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February 01, 2008
Maybe He Should Have Said "Handle It Tino!" Before Every Throw?
Here's Chuck Knoblauch, with his son Jake, as walks out of his deposition hearing today before the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee:
I know he's been retired for 5 years, and he's 38-years old now, but, I don't remember Chucky looking so beefy. Probably serves him well - I doubt many people on the street would even know who he is with this look.
If they ever do a remake of "Carter Country," maybe Knoblauch can now go up for the part of the Mayor Teddy Burnside?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at February 1, 2008 01:44 PM
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When professional athletes stop being professional athletes, I bet their caloric intake starts to level out with the caloric burn rate. So it makes sense that when pro athletes retire they get a little doughy looking, especially as compared to what they looked like when they got paid to work out.
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at February 1, 2008 02:17 PM
Steve, "Slightly" off topic, but it is your favorite topic - Brian Cashman. Probably 1A in that department (Steve's fab 3 topics: Cashman sucks, Hughes, and ARod) is Phillip Hughes. Care to answer?
http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/024668.php
Posted by: Garcia at February 1, 2008 02:32 PM
So it makes sense that when pro athletes retire they get a little doughy looking, especially as compared to what they looked like when they got paid to work out.
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Have you seen Bo Jackson lately?
Posted by: Raf at February 1, 2008 02:33 PM
When the Jason Grimsley story broke and a transcript of his chat with the feds was out there, people tried to fit names into the redacted section of a sentence where Grimsley said something about a friend who he knew did HGH. Someone suggested it was Knoblauch. And I believe deadspin said something along the lines of "and now they're trying to drag Chuck Knoblauch's tortured soul into this." Reading this, I feel the same way. Yeah, tortured soul might be taking it too far, but does anyone believe that Chuck didn't have a hell of a lot of problems? It seems like he really put his life together, getting married and having kids and playing a dad in total obscurity. It's too bad that had to be broken because the government wants to know if Clemens did steroids.
Posted by: baileywalk at February 1, 2008 03:38 PM
Bo knows this
And Bo knows that
But I haven't seen Bo lately.
Posted by: SteveB at February 1, 2008 03:39 PM
Last time I saw Bo Jackson, he was pretty big. I mean like Kirby Puckett, Tony Gwynn big...
Posted by: Raf at February 1, 2008 03:52 PM
>>"Handle It Tino!"
Don't you mean "Scoop me!"
Posted by: j at February 1, 2008 04:15 PM
Garcia - thanks, I just replied to that at Pinto's.
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at February 2, 2008 12:13 AM