Rick Reilly Re-assigns MVP Awards
I find this kind of thing really dumb. Reassigning MVP awards because we know of a handful of guys that PED'd and giving them to guys that are "more deserving" in hindsight? Just dumb and actually really naive. He actually says that Barry Bonds robbed Albert Pujols and Luis Gonzalez and that Ken Caminiti robbed Mike Piazza. Where's the proof that guys didn't 'roid? Buster Olney's general opinion is that, in the steroids era, it's safest to assume that everyone juiced. I don't know if that's the best solution, but it certainly is safer than just blindly assuming that guys didn't. I know this topic has been covered ad nauseum on this site, but this article is really just ludicrous.
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Reilly is a joke
I used to find his SI articles amusing years ago, but he has really jumped ship since he started at ESPN. It seems like he’s either mailing it in and at times forces pop culture references to try to be like Bill Simmons. Plus he’s always hated Bonds, even before the steroids thing came out.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Feb 18, 2009 10:26 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
We get it Rick, you hate Barry. Way to give his MVP’s away to other steroid users.
by Hobbes2d on Feb 18, 2009 10:28 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
This
Hoping Buster isn't a bust.
by GiantsFanInExile on Feb 18, 2009 7:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Luis Gonzalez?
Oh no, definitely not a user. Great guy. Always talks to reporters. Has triplets. Is beloved in Arizona.
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by leftymalo on Feb 18, 2009 10:33 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
His triplets at age 7...
I am on a vendetta to make sports enjoyable to watch again, and Mr. Buck you are at the top of my LIST!!! Mr. Selig don’t get to upset you are number TWO!!!
by say hey nation on Feb 18, 2009 10:45 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
lol yeah that Luis Gonzalez guy’s career statline isn’t suspicious at all.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Feb 18, 2009 10:35 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I’m so annoyed right now.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
by SF Pete on Feb 18, 2009 10:44 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
This is priceless...
Just don’t let us down on this thing, Albert. You know what we’re talking about
Isn’t the point of this article to give the MVP who are not juicing? Doesn’t sound like he is confident
I am on a vendetta to make sports enjoyable to watch again, and Mr. Buck you are at the top of my LIST!!! Mr. Selig don’t get to upset you are number TWO!!!
by say hey nation on Feb 18, 2009 10:47 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Barry Bonds 7 MVPs*
*should be 9
Don't think, it could only hurt the ballclub.
by ResDog on Feb 18, 2009 10:48 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I know that he should have at least gotten the one given to Kent.
What was the other?
Barry Zito - Mildly half-OK! Sometimes.
by Revolution1 on Feb 18, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Wasn't it Pendleton in '91?
I once punched a hole in a light fixture in celebration of a J.T. Snow home run. That is all.
by oneflapdown on Feb 18, 2009 11:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Could be assuming the ’94 season went all the way to its conclusion and Bonds won it that year.
by deuce deuce on Feb 18, 2009 11:04 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’d say Pendleton..I’m still not sure how .319/.363/.517 beats .292/.410/.514.
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by WalrusMan on Feb 18, 2009 11:51 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Don’t forget the gold glove defense and the stolen bases.
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 18, 2009 2:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
How about the “MVP stats”
Bonds, Pendleton
2B: 28, 34
HR: 25, 22
RBI: 116, 86
SB: 43, 10
Both teams finished 1st. HOW?
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by WalrusMan on Feb 18, 2009 4:58 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
BONDS DIDN’T THROW OUT SID BREAM*
*ignore the fact that MVP voting doesn’t include the postseason
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Feb 18, 2009 5:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
oh wait, he did win the MVP that year.
i got nothing.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Feb 18, 2009 5:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Position Scarcity, look it up.
Kent deserved it that year. If there’s an argument to be made, it’s for Piazza rather than Bonds.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
by Bhaakon on Feb 18, 2009 5:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Rick Reilly is to sports journalism what Charles Nelson Reilly was to sports journalism.
I once punched a hole in a light fixture in celebration of a J.T. Snow home run. That is all.
by oneflapdown on Feb 18, 2009 10:52 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
let the analogies floweth forth!
rick Reilly is to sports journalism what Brett Favre is to football…good once, but for the love of all that is good and holy, give it up, man!
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Feb 18, 2009 11:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Rick Reilly is to sports journalism what Ryan Seacrest is to news journalism.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 18, 2009 1:26 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
burned!
I wanted to adopt, but all the good looking babies were taken
by joeytothelimit on Feb 18, 2009 5:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Please don’t sully Ryan Seacrest’s good name by comparing him to Reilly.
by Natto on Feb 18, 2009 5:50 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
The wife makes me(yeah, I know) listen to him every morning on the way to work. He is such a tool.
Giant Dirtbags: Brian Anderson, Todd Jennings, Steve Hammond, John Bowker
Don't F with the Affeldt
by Giant among Angels on Feb 18, 2009 8:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
When I reassign Pulitzer Prizes to those winning writers who never took performance enhancing drugs, Rick Reilly has nothing to worry about.
(Because he’s a hack.)
by satyricrash on Feb 18, 2009 11:13 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
and Rick Reilly can go get fucked
"Those boos really motivate me to make something happen." - Bonds
by Persiflage on Feb 18, 2009 11:16 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Rick Reilly IS fucked.
The man’s dying. Of what I don’t remember , some wasting disease. Yeah , he seems all – inclusively condemnatory and should probably just stop and enjoy what life he has left without pissing publicly , but what ya gonna do?
OK if I adopt Randy Johnson?
"What kind of a stupid question is that?"
by victor frankenstein on Feb 18, 2009 6:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m not giving him any traffic.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
by groug on Feb 18, 2009 11:31 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I wonder many Reilly would have reassigned to A-Rod had he done this column a couple months ago.
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 18, 2009 11:36 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Oh my god yes. I hadn’t even thought of this, but you are so right.
by cornball on Feb 18, 2009 11:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, let’s redistribute the awards now, because every player who ever took PEDs has been named, and the game is clean and pure once again.
by rightcenterfielder on Feb 18, 2009 11:38 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Reilly is a moron. Move along.
No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
by Skaldheim on Feb 18, 2009 11:39 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Wow, that column was worse than I was expecting...
We’re throwing out Beltre since, while he denies ever using PEDs, he fell off the face of the planet once baseball put in stricter steroid suspensions in 2005.
So, basically, even if Reilly is suspicious of somebody then they are thrown out, too?
So he really should have named the column “here are some players I do and don’t like.”
Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.
Only [hella] games left until the end of Zito's contract.
by thehavenot on Feb 18, 2009 11:40 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
not to mention, he throws out Beltre but not Gonzalez?
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
by jponry on Feb 18, 2009 11:44 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
"here are some players I do and don’t like."
I thought that was the name of every Reilly column.
VAE PVTO DEVS FIO
by Bhaakon on Feb 18, 2009 5:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Rick Reilly has his head up his ass. Next.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 18, 2009 11:59 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I would cockpunch Rick Reilly if I could.
by xanthan on Feb 18, 2009 11:59 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Why can't you...
Is it because…
1) he has no cock
2) a restraining order
I am on a vendetta to make sports enjoyable to watch again, and Mr. Buck you are at the top of my LIST!!! Mr. Selig don’t get to upset you are number TWO!!!
by say hey nation on Feb 18, 2009 12:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
4) without any appendages…. yet
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
Your 2009 Opening Day starter at second base*: Eugenio Velez
*For the Fresno Grizzlies
by baetown415 on Feb 18, 2009 4:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I really cannot believe that ESPN allowed this to be published. It is one mans whining and giving awards to his favorite players. He even tosses out one guy who never tested positive.
“If he wasn’t cheating, I’m the Queen Mother.” Just because he assumes it.
Yet it is laughable he hands one over to Gonzales.
I have never felt sick after reading something until today. This article was disgraceful, even by ESPN standards.
by scout6 on Feb 18, 2009 12:08 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
This is Reilly’s shtick. Say crazy things, and watch people react. It’s predictable.
by xanthan on Feb 18, 2009 12:09 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Rick Reilly
Is a Douche. Why did the fact that the guy who was supposedly sending Jason Grimsley his “supplements” is also Pujols’ trainer never get any pub?
I have now added Rick Reilly to my list of people who I would love to meet strictly so I can punch them. The list is:
1. Joe Buck
2. Turk Wendell
3. Thom Brenneman
4. Craig Counsell
5. Rick Reilly
6. Joe Buck
7. Dayn Perry
8. Gene Wojciechowski
9. Joe Morgan
10. Jeff Passan
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on Feb 18, 2009 12:35 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
1.a. Bud Selig
…
11. Jeff Novitzky
I am on a vendetta to make sports enjoyable to watch again, and Mr. Buck you are at the top of my LIST!!! Mr. Selig don’t get to upset you are number TWO!!!
by say hey nation on Feb 18, 2009 12:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Pedro Gomez?
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Feb 18, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Punch
this.
Rafael Rodriguez: Your number 8 organizational prospect before stepping a foot on American soil and has "looked just super so far," according to Felipe Alou...according to Baggs.
by BrianBokake on Feb 18, 2009 3:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Pedro is a huge douche
I thought of him and figured that ESPN has pretty much rendered the guy irrelevant by way of sending him to cover sports they do not care about (soccer).
That is enough humiliation for me.
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on Feb 18, 2009 3:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
How about
Curt Schilling
A.J. Pierzynski
Tim McCarver
Scott Spezio
Never has a poster been more correct in the history of the internet. Ever! - ResDog on yours truly
by jcb9 on Feb 18, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
My favorite Tim McCarver quote of all time: “COWBOY!!!!”. He said this after the camera panned to an Angels fan wearing a Stetson. Even Joe Buck didn’t know what to say. The five seconds of silence were priceless.
by cornball on Feb 18, 2009 1:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
all those guys made my Bitch slap in public list
I save punches for my top 10
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on Feb 18, 2009 3:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You forgot Joe Buck!
He deserves to be punched in the face AT LEAST three times.
Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
by Little Napoleon on Feb 18, 2009 1:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
+1
Someone get Damon Minor's agent on the phone stat!
by fanofvanlandingham on Feb 18, 2009 3:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
+1 on #8
he’s as bad as they come. OH PLEAZ LOOK AT CHICAGO SPORTZ THEY ARE SO RELEVINT!
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Feb 18, 2009 1:41 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Dude
You totally left Joe Buck out of your hitlist
Sergio Romo will gladly hand you a bench to sit on / GIANTSPACE™ / Adopted brother of the AnVil
by SoFa King Mike on Feb 18, 2009 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I always thought I was in the Reilly hating minority. It appears I was mistaken!
You probably know it as MYANMAR, but it will always be BURMA to me!
by NuschlerFace on Feb 18, 2009 1:21 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
God, just when you think Rick Reilly couldn’t become any more of an insufferable ass hat. I am obviously not going to read this column because I have a firm rule never to read anything written by Rick Reilly, Skip Bayless, Scoop Jackson, or Stephen A Smith.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 18, 2009 1:25 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
As annoying as Stephen A is
He actually has some meaningful things to say once in a while. I can’t stand listening to him go on with his “If I yell it, people will listen” shtick, but I had to give him props when, as an African American, he was willing to call BS on some retarted claim a few years back of a racist incident that i can’t seem to recall at the moment. He seems to know his basketball, his presentation of it is just plain annoying.
STEVE HOLM! refuses to be the odd man out.
by UnleashTheGore on Feb 18, 2009 1:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I have never heard him say anything remotely worthwhile, but I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.
by FluLikeSymptoms on Feb 18, 2009 1:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
+18:88 AM/PM
Fred Lewis can stand under my umbrella.
31 May 2007, 21:38 EST - the last time Matteh's career W-L wasn't below.500
We are at war with Los Angeles. We have always been at war with Los Angeles.
by S.F. Giangst on Feb 18, 2009 7:26 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Reilly Face
Reilly got a lot worse once he started mugging for the cameras. He seems to think that if he holds his face in a perpetual smart-ass leer then what comes out of his mouth is funny by default. Though even before the TV appearances, I had my suspicions based on the fact he adopted that cutesy byline (“Life of Reilly”); cutesy bylines grate and usually indicate a writer who oversells himself and fancies himself a member of Letterman’s staff (a la Ostler’s “Cheap Shots and Bon Mots”, Ratto’s photo he used to run with his hand draped across the side of his face in mock disbelief, and any column that features a cartoon charachiture of the author).
by VidaWantsYourCar on Feb 18, 2009 3:28 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
True
But I’m sure once Grant gets a byline in a major publication he’ll let his writing do the talking. Then again, perhaps we should think of a cutesy byline for him to go along with the charachiture. Something like “I’ll Grant You That”, or “Grant and Rave”.
by VidaWantsYourCar on Feb 18, 2009 7:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
His column will be called “Grant’s Basement”
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 18, 2009 7:35 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Or “Hot Pocket Full of (Buster) Poseys”
by Lars The Wanderer on Feb 18, 2009 7:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
What's sad about this:
Reilly’s getting paid ~$3 million dollars to “write” for ESPN (I think that’s how much he’s signed on for)
They coulda paid me 1/100th of that and I woulda written the same slop and saved them a bunch of money.
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
Your 2009 Opening Day starter at second base*: Eugenio Velez
*For the Fresno Grizzlies
by baetown415 on Feb 18, 2009 4:42 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I just did….
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
Your 2009 Opening Day starter at second base*: Eugenio Velez
*For the Fresno Grizzlies
by baetown415 on Feb 18, 2009 5:58 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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