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mjkredliner
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Name: Mike Kingery
Location: Llano Estacado
Member since: January 02, 2006
Last visit: November 16, 2009

mjkredliner has posted 27 links and 1347 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 3 comments to the Locker Room.

Recent Links

The King turns 80: Long live The King.

posted by mjkredliner to golf at 02:35 PM on September 09 - 5 comments

Yanks Error Free for MLB record 18 straight games: Breaking the record set by some team in Boston...New York has handled 651 total chances in 165 1/3 innings of play, recording 496 putouts and completing 162 assists with 13 double plays. The Yankees are 14-4 during the 18-game errorless streak.

posted by mjkredliner to baseball at 11:26 AM on June 02 - 12 comments

This ain't my first rodeo!: But the West Of The Pecos Rodeo, which has its 125th annual gathering this week claims to be the first, and oldest, rodeo. Cowboy Up, y'all!

posted by mjkredliner to culture at 03:20 AM on June 17 - 5 comments

USC's John David Rips Booty in 93rd Rose Bowl: And in the process, dispels a popular notion that Michigan may have been the #1 team in the land.

posted by mjkredliner to football at 08:22 PM on January 01 - 48 comments

End of an era for Houston Baseball: One of the original Killer B's,Jeff Bagwell retires due to his well documented shoulder problem. Is he a future Hall of Fame inductee?

posted by mjkredliner to baseball at 09:10 PM on December 16 - 23 comments

Recent Comments

Utley ties Reggie's World Series Record

Utley's swing looks effortless and much sweeter than Reggie corkscrewing himself into the ground from my viewpoint.

Absolutely. I was making a feeble attempt at humor what with the candy bar wrapper and all.

posted by mjkredliner at 12:17 PM on November 04

Utley ties Reggie's World Series Record

Utley's swing is sweet, but not as sweet as Reggie's.

Check out the Ruth Home Run Bar, too.

posted by mjkredliner at 04:50 PM on November 03

Aluminum Bat Maker Liable in Baseball Player's Death

The USGA might have a fix that bat manufacturers can use.

From Wikipedia:

The coefficient of restitution entered the common vocabulary, among golfers at least, when golf club manufacturers began making thin-faced drivers with a so-called "trampoline effect" that creates drives of a greater distance as a result of an extra bounce off the clubface. The USGA (America's governing golfing body) has started testing drivers for COR and has placed the upper limit at 0.83.

Just saying, COR limits for both balls and bats should maybe be adopted.

Fielding your position a lil better might not hurt, either.

posted by mjkredliner at 02:39 PM on October 30

Antoine Walker broke, arrested for writing bad checks

Walker has also tried his hand at venture capital investing with Walker Ventures LLC and in real estate with AW Realty LLC.

Guffaw!

"Antoine is doing great,'' said Diane. "I have my home. He has his home. If he's doing so bad, then how could we still be here?''

Chortle!

writing 10 bad checks for casino markers totaling $1 million in Las Vegas.

Hell, he can't be outta money, he still has checks!

posted by mjkredliner at 05:23 PM on October 29

Agassi Admits Crystal Meth Use in New Book

Meth is for hillbillies

Not exclusively.

posted by mjkredliner at 12:50 PM on October 28

Sam Bradford goes pro

Hes probably going to really suck.

I may be proven wrong.

Nate Hybl, Josh Heupel, Jason White aside, the last good pro QB OU produced finished his collegiate career at UCLA. Time will tell.

posted by mjkredliner at 12:34 PM on October 28

Sam Bradford goes pro

He seems like a nice kid, I hope he gets his degree. I will be surprised if he amounts to much as a pro QB.

posted by mjkredliner at 04:16 PM on October 27

Can the Yankees Be Stopped?

rcade, thats some pretty funny stuff you're lobbing over the plate.

It made my morning. Good discussion, gentlemen.

posted by mjkredliner at 08:54 AM on October 23

Phillies Move on to World Series

Also, Wilt's 1965 Sixers probably deserve some credit as well.

So do the 1960 Eagles.

The Broad Street Bullies from 73 to 75 were pretty damn good as well.

posted by mjkredliner at 06:54 PM on October 22

Can the Yankees Be Stopped?

Predicting the Yankees will be good isn't really going out on a limb. Especially if you do it in June.

I did not predict that the Yankees would be good. I commented that they were playing well and seemed to be having fun, as I had just watched them play 3 games against the Rangers a few days earlier, and noticed that they, and particularly their dugout, seemed loose.

I'd say that team chemistry has almost nothing to do with the Yankees success (neither did a fluke non-error streak).

I'd venture to guess the Yankees themselves would disagree. And, fluke or not, that was the longest error free streak in the history of the game. Pretty noteworthy. Unless you're a Red Sox fan, I suppose.

posted by mjkredliner at 04:41 PM on October 22

Can the Yankees Be Stopped?

Some of us saw this team coming together earlier this year.

I hope A-Rod shuts up the naysayers forever.

posted by mjkredliner at 05:45 PM on October 21

Mike Tyson Gets Emotional During Oprah Interview -- Talks Career, Controversies and More

I would have thought he had faded into Bolivian by now.

posted by mjkredliner at 06:33 PM on October 14

OSU wideout Dez Bryant ineligible

And, by the way, I don't watch

I had that figured out.

I just read that the University of Florida spends $89 million a year on its football program. For an amateur sport, run by an institution of higher learning.

Cite, please. Seems odd since they only generated 66 million in football revenues last year, and gave 6 million to their academics department. I guarantee they are not operating the football program in the red.

posted by mjkredliner at 03:16 PM on October 09

OSU wideout Dez Bryant ineligible

Sure, rules are rules lying is bad blah blah but this case is a window into the asylum of venal, crass, hypocritical sanctimony that is the organizational side of College Football
all NCAA sanctioned sports.

Same rule applies to the athletes of the least profitable (and most subsidized)sports at OSU and other universities as well. If your beef is with the amount that college coaches are paid, I suggest you boycott (ie: not watch) the captalistic spectacle called college football.

posted by mjkredliner at 03:29 PM on October 08

OSU wideout Dez Bryant ineligible

Rules are rules. Google the bylaw`he broke, NCAA bylaw`10.1 (d), and you will see that the athletes sign a form acknowledging the rule, so the premise that the rule is obscure doesn't fly, either.

The punishment for the violation of NCAA bylaw 10.1 (d) can range from anywhere to a suspension of a few games to banishment from the field of NCAA competition, and OSU has begun the process of applying to the NCAA for reinstatement on the matter.

So, hopefully, the kid won't be banned for his entire senior year.

posted by mjkredliner at 02:16 PM on October 08