Monthly Archives: May 2009

Stern: Refs Couldn’t Overcome Orlando’s Team Play

NBA Commissioner David Stern apologized to fans and supporters for failing to get a win for LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers
yesterday in their game 6 loss to the Orlando Magic in the Eastern Conference Finals.
“I take the blame for this loss. I drew up a game-plan for my refs that I thought was [...]

The Final Score is 1-0, and You Wonder Why Americans Don’t Watch

So last night was the Champions League Final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United.  For those of you that don’t know what any of those things mean, let me break it down for you.  Soccer is pretty big in the rest of the world, but they call it football.  Considering how big football is in [...]

Youppi!-fication: The Rock Opera—introduction

I’m in last place in my head-to-head keeper league. This shouldn’t be funny in of itself, but I thought I had a decent team. I thought wrong.
Talking to the league commissioner, who also happens to be the proprietor of this fine establishment, we were talking about my number three pitcher and trying to come up [...]

The Post Where I Eviscerate Rick Reilly

The following is a letter to Rick Reilly in response to his latest article for ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com, which you can find here. As a lover of baseball, good writing, and intelligent thoughts and ideas, his article violates everything I hold sacred. Below is my unabridged and unedited response.

Dear Rick,

There are so [...]

NFL Players Use Off-Season to Kick Back, Relax, Commit Crimes

The following is an excerpt from an interview with an unnamed NFL player who may or may not exist about his typical off-season activities and those of his colleagues.
Q. So what exactly is the typical NFL player’s off-season like?
A. Well, after verbally and physically assaulting somebody who is undoubtedly smaller than I, I might [...]

Wow, Jeremy said something ridiculous and is wrong about it? No Way!

Jeremy, first, Ortiz didn’t take steroids, and second, your argument and examples for the fact he did, suck.
David Ortiz at Baseball Reference
Ortiz’s power did not suddenly appear. He was a part-time player on the Twins, a team that undervalued his skills and mis-used his abilities. They wanted him to be a 1B with power. In [...]

Hmm… I wonder…

Hey, remember that time that Kobe Bryant maybe raped that girl in Colorado when he was rehabbing after his knee surgery in 2003?  And then then he was on trial during the entirety of the ‘03-’04 season?  And he had that big press conference where he apologized to his wife and gave her a gigantic [...]

The Week Baseball Went Crazy

So let’s have a review of the past week in baseball:
The Cubs have lost 6 straight.
The Jays have lost 6 straight.
The Padres have won 9 straight.
What?!?!?!

Welcome to Fantasy Island

Hey folks.  Fantasy Island, in case you didn’t get it, is a space for fantasy tips, gripes, grumbles, bragging, arguments, and tales of the bizarre.  So to kick off this category, I’m going to do all of the above.  Please feel free to post comments in this section.  Seeing as we’re all “experts” at fantasy [...]

Big Papi Finally Pops Off

I’m sure that’s the title of the (soon to be defunct) Boston Globe this morning.  I don’t even have to google it to check.  I just know that’s what it is.  But either way, David Ortiz finally hit his first homer of the season.  This is a guy who hit 54 HR three years ago.  [...]