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| Name: | James DeGriz |
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irunfromclones has posted 51 links and 570 comments to SportsFilter and no threads and 7 comments to the Locker Room.
Students push teacher to reach Olympics You've heard about sports stories that are too good to be true. This one is too good not to be true. A whimsical bet with students propels this teacher to a date with a hammer in Beijing.
posted on Jun 9, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Harkleroad fulfils naked ambition with Playboy shoot I had a hard time picking the category for this one, since it's not all that much about tennis, and spofi doesn't have a category for salacious. A 61st-ranked women's tennis player's who wasn't doing anything else at the moment further fuels the controversy of mixing court and camera.
posted on May 27, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Mike Piazza decides to retire after 16 seasons Piazza; hanging up the cleats, binning the bats, mothballing the mitt.
posted on May 20, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
If you can't beat 'em, cheat 'em. Seven time champion Robert Horry gives a do whatever it takes to win lesson to the Hornets, and extends his post-season record of cheap shots in the process.
posted on May 16, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Page 2's Bill Simmons channels Doc Rivers A knee-jerk tirade to an un-expected loss that upon more sober reflection turns into a tongue-in-cheek commentary on coaching.
posted on May 14, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Video: Diamondbacks Catcher Chris Snyder Fractures Left Testicle Although the injury report just says that Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder is on the 15-day DL with a groin injury, the team revealed that he suffered a "left testicular fracture" Monday when hit by a foul ball. "Suspended in the scrotum, a skin pouch below the penis, each testicle is surrounded by the tunica albuginea, a tough, fibrous covering that often takes the hit of trauma to the gland," according to UrologyHealth.Org. "Like the shell of an egg, it can be easily 'fractured' or shattered when confronted by a blunt or violent force." See the video.
posted to Baseball at 2:14 PM CDT
Joe Buck Prefers Bachelorette to Baseball Fox's lead baseball announcer told ESPN's Colin Cowherd yesterday that he prefers watching The Bachelorette to watching baseball. "These games take forever," Buck said, "by the time you get through the sixth inning, if you're watching every minute, you've put two-plus hours into the thing. ... From our own perspective the Saturday Game of the Week ... is not as special or unique as it used to be."
posted to Baseball at 10:30 AM CDT
But baseball and The Bachelorette actually have a lot in common. People are coming up to bat, people are trying to get to first base, people are trying to score.....
the game itself is not interesting enough
Baseball is 9 parts stupifying repetition and 1 part scintillating action. Unless every announcer has the intelligence, wit, and madness of a Robin Williams to make every utterance unique, they quickly run out of ways to say another batter struck out.
posted at 3:26 PM CDT on July 3
Are you ready for some football?....Sit Down! The Kansas City Chiefs have a "Fan Code of Conduct," which is essentially a list of rules that fans have to follow when they're attending a game at Arrowhead.
posted to Football at 7:50 PM CDT
Dick Drunkass
Instant classic, iconic label. I hate you.
posted at 7:10 PM CDT on July 2
I spent some major bucks for 40 yard line tickets 6 rows from the Niners bench a few years ago as a special treat for my son. There were 4-5 large characters in the front row all decked out in wild outfits including large hats and helmets- the Niner version of the Raiders "Black Hole".
We were mildly amused by this group until the game started. Everyone stood for the anthem and the kickoff, but they remained standing, blocking our view when the rest of the stadium had sat down. When I said "blocking our view", I really mean they were blocking a lot of the field. They were big and fat to begin with, but all the gear they had on super-sized them.
After a few minutes of this I am getting pretty pissed, and finally asked them to sit down, at which point one of them replied that "we stand the entire game, its what we do". That illicited quite a few more remarks from the rest of the people behind them. I think everyone was just waiting for someone else to be the first to say something.
In short order it degenerated into a shouting match that quickly brought security. The Dick Drunkasses (copyright wfrazerjr) defense was that as season ticket holders they had the right to stand, while the rest of us claimed we spent good money to watch the game, not their fat asses.
Since the stadium didn't have a specific rule about standing by your seats, security couldn't do anything but keep the confrontation from going nuclear. I have no doubts however, that some of the threats about continuing the discussion in the parking lot were acted upon.
We ended up having to stand for most of the game in order to see it, along with most of the people in the section we were in. Whenever security walked away, the standing fans were pelted with food, drinks, and whatever else was at hand. We tried to make the best of the situation, but the experience was basically ruined. I think some kind of conduct code would not be a bad idea.
posted at 2:29 PM CDT on July 3
Barry Bonds offers to play for free.
My opinion on Bonds is no secret, however I noticed this tidbit in the paper yesterday and have been meaning to post about it. Barry Bonds' agent has offered his services to all 30 teams, at a pro-rated salary of the league minimum (at this point, about $200,000 total), even offering to play for free by donating that salary to buying tickets for the game; his trial date isn't until next March, so he would not be prevented from playing.
Despite this, apparently Barry's agent has received no interest, bolstering claims that the league is colluding to prevent him being hired.
posted to Baseball at 9:32 PM CDT
his alleged "clubhouse poison" reputation
Nothing alleged about it. Once Barry had stolen Hank's HR record, the Giants couldn't wait until the end of the season to cut him loose.
posted at 9:25 PM CDT on June 28
Just let the man play.
So if cheating by using performance enhancing drugs isn't enough to keep this guy off of your team, what would? At what point do you draw a line between ability and character? It doesn't matter what the guy does or has done, so long as he can play?
I think its unfortunate in a lot of ways that too many people who think like you have turned a game into an entertainment spectacle.
posted at 2:47 PM CDT on June 30
Is your chosen team 100% clean without any past PED use whatsoever?
In a word, yes. If you have used a drug to give yourself an unfair advantage over other players, your stats and records should be expunged and you have played your last game. If its proven that anyone in management knew about and tacitly (or overtly) condoned your cheating, then the team forfeits the games you played in while using the drugs.
Its either that or you lower the standards, change the rules to allow an acceptable level of cheating, and let anyone play. At which point it would cease to be a game I would want to watch. it would become nothing more than a contest between drug companies rather than athletes.
posted at 4:45 PM CDT on June 30
There is zero good reason an eligible, healthy player who hit 28 HR with a 1.045 OPS the previous season should be unsigned by any team currently in playoff contention.
Are we talking about the same player who was released by his team of the last 15 years shortly after he broke a home run record and before the season was over? The same player whose team of the last 15 years removed practically every vestige of him from the ballpark before the next season opened? Why isn't he signed? Let's number the possible reasons, shall we?
1. If he's only going to be hitting DH, that cuts the number of eligible teams by half.
2. For the sake of arguement, lets say that of those 16 teams, half of them will be in contention for post-season play.
3. Of those remaining 8 teams, which teams have the required space in the clubhouse for the personal staff, the barcaloungers, and the big flat panel tv?
4. For the sake of arguement, lets say that of those 8 teams, half of them have the required space in the clubhouse for the personal staff, the barcaloungers, and the big flat panel tv.
5. Of those remaining 4 teams, which ones with room in the clubhouse for the personal staff, the barcaloungers, and the big flat panel tv, have owners and managers willing to gamble on the performance of a 44 year old sullen, brooding, egotistical, known cheater, non-team player with a small matter of a federal indictment hanging over him?
So Watson, by the process of elimination, we see that 2, or at the most 4 teams, may have all of the needs and requirements to sign mr bonds to a contract. I would submit therefore, that bonds still has a 1 in 8 chance of being signed to play this season.
posted at 5:32 PM CDT on June 30
"chosen" MLB team
This season, a specific era, or all time?
posted at 5:34 PM CDT on June 30
I think there is a difference between "chosen" and "favorite", although I admit I might be getting too semantic about it.
The Giants and A's are the local teams, but I suppose my heart will always be with the Cubs.
posted at 8:03 PM CDT on June 30
Your argument consists entirely of opinion and conjecture.
OK, now we are really splitting hairs. As if 73.457% of the posts here aren't entirely opinion and conjecture. Just substitute 14 for 16 and redo the math. the point was and is, there aren't that many teams that would actually need Bond's services, and of that few, how many would be willing to take him on with all the baggage.
posted at 12:52 PM CDT on July 1
It was alleged but never proven that at least two players on the Cubs roster from 1998 to 2000 used steroids. The player who made the allegations, Matt Karchner, refused to divulge their names.
There were a number of former Cubs players listed in the Mitchell report, meaning that they were not with the Cubs when they took steroids.
Former Cubs listed in the Mitchell report implicated by Kirk Radomski included:
Glenallen Hill
Matt Franco
Todd Hundley
Jerry Hairston
Rondell White
Todd Pratt
Kent Mercker
Benito Santiago
Gary Matthews
Rafael Palmeiro
posted at 1:12 PM CDT on July 1
believe that Bonds is the sole reason why steroids ran rampant in the sport of baseball
Normally I'm jealous of how often your posts are right on target, but you are way off base here (pun intended). I never said or even intimated that Bonds was the sole reason for steroids in baseball. I only think that his steroids use is more egregious than most given that he attained two of baseball's most prestigious records while juiced.
posted at 2:08 PM CDT on July 1
aren't insisting on wrong-headed "facts"
OK, from now on I will use the disclaimer "tongue in cheek". I thought that the references to the barcalounger and large flat screen tv were sufficient to indicate humor.
maybe you aren't the best source on this one.
And who is the best source on this one, since none of us (to the best of my knowledge) are MLB GM's or owners that actually know why they haven't hired Bonds yet. And if we aren't an MLB GM or owner, than all of this is pure conjecture and opinion. My opinion isn't that much different than yours. Oh wait, you actually haven't posted an opinion on this topic, just opinions on other's posts.
Barry Bonds' career OPS
If it were just about the stats Bonds would have been playing since opening day. So what possible reason could 30 MLB teams have for not signing this guy?
posted at 4:45 PM CDT on July 1
Thanks for not blasting me into next week yerfatma.
All joking aside, I respect your knowledge of all things baseball and your wealth of life experience, and so I honestly seek an answer to some questions.
Do you really think that all of the 30 MLB teams might have a place for Bonds? I would think that one concern would be his ability to play every game in the season. On the NL side any team that signed him would need to have a reasonably good replacement for him when he couldn't play.
Or, proceeding on the basis that he would sign as a DH, how many of the 14 AL teams might have a place for Bonds?
posted at 5:48 PM CDT on July 1
His cup runneth over...