She of the past relationships with Barry Zito, Carl Pavano, and Brad Penny. I was thinking that this would cause Penny’s career to take a downward turn, starting with yesterday’s game against the Mets. (And I was hoping that Jorge Sosa would drill him for that confrontation with Shawn Green the last time the Mets played the Dodgers.) My mistake. Penny pitched pretty well and we lost. Still, I think one of the key objectives of Rick Peterson’s program is to keep Milano the hell away from all of our pitchers. And don’t even let them watch reruns of Who’s the Boss? Zito’s and Pavano’s careers took dives since they dated her. And look, all she did was take a photo with Tom Glavine and now he’s struggling to reach his 300th win.
The team even spotted him a 6-0 lead on Thursday against the Dodgers and he didn’t make it past the 3rd inning. I believe Milano was at Dodger Stadium that night.
The Curse of Alyssa Milano may not have affected Brad Penny, but I wouldn’t discount it just yet. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to have her go visit the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. Cole Hamels is kind of cute, resembling a young Peter Fonda:
And if the Mets and Tigers make the World Series we definitely send her airline tickets to Detroit where she can make the acquaintance of Verlander, Bondermann, etc. Kenny Rogers is maybe old enough to be her father, but I’m sure she appreciates older men.
Yesterday’s Mets-Dodgers game was blacked out on national tv (our local broadcast had Sox vs. Sawx on Fox) so I listened to it on WFAN via MLB.com and watched some it last night on MLB.TV, which ran the Fox broadcast. First of all, using a Fox broadcast instead of a Vin Scully broadcast is an crime against humanity. Instead of getting to listen to that velvet voice with his corny but very pleasant stories, we got Matt Vasgersian and Tim McCarver. Some observations from this pair of professional broadcasters:
- After an easy first inning Vasgersian said Penny had an “eventless start to the afternoon.” (Translation: “uneventful.”)
- McCarver stated in the second inning that “39% of lead-off walks have scored this season. That’s about 40%.” (Did anyone else besides me not know that McCarver had been a math major in college?)
- We also learned about an anti-blister cream that Penny uses for his pitching hand; a wretched-smelling formulation, it might explain why Alyssa stopped dating him.
They also beat the viewers over the head with references to “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” — which opened 25 years ago, and I’m still not sure how that ties into the Dodgers, the Mets, or anything else related to baseball. Some chubby guy called Aloha Adam sat out in the All-You-Can-Eat section at Dodger Stadium, his Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned to reveal a classic Pasty Haole Guy body which should never ever be exposed to women, children, men, or domesticated animals. (Not a good look, dude. Cover yourself up.) I also understand that the live Fox broadcast cut away from the Mets-Dodgers game each time Barry Bonds was at the plate in Milwaukee, so that viewers would have a chance to see him inch closer to Hank Aaron’s home run record. Luckily for MLB.TV viewers the broadcast remained on the game that we WANTED to watch and the audio from Vasgersian and McCarver was cut off at these times. These were almost the best parts of the broadcast.
Thanks to Mets Today for inspiring this anti-Fox tirade: 10 Most Annoying Things on the FOX Broadcast
Thank God the Vin Scully broadcast will be on for today’s game.
On edit: It’s even better than I thought. MLB.TV is carrying the Mets broadcast with Gary Cohen and Ron Darling. I hope this is a good omen.
