Monday, September 22, 2008

Houston, You Have a Bouncing Baby Berkman

Although the resemblance is uncanny, the photo to the left is not of Houston Astros first baseman Lance Berkman.

Berkman has failed to stop crying since his team had to face the Chicago Cubs on the "neutral" ground of Miller Park in Milwaukee (home of the Brewers) earlier this month, after Hurricane Ike went through Houston.

In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Berkman said, "waaahhhhh .... waaaaahhhh... hmph, hmph, hmph ... waaahhhhh!" Luckily, the Chronicle Reporter had out his Berkman-to-English dictionary and was able to translate his diatribe on baseball in to the following:

Major League Baseball has always valued the dollar more than they do the individual, the players and their families,” Berkman told the newspaper in a report published Sunday. “That’s illustrated in things like playing through a lightning storm in Chicago.” (Here, he refers to a game in August in which the Astros and Cubs started playing baseball in threatening weather...the team was called off the field when the fast-moving storm came over Wrigley Field, then they finished the game when the skies cleared, pretty standard for an outdoor game.)

“The most important thing is getting the game in so you don’t lose the gate and you don’t lose the revenue. That’s A-No. 1. And then if in the course of that you can work it around where players aren’t affected, that’s a distant second."

You think, Mr. Berkman? Is that why baseball players who play at your level make more money in one year than I'll ever see in my lifetime? Imagine, a business putting profits first. How will it ever succeed?

If you had a second to stop whining about why Bud Selig and MLB decided to put the games in Milwaukee, why don't you go talk to your owner, Drayton McLane, and ask him why he didn't accept the offer the Cubs and MLB made earlier in the week to play those games in either St. Louis or Florida? It was his indecision and eagerness to keep those sold out games in Houston that forced MLB's hand to have the games in Milwaukee -- at a field where there was a retractable dome, so that there was no doubt the games would be played. You may have forgotten that games in six other cities were cancelled that Saturday due to rain across the country.

If you are so upset by baseball acting like a business Lance, why don't you just quit and go work as a missionary, so that individuals and families are put before the almighty dollar.

I feel terrible for the people in Houston who have to deal with the devastation caused by Ike. For those not making millions of dollars, they have to try to pick up the pieces of their life and rebuild their homes and some how move on with limited resources. The last thing they need to hear is a millionaire crying about how Major League Baseball screwed over his team, so that they don't have the opportunity to get knocked out in the first round of the playoffs.

Lance Berkman, you suck!

RoadRage

2 comments:

Mum-Ra said...

Whats more?They picked Miller park over other site so both teams wouldn't travel too much and in almost no way it could be postponed.
Berkman your arguing balls and strikes You Dumb Ass!

Judge Smails said...

And here I always thought Berkman was just a rube. All he's trying to do is out-Kent Jeff Kent, and I think he may have done it here.

At a time when your home city is without power, people can't return to their homes, devastation is everywhere, you're whining about where a neutral-site game was held?

Rage is right. McClane had the chance to move those games to St. Louis, Atlanta or Miami, but he chose to hold out to show the MLB that the neat fins on the side of Minute-Maid Park helped through the wind resistance. This shows a completely out of touch human being.

While the common folk like Rage and Smails are figuring out how to cover their deductibles to pay for the damage to their property, waiting days for power to return and trying to find some semblance of regular life, these two cake eaters are acting like this thing is the end of civilization as we know it.