In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Too Kinky for Pro Sports...Is This for Real?
By Janet Evans
Monday, May 19 2008, 06:50 AM
Jason Giambi falls into the stands after
catching a pop foul ball.
Jason Giambi has a deep, dark secret. Deeper than his compulsion to sleep on the side of the bed nearest the door, and darker than his dream of growing up to be a heavy-metal musician.
The deepest, darkest secret harbored by the New York Yankees first baseman is that whenever he is in a prolonged hitting funk, he wears a gold lamé, tiger-stripe thong under his uniform. "I only put it on when I'm desperate to get out of a big slump," he confides.
Over Giambi's checkered career in the Bronx, he has left the "golden thong" in the lockers of slumping teammates Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robin Ventura, and Robinson Cano. "All of them wore it and got hits," he reports. "The thong works every time."
This season, the 37-year-old Giambi could stand a good thonging or two. He is in the final guaranteed season of a seven-year, $120 million contract, and through Wednesday was batting an obscenely low .188 with seven homers and 20 R.B.I.'s in 33 games for the sputtering Yanks. Though he can still swat long flies and work bases on balls, against power pitchers-those who strike out or walk more than 28 percent of batters faced-he has often looked outmatched.
"I never hear the boos because I'm too busy booing myself," he says. "No critic is worse on me than me: I can beat myself up pretty good."
Read the complete article from
The Wind Up
The Bronx Cheer ç here
Hey, Jason...ever here of a lucky rabbit's foot?
Or even "Jobu" the bat?
Maybe this is the tiger thong you should be wearing for good luck....
