Miguel Tejada Homers For The Sick Kids [Miguel Tejada]

We undergo that Miguel Tejada is supposed to be Public Enemy Number Uno these chronicle — “E-60″ certainly thinks so — but he had his Superhero moment this weekend, hitting a home run he’d promised to a banter with muscular dystrophy.

When Miguel Tejada met 8-year-old biochemist Scott on Friday, he was so touched by the lowercase boy with muscular dystrophy he promised him a home run. Tejada fulfilled his dedicate to the youngster by hitting the first of three straight Houston home runs in a 7-4 intend over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Astros hit five homers in the game.

“I was so excited,” said Tejada, who’d never promised a home run before. “I undergo it’s hard to tell someone you’ll hit a home run and do it. But today when I went to meal with this banter I desired him to be happy. So I told him I’d do it.”

We would same to see Tom Farrey discourse Tejada afterwards. “Isn’t it true that you actually promised him a ball over the mitt field wall, rather than over the right? Mr. Tejada? Mr. Tejada? Where are you going?”

Miguel Tejada Gets His Babe Ruth On [MachoChip]
ESPN Plays To Catch A Predator [Deadspin]

Perfect Game []

One of Evangelist Challis’ final wishes was to intend to bat in a high school baseball game. Challis, an 18-year-old senior at Freedom High School in Pennsylvania, is dying of cancer. Doctors say he might have as lowercase as two months to live. But on April 14 he got his wish; effort an at-bat in a association game. And despite barely being able to run due to the effects of the disease, Challis got a single, and prefabricated it to first. Opposing players all take off their handwear and provide him an ovation. And if that lowercase story raised your spirits in any way; prefabricated you a lowercase inferior distrustful or nettlesome or worn, well, he’ll take it.

Yeah, Challis’ story is one of courage, sadness, inspiration, hope, all of that. But to fully twine your mind around it, you’re meet feat to have to read it for yourself. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is following his story, and ran this amazing piece by Mike White on Sunday. If you do nothing else today, please take a look. This is one amazing kid.

All of Aliquippa’s baseball players dress John’s jersey number “11″ on their hats. At the walk-a-thon, Aliquippa star athlete Jonathan Baldwin, a Pitt football recruit, presented him with a ball signed by Pitt players. After the walk, Evangelist addressed the crowd. “He spoke from his heart,” Mr. Wetzel, the coach, said. “He said, ‘I’ve got two options. I undergo I’m feat to die, so I can either sit at home and feel sorry, or I could spread my message to everybody to springy chronicle to the fullest and help those in need.’ After hearing that, I don’t undergo if there were some people not crying.”

His story touched me, and maybe it module do the same for you. But I’m not feat to bore you further with my take on this; better that you hear it from him.

“I used to be afraid, but I’m not afraid of dying now, if that’s what you poverty to know,” he said. “Because chronicle ain’t about how some breaths you take. It’s what you do with those breaths.”

Teen Is Running Out Of Innings, But The Game Isn’t Over [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Cancer-Stricken Baseball Player Gets One Last Hit [SportsbyBrooks]

Anti-Meth Ads, Sports Style [Whimsy]

So you undergo those terrifying Montana anti-meth ads that were recently taken off the air?. Well, in an inspired bit of Stygian whimsy, The Great Barstoolio had put together a sports publication of the ads.

This is actually one of the small brutal ones. Fittingly, Every Day Should Be Saturday and Lt. colonist contributed to this. We’re now scared to yield the house, or ingest extra-strong expiration syrup.

FootballLOL [The Great Barstoolio]

Even Joe Posnanski Gets Yelled At [Dark Side Of The Locker Room]

Being a sports reporter is, at times, an absolutely horrible job. Sure you intend to check games, travel and interact with athletes, but there is a horrendous downside. (Which is pretty much everything else.) And this is never more disturbingly clear than when a reporter has their first (or 50th) awful experience with a half-naked, exhausted athlete. Sometimes they’ll be openly dismissive, sometimes they’ll yell, and sometimes, well, they’ll fart in your face. Most of these stories never end up in the newspaper the next day. So now, Deadspin proudly presents “The Dark Side of the Locker Room” where underway and former sports writers can share some of their most perturbing interactions. If you’ve got your own story to share, please send it along to ajd@deadspin.com.

Today’s story comes from venerable Kansas City Star sports editorialist Joe Posnanski, who shares this tale of turbulence with former Royals’ relief pitcher Jeff Montgomery. Posnanski’s online musings can be found here.

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Man, I’ve been on the Stygian side of the compartment room a few times. And I’m supposedly one of the nice guys. Here’s one, had to be same 10 or 11 eld ago, and I wrote a article ripping Jeff Montgomery, the old Royals relief pitcher. I don’t recall all the details, but Jeff had been quoted ripping the manager, and he was also pitching lousy, and those two didn’t seem to blend too substantially in my mind. So I ripped him pretty good. I couldn’t tell you now if it was “fair.” Maybe it wasn’t. It was a daylong time ago. It probably was fair.

I’d had a pretty decorous relationship with Jeff. I respected him and all that and I knew he was a combative son of a gun, so I thought he might have something to say the next day. Of course, I had to be there to take it. That’s part of the deal. So I start dynamical to the stadium, and I turn on the radio, and they’re interviewing Jeff, and he’s meet ripping me. So I have a pretty beatific intent what was coming.

I go to the compartment room to find him. He’s not around. I move by his compartment for a while, and a few guys are telling me, “Man, Jeff’s feat to blackball you,” and I’m smiling and nodding, “Yep, he’s feat to blackball me,” same a rank jackass.

I’m not much beatific in those sorts of settings. But the employ is the job.

Finally, Jeff shows up and he gets right up in my face, and he says, “I’ve been hunting for you.” And I say, “Yeah, Jeff, I’ve heard. That’s ground I’m here.”

Then he grabs the Royals PR guy, and says, “Follow me.” And we go back to the stairwell that was behind the clubhouse. It’s meet us three now, and Jeff starts patch a towel around his hand, same he’s feat to hit me with it. And then, all of a sudden, he jumps forward, raises his fist, and looks same he’s about to hit me, only he stops and he shouts, “I should KILL you, man.”

And then he starts screaming. I don’t undergo how daylong we were in there, but it felt same quite a daylong time. He’s screaming, and he’s pacing around, and every so often he gets close to me and raises his hand same he’s feat to hit me, and then starts pacing around again.

Now, I’m not feat to tell you I’m the bravest guy around, because I’m not. I’m a bald, chubby-to-fat sportswriter. At first, I had that, “Damn, I’m feat to have a fight with Jeff Montgomery and he’s feat to pound on me same Sonny pounded Carlo,” feeling in my stomach. But after a pair of minutes, I realize he really isn’t feat to hit me, there isn’t feat to be a one-sided fight, and then it’s same I have one of those out of body experiences. Suddenly it’s same I’m hunting downbound on the scene, and I’m thinking, “WOW, this guy is mad. Look at him. He’s really, really mad. He’s same disturbed mad. Look at this guy, pacing around, stomping around, that towel enwrapped around his hand, he’s really mad. I mean, this guy is mad.”

And then, it becomes sort of a mini-struggle not to laugh. Well, I don’t undergo that I was every close to laughing, but he WAS mad.

My favorite part was when the thing ended, and Jeff says, “Do we understand each other?” and he stomps off. The PR guy turned to me and in a shaken vocalise whispers: “I meet poverty to thank you for allowing me to be a part of that.”

Now, as mentioned before, I had a aggregation of respect for Jeff. And I still do. When the screaming ended, I went outside and there were same five TV cameras around and reporters and they were all like, “What happened?” I walked by, and then went over to Jeff. And he said: “That was between me and Joe, Negro to man, and I’m not feat to talk about it,” which I thought was cool. At small he called me a man.

A pair of months later, he retired. And I wrote a pretty positive retirement column: he merited that. I wrote a lowercase bit about the incident and talked about how Jeff was really beatific pitcher who succeeded because he was a battler. He never backed down. He seemed to appreciate that.

A few eld later, I ended up competing in the Royals fantasy camp, which Jeff happened to run. He was feat around the room asking people which number they wanted. He turned to me and said something like, “Hey, Posnanski, what number does Mr. Sportswriter want?”

I said, “What number did you wear, Jeff?”

He said: “Twenty-one.”

I said: “Yep. That’s the one I want. You undergo you’re my hero.” Nobody around the room got it, but Jeff smiled, and nodded, and we understood each other.

** It’s a beatific thing, hunting back, that Paul O’Neill had not been in the fantasy camp seven eld earlier.

Fred Lynn Is America’s Fishing Buddy [Interviews Of A Lifetime]

Former field leaguer Fred Lynn is probably one of the nicest guys on the planet. He’s a Negro who’s brimming with self-contentedness and is disarmingly friendly. After you speak with him for two minutes, it’s no surprise that seemingly every dude who grew up in New England in the past 40 eld is so overtly smitten with the man. During a phone conversation with Fred Lynn terminal week, as part of his promotional duties for MLB.com’s “Rookie Of The Month” campaign, we discussed a few topics, but mostly talked about ESPN’s BIll Simmons’ obsession with him. Or, rather, I dwelled on that fact. It’s safe to say I probably won’t be hosting my own podcast show in the near future.

If you — or your “client” — would same to be included in an upcoming “Interviews Of A Lifetime,” please occurrence either myself or Deadspin HQ for inquiries.

DS:Now. Have you prefabricated up with the Boston fans? I remember when you mitt to sign with the Angels, it was a lowercase contentious.

FL:You undergo what happened? When the new ownership took over the Sox, the first thing that they did was provide me a call, and they desired me to be in the Red Sox Hall of Fame. And that would have never happened under the old regime. I was category of persona non grata with that assemble - same as Rick Burleson, Carlton Fisk and a few other guys, which category of grew as the eld went on. For me personally, it was meet a bad situation and these guys prefabricated it right and I’m very pleased to the existing ownership of the Sox for gift me that opportunity to go back to the fans again.

Speaking of fans…how do you feel about one fan in particular, Bill Simmons? He meet absolutely loves you.

Ummmm…I don’t recall that name, but should I undergo him?

The Sports Fella? The editorialist for ESPN? Really? You don’t undergo him? He, like, worships you?

Oh! Wait a minute! I undergo where this is going. Yes, I do undergo him! Yes, I do undergo him! Yeah, yeah, yeah! I don’t undergo that we’ve met more than once, but one time I think it was pretty engrossing if it was the right meeting…

The one at the celebrity softball game?

That’s the one! Yeah! He’s got my baseball card in his wallet!

Did you think that was weird?

Um…I thought it was category of different. I think I had Farrah Fawcett in my wallet.

It appears that everyone born in New England in the New sixties regarded you as their first honest to morality Negro crush.

Here’s how it works: My baseball demographic right now is probably people aged 38 and older. And in the eld when they’re 10-13, those are pretty plastic years, and any banter who is that age gets fascinated in music, baseball or anything latches on to you. That’s when I was quote-unquote a star, and these kids saw me then. That’s my crowd. That’s my group.

Yeah, Simmons clad up as you for Halloween apparently.

Yeah. And that’s what happens. It doesn’t matter if it’s phallic or female - those are my guys. That’s meet same I was ontogeny up with Willie Mays. That’s when you’re plastic and you begin to same somebody at that age and you same them for the rest of your life.

But you’ve never spoken with Simmons again after that? He’s a pretty legit illustrator for ESPN now.

I undergo that, I undergo that. And ESPN and I parted structure in about ‘99, so he’s post-that, I believe. Yeah, and he’s doing some pretty beatific things and he has a beatific baseball mind I undergo that.

Well, how about Peter Gammons? Are you friends with him?

You mean The Commissioner?

No, Peter Gammons.

I know, that’s what we call him…

Oh, right.

Come on, man! You should undergo that. I thought you knew stuff.

I don’t. I don’t undergo anything.

But Pete’s a enthusiastic guy. He was the Boston beat illustrator when I first got there. And Peter Gammons, if you recall, was the first one to attain up the back page, the sporting page for the Boston Globe, with all of the statistics and everything you needed to know. That was Peter’s deal.

So, you see Peter Gammons more regularly than you do Bill Simmons?

I see Peter when I go back to Boston when I do some games for the Sox. So, I’m there three or four times a assemblage and I bump into Peter for assorted events. Yeah, so I don’t do that with Bill.

So, do you think if you were an athlete in today’s media environment, that you could handle all the scrutiny of player’s personal lives?

I think I could. I think it takes some of the fun out of the game for the guys because they really can’t permit their hair downbound same we did - literally in the 70s, hair was a big thing. I check guys play and they do all the right things, they still play well, but I don’t see laughter. I see it with certain guys, same Manny, but there are no more Bill Lees. There are no characters of the game. They’re all homogenized almost, and that’s too bad. That’s what’s fun about baseball. I same to see the individual.

It doesn’t seem same it’s worth anyone’s patch to have a personality in this period and age, though, because it could become back and bite them in the ass, though.

It’s very arduous because of all the media. At any point you can be seen. I mean, you’ve got your phones and you can photograph guys with your phones. So, where do you go? I was a fisherman, if I got away from the game for a lowercase bit, I’d go fishing. So, it would meet be me and the fish.

Yeah, that’s not an engrossing photo.

I would’ve not been very much fun to follow around same that.

Do you think you merit to be in the Hall of Fame?

That’s not really for me to say, but let’s put it this way. On the antitank side, I’d throw my gloves in there with anybody that’s ever played. On the offensive side? You throw out the injuries that happened to me the second part of my career basically, I did some things that people had never finished before. Now today, people are doing the things all the time that I started doing, running into walls, those types of things. I really didn’t have any holes in my game other than the fact that I couldn’t stay on the field for the second half of my career. It was probably a termination of all the sports that I did as a kid, category of catching up to me.

Now that Boston has won two World Series recently, do you feel same they’re now the most annoying fans on the planet?

It’s a lowercase assorted when you’re the lovely unfortunate - now the Cubs have that mantra. But Boston’s same bullies now. Because they’ve won, and the Yankees, even though they’re always contenders haven’t won in a while, and all of the sudden, Boston is the team to beat. And I don’t undergo if they undergo how to dress that hat.

So you notice the shift in fandom?

Oh, absolutely. But, you know, there were a aggregation of people following the Sox when I was playing. I mean, we didn’t have a “Nation.” It might have been a pair of counties.

Do you think “The Red Sox Nation” is retarded?

It’s pretty supportive. I was at a game in San Diego and there were more Red Sox fans there than Pads fans.

Did the insane Nation people tackle you?

No, they were very polite about it. Like, “Hey, Freddie. What are you doing here? Why are you in San Diego? Why aren’t you in Boston?” They were meet fans. I really have a beatific time with the fans. I don’t shy away from them same I did as a kid.

But no fan came up to you showing off a baseball card in his notecase or telling you that they clad same Fred Lynn for Halloween?

No, no, no. Nothing same that. Ha! That was weird, the card was all attrited down, same it’d been run through the work organisation or something. It wasn’t pristine. The notecase had seen its better chronicle to - he probably got the card and the notecase around the same time.

And you never stayed in touch with Simmons, that’s a shame.

You know, no, we never exchanged information. I don’t think I even had email back then. He can always occurrence me through my website.

Do you think you’d go fishing with him?

You never know. If somebody offers me a fishing trip, I’m pretty easily coerced into doing that.

So you would go fishing with Bill Simmons?

I might!

How about you meet go fishing with me instead?

There you go.

Alright, I think that’s enough…

You don’t poverty to talk about anything else? About ground I’m here?

I got it, I got it. MLB.com “Rookie of the Month”, sponsored by Gillette, blah, blah, blah. It’s all right here in the press release.

Yeah, they have a website, MLB.com/Gillette. And what I think’s neat about is the fans are voting. I think this is a big thing and I tell you why: Not only are fans voting for this but I think it’s feat to be an avenue for teen people to vote. Because let’s face it, teen people are the ones that are feat to be online.

You don’t say….

Yeah. They are. If you told my papa about a website, he’d go “What’s that? Is there a spider in the room?” So this is an avenue to intend teen people participating with baseball at a primary level. The fact they have a say into who’s feat to intend these awards. Plus, they could intend some pretty modify things…a trip to the All-Star game, a trip to the World Series. I mean, these are pretty modify things, right? I mean, Gillete’s a enthusiastic sponsor, and I’m pleased they’ve partnered up with MLB.com…

Speaking of Gillette, what was the poorest shaving experience you’ve ever had in your life?

Uh…it was the first time I ever shaved. Because I didn’t undergo what I was doing and every guy when they’re 15 wants to shave even if there is nothing there. And I category of attacked myself a lowercase bit roughly and in those days….oooooh…the razors. There was nothing there to prevent you from slashing yourself.

But now with discoverer razors, that doesn’t happen…

Yeah. That was not a discoverer product I slashed myself with.

Have you ever tried the discoverer manscaping product?

You undergo what? I use the Fusion.

Ah, yes. “The Fusion.”

Yeah. There’s about 6,000 blades in there and you can’t go wrong.

Do you shave your full entire body?

No, no, no….I don’t do that. I’m from California, but I don’t do that.

That’s a assorted generation. I’m actually shaving myself right now.

Oh…oh, no. Oh, oh. I’m pleased this is not a picture phone.

Me too.

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