I heard this live on the air yesterday, but at the time, it didn't immediately make me think that Steve Lyons believes all Hispanic people are robbers. Or whatever people think he meant.
Here's what happened:
In the second inning of Friday's game between Detroit and Oakland, Piniella talked about the success light-hitting A's infielder Marco Scutaro had in the first round of the playoffs. Piniella said that slugger Frank Thomas and Eric Chavez needed to contribute, comparing Scutaro's production to finding a "wallet on Friday" and hoping it happened again the next week.
Later, Piniella said the A's needed Thomas to get "en fuego" - hot in Spanish - because he was currently "frio" - or cold. After Brennaman praised Piniella for being bilingual, Lyons spoke up.
Lyons said that Piniella was "hablaing Espanol" - butchering the conjugation for the word "to speak" - and added, "I still can't find my wallet."
"I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit too close to him now," Lyons continued.That's the official story, but I think this firing has a lot more to do with what happened between Steve and Lou at Outback after the game.
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Steve Lyons, on whether the Yankees were too "undergeeked" (not my choice of words) for the series with the Tigers:
There's no more Paul O'Neill to get up in the face of these veteran players.Paulie yelling certainly would have helped Sheffield catch on to those filthy Bonderman sliders.
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The Fox cameras show Jerry Seinfeld and Matthew Broderick watching the game together, then cut to Matt Dillon.
TB: Matt Dillon ...SL: I don't know, the Entourage guys are kind of split up, huh? Dillon's here at the Met game. I saw Kevin Connolly last night -- he was at the Yankee game. A little infighting on Entourage I think.So it's come to this for Matt Dillon. Get nominated for an Oscar for a terrible movie, then have the indignity of being mistaken for your far less famous brother by Steve Lyons on national TV.
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It's bad enough that Berman pulls it out fifty times a game. Now, right before the Mets-Dodgers game, Lyons and Brennaman just
both used it in the span of one minute. How does that happen?
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Thanks to reader Bryan for this nice little nugget:
On Saturday's FOX broadcast of Mets vs. Giants:
"Offerman is a guy who can clearly still hit. His numbers don't indicate that this year."This is really the essence of the problem, isn't it? Pundits making statements about the game which are in direct contradiction to actual fact. Of course, it is very rare, and exciting, for one of them to immediately acknowledge how wrong he is -- in essence, to do FJM's work for us.
(FTR: Offerman has had an OPS above .716 once since 2000, and that was in 172 AB with the Twinkies last year.)
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