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- 07/06/08
| Name: | Jeff Shaw |
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| Homepage URL: | http://jeffshaw.blogspot.com |
| Location: | Bellingham, Washington, USA |
| AIM: | jeffmshawitt |
| Member since: | June 26, 2002 |
| Last visit: | May 24, 2006 |
jeffmshaw has posted 25 links and 201 comments to SportsFilter and hasn’t posted any threads or comments to the Locker Room.
The Deadball Era: where every player is safe at home. Dedicated to deceased ballplayers, this site has grave photos, burial sites, obituaries and more. Check out the very cool audio vault. Listen to Babe and Lou do comedy (5 min. MP3). ["Babe, all you have to do is diet another 15 years and you'll almost look human".] Peruse the baseball cards and photos of the dead. Enjoy the grim story of the '27 Yankees (warning: embedded sound). They also have photos of dead stadiums.
posted on Apr 19, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Kelsey Martin is a high school softball star. She's also an honor student, class president, and "plays basketball as a volunteer for a community group that involves developmentally disabled men and women" -- despite having been born with "a left arm that ends just below the elbow."
posted on Apr 2, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
After a blow-up with his manager, Milton Bradley will likely be traded by Sunday. Cleveland GM Mark Shapiro has discussed a deal with eight teams, four or five of which have made serious offers for the talented and mercurial outfielder. Interested parties are thought to be the Pirates, Dodgers, Rangers, A's and Mets. TSN's Ken Rosenthal also lists the White Sox, Giants, Expos and Royals as possible suitors, and many (i.e., me) would add the Mariners. Is this a case of a head case becoming someone else's problem, or a chance to acquire a top-tier player on the cheap?
posted on Apr 1, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Get officially licensed sports gear here -- for your dog. Crass commercialism officially goes off the deep end, attempting to reach that intersection of the market where sports-fandom meets pet-obsession. The four-page photo gallery of dogs in game jerseys is the height of weirdness. Not all MLB or NBA teams represented, but you can get Fido or Fifi some Red Sox or Yanks swag, among other squads.
posted on Mar 25, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Listening to baseball history . Reading Page 2's interview with Buck O'Neill piqued my interest in hearing some more of his stories. Upon searching, I found Love of the Game Productions, a site which includes a 'blog and audio interviews by Bay Area sports broadcaster Marty Lurie. There are MP3s of Hall of Famers, thoughts on race in baseball and some "Today in baseball history" segments. Besides two interviews (MP3 ~3-4 min.) with Buck O'Neill, you can find old-timers like Happy Chandler and contemporary stars like Jason "Four Pounds Ago" Giambi, not to mention Billy Williams, Larry Doby, Rod Carew, Rachel (widow of Jackie) Robinson, and many more.
posted on Feb 26, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Jenna Cooper, an all-Big 12 women's soccer player at the University of Nebraska, was fatally wounded Saturday night by a gun fired during a party at her house.
posted to Soccer at 8:04 AM CDT
Yankee Hating: It's not just for Boston anymore. (it's also for Baltimore, Mets fans, and Seattle.) Ever since this guy wore a Yankees Hater hat to the Bruins game last week (further cementing the ongoing love affair between Red Sox fans and Curt Schilling), the website yankeeshater.com has been overwhelmed with orders from around the country. That picture, featured on SportsCenter, and presented in sports pages all over, has sent the website orders into overdrive. The hats (and the site owners) may be coming to a park near you.
posted to Baseball at 11:22 PM CDT
Unfortunately, you get thrown out of Safeco Field for wearing stuff like this. I wish I were making that up.
Our team may be 6-13, but it's a civil, family-friendly 6-13! Sheesh.
posted at 12:25 AM CDT on April 26
[rhythmic finger snapping] "When you're a Jet, you're ALWAYS a Jet ..."
Sing it with me now!
posted at 10:32 AM CDT on April 26
Wow! That's a great story, usfbull, and I can totally see it happening.
You also get thrown out of Safeco for wearing shirts with any profanity on them, even "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" gear.
posted at 4:37 PM CDT on April 26
Shortly after drafting Boston College offensive lineman Chris Snee in the second round, the New York Football Giants let the media know that Snee fathered Coach Tom Coughlin's grandchild.
posted to Football at 10:13 AM CDT
I believe Coughlin when he says that this pick is based solely on football. But Snee better not be a bust, or the tabloids will kill both of them.
posted at 10:39 AM CDT on April 25
BTW, they took Snee early in the second round, not in the first.
posted at 10:42 AM CDT on April 25
New NFL Draft Thread. Did San Diego get the last laugh? How about everyone else? Cleveland looks good to me.
posted to Football at 8:00 PM CDT
Not sure how this came off on TV -- I was following the draft on radio -- but I love how the MSG crowd booed Eli Manning everywhere he went. Everywhere.
Agreed that the Giants got robbed. To move up three spaces costs three picks, when most analysts have Manning pretty close to Rivers and Roethlisberger?
I think the Browns made out well with their two picks (both Winslow and Sean Jones will produce for them), but again, the price was pretty high. They gave up a second-round pick this year to move up one space. Must've wanted Kellen's kid pretty bad.
Sleepers outside of round one: I gotta wave my Duck flag and say Igor Olshansky is great value in round two. The guy's only played organized football for four years -- he's just getting better. Devard Darling in the third round to Baltimore could work out very well. They need a big receiver, and it's a surprise he fell this far IMO.
The Seahawks appear to be having their annual disappointing draft. Needing a defensive lineman, they could have traded up two or three spaces to get Vince Wilfork or Kenichi Udezi -- but settle for third-best Marcus Tubbs. Then they grab Michael Boulware, apparently unaware of Seattle's bad luck with little brothers named Michael. Speaking of little brothers, we appear to have also drafted Heather Locklear's.
posted at 9:32 AM CDT on April 25
I see the Sea Chickens have also drafted Niko.
No, not that Nico:
posted at 12:05 PM CDT on April 25
Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who turned down a $9-million, five-year offer to enlist in the military, has been killed during a firefight in Afghanistan.
posted to Football at 9:57 AM CDT
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posted at 10:28 AM CDT on April 23
How tragic, senseless and sad.
Plenty of good things have happened to me when I was out at 3 a.m. And plenty of people have thrown parties and not gotten shot.
Rcade, I'm glad you feel comfortable judging a 21-year-old college kid for having a party at her own house that stretched into the wee hours of the morning. I regret that I don't have your strength of conviction.
Yes, many of the good things that have happened to me while hanging out at parties until 3 a.m. involve booze, but I can't think of any that involve puking. Sorry to disappoint you. Even sorrier that you evidently have never been at a party where you're having so much fun you don't want to go home. Met my wife that way.
I think the rule "nothing good can happen when you're Michael Irvin and you're out at 3 a.m." might make sense.
As it stands, though, it looks an awful lot like you're saying "College kids that throw parties and get shot should have known better than to throw parties." Classy. The fact that you apparently posted this FPP so you could follow it up with that comment is even classier.
Hey, at least I wait until 3 a.m. before making a fool of myself.
This 3 a.m. rule: is there a way to interpret your invocation of it that that does not constitute blaming the victim?
She was an adult who had a party at her own home. There's no way she could have foreseen two people getting into a violent dispute that she wasn't party to and killing her accidentally.
A college student over 21 should be able to throw a party and indulge in a little legal drinking without having to frisk everybody who shows up -- and without facing tongue-clicking from second-guessers who say she shouldn't have stayed up late.
So, here's how I read your comments: "Without blaming Cooper at all," you want to point out that she engaged in "questionable behavior" and that "nothing good can happen" to people engaged in that behavior.
I'm willing to let that speak for itself.
Not only do I know what finger you've got up, I know what orifice it currently inhabits.
Look, rcade, you posted this FPP about a tragic death. What did you think the first comment was going to be? Probably something like "How tragic, senseless and sad." Right?
I don't know what about "how tragic, senseless and sad" provoked you to lecture a dead college kid for having a party at her house, but something did. In the second comment in this thread, you dropped your derisive comment.
The "subject of partying at 3 a.m." didn't "come up." You brought it up out of the blue as a way to get your take on this issue across. Your point, as I understand it, is that you think this girl made a bad choice that got her killed. We disagree. I think that's a terrible way to look at this, a way that blames an innocent bystander who paid the ultimate price for someone else's awful decision.
I also stand by my "you apparently posted this FPP so you could follow it up with that comment," er, comment, and frankly don't see why it's at all controversial. You began the thread. You were the second person to comment in it. Clearly that's something you wanted to say, right? So isn't it strictly accurate to say that you posted this FPP so you could follow it up with that comment?
You had a vocal take that was different than mine. We argued. Isn't that, you know, the point?
[BTW, if this is "personal" to you, then you really do need to get a thicker skin. Or maybe relax a little. Go to a few parties, you know.]
Last post. Thought about trying to "crawl up your ass," but I couldn't get around the stick.
On the substance: Like I said, I'm happy to let your comments speak for themselves.
On the sniping: who is crawling up whose ass here?
On preview: it's all been worth it if vito has been amused.
Enjoy the Twizzlers.