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Name: Joey Michaels
Homepage URL: www.livejournal.com/~joeymichaels
Member since: February 02, 2003
Last visit: May 03, 2013

Joey Michaels has posted 40 links and 1310 comments to SportsFilter and 2 links and 6 comments to the Locker Room.

Recent Links

UConn wins NCAA Women's Championship: A dominant UConn team wins its 8th national championship with a 33 point margin of victory. Coach Geno Auriemma tied legendary Tennessee head coach Pat Summitt for most titles. Freshman Breanna Stewart looks like a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

posted by Joey Michaels to basketball at 02:32 AM on April 10 - 0 comments

Would You Rather Win Silver Or Bronze? (Be Careful What You Wish For): "If you set aside the happy people who win gold and look only at the people who come in second and third, it's the men and women with bronze medals who invariably look happier than the athletes who won silver."

posted by Joey Michaels to olympics at 07:12 PM on August 03 - 3 comments

Yankees belt three grand slams in a single game: The first time this has ever happened. They blew out the hapless A's 22 to 9.

posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 01:05 AM on August 26 - 7 comments

Connecticut wins NCAA Women's Tournament: 78 consecutive wins. Two consecutive undefeated seasons.

posted by Joey Michaels to basketball at 10:36 PM on April 06 - 4 comments

Jets beat Bengals for second time in two weeks.: Advance to face the Chargers.

posted by Joey Michaels to football at 03:07 AM on January 11 - 11 comments

Recent Comments

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

I couldn't watch that the whole way through because the tears of laughter quite literally became too much to see through. Will return to it later and save it for when I need a pick-me-up. Hopefully, YouTube will never improve their tech support for their auto-translate feature.

posted by Joey Michaels at 02:39 PM on May 03

SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

I am still angry that Monica Seles' attacker more or less seemed to get away with it.

posted by Joey Michaels at 06:08 PM on April 30

Jerry Jones Continues Odd Draft Strategy

He doesn't have the personnel evaluation skills to build an team. It's a shame he doesn't find some other part of his empire to ruin for a while.

This is actually exactly how incompetence works. The same skills you need to be good at something are the same skills you need in order to judge if somebody else is good at that thing. Jones is a good businessman and the boss of the Cowboys so he figures he must be good at football as he is at business and nobody can tell him otherwise. So, he sucks at football, he can't tell he sucks at football, and yet he believes he's good at football and is surrounded by sycophants that tell him he's good at football. Its a cycle only death can break.

posted by Joey Michaels at 09:58 PM on April 26

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

Just came here to share that same link. It is, indeed, the coolest baseball gif of all time.

posted by Joey Michaels at 11:36 PM on April 25

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

An example of Metafilter doing sports well, in reference to Segura.

posted by Joey Michaels at 05:25 AM on April 21

SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

Fowl Ball Catching: God Level.

posted by Joey Michaels at 08:56 PM on April 11

Goat Head Sent to Chicago Cubs Owner

This is ludicrous. Goats don't even like baseball. They prefer parkour.

Though they make great hecklers too.

posted by Joey Michaels at 05:09 PM on April 11

Bills Receiver Asks North Korea to Bomb New England

No, it will only be fucking hilarious if thousands of innocent people in South Korea are destroyed and the US finds themselves involved in another conflict it can't afford to be in.

For what its worth, this would be a huge tactical mistake for N. Korea just based on how many Chinese nationals are in S. Korea. I can't imagine China would watch thousands of their citizens get murdered without some sort of swift and horrible retribution. Just out of enlightened self-interest, N. Korea should probably avoid invoking the wrath of their enormous neighbor.

I'm living out here in Hawaii and, if N. Korea has nukes, surely they are trained directly on me. The reason we don't worry about that out here is because N. Korea has demonstrated, time and again, that they are not serious about following through on their threats. It would be national suicide for them to attack S. Korea, Honolulu, Austin or especially Foxboro because, very frankly, the bombs that Tom Brady throws are infinitely more powerful than the bombs N. Korea possesses.

posted by Joey Michaels at 08:49 PM on April 05

SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The American Athletic Conference.

posted by Joey Michaels at 07:16 PM on April 03

Rutgers' coach Mike Rice Berates Players at Practice

Presumably the uproar isn't what got him fired so much as the whole physical and verbal abuse thing? I mean, on paper at least.

posted by Joey Michaels at 05:05 PM on April 03

Louisville's Kevin Ware Suffers Broken Leg

So it was a bad landing combined with forward momentum. Holy cats. I am stunned that a human can leap with more force than his bones can handle. I suspect this is something that somebody who wasn't in peak athletic shape would have to ever worry about. Amazing. Thank you for the analysis!

posted by Joey Michaels at 03:50 PM on April 01

Louisville's Kevin Ware Suffers Broken Leg

Reading the description of Mr. Ware's injury makes me cringe. I don't think there is anything that would make me watch the video. Can anyone explain how this injury was possible? Just a bad landing or a combined twist and landing? It reads like a freak accident.

Best thought to this unfortunate young man and sincere hope that he beats the odds and recovers 100%.

posted by Joey Michaels at 01:26 PM on April 01

NFL Teams Asking Prospects: Do You Like Girls?

We all laugh at this, but if somebody had asked Greg Maddux how he felt about girls (or just people in general) before he joined MLB, think of how many lives would have been spared.

posted by Joey Michaels at 03:09 PM on March 01

Idaho Lets Man Sue Over Foul Ball Injury

Obligatory link to facts about McDonalds Coffee Case. Obligatory statement about know the facts. That's all I got.

That obligation out of the way, there are lawsuits that sound frivolous and lawsuits that actually are frivolous and sometimes those two sets of lawsuits overlap. I will be very curious to see what the court system does with this case. Based on what I've read in the articles (which may or may not be 100% accurate), it seems pretty clear that this event falls under the "damn shame that it happened, but not really anybody's fault" category.

posted by Joey Michaels at 02:11 PM on March 01

SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

Well said, Hugh. Proving once again that Washington fans are pretty classy, even if the team owner is not.

posted by Joey Michaels at 02:02 AM on February 16