Ten fun - (sorta fun, anyway) - facts:
1. His middle name is Sterling!
2. In 2015, he graduated from Illinois State University with a degree in biochemistry.
3. In 2017, in his first-ever MLB at bat, on his first-ever MLB swing, he homered.
4. Later that year, he became the first-ever rookie in MLB history to record seven extra-base hits in a three-game series.
5. That season, for St. Louis, he hit 25 HRs and batted .285.
6. It's all downhill from there.
7. He's played for the Cards, Blue Jays, Giants, White Sox, Royals and Nationals.
9. Tough injuries - a broken hand, a broken rib, a broken cheekbone - derailed his career.
10. At 32, he'll compete at SS with Jose Caballero, 29, until Anthony Volpe returns, sometime around May. (Pardon me if I weep. They are not tears of joy.)
I hope DeJong does well. He's had a lot of tough breaks. Unlike Volpe, he deserves one more chance.
ReplyDeleteThe Stranger Things finale was pretty good, really. It needed that elongated ending. Unlike Volpe, whose stay at short should have ended a year ago, at least.
The shit in Venezuela is really bad, a terrible precedent, too. Kind of like keeping Volpe at short when he clearly should have been replaced.
It’s Paul DeJong, YEAH
ReplyDeleteYEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH
It’s Paul DeJong, YEAH
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH
It’s Paul DeJong, THAT’S
ALL THEY’RE GONNA DO…..
So much for getting younger Brian...
ReplyDeleteWe all live in -
ReplyDeleteSteinbrenner’s limousine
Steinbrenner’s limousine
Steinbrenner’s limousine
“Nothin' to nothin' means nothin'
ReplyDeleteYou gotta have nothing’
If you wanna play for me”
- Boonie Preston
Brian's Ode to Cashman:
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, I'll tell you somethin'
I think you'll understand
When I say that somethin'
I want to hold your gland
I want to hold your gland
I want to hold your gland
Oh, please, say to me
You'll let me be your man
And please, say to me
You'll let me hold your gland
You'll let me hold your gland
I want to hold your gland
And when I touch you
I feel happy inside
It's such a feelin' that my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide
Brian's Ode to Hal*
DeleteLet me take you down
ReplyDeleteTo a place where nobody can field
Nothing is real
And something to get worried about
Yankee Stadium (it seems) forever
Trading is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to acquire someone good, and it never works out
It doesn't matter much to thee
(one more time with revised lyrics...)
ReplyDeleteIt’s Paul DeJong, YEAH
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH
It’s Paul DeJong, YEAH
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH
It’s Paul DeJong, THAT’S
ALL THEY’RE GONNA DO…..
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb
He is another low average hitter. Nothing to scream about. Does have a nice beard. Another Genius Cashman bargain basement aquisition. BS Boone will manage to put him in a lineup with other average hitters. Some facts to mull on.
ReplyDeleteSo this new guy can't hit AND he gets hurt all the time? Calgon bath beads take me away!
ReplyDeleteI once had a hit
ReplyDeleteOr should I say
the hit had me
It soon left the park
Isn't it good
Louisville wood
I tried it again
But I whiffed and I whiffed really hard
So I sat on the bench
And then I just stared at the yard.
I sat on the bench
Biding my time
Waiting for mine
A season came round
And my agent said
"Your career's almost dead"
I tried different teams but nothing could ever really stick
I kept breaking parts
Of my body
Including my dick.
And when I awoke
I was alone
Just Paul DeJong
So I lit a fire
And smoked some weed
All stems and seeds.
"You said 'wood.' Uhuhuhuhuh."
DeleteI had this elaborate Yankees reworking of John Lennon’s MOTHER but I just can’t publish/post it because I’m feeling a tad bit disgusted with those Yankees puppet masters right now.
ReplyDeleteYucko