Simers Rules

TJ Simers of the LA Times is sometimes a jerk for no real good reason. Sometimes his columns are fun to read other times you wonder why the LA Times let's him write when he does practically zero journalistic work. Then you run into his article from today, and realize that in all his non-journalistic sarcasm he will occasionally deliver a line so classic that you just stop reading and bust a gut laughing. Not sure this belongs in a newspaper, but it sure is damn funny to read.

The article is basically trying to write something nice about Jeff Kent. If you don't want to bother reading the whole article, here's the line that got me:

I told him I respected him for that, and then quickly added a cheap shot in case he wanted to hug me or something. I've heard there are some guys around here who get so carried away by the fawning media, it's like they want to have an affair.

(For those of you who haven't been keeping up, do a Google search on "Derek Lowe" and "Carolyn Hughes")

I had to stop reading the article then and there to create this post.

Peace Out.

-El Maestro

PS. Dodgers suck. Lakers probably still suck. The Kings will probably continue to suck, well basically because they're the Kings.