t's actually nine months since Vizquel's autobiography, "Omar! My Life On and Off the Field," hit the shelves. But the reviews keep pouring in. Or at least the reviews from Vizquel's former pal, Jose Mesa, keep pouring in.
On Monday, the day before Mesa was scheduled to pitch for the Phillies against the Indians for the first time this spring, he told the Bucks County Courier Times' Randy Miller he was so inspired by reading Vizquel's book that "I want to kill him."
Sheez. And Wells thought his reviews were rough.
"I don't know if that's really what he meant when he said that," Vizquel said Tuesday, after hearing of Mesa's kind words. "Sometimes we would say in Spanish, 'I'm gonna kill you.' But in the translation, that's not really what we meant."
Well, that may be true in some cases. But we're guessing not in this particular case. Seeing as how Mesa also said: "I will not forgive him. Even my little boy (Jose Jr.) told me to get him. If I face him 10 more times, I'll hit him 10 times. I want to kill him."
If he comes to apologize, I will punch him right in the face. And then I'll kill him. If you're a writer and you want to write a good book, you don't write a story about somebody else. ”
— Mesa on Vizquel
On Monday, the day before Mesa was scheduled to pitch for the Phillies against the Indians for the first time this spring, he told the Bucks County Courier Times' Randy Miller he was so inspired by reading Vizquel's book that "I want to kill him."
Sheez. And Wells thought his reviews were rough.
"I don't know if that's really what he meant when he said that," Vizquel said Tuesday, after hearing of Mesa's kind words. "Sometimes we would say in Spanish, 'I'm gonna kill you.' But in the translation, that's not really what we meant."
Well, that may be true in some cases. But we're guessing not in this particular case. Seeing as how Mesa also said: "I will not forgive him. Even my little boy (Jose Jr.) told me to get him. If I face him 10 more times, I'll hit him 10 times. I want to kill him."
If he comes to apologize, I will punch him right in the face. And then I'll kill him. If you're a writer and you want to write a good book, you don't write a story about somebody else. ”
— Mesa on Vizquel
O's can't even fill their own stadium, there was plenty of red at Camden Yards this year, and Nats Park outdraws Camden Yards every season. So what are you sayin'?
You beat me to the clown shoes joke 
Can't pretend the Blows are a real local team anymore, so you find anything to justify you still rooting for them. 
I was an O's fan before the Nats got here. O's are my original team. 
