraman and microphone and asked one real simple question that every baseball fan had on their mind at that moment – “How the hell did you miss that ball?”
Ollie Perez just sucked…bottom line. He had one real nice year with the Pirates a few years ago and since he is still young there was always a thought that he could work through some problems, whether they were physical or mental, and get him back on track.
But he sucked and somehow even managed to parlay that suckiness into a multi-million dollar contract.
In Ollie’s last stellar performance, the fans at the minor league park in Port St. Lucie were even booing him. That’s not a good sign. When have you ever heard a hometeam’s minor league fans booing their own player? This might be a first and the potential answer to a baseball trivia question someday.
After serving up two long homeruns to minor league players in a game in which he came in to “relieve” the starter for the Mets, he managed to throw two consecutive strikes to the next batter. The fans started chanting MVP, MVP, MVP, which was classic.
Perez couldn’t live up to the pressure of being on top for that long though and on the next pitch another hit sent him to the showers and ended his tenure with the Metropolitans.
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| Ollie after another "million dollar" performance |
But Castillo and Perez will be just fine. Don’t worry about them. The Mets are eating the 6 million dollars due to Luis this year and either 12 or 15 million for Ollie. They join Bobby Bonilla (and I’m not sure who else) who are no longer on the roster but are still collecting millions of dollars from the team.
At least the Mets are trying to fix what is broken. Their last GM, Omar Minaya, didn’t do that to the fans satisfaction and he is out too. Although I imagine he is still on the payroll department’s mailing list still also.
I’ve been getting good feedback about the “Tell ‘em Steve Dave” appearance. The guys linked this blog from their Twitter account and a bunch of their fans stopped by to read my take on Ming Chen being hypnotized during the show. (see http://www.smodcast.com/)
One comment someone wrote made me think of something that happened.
When I got there that day Bryan, Q, and Walt and I went across the street in Red Bank to get something to eat and discuss what we were going to do that afternoon.
I was in line with the guys and was listening to them order and at the time I was pretty hungry. They weren’t really ordering a whole lot so I decided to just get something small to hold me for a while. I didn’t want to look like a hog and we were there to talk more than eat anyway. I ordered a muffin of some sort and Walt offered to pay for it.
While in the line I thought that one of them might offer to pay since I did go up there and do the show that day for free.
I never expect anyone to pay for anything for me though; most of the time I would just pick up the whole check myself.
The reason I would do that is because I like to eat. I’m not a small guy. I’m 6-1 250 and I’m not fat. I workout and need the calories.
But I didn’t know anything about these guys. I was brought there by Maryelizabeth Carter who has been producing for them. I had tried to find out who they were before I went there but for some reason I didn’t find their main site so I thought they were just a bunch of regular guys just putting on a free show of some sort.
All of us were dressed like slobs too. This was clearly not a meeting of Wall Street tycoons. It was an audio performance so I was in sweats.Bryan
So with all of that in mind I didn’t want to order what I normally would because I figured they probably didn’t have much money between them and I really didn’t want to impose.
I think my share was about 3 bucks or something. Walt was good enough to pick up the tab and I was grateful for it.
The other guys busted his balls about that on the show. Guess he’s tight.
Good thing I didn’t order the two sandwiches I normally would have ordered. Then my color uncoordination would have taken a back seat to my gluttony and big lunch bill.
I had a real good show inAltoona , PA
This was a mentalism show and I really enjoy them. The main difference between the mentalism shows and the hypnosis shows are that I have to practice my routine a lot more for the mentalism shows. Not only are the demonstrations difficult but there is whole different style of presentation. I have to put on more of a show where in the hypnosis shows I have to bring out the show in the people who volunteer.
All fun stuff though. I love the mind-reading demonstrations the best. It’s great to see the looks on people’s faces, when things go right, as they try to figure out how the hell I just did what they saw. Then they try to figure out if I really read someone’s mind or not.
I did.
One comment someone wrote made me think of something that happened.
When I got there that day Bryan, Q, and Walt and I went across the street in Red Bank to get something to eat and discuss what we were going to do that afternoon.
I was in line with the guys and was listening to them order and at the time I was pretty hungry. They weren’t really ordering a whole lot so I decided to just get something small to hold me for a while. I didn’t want to look like a hog and we were there to talk more than eat anyway. I ordered a muffin of some sort and Walt offered to pay for it.
While in the line I thought that one of them might offer to pay since I did go up there and do the show that day for free.
I never expect anyone to pay for anything for me though; most of the time I would just pick up the whole check myself.
The reason I would do that is because I like to eat. I’m not a small guy. I’m 6-1 250 and I’m not fat. I workout and need the calories.
But I didn’t know anything about these guys. I was brought there by Maryelizabeth Carter who has been producing for them. I had tried to find out who they were before I went there but for some reason I didn’t find their main site so I thought they were just a bunch of regular guys just putting on a free show of some sort.
All of us were dressed like slobs too. This was clearly not a meeting of Wall Street tycoons. It was an audio performance so I was in sweats.
So with all of that in mind I didn’t want to order what I normally would because I figured they probably didn’t have much money between them and I really didn’t want to impose.
I think my share was about 3 bucks or something. Walt was good enough to pick up the tab and I was grateful for it.
The other guys busted his balls about that on the show. Guess he’s tight.
Good thing I didn’t order the two sandwiches I normally would have ordered. Then my color uncoordination would have taken a back seat to my gluttony and big lunch bill.
I had a real good show in
This was a mentalism show and I really enjoy them. The main difference between the mentalism shows and the hypnosis shows are that I have to practice my routine a lot more for the mentalism shows. Not only are the demonstrations difficult but there is whole different style of presentation. I have to put on more of a show where in the hypnosis shows I have to bring out the show in the people who volunteer.
All fun stuff though. I love the mind-reading demonstrations the best. It’s great to see the looks on people’s faces, when things go right, as they try to figure out how the hell I just did what they saw. Then they try to figure out if I really read someone’s mind or not.
I did.
It figures that the few responses that I have received so far from my posting looking for collaborators on some new projects all came from people too far away to help, with one exception. One Delaware
Therein lays one of the problems around here. There are lots of drunks inDelaware
Life is tough enough without complicating it with all the friggin booze that people drink and drugs that people do. Even without it lives can still get broken and become in need of repair.
I should know that also!
I’m kicking around a couple of names for my first podcast show.
Here are two for now. Let me know what you think or feel free to suggest others.
Sleepin with Marshal.
Dungeon of Manlove.
Therein lays one of the problems around here. There are lots of drunks in
Life is tough enough without complicating it with all the friggin booze that people drink and drugs that people do. Even without it lives can still get broken and become in need of repair.
I should know that also!
I’m kicking around a couple of names for my first podcast show.
Here are two for now. Let me know what you think or feel free to suggest others.
Sleepin with Marshal.
Dungeon of Manlove.
Remember, I am actively recruiting for that show and recruiting others to launch other shows. Come be a part of my gang.
I even have my podcast gang philosophy created. It’s going to be a combination of Crips and Bloods styles. I’ve also created the name of this new gang.
The Cruds.
Done.
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