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yerfatma has posted 129 links and 6276 comments to SportsFilter and 7 threads and 854 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
The Yankees ban sunblock at the stadium.....to fight terrorism From the article: Yankee fans are seeing - and turning - red over a ban on sunscreen, which Stadium security guards say was widely expanded in the last few weeks. (via Boing Boing)
posted to Baseball at 1:48 PM CDT
Josh Childress spurns the Hawks & the NBA for the Greek League. Childress will be playing for basketball powerhouse Olympiakos. Olympiakos finished as the runner-up in the Greek League, and made the quarterfinals in Euroleague 08.
posted to Basketball at 11:43 AM CDT
Given the weak dollar, the NBA is going to have to consider bumping the cap. Why take a mid-level exemption for some crap NBA team when you can get more money and play for a contender? If my options are Salt Lake City and Rome, I'm going with Rome.
posted at 1:10 PM CDT on July 23
International leagues are still stigmatized by mainstream media outlets as inferior in competition
If the US doesn't beat some ass in the Olympics, can we finally put that to rest?
posted at 2:30 PM CDT on July 24
"I can only compete in the league I play in," justified Sund.
F-. If he means he's constrained by the salary cap, fine. But it sounds like he means he doesn't even bother considering anyone but the NBA. Great work. If Josh Childress were a replacement-level NBA player, it'd be one thing. But to let a decent talent go when you have leverage in signing him, at least blame it on the cap.
posted at 3:25 PM CDT on July 24
It's OK for the NFL to get you drunk, but not Charles Woodson Just when you thought you could feel no worst about professional sports...
posted to Football at 8:04 AM CDT
WOLVERINE!
--Sabertooth
posted at 10:09 AM CDT on July 24
Michelle Wie Disqualified for Scorecard Gaffe In second place at 17 under after three rounds of the State Farm Classic Saturday, Wie was disqualified from the tournament for failing to sign her second-round scorecard until after leaving the scorer's tent. "She was like a little kid after you tell them there's no Santa Claus," said LPGA official Sue Witters.
posted to Golf at 5:17 PM CDT
bender, I would guess if the penalty weren't a death penalty, there's not enough incentive to keep people from trying to bend the rules. If the only penalty is 1 or 2 strokes, why not try to beat the system? You're thinking of what would be "fair" in this case where an honest mistake was made, but you need to consider the ramifications of such a change in rules as well.
posted at 7:40 AM CDT on July 22
I'm talking about someone who forgot to sign the card, not someone who was trying to cheat
But you can't talk about that group as though the other doesn't exist. Ease up on the rules because of good people who make a mistake and you're also easing up on bad people who cheat.
posted at 2:17 PM CDT on July 22
Pistorius fails to make Olympic team After winning the right to compete against able-bodied runners, Pistorius failed to meet the qualifying time for the 400 meters in his final attempt, and two others were chosen as alternates.
posted to Olympics at 2:40 PM CDT
Got a contender for the troll Olympics.
posted at 6:16 PM CDT on July 20
Serena won't play Indian Wells; WTA's new rule won't change it Serena and Venus Williams' ongoing boycott of the Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells, Calif., could jeopardize their participation at other tournaments under recently adopted rules for mandatory events set to kick in next year. (edit) The Williams sisters have steadfastly declined to participate at the Pacific Life Open since 2001. That year, Venus defaulted to Serena minutes before their semifinal started. Spectators subsequently jeered Serena in the final. The sisters and their father, Richard, have said they believe the crowd's actions were racially motivated.
posted to Tennis at 10:36 AM CDT
What just happened? Do I understand correctly, the WWE is going to have Charles Boycott vs. Eugene Debbs in a barb-wire match to settle the next Presidential election? I'm not sure if I read that right. Or if I write that red.
posted at 8:29 AM CDT on July 18
I've been to literally hundreds of professional baseball/basketball/hockey/football(american) games and have never heard one racist slur before, during, or after the game.
Another logician bites the dust.
posted at 6:18 PM CDT on July 20
I could see a bunch of homosexuals calling out racist taunts....nope.
Because gay people are different.
posted at 7:53 PM CDT on July 21
I think my responses would have satisfied anyone else.
Color me unreasonable.
posted at 1:14 PM CDT on July 23
"Truly offensive language, like the racist remarks hurled at New England's Kheli Dube a few months ago in Columbus, are not cool."
From this link in a post on this site. Maybe there still is a little racism in American sports fans.
posted at 10:08 AM CDT on July 24
It was very ugly for Uggla NEW YORK -- They cheered the legends. They cheered the hometown heroes. They cheered the old owner. They booed the commissioner, booed Terry Francona and Billy Wagner, even booed Sarah Jessica Parker. But towards the merciful end of The All-Star Game That Would Never End, the Yankee Stadium Bleacher Creatures had energy only for one chant: "Hit it to Uggla."
posted to Baseball at 10:24 PM CDT
What exactly did you read?
We've got our nose out of joint around here re: the way Papelbon was treated. He's a friggin' yokel, but he's our yokel and it felt a little low-class the way the Daily News twisted his words*:
"I understand this is Yankees/Red Sox. I understand that everything Red Sock is going to be interpreted in the worst possible light in New York, just as everything Yankee is going to be interpreted in the worst possible light in Boston. So this was a batting-practice fastball for our friends 180 miles to the south. Papelbon is Clemens-like in his inability to string words together, and in the garble of whatever he said yesterday there were individual statements -- like "I'd use me" -- that were certainly damning. But it's clear the Boston media interpreted the entirety of Papelbon's comments in a completely different way than the New York media . . . and the New York interpretation was used to pour gasoline on the "us good/you bad" stereotype that both sides embrace."
posted at 8:24 AM CDT on July 18
If you want to call it low-class, fine.
To clarify: I thought the paper's seemingly willful misinterpretation was low-class. The fan reaction was completely predictable and would have been the same or worse if positions were reversed.
posted at 12:20 PM CDT on July 18
Shonda Schilling's? Sells seashells at the seashore?