Donnie Ballgame
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
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My name is Mike. I'm a 30 something father of one. Becoming a father has taught me so much about life and perspective. Watching your child from the time they are a helpless infant to an increasingly independent toddler, is truly amazing. After being way too sedentary for the past decade, I started the couch to 5K program and I'm now hooked. I am amazed that I actually enjoy running now.
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3 Comments:
Isn't it ironic from 83-94 (the mattingly playing era) no world series wins for the Yankees. Then he leaves and the yankees have a "dynasty" then he comes back to the Yankees and no more World Series wins for the yankees ... coincidence I THINK NOT.
Keith Hernandez, Two-time world series champ, Gold Glover, MVP, TV star, announcer, spokesman and proud mustache wearer!!
What you're forgetting is the "supporting cast" that played during the Mattingly era. Pitchers like Andy Hawkins, managers like Stump Merrel and a SS named Alvaro Espinoza. Put him on a team with Jeter at SS, Cone, Pettitte and Clemens at starting pitchers and a closer like Mo, and he'd have 3 or 4 rings. For most of his tenure, Mattingly was the standout star on the team. Not like the current Yankees lineup that is essentially an All-Star at every position. Despite having a bad back which inevitable cut his career short, he ended up with better career stats than Hernandez who was quite healthy.
Plus Mattingly still holds the record for most grand slams in a season (which has held for 20 years now) and in his MVP season he drove in a miraculous 145 RBI's. Hernandez only drove in 100+ runs once in his career and never as a member of the Mets. Hernandez never hit more than 18 home runs in a season. Mattingly hit 18+ home runs 6 consecutive seasons.
And I'll let Keith have his Seinfeld cameos and his just for men commercials. Donny is too busy to do that stuff. Ya know, being the hitting instructor, and now bench coach for the Yankees is very time consuming. It's funny how Keith was never brought back to coach. Maybe because he was too busy chasing women out of the Mets
And one final note. Which nickname would you rather have? Donny baseball/ballgame or "Mex"?
The prosecution now rests :-)
Oh and I also found this on Hernandez . So add drug abuser to hist list of accolades.
In the February 27, 1995 issue of Sports Illustrated, writer Tom Verducci criticized Hernandez for his negative influence on young Mets stars Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, whose careers were shortened by substance abuse problems:
The most influential player on those Met teams of the mid- to late-1980s was Hernandez, the smarmy first baseman who, during 1985 drug trials in Pittsburgh involving 23 baseball players, admitted using cocaine while he was with St. Louis in the early '80s. Hernandez advised Strawberry on how to break out of a batting slump: Go out and get totally smashed. Strawberry remembers the time Hernandez told him he'd found the perfect drink, of which he needed only five or six in a night: "Dry martini," Strawberry says, laughing.
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