If you had before Mother’s Day in the pool for the date of the first good “base-brawl” of the season…then winner, winner, chicken dinner. I don’t know if Richie Sexson had someone cut him off in traffic or the barrista got his order wrong, but he flipped out when Kason Gabbard’s pitch got away from him and went eye-level with Sexton. The best part of the clip is listening to the Rangers’ announcing crew get off a great blast at Sexson’s expense.
Gutless, 6′7″, .200-Hitting, Formerly-Good Players Don’t Like the High Ones
Published by May 9th, 2008 in Baseball. 10 Comments
Rule of thumb on Lost: Episodes featuring Ben are better than episodes that do not feature Ben. Last night we got more cabin madness, and even more confusion like “move the island.” Huh? Still, I play more attention to those episodes than I do the other fluff involving Jack. The conundrum with Jack episodes is that he bores the crap out of me, but they always feature the battle of hotties - Kate vs. Juliet. As far as characters go, Kate also annoys the crap out of me. But she does provide some fine T&A on TV, so I’m not gonna knock it. Juliet is sneaky hot, and very mysterious. So put yourself in Jack’s position and decide who you want to take off the island.
Charles Barkley = Ron Burgundy…This is just outstanding.
H/T: Awful Announcing
I was doing my usual web run yesterday afternoon and noticed Giglio is already posting an ACC football preview. Really? It’s early May, are we that desperate for pigskin? Come to think of it, yeah…we are that desperate. That would explain my giddiness over seeing the 2008 ACC Helmet Schedule in my inbox earlier in the week. It usually takes a few hours to cook up this fan favorite, but someone did the work for me this year. Bonus!
Or, perhaps in this case, it’s “Go west [while you’re still relatively] young, man.” At age 46, Johnny Dawkins isn’t the oldest person to venture out to California. Besides, he’s gotta prep for the eventual Duke gig (or so says Stanford AD).
Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins
As If NY Fans Need More Reasons To Think Jeter Is Better
Published by May 8th, 2008 in Baseball. 19 Comments
Alex Rodriguez - Swats at Boston Red Sox as if he were holding a purse, digs manly looking strippers, and acts like a wuss when his wife goes into labor.
Derek Jeter - Captain of the Yankees, puts his body into harms way in order to make the play, and plowed through 6 women featured in Maxim’s Hot 100.
The rumors of an alternate jersey debuting for the Carolina Hurricanes sparked some discussion about the old Hartford Whalers. The typical color used for these money makers is black, but I thought it would be neat to incorporate the old Whale design. The Hurricanes can’t use the actual Whalers logo, it was signed over to the state of Connecticut in 1997 as part of the exit agreement between the governor at the time and Peter Karmanos. “Brass Bonanza” is a free agent, and you can still hear it at the RBC Center from time to time, as well as sporting events in the New England area. Regardless, time heals all wounds and maybe there could be some agreement that would allow Carolina to use a blue/green color scheme as an alternate in the same way the Penguins made a mint using those powder blue jerseys.
We had a fun conversation with Peter Good, the man who created the Whaler logo in 1979. The Connecticut-based graphic designer still works in the field today, although he thinks his situation was unique in Hartford. These days, teams use marketing departments and tons of testing to come up with rather bland ideas.
Peter Good, Whaler logo creator
When Chuck Amato’s final NC State team lost to Akron in 2006, it was the beginning of the end for the sunglasses era. Not only was the loss embarrassing for a program that was a couple of years removed from a historical season, but it gave Amato one of his defining “it’s not my fault!” moments.
They’re in a conference that allows non-qualifiers in school. Non-qualifiers. Do y’all need to look that one up to write your stories?… Do you know what kind of players non-qualifiers are, usually? They’re inversely proportional to what their grade-point average is. They can make a big difference.
Amato’s comments would eventually get national play, and nobody was buying it. HowEVAH, Joe Giglio at ACC Now took a look at the recently released APR reports and points out that Akron was docked 5 scholarships for a their low average score of 920 from 2003 to 2007. In no way is this justification for the loss to the Zips, but Amato wasn’t pulling that info out of a magical red sneaker when he busted out that rant. Unfortunately for The Chest, he made 1 fatal error: He told a group of sports writers to do research, and boy do they hate being lectured.
In other APR related news, NC State was hit by the NCAA for failing to meet the 925 score requirement in wrestling. The squad will have it’s scholarship number reduced. East Carolina lost 1 basketball scholarship and had it’s practice time reduced from 20-hours-a-week to 18 hours-a-week for scoring an 861 on the APR.
French translation: Mo must go.
If Jim Rutherford ever decides to fire Peter Laviolette, he now has an old standby available. I kid, I kid…I think? Who knows, that whole issue is still nebulous. The Toronto Maple Leafs fired Paul Maurice today, lasting only 2 seasons with 1 year left on his deal. Failing to make the playoffs and having an overall record under .500 during your tenure in a crazy hockey town will sorta bring that result. However, the Leafs organization is such a mess right now that Maurice had to see the writing on the wall. At one point during the season, ex-GM John Ferguson, Jr tried to fire Mo but was overruled by ownership. The slap in the face signaled doom for Ferguson, and Maurice knew he had to be next as the team blows itself up and starts over…again.
Hansbrough’s Determination Squeezes Our Bandwidth
Published by May 7th, 2008 in ACC Hoops. 19 Comments
Tyler Hansbrough goes about his business with such intensity, he doesn’t even blink when he sneezes. Even his mere presence can bring a website to its knees. Either that, or his will and determination caused water to splash from the pool, through the image, off Amnon’s computer screen and on to his server. How else can we explain the hour of downtime THEE Blog suffered this evening?
In all seriousness, our servers have handled plenty in the past…remember the Gary Williams chicken wing photo? Even though Hansbrough’s infamous SAE House pool jump brought forth an onslaught of referrals from The Big Lead and Deadspin, it could handle it. It appears Yahoo, who is incredibly late to the party, pushed our bandwidth limits to the point where it screamed “no mas!” and started to deny visits while the rubbernecking continued on this played out story. We’re back, although a little sluggish. And because I like to push the envelope, here is another pic from the party that just won’t die! *runs for cover*
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