Maybe I'll just close my eyes and blindly stab at the screen to make my pick....which should be amusing for my co-workers.

I just don't see how someone could call another person a jerk, an asshole, etc. without actually knowing them.  

You guys should try it sometime.

He was the ahole who tagged out Byrnes AND Miggy in "that game we don't like to remember."  

At least Byrnes pushed him, albeit before he tagged up, and after he was out.

hate that guy

Or, read "Loose Like A Goose," the autobiography of Goose Gossage. Gossage calls Rickey the "worst teammate I ever had" and was interested solely in himself. Moreover, Gossage says Henderson ruined Canseco by encouraging him to concentrate on HR's and ignore other areas of Jose's game.

And who can forget Rickey's ego-maniac comment when he broke Lou Brock's stolen base record with Brock in attendance: "Now I am the greatest!"

As Captain Carney said, Henderson was "a cancer on the A's team."

The story has been recited by plenty of credible sports people, among them the Chron's Tom Fitzgerald, Jim Rome, and Sports Illustrated.

'Course, some foolish Rickey lovers opine that he wasn't playing cards in the clubhouse with Bonilla during the Mets' last playoff game either...

When Bartholo and her mindless followers dominated the old SFGate A's forum, they called anyone who disagreed with them the worst sort of eptithets. Then when posters finally had enough and stood up to her, she dropped off the Gate website like the true bully that she is.

And those who don't agree with her stance on Oakland being the only possible Bay Area of the A's get thrown off her OAFC website. One might conclude that such censorial habits come naturally to one who boasts about exhibiting the fascist proclivity for burning books...

As a corollary, she twists facts to support her biases and concocts stories to the same end. Moreover, Bartholo has always had contempt for Billy Beane, although she has more recently tried to hide it in view of Billy's manifest success, realizing how foolish she would look to once again slam the game's most brilliant GM.

And if you didn't mind the incessant bitching and moaning on OAFC with Bartholo setting the tone-- about a team that was and is a regular contender, there is nothing I can say...

And if you thinks Beane totally kissed up to the A's owners as Bartholo did, there is little I can say...

And if you don't mind the ridiculous notions bearing no correspondence in fact by Bartholo: to whit, the owner of the Sacramento Bee (now owner of the Pirates) was ever considered a viable bidder for the A's by the Haas family (in truth, Schott and Hoffman were the only bidders who and did keep the A's in the Bay Area--nobody else was considered) or that AJ Hinch was a better defensive catcher than Terry Steinbach (Bartholo hated Steiny because Terry respected TLR, someone Bartholo loathed), etc., etc., there is nothing I can say...

Baseballlibrary.com says it's false, and actually identifies the source: a Toronto sportswriter who made it up as a joke. answers.com is another of many web sites which also debunk the story. One of the other sites I looked at even noted that SI ran a correction the week after the Rickey/Olerud story appeared, saying it never happened.