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Breaking down the sports cliches.
A bit of humour for your Friday afternoon reading.
Example:
When they say: "He's a scrappy ballplayer" what they mean is: "He's a white kid that the fans like for some inexplicable reason."
posted by grum@work at 11:32 AM on April 21
posted by garfield at 01:03 PM on January 03
Doesn't it look like that? I'd better find a picture of him out of the water He does look like a dog. I spent a good minute trying to figure out what part of his head would resemble a dog's face. So I googled it, this is what he looks like: news.bbc.co.uk/.../ newsid_2165000/2165779.stm He looks like a dog.
posted at 10:16 PM on January 03
'The Easiest, Fastest Way to Become a High School Graduate' The New York Times has found college football players at 11 Division I schools who graduated high school at University High School in Florida, a correspondence school run by a convicted diploma-mill fraudster that has open-book tests, no known accredited teachers and promises a degree in 4-6 weeks. The schools: Auburn, Central Florida, Colorado State, Florida, Florida State, Florida International, Rutgers, South Carolina State, South Florida, Tennessee and Temple.
posted by rcade at 08:29 AM on November 26
I'm not sure which side i'm on. Sure an education is vital and is more reliable than a sports career, but for a few athletes, sports is their only way up...education can't really help them because they're just too...for lack of a better word, dumb. Like that Temple guy: he studied 3 hrs a day, professors and tutor help and everything, and still fails his tests. Then again, most probably have the brain capacity, but don't try. And they are athletes; you don't require scientists to pass an athletic test (bad analogy, but my point is...they're here to play a sport). Maybe there should be some compromise..if you can't meet the bar standard, you still can play whatever sport you're playing, but you receive less benefits maybe like..not starting, certain amount of minutes, fines, etc.
posted at 04:52 PM on November 26
Urbina throwing heaters in the off season? Seems like the guy can still throw the flaming heat...but, I am not so sure that is what the Phillies had in mind....
posted by sinisterfoot at 10:11 AM on November 09
I think Urbina has some past issues that he needs to deal with. I think someone is out to get him. last time it was a kidnapping by some venezuelan drug lord. IF he was mad at the workers, firing them would've got the job done.
posted at 08:38 PM on November 09
"We had fish, but she killed them." No doubt searching for a human interest story, someone at WNBA.com asks various WNBA stars about their family pets and gets more than he/she probably bargained for. Intentionally sick humor or just plain bad idea? You be the judge.
(I thought it was funny as hell, myself.)
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:14 PM on November 05
Lol, definitely funny.
posted at 09:05 PM on November 05
The Women of Curling. In a bid to get more visibility (and raise team funds) for the sport of sweeping ice while a giant puck travels ever so slowly to another puck, several female sports athletes have posed in the buff for a 2006 calendar, created and photographed by the captain of the Spanish women's team. From the pic in the article, I think you should buy one ($25.95 US, $29.95 CAD, $29 EUR, includes S+H). Also, discuss how else you would make curling more interesting?
posted by worldcup2002 at 06:33 PM on November 05
The photographer says that the whole thing was done in a "very, very tasteful" fashion. Uhuh.
posted at 09:03 PM on November 05
2 Eagles players condemed because they love the Lord Tra Thomas comes in to a public school talking 'bout Jebus and says he ain't preaching! How does he sleep at night?
posted by HATER 187 at 01:49 PM on October 27
I didn't see anything about preaching..only promoting a christian concert. Is talking about Jesus really that bad? I mean, kids are constantly being bombarded with images of football drug addicts, and the whole Viking cruise ship incident, etc. And we complain and nitpick about this.
posted at 06:14 PM on October 27
For the second time in 87 years, the two Sox franchises won back-to-back championships in the same number of games
In 1917, the Chicago White Sox defeated the NY Giants 4 games to 2; in 1918 the Red Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 2. Both teams then endured nearly 9 decades of futility... until tonight, when the Chicago White Sox rode great pitching to a Series Sweep of the Houston Astros, one year after the Red Sox did the same to the St. Louis Cardinals.
posted by Hal Incandenza at 11:13 PM on October 27
Yep, and if im not wrong, sox swept everybody but the angels (4-1 series). He was..out by the way grumwork. Replays, buddy. I am surprised though, at how well the sox played. Don't know about you guys, but A.J. is one of the most annoying baseball players ever. He even looks the part. (Sigh, yes, I stole that from the sportsguy, but I agree with simmons anyway).
posted at 12:12 AM on October 27
Buerhle throws a gem of a game, but but the only thing that saves it for him is a gift from the home plate umpire, Doug Eddings, in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, A.J. Pierzynski whiffs on the third strike, but runs to first base as the Angels were headed for the dugout. Eddings calls him safe as the ball short-hopped into Paul's catcher's mitt. The slo-mo replays told a different tale though. The Sox take that gift and score on a double to tie the series at one apiece.
posted by NoMich at 10:41 PM on October 12
Another thing-- what if scoscia didn't replace jose molina with a pinch runner, leaving josh paul to catch (paul ends up making the costly play)? Then again...what if bengie wasn't hit in the first place? I'll retract my comments about buerhle, he pitched the better game because it was a complete game as opposed to washburns' 4 innings.
posted at 11:58 PM on October 12
Buerhle throws a gem of a game, but but the only thing that saves it for him is a gift from the home plate umpire, Doug Eddings, in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, A.J. Pierzynski whiffs on the third strike, but runs to first base as the Angels were headed for the dugout. Eddings calls him safe as the ball short-hopped into Paul's catcher's mitt. The slo-mo replays told a different tale though. The Sox take that gift and score on a double to tie the series at one apiece.
posted by NoMich at 10:41 PM on October 12
I sounded conspiratorial? That wasnt my intention.Nope, that was just me.
posted at 11:54 PM on October 12
Buerhle throws a gem of a game, but but the only thing that saves it for him is a gift from the home plate umpire, Doug Eddings, in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, A.J. Pierzynski whiffs on the third strike, but runs to first base as the Angels were headed for the dugout. Eddings calls him safe as the ball short-hopped into Paul's catcher's mitt. The slo-mo replays told a different tale though. The Sox take that gift and score on a double to tie the series at one apiece.
posted by NoMich at 10:41 PM on October 12
*not to sound conspiratorial , like dad, but almost every article on the game like espn, mlb, centers on the big guys, which in this case, is buerhle. what body fake? i didn't catch the 1st game on tv.
posted at 11:05 PM on October 12
Buerhle throws a gem of a game, but but the only thing that saves it for him is a gift from the home plate umpire, Doug Eddings, in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, A.J. Pierzynski whiffs on the third strike, but runs to first base as the Angels were headed for the dugout. Eddings calls him safe as the ball short-hopped into Paul's catcher's mitt. The slo-mo replays told a different tale though. The Sox take that gift and score on a double to tie the series at one apiece.
posted by NoMich at 10:41 PM on October 12
same here, extra innings rock. Not to sound conspiratorial , like dad, but almost every article on the game centers on the big guys, which in this case, is buerhle, espn, mlb, etc. buerhle=1 earned run, 5 hits. washburn=1 unearned run, 4 hits. I guess, the big stars get the big spotlights. even though it appeared he clearly caught the ball, Josh Paul should have not taken the play for granted and either tagged Peirzynski or tossed the ball to first. I wouldn't blame Paul. Home plate umpire signaled a strike out, Pierzynski started to walk to the dugout, and Paul was already in the motion of rolling the ball back. By the time AJ took off, the ball was pretty much already throw (or about to be). There was no stopping it. Good at bat by Crede. Im telling you, Scoscia has got to be one of the calmest managers I've seen so far. He got mad sure, but he handled everything quite professionaly. Looks like a baby too.
posted at 11:02 PM on October 12
Buerhle throws a gem of a game, but but the only thing that saves it for him is a gift from the home plate umpire, Doug Eddings, in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, A.J. Pierzynski whiffs on the third strike, but runs to first base as the Angels were headed for the dugout. Eddings calls him safe as the ball short-hopped into Paul's catcher's mitt. The slo-mo replays told a different tale though. The Sox take that gift and score on a double to tie the series at one apiece.
posted by NoMich at 10:41 PM on October 12
close call, but dangit, it just really sucks. Buerhle throws a gem of a game? How about some credit to Washburn who just came off a high fever and a cold...opposed to Buerhle who had a lot of rest? whatever...im just pissed.
posted at 10:51 PM on October 12
Done. Chicago overcomes Boston to move on to the ALCS.
posted by jerseygirl at 06:43 PM on October 08
go chi sox only if angels happen to do the improbable and beat Yankees. At which point I'm all about go Bronx BombersI really don't see what is so improbable here fade? The Angels are the only team that has a winning record against the Yanks in their own stadium. btw...angels just beat up johnson. 2-1 series, go angels.
posted at 12:11 AM on October 08
Reese to Robinson to History A new statue that will stand at the Coney Island Cyclones stadium commemorates a historic moment in baseball: The 1947 afternoon at Cincinnati's Crosley Field when Pee Wee Reese of the Brooklyn Dodgers walked across the infield and draped his arm across the shoulder of Jackie Robinson, his new teammate and the subject of widespread racial abuse.
posted by rcade at 09:01 AM on October 02
It may seem totally trivial and silly, but I was expecting the statue to be...different, better, more "friendship like". I wasn't expecting arm-draping-camaraderie- friendship moment, but still, it looks stiff, weird, unnatural.
posted at 01:14 AM on October 02
Speaking of... the moronic phrase ''ya no wha ime sayin?'' Weird Al Yankovic (one of the greatest parodist of songs ever) had this fake interview with Eminem. Eminem kept repeating over and over again "ya know what I'm saying?" to ever question posed to him. HILARIOUS. Here's the link to it: youtube.com