Rob Dibble calls Shawn Estes a clown, Ken Griffey Jr. can’t decipher Bob Boone’s Stanford vocabulary, and Alfonso Soriano–apparently–has “larceny in his soul.” All that and more in this Week in Quotes.
I was sitting in a restaurant with my wife Saturday afternoon when my cell phone jumped to life. Jonah Keri’s words�”Darryl Kile is dead.”�rang just as false as those boys’ words had on that August afternoon 23 years ago. Yet, it was true, it had to be true, because while children may joke about such things, adults know better.
I remember August 2, 1979. I was eight years old, sitting on a stoop with my friend Arthur, when some older kids came by and told us that Thurman Munson had died. We didn’t believe them. Then another kid came by and said the exact same thing. And what were the chances of two kids…
TAKE THAT BACK "[Dibble] was unprofessional and uninformed. He said there was no retaliation after Mike got hit. This is the reason people switch off ESPN, because you have people with no knowledge of the game or the English language presenting the game we love." —Bobby Valentine, Mets manager, on ESPN commentator Rob Dibble questioning…