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| Name: | D. Greene |
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| Homepage URL: | http://www.audendi.com |
| Location: | OH |
| Gender: | one man, many opinions |
| AIM: | insomnyukDAN |
| Member since: | January 29, 2002 |
| Last visit: | April 14, 2008 |
insomnyuk has posted 17 links and 368 comments to SportsFilter and 8 links and 48 comments to the Locker Room.
Does Bonds have a mechanical advantage? Michael Witte provides a pretty interesting analysis of the possible impact of Barry Bonds' elbow armor apparatus, and how it might benefit his swing.
posted on August 06, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Weird Technical Issue Something is wrong with my ISP. When I try to connect via my ATT Yahoo DSL, I get an error message. This is unique to at least this computer, perhaps it's my ISP I don't know. But I can access Spofi fine through a proxy, or through a computer on a different ISP - as long as I don't use Firefox. Firefox on Windows plus proxy works. Firefox on Windows w/o proxy does not, same results were found w/ Firefox on a Mac at work, with a different ISP (Cincinnati Bell). WTF? Error message inside.
posted on July 07, 2007 - Go to the detail view for this result
Ben Roethlisberger blogs the Super Bowl! Blogging quarterbacks is definitely a movement I support. Yeah. Blog previously mentioned here, but this is some fresh content, and deserves a mention.
posted on February 02, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Carson Palmer blogs his recovery "In terms of my injury, I will be completely ready for the 2006 NFL season and am anxious to get back out on the field with my teammates." He also talks about some details of the recovery process, urges the front office to resign John Kitna, and and avoids mention of how the injury happened. Though this blog is probably vetted by PR people, Palmer doesn't sound bitter, he sounds like a class act.
posted on January 29, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
NBA brawl in the stands repeated Or something else? New York Knick Antonio Davis ran into the stands during a game in Chicago, claiming his wife's safety was being threatened. Larry Brown supported him, immediately drawing a distinction between what happened last night and what happened that fateful day last year at the Palace, saying "That thing that happened in the stands had nothing to do with the two teams. That's a man concerned about his family." Regardless, this incident underscores the weak, often ineffective security at sports venues around the country.
posted on January 18, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Stephon Marbury Leaves Knicks, Threatens to [Euphemism] Isiah Thomas The New York Knicks are imploding earlier than usual this season, with guard Stephon Marbury leaving the team after a verbal (and possibly physical) blowup with Coach Isiah Thomas that seems likely to send one or both packing. The New York Daily News quotes a threat Marbury allegedly made on the team plane, bowdlerized for your protection. "Isiah has to start me," Marbury said. "I've got so much [doody] on Isiah and he knows it. He thinks he can [snu-snu] me. But I'll [snu-snu] him first. You have no idea what I know."
posted by rcade at 08:39 AM on November 14
Trust But Verify, has an primer on chromatography, with an emphasis on the Floyd Landis case. Part 1: Limits Part 2: Background and Background Substraction Part 3: Adjacent Peaks Part 4: Three Peaks Part 5: What the Doktor Meant.
posted by apoch at 06:49 PM on November 07
I for one appreciate this Tommy Thompson reference.
posted at 07:28 PM on November 07
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves Wisconsin youth football coach threatens to kill one of his own players, then administers a helicopter slam, just to drive the message home. You know, maybe we should sign the kids up for the Debate Club instead.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 08:29 AM on October 31
It is possible that the 12 year old who got bodyslammed is a punk who really did take a cheap shot at this other kid, and deserved to be corrected in a reasonable fashion, i.e. verbal correction and perhaps being made to run some laps. The problem with youth sports is the adults.
posted at 10:57 AM on October 31
Steve Nash Wants to Buy Spurs No, not those Spurs -- Tottenham Hotspur in the Premiership. "I'd like to be an owner," he told the New York Times. "It's something I could do for the rest of my life after my little window of popularity dies." Nash, who played soccer in Canada as a youth and has a brother with Football Association experience, is a lifelong fan of the team like his London-born father.
posted by rcade at 06:22 AM on October 31
As a Tottenham supporter, I really would like to see Nash pull this off - after he's won an NBA chamionship.
posted at 10:37 AM on October 31
What was Kitna Thinking? Kitna mocks assistant coach with Halloween costume (Photo Included.)
posted by Bill Lumbergh at 06:51 AM on October 31
Good for Kitna, that's hilarious.
posted at 10:37 AM on October 31
SportsFilter Has 2.37 Million RSS Subscribers That's not a typo. For several years, this site has been the most-added weblog on Yahoo and one of the 10 most-added sports sites. This audience sees the site differently than web visitors, as you can see by visiting My Yahoo's Add SportsFilter page. We've tweaked the posting guidelines a little to account for them.
posted by rcade at 09:02 AM on October 20
User registration with a valid email address can be a pretty high barrier to entry. I like Joel Sposky's take on the whole thing, but I think the barrier to entry is good. However, perhaps a script should be used where new users who post in ALLCAPS are IP-banned automatically, or given an intelligence test that requires knowledge of the shift key.
posted at 03:44 AM on October 20
Chief Wahoo: A Modest Proposal.
posted by Joey Michaels at 04:59 PM on October 20
There is no defense of Chief Wahoo. At best he should be an object lesson about the institutionalized, casual racism that still exists today. I think the best answer is to rename them the Cleveland Tribe, and change their mascot to be in honor and remembrance of the area tribes that got so royally fucked when their land was taken. They could do a mascot in honor of Tecumseh, for example. It has to happen, now is the time.
posted at 03:11 AM on October 20
ESPN Anchor Scott Van Pelt is a Flamer "You are the worst thing about internet sites ... You are a piece of garbage and I loathe you and all your kind." -- ESPN's Scott Van Pelt, posting to another member (under his own name, no less) on the Terrapin Times message board for University of Maryland fans
posted by rcade at 04:47 PM on September 05
This is why the best thing slashdot has ever done is to automatically name all users who post anonymously a so-called 'Anonymous Coward.' Corollary: John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Sometimes, in spite of my libertarian instinct for privacy and freedom of speech, I wonder if it would be such a bad thing to require people online to post using their real names. It would put a stop to a lot of the pointless dickwaving and internet tough guy oneupmanship that destroys so many 'discussions' online.
posted at 06:58 PM on September 05
Michael Vick Admits to Dogfighting, Will Plead Guilty The Falcons quarterback has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in his federal dogfighting case and will enter his guilty plea Monday, his attorney said today. No word yet on what sentence he might receive. Vick and his codefendants, who already reached deals, face up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
posted by Ricardo at 02:05 PM on August 20
You overestimate Oakland, rcade.
posted at 03:39 PM on August 20
posted by kirkaracha at 11:05 PM on August 07
Mark Cuban's got Barry's back.
posted at 11:43 PM on August 07
Got it. Got it. Got it. Holy...
You can keep your Daisuke Matsuzaka rookie card and your ARod special insert cards. One lucky guy was blessed to find this relic!
posted by grum@work at 06:32 PM on August 07
A baseball card signed by mother theresa? I don't get why it's so valuable. I don't follow card collecting at all, either. Can someone fill me in on what I'm missing?
posted at 07:05 PM on August 07
dns issue http://sportsfilter.com without the preceding www yields a 404 error.
posted by machaus at 06:48 PM on August 07
Still getting the error here.
posted at 08:26 AM on August 07
Does Bonds have a mechanical advantage? Michael Witte provides a pretty interesting analysis of the possible impact of Barry Bonds' elbow armor apparatus, and how it might benefit his swing.
posted by insomnyuk at 04:24 PM on August 06
robi8259: did you actually read the article? Is blah blah blah your summary of the article or simply your reaction to the way I worded the post? I thought the article made some good explanations of how the mechanics of the swing could be aided by a physical guide. What would really help would be side by side evidence carefully detailing the evolution of his swing, especially up to the point in 2001 where he got the final iteration of the armor and really started his record breaking pace.
posted at 08:19 PM on August 06
Legendary coach and general manager Scotty Bowman is strongly considering joining the Maple Leafs in an advisory role. The question is as a mentor to GM John Ferguson Jr. and Head Coach Paul Maurice or does this portend a major shake-up in the Leafs organization?
posted by skydivedad at 09:43 AM on August 05
Well, that explains why the Leafs are so mediocre - they're owned by a teacher's union.
posted at 11:30 AM on August 05
Will the Web Kill the Local Sports Page? In a discussion about the future of newspapers, A-list blogger Matthew Yglesias argues that the sports section is being killed off by sites like ESPN.Com and Yahoo Sports. "Sports specialty sites will have the best sports coverage," he writes.
posted by rcade at 03:05 PM on July 27
The Dayton Daily News refuses to cover the National Hockey League in any meaningful way. They have at least two beat reporters just covering the Cincinnati Reds. About ten years ago I wrote one of the sports reporters about why they didn't cover hockey more, and he said 'there's not enough interest' and that turned me off to local sports news. I only read it to follow the local college sports teams, nothing more. Our sports page is basically mutating into a local sports digest with opinions and stuff on outdoors activities. They print national stories as a matter of course, but who cares?
posted at 04:18 PM on July 27
I have to automatically side with Stephon, as I have to give him credit for the Starbury shoe, and the fact that Isiah Thomas is quite obviously a massive douche.