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- 01/09/09
| Name: | Joey Michaels |
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| Homepage URL: | www.livejournal.com/~joeymichaels |
| Member since: | February 02, 2003 |
| Last visit: | December 08, 2008 |
Joey Michaels has posted 31 links and 618 comments to SportsFilter and 2 links and 6 comments to the Locker Room.
Eight.: Phelps.
posted by Joey Michaels to other at 03:56 PM on August 17 - 16 comments
600:
posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 07:49 PM on June 09 - 38 comments
Yankees fan kills Red Sox fan.:
posted by Joey Michaels to baseball at 02:44 AM on May 06 - 31 comments
Pony Request: Developing Story Link?: Barry Bonds. Michael Vick. Bill Belichick. Rocket. All characters that have been central to long running sports scandals. Rather than beating the same old dead horse every time a new development happens in these sorts of stories, what if there is a long on the front page of Sportsfilter that leads to a special "developing story" page. All these long running stories can live there and accumulate new links and new comments until the story comes to a close. I see this as a way of organizing links related to a single continuing story in a fairly logical, straightforward way. For those of us who like to go back and check previous stories on the same subject, this would reduce the amount of searching we need to do in the long run. Anyhow, as I said, just a pony request!
posted by Joey Michaels to feature requests at 04:56 PM on February 22 - 6 comments
posted by Joey Michaels to football at 09:07 PM on February 03 - 275 comments
"Man, I have no money for drinks after this round."
"Me neither."
"HEY! Let's go back and tell everyone you made a hole in one! The club will buy us all drinks."
"We've done that four times this week already."
"Well, they believed us the other four times."
"Oh, what the hell! Let's do it."
posted by Joey Michaels at 07:40 PM on November 10
I offered my congratulations in the rain-out thread, but I'd like to offer them again here. Congratulations to the Phils and especially to their fans.
posted by Joey Michaels at 05:34 PM on October 30
Congratulations to the 2008 World Series Champion Phillies and their fans!
posted by Joey Michaels at 10:05 PM on October 29
If this were an Eagles/Bucaneers game, no way anything short of a hurricane would have stopped the game. Man up, MLB! The NFL is mocking you!
/joke
posted by Joey Michaels at 07:18 PM on October 28
I will be rooting for the Phillies, but I think the Rays have history on their side. Rays in 5.
posted by Joey Michaels at 05:06 PM on October 20
It was a great ALCS series and ultimately the Rays earned the win. I thought Maddon was nuts with his pitcher changes towards the end there, but his approach ultimately held off the Sox.
As a Sox fan, I was, of course, sorry to see them lose, but the Rays are a hell of a team and deserve their shot in World Series. Best of luck to them and their fans!
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:23 AM on October 20
I like my pinkies, I'm glad they're there. But were they gone, I would not care. There's naught I'll do, While I'm alive, Where four would serve me Worse than five.
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:11 PM on October 18
Saying that, if I were living in Hawaii, the last thing I'll be sweating is having a pro home team to root for. I'll be way too busy getting my luau on and also getting lei'd.
Alas, with the highest cost of living in the nation - a distinction we trade off with New York and San Francisco - there is precious little time for luaus. That said, we'd love for you to come out and party in the sun for a couple of weeks! :D
(bring WS game 4 with you, pls, kthxbi)
posted by Joey Michaels at 10:08 PM on October 10
Miles1996 for the win. :D
Nah, Honolulu. And I'm, at best, a January college football fan, so I'm basically shit out of luck.
posted by Joey Michaels at 02:54 PM on October 09
Those who know it best are doubtless those elderly Floridians who, like their Chicago brethren, have been waiting their entire lives for a World Series victory.
All right, yes, they're not based in the same city, but, hello! The Marlins? Yes, yes, Cubs fans take no comfort in the '04 White Sox win - and I'm sure he meant "elderly Tampa Bay" residents, but let's not forget that the Marlins have won the whole ball of wax twice now - once before the Rays even existed.
Furthermore, as a huge sports fan living in a large city with no professional sports teams at all, I've got to say, there's a real difference between being loyal to one team for your whole life and seeing them lose time after time and being without a team at all. The pain of not having a sports team is a trifling mosquito-like annoyance. The pain of seeing your beloved team fall year after year is a dagger to the ribs (I am a long time Red Sox fan and while our 21st century has been pretty awesome, I don't need to remind anyone about the 86 year gap).
Anyhow, when you live in an area with no team, you don't abandon a sport you like. You just pick a team or two that appeals to you and follow them. Know what I mean?
That all said, good for the Rays for being such an amazing team this year and I hope this season brings them thousands of new fans. In fact, I hope this is the first of many great seasons for them. It makes the AL East an even more exciting division.
And, yeah, its ludicrous to say that the Rays don't deserve a win before the Cubs or Brewers. Every team deserves or doesn't deserve it pretty much equally.
But saying the Ray's current fans have suffered more than Cubs fans? That's like saying somebody with a hangnail suffers more than a somebody with third degree burns.
posted by Joey Michaels at 10:31 PM on October 08
I'm old enough to feel like the Dodgers being in the playoffs is an annual event. I can't watch them without looking for Tommy Lasorda in the dugout, though.
I feel for the Cubs - and am not an especially big fan of the National League - but applaud an excellent performance by the 2008 Dodgers!
posted by Joey Michaels at 06:14 PM on October 06
LPGA backs off English only rule.
That was surprisingly fast.
posted by Joey Michaels at 07:59 PM on September 05
Greg Maddux to retire on Monday
You folks are so focused on his stellar pitching career and his dark secret history that you are totally neglecting the most important part of the story - His string of Top 40 duets with departed lead singers from 70's and 80's bands.
I will never forget the first time I heard him and Dennis DeYoung singing in close harmony on DeYoung's "Desert Moon." Or the Steve Perry/Greg Maddux remake of "Oh Sherry." Or, best of all, the magic of the remake of "Boys of Summer" with Don Henley. Something about hearing the song "Boys of Summer" sung by one of the boys of summer is just magical.
I just didn't quite get why he had to change the first line of the chorus of that song to "I can see you/your blond hair shining in a pool of your own blood."