OT: Andy Rooney on Baseball / Irrelevance

by RangerMoto on Aug 23, 2007 9:57 AM CDT

Ok, I have all the evidence I need.

Sharky = Andy Rooney

Andy Rooney would be quaint if he weren't such a bigot

My favorite Sharky-esque quote:

My disinterest in baseball as a kid has lasted all my life. I'm still not interested in the game. I don't watch it on television or follow it in the newspaper. I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today's baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me. They're apparently very good but they haven't caught my interest. I also think baseball needs some rules changes, too. For example, the player who starts the game as pitcher should have to play all nine innings without a substitution. A pitcher hardly ever plays more than a few innings and then the manager replaces him with someone who isn't as good. I think baseball managers dominate the games more than the players do and more than coaches do in other sports.

That quote was from Andy Rooney, not Sharky. I had to reread the byline just to make sure. The only thing missing was an incoherent rant about liberals and jail-bait.

The guy just rambles on and on and newspapers publish this drivel??? No wonder traditional media has an entire leg in the grave.

Update [2007-8-23 11:24:28 by RangerMoto]: Forgot to mention that I found this on FJM

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Am I the only one.....

that reads that in the Andy Rooney voice?

by bdavison94 on Aug 23, 2007 9:56 AM CDT reply actions

No

you are not.

by rbarton on Aug 23, 2007 10:14 AM CDT up reply actions

Not at all

I started with that nasal whine in my head.

by badradiorules on Aug 23, 2007 10:16 AM CDT up reply actions

Not only that....

but i put caterpillars above my eyes for full effect.

Elijah Dukes.....now there's a guy who stays in the "box" too long

by MATEO LEG on Aug 23, 2007 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions

ha!

"This report of my death was an exaggeration"--Mark Twain

by rangerdanger on Aug 23, 2007 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions

Grandpa Simpson

It's also fun to read it in a Grandpa Simpson voice.

by BCanfield @ Lone Star Ball on Aug 24, 2007 6:23 AM CDT up reply actions

so weird

I read that article after FJM linked it. KT said it was so bad he couldn't even make comments about it and he's right.

Truly weird and baffling. I think Andy Rooney really may actually be on the verge of full-blown senility, and that's kinda sad.

by Brian Hayes on Aug 23, 2007 9:57 AM CDT reply actions

Baseball Think Factory

Some of the comments in their thread about the article are hilarious:

"Andy Rooney's still alive?

--reads article--

Nope."

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by t ball on Aug 23, 2007 10:27 AM CDT reply actions

hahaha hell yeah

I just read through them too. My obvious favorite:

"If a guy isn't interested in baseball, why does he believe we care about his opinion on the game?

It's kind of like a gay man talking about the waitress's nice ass..."

Lick by lick, mountains erode

by RangerMoto on Aug 23, 2007 10:31 AM CDT up reply actions

Funny

for some random reason driving to work yesterday, I asked myself that exact question. I honestly had no idea if he was alive or not. Guess I know now...

by JBImaknee on Aug 23, 2007 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions

I like baseball, doofy

It's just the Rangers suck so much that it's too painful to watch them.

Although, I been meaning to watch a game lately to catch all the new players. But then again, I just dont care about the final score at all at this point so that makes it kinda hard to be interested.

Baseball and football are my two favorite sports, each great in their own way. All other sports are a distant second fiddle.

Barbara Bush=babe

by Sharky on Aug 23, 2007 6:35 PM CDT reply actions