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| Name: | Tom Clancy |
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yerfatma has posted 129 links and 6241 comments to SportsFilter and 7 threads and 853 comments to the Locker Room.
Let's Play the Feud! On Sunday night's broadcast, Joe Morgan suggested (once again) Ernie Banks' career statistics were inflated by the "basket" in Wrigley's outfield. This being Joe Morgan, the basket was installed in Banks' final year with the Cubs and accounted for, at most, 6 of 512 career home runs. This being Joe Morgan, Cubs fans will have to get in line behind a number of computers before they hear an apology.
posted on Jun 25, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
What franchise has the best run of players at one position in history? Batter's Box says it's Left Field for the Red Sox, but plenty of other arguments appear in the comments.
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
David Stern Explains Late NBA Start Times: "That's what you jerks want." It's not advertising dollars, it's the insomniac nature of NBA fans that's driven the NBA to schedule even weekend games to start at 9PM EDT.
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Does speed kill? A thorough analysis of PitchFx data reveals some interesting things about fastball speed.
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Does Evan Longoria's new contract indicate a change in approach to cost certainty for baseball management?
posted on Apr 18, 2008 - Go to the detail view for this result
Joe Buck Prefers Bachelorette to Baseball Fox's lead baseball announcer told ESPN's Colin Cowherd yesterday that he prefers watching The Bachelorette to watching baseball. "These games take forever," Buck said, "by the time you get through the sixth inning, if you're watching every minute, you've put two-plus hours into the thing. ... From our own perspective the Saturday Game of the Week ... is not as special or unique as it used to be."
posted to Baseball at 10:30 AM CDT
Are you ready for some football?....Sit Down! The Kansas City Chiefs have a "Fan Code of Conduct," which is essentially a list of rules that fans have to follow when they're attending a game at Arrowhead.
posted to Football at 7:50 PM CDT
I wish they could institute that rule at Fenway. Red Sox Nation doesn't understand when to sit down.
How often are you there?
I'm usually aghast at this sort of Orwellian thing, but I do think something needs to be done to make people remember they're at an event with tens of thousands of strangers and it'd be nice if they acted with some courtesy. If it means being able to text message security anonymously to put the fear of God into the assholes with their cellphones and beer spilling and shitty behavior, I guess that's what it's come to. I'm with lbb that the focus on "family" puts a spin on it I could do without, but I'm guessing (hoping) that's just a cover to slip in some behavior rules.
posted at 8:31 AM CDT on July 2
Besides, most parents are responsible enough to wheel in their children in, if they become unruly.
You live in a much better place than I do. I once got yelled at by a mother for sshing her kid in the movies because I should expect that at matinees.
posted at 10:36 AM CDT on July 2
Can I ask what you went to see?
The first Spiderman movie, which was rated PG-13. The kid was about 6 and kept up a stream of questions throughout the movie in that voice kids use before they actually learn to whisper. Even if I'd gone to see Rainbow Brite, I think there's a reasonable expectation of a mom throwing a net over a kid who can be heard throughout the theater. I refuse to have to accept shitty behavior because small white children are our most precious resource.
posted at 11:22 AM CDT on July 3
Christian News Site Turns Athlete Homosexual OneNewsNow, an online news service owned by the American Family Association, has been editing AP stories to automatically replace the word "gay" with "homosexual," filing numerous stories about the American sprinter Tyson Homosexual and the NBA player Rudy Homosexual. One story still online: "Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt."
posted to General at 9:20 AM CDT
They don't prefer it, the feeling is that "gay" is too nice a word. Because, as you know, being gay is an abomination against God. And the standard response to abominations is a regular expression that alters text.
posted at 10:13 AM CDT on July 1
Landis Loses TAS-CAS rejects Floyd Landis' final appeal. See the TAS-CAS website for full reward.
posted to Other at 10:24 AM CDT
And French Fucking. Don't leave that out. Or the French Fits.
posted at 10:37 AM CDT on July 2
Dodgers beat Angels without a hit. The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win without getting a hit. Because they didn’t have to bat in the ninth, the game doesn’t qualify as a no-hitter.
posted to Baseball at 12:21 PM CDT
I suffered through the last one as young Red Sox fan. I'd like to thank both teams for dredging up some awful memories.
posted at 2:12 PM CDT on June 30
Barry Bonds offers to play for free.
My opinion on Bonds is no secret, however I noticed this tidbit in the paper yesterday and have been meaning to post about it. Barry Bonds' agent has offered his services to all 30 teams, at a pro-rated salary of the league minimum (at this point, about $200,000 total), even offering to play for free by donating that salary to buying tickets for the game; his trial date isn't until next March, so he would not be prevented from playing.
Despite this, apparently Barry's agent has received no interest, bolstering claims that the league is colluding to prevent him being hired.
posted to Baseball at 9:32 PM CDT
Wow Hal, pulling out the race card???
What else explains the anger and the hate (besides an influx of yutzes)? To suggest he's single-handedly responsible for ruining the Great American Pastime ignores a zillion years of cheaters, hacks, assholes and plenty of people who played for teams other than the Red Sox.
posted at 2:16 PM CDT on June 30
2. For the sake of arguement, lets say that of those 16 teams
The AL has 14 teams. Your argument consists entirely of opinion and conjecture.
posted at 8:28 PM CDT on June 30
As if 73.457% of the posts here aren't entirely opinion and conjecture.
Sure, but hopefully most of the posts aren't insisting on wrong-headed "facts".
Just substitute 14 for 16 and redo the math. the point was and is
My point was that if you can't be bothered to know how many teams are in each league, maybe you aren't the best source on this one.
there aren't that many teams that would actually need Bond's services
Barry Bonds' career OPS: 1051
Number of AL teams with a DH hitting better than that, even in a small number of at bats: 0
He must be a real clubhouse cancer to not be worth taking on for 3 extra wins the rest of the way.
73.456% now
posted at 3:35 PM CDT on July 1
So what possible reason could 30 MLB teams have for not signing this guy?
Some sort of Gentleman's Agreement not to sign him. Another word for that would be: COLLUSION! Thanks for playing.
posted at 5:05 PM CDT on July 1
Or, proceeding on the basis that he would sign as a DH, how many of the 14 AL teams might have a place for Bonds?
At least 1. Joe Posnanski says KC should. It's hard to imagine there aren't other teams. Assuming David Ortiz comes back healthy, I'll admit the Red Sox have no place for Bonds. Other than that, I think almost any AL team would be smart to take a look. If he's playing for free, he's cheaper than a AAA player sitting on your bench. Why wouldn't you let him DH 3 or 4 days a week?
posted at 8:30 PM CDT on July 1
2008 NBA Draft.
Grades and recaps by Chad Ford (ESPN), Marty Burns (CNN/SI), Dan Wetzel (Yahoo Sports), Kelly Dwyer (Yahoo Sports/BDL), and Erich Doerr (DraftExpress).
posted to Basketball at 4:14 PM CDT
Should I be excited by the Celtics trying to sign Cutino Mobley? All I really care is if they get Posey back. And I don't understand the fascination at the Globe (specifically Chad Finn, whom I like) with keeping Eddie House; his seems like a skillset you could find anywhere.
posted at 3:47 PM CDT on July 2
I think you may mean Maggette
Same goddam initials, so I assume they've got the same game. Plus I always want PC/ URI players to come home. At least until Lamar Odom acted the fool in this year's playoffs.
posted at 6:06 PM CDT on July 2
2) Joe Buck's pretty good and pretty well-liked, and you're way off base.
I'll let you choose which option is the more credible.
Sic semper erat, et sic semper erit. Because Buck has a national job, he must be good at his job and popular with the Silent Majority. Buck's current position has a lot to do with his work for the Cardinals, which has an awful lot to do with the fact his dad was a Hall of Fame announcer for them. I don't dislike Buck, but I don't think he's great either. Was he pushed into Dad's job and now doesn't want it? He always struck me as a clever, media-savvy guy and so I'm always disappointed that doesn't come across in his broadcasts. I'm with Venice that he tailors everything to a mythical Joe Average who Just Tuned In.
that's exactly what national announcers are supposed to do -- make the game accessible for anyone who tunes in
I'm not going to argue that fraze, but it's frustrating all the same. In this Era of the Echo Chamber where everyone can design their own tailored video feed to only show them the best of Hentai Tentacle Rape (as an example), isn't it time to retire the idea the announcers need to worry about the teeming masses waiting to be shown the sport? Sports always need to attract the next generation, but I feel like as a kid I was interested in things that were knotty and complicated and hard to understand. I wanted that sort of Insider Knowledge/ brotherhood feeling. Maybe that's just me, but if you bring people in by showing them a surface cut of the sport, are they going to stick around if you don't give them something more?