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| Name: | Sheridan Jackson |
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rocketman has posted 21 links and 580 comments to SportsFilter and 1 thread and 51 comments to the Locker Room.
Curt Schilling has a blog. (via Deadspin)
posted on Mar 8, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
How Good Is Your #4 Starter? Jeff Sackmann, of The Hardball Times and Brew Crew Ball runs the numbers and concludes: back-rotation starters suck. But you might be surprised at how bad they generally are.
posted on Dec 28, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Sanchez tosses a no-hitter against the Diamondbacks. Everyone who thought the Marlins would be in the wild card race, raise your hand.
posted on Sep 6, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Cricket explained from an American perspective. I've always been a bit baffled by cricket, and news reports of matches do little to help. If you've ever wondered what's going on, this explains things pretty well.
posted on Aug 4, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
On Meeting a Legend. The Baltimore Sun's Rick Maese has a lifelong dream come true when he meets The Champ.
posted on May 11, 2006 - 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
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Every material on earth is, at the initial level, constructed from b-balls. Carbon is b-balls. The blood flowing through our b-ball veins is made of b-balls. Every star in our cosmos is b-ball in origin. Understand this, and you may begin to understand Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden.
Once you've digested that, download the game. [via]
posted to Basketball at 6:51 AM CDT
Was it Keats who said that a thing of beauty is a joy forever?
posted at 4:35 PM CDT on March 18
The Feel Good Hit of the Season. Absolutely beautiful.
posted to Culture at 7:02 PM CDT
I have a new favorite sport.
posted at 9:27 PM CDT on March 5
The NY Times real time blog of the Clemens hearings. The NY times blogs today's hearings. A follow up story from the Times is here.
posted to Baseball at 3:24 PM CDT
My favorite part was when the Representative (I didn't catch who, as I was listening on streaming radio) got all dramatic and called McNamee a drug dealer, and McNamee said "That's your opinion."
Very Lebowski, and I lol'd.
posted at 6:29 PM CDT on February 13
Victory and Ruins - The Story of the 2000 Rose Bowl Champion Washington Huskies Pity Ty Willingham who inherited a program that protected and enabled:
UCLA fans, ask Rick Neuheisel what price you're paying for victories next year. Tampa Bay fans, stay off the roads. posted to Football at 12:49 PM CDT
I think putting O.J. in the same sentence as Greg Maddux is what's over the top. O.J. only got away with killing two people.
posted at 5:49 PM CDT on January 30
Mets Get Santana Pending a 24-48 hour window for ironing out a contract extension and completing a player physical, Johan Santana is headed to the Mets for four prospects - outfielder Carlos Gomez , pitchers Phil Humber, Deolis Guerra, and Kevin Mulvey.
posted to Baseball at 4:22 PM CDT
From where I'm sitting, this isn't going to sit well with me for more than 10 years. In the near term, it's going to drive me nuts to see Santana mowing down the Brew Crew a couple of times a year. But I can't wait until he's in the HoF, and I can tell kids and grandkids "I saw him pitch."
There will be Cy Youngs.
posted at 5:03 PM CDT on January 29
Fear Strikes All: Doug Glanville Explains Why Steroids Hit Baseball In yesterday's New York Times, nine-season major leaguer Doug Glanville humanizes the debate over performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. "There is a tipping point in a player's career where he goes from chasing the dream to running from a nightmare. At that point, ambition is replaced with anxiety, passion is replaced with survival. It is a downhill run and it spares no one. For me, it started with a pop in 2003, while I was running out a routine ground ball in Texas." This drew interesting responses from author Jeff Angus and the blog Breaking Balls.
posted to Baseball at 10:39 AM CDT
Wow. Very good read.
posted at 1:23 PM CDT on January 17
Adam "Pacman" Jones is accused of sucker-punching a female attorney in a northwest Atlanta strip-club.
posted to Football at 3:25 PM CDT
This will end well.
posted at 4:36 PM CDT on January 15
Rudy Giuliani, Red Sox Fan "I will be rooting for the Red Sox because I am an American League fan," former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a group of local reporters in New Hampshire Tuesday. "In this case, you won the division and we lost." On the other side, the Democratic frontrunner so famously switched teams that it was mocked in a book, I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words.
posted to Baseball at 2:27 PM CDT
From where I sit, Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton are equal doses of ick.
posted at 2:58 PM CDT on October 25
For The Love of Sport: Midwest Showdown A four game set next weekend could go a long way towards determining who wins the NL Central. The second in a weekly column by sportsfilter member kyrilmitch_76.
posted to Baseball at 1:10 AM CDT
What were we talking about?
How kyrilmitch_76 forgot Milwaukee.
posted at 4:24 PM CDT on September 11
A Duck's plea: leave our livers alone Watch out, Scott Neidermeyer's in a fowl mood.
posted to Culture at 8:09 PM CDT
I don't believe for a second that foie gras is inhumane, having actually witnessed first-hand how ducks are treated on a farm. They live a better life then I do.
posted at 9:46 PM CDT on August 9
Mark Cuban Applies to Buy Chicago Cubs Add internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to the list of potential Chicago Cubs buyers.
posted to Baseball at 1:18 PM CDT
Being a Brewers fan, I'm no stranger to futility. But Cuban buying the Cubs makes my short list of dread-inspiring events, right above Turnbow walking the leadoff hitter and below Claudio Vargas' next start.
Hopefully they pass on an offer from him and make Wrigley Field the next stop for the ongoing party that is Loria/Sampson.
posted at 3:35 PM CDT on July 13
Giambi will cooperate with M.L.B.'s Probe Giambi said in a statement "......baseball will be best served by such a meeting." he would be 'candid about my past history regarding steroids."
posted to Baseball at 1:23 PM CDT
I was secretly hoping Giambi would refuse to cooperate, just to stick it to The Man.
The fact that Giambi has never tested positive, coupled with the illegal leak of his grand jury testimony, makes it very hard for me to take Selig's side in this matter.
I know we're all supposed to be shaking in our fan-boots about the scourge that is PEDs, but frankly, I'm just not all that concerned about it. Baseball drafted a policy, implemented it, engage in routine, random testing, and to me, that's the end of it. Why the need to have an investigation? Why issue a report?
I know, I know, because Congress shook a stern finger at Selig, and for some inexplicable reason, he seems to care what people think about him.
Anyway, back to Giambi: It's totally insane that he's the only active player who's even tried to be sorta open about this issue, and the commissioner's office response is to threaten punishment? I'm usually the Selig apologist, but I can't defend this one.
posted at 4:11 PM CDT on June 22
Justin Verlander pitches no-hitter. The Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander shuts down the Brewers while striking out 12 batters. Verlander becomes the first Tiger to throw a no-hitter since Jack Morris in 1984.
posted to Baseball at 8:46 PM CDT
That just plain sucked, but sometimes you have to tip your cap to the opposition. He brought his A-game tonight, that's fer sure.
posted at 11:48 PM CDT on June 12
Elijah Dukes, future MVP of the Florida Correctional League Dukes falls short of Rae Carruth in the Stupid Athletes Hall of Fame, but he's well on his way to earning a spot before his career is over - which could be any day now.
posted to Baseball at 3:12 PM CDT
A small piece of friendly advice to Mr. Dukes: Buy your wife an umpire's outfit for Halloween and then send Delmon over to your house for a little trick-or-treating fun. Problem solved.
That's not funny.
posted at 4:46 PM CDT on May 23
So I guess baseball catchers don't wear protective cups?
They do, but the pitcher threw a breaking ball.