me on the BART with gene michaels

[Arpikarhu]

riding the BART back to the hotel from the oakland/seattle game i see gene michaels. i say hello and ask him if george was too cheap to give him a car service from the stadium. he laughs and we get to talking. he said that giambi will probably be left off the playoff roster and questioned his heart. he said if it had been jeter he would have already been back to top form. he then talked about what a pain in the ass el duque is in the clubhouse but how much better he is than contreras. he also said how awful heredia is. i noticed his world series ring and he let me hold it and check it out. it was the 2000 series ring. those suckers are huge! we talked about santana's slider, how leiber has a bad slider but it works when he can place it, and how he is pushing to get pavano or radke rather than pedro in the offseason. he also said that unless mussina really steps up that the yanks dont have the pitching to win it all this year.
he was really cool and very candid.

[Ronin]

how was his mule juice? is that appropriate to ask?

[Goatweed]

I agree with his pitching assesment, though I said the very same thing on day 1 of Spring Training. Unless the rotation magically steps up, they'll be lucky to make it out of round 1.

Those rings really are huge, right?

[Keyser Soze]

i snapped a picture of a championship ring, arpi has to lie about it.

[Ronin]

arpi, how was the earthquake?

[The Sleeper]

how was his mule juice? is that appropriate to ask?

YMB called, they want their post back

[Ronin]

funny

[drusilla]

sleeper got the laugh though.

[Mad]

I hope you make it through the earthquakes or if we're lucky the whole place will just fall into the ocean.

[Arpikarhu]

i slept through it.