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No Hair Club for Men for Eli Whiteside, whom the Yanks claimed off waivers from the Giants. Who knows if we’ll ever see him in pinstripes – it’s a long way from being on the 40-man roster in November and showing up in the Bronx on Opening Day – but Cervelli is probably moping.
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I didn’t even watch Game 7 of Giants-Cardinals tonight. I went for the debate instead. I wish I could muster some interest in the World Series, but without the Yanks or any team I’m invested in emotionally, I just don’t care a whole lot. Tell me if it gets exciting or if there’s a storyline I’m missing.
Yes, it was heartwarming to see Andy Pettitte pitch a scoreless inning, but for Cervelli the game and its aftermath wasn’t much fun. After he hit a homer against the Mets, he was informed that he was being optioned to AAA.
I thought he had the backup catcher job locked up and so, apparently, did he. It seems the job will now go to somebody named Chris Stewart, newly acquired from the Giants for George Kontos.
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Poor Cisco. He’s had – what? – like 10 concussions by now? He hasn’t always been the greatest catcher, no question, but he deserved to stay in the bigs if you ask me, which nobody is.
Oh well.
After tomorrow’s workout at the evil Trop, the season will kick off there against the Rays and all will be right with the world.
So I was sitting in the chair, having my hair blown dry, when Andie, my stylist, said, “My son is bringing his new girlfriend home for dinner tomorrow night.”
“Really? That’s exciting,” I said, as I flipped through last month’s issue of Town and Country. I’d been reading the article about the McCourt’s divorce that Andie had brought over to show me. She’s a Dodgers fan and is sickened by what’s happening with her team’s owners. “Are you looking forward to meeting her?”
“I was,” she said. “But my son told me she has a problem.”
“What kind of a problem?” I asked, thinking we might be talking about drugs, alcohol, shop lifting, an addiction to reality shows.
“She’s a Giants fan.” Andie made a face.
I laughed. I couldn’t help it. For baseball fans on this coast, the rivalry between the Dodgers and Giants is as intense as Yankees-Red Sox. “Maybe she’s just a casual fan. Maybe she just said that because she’s from the Bay Area.”
“Nope. Her family has season’s tickets. They’re hardcore.”
“Well, he’s not marrying her,” I pointed out. “He’s just bringing her home for dinner.”
She sighed as she finished my hair. “We’ll see about that.”
I would love to be a fly on the wall at their dinner.
Meanwhile, how about Jorge playing first today against the Phillies? I’m so impressed with the way he’s going along with his new role(s). Hip hip. And CC was back on track after his rocky start the other day. How funny was it after he took a comebacker off his thigh and told everybody he was fine because he “had a lot of meat down there.”
(courtesy: olaughingpress.com)
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