September Baseball Musings

- When you do stupid things at work, you get yourself fired.  Just ask Cecil Cooper. One has to wonder however how bad things could have been that the Houston Astros couldn't have let him manage just 12 more games.  Seems kind of silly to tell the bus driver driving from L.A. to N.Y. that he is being replaced and he has to get off in N.J. before going through the Holland Tunnel.

- Baseball is different than many other sports. The best team loses about 1/3 its games and the worst team wins about 1/3 its games.

- Even the Mets fans are getting hurt! My brother-n-law went to the Braves vs. Mets game last night and broke a rib when he miss-stepped and fell on a curb in the parking lot!

- “That’s why they play the games.” The Kansas City Royals who were 31 games under .500 going into September have opened up a can of Whoop-Ass on the American League this month going 12-7 and scoring runs in the double digits seemingly every night! They are affecting the playoff race in a big way sweeping the Detroit Tigers and now beating the Red Sox who had a chance to close within 4 games of the Yankees with a win last night. The Red Sox were hot themselves going 9-1 in their last 10 but the Royals are cooling everyone off.

- If prostitution is the oldest profession in the world and Jamie Moyer who will be 47 in two months on November 18 is the oldest active player in Major League Baseball, does that make him a prostitute?

- Derrek Lee is back on steroids. He started taking them during the All-Star break. Milton Bradley has been shooting him in the ass. After doing absolutely nothing for the past three years Lee is hitting .339 with 17 homers and a SLUG approaching .700 after the break. And when did he start spelling his name with 2 r’s? That doesn’t look right. Was it always that way?

- Mike Socia gets a piece of his closers contracts under the table. For the 13th time this year Brian Fuentes recorded a Save by getting less than 3 outs. Brian Fuentes (with an ERA of 4.41) leads the Major Leagues in saves with 44! K-Rod had 62 last year. Socia is on the take…..

The Red Sox have 13 games left including 3 against the Yankees who lead them by 5 and 3 against the Royals (their next 3 games). If they can’t close the can of Whoop-Ass that Kansas City has opened the Yankee games will be meaningless. Confucius Say, “Not so easy Red Sox Nation as you have to face Wonder Boy Zach Greinke tonight.” - Josh Bolan

Josh Bolan is a retired AP baseball reporter and now works as a freelance writer in Fresno California. Josh has been contributing to baseball publications as a writer since 1996.

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