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TJ Simers Rips Into Fat Andruw Jones

Andruw Jones Doesn't Care What You Fans Think Of His .170 Batting Average

by CriticalFanatic CriticalFanatic | 6 days ago11 Comment Comments »

TJ Simers Rips Into Fat Andruw Jones PhotoIf 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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#12 | 7 days ago

+3 thumbs upAndruw Jones is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with professional sports (and specifically baseball) in America.  He's been one of the highest paid players in baseball for a long time, and he's been consistently awful for close to a decade.  At least he used to couple his terrible average with a bunch of solo home runs.  Now there's not even that.

He makes all this money while simultaneously showing no dedication to the game, and no consideration for the country that gave him his millions.  He can barely speak English.  He goes on Cribs and shows off his Maseratis and then shows up to the park and lays a stinker. 

It's a safe bet to assume he was on PEDs up until Mitchell heat, and he escaped it somehow.  He talks a big game, yet had the ushers take me out of the outfield bleachers at Coors last year.  It gets to him, but he hides under his blanket of unearned money, like so many disgraceful uneducated pricks do.
  
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#1 | 7 days ago

+3 thumbs upAndruw Jones is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with professional sports (and specifically baseball) in America.  He's been one of the highest paid players in baseball for a long time, and he's been consistently awful for close to a decade.  At least he used to couple his terrible average with a bunch of solo home runs.  Now there's not even that.

He makes all this money while simultaneously showing no dedication to the game, and no consideration for the country that gave him his millions.  He can barely speak English.  He goes on Cribs and shows off his Maseratis and then shows up to the park and lays a stinker. 

It's a safe bet to assume he was on PEDs up until Mitchell heat, and he escaped it somehow.  He talks a big game, yet had the ushers take me out of the outfield bleachers at Coors last year.  It gets to him, but he hides under his blanket of unearned money, like so many disgraceful uneducated pricks do.
#2 | 6 days ago

+2 thumbs up"Breaking News! Guy Gets Big Contract and Doesn't Give a Sh*T! News at 11:00"
#3 | 6 days ago

Cut him.  At this point I'd pay him to go away. An Ethier, Pierre, Kemp outfield looks very good right now.
#4 | 6 days ago

EMKennedylucio wrote:
Cut him.  At this point I'd pay him to go away. An Ethier, Pierre, Kemp outfield looks very good right now.
It was already the most stacked OF in Baseball, why did they need to sign him?  The Giants were prepared to offer more, how sweet would it have been for their awful fortune to continue.

Proves what a great manager Torre is.  Playing winning baseball while being forced to use Andruw Jones.
#5 | 6 days ago

+1 thumbs up

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.

#6 | 6 days ago

+1 thumbs upAndruw just k'd
#7 | 6 days ago

bigslacker wrote:

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.

lol, true.  Although I wasn't even referring to a formal education.  He just appears to have little if any knowledge of the game and how it's supposed to be played. 
#8 | 6 days ago

i'd cut him
#9 | 6 days ago

kizzlep wrote:
i'd cut him
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?
#10 | 6 days ago

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.
#11 | 6 days ago

(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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