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lil_brown_bat has posted 168 links and 4066 comments to SportsFilter and 59 links and 667 comments to the Locker Room and 5 columns.
1,000: with a home-court victory over UGA on Thursday, Pat Summit became the first Div I basketball coach to click the odometer over to four digits.
posted by lil_brown_bat to basketball at 03:40 PM on February 07 - 6 comments
Bug: Spofi eats comments: Apparently if a comment is considered "too long" (I'm guessing), Spofi simply trashes it without warning or option for recovery.
posted by lil_brown_bat to bugs at 11:51 AM on September 23 - 25 comments
Drainage luge? Wrestle ball? Freestyle snowshoe boulder jumping? : The results of the 2008 Horny Toad Invent-A-Sport contest are in, and there are some beauties.
posted by lil_brown_bat to extreme at 02:50 PM on September 04 - 6 comments
"Papa, I gotta go potty. Hold my fishing rod." : Man lands record catfish with daughter's Barbie fishing rod.
posted by lil_brown_bat to other at 08:28 PM on August 21 - 11 comments
I was robbed: : James Blake knocked out of Olympic final by Fernando Gonzalez, complains about contested point.
posted by lil_brown_bat to olympics at 12:22 PM on August 15 - 9 comments
My apologies, yerfatma...didn't realize we had any of the Traveling People among us.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:41 AM on November 19
I merely noted (because I find it somewhat interesting) that the survey indicated that non-Indians were more likely than Indians to view the term as offensive. I find it interesting because I think it says something about the false paternalism so often involved in these sorts of issues.
Having met Suzan Harjo, I don't particularly give a tinker's damn what the survey allegedly "indicated". An intelligent, sincere, thoughtful Native American woman who is not inclined to seize opportunities to take offense, finds the use of this term offensive and gives cogent arguments as to why that is, and that's enough for me. I don't feel the need to demand that a plurality of Native Americans express similar sentiments, and then prove to me that they're not under the influence of "false paternalism".
yerfatma gave you a link to previous threads, and Joey Michaels has quoted from a post in one of them. Now I'll give a paraphrase of a sentiment that many expressed in those threads: if you feel that those who object to Native American stereotypes are creating a tempest in a teapot, how to you justify your own treatment of a sports team mascot like it was the Holy Grail? You're treating the equivalent of a golliwog like it was something to cherish and be proud of. You just don't know how primitive that makes you look.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:37 PM on November 18
But by all means do allow something like a trivial misspelling to detract from the actual substantive issue.
What "actual substantive issue" was that? And where were you the last n times we went over this?
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:47 AM on November 17
Class is overrated. And, this was fun. No one (but his wallet) was hurt by it. If you can't buck convention at 86 when you are millionaire, when can you?
I'll remember that "bucking convention" line the next time that I simply want to be a rude asshole to a bunch of complete strangers. "I'm just bucking convention," I'll tell them, and I'll expect a free pass.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:44 AM on November 17
Since Gostowski had been consistently kicking in excess of 70 yards all night, why not take an intentional safety and the resulting free kick from the 20?
That's an interesting and creative solution...but can you actually do that? I'm just asking because it occurs to me that the NFL, which will penalize a quarterback for throwing away the football, might have some obscure rule in place just for a ploy like this.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:55 PM on November 16
irunfromclones:
Goodell fines Titans owner $250,000 for gesture
Awesome.
Joey Michaels:
They flip you off in Buffalo all the time, but you can't tell because they're all wearing mittens.
Okay, that's funny.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:50 PM on November 16
If I was a defensive player waking up today, I'd be feeling a whole lot of resentment towards my coach. They, for the better part of three quarters, had the Colt offense under control. If Maroney doesn't fumble on the one yard line, if Brady doesn't get picked off in end zone, the game is over. Why, exactly, was the confidence in the offense, who had blown several chances to put the game away earlier and failed?
I hope the NE defense isn't as inclined to search for personal slights as a lot of fans are, because the decision wasn't a statement of "our offense rules, our defense sucks." It had nothing to do with plays made fifteen minutes earlier, that's water over the dam. It was a judgment call that the offense, right then, was more likely to make one play and convert, than that the defense right then would be able to keep the Colts out of the end zone with over 2 minutes on the clock, starting from whatever field position special teams allowed him to start with (yerfatma's hypothetical 70 yards is just that -- a good estimate, but the punting team wasn't exactly 100% consistent yesterday either). And look at what did happen: the ball got turned over, and the defense simply got shoved right back into the endzone. The Colts got the ball on the 29 and went 15 yards, 13 yards, no gain and then in. Given the ease with which they did it, 40 additional yards doesn't seem like much of a safety margin.
In summary, you can perhaps make a valid statement that in general, punting when you're at 4th and 2 on your own 29 with two minutes to play makes more sense than going for it. That doesn't mean it makes more sense in a real live game.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 01:47 PM on November 16
rcade:
I appreciate the fact that the Yankees have their fans, LBB, but I don't think it's fair to call people liars for acknowledging the elephant in the room.
Please recall for me where I used the word liar. If you can't do that, please explain to me what the hell you're talking about, and how the hell it has anything to do with what I said. Start with a reference to where anyone else used the word liar, other than you, in this entire thread.
It's hard to separate the excellence of the team from the unprecedented monetary disparity between the team's payroll and everyone else's.
No, it's not hard. Just because it's beyond you doesn't mean that it's hard.
I'd love it if every thread announcing a championship was met with this kind of response. I'd really love it. It would put SportsFilter in the toilet in a month, and serve you right for being an apologist for this kind of thing.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:00 PM on November 06
So-called "profanity" is a community standards kind of thing. Coming into an existing community and telling its members that they don't meet your standards is not likely to yield the desired results (assuming that was to pull everyone into line with your standards and not to simply alienate everyone in sight).
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:21 PM on November 05
This thread existed for almost two hours before someone had to make a comment that offered not the least congratulations to the winners, not the least acknowledgment of their excellent performance, but that sought to diminish it. One might be tempted to think that the "almost two hours" part reflects well on SportsFilter, but it doesn't look quite so good when you realize that the thread was created at 6:50 AM EST, and that the comment I'm talking about was the first comment not made by the FPPoster.
You know what? I'm tired of trying to make allowances for the bitterness of fans of every team that doesn't start with a Y. I'm tired of your lying to yourselves about why the Yankees win and why their fans like them. I'm tired of you telling me why I cheer for the team that I've cheered for since I was a small child. I hope the Yankees win another 27 championships -- within the next 30 years, how about that? -- and stuff it down your throats.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:12 PM on November 05
While Belichick has taken a couple of supposed "bad boys" (Corey Dillon and Randy Moss), neither one had a bad reputation in the locker room.
Yeah, but what's that reputation really based on? One incident, talked over and rehashed a thousand times, is still just one incident. So how many actual incidents of being a bad teammate are we talking about?
For all that TO has a bad reputation, I've never heard of him getting into trouble with the law, drugs, excessive alcohol, steroids, firearms, or unplanned pregnancies. I've never even heard of him being a tasteless ass and blowing a lot of money on ego cars and mansions. I've never heard of him showing up for camp out of shape. I'm starting to wonder if people are harshing on this guy when they give others a pass for more serious problems.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 01:51 PM on October 25
Oh my god. That's an awful lot of deaths in one half-marathon.
They're not commenting on cause of death yet, but hyponatremia seems extremely unlikely.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:13 PM on October 18
Weedy:
There's just no room for error and I'm not so sure the punishment fits the crime.
The crime: making a blatantly antisemitic remark. The punishment: losing your part-time gig singing in public for an organization that would prefer not to be represented by someone who makes blatantly antisemitic remarks.
I'd say it fits like a glove.
As for this "ruining" him, Tynan got this gig on a wave of mawkish sentimentalism, and while mawkish sentimentalism has considerable legs, I'd say this run has about played out -- and rightly so. He laid this egg and now he's got to live it down. If this "ruins" him, frankly, he'll be no different than a lot of other people who are out of work today, who also had jobs that they assumed would always be there, and who did less than he did to lose them.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:55 PM on October 17
Great vid of a 9-year-old scoring in the Mini 1-on-1 at the Boston Garden, errrr TD Bank Center or whatever it's called this year.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:44 PM on October 14
Supreme Court Refuses to Take Redskins Case
I'm mostly frustrated with how something becomes a slur. What does it take? Is it just when people use a term with hatred behind it?
...and do so persistently enough that it acquires negative connotations in the minds of others. I'd say that's a pretty good definition.