Orioles: Reporting day begins
Orioles training camp officially is open today, but players have been filtering in for the past few days, and the Japanese media has been here since early in the week monitoring pitcher Koji Uehara. The first full workout for pitchers and catchers is tomorrow.
The medical staff is setting up for tomorrow's physicals. The coaching staff is putting the final touches on the training schedule. The writers are wondering what to do with themselves already.
I'll have some player stuff shortly, but while you're waiting, you might want to look at this Yahoo! Sports story out of the new Los Angeles Dodgers training camp, where Joe Torre held court yesterday and threw down the gauntlet by calling Alex Rodriguez's numbers "tainted."
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Comments
If ARod's numbers are tainted doesnt that mean that Torre's win numbers are likewise tainted? I wonder if anyone has asked Torre if he helped himself to handfuls of greenies out of the candy jars in locker rooms when he was playing.
Posted by: Lucky Horseshoe | February 14, 2009 2:00 PM
Say it ain't so, Joe! Whats gotten into Torre. I don't know, but I like it.
Posted by: Punk Flamingo | February 14, 2009 7:28 PM
Eh, I really wouldn't say Torre's win count is all that tainted, since his team's performance was overall excellent year after year from 1996 on, and A-Rod didn't join the club until 2004. Now, if Jeter is revealed to be a steroid user, then you can call it into question (even though Paul O'Neill and Scott Broscious were more important to the Yankees' World Series wins than Jeter was).
Posted by: Matthew | February 15, 2009 12:45 AM
Here we have the "lucky horsesarse" besmirching Joe Torre and accusing him of taking illegal amphetamines. Aren't there libel laws anymore ?
Posted by: jason c in south florida | February 15, 2009 12:34 PM