Posted on 06/29/2005 4:41:53 PM PDT by No Blue States
Thanks! Now people can get an idea of what happened.
Quick thinking on his part. Good move.
Nice!
Sheesh. Couldn't he have just sent it to the Time Out Chair for being bad?
Mixed emotions on my part but what the heck, one is a start........
have you seen Kenny Rogers?
He is definitely one guy that isnt on the roids...
It was his right hand, his non-pitching hand.
Great. Just what the Rangers needed in the midst of a terrible losing streak.
could tell the local reporters were pretty shook up about it btw. According to all reports they did not provoke him at all.
From what I watched they didnt either.
WELL.....it was Kenny's fault for losing his cool, but he has been hounded for 2 days because the press was printing crap that Kenny shouldn't be missing a start because of an injury to his non-pitching hand. Basically calling him a wimp. Look at his record this season, not bad for a 40 year old. Guess he had enough...I've been that way a time or two. Fine him, suspend him sure, but kick him out of baseball for attacking a couple of media buttholes forget it.
Rogers hammersteined a reporter!
I can see how he would get mad too.
But he did chose the limelight and the money
that comes with it. He has to expect cameramen.
Two words. Drug Test. That's abnormal behavior, even from a guy that's been pampered by various organizations for the last 20+ years.
That was my 1st thought when the news did a tease. Kenny Rodgers the singer attacks reporters. I thought WTH?
I had Kenny - aka The Gambler - on my roti team ten years agao (don't worry I outgrew roti baseball and got a life). He has had a long and lucrative career as a just-above-journeyman pitcher, and was actually having a pretty good year for a forty-year-old, with a long scoreless innings streak until recently. All that said, Hicks' words are incredibly weak. His player went after media personnel, several of them. He shoud be gone from the team. John Rocker was hounded from baseball for much, much less (unfairly I might add).
I thought he might be a little bit drunk.
For no good reason really, other than him suddenly deciding
to beat up all the cameramen.
Its something a straight person could probably avoid.
Bwhahahah!
That will teach that water cooler.
I bet it wont mess with him anymore.
It's gotta be George Bush's fault...since he used to be the managing general partner....yep just has to be :)
I feel the same way every Monday, thats why I avoid whiskey on the way in to work.
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille....."
The reporter knows pressing charges will give his story more legs no doubt. He might also be mad about being assaulted for doing his job.
Its a shame some people with talent throw it away like he seems to be.
I wonder if one of the reporters called him girlie hand to set him off.
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