Most Popular
Recent Blog Posts
Ex-Chiefs GM Carl Peterson's pad up for sale ... if you have $4.25 million
Thu Mar 18, 1:55 PM
Kansas becomes first state to ban K2 (updated)
Thu Mar 18, 12:10 PM
Eric Zahnd, Platte County prosecutor, says the death penalty prevents crime. Not so fast
Thu Mar 18, 12:00 PM
44 people didn't have the luck of the Irish on St. Paddy's Day
Thu Mar 18, 11:18 AM
Scene & Heard: Nick Ray
Thu Mar 18, 2:00 PM
Video: Andrew W.K., "I'm A Vagabond"
Thu Mar 18, 11:58 AM
Rock of Pages: Hear No Evil
Thu Mar 18, 8:30 AM
Sun Chips: Snack food for your compost pile
Thu Mar 18, 2:03 PM
Chicken Annie's vs. Chicken Mary's: The great Kansas food war
Thu Mar 18, 1:00 PM
Little Debbie: Chat with her live tonight!
Thu Mar 18, 10:45 AM
National Features >
SF Weekly
Turning the Tables
"Hey, Mr. Deejay: Bend over and spread 'em."
By Lois Beckett
City Pages
Big Farma
Meet the Minnesotans who receive federal subsidies for not growing anything.
By Matt Snyders
Village Voice
Rent-a-Wreck
We begin our countdown of New York's Ten Worst Landlords.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Grow House Murder
The sweet smell of ganja was a dead giveaway. So was the dead body in the freezer.
By Gail Shepherd
Off the Couch
If your AM radio is on the fritz, catch up on all your sports talk here!
Share
Published on June 21, 2001
"I find it interesting that a guy can set up his financial picture for life based on just his success in college or high school. Do they deserve that? No, they don't deserve that. They should have to work their way to the big leagues like everybody else, not by where they got drafted. That is an issue that a lot of guys have problems with."
-- Joe Randa, on the large signing bonuses paid to top draft picks nowadays, WHB 810
GH: I find it interesting that a guy like Randa is making $2.3 million for nine months' work this year while hitting .246 for a last-place team ... and this guy is bitching about rookies' making too much money? How I wish every Major League Baseball player would have to spend one summer working the night shift at the Ford plant hanging tires on F-150s.
"I've got my finger on the button. We're not going to beat anybody up in here today, Joe. So I'm going to try and protect you."
-- Kevin Kietzman, during a live interview with Randa, 810
GH: If Randa can't handle the tough questions from Royals fans, don't have the guy on your show. Who is protecting the fans who pay money to watch Randa and his mates stink up Kauffman Stadium?
"Anyone who doesn't think this Royals team is legitimate doesn't know a damn thing about baseball."
-- Steven St. John, from spring training in March, 810
"Sometimes I wish I were different. Sometimes, after losses like this, I wish I could put it away and live my life. But I can't. Baseball is my life. It's sad, but it's more important to me than my family. It's more important to me than my friends. It's more important to me than eating. I'm not saying that's right. It's not right. It's shallow. But this is who I am."
-- Allard Baird, The Kansas City Star
GH: This is beyond sad. If anybody catches Baird taking massive hits of smelling salts, please lock his office door and send him home.
"At Yankee Stadium, a fan grabs a home-run ball and holds it aloft in triumph, exposing a gun in a holster strapped to his pants. At no other stadium in baseball do you find fans of that caliber."
-- Scott Ostler, columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
Now Click This
