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For a hard rocking guy who blows his eardrums out listening to heavy metal, David Wells actually made sense. His blasting of commissioner Bud Selig, while not publicly approved, was one of the most accurate takes on baseball’s exceptionally weak commissioner. From talking about Selig’s lack of an iron fist on the steroids issue to the 2002 All-Star game that was declared a tie, Wells seemed to utter his first words in a while that have hit the bulls eye.Boomer has always been very brazen; that’s just the kind of guy he is. He has never been afraid to speak his mind and this week’s events clearly showed that. Being one of baseball’s bad boys has always come naturally for Wells: his mother once dated the president of a chapter of Hell’s Angels and her son clearly has a knack for rubbing people the wrong way as well. Wells has never been a manager’s favorite by far. His refusals to get into better shape and his antics off the field, have tattooed his image as a careless and inadequate player.
But he is a true baseball player at heart, and we should congratulate him for that. After pitching a perfect game at Yankee Stadium he showed his love of the game and his happiness with himself.
“I didn’t take creatine. I drank beer and I had a career year.”
Kind of reminds you of Babe Ruth.
The criticism he has drawn because of his comments is just silly but it’s nothing new to Wells. He knows what people think of him but he doesn’t really care. Not that much anyway.
No matter what he says or does, you can’t deny that he is a great pitcher. Despite his ERA being one of the highest on the Red Sox staff this season, he has chalked up 11 wins for Boston and only walked 16 batters.
People chastising Boomer in public are the ones kissing up to Selig. They are the people without the stomach to come out and tell it like it is. Luckily Wells have enough stomach to go around for everybody.
So stop criticizing one of the only people who has the gall to go out and tell it like it is.
Maybe his comments were slightly inappropriate considering the fact that Bud Selig is David Wells’ boss, but what Boomer said was right on the money and the whole world knows it.
The fact is baseball’s commissioner is weak. He works behind the scenes to distort the public’s view of steroids until he deems it appropriate to reveal the results. A coward at heart, Selig shies away from the media when there are tough questions on the table.
“I’ve been tested three times this year, but it’s obvious that there’s guys getting away with doing it,” Wells said at a pregame news conference. “And he’s not doing a thing.”
While he might not have all of the facts right, Wells does have a point. Selig has been talking about instating a more rigorous drug testing program but it’s mostly smoke. Very clear smoke, which has failed to envelope anyone, and is floating up into the air disregarded. Since Selig came to office he has done nothing but bring more controversy and shame to the game of baseball, starting back with the player’s strike in the early nineties. Selig is content with putting the least amount of effort into his job, but at the same time expecting everyone to love him and cherish him.
The façade is gone, if there ever was one.
A craven Bud Selig, a sometimes painfully true David Wells, and a world of baseball that is silently screaming for the commissioner’s resignation.
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4 replies on “Wells telling it like it is”
grammar corrections “Boomer has always been very brazen, that’s just the kind of guy he is.”
Semicolon after “very brazen.”
“Being one of baseball’s bad boys has always naturally for Wells: his mother once dated the president of a chapter of Hell’s Angels and her son clearly has a knack for rubbing people the wrong way as well.”
That first part makes absolutely no sense.
“lls has never been a manger’s favorite by far.”
What’s a “manger’s favorite” mean? I don’t know that word.
“A craven Bud Selig, a sometimes painfully true David Wells, and a world of baseball that is silently screaming for their commissioner’s resignation.”
World is singular and “their” is plural.
“Very clear smoke which has failed to envelope anyone, and is floating up into the air disregarded.”
Comma after “clear smoke”; even spellcheck comes up with this mistake.
“Selig is content with putting the least amount of effort into his job, but at the same time expecting everyone to love him and cherish him.”
What the ^&*#? Selig may not be good at what he does, but he does put in effort. He avoided the player’s strike a few years ago, helped to bring back baseball after ’94/’95, and declared a tie in the all-star game. That is not “putting the least amount of effort into his job” by any sense of the imagination. He may not be good at what he does, but he does put in effort.
Finally, do not have your cronies vote up the articles in thirty minutes, especially before you have read them over yourself. There were mistakes in here that were just laziness that you should have found reading the article over.
But you did not read it over.
Editor, please put this back on the voting queue so that the real members of the site can vote on it instead of his cronies, which I believe are just alternate names he has registered. There is no way this would have gotten through so quickly if real people looked at it.
hit the nail on the head That’s all this guy does. Just get his friends to vote up on his articles and promote his website. It’s getting pretty annoying.
Well… People criticize Wells because he, much like you, missed the point when it comes to Selig and steroids. It was the palyer’s union, NOT Selig, who was responsible for delaying the institution of a testing policy, and it was also their fault that the initial policy was so toothless. Last I checked, Wells was part of that players union.
Oh, and last I checked, it wasn’t Selig’s fault that the All-Star game ended in a tie…the two teams treated it like a carefree exhibition, used all of their palyers, and had no one left to pitch. It actually took balls to call it a tie, knowing that no one would be happy with that kind of result. Oh, and that whole thing resulted in the All-Star game deciding homefield advantage in the World Series, so he did try to prevent it from happening again.
I’m not even going to get into the plethora of grammatical mistakes in this piece. Well, OK, maybe one or two:
-“his mother once dated the president of a chapter of Hell’s Angels and her son clearly has a knack for rubbing people the wrong way as well”
You can’t use “as well” because you never said the Hell’s Angel chapter president did anything… you assume that he did, but it sounds awkward the way it is.
-Envelop is not the same as envelope
I realize that you want to plug your website which features you as one of America’s “most knowledgable” sportswriters, but you’re only hurting yourself if you think that these articles are good enough to send straight to the front page without edits.
And now, I will proceed to enjoy a hot cup of coffee, Kent’s column.
Way to proofread your website.
If this continues I’m actually going to have to do something about it.