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Jason Grilli’s Still A Team Player
By Matt Sussman | May 20, 2008 | Filed Under Baseball
I knew he still was one of the Tigers, even though he’s technically one of the Rockies.
Our good buddy Jason Grilli lashed out in USA’s USA Today today on the dymanic of the new Detroit clubhouse. Responding back quickly was the Rt. Hon. James Q. “Jim” Leyland to the media:
You have to be kidding me. I mean, please. Jason Grilli ought to just worry about Colorado. Jason Grilli’s not here any longer because Jason Grilli didn’t pitch good under pressure situations and didn’t pitch very well in Detroit. You want to tell it like it is? When players want to start talking, I’ll start talking. But I’m very reserved about stuff like that. Jason Grilli ought to worry about Colorado, not Detroit.
(You really have to listen to the entire 4-minute bleepfest. Seriously, at points those [expletive redacted]s are ever so soothing rhythmic, perhaps Zulu-inspired.)
So here’s my theory. Jason Grilli is still on the Tigers payroll, so he “called them out” from afar in hopes of getting told in return, hoping to prompt a 12-8 win over the Seattle Mariners and giving Justin Verlander his second win on the year.
Somewhere near Boulder, if you look closely, you’ll see a grinning face winking back at Jim Leyland. Go forth and retake the AL Central, Tigers.
Tags: colorado rockies, detroit tigers, fight fight fight, jason grilli, jim leyland
Now THIS is what I’m referring to. It has done been broughten.
Sour broughten? No thanks.
When I first heard that Jason Grilli was speaking out about the Tigers…I mean, when I first read the headline before reading the story…my thought was, “Oh, this will end well.”
And really, I didn’t even need to read further from the headline. I knew exactly what Jim Leyland would say because it was exactly what Jim Leyland SHOULD say: Jason Grilli sucks. He still does, he did in Detroit, he’s the last person in the world who should be speaking about what’s wrong with Detroit, end of story, book it, done.
Now if I could only discern who he was talking about when he referred to guys hitting “.200 or .220″