A question

by Adam J. Morris on Jul 21, 2008 10:35 PM CDT

7. I think in the interest of full disclosure, I want to report that my daughter, Mary Beth King, has taken a PR internship with the Seattle Seahawks for the season. It's going to sound hollow to say I had nothing to do with it, but I didn't. She applied without telling me. New family rule: Mary Beth does not share conversations with Matt Hasselbeck or Mike Holmgren with her father.

Am I an inherently bad person if my first reaction to reading this was to go over to the "email Peter King" box and try to formulate a question to send him referencing Kathleen Decker, Stephon Marbury vis-a-vis Matt Hasselbeck, or "Truck Party"?

Isiah Thomas and Kathleen Decker did for pro sports interns what Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky did for White House interns...turn the job description into a punchline.

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Giants are dumb

they don’t need picks they need a replacement for Strahan. And they could have easily got Jason Taylor if they made that Shockey trade sooner.

Josh Hamilton is better than you.

by Longhorn on Jul 21, 2008 10:44 PM CDT 0 recs

You just admitted

that you read Peter King… 10 lashes.

by bhudson on Jul 21, 2008 11:08 PM CDT 0 recs

Rangers Farm Probables

by shroomer on Jul 21, 2008 11:08 PM CDT 0 recs

Help me out shroom...

a pic of a young Kenny Rogers because?

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates

by slc ranger on Jul 22, 2008 12:24 AM CDT up 0 recs

it's just shroom being mysterious...

...you’ll be getting a scouting report in no time…

by oc on Jul 22, 2008 12:32 AM CDT up 0 recs

mostly because of this

Rangers Farm Probables

by shroomer on Jul 22, 2008 3:22 AM CDT up 0 recs

OT: Our braindead friends south of I75

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/07/astros-in-trade.html

After they overpay for Wolf, will they even have a farm system left? I’m wondering if their A+/AA teams will just cry uncle and dissolve.

by LiamP on Jul 21, 2008 11:38 PM CDT 0 recs

Peter King's daughter, eh?

Wow. I bet she’s a real looker.

I’m setting the over/under on her at 175, and, personally, I’m taking the over.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Jul 21, 2008 11:57 PM CDT 0 recs

not all offspring of butt-ugly celebrities are ugly, dirk...

Liv Tyler came from… that?

Angelina Jolie came from… THIS?

baby bird…

by oc on Jul 22, 2008 12:14 AM CDT up 0 recs

But they had the advantage

of being world famous dudes with jobs that make girls eleven different sorts of weak in the loins.

I don’t think there are any super hot models are breaking down Peter King’s door trying to bone down on him.

Ain’t happening.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Jul 22, 2008 1:25 AM CDT up 0 recs

mutha...

by oc on Jul 22, 2008 1:48 AM CDT up 0 recs

Liv Tyler looks like Steven with jugs

Ye she’s strangely attractive.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Stuff-You-Need-Brett-Favre-action-figure-bench?urn=nfl,93739

by BudLight on Jul 22, 2008 7:22 AM CDT up 0 recs

peter kings daughter is hot as shit

"Do they know who I am? Do they know my status? Thats what I thought."
-Miles 6/21/08

.501 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jul 22, 2008 1:18 AM CDT up 0 recs

I don't trust a man who's never done a fat chick

A man like that has something to hide.

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Jul 22, 2008 1:25 AM CDT up 0 recs

That's just something that guys who can only bed fat chicks say.

This joke has been brought to you by the scene in Liar, Liar in which Jim Carey informs his child that only ugly people say, “it’s what’s on the inside that counts.”

by NoNameOnCard on Jul 22, 2008 1:53 AM CDT up 0 recs

You've never gone fat?

Oh come on. It’s so easy. You don’t have to waste and energy pouring on “charm” or telling “jokes”. And you certainly don’t have to “pay for dinner”. And once you get home you can give a large girl 37 seconds of your worst moves, and you know what she’ll be afterwards? Grateful, that’s what.

All this fat girl talk is actually giving me a craving for a tubby one…

What’s your mom up to tonight?

I keed, I keed!

The 40 Trumps All!!!

by thedirkatron on Jul 22, 2008 2:08 AM CDT up 0 recs

Something to hide

he’s hiding the fact that he’s done a fat chick.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

by t ball on Jul 22, 2008 6:38 AM CDT up 0 recs

like what?

"I should apologize to girls for saying Sexson threw that helmet like a girl. I’m not even sure girls do that." - TAG 05/08/2008

by Captain Fubar on Jul 22, 2008 10:50 AM CDT up 0 recs

KSK posted pictures from her facebook page a while ago

But King went bonkers and they took them down.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Stuff-You-Need-Brett-Favre-action-figure-bench?urn=nfl,93739

by BudLight on Jul 22, 2008 7:24 AM CDT up 0 recs

Pounds or Kilos?

"I should apologize to girls for saying Sexson threw that helmet like a girl. I’m not even sure girls do that." - TAG 05/08/2008

by Captain Fubar on Jul 22, 2008 8:32 AM CDT up 0 recs

Nah, you're not a bad person.

Peter King said that Derek Jeter is the greatest baseball player in the last 50 years, by the way.

by philkid3 on Jul 22, 2008 12:32 AM CDT 0 recs

So...

This is off-topic for this thread, but it’s not worth a diary and I don’t know where else to put it… but I just wanted to announce that I have just lost what little respect I had left for TR Sullivan.

From his latest mailbag:

What are your thoughts on the Rangers trading Michael Young? Many teams need a quality shortstop (i.e. Dodgers and Red Sox) and maybe they would part with a Clayton Kershaw or a Clay Buchholz.
—Drew T., Plano, Texas
Young has a no-trade clause in his contract. If you do trade him, you need to get Major League-ready players and not more Bakersfield/Clinton superstars. You need to get three good ones, and they better get here immediately because you’re cutting the heart out of your team by trading Young. His tangibles may not be what they once were, but his intangibles are beyond the measure of a sabrematician. His future position may be in doubt but not his future leadership. Championship teams needs great young players/pitchers but they also need a definite heart and soul. Guys like Mike Lowell and Tim Salmon (2002 Angels) come to mind.

UGH. e tu, TR?

A Lonestar in California

Classic iorange555: "lmao too bad i watched [the all-star game] at a friends house ;[ much funer on here"

by lonestarJon on Jul 22, 2008 2:00 AM CDT 0 recs

That is ridiculous...

if TR wouldn’t trade MY for Kershaw….

"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005

by Agreen07 on Jul 22, 2008 2:02 AM CDT up 0 recs

Hmmmm

I don’t want to see anything coming out of TR…..

by Requiem on Jul 22, 2008 2:03 AM CDT up 0 recs

I have no problem

with anything TR said.

by Anonymous New Guy on Jul 22, 2008 8:56 AM CDT up 0 recs

Even the part where he says:

you need to get Major League-ready players and not more Bakersfield/Clinton superstars.

You don’t see a problem with that? He basically just insinuated that prospects who are still in the lower minors don’t mean anything. That’s Joe Morgan-esqe, especially when you realize that’s where a lot of our best young talent is right now.

And then there’s the fact that the whole Michael Young’s leadership-outweighs-his-lack-of-production thing is a giant load of crock as well – although it admittedly is a load of crock we’ll have to live with for the next 5 years (at a pricetag of $80 Million bucks, lucky us).

So really, TR is wrong on just about every level there, except for his passing comment about the no-trade clause. And instead of educating the guy who asked the question with any details about MY’s no-trade clause, or even mentioning that his outragious salary would make him hard to trade, he just fed him a giant line of propaganda and even tossed in an assinine comment about minor league talent to boot. That was just some very, very poor writing, IMO.

A Lonestar in California

by lonestarJon on Jul 22, 2008 9:27 AM CDT up 0 recs

+1

That is why I stopped reading TR’s mailbag columns a long time ago – he does his worst work in those columns. Evan Grant’s newsletters are much more informative and insightful.

Another thing I would add though is it’s kind of a stretch for TR to be comparing Michael Young to Tim Salmon – Young has had his glory years as well, but he’s not quite on the same plane as Salmon (whose career OPS+ is 128 to Young’s 103).

by BlackHawk125 on Jul 22, 2008 9:41 AM CDT up 0 recs

when TR went to MLB i thought that would happen

kinda disappointed thats the case though

"Do they know who I am? Do they know my status? Thats what I thought."
-Miles 6/21/08

.501 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jul 22, 2008 10:40 AM CDT up 0 recs

“prospects who are still in the lower minors don’t mean anything…”

c’mon Jon… you’re spinning that…

by oc on Jul 22, 2008 2:02 PM CDT up 0 recs

Not really

That’s just what I took it to mean. The entire quote again:

If you do trade him, you need to get Major League-ready players and not more Bakersfield/Clinton superstars. You need to get three good ones, and they better get here immediately because you’re cutting the heart out of your team by trading Young.

He’s saying he doesn’t think A-ball prospects, no matter how good they are, isn’t a good enough return for Young. So conversely, I conclude that he doesn’t think too much of A-ball prospects, because they’re not going to make an immediate impact on the team in Arlington. Which is stupid.

A Lonestar in California

by lonestarJon on Jul 23, 2008 3:52 AM CDT up 0 recs