- 06:25 PM
- 11/20/09
| Name: | BitterOldPunk |
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| Homepage URL: | http://bitteroldpunk.blogspot.com/ |
| Location: | Alabama |
| Member since: | January 31, 2002 |
| Last visit: | October 12, 2009 |
BitterOldPunk has posted 6 links and 65 comments to SportsFilter and 0 links and 0 comments to the Locker Room.
Nice catch, dude: A fan at a recent Phillies/Dbacks game one-hands a foul ball. While holding his toddler. Who is in turn holding a vat of soda.
posted by BitterOldPunk to baseball at 08:03 PM on July 31 - 8 comments
NFL TV Distribution Maps: uses Google Maps to show you what NFL game will be broadcast in your corner of the US. Nifty. (via)
posted by BitterOldPunk to football at 04:19 PM on September 03 - 5 comments
Ever wondered what happens when a switch pitcher meets a switch hitter?: Now you know. (via MetaFilter)
posted by BitterOldPunk to baseball at 12:15 PM on June 20 - 14 comments
NFL Pro Bowl ballots: are up. Vote for your favorite players. For QBs, I'll vote for Favre, Brooks, and Vick in the NFC; Maddox, Gannon, and Bledsoe in the AFC. Who has earned the trip to Hawaii?
posted by BitterOldPunk to football at 12:59 PM on November 27 - 0 comments
The US Open : starts this week. Who do you like? (Besides Tiger. I'll pick a dark horse - Scott McCarron.) It's being held at a public golf course for the first time, and the pros seem to think it's going to be a real test. It'll be a treat to see the best field in golf play a course few of them have any real experience with ('cept for the guys from Lon Guyland, of course). Nice to watch the pros struggle for par for a change. Can Mickelson win the big one? Can Monty? Can Goosen repeat? Can anyone stop Tiger?
posted by BitterOldPunk to golf at 11:13 PM on June 10 - 2 comments
Best line I heard all weekend was by Keith Olbermann, "When Tony Romo sat down, he missed the bench."
Heh.
Also: the Steelers tried their best to blow a 28-point lead last night. Their defensive play late in the game does not bode well.
Also also: the Saints are really, really scary. Like, ho-lee shit how do we stop them scary.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 07:15 PM on October 05
At least he didn't run over a dog. That'd get him two years in Leavenworth.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:16 PM on August 13
If Vick is smart (and by all available evidence he is not) he's spent the last two years doing sit-ups and push-ups. He'll need to work on his timing and speed, but I don't doubt he can come back and be effective. I'm glad to see him get a chance to play. I can't imagine the kind of pressure he must be under. If he can channel it into performance on the field, we'll be seeing some amazing stuff in the highlight reel.
Of course, as a Falcons fan, the emergence of Matty Ice and the steady hand Coach Smith has brought to the team make it a helluva lot easier to be forgiving of Vick in 2009 than I was in 2007.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:12 PM on August 13
I hope he does play in the NFL again. And I'm glad that it won't be for my Falcons.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 10:55 PM on July 04
Oh no. Oh no. McNair was one of my favorite players of all time. Oh goddamn.
Goddamn. Goddamn.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 07:03 PM on July 04
I kinda like this idea, too. Why not? It's not like fewer people could possible watch that yearly snoozefest.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:18 PM on January 05
Oops. Yeah, I commented before reading the second link. Which says EXACTLY what my first comment says.
But I'm now convinced that I'm qualified to be an analyst for Fox Sports.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:55 AM on December 08
Alabama vs. Utah is a lose/lose proposition for Bama fans.
Alabama wins: "Well, it was UTAH, after all. Big deal." Alabama loses: "You guys suck! Beat by UTAH."
Kinda like last year's Georgia vs. Hawai'i game.
And yeah, Texas Tech got screwed.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:48 AM on December 08
Warrick Dunn is one of the most stand-up guys ever to play professional football. I don't have anything else to say, just, yay, Warrick Dunn rocks.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 07:54 PM on November 07
I understand your sentiment, Drood. I resisted college sports for years and years, largely because college football is practically the state religion around here. But there is nothing like being in the stands in Tuscaloosa during a kick-off, and 80,000 people are screaming and the whole place is a sea of crimson... it's spectacular. And not just the devotion people demonstrate to their team, the teams themselves. That Texas-Oklahoma game last Saturday? Amazing. Two talented teams playing smart, physical ball, with passion. It was a treat for even the most lukewarm fan of the game to watch.
Plus, a lot of these schools have been playing each other for a CENTURY or so. There's tons of history and tradition for a fan to wallow in.
Is it overblown and taken to a ridiculous extreme? Sure. But that's only because there was something there to begin with, something beautiful and joyous to participate in, whether you're on the field or in the stands.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 02:07 PM on October 15
Matt Millen obviously has pictures of Bill Sr. blowing a goat. There is no other possibility. No one else could demonstrate such utter incompetence year-in, year-out and still keep a job.
Beaverboard makes a great point -- a lame Lions hurts the NFL as a league. They're a core franchise. Hell, my Atlanta Falcons could disband tomorrow and no one would notice. But the Lions are woven into the fabric of the game.
And the frustrating part is: there's plenty of talent on that team!
posted by BitterOldPunk at 01:56 PM on September 23
I'd be more worried about the SEC beating each other up
You mean tempered by the cleansing flame of quality competition? I agree.
(OK, Alabama played Western Kentucky last week, Tulane the week before, and lost to LA-Monroe last season, so there's that. There are plenty of cupcakes in an average SEC schedule. But they're non-conference games.)
And not only do SEC teams play each other all season, but also they then play a championship game! Harsh, dude! (Oh wait. So does the PAC-10. Never mind.)
When I was a kid, growing up in Alabama, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and lawn darts were family fun, it was widely acknowledged (at least among my father's more endrunkulated and opinionated friends, you know, the ones I grew up watching college football with) that the only college football team with a reputation and fan base to match our beloved Crimson Tide were the Ohio State Buckeyes.
(And Notre Dame, but they didn't count -- damn non-conference Catholics. Probly communiss pinkos.)
So the rise of USC seems somehow abhorrent to me, even as I cheer their alumni in the NFL and acknowledge Pete Carroll as the best college coach of his time. (Next in line for coronation: Sylvester Crooms. Worst mistake Alabama ever made, not hiring that guy. Except for Coach Fran, of course. They love Saban in Tuscaloosa, but he ain't gonna stay long enough to build a dynasty the way Crooms could have. Plus, private jet. WTF?)
So, in the same way that I root for whoever can beat Tennessee in the SEC, I root against USC reflexively.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 06:51 PM on September 15
Is this the thread where I off-handedly mention the obvious superiority of the SEC (five teams in the top ten) and ruminate over what would happen to USC if they actually had to play a challenging schedule, like teams in some other, superior conferences do?
No?
OK, then.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 05:55 PM on September 15
Rudi shouldn't worry. Knowing Bell, he'll drop those bags any second.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 04:43 PM on September 04
FSU Trustee: Time for Bobby Bowden to Go
I'm surprised Jimbo Fisher hasn't smothered Bowden in his sleep already. He's been primed to take the reins at Florida State for years. Let him. Joe Pa, OTOH, should coach until he falls over dead.