Reds Show Cards ‘Who’s the Boss?’
By
Amanda
Posted at 2:38 pm
ST. LOUIS, MO -- The St. Louis Cardinals will have to face the Reds without a second baseman tonight because Mark Grudzielanek refuses to stop watching the first-season DVD of “Who's the Boss?” long enough to take the field.
Reds' first-base coach Randy Whisler, a big fan of Tony Danza who played Tony Macelli on the show, presented the DVD to Grudzielanek before the game this afternoon for good luck going into the postseason. Whisler knew the gift would be popular.
“But I didn't think he'd refuse to play because of it,” said Whisler. “That certainly wasn't my plan all along.”
But not everyone in the Cardinals clubhouse was excited about the gift. Grudzielanek and David Eckstein nearly came to blows when Eckstein questioned Macelli's manliness.
“Dude, he lives with this broad for like, five years and never gets any action?” Eckstein teased. “What's up with that?”
In fact, “Who's the Boss?” ran for eight years, and only in the last season did Macelli and Angela Bower (played by Judith Light) even acknowledge their feelings for each other. This is among the many tidbits Grudzielanek will happily share about the program that he calls “deep and inspirational.”
“The lessons I learned from Samantha and Jonathan have been invaluable to me in my life,” says Grudzielanek. “Tony was so wise, and Angela was so strong. Oh, and that wacky Mona!”
“Even it's theme song has a message. 'There's the path you take and the path not taken, the choice is up to you, my friend.' That is so true.”
Grudzielanek says his connection to the show is due to the fact that Danza's character had also played second base for the Cardinals on the show before taking a job as Angela's housekeeper. He hopes to continue following in Macelli's footsteps.
“Maybe some day I'll find my Angela,” he said with a sigh.
Grudzielanek is expected to be back on the field to contribute to the Cardinals' massive late-season collapse Saturday or after the one where Tony walks in on Angela in the shower.
Tony played for the Cardinals. Ha.
Smackitude cross-posted at [url=http://bellyitcher.blogspot.com/2005/09/retrospecticus.html]Bellyitcher[/url]
Are your boys going to be able to stop crying long enough to participate in this game?
Isn’t it funny how Keisler totally owns Pujols? I think it’s funny.
Ok. Everyone forgets how to drive in the rain. I’m here.
Welcome! You’re just in time. Keisler’s been shutting your boys down and the Reds are coming up to make things interesting.
It would be nice if Mulder could throw a strike.
What’s up with your team? They’re like 8-3 the last two weeks. Are they trying to get their losing out early?
Does it still count as choking when they’ve been doing this for a fortnight?
Don’t run on Yadi, dummy.
But he’s so little and cute!
Yeah, I dunno what’s up with them. Carpenter’s been in the toilet. It’s like they all have the blahs.
Cute, yes. Little? Not so much. The kid’s a tank. And according to On The DL, he’s quite the playa.
Oh my.
Still want Dunn?
Run little guy, run!
Edmonds does NOT look healthy. Is something up with him?
He hurts all over.
Well, he’ll get to rest up here pretty soon.
Yeah, after the sweep in the first round, the Cardinals will have a few days before they play in the NLCS.
Um…yeah. That’s what I meant.
This strike zone is crap.
Dude, do the broadcasters for the Cardinals love them as much as Chris and George do?
They are very lovable.
So are the Cubs.
STRIKES! THROW STRIKES!!!
Wow, Mulder is really working hard to give this away.
Yes he is.
So, correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that give the Reds the lead? Yes, yes it does. Imagine that.
You are correct. This is not hard to imagine these days.
There must be 50 reasons I want to smack Eckstein.
You and everyone else outside of the 314 area code.
I gotta say, I admire your sticking with the blog and everything through a not great year. I’m having problems with a couple weeks of ickiness.
This is fantastic. They pull Hudson from the rotation and give his spot to Keisler, and now they’re bringing Hudson in for relief in what would have been his own start.
There’s something just weird about that. But he’s been pretty good in relief. Prepare to be shut down.
Thanks. I think I’ve got a pretty wide masochistic streak. But one of these years, the Reds are going to be good, and I’m REALLY going to feel like I deserve to enjoy it.
You definitely will. But it won’t come for a long time while you’re in the Central. We also have Albert’s cousin in the system.
Are you sad Randa will be in the playoffs? Or happy?
It really is bittersweet. I’m ever-so-happy for him, but it’s hard not to think back to when it looked like the rest of the Reds could be going with him.
Still, it’ll give me someone to root for next week.
Oh, I thought our smack meant more to you than that. Now *I’m* sad.
They knocked this guy out of the rotation? He’s got a nice curve.
Think of it this way: with me rooting for your opponent, we can smack all the more.
He’s got a nice lots of stuff. And just hit a double. Awesome.
Sorry, Mark McGwire took down the number and I had to see how many booed him.
Anyway, if you wanna talk smack during the playoff you have to know that I turn into a quivering mass of jelly, barely capable of forming a coherent thought.
So, you turn into Ray King?
Except I can get people out.
And you’re less likely to suffer a heart attack on the mound.
The umpire is awful. Awful.
He looked like he was only about 15 years old. He probably went to preschool with Thompson.
I can’t say what I really want to say, this being a family site and all.
Fuck that shit. What?
Oh, ok.
The fucking umpire sucks balls. I’m not going to say that Mulder wasn’t wild, but Jesus fucking Christ. Learn the goddamn strike zone.
(I’m gonna cross post that)
Goddamn motherfucker. Doesn’t matter a shit where the strike zone is when you fucking swing and miss, dumbnuts.
I think this has been pent up a while.