McLane: I had NO IDEA Miggi was on the list!

by duck on Dec 15, 2007 9:14 PM EST

"Houston Astros owner Drayton McLane admitted Friday he was disappointed when he learned newly acquired shortstop Miguel Tejada's name appeared in the Mitchell Report, but he stood by the club's decision to deal for the four-time All-Star according to a report in the Houston Chronicle."

"I was certainly disappointed," McLane said of Tejada. "We certainly did not (anticipate it). In my 15 years of baseball, I've never seen anything that no one had any idea of anything that was there.''

Wow. I had no idea there were owners more clueless than PGA, but this guy wins by a MILE.

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Is this an actual sentence?

"In my 15 years of baseball, I've never seen anything that no one had any idea of anything that was there."

Can we get a team of specialists on this sentence, please?

by Dr Orpheus on Dec 15, 2007 10:43 PM EST reply actions

I am...

...working on my 2nd advanced degree in English. I teach at a state university in Virginia. I also teach ESL students.

And I haven't the faintest freakin' clue what McLane actually meant there.

After concentrating, I think...maybe...what he means is that he never saw any of the sort of thing (rampant, unchecked steroid abuse) that the Mitchell report alleges was happening in MLB clubhouses all over the country.

Maybe.

BTW...when they think of Drayton McLane, does anyone else think of the crazy gun-toting Texas Rich Guy from the Simpsons? Is that just me?

by KenDixonFanClub on Dec 15, 2007 11:11 PM EST up reply actions

everywhere like such as

Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 approves of this sentence.

by birdman on Dec 16, 2007 1:47 AM EST up reply actions

as do all US Americans

and people in the Iraq such as.

It's just a question of arrogant self-entitlement against drunken limp-dicked self-loathing--DaBB

by zknower on Dec 16, 2007 6:55 PM EST up reply actions

That's why they don't have maps

in the Iraq.

"If a bum like Aubrey Huff has that much fun, can you imagine how cool it must be to be a real baseball player?" - Rick Maese

by duck on Dec 16, 2007 9:13 PM EST up reply actions

hahaha

nice..

by dfleis on Dec 17, 2007 1:02 PM EST up reply actions

Step back, people, let me take a look at this.

Uh-huh, yep, pass me the 3rd edition Fowler, yeah, that could be a pluperfect subjunctive, OK, forceps, hmm, let's add an ablative participle, watch out, it's gonna spurt a little here, Unbegaun clamp please, OK, there we go, add a polite-form imperative, good, and tie it off for me right there, nurse, where I'm pointing-- Et voila! He was trying to say

"Being an owner has rendered me unintelligible."

I, for one, think he is accurate in this assessment. Oh, and so do those articulate Donalds (Rumsfeld and Duck).

I was going to contribute to the Alberto Gonzales Defense Fund, but I forgot.

by Titov on Dec 16, 2007 3:22 AM EST reply actions

What are everyone not getting it?

Plain as the day is clear, what he has been saying. We even remember advert jingling same message:

"Nothin' says nothin' like nothin' from the oven, and Pillsbury says it best."

Only now Astro owner says best, we are thinking.

Vanya & Nika
Experts English decoding, starting with own

I was going to contribute to the Alberto Gonzales Defense Fund, but I forgot.

by Titov on Dec 16, 2007 3:33 AM EST up reply actions

re:

I'm going to have to guess that anyone with as much money as McLane has cannot be serious, and is saying this as PR. Otherwise, holy shit.

Thanks for the time that you've given me...

by Scott Christ on Dec 16, 2007 4:35 AM EST reply actions

Yeah...

I don't believe it for a second.

by rebop on Dec 16, 2007 6:05 PM EST up reply actions

i agree with your first assessment

i'm sure he had an idea about the juice, but i'm also sure people expected a comment from him - so what exactly was he supposed to say?

perhaps a complete sentence... but we got the gist.

by dfleis on Dec 17, 2007 1:04 PM EST up reply actions

my interpretation:

"Tejada's on drugs?!? Ay Carumba!"

FUCK MASCOT MILLAR and HORSESHIT HUFF

by Dave at Bottomfeeder Baseball on Dec 16, 2007 5:42 PM EST reply actions

It means,

"let me give you an answer that you can't figure out, but will try to figure out, and while you are trying to figure it out, I will move on to a question about our bullpen"

It's just a question of arrogant self-entitlement against drunken limp-dicked self-loathing--DaBB

by zknower on Dec 16, 2007 6:58 PM EST reply actions

Not to state the obvious...

The fact that this deal was done the day before the public release of the report; pretty much indicates to me that both teams had a good idea that Miggy was in the report.

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Dec 17, 2007 1:51 PM EST reply actions