Archive for February 27th, 2006

Man crush on Tino????

The Tino chat isn’t an interview you’d listen to, it’s a way for ESPN.com visitors to submit their questions to someone hosting the chat (Rob Neyer, Jason Stark, Peter Gammons, Steve Phillips, Buster Olney, and now…Tino Martinez) and get real-time responses…just like a chat room.
Mike G, here is a link to the Tino chat. [...]

Who cares… but

You can file this AP report under who cares, but it is kind of interesting that a father is pitching to his son in spring training camp. I wonder if this has ever happenned before??
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) _ Roger Clemens’ son took dad deep on the
Rocket’s first pitch of spring training, crushing a trademark
fastball [...]

One other item today – The Baseball Hall of Fame

The Veteran’s Committee announced its results for election for the 2006 class today. Their vote makes the 2006 entering class the largest in history: 18. The names are not familiar to most people but the breakdown goes like this:
7 former Negro League Players;
5 Pre-Negro League Players;
4 Negro League Executives;
1 Pre-Negro League Executives; and
1 [...]

Tino Martinez Chat

I didn’t hear the chat either, but I read last week that Tino signed on with ESPN to be an analyst for thirty or forty games.

Tino Martinez Chat

Sorry Mike G., I didn’t get a chance to listen. I know how much you admire Tino – that’s too bad. But I’ll make a prediction: We have not seen the last of Tino Martinez in pinstripes. Coach or Spring Training Instructor, I’m sure he’ll be around. He took wearing the [...]

Tino Martinez Chat

I wasn’t able to listen to the Tino Interview. Since everyone knows I have a man-crush (as Mike T. once put it) on Tino, you can imagine how this upsets me. Did anyone have the chance to listen? Any interesting news?

Gary Sheffield

Len, I can’t agree with you any more. Unfortunately, other ballplayers around the league respect him (for some reason I can’t grasp) including many of the Yankees. Which is why he is such a bad influence. When he doesn’t run out ground balls, he doesn’t hustle in the field, his approach at [...]

Tino Martinez Chat

Tino Martinez will be chatting on ESPN.com at 1 PM this afternoon.