LITTLE ROCK — Manager is just fine with beer
Count Joe Maddon among those who think major league baseball teams should be allowed to make their own clubhouse decisions regarding alcohol consumption.
The Tampa Bay Rays Manager told WEEI.com he thinks Major League Baseball making such bans would be “asinine.”
The subject has come up in the wake of the Boston Globe report that said Boston Red Sox players would drink beer in the clubhouse during games. That led to reports saying MLB would look into banning alcohol from all clubhouses, though Joe Torre, an MLB vice president, told a New York radio station that clubs should be able to make their own locker-room policies.
Maddon’s just fine with that.
“If you want to be proactive about some thoughts, go ahead, be proactive and I’m all for that,” Maddon said. “But to say a grownup can’t have a beer after a game? Give me a break. That is, I’m going to use the word,‘asinine,’ because it is.
“Let’s bring the Volstead Act back, OK? Let’s go right back to prohibition and start legislating everything all over again. All that stuff pretty much annoys me, as you can tell.”
Relax, Joe. Go have a beer.
Mighty mite
Jayson Carter hasn’t yet seen the field as a running back for Rice this season. He did just join the Owls as a walk-on last week.
Whenever he does, though, he might be a little hard to spot.
The Houston native is listed on Rice’s website as 4-9, 135 pounds, making him easily one of the smallest players to suit up for a college football team.
That size, according to a Yahoo! Sports blog, qualifies Carter for dwarfism.
“If they ever come up with a device that measures the heart and put it on top of my head, they’ll see that I’m 6-9,” Carter told a Houston TV station.
Rice Coach David Bailiff said he’s not quite sure where he’ll put Carter, but thinks he can find a place.
“I’m really excited he’s here,” Bailiff said. “We’ll find a spot for him where he can help us in some capacity.”
Carter, who was a four-year player at a Houston private high school, said he thinks his small stature provides him an advantage.
“They’re at a disadvantage because I’m lower to the ground than they are,” he said. “... When they seem me, they’re like ‘Whoa, what’s going on ?’”Looking for work
In the midst of an NBA lockout that doesn’t seem to have an end, New York Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire is looking for work.
Well, not really. But he recently shot a spoof video about him sitting through a mock interview at Foot Locker. In the video, Stoudemire is at a table with what is supposed to be a Foot Locker employee decked out in a striped referee’s shirt as he’s asked questions about his ability to sell shoes.
When asked why he wants to work at Foot Locker: “I need a job. I don’t have a job right now.”
On why he should be picked: “I was a six-time All-Star in my previous job.
On what he’d say to convince a customer to buy a pair of shoes: “Those are hot. I like those.”
Maybe he should have gone to college, after all.
Quote of the day “I’m following the legends of Eddie Sutton
and Nolan Richardson.
Now I’m in that seat,
and that’s an awesome assignment and it’s one I take real seriously.” Arkansas basketball Coach Mike Anderson
Sports, Pages 18 on 10/28/2011