Your Sporting Options Are Many This Weekend
Alligators, College Football, Jason Whitlock, Media Gossip/Musings, Mike Vick, NBA, NFL, NHL, Politics October 9th. 2009, 5:30pm
There’s golf. Postseason baseball. Two very significant college football games. Preseason NBA action! Hockey! And Sunday’s NFL slate, which is somewhat meek. Cousins of Ron Mexico and Sports Hernia will be guiding you through the weekend, so send them anything interesting you see in the sports world. You can find their email addresses on the right rail. A few things to keep an eye on:
* This 77-year-old golfer who lost an arm to a gator in South Carolina.
* Mike Vick’s reality show. Why are people so worked up about this?
* How TBS announcer Chip Caray handles all the criticism. Mushnick unloaded on him today.
* NFL players against Rush Limbaugh. Love it. But what if owners in the league belong to the radical right? The players who railed against Rush might look a bit silly if that’s the case.
And we leave you with Jason Whitlock hammering shady Deion Sanders (”Master D”) into oblivion:
This thing smells like a Sanders concoction. Ever since Master D negotiated himself off the high-profile CBS studio show and onto the low-profile NFL Network studio show, he’s been buddying up (mentoring/advising) to young NFL players as a way of remaining relevant. Just like his negotiations with CBS, his mentoring service has been a disaster.
The clown suit Master D just put on Crabtree might never be topped. Not only did Master D play a role in convincing Crabtree he could get paid based on the word of Mel Kiper rather than the checkbook of an NFL owner, Master D capped it off by sending another 1990s has-been and financial idiot (MC Hammer) to Crabtree’s contract surrender.
Sanders blew it. He’s turned into Master D, someone not humble enough to realize he made millions of dollars because God blessed him with Bob Hayes speed, not Johnnie Cochran’s intellect.
Remember when Deion was just a baseball and football player? A really, really fun to watch football player?
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October 9th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
He did that because the suits were afraid he and Boomer Esiason were going to stab each other on air.
Really, you’re asking?
October 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I like Whitlocks articles, but is there anyone that he doesn’t think is a clown?
October 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
whitlock is aware of his faults though unlike the majority of sports columnists.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
David Simon. Bill Simmons. Joe Posnanski. Dirtheavy.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
NFL players against Rush Limbaugh. Love it.
Personally, I absolutely cannot WAIT until the Rams offer a Mathias Kiwanuka or another player who “vows” to never play for a Limbaugh team $5 million more than any other offer and he takes the money, because you KNOW that’s what would happen.
/Jim Brown wouldn’t have taken the cash
October 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Bill Bidwell has always struck me as a happening liberal guy, friend to the brother man and enjoye of recreational drugs.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I like Whitlocks articles, but is there anyone that he doesn’t think is a clown?
David Simon. Bill Simmons. Joe Posnanski. Dirtheavy.
almost got me taguchi, but my backspace key is working. I’m not going there – lol
October 9th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
well if rush buys thre rams brock forsey,jacob hester and danny woodhead would finally be able to play running back.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Isn’t there a fairly large republican contingent in the NFL because of the income level?
October 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Two New York players don’t like it. So let’s write an article about it and find the most obnoxious picture of Rush Limbaugh to go around with it.
Now that’s good journalism!
/doesn’t like Rush Limbaugh
//likes bad media even less, however
October 9th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
yeah because the democrats are all dirt poor. john kerry? poor as fuck.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Upper class tax cuts man. Don’t you remember Jared Allen bitching about Obama because he was worried he would lose half his money?
October 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Oh yeah, the NFL is full of republicans, but yeah, mostly for financial reasons.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Yeah, in John Feinstein’s “Next Man Up” about the 2004 Ravens, Bart Scott was pretty much the only guy on the team who wasn’t going to vote for Bush. Everyone else was voting for Bush because he wouldn’t raise their taxes and Kerry would’ve.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
i just figured he was saying that because he is a racist.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Well he was probably drunk texting it to ESPN.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Missed this part the first time. The caption under the obnoxious photo says “If Rush Limbaugh buys the Rams, the NFL’s black players say they won’t meet him in St. Louis.”
And then if you read the article, you never hear from “the” black players. You hear from “two” black players who never say that they are speaking for anybody but themselves.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
I’m more shocked that Rush has the kind of bank to get in on a team. And I would have thought he would be considering running for some sort of office in the future as he’s basically the most popular republican now.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Yes he would have
/5 million’s more than he made in his entire career playing football
October 9th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
whitlock is aware of his faults though unlike the majority of sports columnists.
Gluttony
October 9th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
The dude’s got bank…and he wouldn’t leave his current gig for anything other than owning an NFL team or being the NFL commissioner. Plus the only office that would have as much power as what he wields now is the presidency, and he’ll never get that.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
you shouldnt be. he is a 2 time ny times bestseller a successful radio show personality. and remember that stern is making a shit ton of dough. now i need to remind everyone that i dont listen to rush before i get beat down.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Has he said anything about Obama that is racist? I don’t listen. Or is he mistaking “criticizing a Democrat” for being a racist? Nobody was calling Limbaugh a racist when Clinton was office.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I’m not shocked he’s rich, but I didn’t think he’d have the hundreds of millions needed for a team, that’s all. More power to him though, I mean shit the lady that owns them now is a fucking idiot.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
he is rich but he isnt buying it by himself. he is getting a group together and they are all pitching in.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Had the McNabb thing been said a few years earlier, they sure as shit would have been. I mean I don’t like Rush, but come on, the whole Barack the Magic Negro thing is just going to leave him open for the racist tag.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Mushnick gets no love for his blowtorch. I guess he needs to reference 3rd Bass or the Beastie Boys.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Oh okay gotcha. I haven’t read the stories about it because they look insanely stupid re: the racial angle.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Rush’s last syndication contract paid him $285 million over nine years and the one he just signed last year had a $100 million signing bonus with a $38 million annual salary. The fucker’s loaded, and he just needs enough money to buy 51 percent of the team for his group to be the majority owner(s). So he just has to come up with like $460 million between himself and his partners.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I hadn’t heard that. As for McNabb, I guess that’s something that’s obvious but you’re not allowed to say it. I mean, it took almost an act of Congress for the MSM to admit that Jason Campbell sucks.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
That’s a lot of scratch.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
HE’S LEARNING A NEW SYSTEM GIVE HIM TIME!
October 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
McNabb sucks?
October 9th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
It just goes to show you how big the NFL is that the fucking St. Louis Rams are valued at $900 million. Good Lord.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
if the rams are worth that much the Bears must be worth 1.5-2 billion easy
October 9th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
its strange how much more infuriating walks are in the postseason than the regular season
October 9th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I think the Rams are only “valued” at like $700 million, but they said it’ll take a bid of $900 million to buy them. I think the last Forbes survey had the Bears value around $800 million or so. It’d probably take about a billion to buy ‘em.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
the whole Barack the Magic Negro thing
I love revisionist history. I don’t like Rush, but I also don’t like someone getting blamed for something that was taken out of context. Here is the article he was parodying
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story
October 9th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Jim Brown would kick Limbaugh’s ass until he gave him 10 million more.
jpq-like the Rolling Stones avatar
Headed out to an Allman Brothers/Widespread concert. This should be interesting. First half of a birthday present from my daughter, second half are tickets to Kings of Leon later this month.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I hope Rush and Chris Brown team up to buy the Rams. I’d watch that shitshow.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Also, Rush makes about $80-90 mil a year, and has been making such since ‘95.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Yes he did call him a racist.
And someone already posted the other day that top 10 list of the racist things Limbaugh has ever said. Its not fabricated that this guy has made racist statements, it is documented. I would love to see the team this guy would put together if he gets the Rams. In fact I really want to see this happen.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Headed out to an Allman Brothers/Widespread concert. This should be interesting. First half of a birthday present from my daughter, second half are tickets to Kings of Leon later this month.
Cabbage: have a good early b’day. Allman’s are great. I saw Kings of Leon open for the Stones a few years ago. Have a great time!!
October 9th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
He played the song, he should not have played the song and expected people to not flip out about it. End of story.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
And I didn’t say he was racist, I don’t listen to him enough to make that claim, I said that it opened him up to get the racist tag slapped on him, especially after the big McNabb hulabaloo.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Though I did like his response to the whole thing which basically said “hey, you don’t need to worry about me, if he winds up dead it was probably Hillary.” Which was true.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
No one says the Rush thing has anything to do with him being a republican or because the players are dems. They think he is racist. Owner player battles happen sometimes so it would not surprise me if some players would make a fuss. Marge Schott got banned from day to day ops of the Reds eventually but I do not know if any players refused to sign with the team.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I thought about getting tickets, but I decided not to risk a contact high when I’m on the job market. Enjoy, I always like a good WSP concert.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Fucking Twins
October 9th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Chip Caray understood what was going on. color me surprised.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart are interested in purchasing an NFL team? Didn’t realize prog-rock was doing that well…
October 9th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Neil Peart can conjure money from the ether with his drumming ability and don’t you forget it.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
i saw kings of leon open a show in 2005…worst live band i’ve ever seen.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Anyone know how that whole bombing the moon thing went this morning? Heard it was gonna happen then heard nothing else about it.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
We bombed the moon? Lloyd Christmas is gonna be crushed.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
The moon has had it too good for too long, Mole.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Hey if it kills off those goddamn Transformers, fine by me.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Everyone that listened to NASA and held viewing parties were fucked (couldn’t see anything) but supposedly it got a lot of data…
October 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
i just hope it makes the man in the moon stop laughing at me. you mess with me moon man you get the bidness!
October 9th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
+ an Autobot
October 9th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
My name … is Optimus Prime … and we Autobots are here to challenge you to find a finer car than those available at your local General Motors dealership. Freedom is the right of all shitty Impalas.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
+eleventy
October 9th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Hey, I was spot on this morning, Obama’s donating the Nobel money to charity. /Pats self on back.
October 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Anyone else playing the Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta/demo? Having a decent amount of fun so far
October 9th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
NEEERRRRDDDDD!
/goes back to listening to Futurama commentaries for the tenth time
October 9th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Jetes was so clutch jogging in on that loser A-Rod’s RBI single
October 9th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
this twins yankees series has “the twins easily could have won it but they got swept” written all over it
October 9th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
ARod gets a couple hits and all of a sudden he’s Reggie Jackson. Fuck.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
next year AROD is gonna win the nobel peace prize.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
next year AROD is gonna win the nobel peace prize.
and then Jetes is going to cure cancer, AIDS, end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the eigth day after going 0 fer 4 get a clutch walk in the 7th to get the 9th run in a 13-1 Yankee victory
October 9th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
with jetes it is all about timing.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Hope Joba gets lit up like a Buddhist Monk
October 9th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Bunch of Pete Rose’s and Ted Williams’ in here.
/TBL
October 9th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
It’s amazing how Kubel can win Co-AL Player of the Week the last of the week of the season, and then go 0-8 with 5 K’s the past two games.
He’s intimidated by the Yanks.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I think I may ask Emma Stone to marry me. I have a strict rule that I’m not getting married before 35, but for her, I’ll let it slide. She was absurd in Zombieland.
Random, I know. I was looking through posts from earlier today.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
what did they meet him in the visitors locker room and snap towels at him?
October 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Or, ya know, small sample size.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
It’s amazing how Nick Swisher batted .312 with seven home runs and a 1.144 OPS in April and is only one for seven with a strikeout in the post season.
He’s intimidated by Nick Punto.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
you know who else is intimidated by Nick Punto?
October 9th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Let’s be honest, who isn’t?
October 9th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
clown. but he is kinda lame and girly not to mention dumb.
/talkin trash when he cant come on here is so much fun.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Oh Boy. This will be fun
October 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Good for him, too bad the gay marriage girl was last year. Just as a point of comparison, I guess it says something that every year but this, the Nobel Prizes get ignored when compared to how much ink the Miss America Pageant gets.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Nick Punto demands an apology
October 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I’ve been making fun of Nick Punto for what seems like all my life, but that’s like the third huge hit he’s gotten in the last two weeks.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
SEE! Told you everybody fears Nick Punto.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
watch the world go nuts when/if rush asks a question and votes against a girl for not answering it the way he wanted her to.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Not to say I give a shit about either.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Considering the most important election in this country had been ruled over by Paula Abdul for the last six years or so, it’s not like Rush could be a worse judge than what society accepts.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Sabermetrically inclined baseball analysts gonna fight.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
how exactly do Mariano Rivera’s numbers gaurantee him a spot in the Hall of Fame? They’ve elected like three closers and all of them were from the pre one and your done save era. I’m sure Rivera gets in (and think he probably should), but that’s just an idiotic statement.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
By numbers they mean the zip code that’s on his paycheck.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
people arent upset that obama got an award they are confused as to what he did to earn it.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
They’ve elected like three closers and all of them were from the pre one and your done save era.
Other than Lee Smith, Rivera has 100 more saves than any other retired closer. That, combined with his ERA should guarantee him a spot.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
oops, should be italics, not bold
October 9th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
The right was happy America lost the Olympics. Nothing they do surprises me. Had W gone and not gotten the Olympics Hannity, Rush and Beck would have called for mass bombings of Europe.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
But those other guys were closing more two to three inning games (not as many as they act, but more than Rivera or any modern guy). We don’t really have a baseline for what it takes to make the Hall as a closer in this era at all, and the previous guys who got in other than Eck (Sutter and Gossage) are really fringy Hall of Famer election. I’m just saying its not like with a guy hitting 500 home runs or 3000 hits or whatever where there is a baseline for what you need to do to get in. And I think there is a legitimate argument to be made that seventy innings a year, no matter how good they are, does not a Hall of Famer make.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
bush has been gone almost a year when is the left gonna stop the “if bush blah blah blah the right would have” your guy is in office now so dont be all butt-hurt when they lob some criticism(justified or otherwise)in his direction. he hasnt done a damn thing to get awarded a nobel peace prize so quit crying. and if bush would have came home empty handed with no olympics the left would have more gone insane.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
It not like the one inning and done closer is a new invention, its been around for a while. I think the biggest problem is that none of the great ones have retired yet, so you’re right, they don’t have a baseline. If Rivera and Hoffman get in (I think they should, can’t say if they will), the baseline will be set at 500.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
no one would be dumb enough to send Bush to lobby for the Olympics
October 9th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
but someone was dumb enough to send his wife when no other world leader did.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
At least you’re not, like, exaggerating.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Joe Nathan is headed to Cooperstown.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
She’s a big horse.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
No desire to get in a political argument, but Clinton jokes haven’t exactly gone out of style almost ten years later, and he left with a financial surplus. And I heard people blaming Clinton for things that were occuring under Bush at least as late as 2006.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Joe Nathan is headed to Cooperstown.
He has 2 games to win in Minnesota first.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Joe Nathan is headed to Cooperstown.
family vacation?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
he’s blowing it.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Joe Nathan is headed to Cooperstown.
he better get a map. It ain’t easy to get there
October 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
so 2015? ok im gonna go bury my head in the sand.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
FUCK THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Should the New York Press just have to kiss A-Rod’s bare ass, or should a full on blow job be required?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
i’m Republican but you have my permission to punch them. Clinton was a chubby chaser, but he did a lot of good as a president. My only gripe was putting people off of welfare and putting them on social security.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Kate Hudson just orgasmed..
Is this the bizarro playoffs?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
god i hate arod
October 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
how many of those ppl were ready to boo him before he crushed that pitch?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
ANOTHER WORTHLESS A ROD HOMER.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Why am I happy for AROD? See what you did Selena Roberts?!
/shoots self
October 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
It’s kind of fun to watch Yankee haters squirm when ARod does something like that. Gotta love not having a dog in the fight.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
more indicative stat?:
A. Joe Nathan allowed no home runs with runners on base this season
B. Joe Nathan allowed 7 solo home runs this season
I think I’ll go with B. But thanks for your garbage Chip.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
we have extras, thanks to Alex Rodriguez.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
It’s kind of fun to watch Yankee haters squirm when ARod does something like that. Gotta love not having a dog in the fight.
Mole, I’m a Yankee hater, but 99% of it is over the Jeter mancrush and the hating of all things A-Rod (and I’m not even an A-Rod fan). When Jeter froze him out a few years ago and said nothing to help him, I just thought it was a completely douchebag thing to do.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
/shoots self
+1
I’ve been rooting for A-Rod for like five years now without wanting to because of the sports media, but I agree with the sentiment.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Jeter still has a better smile though.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Oh I cannot stand the Yankees either; but I just think it’s hilarious that they were far and away the best team this year after so many people were saying “oh it doesn’t matter how much money they spent they still won’t be good”, and just after all the ARod steroid crap coupled with people acting like he sucks because he hasn’t delivered them a title yet, it’s kind of just fun to watch their empire of hatred crumble.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
more Nick Punto magic?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
This sounds like self hatred man, you might need some help!
October 9th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
“Nick Punto is the Twins last hope”
In a tie game.
Joe Buck nepotism > Chip Caray nepotism
I said it.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
you’re right. They would be pissed we DIDN’T get them. Not thrilled. O has done next to nothing, you’re right about that. So why are tea baggers crying that the country has been taken from them? If he has done nothing, then nothing has changed since W left office, right?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
he has a billion dollar contract,actress gf,athletic ability and the dumbass media and one sportswriter who was burying for bucks gets me to be like “fuck yeah arod go go go go keep hittng bombs…..but dont win” he should thank roberts everyday.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Gods: your hatred of Republicans is quite impressive, I must say
October 9th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I just hate how they act like (at least entering this season) one of the top two or three players in baseball was bad to have on a baseball team.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I may hate myself, but it has nothing to do with me being Jewish.
mre: how much of your opinion on the Roberts/ARod thing is driven by what Selena Roberts looks like? For me, I’d say fifty percent.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
i for one would have loved to have seen arod not even go out for that curtain call as a huge eff you
October 9th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
just because the left is too busy trying to make the minority happy in the house and in the senate doesnt mean he isnt trying to do stuff that the right dont agree with. have you just started following politics?
/if obama was smart he should just say fuck it we’re doing what i want. but he isnt doing that because he is afraid that he will lose the majority and then getting anything done will be impossible. the time is now for him.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
you mean the anti-roberts thing or the she is trying put damaging info out without any credible sources to back it up to take down arod and make some dough in the process?
October 9th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
idk, I just have the feeling I wouldn’t despise her so much if she didn’t look like the chick who reminded the teacher to give homework.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I think he means he hates Selena Roberts mug. I like her back page SI picture where her hands are in the air and she has an expression like “I’ve been trying to tell you stupid sports fans.”
October 9th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
i wouldnt care if she looked like miss america. she is trying to sell me bullshit and i can make homemade bullshit for free.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
and after reading some of her stuff on the lacrosse boys she comes across as a hack now. im surprised she still has a job.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Oh yeah it just exacerbates the dislike.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Not only her face, but have you ever heard her talk, Ive seen her on Sports Reporters a couple of times and when combining her stupid voice with the things she says, she is probably number one on the list of females I would punch.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
now that i think about it every time i would read he bacmk page stuff in si i did feel like vomiting whenever i glanced at the pencil picture of hers
October 9th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Shhhhhh….
I think TBL has a crush on her.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
joe nathan implode
October 9th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
They should have got him at third.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
not republicans. I hate far right neo-cons. I also hate the fact that pussy liberals won’t call them out.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Never trust a closer with 2 first names. exhibit a: Kevin Gregg
October 9th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I’ve found calling them out on this blog has gotten the wheels of change in motion. I have it on good authority that Mike NYC is considering supporting a woman’s right to vote.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Darling speaks in the same cadence as mike tyson. the voice lowering and raising
October 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Ryan Franklin
October 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
you know his ears are ringing.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
except Nathan is actually fucking awesome of course.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
cb bucknor thinks jd drew was safe
October 9th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
replay that shit.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
God I fucking hate the Yankees. And anyone that ever mouths off with some bullshit how great Joe Nathan is, you can promptly fuck right off.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
wow that was an extremely bad call. he should be fired on the spot.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
What call?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Joe Nathan’s pretty good at baseball.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
the call that might cost the twins a run. even if they score a run the ump was so wrong he should be fired.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
That Orlando Cabrera shot was great.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
mrejr.. but what happened? Im watching the other game.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Jesus… That was horrific. If the Twins lose in the bottom half of this inning because of that call, there should be hell to pay. Cuzzi (sp?) should be fined or lose his job for that call. He’s 15 feet away from the only call he needs to make all night and he blows it.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
The OJ jury had better judgment than that ump.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
You guys are full of shit, nobody other than the Red Sox gets calls going against them.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Ok everyone stop talking about how bad it was and tell me what happened.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
cracker –
Mauer hit a fader down the left field line… Matsui got close, but couldn’t get to it before it hit the ground and bounded into the stands. Ump called it foul… demonstratively called it foul. Replays showed it was fair by at least 8 inches. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
left field ump called a obviously fair ball foul.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Is that reviewable or not?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
No only homeruns are reviewable.. I dont understand why they can’t add foul line calls and catches/traps to the reviewable list. And plays at home plate.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Because it damages the purity of the game, unlike calls like that, which make it pure. Apparently.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
My understanding is its not “officially” reviewable, but I’ve seen umpires go look at monitors independently on a few occasions.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
would the twins have scored a run if it got called a hit?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
was at dinner with the wife. i had a view of the TV (25 ft away). i am watching on the sly.
a-rod hits the pitch out and i swear me and 3 other random guys in the dining room all jumped out of our chairs and rushed to the TV.
pretty awesome moment
October 9th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
FUCK. Twins just got jobbed. That is absolute bull shit.
If Red Sawk fans want to know how it feels to take one deep in the backside, they just need to talk to anyone from Minnesota.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
October 9th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
i would say yes.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Neyer had a good thing up today about how ridiculous the giving out of umpire post season jobs is, and how little merit really matters.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
TEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
lamest walk off hr ever?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
BSSM –
Yes… The next 2 Twins singled.
ANNNNNND, the Twins officially get screwed. Unreal.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
what a horseshit ending
October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
FTW!!!!!!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
TEIX!!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Un fucking believable. The game was over when A-roid hit the homer, I don’t know why the umps waited until the 11th to fuck everyone with a spiked dildo.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Chip Carray’s call was so loud that his microphone distorted and it was just jibberish.
Twins now know what it’s like to be the Tigers. Incredibly frustrating for them and the fans. They had the Yanks on the ropes.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
give that man a pie!!!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Craig Sager is taller than I thought. He’s gotta be 6-4.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
I am going to murder Phil Cuzzi’s family. Fuck that cocksucker.
Fuck it. Congrats winning 10 on 9 Yankees. Buy another title.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Exactly like 2004.
That game was pure agony after the 9th. It was over after it was tied, it was only a matter of time.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Did the Tigers get screwed? Tainted win.
Yankee fans will give the old “entitlement” explanation and say they would have won anyway.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
But guys, just think, if the Twins win 3 in a row, just how devastating that will be to Yankee fans…
We can only hope?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Inge was HBP with bases loaded and one out in the 10th and it wasn’t called. So yes.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
False. If your jersey is too baggy you don’t get the base. Learn the rules of baseball.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
no, it’s just the crazy combo of pin striped suit, striped tie, and striped shirt. he’s really 5-2 1/2 feet tall.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
This is why Don Denkinger has to live in Idaho. Not for nothing, but you load the bases with nobody out and don’t score that’s a you problem.
(I’d be pissed if I was a Twins fan too)
October 9th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
The worst thing about watching a loss like this is that there’s another game on Sunday. Do I really have to watch?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Also, Wally, the Twinkies got the bases loaded with zero outs and didn’t score. Also like the Tigers on Tuesday. I was just comparing and saying how incredibly frustrating it is/was. (I’m a Tigers fan).
October 9th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Jersey=Part of the body.
I’m not taking away from Mauer’s hit. He got screwed. They got screwed. My whole comparison was how frustrating it is/was. That’s it. I’m not going to pick nits. Your team should at least be tied in extra innings, still playing, right now.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
since chip carey gets murdered everywhere; any credit for the comment about teams getting out of a bases loaded jam and scoring in the next half inning? especially considering there were only 2 outs in the top of the 11th when he said it.
carey sucks but he proved surprisingly lucky on that one
Skip>>>>>>Harry>Skip
October 9th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Ha ha. I wonder how the Turner producers let that guy on the air in some of the crap he wears. It’s beyond comedic relief. It kinda grosses me out sometimes.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
The rule states if you get hit in the jersey, and your jersey is too baggy, you don’t get the base. Sorry, I didn’t realize reading was that hard.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I’ve grown those two inches, as well as several additional feet.
Fetch is going to fucking kill someone tonight, I can’t turn away even though I REALLY need a shower.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Ump said he didn’t see the ball hit him.
Doesn’t matter. Game is over and done with.
Please take out your umpire hate and loss hatred on somebody else.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
@ thrillerb: that’s accurate 60% of the time everytime.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
The Inge HBP wasn’t obvious in real time. That is a call that gets missed because there really is no proof if you don’t have the exact angle on a 90+ mph pitch. In hindsight, courtesy of replay, yes, it was a miss.
The miss on Mauer was HORRIFIC. 15 feet away from your only job of the night. Don’t highlight that they didn’t score after loading the bases. The umpire took their score away from them.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
money well spent, yanks.
posada/molina/burnett squabble is done.
carl pavano’s up next
hahahahahaaha
October 9th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
There is a comment I really want to make right now, but I’ll get banned. Maybe I’ll drop in on facebook or Twi++er for you lucky people
October 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Making the postseason is great!
October 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
carl pavano is pitching. i’d say no.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I can smell you from here. A combination of hooker sweat, weed and a spilled cranberry and vodka.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I just don’t think this is true.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
What’s Fetch’s tweet account name
October 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
i’m pretty sure the guy isn’t married or his wife is blind.
the lengths people go to when they don’t look like Erin Andrews….
October 9th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
On buying off the umpires?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
In real time, I didn’t see how close the ump was. Then they showed the replay… holy shit, man. They even bring in extra umps for the postseason, right? So, ya know, calls aren’t missed.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
we have no idea how the inning unfolds if it is called fair. we have no idea if the yanks rally, again.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
fetch9
October 9th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
what a ridiculously awesome start to the weekend. nice dinner. a-rod’s amazing blast. tex wins it.
hopefully, hoops in the AM.
re-watching the office from last night with the wife, who missed it.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
we have no idea how the inning unfolds if it is called fair. we have no idea if the yanks rally, again.
when things like this happen for my team and I even attempt to make this argument I feel dirty. And no, the dirt won’t come off.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Free will > determinism
/sorta correlates
//stirred a pot that isn’t even there
October 9th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
i think it’s hysterical people spit on red sox fans for complaining about umps in last nights game but it’s open season when the umps favor the yankees.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Top off the evening by laying the pipe.
/I’m sorry
October 9th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
That that you can’t make Sparty’s argument, but the Sox were gonna lose either way.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
seriously, everyone is acting like John Sterling right now. he does this all the time, and i hate listening to him for it. thinking one play before called correctly or playing out differently suddenly means the rest of the inning plays out exactly the same? it just doesn’t work that way.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
why is there a retarded girl in the new dominos sandwich commercial?
October 9th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Great snag by Lowell. Wow.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Oh. He was just gonna support another concert for firemen and police officers with the Who, Paul McCartney, and various celebrities.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Man am I glad I started following fetch.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
okay, so let’s say they call it a double. what if kubel ends up walking instead because they probably pitch him a little bit differently with a runner on second as opposed to first. they sure aren’t having kubel drop down a bunt. now we are back with men on 1st and 2nd.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
wilhelm -
One call was in the 11th inning of a tie game.
The 2 calls against the Sawx last night were horrible. They also got pwned all night by Lackey and the Angels. If the game was tied or a 1 run game when they happened, then it would be different.
There was no mention of the bad call that cost the Angels at least 1 more run on the tag at 3rd to finish off the 5-2-5 DP when Lowell didn’t tag the guy at 3rd until he was standing up. That call could be considered worse since the guy should have been safe at 3rd, in scoring position, than either guy Boston would have had at 1st.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
moleman – What’s your name on there?
Fetch just went balls out.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
fuck it, whatever. Id much rather talk about how Alabama-Huntsville beat Notre Dame in hockey tonight
October 9th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
blastthickneck
October 9th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Kubel also could have grounded out to the right side and gotten Mauer to 3rd.
The odds of scoring from 2nd with 0 outs is about 60% better than scoring from 1st with 0 outs if I remember my table correctly. (I am drunk, so I could be wrong).
Cuzzi absolutely cost the Twins a very good CHANCE at winning the game. Regardless, an outfield ump CANNOT miss that call when that is his only primary job.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Alright, sent you follow request.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
right, and other guys might have not swung at the first pitch and instead might have popped up or struck out. but the fact is that they did have the runner on 3rd with no outs.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
i agree with this.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
If Joe Nathan’s balls didn’t shrink, the Twins are never in that spot to begin with. He looked terrified for a closer with a 2-run lead
October 9th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
And the fact is a positive call that should have been was not made. That is all that is arguable. Things could certainly have still turned out well for the Yankees, but in a tight game a call was egregiously missed.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I know it’s early, very early, probably too early, but does anyone enjoy TNT’s coverage of the NBA? Every time I hear that music, my penis quivers. OK, not that excited, but it’s pretty cool.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
TNT does the best job with the NBA of any network with any sport, and I’m not even a big NBA guy.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Holy crap I”m tired. Friday night fail. Peace out, gents.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
@NDub – love the NBA on TNT. I’m ready for it to begin right now
Wow, and I thought my day was shitty
/not as shitty as the Twins
October 9th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
TST – My fave Heenan call was when Goldberg beat Hogan. FYI.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
lousy call
October 9th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Aaand Jacoby checked that swing. Damn I cant wait for the series to get back to Fenway already.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
holy crap the red sox offense is pathetic
October 9th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Where’s JPQ? I need some one of age to buy me alcohol so I can celebrate right now!
October 9th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
*Throws a beer bottle at JerseyYo*
October 9th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
*Catches bottle. Swigs. Slams. Flexes. Blows kiss. Bounces*
October 9th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Angels playing “Build me up Buttercup”… interesting choice.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
+1
Should the ump be banned for the rest of the postseason? Yes.
Did it cost the Twins the game? No. Twins stranded 17 runners and blew a 2 run lead in the 9th. Loss in 100% on them.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
sox being one run down might as well be 10 runs
October 10th, 2009 at 12:02 am
2 hits, absolutely pathetic. At least Weaver’s at over 100 pitches right now, he’s probably done right?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:04 am
And for everyone complaining about Orsillo calling this series, I think its even worse for Sox fans because we are forced to hear him get super excited about good Angels plays. I’m gonna puke.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Fetch did go off the deep end.
/keep it classy
October 10th, 2009 at 12:12 am
is it worse to hav eyour team owned by a bad call and a walk off or watch them get 6 hits in 18 innings?
October 10th, 2009 at 12:15 am
The first one, BSSM. I’d much rather have to blame my team’s ineptitude than whine about the umps and lose a close one.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Worse yet, having your team owned by bad call, after bad call, after bad call.
/Super Bowl XL
October 10th, 2009 at 12:37 am
The Twins ineptitude has a lot more to do with that loss than an umpire costing them one base.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:46 am
Sweet Christ, the Sox offense is brutal.
I like Tito as much as the next guy, but…Jed Lowrie? Really? Dude was fucking LOST on 3 straight pitches. That was just terrible.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:48 am
I’m sorry, but if you didn’t already know Orsillo did the play-by-play for the Sox, you would have NO idea that he did.
He actually sounds like he’s trying to make up for it by calling the Angels like he does the Sox.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:50 am
One of the few games I’ll accept the officiating made a major difference. Seattle got fucked hard.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Wow. So my Game 4 tix are coming via FedEx tomorrow. If I end up with an un-used set of Playoff tickets, it’s going to be grown man crying.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:57 am
orsillo is great at his job…doesnt matter that he does game for the sox
can’t blame tito for anything..sox just aren’t hitting the ball…no way this series is over…fenway is magic for the sox