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lil_brown_bat has posted 168 links and 4058 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
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
Matt Holliday. I know that sounds dumb on the face of it and I would have laughed at such a response until about a month ago, but look at the chart at the bottom of this article.
Yeh, he's the real deal, as long as he can keep from getting hit in the nuts by a fly ball.
(yeah I had to)
posted by lil_brown_bat at 07:47 PM on October 13
The players in the NFL are employees. This means that they have specific rights as employees under US law, including the right to organize without hindrance for the purposes of collective bargaining. Tennis professionals have no such status and no such rights. Mind you, organizing has been done in tennis before, most notably by Billie Jean King on behalf of the women pros of her time...but it's extremely difficult to do so effectively. Note also that BJ King organized women tennis professionals at a time when they had little to lose and (potentially) a lot to gain by joining in -- the same is not true today.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 07:44 PM on October 13
The article has a different version from what I heard on a Boston sports talk show, which was that Mangini specifically ordered a pads-vs-no-pads workout. Hopefully the article is right and that show was wrong.
(although Mangini is a tool)
posted by lil_brown_bat at 07:40 PM on October 13
Hawkeye works in tennis, not so sure it would work in baseball.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:54 AM on October 13
More than the schedule, it just makes no sense to have the Australian Open when it is: in the height of the Australian summer. They've had all kinds of problems with excessive heat. Move it up two months, maybe shrink the US Open series a bit, nudge Wimbledon and the French up by a bit, problem solved.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:41 AM on October 13
You watch, Rex Ryan and Charlie Weis are going to start doing this during their games.
Oh please no. Those are two sets of man boobs that are hard enough to take at a slow amble, let alone a sprint.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:41 PM on October 06
An owner who's all opinion and hot air and who profoundly doesn't give a damn what anyone else thinks? Yeah, that's a recipe for success all right.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:36 PM on October 06
I do not disagree. But is that the job of Congress? Or is that the job of the federal and state agencies designated with the responsibility of enforcing the laws and protecting employees?
If the mandate of these federal and state agencies is insufficiently clear or not sufficiently supported by legislation -- "sufficiently" meaning enough to allow them to act on the behalf of some class of workers -- then yes, it is the job of Congress.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:42 AM on October 05
Yankees Win World Series
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.