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| Name: | BitterOldPunk |
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| Homepage URL: | http://bitteroldpunk.blogspot.com/ |
| Location: | Alabama |
| Member since: | January 31, 2002 |
| Last visit: | January 07, 2009 |
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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
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
Well.
I thought it was cool.
*slinks away, kicks dirt*
posted by BitterOldPunk at 09:08 PM on September 03
Because obviously going to a club with a provocatively dressed woman means you were looking to get shot.
Good for Coach Del Rio to try to move the media focus to finding the shooter instead of making insinuations about the player.
I hope Collier makes a complete recovery and is able to resume his professional career.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 04:26 PM on September 03
"Around the Horn" is still on the air? Huh. Who knew.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 09:21 PM on August 28
Shockey + New Orleans = bonanza for Times-Picayune sportswriters. On the field AND off. As a Falcons fan (shut up, I know, OK?) I look forward to an exciting season for the NFC South...
posted by BitterOldPunk at 05:45 PM on July 22
A few years ago I was bartending at a restaurant when TO and his "date" walked in. Turns out his "date" was his sister (or half-sister, or something) who lives in my hometown and TO was visiting for a few days. They took a booth in a corner of the bar, enjoyed their meal and a couple of cocktails, and TO graciously hung out for about half an hour afterwards signing autographs for the waitstaff and shaking hands with well-wishers. He was friendly, personable, and a good tipper. I'd figured him to be a spoiled loudmouth, but that evening changed my perception of the guy. Contrast that with a story I heard from a friend of mine, a waiter in a tres chic restaurant in South Florida -- he called me all excited one night to say that Eli and Peyton Manning had been in earlier drinking up a storm, asking if anyone knew where to find any blow, and were currently sitting parked in their Escalade in the alley out back getting their knobs slobbed by a couple of Florida's finest escorts. On-screen personae may differ markedly from off-screen behavior.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 02:28 PM on July 22
I have Tiger fatigue. I was hoping Mediate would win. He played some really great golf. Oh well. Tiger will not let up until he wins 20 majors. That's his grail. One more than Jack. He'll do it, too.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 07:41 PM on June 17
Aloha, Hawaii:
I kinda like this idea, too. Why not? It's not like fewer people could possible watch that yearly snoozefest.