Gee, these winners chosen for Biggest Disappointment and Biggest Suprise were really hard. But thanks to Andruw Jones 3 hit night against the Phillies on Tuesday, and the fact that Carlos Zambrano wasn't pitching that well before he signed his big deal (look back at May and April's stats) my choice for Disappointment got a little easier. And the winner is the AL Central. My choice for Biggest Suprise was Dustin Pedroia because even though Ozzie Guillen makes my job so much easier and Tulo is a personal crush, little Pedroia has been amazing this season!
Best Scandal
Bonds’ 756
Bonds surpassing Hank Aaron’s homerun record was only part of the story. There was the will Bud Selig show up or not question. There was ESPN’s non-stop airing of Giants games for about three weeks. There was that nasty case of insomnia I developed. I’d wake up in cold sweats thinking I had missed the homerun only to realize it was 2:30 PM and I was actually at my desk at work. Then I actually did miss the homerun because I fell asleep during some marathon WNBA game. But it was ok because even Hank Aaron was sleeping. And then there was the post race action. Some kid named Matt Murphy caught the ball but realized he wouldn’t be able to afford the taxes so he sold the ball on ebay. A fashion designer purchased the ball for over $750,000, set up a website and had the public vote on what he should do with the ball. He could give it to the Hall of Fame, put an asterisk on it or send it to the moon. In the end, the ball will be branded and sent to the Hall. And Barry called that guy an “idiot.”
HGH
It’s the little story that just can’t seem to go away and towards the end of the season even the feel good kid from St. Louis was involved. Turns out the pitcher turned power hitter Rick Ankiel had used HGH back in 2004 before the substance was even banned by baseball. So why should we care? He’s just another name added to the increasing long list of players who were involved with performance enhancing substances back when baseball was doing the whole honor policy. Well, it didn’t work in that high school bio class freshman year when we all shared the answers and it certainly didn’t work during the 1990s in baseball. Maybe you should do what my professor did and just forget the whole thing ever happened and start a fresh.
Elijah Dukes
Like the Tampa Bay Devil Rays don’t have enough problems, add this crazy 22 year old outfielder to the list. Seems his marriage was heading south and he decided to give the heads up to his estranged wife by leaving her a couple of messages. Like the ever popular, it’s not me, it’s you. And “You dead, dawg. I ain't even [expletive]. Your kids, too." And to top it all off he allegedly impregnated a foster child living with his relative. According the story it was consensual so it wasn’t breaking a law. I’m sorry, if she’s 17 and he’s 22 isn’t that like statutory rape? I swear there was a movie on MTV that was something along these lines. This whole story is like an episode of “Cops” without the trailer park.
Check back tomorrow to find out the winner.
It's been fun blogging with you,
Kate
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