The Roundup: Strahan on Tiki, Maybe Barry Melrose was Right, and LeBron’s SOS
Uncategorized November 9th. 2007, 8:57am
Unhealthily obsessed? Sure, why not … this is just nuts - outsourcing pregnancy? We when will the day be here that we outsourcing mundane tasks like wiping our ass? … did anybody in Cali have to pay $5 a gallon for gas yet? Happy holidays! … wow, anyone else see Tech stocks get hammered yesterday? Ouch … my gosh, you can lay a wager on anything Adrian Peterson-related … a Bionic woman spoof that’s kind of funny …
Lots of talk about how the NFL Network has two great games in the upcoming weeks, but many people won’t see them. (USA Today)
And more on the situation from Phil Mushnick. (NY Post)
How the Boston Globe flooded the zone to cover the World Series (APSE via SJ.com)
New name, new jerseys … it won’t matter. Never will. Seventy wins, and then they lose Kazmir and have to start over. (D Rays Bay)
You know, maybe Barry Melrose was right about that dump Newark. (Long Island Press)
Yes, Redskins coach Joe Gibbs is a master of boring coachspeak. (Jerry’s Wheelhouse)
Gap tooth Strahan takes a jab at Tiki Barber. (NY Daily News)
What does the future hold for Eric Lindros? (The Spirit of Jake Plummer)
Amare Stoudemire buys Matt Leinart’s house. (AZ Sports Hub)
Yes, LeBron needs help. (Halftime Adjustments)
A pretty neat 25-and-under NFL team. (The Skinny Post)
In defense of Donovan McNabb, the guy hasn’t had shit for help since TO left. (Inquirer)
This guy’s proud of his high school’s trick football play, but you’ll have to watch twice for the ineligible receiver. (Atlanta Sports Fan)
How to be a college football fanatic. (College Game Balls)
Jemele Hill goes Kobe > A-Rod, and a blogger is upset. (Fire Jay Mariotti)
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November 9th, 2007 at 9:18 am
That High School play is funny as hell. What kind of idiot thinks that will work? It took a couple of times to actually see what went on, but fuck, that is genius.
GO BULLDOGS
November 9th, 2007 at 9:19 am
NOT the Georgia Bulldogs
November 9th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Too much Kim Kardashian??? Not possible.
That is like saying “Boy I have too much money.” Or “Gee I wish I didn’t have sex with so many women.”
November 9th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Cool Rick–the scary thing is, if the guy would’ve caught the ball, it would’ve worked–no officials caught it. It is genius, though…
November 9th, 2007 at 9:56 am
With no Howard Stern on, I’ve just unmuted Mike&Mike. What is this ABBA fascination? Is it some kind of inside joke?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Skank or not, Kardashian is a babe. That face. Mama mia.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:01 am
my gosh, you can lay a wager on anything Adrian Peterson-related
Just as long as it’s rushing yards or rushing touchdowns. Oh the options!
November 9th, 2007 at 10:03 am
I’m all for cleverly devised trick plays, but that’s just outright cheating. Nice example there Coach.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I caught it before I left for work this morning…apparently there was some British pole (heh heh, “pole”) that showed that of all the bands in the world, the one that people would most like to see reunite was ABBA
*crickets*
Yes, ABBA. Of course, I believe Wham! was also on the list and the pole took place in England, so it means nothing to Americans except to morning commute sports radio personalities who need to talk about something besides A-Rod and *yawn* a full slate of NFL games.
STONE! cold. HARD. facts!
November 9th, 2007 at 10:11 am
If only Donovan could wind up in Baltimore some how…
November 9th, 2007 at 10:22 am
@SVPS - Maybe Marlo will reach out to Philly what with Snoop and Chris being locked up.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Kardashian’s face is busted w/o makeup. Watch the video. Also, I paid $3.60 a gallon in SF two days ago, so not at $5 yet.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:23 am
TBL - your thoughts on the Friday Stern progamming?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Stern sucks.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Bob Raissman’s mustache is amazing. TBL, how can you link us to his column and not warn us that we are about to be entranced by a mustache that, if it were running for president, would be leading the polls in all 50 states!?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:36 am
Mike B– +1…I don’t even remember what the article is about, but I remember the mustache. I thought, for a second, that it was a spoof column, and it was some random picture of a guy with a crude mustache drawn on him.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Very insightful, HW
November 9th, 2007 at 10:56 am
FSRN: So are millions of other ladies in hollywood and the rest of earth. If she is wearing make-up, who cares? She looks great.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Kardashian is awesome — I can’t get enough. Thank you TBL!
November 9th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Because after 30 seconds of my fat-ass on top of her, that makeup is coming off with the sweat. Then I’d have to wake up to that mess. Then I’d have to come home and explain to my girlfriend why I have to start wearing condoms again. And most girls I know go from an 8 to a 6 after removing makeup. KK goes from a 10 to a 3. It’s science.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:30 am
I am totally on the Kim Kardashian bandwagon now, she is hot as hell.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:37 am
KK, not so much. I think Stern and the crew said as much earlier this week.
TBL, you missed the replay of Baba Booey’s apology tape this a.m. Priceless! I usually don’t get into MTT, but today I caught this gem, and it was worth it.
Other than today’s MTT, I generally listen to Bubba on Friday mornings. He’s not bad as a change of pace. MTT does not usually hold my interest.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Stern’s got it good. Imagine if you had a gig where you could work four days a week for about 4 1/2 hours a day? You’d love it! Anytime there’s a holiday, they’re off for the week (basically).
good: When he’s not on in the background, i can cobble together posts quicker in the morning
bad: missing all the funny jokes/news/interviews
I actually wake up later on Fridays because he’s not on (615 as opposed to 6)
November 9th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I am loving all the Articles about the Big games coming up on the NFL network and how no one will see them…If you wanted to see them so bad..go to a sports bar and make a night of it. Especially the Giant-Pats game..its on a Saturday night. I agree it sucks that it is not on regular cable but I blame the NFL Network..they could be on a pay tier but they don’t want that. To me thats BS…plus whats in it for the Cable company here, its not like they can get Season pass out of it so they have no major need to add the channel especially since all the local games are shown on free TV.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Normally, RomanWarHelmet, I would agree with you on the “Go to the sports bar” argument. I did that last year.
But there’s a problem with your logic:
1. It’s hard to find a bar on Thanksgiving night, and married family men will have a hard sell to their families even if they find one.
2. The Giants/Patriots game is on December 29. Yeah, good luck getting out of your Saturday Night Christmas/holidays/New Year’s family get-togethers and parties so you can sneak out to a sports bar to watch the game.
SHAME on the NFL Network for doing this. And shame on them for holding the last Giants game hostage two years in a row as a bargaining chip. Now America is going to hear about this shit again, just because New York is pissed.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
The high school play was sort of interesting except that it didn’t work and the team that tried it lost anyway, I think. Should the coach be reprimanded by the school or the league? More interesting to me is the completely random crushing of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Gregg Easterbrook is a pompous twat, but he’s absolutely right about how assholish the league is being about the NFL network. They’re talking out of both sides of their mouth- simultaneously complaining that not enough people get the NFL network while restricting access to Sunday Ticket by not offering it anywhere but DirecTV. It’s ridiculous.
Also, Opie and Anthony are funnier than Stern. Stern’s not bad, but they’re better.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Bill Fitzgerald–believe me, if you were from Augusta you would hate him too. We got nothing but repeated stories about him beating the shit out of his wives and having “Calvin-Murphy numbers” kids out of wedlock (at last count it was in the double digits). But he did give us that one shitty concert a year which had “huge stars” like Slash, and…uh…well, I guess that was it. Slash.
Oh, and the cheating team did lose the game, 7-0. That was the final play.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I’m so sick of hearing people complaining about the NFL network.
Why is it a game is moved to Thursday and everyone feels it is their right to watch it? Unless the game was going to be one of the 3 games that CBS or Fox were going to show in your area, you weren’t going to be able to watch in on Sunday, either. Unless you have directv Sunday Ticket. And if you had directv, you’d have the NFL network.
The people I feel bad for are fans who live in their teams market area. But I don’t want to hear fantasy geeks and degerate bettors who think it should be on a channel they get just because it isn’t Sunday.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
You’re sick of the complaining about the NFL Network?
I’m sick of the NFL Network trying to arfiticially triple and quadruple their carrying rates, and most ordinary people will only need to watch their network 8 times over a six week span.
Cable operators and subscribers are supposed to be held hostage for a network that nobody but “fantasy geeks and dege(ne)rate bettors” will watch the other 44 weeks of the year? BULLSHIT.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
What’s more boring than the Tiki drama last year? Strahan talking about the Tiki drama this year.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Fans in New England and New York won’t be affected by that game being on NFL Network, the game will be shown on their local TV stations regardless.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Saying that fantasy geeks and degenerate bettors are the only ones that watch NFL Network is the stupidest thing I have ever read on this site.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
The “shit” for help that McNabb has had since TO left was just a few points away from the NFC Championship game with Jeff Garcia as QB and an offense centered on Brian Westbrook last year after being given up for dead at 5-6 after McNabb went down with another injury.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
cbh49er: You were clearly absent during the day when TBL made Eraser the #2 action movie of all time.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Haha, point taken Sean Jean.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I was using his words when I said “fantasy geeks and degenerate gamblers.” However, the is no reason why ANYONE needs the NFL Network in, say, March.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
If you don’t have Sunday ticket and are at the mercy of what games Fox, CBS and NBC are showig you are missing abot ten games per week on average.
Just consider these games on NFL Network as games you wouldn’t have access to anyway if they were being played on Sunday.
If you have Sunday Ticket, you have directv and you have NFL Network. I really don’t see why this is such a big deal? Yes, I’m sick of the complaing.
Anyone who doesn’t want to miss any NFL action has the same options they have before the NFL network came along. Get directv, get all the games. Don’t get directv, miss out.
Why the passion about a few Thursday and Saturday games being missed but no care in the world about missing ten games every Sunday?
If you were a fan who didnt want to miss anything, you would get a directv. If you live somewhere where they don’t allow directv, move.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
The passion comes from a greedy multi-billion dollar business creating artificial demand for a network WE DON’T NEED, and then HAVING THE BALLS TO BLAME THIS ENTIRE MESS ON THE CABLE COMPANIES.
Greedy lying fucks.
And, for the last time, I DON’T WANT DIRECTV, AND I SHOULDN’T BE FORCED TO GET DIRECTV. I want a television system that I can watch when it rains.
November 9th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I disagree, in March they start showing the combine!
Just kidding, but NFL Network has the America’s Game series which is really good, plus for a while they were showing NFL Classics, which was fun to watch some old games, especially since ESPN Classic never shows old NFL games.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Sounds like you have the system you want. It just doesn’t include NFL network.
It also doesn’t include Sunday Ticket so it is obvious that having the majority of NFL games at your disposal is no big to you.
You are still going to get your 3 games on Sunday afternoons. Enjoy.
As for the rain, they sell covers for the dishes that solve that problem. So you can start looking for a new reason to not get directv.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Didn’t the Rays just steal that white uniform from the Mariner’s?
November 10th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Dornoch, do they offer good benefits over at DirecTV? I’m coming to the conclusion that you must be an employee.
“If you were a fan who didnt want to miss anything, you would get a directv. If you live somewhere where they don’t allow directv, move.”
Now THAT’S the stupidest thing I’ve ever read on this site. Yeah, let me just go ahead and uproot myself and my family so I can overpay for satellite TV. Good plan. The fact remains- the league is being a pile of douche for keeping Sunday Ticket exclusively on DirecTV.