Batter up, get battered
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Baseball is America’s pastime. It’s a sport that was born on green pastures, and as George Carlin reminds us, it’s played in a park. A park – a relaxing place.
Yet baseball, like payday loans in Hawaiian Gardens and unsecured loans, is also a business. People get uptight at times in their quest to win. I’m all for having competitive fire, but is there any place for challenging someone to a physical scuffle over their play on the field? Is Tony Bernazard, VP of Player Development for the Binghamton Mets, out of his mind?
It’s old school, yes
Out of his mind? I don’t think so. Overly aggressive? Perhaps.
I appreciate the kind of kick-in-the-pants style that used to motivate players. However, the “new school” of players are very sensitive to that kind of thing and tend to shut down. Are they the slang terms associated with a woman’s anatomy, as Bernazard called infield prospect Jose Coronado? Yes… I object to the use of the term in the sense that it is degrading to women, but the meaning is clear. New school players are… those things.
Because society babies them
Star athletes are conditioned to feel a sense of entitlement almost from the beginning.They’re coddled through school if they aren’t particularly good students and are told that as long as they can excel at their sport, nothing else matters. That’s an unhealthy way to raise a human being. If you need payday loans in Hawaiian Gardens and unsecured loans to help pay for therapy as a result of such an upbringing, or your children do, apply right here, right now.
He’s a Hulkamaniac in search of the promised land
Adam Rubin of the New York Daily News takes the position that Tony Bernazard AND New York Mets GM Omar Minaya should be fired after the Binghamton Mets clubhouse near-throw down between Bernazard and various players who were at the receiving end of his invective for their uninspired play.
Tony Bernazard went so far as to remove his shirt during his tirade, apparently taking a page from the Hulk Hogan handbook. Or, if you want to go really old school, from the Nation of Israel guys who tore their garments asunder. But we have video tape of Hogan, so that must be true.
“That’s an all-timer if true,” one American League official said after he’d heard the news. Rubin indicates that multiple sources within the Mets organization have corroborated the details.
“A stern voice”
That’s what home club New York Mets GM Omar Minaya says Tony Bernazard used when addressing the Binghamton players. “I know he did have a team meeting with them,” Minaya told the Daily News. “It was not a ‘you-guys-have-been-great meeting.’ I know he spoke to them in a stern voice. But as far as what he was wearing, what kind of shoes he was wearing, I don’t know anything about that.”
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OK, so there were also allegations of underage drinking on this class Double-A team. And their record is 36-58, good for last place in the Northern Division of the Eastern League. They’ve lost three games by seven runs or more. Apparently things were headed for a major boil.
Hit the curveball, not the player next to you
Bernazard was a fiery player during his day. It’s no surprise that he’s carried that into his post-playing career in baseball. I say that young men need guidance, and they certainly don’t need alcohol when they’re underage and a team is investing lots of time and money in them. They should honor their contracts and Tony Bernazard should stay aggressive but keep his fists to himself. Shiners tend to impair vision, which makes hitting the curveball a… you know, the word for a female member of the dog family.
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