But more than that, we deserve a consistent winner here again, and the Unit's no longer part of the recipe for that. And with the herniated disc problems he's faced over the past few years, those feats could take more seasons than even a ridiculously charitable team is willing to finance. The only reason to keep Johnson around at the money he commands $9.15 million in '07 would be to see if he could break Nolan Ryan's 5,714 career strikeout record, or to see if he could become one of the elite pitchers to win 300 games. We all watched him throw a perfect game (his second) in 2004 against the Braves. Batters felt like the proverbial Davids when the height of the pitcher's mound was added to Johnson's 6-feet-10. In his prime, he could throw a fastball more than 100 miles per hour, and his signature pitch was a blistering slider. With 284 wins, he's a five-time Cy Young Award winner. He was! He's a future Hall of Famer who's got the third-most strikeouts in history. Look, we're not saying Randy Johnson wasn't the bomb.
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When you're used up, you're out! But the D-Backs front office just had this compulsion to bring back one of the stars of the team's 2001 World Series campaign in the midst of rebuilding the lineup with young talent. They're the most successful franchise ever, and they didn't get that way by running a rest home for old and infirm pitching greats. When the New York Yankees are through with a player, that should tell you something. Now he won't be back until next season? Well, we guess the D-Backs are stuck with him, no matter how decrepit he'll be by spring training 2008. The 43-year-old Johnson who ranks up there with Ty Cobb historically as one of the biggest jerks in the game maybe had one good year left. All right, whose freakin' idea was it to bring back Randy Johnson to the Arizona Diamondbacks? What has this former world champion baseball team become, a charity for cranky, worn-out pitchers? Wade was sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court this summer to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder.
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Wade apparently acted in a jealous rage because Falkner had been chatting with von Blommestein minutes before. The weapon discharged (Wade said accidentally), but the result was that ex-ASU football player Falkner was dead. One witness said he was holding the gun gangster-style. With knowledge that Wade had possibly threatened Dixon's life, ASU allowed Wade to practice three times with the team in 2005 before he brandished a pistol at Brandon Falkner outside a Scottsdale nightclub. Wade was too important to Koetter's need for a winning season to suspend from the team before a violent crime was committed. He had threatened ASU gymnast Trisha Dixon and soccer player Haley von Blommestein, his girlfriend, over a period of weeks, and Koetter let it go.
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There were several warning signs that Wade was a timebomb about to explode. Which is exactly what Koetter let his star tailback do. This newspaper reported in detail how Koetter had coddled thugs on the ASU team, and Wade was the best example of the ex-coach's philosophy: As long as you're valuable enough to the team, you can get away with. But, sadly, Koetter's dismissal had more to do with his mediocre win-loss record. We wish we could say that Loren Wade was the reason Dirk Koetter's no longer head football coach at Arizona State University. He's just what the Coyotes need to someday gain respectability. Here's hoping that the Great One keeps his wife on a tighter leash and not in any kinky way because we' d hate to lose him. Not long ago, he was sentenced to two years' probation. Tocchet's admitted to promoting and conspiring to promote gambling in New Jersey in the form of two guilty pleas.
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The gambling investigation targeted suspended Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet, and we've got to wonder what the hell Jones was doing mixed up in the same sordid mess as her husband's assistant speaking of the company one keeps?Īuthorities say Jones violated no laws and may merely be called as a witness against others. The good thing is, Jones allegedly bet at least $10,000 on football games, not hockey games, according to New Jersey authorities. Now, we're not much for keeping wives in line (impossible task), but the most prolific scorer in National Hockey League history sure didn't control Janet as well as he did the puck during his illustrious career in Edmonton and in L.A.Īlso, didn't the former two-bit actress ( Dirt Nap, A League of Their Own) whose biggest role ever has been as hockey-legend armpiece know her husband's image would be tarnished by the company he keeps at home? Especially when a family member bets on sports. Then, along comes wife Janet Jones-Gretzky and her gambling proclivities. The thing about Phoenix Coyotes Coach Wayne Gretzky is that he's always been so damn squeaky-clean.