Mike piazza im not gay
I read Mike Piazza’s guide, ‘Long Shot‘ back in April, with every intention of writing a review for Mets Police. But once I finished the book, I couldn’t take myself to write the review. I honestly felt too bad about the possibility of hurting Mike Piazza’s feelings. I understand it sounds ridiculous, or even delusional, that I thought my review on a blog could impair a multi-millionaire professional player, especially a borderline Hall of Famer! But Piazza’s book made me sense that I could. Piazza comes off very hypersensitive and paranoid in Long Shot – as if he thinks everyone is out to get him and that he never got the unqualified respect and adulation he deserved. He spends pages defending his defense, says there was some kind of league-wide Latin conspiracy against him, and expresses angst towards Vin Scully for contributing to Piazza organism somehow screwed out of an MVP award in 1996, even though it was a unanimous vote for Ken Caminiti. Piazza writes that he wanted to have his story told to be an inspiration to kids – in his words he wishes for his story to be viewed as a “fundamentally and triumphantly American
PIAZZA KOS RUMORS: ‘I’M NOT GAY,’ MET Luminary SAYS
PHILADELPHIA – Yesterday in the City of Brotherly Love, Mike Piazza said he’s strictly a ladies’ man.
Hoping to insert rumors about his sexuality to rest, the Met catcher addressed a media contingent before last night’s 4-0 loss to the Phillies at the Vet and stated flatly: “I’m not gay.
“I’m heterosexual,” Piazza said. “I can’t control what people consider. I can say I’m heterosexual. I date women. I don’t see a need to address it any further.”
Reporters from New York and Philadelphia jostled for position in a semicircle off the third-base line during the five-minute interview at the beginning of the Mets’ BP. Piazza referred to a rumor that was published in Monday’s edition of The Post.
Although columnist Neal Travis never mentioned any players in particular in his item – which concerned a Met star thinking about coming out of the closet – Piazza’s designate was one of those that circulated in the city and in baseball circles.
One Met teammate said he heard about the latest rumor when he arr
Down A Hole: When Mike Piazza Told Everyone He Wasn't Gay
I don’t recollect where I was going or why I was going there, but given the neighborhood I was in and when in my life I was there, I was almost certainly going to a bar. It was raining, and as I hustled down a street that was briefly in that golden New York express of being both smelly and shiny, I saw it blaring out from atop a bundle of old tabloids sitting on the curb—a New York Post back page featuring a squinting Mike Piazza next to a headline reading “I’m Not Gay.” I remember thinking, as I rushed past it in the rain to go get some dumb well drinks, that it all seemed like a long time ago. That was in 2002.
The story of how Mike Piazza came to tell the assembled members of the New York sports media that he was in fact not gay felt bizarre even when it was happening—the result of cheesier-than-usual tabloid salaciousness and reflective of a series of ancient biases and expectations that were musty and out of spend time even then. It’s something I think about from time to time, and in the interest of remembering this strange and stilted thing more accurately, I did what one does in a situation like that: I leapt down
In theatre, timing is everything, and it's too awful New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza couldn't grasp off a couple months before making the bizarre May 21 admission to a gaggle of reporters that he was heterosexual, after a New York tabloid speculated a Mets star was gay.
If he had said so around August, the press coverage of his reverse coming-out would have dovetailed nicely with The Public Theater's world-premiere co-production of Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg's play about a known baseball player holding a press conference and telling the world he's homosexual. Previews begin Aug. 23.
According to the Donmar Warehouse website, the following dialogue may sum up the new work: "If I'm gonna have sex — and I am because I'm young and affluent and famous and talented and handsome so it's a law — I'd rather do it with a guy, but, when all is said and done, Kippy? I'd rather just play ball."
In the play, "Darren Leeming is a young iconic baseball star, living life enormous, male as can be, envied by everyone. He calls a press conference and, without telling anyone what he is about to do, he comes out to the waiting media." The play, about sports, race, and sexual politics, "chronicles the
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