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5/11/08
TJ Simers Rips Into Fat Andruw Jones
Andruw Jones Doesn't Care What You Fans Think Of His .170 Batting Average
If you've been awake and on these YouTubes lately you've probably read something about the mainstream media criticizing bloggers for being too vicious, calling professional athletes names and such.

How dare we give those making $100 million dollars a hard time when they provide a 10 cent effort. Turns out people like to read that stuff.

T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times joined in the name calling parade last night after a conversation with Andruw Jones - although tubbo and clueless might not be that vicious.

Apparently Simers, fed up with Jones propensity to feed himself, offered to go on a diet with the highest paid player in Dodgers history. Jones denied the offer, but Simers went through with it and has gone from your typical overweight sports writer to a somewhat less overweight sports writer. They discussed his diet again last night:
"Have you lost anything?"

"I don't care," he said.

I shook my head in disbelief, and he said, "I don't care what you think."

"Do you care what anyone thinks?"

"I don't care," Jones said.
Simers carried on, asking if he cared at all about the fans and their displeasure with the meaningless production this season.
"Don't you care that the fans in Dodger Stadium have turned on you?"

"No," he said. "That's their problem."

I suggested that it's not human for someone not to be bothered by booing fans in their own stadium, and he stuck out his tongue and made some noise.

"How do I write that down?" I said.

All together now: "I don't care," he said.

Without the fans, I said, there's no reason for you to be here in Los Angeles playing baseball and no way you're getting paid $36 million over the next two years.

"I don't care," he said. "You play for the team, you don't play for the fans. The fans never played the game. They don't know."

Both a Tubbo and clueless, which really isn't a very good combination for the player with the highest annual salary in Dodgers history.
Bravo, Simers. I would have chosen fat and dumbass, but I still like the cut of your jib.

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"Breaking News! Guy Gets Big Contract and Doesn't Give a Sh*T! News at 11:00"
 
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Cut him.  At this point I'd pay him to go away. An Ethier, Pierre, Kemp outfield looks very good right now.
 
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I would take being a "uneducated prick" to get a  "blanket of unearned money."

As it stands I'm just a prick with no money.

 
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Andruw just k'd
 
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i'd cut him
 
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RenegadeLG wrote:
How does that work in baseball?  Don't you have to 'waive' them like the Red Sox tried to do with Manny forever ago?  And if nobody else signs him he's still yours?
My guess is they can cut him, but if they can't agree to a buyout than Jones will still get all the money. I could be wrong though.
 
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(Edited 05/12/08 3:00PM by danny_n94)
They can always designate him for assignment and if nobody picks him up and he refuses to go to triple A then he is a free agent. ( I am almost postive this is the only way to cut him, but he get paid regardless. Guaranteed contracts). Plus I am glad he plays for the Dodgers it makes me smile. TJ is the wrong person in LA to be having a fued with. I remember him getting run in Denver and San Diego (of all places). Who could ever forget Jim McMahon spitting a loogie at him in 1989. Ahh good times with TJ
 
 
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