Where does Darryl’s heart lie?

In the second episode of this season of Celebrity Apprentice we learn that Sinbad stinks as a project manager, no one likes Cyndi anymore, Rod Blagojevich is crazy about balloons, and where Darryl’s heart lies.
You knew it had to end. That we’re-a-happy-team feeling. Team Tenacity was ready to ship Cyndi and her non-sequiturs packing. Luckily for Cyndi, the women won their task this week.
Over at Rock Solid the team was anything but. Sinbad’s ability to express his ideas was as clear as mud. The team just stared at him in silence, not knowing what the heck he was talking about. The one thing they did know was that they were in trouble.
Darryl (so far) has remained untouched by any of the fracas. He spent most of the first day on his phone. I’m guessing he wasn’t working on the task because Sinbad never assigned anyone anything to do. Most of the guys had nothing to do. When the team discussed the decorating Rod Blagojevich suggested getting some balloons. (“In politics they always have balloons.”) He gets points for actually volunteering to do something. When he went outside the building some tourists mistook him for Donny Osmond – it had to be his hair. But nothing fazes this guy. People insult him on the street and call him a disgrace and he keeps it together. Of course, when a stranger compliments him he turns to the camera and says, “You got that, right?” Even the intense pressure of the boardroom doesn’t disturb his political composure. He did get some nice balloons, (they weren’t just yellow, they were goldenrod) and he made sure his team knew who was responsible for balloons that were just the right Kodak colors.
On day two it was time for the big event. The men had set up areas for people to “share a Kodak moment.” You could get your picture taken cooking with Curtis Stone, rocking with Bret Michaels, or . . . holding a bat with Darryl in his Mets jersey. Easy choice. Darryl was by far the most popular picture. Unfortunately it was not enough to save Rock Solid from the boardroom. The Kodak executives liked team Tenacity’s set-up and execution better and Maria Kanellis won for the women.
In the boardroom it was revealed to the Trumpster that Darryl’s photo-op was the most popular, and that many people said he should have brought his Yankees jersey as well. This prompted the Trumpster to ask since he’d played for the Mets and the Yankees, where does Darryl’s heart really lie?
His answer?
“New York.”
Ah. But we know the truth, don’t we? Which jersey did Darryl himself choose to wear? That’s right. We love you too, buddy.

By Tina

Donald Trump loves Darryl Strawberry . . . and so do we.

The first episode of this year's Celebrity Apprentice aired two weeks ago replete with team camaraderie, big hair, plenty of trash talk and the Trumpster professing how much he loves Darryl Strawberry.
The men’s team named “Rock Solid” consists of: Darryl Strawberry; baseball great, Bill Goldberg; pro-wrestler, Curtis Stone; chef, Bret Michaels; rock star, Michael Johnson; champion sprinter, Rod Blagojevich; disgraced governor, and the comedian Sinbad.
The women’s team, called “Tenacity” has Carol Leifer; comedian, Sharon Osbourne; reality tv-star, Summer Sanders; Olympic swimmer, Selita Ebanks; model, Holly Robinson Peete; actress, Maria Kanellis; WWE Diva, and singer Cyndi Lauper.
The first task was to run a diner and whichever team made the most money, that project manager would get to donate all the money raised by both teams for his or her charity. Cyndi and Bret were project managers for their teams, and their leadership style differed slightly. Cyndi’s leadership style basically was to let everyone decide for themselves what they wanted to do and let them do it. Bret technically was the project manager, but essentially Curtis Stone was in charge. Sinbad commented on Bret’s leadership style saying “Bret is a gatherer. You know, we all have to gather together before we start and he gives us a pep talk. I think there were a lot of hugs before Poison went out on stage.”
The teams strategies differed on one crucial point: price. Tenacity priced their burgers at twenty dollars, while Rock Solid’s prices began at one hundred dollars and up. Poor Cyndi’s team was crushed by Rock Solid, as the men raised over $59,000 compared to the women’s $39,000.
In the boardroom Cyndi tried to defend herself saying that she doesn’t have many rich friends and the one she does have didn’t want to help. Mr. Trump could not resist asking who this person was, and you guessed it, it was Rosie O’Donnell, his nemesis. Then we all had to listen to the Trumpster insult Rosie, yet again. Earlier in the show Cyndi talked about the feud saying, “ Mr. Trump called her fat, and you know, he himself is not a thin person.”
Who would have thought that in a boardroom with Sharon Osbourne the person who cursed the most was Donald Trump? He grew increasingly frustrated that none of the ladies wanted to throw anyone on their team under the bus and began swearing at them. Finally Holly picked on Carol for nothing, really, but since the Trumpster was so irritable he just fired her anyway.
In the entire episode the person Mr. Trump was the nicest to was Darryl. Who knew how much he loved Darryl? He talked about how much he loved him, and how he loved to watch him hit the ball. Oh, and did I mention how much he loves Darryl?
And Darryl, what can we say about Darryl? Unfortunately not much since he said and did little in this episode. We’ll be talking more about Darryl in future episodes as long as he doesn’t get fired. Considering how much the Trumpster loves him, that shouldn’t be for a while.

By Tina