I’m not sure it’s so unbelievable anymore. The money just keeps rolling in for these guys. I guess I’m just jealous. Money can’t buy me love, right? I know. But I’d sure like to see what else it could buy me. Anyway, I digress.
Former Cleveland Indians pitcher C. C. “Baby Huey” Sabathia is going to be given $9.5 million — not for pitching for the New York Yankees, mind, but for simply saying “yes” to pitching for them.
On top of that, he gets a $14 million salary in 2009 and $23 million in each of the final six seasons of the deal. He wins the prize (for today, at least) for the largest contract ever for a major league pitcher. Nice.
Hand it to him, though. He did admit that “with the economy being the way it is … the huge amount of money, it was, you know, pretty crazy. But that’s our game, I guess.”
Well at least he was properly humble.
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Van Halen, yikes. David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen don’t look anything like they used to. But who among us does, right? *sigh*
Still doesn’t change the fact that they look like accountants playing Rock Band on Saturday night.
I remember a story my boss told me years ago, when I worked in the student activities office at a local university, where I was in charge of processing the contracts for the big-name acts the college booked. He said that Van Halen had a rider in their contract that demanded a large bowl of M & Ms be provided for the band backstage — but with all brown ones removed.
I always thought that was funny. I mean, they were definitely bad boys — bigtime party horses. But was someone in the band so paranoid about the color brown that concert organizers would need to go to such lengths? I didn’t believe it. But…turns out it’s true — sorta.
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Finally, PK sent me this link yesterday and I laughed. I think we can categorize this one as just “unbelievable.” Especially when you read the “testimonials.” HA
Hey, you have a nice Sunday. What are you up to today? For me: studying, maybe a little choreography, and watching the Browns and Bengals play for what little pride they have left. Yeesh. At least the Cavs are winning, for now.
Fink out.
Haha, that Princess Unicorn is a joke from the recent episode of (American) The Office.
I shall return to the blogging world soon. Promise.
Well it would be about time, sonny boy. And I plan on getting choreography done this week — shyeah right.
Considering how CC pitched for the Brewers last season, he might be worth it. Personally I hope he’s yet another big armed disaster for the Yankees.
VH- at their prime they were one of the top 3 rock bands of all time. They had everything- a top frontman, a brilliant lead guitarist, an astounding drummer, and a bassist who would otherwise have been ho-hum except for his killer backing vocals.
On the subject of music, have you heard the Britney Spears track ‘Womanizer’? The chord progression and melody of the verses are a dead ringer for a Beatles song I can’t figure out. All I know is it’s one of John Lennon’s. Any help?
Personally, I think a New York disaster would serve them all right. But that’s just me being snarky and a sore loser. Heh.
I listened to “Womanizer” a couple of times, and couldn’t match the layout with anything I knew. There’s one recurring chord (called a b2, or “flat two”) that is used a lot in “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” on Sgt. Pepper’s, but that’s the only similarity I could find. Sorry for no help!
Admittedly, I think Lennon’s stuff with Yoko in the post-Beatles years was 99% crap. He was so broken, brainwashed, and ate up with the dumas, his music (with a few fabulous exceptions, like “Imagine” and “Happy Christmas”) just faded into mediocrity. And you gotta know how it hurts me to say it — John was my favorite husband from the Fabs.
Let me know if you think of it – you’ve got me curious now!
No, I think you got it, “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite” is most likely what I’m hearing. I dug up the chords, blew the dust off my Les Paul and played them both. Reason #298 why I never had a chance as a musician: the first chord change in Spears’ song is what I can’t describe in the right terms, but it’s like a fourth or something, C#m to F#m– that’s hardly unusual, so why – coupled with the descending chords from there – does it sound so much like a ‘Beatles chord change’ to me? Or maybe it’s the vocal melody that rang the bell? Playing the Beatles tune, the recording, leads me to think it’s the vocal melody, but I would have sworn that the song I was thinking of was written much sooner; I was expecting it to be on either ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ or ‘Help’, maybe ‘Rubber Soul’ but not ‘Sgt Pepper’s’.
Both my parents could play a Chopin Polonaise on the piano effortlessly. My brother has a remarkable ear. I got just enough musicianship from them to misguide me into thinking I actually understand it.