- 09:08 PM
- 11/21/09
Utley's swing is sweet, but not as sweet as Reggie's.
Check out the Ruth Home Run Bar, too.
posted by mjkredliner at 04:50 PM on November 03
The USGA might have a fix that bat manufacturers can use.
From Wikipedia:
The coefficient of restitution entered the common vocabulary, among golfers at least, when golf club manufacturers began making thin-faced drivers with a so-called "trampoline effect" that creates drives of a greater distance as a result of an extra bounce off the clubface. The USGA (America's governing golfing body) has started testing drivers for COR and has placed the upper limit at 0.83.
Just saying, COR limits for both balls and bats should maybe be adopted.
Fielding your position a lil better might not hurt, either.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:39 PM on October 30
Walker has also tried his hand at venture capital investing with Walker Ventures LLC and in real estate with AW Realty LLC.
Guffaw!
"Antoine is doing great,'' said Diane. "I have my home. He has his home. If he's doing so bad, then how could we still be here?''
Chortle!
writing 10 bad checks for casino markers totaling $1 million in Las Vegas.
Hell, he can't be outta money, he still has checks!
posted by mjkredliner at 05:23 PM on October 29
Meth is for hillbillies
posted by mjkredliner at 12:50 PM on October 28
Hes probably going to really suck.
I may be proven wrong.
Nate Hybl, Josh Heupel, Jason White aside, the last good pro QB OU produced finished his collegiate career at UCLA. Time will tell.
posted by mjkredliner at 12:34 PM on October 28
He seems like a nice kid, I hope he gets his degree. I will be surprised if he amounts to much as a pro QB.
posted by mjkredliner at 04:16 PM on October 27
rcade, thats some pretty funny stuff you're lobbing over the plate.
It made my morning. Good discussion, gentlemen.
posted by mjkredliner at 08:54 AM on October 23
Also, Wilt's 1965 Sixers probably deserve some credit as well.
So do the 1960 Eagles.
The Broad Street Bullies from 73 to 75 were pretty damn good as well.
posted by mjkredliner at 06:54 PM on October 22
Predicting the Yankees will be good isn't really going out on a limb. Especially if you do it in June.
I did not predict that the Yankees would be good. I commented that they were playing well and seemed to be having fun, as I had just watched them play 3 games against the Rangers a few days earlier, and noticed that they, and particularly their dugout, seemed loose.
I'd say that team chemistry has almost nothing to do with the Yankees success (neither did a fluke non-error streak).
I'd venture to guess the Yankees themselves would disagree. And, fluke or not, that was the longest error free streak in the history of the game. Pretty noteworthy. Unless you're a Red Sox fan, I suppose.
posted by mjkredliner at 04:41 PM on October 22
Some of us saw this team coming together earlier this year.
I hope A-Rod shuts up the naysayers forever.
posted by mjkredliner at 05:45 PM on October 21
I would have thought he had faded into Bolivian by now.
posted by mjkredliner at 06:33 PM on October 14
And, by the way, I don't watch
I had that figured out.
I just read that the University of Florida spends $89 million a year on its football program. For an amateur sport, run by an institution of higher learning.
Cite, please. Seems odd since they only generated 66 million in football revenues last year, and gave 6 million to their academics department. I guarantee they are not operating the football program in the red.
posted by mjkredliner at 03:16 PM on October 09
Sure, rules are rules lying is bad blah blah but this case is a window into the asylum of venal, crass, hypocritical sanctimony that is the organizational side of College Football
all NCAA sanctioned sports.
Same rule applies to the athletes of the least profitable (and most subsidized)sports at OSU and other universities as well. If your beef is with the amount that college coaches are paid, I suggest you boycott (ie: not watch) the captalistic spectacle called college football.
posted by mjkredliner at 03:29 PM on October 08
Rules are rules. Google the bylaw`he broke, NCAA bylaw`10.1 (d), and you will see that the athletes sign a form acknowledging the rule, so the premise that the rule is obscure doesn't fly, either.
The punishment for the violation of NCAA bylaw 10.1 (d) can range from anywhere to a suspension of a few games to banishment from the field of NCAA competition, and OSU has begun the process of applying to the NCAA for reinstatement on the matter.
So, hopefully, the kid won't be banned for his entire senior year.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:16 PM on October 08
With the minor detail that Rose was lying about something strictly forbidden in the sport.
And,obviously, Bryant did something strictly forbidden by the NCAA. Namely, lie to them.
When he didn't need to. Heck, it's starting to strike me as funny now.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:16 PM on October 08
To ban someone for a whole year for violating a technicality is complete bullshit in my books.
I'm sure Pete Rose agrees with you.
posted by mjkredliner at 12:39 PM on October 08
Quoting Bryant: "I lied to ...them and I shouldn't have"
Seems pretty clear that Bryant is accepting the blame for what he did and not blaming the over-determined, over-disciplined, over-authoritarian football culture.
As the John Rohde article in the sidebar says, getting caught in a lie is a teachable moment for anyone. Getting caught in a lie when there was no reason to lie is a much harder lesson to learn.
Also, Neon ain't doing these kids any favors if ya ask me.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:48 AM on October 08
Doomed is probably not a typo.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:24 AM on October 08
The smaller the Archie Bunker contingent gets, the better off our country is.
Ok, meathead.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:10 AM on October 08
Obviously, the officials and myself saw it differently. And to blame the lack of that call for the outcome of that game is closing your eyes to all the other weaknesses Denver exposed. It was a sloppy, ugly game, and the Broncos found a way to win, Dallas did not.
posted by mjkredliner at 05:38 PM on October 06
I know the Boy's should have already had it in the bag
Glad you think so. I thought their offense stunk, and untimely penalties were once again a factor.
but cheating by Champ? to win the game for Denver.
3 of the last 4 Cowboys offensive plays featured Romo throwing to Sam Hurd who was covered by the best shutdown corner in the league, that being a Mr. Champ Bailey. If that's the best Garret and Romo can do in that situation, we're in for a long season, Cowboys fans.
Not to mention Romo looked like a scared colt the whole 2nd half.
posted by mjkredliner at 05:09 PM on October 06
foreigners still may be reluctant to go to the USA if they can avoid it because of the over the top security theatre that dominates, and especially if you are from, say, an Arab country, or Cuba, or any of the 'stans, you know you might really have a point.
Nice to know that our over the top security theatre is doing it's job.
Move the games to Greece.
Forever.
posted by mjkredliner at 09:56 AM on October 06
Someone seems to be channeling Yoda..or is it, channeling Yoda someone seems to be?
Not if anything to say about it I have.
posted by mjkredliner at 09:34 AM on October 06
The old man threw it as well as he ever has last night, and Jared Allen is a monster. A pedestrian evening for Peterson mattered not.
Minnesota will have to be reckoned with in the NFC this year.
posted by mjkredliner at 09:15 AM on October 06
It should be a point of pride for all Americans to get the Olympics.
Maybe in the past. Let Brazil have 'em, I don't want 'em, the expenses and security problems are not worth any return (especially economically) any city may expect to recieve. We've hosted more than our share, and the entire South American continent has never hosted one, so let them have a go at it. In fact, I hope we never host them again, the meaning of the games just ain't what it used to be.
posted by mjkredliner at 05:16 PM on October 02
I'm far from a right winger but - Am I the only one who's sick of this poster's negativity toward this country?
No.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:54 PM on October 02
We can all agree that helmet to helmet hits are dangerous.
Suggestion: Go back to the days of leather or no helmets, then the players will return to the fundamentals of tackling.
Of course, painting logos on the ears of some of them boys may be hard.
posted by mjkredliner at 12:05 PM on October 01
American football
Heh.
I really don't want to see another player killed or injured for life, so as much as I love football, I am considering cutting back a lot on my viewing.
That's good, people who are squeamish about the violence in football probably shouldn't watch it. Stick to the golf telecasts, old bean.
If you're scared of getting hurt, this is not the game you want to play, and if you don't enjoy the specter of one player bringin' the wood to an opponent it ain't the game you wanna watch.
Unfortunately, these accidents occur every year, but it wouldn't be American football if we started wholesale rule changes that minimize the amount or the magnitude of the collisions in the sport.
posted by mjkredliner at 11:53 AM on October 01
Kind of ironic, don't you think?
I don't agree with what the coach did, if he did indeed 'push' his religion on the student athletes, but I don't believe we have heard all the details of this story, either. It was pretty sparse reporting in my book.
posted by mjkredliner at 03:14 PM on September 29
The rest of the developed world outside the US is increasingly secular and has an inherent distrust of anything to do with religion, particularly the public display of it.
Well, your country damn sure wasn't, and most others were not, founded by people seeking religous freedoms, either.
From what I've seen, it's possible to live in small town America and be completely culturally isolated from the rest of the world.
As compared to those oh so wordly folks in the small towns and the outback of your country, I suppose. Most small town people in America embrace the faith and fellowship that living in a small town affords them, and I for one am glad they do.
Q: Why don't Baptists believe in pre-marital sex?
A: Because it might lead to dancing.
Wrong place, wrong time for that, don't ya think?
Jesus will protect them from injury. He's omnipotent and all powerful. That's why nothing bad ever happens to people like Tim Tebow.
The words moron and moronic have been used many times in this thread, but are best used to describe this statement.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:45 PM on September 29
After being a member here, it's stunning to me how much of the world and life the US' First Amendment covers.
Yeah. That whole 1st Amendment deal is so overrated and trivial, particularly when it's just some kid wearing Yankees gear we're talking about, I guess.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:35 PM on September 28
Have we forgotten Bushisms already?
You misunderestimate us, rcade.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:53 AM on September 25
Yep, pretty amazing streak. He's taken some BIG hits over the years, and has played in a lot of pain a few times, but I think he has almost always given his team a better chance to win with him in, than starting the guy behind him would have.
Jim Marshall's streak was pretty impressive, too.
posted by mjkredliner at 12:34 PM on September 21
"[I]ts enormous retractable roof, acres of parking and cavernous interiors are straight out of Eisenhower's America, with its embrace of car culture and a grandiose, bigger-is-better mentality.
Thanks for pointin' out the obvious, komrade Ouroussoff, but that's how we do things in the Lone Star State. If I recall, the same things were said about Texas Stadium when it first opened.
1.2 billion just doesn't go as far as it used to.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:09 PM on September 18
/Grabs bdaddy and Atheist by their arms and leads them to friendly neighborhood bar close to bdaddy's bunker, where we might have a few laughs poking fun at ourselves/
posted by mjkredliner at 06:20 PM on September 16
Right, but everything you've ever seen has had a first time. How do you define the criteria for which "firsts" matter?
No player in major league history has racked up more consecutive 200-hit seasons than Ichiro, whose infield single against the Texas Rangers in the second inning Sunday night made it a clean nine for nine.
A pretty amazing first, if ya ask me. It reeks of incredible consistency.
posted by mjkredliner at 04:54 PM on September 16
Bobby Clarke over Dave Schulz?
posted by mjkredliner at 04:36 PM on September 16
In a social setting, would you call Native Americans redskins?
It would depend on the thickness of their skins.
I'm 1/4 Omaha Injun, should I get my attorneys to file suit against Marlin Perkins and Mutual of Omaha? The likeness they use for their logo is disgusting.
posted by mjkredliner at 04:25 PM on September 16
a compilation of Bobby Orr's greatest moments
Nice tidbit, Howard_T. Gracias.
posted by mjkredliner at 01:57 PM on September 16
The "Washington Native Americans" has a nice ring to it.
Pshaw.
posted by mjkredliner at 01:49 PM on September 16
"Most hits" is something. "Most times doing x in this arbitrary time period" isn't.
Well, we could call it a "first", I suppose.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:24 AM on September 16
Greatest. Basketball. Player. Ever!
Debatable. The man who presented him wasn't too shabby.
Yeah, I happened to catch most of John Stockton's speech and was impressed with how genuinely gracious and down to earth he seems. He spoke individually about each of his children and pointed out each one's strongest personality characteristic and what they bring to the family.
Exactly.
It's just sad (or maybe ridiculous is a better word) that a person who accomplished all that Jordan did in basketball can't figure out (or at least fake) the "gracious" thing.
That says it all.
We all expected better... Michael, your excursions into golf and baseball
exposed you for what you really are, that being a human being. Sorry you didn't notice.
He was great on the floor. He ain't much off it. And I hate sayin' that.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:45 PM on September 12
mjkredliner, you forgot prison...
Good catch. I hope you and Mr. Coe Steve Goodman will forgive me.
posted by mjkredliner at 12:37 PM on September 11
But it cures athletes foot, right?
Yes, but the tradeoff is a slight case of halitosos.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:10 AM on September 11
I can't believe that no one on spofi knows or cares about the Mayfields of Nascar.
I believe, but, I may be wrong, that the key word is cares.
This has all the ingredients for a classic redneck soap opera.
While it does have the requisitory mention of Mama, it neglects to mention trains, trucks, and gettin' drunk.
posted by mjkredliner at 01:43 AM on September 11
This just gets more and more, and still more, bizarre. (I meant posting at the same time as owlhouse, of course.)
posted by mjkredliner at 12:23 AM on September 11
What a nice experience, JJ. I'd gloat, too. What did you think of the article? Pretty old hat, I know, but from what I've always heard, it's all true as well.
posted by mjkredliner at 10:42 AM on September 10
The game's so violent.
Yup. Always has been. The people that love and play the game are aware of the risks, as are those that merely watch. I'm ready for some football.
Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.
-Vincent Thomas Lombardi
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
- Heywood Hale Broun
Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer.
-Anonymous referee, explaining his job
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
-Jack Tatum
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
-George Plimpton
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
-George F. Will
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
-Dan Birdwell
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.
-Tim Green
I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -like a league game or something.
- Dick Butkus
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford
Most football teams are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
-Doug Plank
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
posted by mjkredliner at 02:01 AM on September 09
thanks for throwing in that homespun "y'all" in lieu of any facts to support your position. If only you could have given us a wink too.
I say "y'all" because many of us folks from Texas do. But, I'm guessing that you came up with that smarmy Sarah Palin reference (of whom I am no fan of) while you were driving down a narrow Massachussetts bridge.
It's awesome that a thread about racism has devolved, yet again into some nebulous political discussion unrelated to the topic.
And, I see that you are more than willing to contribute to what has turned into a "nebulous political discussion" Uh, by the way, the person of whom the article is about tried to deny that there were political connotations to his ink (or, link, if you will), but it was more or less inevitable that this was gonna come up. Were posters supposed to say "Oh good, I hope that he has a great MMA career despite his offensive tattoos" and ignore the political ramifications of his marks?
You think we're so close to a country of equality of opportunity? Why?
We could bandy about stats and links for days, both of us showing "statistical proof" that the other is wrong.
you vote for these millionaires and billionaires
Nope, never a billionaire. A millionaire or two, yes. Bet you have, too.
who tell you Mexicans are stealing your jobs, people in the inner-city (stage whisper: "THAT MEANS BLACK!") are just lazy
Mexicans are not stealing my jobs, if anything, they are providing me with work. That I am grateful to have (times are tough in the oilpatch these days, just like everywhere else). In the oilfields, hard work is everything, and if you can do the job well, then your color matters not. In fact, I sometimes work with illegal aliens who work their ass off every day, and I don't hear them complaining about not having equal opportunity, and they damn sure don't have a safety net. I get mud and oil and grease on my boots, jeans, and hands every day, many times 7 days a week, and answer my phone at all hours of the day, and believe me, sir, I am not rich. I have failed at business more than once, but I do not let it keep me down, nor do I complain that I am being held down, I try to hold myself accountable for myself, and to be self sufficient the best way I know how. And believe you me, sir, that I truly know that blacks are not the sole proprietors of the institution known as laziness. So before you make assumptions about who I vote for and what you think you know about how I feel, maybe you should walk a mile in my boots.
Stay in school, stay away from drugs, do well in school, and work hard are good values for anyone, regardless of your color. And if you think I sound like Boxer from Animal Farm, you aren't the first to make that comparism, and probably won't be the last. Works for me and countless others. And don't forget, there are white children who have the same disadvantages that rcade and others listed above.
I do like your taste in music, though
posted by mjkredliner at 10:43 PM on September 03
How can hard work, for example, overcome the horrific education available to mostly African-American school districts in states like Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia? A handful of exceptions does not indicate that "if only the rest worked harder" they would come away equipped to compete with a kid who graduated from my highly ranked suburban New Jersey school system.
The primary ingredient that determines educational achievement is parental involvement. Educational spending is irrelevant. And there is no substitute for hard work and a burning desire to better ones self.
We're not anywhere close to equality of opportunity in this country
I believe that we are much closer than y'all think.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:34 PM on September 03
As a country we have gone overboard with political correctness and frankly I am getting sick of it.
You aren't the only one, sir.
When economists, for example, can show that salaries, rates of employment, career advancement and similar are reasonably equivalent based on percent of total population we can have this discussion.
When scholars can show similar statistical equivalence for imprisonment, quality of education and quality of housing we can have this discussion.
When your 'scholars' can show me that so-called disadvantaged groups of people are indeed taking advantage of all the resources available to them, and are putting their nose to the grindstone to achieve equality in the form of hard work and diligence in the above mentioned areas, then I will believe they are disadvantaged.
All the constitution, and this country, are required to provide, is the equality of opportunity, and not equality of outcomes. Wherever there is liberty there must be disparity in economic circumstances because freedom allows the passionate to strive and innovate but compels no man to labor.
Too many success stories indicate that with hard work, the "American Dream" is within reach of anyone, regardless of color. Likewise, complacency and apathy have the same results for all races of people as well.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:09 PM on September 03
It's called "draconian gun control laws", Mississippi. Look into it.
Here ya go, Senor,
Mississippi Gun Laws:
State requirements, Rifles and Shotguns:
Permit to purchase rifles and shotguns?
No
Registration of rifles and shotguns?
No
Licensing of owners of rifles and shotguns?
No
Permit to carry rifles and shotguns?
No
State requirements, Handguns:
Permit to purchase a handgun?
No
Registration of handguns?
No
Licensing of owners of handguns?
No
Permit to carry handguns?
Yes
State Requirements, Purchase:
No state permit is required for the purchase of any rifle, shotgun or handgun.
It is unlawful for any person to sell, give or lend any firearm or pistol cartridge to any person whom he knows to be a minor or under the influence of alcohol.
Sounds like the 2nd Amendment to The Constitution is still working pretty good in Mississippi, which is how we (ie: defenders of how the Constitution was written, not how some people wish to interpret it) like it, and which is far better than anything draconian. The problem is probably more related to her parents or her lifestyle, or drugs, or depression, or not having the right dress for school, or blah, blah, blah, than it is to gun laws.
(At least she had the sense to not shoot herself in the leg, or she would be facing additional charges. See: Burress, Plaxico)
Kaleb is to be commended for his bravery and selflessness, and, if he has 5 SEC schools offering him a ride to play DE, he's got a lot going for him, other than what the article made known. Good luck, kid.
posted by mjkredliner at 11:56 PM on September 02
I would have thought the Swastika would have drawn all the fiery rhetoric.
Ok, I consider that piece of shit, and anyone who wears it, repugnant, too.
posted by mjkredliner at 02:39 AM on September 02
He looked about as comfortable making that block as Deion Sanders did making an open field tackle on a fullback.
Yeah, at least Brett did actually make contact with the fella, something Deion usually failed to do when a fullback with a full head of steam broke through.
posted by mjkredliner at 11:55 PM on September 01
they've been largely ignored by MMA fans and the media, in large part because M-1 has required him to wear a patch over them while he fights.
Thank goodness. If only they could cover up the rest of those hideous looking things. Lets see, white is good, but I'm gonna cover it with vomit green and putrid red!
I am not involved in any politics whatsoever."
He has his politics confused with hatred and racism, obviously. But, it does seem to me that that crowd really likes their MMA.
Good on M-1 for taking their stand.
posted by mjkredliner at 11:37 PM on September 01
Time Magazine is not based in the U.S.?
Yes, it is. (You will notice that they also publish People Magazine, which is only slightly less credible as a news source. Lots of fluff, though.)
A meager number of Americans know or care enough about the subject(s) in the article to get hysterical about them, though. A few immigrants might, however.
posted by mjkredliner at 01:58 AM on August 31
Typical American hysteria over nothing.
The article does not indicate hysteria in any way, shape or fashion. Actually, the typical American doesn't give a damn about anything in the article.
posted by mjkredliner at 06:42 PM on August 30
This thing is gonna come crashing to the ground one day. I can only hope Jones is standing beneath it praising its structrural integrity as it happens.
I seem to remember a friend saying that after Jerry fired Jimmy....
posted by mjkredliner at 04:27 PM on August 24
Utley ties Reggie's World Series Record
Utley's swing looks effortless and much sweeter than Reggie corkscrewing himself into the ground from my viewpoint.
Absolutely. I was making a feeble attempt at humor what with the candy bar wrapper and all.