The Roundup: The O’Bannon Brothers Surface to Address Getting Dissed by Lil’ Wayne
Baseball, Courts, Legal, Fans, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, NHL, Video June 30th. 2009, 8:00am
Because our love for Transformers knows no bounds (though that may change when we see it this week) … time to respect TMZ? … it’s budget time for many states, and that’s not necessarily a good thing … Ken Rosenthal joins the MLB Network … hey Rosenthal, check out this mainstream media writer talking steroids! … “strategic” defaults sure make sense for those whose homes are underwater … idiots rob a house, then ask cop for a ride home - you know what happened next …
Baseball and the radio: For the over 40 set. (Philly Inky)
Manny’s many faces. He’s due back Friday, you know. (WC Bias)
Christian Laettner and Brian Davis sued; enter joke here. Come on, you can do it. (Charlotte Observer)
Amare: Waiting to be traded. (Arizona Republic)
We take plenty of shots at 49ers QB Alex Smith … but this story’s pretty damn sad. (ESPN)
“Just be a jumpoff for like one person. Two people, you can be a jumpoff for two people. Now five or six, whoooaaa, you gettin’ your freak on.” - Ron Artest. (You Been Blinded)
This is tremendously sad: That Canadian football player who dragged woman from burning car? His brother had died in a car accident a few years ago. (Toronto Star)
Because it’s time for the annual contraction in baseball summer post. Includes a salary cap! (Sparty and Friends)
Break out the violins for the former athletes (read: millionaires) who are losing jobs in the media. (USA Today)
Raiders fans are douchebags, but you knew that. (Sports by Brooks)
Real life Crash Davis may have a future as a coach with the Phillies. (Inky)
Any of our northwest readers play in this 3-on-3 tournament? Sounds cool. (NYT)
Pujols and the triple crown - he can do it! (Viva La Vidro)
As of right now, it doesn’t look like Marian Hossa is coming back to the Red Wings next season. (Detroit News)
[via Hardwood Paroxysm]
[via Dwight Schrute's twitter]
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June 30th, 2009 at 8:12 am
My jumpoff’s not insecure or jealous
/More Joe Budden’d
June 30th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Who’s the 80’s model?
June 30th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Who’s the 11 year old boy?
June 30th, 2009 at 8:24 am
raiders fans are no where near as douchey as cowboys, chargers, steelers, and patriots fans.
/gotta love the marine corps. I would have never been around these fucks by choice
June 30th, 2009 at 8:27 am
chargers fans? i don’t know any that even exist.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Steelers fans are toothless inbreds
June 30th, 2009 at 8:27 am
This is the “11 year old boy”
June 30th, 2009 at 8:29 am
@e man: I’ll assume that’s a great pic; TBL has a habit of picking the very worst pic possible.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:31 am
It is…it’s safe for work too
June 30th, 2009 at 8:31 am
I love keyboard cat.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:31 am
i was stationed 40 miles north of san diego so they all came out of the woodwork their 14-2 season
June 30th, 2009 at 8:32 am
E Man’s pic, despite the title, doesn’t actually contain that chick nude. She’s wearing a bathing suit. It’s as safe for work as anything CRM ever puts up. It’s also lovely.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:33 am
A Jets fan calling Raiders fans douchebags is curious at best.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Not sure why title is such…sorry for the mislead
June 30th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Hey Sanders,
If you’re going to be here for more than 4 seconds today, I’ve been meaning to say thanks for throwing up a link to that LOTR fan boy fiction about three weeks ago. That thing made my weekend.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:36 am
haha i wasnt going to talk shit about tbl’s team but ive heard they are bad too. Never met one though
June 30th, 2009 at 8:39 am
well, i nearly vomited: GMA is showing footage of some guy named Dan Jenkins, a US armed forces member who got a knife shoved in the side of his head by an Iraq.
guy survived! what’s gross is that there is footage of him on the operating table and you can see part of the knife in his head. so painful. it makes my foot injury (hoops yesterday) laughable
June 30th, 2009 at 8:39 am
i don’t know. that is to be expected when your team has stunk for as long as theirs did.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:41 am
that bear story was pretty scary, i live like 10 min from there
June 30th, 2009 at 8:42 am
i think that happened a few years ago, tbl. Unless it happened again!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:42 am
keyboard cat cracks me up. the video with keyboard cat playing off kanye is the best.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:43 am
This is certainly true. The RCA Dome was a ghost town prior to the two good Harbaugh seasons, again during the Paul Justin interim, and then only once they drafted Harrison, Manning, Edge, etc. and had some sustained success did they sell out every game. Be interesting to see how it carries over into the post-Manning era. I’m guessing I’ll be able to get some sweet tickets.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:44 am
They showing the Semi-Tough trailer?
June 30th, 2009 at 8:45 am
that bear story was pretty scary, i live like 10 min from there
black bears aren’t scary. you just scare them away with loud noises. they also won’t come anywhere near a dog.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:46 am
shoot, i knew i forgot something
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06282009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/dont_get_that_college_degree__176545.htm
June 30th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Keyboard Cat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn! It’s gonna be a good day!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:51 am
NFL list post at 1230. sure to piss people off.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:55 am
you’re trying to get me riled up aren’t you, mr. big lead? it’s not gonna work today.
besides, I prefer this link.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:56 am
How you left Eagles fans off that list, I’ll never know…
June 30th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I believe it’s “the Iraq and everywhere like such as,” TBL.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:02 am
best keyboard cat EVAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5w4MkFofc
June 30th, 2009 at 9:02 am
That hurt, TBL. I’m 44, and I listen to baseball on the radio all th time. Like I tell my kids, and it also mentions in the article, baseball on radio is theater of the imagination.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Best line in the article. We’ve become a society of degrees instead of a society of learning.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Hmm…higher education is broken, so we should use more standardized testing to fix it? That worked really well with the k12 schools…
June 30th, 2009 at 9:06 am
you’re hired!
i could have probably gotten into baseball on the radio if vin scully was the voice. growing up in DC, i didnt like the orioles, though.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:09 am
tallguy - I don’t really know what the answer is, but there’s no question that the system is broken.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:13 am
I grew up on Ernie Harwell, so there was nothing easier than listening to him call a game. Just a fantastic broadcaster. I’m sure sparty and several others would concur.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I’m not sure about that. I think the growth of for profit “universities” (as seen on TV) has certainly diminished certain degrees, but a quality degree from a quality school is still extremely valuable.
That article kindly left out the years the person without the degree will spend on unemployment, and the costs of health care for someone working hourly without coverage. Also ignored the company sponsored 401k that the person with the degree gets matching contributions from. Other than that, great article (/sarcasm).
June 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I do. Ernie was/is the best. I also had the pleasure of listening to Marty Brennaman and Joe Nuxhall in Cincy when I was younger. Good times.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Bullshit. Fuck Chargers fans
/Saints fan who survived a 20 years before a winning season, 34 years before a playoff win, and a hurricane almost used as an excuse to move the team.
//The only douchey Saints fans are the ones who came along after Reggie Bush was drafted
June 30th, 2009 at 9:30 am
coop - Here’s the thing. The almighty degree has become so important, that kids that have no business going to college end up putting themselves in massive debt, just so they can get a BA in sociology or something (no offense if anyone here was a sociology major). Couple that with the fact that you really can “earn” a degree without actually learning the course material, and you’ve got a nice recipe for a society that lacks in innovation, efficiency, and business acumen.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Roger that. He was great. Not even being a Tigers fan, he still made listening to a game enjoyable.
I can’t stand John Sterling.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Ditto on Harwell. I used to fall asleep to Ernie on the radio when I was growing up, hoping my favorite player (Sweet Lou) would get a hit. One of his best traits was not talking between every pitch. It seems modern radio play-by-play (and color commentators) can’t help themselves and drone on and on between every pitch. Drives me nuts.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:37 am
you could always hear a guy in the background yelling “ICE COLD COKE!!!”
June 30th, 2009 at 9:46 am
But thats not “the system” failing, thats someone making a poor choice and finding a business willing to profit from that choice. I’m not saying its perfect, there are useless majors (looking at you Art History), there are bad schools, there are unfit students. On the whole though, the american university system is still the best in the world at driving innovation by stimulating critical thinking.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:50 am
And Ernie’s foul ball call was the best. “A man from Escanaba just made the catch on Alan’s foul ball.” Priceless, especially because you’d sit around wondering if your city would make the cut.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:56 am
I have less of a problem with the university system than with the rest of the education system. Businesses will always reward those who are the best and the brightest, but society places value on different things. Receiving a degree over actually learning the material, for instance. The fact of the matter is that you can be successful without a college degree, but it does take a lot of hard work. At the same time, it takes a lot of hard work to be successful no matter how many degrees you have.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Agreed. Seconded. Darn right. Although the Lil Wayne type fans are just as bad. Make the championship game, he says “I am a Saints fan” in his songs. Two years later, he’s a Green Bay fan. Adult fairweather fans suck.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Will it contain that we’re still two looooooooooooong months away from football? Something about July being a dead zone for sports not having anything to tie us over? Big Ben > Lebron?? Cowboys, or God forbid, Falcons??? The suspense is killing me.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:24 am
That car accident in which he jumped out to save the girl… it was terrible. About 20 minutes from where I live. I saw TV footage with all that fire and smoke. Those two kids would’ve been burned alive if that football player and his teammate hesitated.
I drove past the accident scene three days later. The median was obviously chopped up with tire marks, etc., but what really got me was the black stain on the interstate. That fire was so hot and out of control that it melted a huge chunk of the road.
Terribly sad. My boss was a family fried of the Smiths.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Also, the wife died. The kids were airlifted. I think they’re OK. Probably still in the hospital. This accident was on Father’s Day, too.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:26 am
TBL - Hoopfest is a pretty sweet weekend for a hoops fan. People playing ball from 7 or 8 in the morning for a good 12 hours. Plus, because of Spokane’s proximity to Bumble, you can almost assuredly watch two mulleted parents get in a fight over their 7 year old kids’ game. No guarantee those aren’t mulleted moms, either. As someone who escaped from there years ago, there aren’t a lot of reasons to visit as a tourist, but this is one, and the city is growing enough that you can have fun at night now. Sort of.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Chargers fans were all Raiders fans a few years back. They move freely between the two depending on recent success.
And yet they can’t sell out *either* team’s stadium.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Of course the New York Post is trying to minimize the value of a college education. How else are they going to hold on to their readership?
June 30th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Exactly. The Saints can sell out, and there are like 900 people left in New Orleans.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:56 am
And yet they can’t sell out *either* team’s stadium.
Exactly. The Saints can sell out, and there are like 900 people left in New Orleans.
Jay: Same thing w/ the Bills. Just hit 55,000 season tickets, third highest ever for the 2nd poorest city in the country and to see a team that hasn’t been in the playoffs since the last century.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:59 am
jpq, the Saints have sold every year since Katrina, including that first year when they were coming off a 3-13 season and brought in an unknown first-year coach. And there’s a significant waiting list too. And, like I said a few days ago, New Orleans has less than half the population of Austin right now (but there are probably over a million people within 2 hours of N.O.)
June 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@ Jay: The ten parish GNO has a pop of 1.3 million. This includes the tri-parish area on the Northshore. The region identifies itself by the Saints.
On a completely unrelated topic: Chuck Klosterman is absolutely NAILING IT on Simmons’ podcast with his take on Michael Jackson’s death.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
is more list it.
Local news pretty much sucks everywhere like it has for decades, and it amazes me how even in so many different cities they all in a “free” media have even the same accent along with the same buzz words and phrases, but here you are talking a place so full of losers that they managed to turn it into a mistake by the lake twice.
Of course their reporting will be ridiculous as are a disproportionate number of posts here it seems from all the various OSU and Cleveland fuckjobs on this site from it seems most of that crap state of Ohio.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Okay reality check time. First this is local news that has sucked for decades.
Second is that it is in the mistake by the lake for the second time in its history, populated by none other than a highly disproportionate number of douchebags and f@uckups like so many of its readers on this site, known as Cleveland.
Eat one again you Cleveland and Ohio State homers along with most of you from the State of Ohio who post on this site. Why would expect any quality reporting to come out of Cleveland?
Nick P please get some quality friends to join the discussion and abandon your loser cohorts on here, as you are the only one who seems to put in stuff that is just not typical parroted homer media bullshit.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Somehow that first post was delayed due to server problems, but I guess it went through as well. Double the abuse for twice the mistake on the lake I guess? :p