Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Spinach Anyone???









Hello ??NO. You got to stick in to your arm...what?? your arm. Forget it call me back later.

Welcome to the big show. Sorry about that, that was my cousin on the line he was having trouble injecting himself .. It's not his fault, he is young, naive and stupid... Anyway I am so sick and tired of hearing about steroids that I have decided that I will never write that word again in the blog. So for now on when referring to--- we will say... spinach...

Now that we have established that half of baseball was taking spinach and the whole game is one big asterisk, I have decided that the only way for me to enjoy baseball again is to get past the Spinach era and to celebrate the players who have never had any Spinach in their bodies. How do we do that? I have compiled a list of the best players from the days since I started watching the game (1992-2009) who have never been accused of, or tested positive for spinach.I used this website to get my info http://www.thebaseballpage.com/positions/rankings/P.php
There is a poll with four players at each position for which you can select one and seven pitchers for which we need to vote for four.. If you feel that this guy has taken spinach at some point in the past then do not vote for him. I know that seems impossible because at this point how do we know that everyone was not using it at some point .

For example, The First Base list, we have Albert Pujols , Jim Thome, Jeff Bagwell, Frank Thomas. To be honest, I think that all four of these guys may have been on the spinach juice.
(BTW.. There is probably no one that I want to see busted for Spinach more then David Ortiz. This guy was on Minnesota as a glorified utility guy then he comes over to Fenway and he is the most clutch and powerful guy in the game. I don't know I am not buying. I mean how much Spinach was this guy on? Maybe we can reverse the out come of the 2004 ALCS.... I still have night mares..)

After you have narrowed it down pick the best remaining Spinach free player and then we will have our list of the greatest players of this era. In my opinion these players will truly be hall of famers because while everyone else was on spinach they were just eating it.. ( not funny . I know.. Was thinking about taking that joke out but why not make fun of myself instead) and yet they still excelled..

As you may have seen on the poll there is only one man to vote for at closer. I was looking for another three people to put on the list but since Mariano Rivera is the greatest relief pitcher in the history of the game , spinach or no spinach, I decided that out of respect for Mo no one else would be on the closer ballot.

After voting upon this we will officially have the hall of fame for the Spinach Era...
BTW .. Did any one see what Johnny Damon said about A Rod's spinach use? What kind of
Spinach is Johhny Damon on??
Johnny Damon- He could have done a lot worse things then (Spinach)"
Hanna Storm -" Johnny what would have been worse? "
Johhny Damon-" Um Murdering Someone"
Thanks John

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17 comments:

  1. Stanley, A.K.A. "The Big Show", you can't start a blog and re-name yourself you will always be Stanley. Deal with it. Anyway I love what you've done with the place, polls, pictures, bright and shiny colors, what's next, Free long distance phone calls? The best non spinach eating first baseman of our era is not on this list, therefore I am protesting by not voting in this fraud of a poll. That's right you guessed it " Now batting....for the Yankees.....The first baseman....number 24......Tino Martinez.....Number 24. Shame on you, you ingrateful Yankee fan, this level of disrespect is not acceptable. Correct it, NOW!!!!!!

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  2. Two thirds of these people are also on spinach. This was an era of the stuff...e/o -pitchers and hitters- "ate" spinach... It's unfortunate that only some of the spinach users are known. spinach

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  3. I don't see Andy Fox on any of these lists

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  4. Nor Does Clay Bellinger appear.... Hmmmm, interesting......

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  5. Ok, where do I start?
    Pujols? Took it.
    Manny? Took it.
    Guerrero? Not a doubt in my mind.
    Alou? Should've taken it.

    And my thoughts on Rivera: The facial expressions, manuerisms and body motions that this guy was portraying during A-Slob's press conference made me think that he was uncomfortable. This led me to think that "Hey, who says this guy never juiced?" Yes, I am a Met fan but you can say you heard it hear first when his name is leaked out as one of the 103. And if not, some other year he was taking spinach. I cannot believe I just called it spinach, lol. Great stuff Stan. It's obvious you're juicing yourself.

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  6. What if the spinach thing took off? Can I get odds that within the year Stuart Scott will look into a camera and say, "Albert Pujols tested positive for anabolic spinach yesterday. His agent was not available for comment."

    great post stan. and i refuse to vote for mariano.

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  7. Props to E.. for helping with the spinach thing.

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  8. Stanley, I demand to be adressed. Where the HELL is Tino?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

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  9. I am not sure whats more ridiculous the fact that 3 people actually voted for david wright over chipper jones or that people voted for johan santana over maddux, pedro and randy johnson. Thats mets fans for you there talent evaluation is equal to there teams.

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  10. All things equal Tino is not as good as the other four first baseman on the list... Secondly, how do we know that Tino did not take spinach.. I AM SORRY I TAKE IT BACK

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  11. I was going to say Wade Boggs at 3rd base, but I think I may have once seen some spinach residue in his mutasche.

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  12. Tino over Jeff Bagwell anyday. "Bags" was feasting on the finest Spinach Houston had to offer for many years. If Tino doesn't get on the board I'm not sure I can follow this irreverant blog anymore.

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  13. Josh wrote "Thats mets fans for you there talent evaluation is equal to there teams."

    Hey, just because you hide your intellect from us, it doesn't mean you gotta hide your power to spell, as well.

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  14. Stuart Scott is on the spinach juice.

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  15. Edgardo Alfonzo anyone??? God, I'm gonna get beaten like a spinach-induced, constipated rented mule for this one.....

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  16. I'm gonna throw a player out there who was great for a long time, and not on the "nich". How bout John Olerud? I always liked him, plus he always wore a hard hat. He has my vote

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