Paul Lo Duca wants to play again. Please try to contain your excitement
Nov 20, 2009, 8:20 AM EST
Paul Lo Duca was on XM radio yesterday lobbying for a spring training invite:
“I’m completely healthy. I feel unbelievable. I’ve been hitting the
last four or five days constantly and started my workouts. I feel
great. My hand feels 100 percent for the first time in a while. My
hamstring and my knee finally healed after the surgery I had there. … I
want to come back and play.”
You know, there are crazier things than a team taking a chance on Lo Duca. For example, maybe there’s a 37 year-old, no-hit catcher who wrote personal checks to buy illegal drugs, had an affair with a teenager and was caught up in gambling allegations who doesn’t have Lo Duca’s infectious enthusiasm.
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- Levi Stahl - Nov 20, 2009 at 8:48 AM
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But maybe he’ll recapture the magic of 2001–that .320/.374/.543 year? Stranger things have happened. Wait–no–stranger things have _not_ happened. My bad.
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- Old Gator - Nov 20, 2009 at 9:01 AM
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Why stop with Paul LoDuca? Now that MIchael Jackson is no longer available, why not see if Humbert Humbert is available to supervise the players’ day care center?
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- Craig Calcaterra - Nov 20, 2009 at 9:03 AM
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I love it, Gator. Of course I think the over/under on people who will get the reference around here is in the low double digits.
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- Simon DelMonte - Nov 20, 2009 at 9:43 AM
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Don’t stand
Don’t stand
Don’t stand
So close to me
Also, speaking as a Mets fan, LoDuca was still a better catcher than Schneider has been of late. If there’s room the latter, why not the former, bad behavior or not?
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- Rick2009 - Nov 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM
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I always liked Paul but I guess he really made some bad decisions. However, nobody from the steroid era is going to have a world series ring taken away from them or a home run or MVP title stripped from them. His accomplishments were much smaller, but he did get to play in the Bigs. Good luck Paul.
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- Old Gator - Nov 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM
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Aw, come on Craig. Even your readers must have heard about Google.
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- jwb - Nov 21, 2009 at 4:40 PM
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Lo Duca’s having a little trouble in the horsie business:
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2009/October/09/Overbrook-Farm-sues-TVG-analyst-Lo-Duca.aspx
I’ll take Stanley Kubrick trivia for $200, Craig!
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- Grant - Nov 22, 2009 at 2:31 AM
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Humble Hum loves Lo!
and no, I didn’t have to google that. But Craig was right to question us.
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