The Roundup: Living Vicariously Through Tim Riggins
Baseball, College Basketball, High School Sports, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, NFL retirees, Television March 11th. 2009, 8:00am
Miranda Kerr … first edition Harry Potter book goes for $19,000 …man escapes smoldering tanning bed … more newspaper sharing in Tennessee … will the embattled treasury secretary survive 2009? … the sad Alabama murder spree of a psycho with an AK-47 … these farts don’t sound real, do they? … Jim Cramer vs. John Stewart … sounds like Beanie Sigal parties are fun yet dangerous … after the jump, free agent Orlando Pace used to play basketball …
Tim Riggins is a cool character, and Taylor Kitsch is aware that many people “live vicariously through Riggs.” (Vanity Fair)
Two more years of FNL … maybe. (EW)
We’re optimistic for Kellogg-Nantz, but they’re only our third favorite NCAA tourney announcing team. (USA Today)
What would an MLB spring training be like without a Billy Beane HE’S BACK! story? (SF Chronicle)
All the rage: Home gold-buying parties! (Kentucky.com)
“The most heavily favored team in the World Baseball Classic has bowed out to a team whose best player has not taken a major-league swing in six years.” (Miami Herald)
Rams cut future Hall of Famer Orlando Pace, ensure that No. 2 pick in the draft will be a lineman. (P-D)
We still think the move is Joba to be the 8th inning bridge to Rivera, but whatever. (NYDN)
The McDonald’s All-American HS game is Ohio-bound in 2010. (Cursed Cleveland)
For his 37th birthday, Jerome Bettis went to Vegas, came home with a special bottle of tequilla. (PSAMP)
The Hoyas are done, but how would they have done this season with Macklin and Rivers, who transferred to Florida and Indiana, respectively? (Wash Post)
Notre Dame tops Rutgers, next up is West Virginia. (South Bend Trib)
Celebrating Harvey Pollack, the only employee in the NBA who has worked in the league since its inaugural season in 1946. (NBA.com)
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March 11th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Larry Nance?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Her feet are fucking gross.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Larry Nance’s HOF probability
Career 0.026 (205)
Kobe:
Active 1.000 (3)
Career 1.000 (13)
Rip Hamilton:
Active 0.053 (28)
Career 0.053 (174)
March 11th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Why you have to bring Rip into this? That ain’t right.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:31 am
TBL, I think it’s time for a post about getting rid of the automatic bid.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Nice to see super-hot chicks get pit stains, too. They’re just like us!
March 11th, 2009 at 8:37 am
TBL needs to get an age-limit of his own instituted here
When does this start?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:38 am
What??? I mean we know you hate certain ways of using numbers that aren’t traditional, but really you cannot follow the argument that you want you best players to get the most time?
March 11th, 2009 at 8:39 am
@SM: 65 innings > 170 innings.
/science
March 11th, 2009 at 8:43 am
SM – What, exactly, are you basing “best players” on?
Joba – 12 career starts. What has led to believe he’s the “best”?
1. Sabathia, 2. Burnett, 3. Wang, 4. Pettitte, 5. Hughes
8 – Joba
9 – Rivera
March 11th, 2009 at 8:54 am
CLEVELAND STATE!!! WHOO!!!
orlando pace was the man…he’ll be in canton.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Couldn’t agree more.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I think Kerr has a weird looking head. It wouldn’t kill her to eat a steak either. Not my type.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:58 am
CBS should have put Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery together
March 11th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Strong enough for a man, meant for a woman doesn’t apply here.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:08 am
when Joba goes 17-6 with a 3.09 era and 202k’s, you won’t be thinking that.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I will happily give myself a wedgie if that happens.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Who’s 1 & 2? Verne Lundquist-Bill Raftery; Gus Johnson-Len Elmore?
March 11th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Okay, maybe he is not THE best (probably, but maybe not). But he is very good and more than capable of being a starting pitcher (look at those 12 starts, his starts in the minors and his career at Nebraska for further evidence). So my question is why would you want to limit him to 60 innings a year? Because it was done one year to cap his innings limit on the season to prevent injury? He excelled in that role because he is a fantastic pitcher not because he was born for the 8th inning role.
Do you think Manny should only be used in late game pinch hitting situations too? Maybe he wouldnt get as tired and would be able to hit homeruns every time in situations when you Really Need them. Spots made for the best hitters.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:18 am
only on the fucking yankees could a pitcher like joba be such a hot topic. joba isn’t anything special, yet he’s talked about like he’s the next bob gibson.
eh, what do i care, fuck the yankees.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Joba will forever be remembered for losing his mind on the mound in Cleveland. Never seen someone so scared of bugs. Funniest thing ever.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:30 am
That’s actually a fair point. Imagine when Zumaya first arrived what the hype would have been had he been in NY, reaching 100 and 101 on the radar gun?
March 11th, 2009 at 9:30 am
only on the fucking yankees could a pitcher like joba be such a hot topic. joba isn’t anything special, yet he’s talked about like he’s the next bob gibson.
eh, what do i care, fuck the yankees.
this is 100% correct
March 11th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Nothing to do with Yanks. Everything to do with faultly logic.
March 11th, 2009 at 9:53 am
What happens when Joba the hut breaks down and becomes Oden v2.0?
Even if that doesn’t happen, after Rivera is done (very soon, by the way), the Yanks will have 187 starting pitchers and no closer
/rotsa ruck w/ that
March 11th, 2009 at 9:59 am
i wouldn’t be so quick to start planning mariano’s funeral. that cutter is still deadly as fuck.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:12 am
i wouldn’t be so quick to start planning mariano’s funeral. that cutter is still deadly as fuck.
spencer: by very soon, I meant this year or next. He’s probably really 42-43, and when it goes, it goes, like all elite athletes. The Yankees of all teams should know how important having a closer like Rivera is. He’s one of, if not the best, closers ever. Having Joba become “him” when he’s done, when they have no other options that I know of, couldn’t be the worst thing.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:25 am
i agree with you that joba would be best served to be groomed as the closer as his mentality seems to fit the best there.
that said, i think mariano has at least 2 more years left, regardless of his actual age (im with you that he’s probably older). he doesn’t have a ton of mileage on him, despite being around forever and, he hasn’t seen a decrease in velocity. that cut fastball is still so effective that why couldn’t he go on for a lot longer? hell, nolan ryan pitched effectively deep into his 40’s and he had more mileage that pretty much anyone. why can’t mariano who’s literally pitched 1/7 the career innings nolan has?
March 11th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Gus and Len might well be the best team ever.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:23 am
It reminds me of what the Red Sox had to deal with with Papelbon. Technically, you want your best pitcher to pitch more innings. Hence, you make him the starter. But, the security blanket of having him to shut down the other team in a crucial situation is just too valuable. Do you want him to pitch seven innings in one out of five games or pitch one inning in three out of the five games that decides the game?
That said, as a Red Sox fan, keep Joba in the rotation. He’ll be great there. I am sure his stats as a reliever will project equally over extended starts. And don’t worry about him developing his third and fourth pitches. I’m sure it will work itself out.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:50 am
ty: agree 100% (believe it or not-lol)
/Red Sox fan