Friday, October 12, 2007

tony gwynn and the rockies

watching the rockies hang tough against the d-backs in game 2, and i had a thought, strange as that seems.

is it just me, or is tony gwynn the john madden of baseball?

don't get me wrong--the guy seems like a genuinely nice guy, and he knows his stuff, obviously. but his thought processes suggest he may have taken one too many pitches up and in. he sort of repeats the same thought several times in one sentence, and rambles off into these weird loops of pointing out the obvious, these tautologies that would make a Bush press secretary proud: "Well, he's leading off quite a ways, so that's pretty far out there, off the bag like that..."

it doesn't help that he has a voice that makes him sound like the unholy offspring of Mr. Rogers and Urkel...

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