So, let's see who's most in tune with the cosmic biorhythms of professional arbiter Fred Horowitz by putting in your prediction on the outcome. As a tie breaker, list the exact moment when the ruling comes down.
The winner will receive two (2) Fake Fact Coins, which can be played during any future IT IS HIGH debates. With these golden token, you can win any fight over Ichiro or Vernon Wells - or even Cito Culver - by laying down a false fact, which nobody can challenge. (Example: "The fact is, Wells hit 35 home runs for the Yankees last year, and most of them came after the seventh inning.")
Post your predictions in the comments section. We need:
a) Precise number of games (if any) A-Rod will be banned, and
b) The exact time (E.S.T.) it will be announced. (This is the official statement, not a leak.)
The House Bet:
65 game suspension.
Friday, Jan. 10. at noon.
Yep. I'm figuring Freddy chops Bagman Bud's suspension by a whopping two thirds, though leaving it still higher than the regular 50-game blast for first-timers. This will piss off A-Rod, but he'll probably just sit it out and get it done, rather than stretch out the process with another fight - and possibly miss leading the Yankees in the playoffs and World Series. (That's a joke.)
Final tie-breaker:
Who signs Tanaka?
House Bet: The Dodgers.
Scoundrels and disgraced politicians always release damning news on a Friday. My entry:
ReplyDeleteFriday, Jan 10
3:30 PM
Tanaka goes to the Phillies
And A-Rod's ban? How many games?
ReplyDeletesnowed in again. duque?
ReplyDeleteI'll say 65 games.
Freddy, faced with no evidence against A-Rod except the paid-for word of some moron and Selig's spiteful will, will give him 50 games next Saturday, Jan. 11, 1 pm.
ReplyDeleteHe'll think this will appease MLB, but of course, he will be wrong. Selig will fire him immediately, which is what happens to arbiters who don't go along with the Fuehrer.
Tanaka will sign with the Yankees.
Ichiro will reel him in, and Godzilla will also step in and tell him it's the only way to go. He can sign for some lunch money with another team when he gets old and can't hit...er, pitch anymore.
"Besides," Matsui will say, "you're not a fat toad and your name isn't Igawa. These gaijin are morons, you can handle them."
No suspension, Thursday 1/9, 2:30PM.
ReplyDeleteTanaka to NYY.
Friday the 10th at 11:15 am A-fraud will be suspended for 162 games. Tanaka signs with the Yanks for 6 yrs 130 mil and the Yanks go on to lose the ws in 6 games.
ReplyDeleteMonday the 13th 12 noon
ReplyDelete82 games
The Amazing Roger B. Calistro
(Also Amazingly Randy, thanks to my medication, which permits me to see into the future, and I do mean, the most immediate future, as after four hours I have to go to a hospital)
Oh Tiebreaker:
ReplyDeleteThe Mariners and Tanaka.
They are not done breaking our hearts.
Duque, please change my "games suspended" to 60. I just noticed I have the house bet on games.
ReplyDeleteIf I win, may I give one of my golden tokens to John M? I'd like to help him win one of his Ichiro fights.
Are we using Price is Right rules?
ReplyDeleteGood God, Bob! you STILL alive??
ReplyDeleteListen Carey you little twerp, I was bagging showcase girls long before you got your first jar of Butch Wax. Remember what I did to Happy Gilmore!
ReplyDeleteyou broke my nose, you old fuck!
ReplyDelete50 games, Friday January 10 at 10am EST. Tanaka to Yankees, and just for good measure -- 6 years, $121 million.
ReplyDelete211 games was a ridiculous, arbitrary number, so I predict it gets reduced to a less ridiculous arbitrary number: 53 1/3 games. Alex returns in the 4th inning of game 54. Announcement is made at 11:59 pm on January 10. Tanaka comes to the Yankees, blows out his rotator cuff in his 2d spring training start.
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