OH gawd - I'd rather have cheerleaders first!!!

No %^$#*$&#^ Werth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was there too. In right field of course, but I remember that game all too well. That was YOU who set him off? Oh too funny. Well, I don't blame you. If my son was not always with me I am not sure what I would yell at that jerk. I remember him being a self righteous ass in right field in other games. It was instant hate. HATE. And I don't hate. Really. I would rather have BONDS than Werth.

How do we get Padres' management to read this? They need to know! He would be an instant cancer in the dugout and totally bad luck. Those guys are all superstitious, right? Ugh! Now my fingers are in knots.

as our starting left fielder, you'll be able to yell at him all the time!

Just think, opening day, 2007, he trots out to left field, and you can say, "Hey Werth, remember me? You suck!"

All year long...

...and watch the Cervecerias that watch a Padres team that included Jayson Werthless...

Chances are, even if we did bring in Werth he wouldn't make the team. The Padres are just trying to find some cheap right handed power. If the guy can prove that he's healthy in spring training and can hit the ball over the fence, how does that hurt?

I don't see how it could hurt to bring him in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrL21We3W0&eurl=

re-arrange the letters and he spells "enjoys wrath"!

This past September, I was at this game at Wrigley Field:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=260912116&page=plays

You'll note the Dodgers were up 7-0 in the second inning.  Now ex-Cub Freddie Bynum, who had to be the worst player in MLB last year, made three errors in those 2 innings, 2 on one play, dropping a pop fly, and then air-mailing a ball north, toward Milwaukee. I was seated in the 2nd row, behind home plate, just left of the Cubs dug-out.

After paying 125-bucks for the seat, and adding to the fact that it was a lousy, cold, drizzly night -- and the game, at that point was horrid --I could take it no more.

Mr. Bynum comes into the on-deck circle in the 3rd. I'm still pissed from his woeful pretense of a major leaguer, when I let it fly -- but I didn't use profanity: "Freddie, you suck!!"

He's about 10 yards away. To the amazement of me, and all sitting around me blows me the F-word. I couldn't believe it. This lousy ballplayer says: "F@@k You!" Even a nearby usher said, "You didn't swear at him! What an idiot. If I did that, I'd be walked out of the ballpark. But it's OK for the major leaguer (barely) to curse at me.

So, I understand. Like Werth, Bynum just couldn't leave well enough alone. The smart thing to do is to NOT answer back. So, you did get to him, take some consolation in that. Most athletes are smart enough to leave well enough alone.

The good news is the the Cubs beat the Dodgers in 11, that night (as the rain started to fall in sheets) coming back from Bynum spotting LA seven runs.

So, the night wasn't a total waste.
(Note: Bynum has recently been sent to Baltimore for what seems to be a bag of balls. I think the Cubs got the better of that deal.)

Depodesta et al.  There are many trades and signings yet to happen, if last year shows anything.  This time last year, who knew AG, Cla, etc lived on this earth, much less would play some fine ball.

Your response mirrored about 75% of the bleedcubbieblue posters, when I explained the story in September. I couldn't believe it -- nor could the operator of the blog. It's a time-honored tradition to boo, or say something, if you choose -- as long as it's not profane, sexist, or just in plain bad taste. I thought 3 errors in 2 innings....well, the abysmal baseball I was enduring was calling for some sort of exclaimation, outside of -- boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

However, I'll bet all of those who took the high ground in their post were hypocrites, and insulted a ballplayer or two -- in their heads. (I am not saying you are, because this is now a discussion in the abstract. Most of the posters were watching the game in question, and didn't seem to mind that Freddie Bynum is the worst player in MLB.) Or, it could be because I insulted ONE OF THEIR OWN. Perhaps they never sat that close, knowing they could be heard by a player. Maybe their insults were hurled from the upper deck, where only their seatmates would hear and chuckle, I don't know. Maybe, if it was a Dodger that I yelled at -- nobody would have cared. I am still mystified at the response.

I can't remember exactly what year this happened, it was late 90's though. I had scored some amazing seats on top of the visitors dugout for a Padres game vs. the Cardinals. Andy Benes was starting for the Cards. Benes was always a real sore point for me because of the fact that I knew...I just knew he was going to be this stud number one for us for years to come. It still kills me to think of what he could have been in a Padre uniform. Anyway, I digress. So Andy is killing the Padres. Pitching inside, mixing his pitches....all the stuff he never did in a Padre uniform. My resentment of him is growing with every out. Andy is standing in the on-deck circle and I can't help myself any longer. I start in on him. NO profanity...NONE. But, still. I start roasting him: "OH, NOW YOU START PITCHING INSIDE?!? NOW YOU PITCH LIKE A MAN?? WHERE WAS THIS WHEN YOU WERE A PADRE?? WE WAITED YEARS FOR YOU TO GROW A PAIR!" The guy at the plate makes an out and Andy goes back into the dugout to grab his glove and as soon as he starts making his way out to the mound...I start back in on him. Ron Gant is coming out of the dugout at the same time and turns to me and says "Shut your mouth!" and runs out to the outfield. "What? I didn't even say anything about Ron Gant!" End of the inning, Gant comes running in. I lean over and ask him how his new endorsement deal with Yamaha is coming. (Gant had been cut by the Braves after he broke his leg in a motorcycle accident just a couple years before...it had cost him a HUGE contract.) He didn't appreciate my comment.  When he came out of the dugout the next time...I yelled "Vroom...vroom, Ron!" He turned and flipped me off. Everybody around me was going "Dude, Ron Gant just flipped you off! Awesome!"

That's why I hate Ron Gant.

This is from the U-T this morning...

"An agent for outfielder Jayson Werth said four clubs have offered major league contracts for him. The Padres and Cardinals are among those interested."

Werth is the grandson of former Cardinal shortstop Dick "Ducky" Schofield. Hopefully, he'll end up there. I would hate to lose Dex over some douchebag back-up outfielder. Now if it were Vernon Wells or a player of that caliber...we'd just have to find a way to go on without Dex. But for a back-up outfielder...no way.
 

Dex,

Wii have a wii-call...

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=196700239

let stuff roll right off them. There are those who say "they're people, too." Well, duh. As long as what's said doesn't contain profanity -- or is in extremely bad taste (There's a problem -- 'bad taste' is subjective, but as a Supreme Court Justice once said, "I know porn when I see it" in ruling on a case, over 25 yrs ago) what the heck.
If it's creative, ala Gant/Yamaha what's the problem? All these guys need to do is shut up, and laugh all the way to their mansions in Rancho Santa Fe.

Sorry we hurt their "fragile" psyches...if you don't like it, get a real job like the rest of us.