Comments on: Miguel Tejada, Pitch-Tipper?

By: scripty

scripty — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:17:14 +0000

if oakland baseball dies, it dies

/drago’d

By: Bulldog53

Bulldog53 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:36:50 +0000

theted,
I know this is a sportsblog, but complaining that your mayor chose low income housing over a baseball team that never does anything isn’t exactly a popular stance. I can’t imagine the A’s do much for oakland as it is. It’s especially not the time to be building stadiums w/public money when California is bleeding money left and right.
I dont care about AL baseball, but didn’t the As move, or announce plans to move 2 or 3 years ago?

I would choose a ham sandwich over low income housing. And I hate pork.

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:42:25 +0000

Was he the alleged friend who was tip buddies with A-Rod?

I can’t find the link, but somebody actually assumed that Tejeda was one of the most likely culprits for who A-Rod would be doing this with (they were in the same division, easy reciprocity for one shortstop to help the other). I believe that they even took a look at the numbers and showed that A-Rod, Tejeda, and somebody else’s numbers all improved in late meaningless game situations.

By: ms621

ms621 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:36:37 +0000

* Allegedly lied to Congress (to be fair, the bigger question is who hasn’t lied to Congress)

He didn’t allegedly lie to Congess, he actually did lie to Congressional investigators. But he was not under oath, so it’s not the same thing as sitting before a committee and lying like, oh I don’t know, Rafael Palmeiro.

By: MancitysShabbySheik

MancitysShabbySheik — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:14:28 +0000

theted,
I know this is a sportsblog, but complaining that your mayor chose low income housing over a baseball team that never does anything isn’t exactly a popular stance. I can’t imagine the A’s do much for oakland as it is. It’s especially not the time to be building stadiums w/public money when California is bleeding money left and right.

I dont care about AL baseball, but didn’t the As move, or announce plans to move 2 or 3 years ago?

By: tyduffy

tyduffy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:51:11 +0000

Was he the alleged friend who was tip buddies with A-Rod?

By: theTed

theTed — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:40:00 +0000

I’m not technically from Oakland, but I can walk there from my parents’ house (not to the ghetto part). Miggy was awesome back in the day, Giambi was the man, and those squads really should have won a World Series. The bigger story here is not that a third-world player tried to help someone else make some money (shocking!), but that the Oakland A’s may not exist in five years. Seriously, the Oakland mayor had a chance to put a stadium downtown and passed it up for low-income housing (admirable, but we love the baseball). They play in a stadium off the side of the shittiest freeway in the Bay Area, which the Raiders ruined by returning from LA, so no one ever shows up.

By: grungedave

grungedave — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:36:09 +0000

No worse than Jose Lima intentionally throwing softballs to his friend Sammy Sosa in 1998…

By: ThatsSoTaguchi

ThatsSoTaguchi — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:01:59 +0000

(runs into the room) OHMYGODYOUGUYS!!! I just walked into the kitchen and some man was laying on top of mommy, and she was making sounds like he was hurting her! Then he got up and I saw his thing and THEREWASHAIREVERYWHERE! I gotta go tell Billy!!! (runs out of room)