Deep thoughts, cheap shots & bon mots
Cuonzo? Gone-zo. Wonder how Goose Gossage feels about Stephen Curry’s shimmy?
If Goose had a chance, would he chuck a high hard basketball at Curry’s melon to teach him to respect the game?
I agree with Bryce Harper that baseball’s old-school table book of etiquette is “tired.” But I can’t shake the words of savvy reader Dan Wolthers, who asks, “So baseball will be more fun if guys sling their bats and glare, guys run the bases and give the pitcher the stink-eye? This will make baseball more exciting? Start teaching this in Little League?”
Regardless of how you feel about bat flips and stink-eyes, the old-school hardballers need to find a better way to punish the sinners than with beanballs. The NBA equivalent would be Curry doing a shimmy and Chris Paul setting him straight by taking the wheel of the Clippers’ team bus and running over Curry as he walks to his car.
Headline sending sighs of relief through Giants-land: “Pouting Pablo not cutting it in Boston.” As of Friday, Pablo Sandoval’s spring batting average: .208. His on-base percentage: .208. His weight:
208. You can bet that Luke Walton has taken notice of Alvin Gentry’s struggles in New Orleans. As Walton weighs his options for next season, Gentry might be Exhibit A in making the case for sticking around Oakland, soaking up the Warriors’ magic and continuing to learn at the feet of Sensei Kerr.
With Adam LaRoche leaving $13 million behind by retiring, you have to wonder if his son is going to take a haircut on his allowance.
Spring training hide-andseek: The silliest practice in spring games — and it’s a fan ripoff, to boot — is the manager sending a top-line pitcher to a back-field minor-league game because the skipper doesn’t want the real players to get a look at his hurler.
This just in: NFL officials say Jeff Miller (NFL senior VP for health and safety), who admitted to Congress that there is a connection between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, was suffering from the effects of a recent blow to the head when he made that statement.
The Giants are planning a statue of Gaylord Perry, but the team seems disinclined to cast Barry Bonds in bronze. Why not dueling statues, Perry chucking a soggy one to a big-headed Bonds?