In all seriousness, Karl Ravech may be the biggest sissy on TV. As the host of "Baseball Tonight" on ESPN I've had to watch him nearly cry TWICE in the past two days. The first time being when Steve Phillips pointed out that ARod has more home runs than eight or nine TEAMS!
Phillips then said....
Phillips: "It's hard to question a guy being worth 25 million when he hits more home runs than whole teams with twice as much money spent on entire payroll."
This set Ravech off on a sissy fit! He screams about "No one is worth that" and then the highlight of any debate.... "I'm not even going to discuss this"
Huh?
You're the anchor of an analysis show Karl! That's your fucking job! To discuss AND debate the topics of the day. Generally I find Steve Phillips to be a poor judge of anything doing with talent (See: Scott Kazmir Trade) but he may have a point here.
If Arod is being more productive than entire TEAMS offensively than it stands to reason he's worth a lot of money. But since Karl REFUSED to even discuss the topic we move on...
To last night... And the Torii Hunter story. The one where he sent the Royals four bottles of champagne to "Thank them" for sweeping the White Sox at the end of last year. Thus, making it possible for the Twins to make the playoffs. Now apparently, there is some little known rule in baseball's rule book that states such an action is worthy of at LEAST a three year suspension. Most sane people I've heard discuss this are on Torii's side and think the whole thing is a bit silly to say the least.
Not Ravech!
Nope, he thinks a "rule is a rule" no matter how fucking dumb! And just to recap here, in MLB...
Throwing at a batter's head = 5 games
Corked bat = 10 games
Steroids = 50 games
Bottle of bubbly = THREE FUCKING YEARS!
Anyone with common sense can see what I'm getting at.... Torii Hunter was having some fun and the Royals never even opened the bottles. They sent them back. A simple warning would do here. However, in Karl Revech's tiny mind "a rule is a rule"
Something I watched him repeat last night so many times, in rapid succession, he nearly hyperventilated and I'm almost certain he did begin to cry.
Some one get this guy's mother to powder his ass and wipe his nose..... And get me someone with a set of balls to discuss sports on my TV.
