Comments on: Mike Piazza’s guide to increasing one’s popularity in Los Angeles: slam Vin Scully

By: purnellmeagrejr

purnellmeagrejr — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:34:05 +0000

Phil Rizzuto was re3sponsible for the failures of Lamarrr Hoyt, Carl Pavano Kevin Brown and Ed Whitson

By: richyballgame

richyballgame — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:13:51 +0000

Do you know Vin Scully personally?

By: fredverd

fredverd — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:56:14 +0000

…Could almost care about a Piazza/Scully (or Piazza/Clemons, Piazza/fill-in-the-blank) war. It’s his story, so I am reminding myself something I learned in the study of literature…”the villain is the hero when he tells the story…” So don’t get yourself agitated – consider the source.

By: brooklynboy48

brooklynboy48 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:26:29 +0000

I’m a Met fan who loves Mike Piazza, but I’m not happy about this Vin Scully business. How could anyone be critical of the greatest baseball announcer who ever worked a baseball game. I don’t believe that Vin ever had an interview like this with any Dodger player.I wish Vin was doing ballgames in New York.

By: yahmule

yahmule — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:21:50 +0000

To which Vin Scully replied, “at least I’m not some gay dude on steroids”. Or, maybe that was a guy I know from Sun Valley. Also possible I fabricated everything.

By: 4cornersfan

4cornersfan — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:23:12 +0000

I replay Vin Scully to get to sleep. He has to be the most boring announcer in any sport.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:38:42 +0000

Ever? I hear that short guy with the big ears and the funny quotes wasn’t too bad in his day, and Posada, while not quite in Piazza’s league, meant that the Yankees hardly had any catcher envy at the time.

By: manchestermiracle

manchestermiracle — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:42:55 +0000

I had a pretty high opinion of Piazza until I read this. If you want to believe Dodger fans don’t like you any longer, fine, go with that. Just say, “Fuck L.A.” But blaming Vin Scully for your paranoia about how you think some fans see you will transform that warped vision into reality in a heartbeat.

As a Dodgers fan I hated to see Piazza go, but now I’m glad he did. If you actually get into the HOF, Mike, go ahead and use any uniform but a Dodger one since you don’t deserve it.

By: manchestermiracle

manchestermiracle — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:30:53 +0000

I heartily disagree. Vin Scully ain’t no liar.

By: manchestermiracle

manchestermiracle — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:28:17 +0000

Getting older doesn’t make Vin a bad guy and ’98 was 15 years ago. Scully in his old age is still ten times better than anyone in history.

By: nothanksimdriving123

nothanksimdriving123 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:18:56 +0000

I have heard Vinny flub some things in recent years, but he’s nowhere near Caray territory yet, and I hope he steps away before he gets there.

By: opshuns

opshuns — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:44:44 +0000

Mikey! Mikey! Mikey, you can pee on the batboy’s shoes, but don’t even dribble towards a legend with a microphone!!!!!!

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:42:33 +0000

I think people who are worried about the sexuality of others are actually really worrying about their own sexual nature. In order to get over whomever Mike Piazza has sex with, I think you need to focus on what the problem really is. I think your issue is really whom YOU’RE having sex with (or perhaps, whom you’d LIKE to be having sex with).

Resolve your own issues then you might find you don’t care so much about what two consenting adults get up to in private.

By: thebadguyswon

thebadguyswon — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:19:11 +0000

The only joke was Clemens trying to throw one by Piazza. Once he realized he couldn’t, he hit him with fastballs. THERE is your joke. Typical Yankee for the typical Yankees fan.

By: thebadguyswon

thebadguyswon — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:16:25 +0000

The Yankees wish they ever had a catcher as good as Mike Piazza.

By: thebadguyswon

thebadguyswon — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:14:29 +0000

True. But he got to play in New York and not LA, which is worth the difference.

By: ezthinking

ezthinking — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:03:58 +0000

Except when you take off the rose colored glasses (or more appropriately ear muffs) and really listen to Vin these days, he makes as many mistakes as to the pitch, player names and situation as Harry Carey did in his last 5 years.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:16:17 +0000

Gowachin guilty!

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:46:34 +0000

As a Yankee fan, we always knew Piazza was a joke. Now it seems he feels like sharing that fact with the rest of the world.

By: fanofevilempire

fanofevilempire — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:28:07 +0000

oh please, like Scully couldn’t ever say anything wrong because he is a Saint………………..
what bull shite

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:20:58 +0000

Hahaha! Get him Kirk.
And my guess is…
You throw a lot better than the commercial with that dude throwing to his son. VW maybe?
Regardless…that commercial embarasses me. It truly does.

By: shawndc04

shawndc04 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:14:51 +0000

@misterchainbluelightning

Totally uncalled for comment, and I could say worse.

By: nategearhart

nategearhart — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:09:14 +0000

Jackass.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:07:03 +0000

I figured he was definitely going to go in wearing a Marlins hat. It was a hell of a two weeks they had together.

By: agelardi

agelardi — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:48:58 +0000

I loved Piazza as a player when he was in NY (NY’er but not a Mets fan), thought he built up a lot of good will too, but he seems to be throwing all away with this book.

By: kirkvanhouten

kirkvanhouten — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:32:29 +0000

“Does he throw like a girl too?”

Your comment made my day because it reminded me of my old Boris the Sprinkler shirt (they were a 90s indie pop punk band)…arguably the best band T-shirt ever made.

http://goo.gl/3Le53

By: El Bravo

El Bravo — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:30:07 +0000

This is true but as a fan I’ve basically been lied to almost every time someone denies PED use. Maybe every time. My philosophy has very recently changed b/c of this fact. They aren’t going to jail for cheating in sports, but I sure as hell don’t have to believe anyone anymore that is accused of cheating and denies it. There’s no way to tell either way from someone’s word. All I can tell is that most often, the person accused has actually cheated. History tells me that Piazza is a liar. That and my gut. I’d still vote him in the H.O.F. by the way. That way he can be enshrined with the countless other cheaters and shitheads.

By: kirkvanhouten

kirkvanhouten — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:16:03 +0000

The problem is, there is literally no possible way to prove you didn’t take something. He may have cheated…but I think it creates a completely unfair standard to say that he has to prove something he can’t possible prove.

By: kjericho43

kjericho43 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:15:43 +0000

Wow. “Confused homosexual”. Ridiculous homophobic comment. Does he throw like a girl too?

By: El Bravo

El Bravo — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:10:32 +0000

As far as cheaters go, of which I mean it has been proven they cheated (see Armstrong, Lance), I find Piazza’s denials weaker and even more transparent. Now, I know he hasn’t been proven as a cheater, but his interviews make me think he is covering it up b/c his answers are along the lines of comments by other cheaters when they made strong denials or used indifference as a response. Basically, I didn’t bother to pay attention to Piazza one way or another b/c I find him a non-topic, but after seeing him speak on the subject two different times yesterday, I think he absolutely cheated. That’s based off nothing but hunch and the “eye test” so it means nothing, I know. That said, I’d wager money on the fact, yes fact, that he took P.E.D.s regularly. It’s a guilty til proven innocent world nowadays with P.E.D.s and sports. We can thank the former cheaters that lied and then were caught for that. No one reinforced this methodology more than Lance did.