Looking for more reasons not to go to a Yankees or Mets game this year?

OK, how about this. If a runner is trying to score a run, charging hard from third base and the catcher is about to get the ball on a throw from the outfield already blocking the baseline you know what's coming.....nothing. No big plays at he plate anymore. The runner coming from third base MUST now slide. He cannot impact the catcher even if the catcher is blocking his way. He HAS to slide.

Disgraceful. Simply disgraceful. Oh we know there will be the nannies who tell us Pete Rose did Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game and Fosse's career was never the same blah blah blah. Too bad. A collision IS part of the game. Catchers grow up knowing this. If the catcher has the ball and you have no other path to the plate, you knock him over. Johnny was excellent at this in Little League, Pony League, and High School baseball.  Just not in the Major Leagues anymore. Players have to slide and try to find away around the catcher. Woooo, how unexciting. Yet one more reason baseball has become quite unwatchable gets worse.

Tell us MLB, were pitcher instructed to never throw inside again? That to us would seem far more dangerous and hit batsmen (beanballs) happen far more frequently than home plate collisions, but THAT seems to be part of the game according to the wussies at Major League Baseball. Colliding with the catcher isn't anymore. What about breaking up double plays? Guys with a hard slide certainly hurt more infielders than any runner hitting a catcher every year. For once in his life Pete Rose is right:

"You're not allowed to pitch inside. The hitters wear more armor than the Humvees in Afghanistan. Now you're not allowed to try to be safe at home plate?" Rose said. "What's the game coming to? Evidently the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball."

So if you're sick of stooges like A-Rod and Ryan Braun being celebrated, if you can't stand the fact you still subsidize the Mets and Yankees stadiums, if the on-field product has become almost unwatchable, now baseball goes and takes out even more excitement.

Anyone from MLB that wants to show up and have this debate here Johnny would love nothing more. He just won't be doing it from Debits Field in Queens or Billion Dollar House that Taxpayers Built in the Bronx.

Oh, and the games are going to be awash in instant replays next year. See you at the shore!

So, A-Roid gets a 211 game ban from MLB

They should ban this self-serving, lying, arrogant douchcanoe for life. Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun, all of 'em. Don't care who they play for or how many RBI's they have. Broom the bunch.

Maybe a guy you'd never associate with baseball said it best in the dying moments of the Sex Pistols at the Winterland in San Francisco. Baseball fans FF this video to the :30 second mark and you'll immediately get the sentiment.


That is all. Carry on.

Anyone surprised at A-Rod showing up again in a list of drug cheats?

Or Ryan Braun in Milwaukee or ANY of the other cheats about to be named and suspended by Major League Baseball? We've known since Barry Bonds allegedly went from a 7 1/4 hat size to an 8 in one offseason. We've known since Sammy Sosa suddenly forgot how to speak English before Congress. We've known since Rafael Palmeiro lied to Congress. Mark McGwire admitted to it. There are no surprises anymore as so many have been caught juicing or offering up such ridiculous defenses you just know. Like Amanda Bynes swearing up and down she doesn't smoke the reefer.

Which makes ole' A-Rod sound like an even bigger fool when after being named by Sport Illustrated in 2009 said famously:

"The only thing I ask from this group today and the American people, is to judge me from this day forward. That’s all I can ask for."

OK, here we go. In the words of Robert Shaw in The Sting "Not only are you a cheat, you're a gutless cheat as well." How long did you wait after saying those words did you head back to Dr. Feelgood in Miami? Well Dr. Feelgood took copious notes and he's ready to spill on you and your "not Tic-Tacs". You made millions by cheating to get an advantage on other players. How proud you must be. Johnny cares not who else did it, he'd broom their sorry cheating asses too. Hopefully your time in New York and anywhere else is done. The Yankees will probably never get their "investment" in you back ever even if they sue for the unused portion of your contract.

Thus far Bud Selig has been an absolute failure as a commissioner. He now stands on the precipice of where baseball goes from here. Are there long suspensions and some even 100 game suspensions (we'd hope without pay) coming for some big names? Or will the bigger punishments come against the smaller names like Mets minor leaguer Cesar Puello or the Yankees Francisco Cervelli who also may be suspended in all this. Which is it Bud? If it were up to Johnny he'd channel his inner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and broom them all for good. Probably a big reason he's not in charge.