The Roundup: The Art of Drafting Late-Round Gems
Baseball, College Basketball, NBA, NFL, Tennis April 22nd. 2008, 8:00am
Take, us out to any ballgame where Marissa Miller is throwing out the first pitch … so we’re on the road this week, and after Traina hyped Artie’s return on Stern this Monday, we had to get online access, and the worst part is that Sirius crashes in Firefox every five minutes like clockwork, so make sure to listen on Safari … what a line: “Oklahoma City is an unlikely mecca for water sports” … Reggie Bush got a bowling ball for X-mas from his girl, but he doesn’t have the hook of CP3, or us, for that matter … $4 gas, already popping up in Miami … we have banned lazy lists here (a scant few exceptions will be made), but when you look at the talent Brian Austin Green has locked up, how can he be the third worst rapper of all-time? …
Detailed breakdown of what colleges have players producing in the NBA. (Rush the Court)
Tremendous drunken photo timeline of a male baseball fan with bologna tits. (Joe Sports Fan)
What Emmitt Smith’s NFL draft guesses might look like. (Walter Football)
It’s no surprise: the teams that can’t unearth hidden draft gems all seem to suck. (Z Report)
Steelers’ WR Santonio Holmes has a magnum of champagne in his pants. (PSAMP)
We’d guess the chance of the Sonics staying in Seattle is 25 percent. (Hot Dog & Friends)
Maria Sharapova on Letterman; a blogger we know is going to her birthday party tonight, and we hope said blogger recaps it. (Red Lasso)
Missed from the weekend: Serena Williams won a tennis tournament. (Oh no she didn’t)
Pretty tremendous story of a one-handed softball hitter in college. (USA Today)
Some more thoughts on the Who Owns Sports Coverage discussion. (Life After Newhouse)
Photos of two Mets fans who were arrested after a brawl with Phillies fans. (700 Level)
How about Frank Thomas to the Mets? (NYSportSpace)
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April 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Not sure if anyone is listening to Stern, but Artie named a few of the girls who are apparently on Adam Sandler’s “list” (as in girls he slept with earlier in his career): Alicia Silverstone, Juliette Lewis and Angie Everhart.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 am
Criminy, it’s no wonder Santonio has 3 kids already. He can impregnate girls from anywhere.
/yeah I looked
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Anyone else remember when Alicia Silverstone was the hot one? I saw “The Crush” on some random HD channel (INHD, or HDNet, or something) a couple of weeks ago and it reminded me of that time.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:11 am
Please don’t link to Lance Zeirlein’s blog anymore. That guy thinks he’s way smarter than he really is
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:14 am
I really could have made it through life without knowing about Santonio “Wad” Holmes’ junk.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
Must have just missed Artie’s Sandler list. I bet Sandler is thrilled.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
Hakeem, you OK this morning?
This should ease the pain: Natalie Portman got a golden shower from a dog.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:21 am
That’s hot.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 am
Seriously, after Deadspin linked to Santonio’s I-Formation yesterday I was more than ready to move on with my life. Why did you have to be a part of the problem, TBL. Be a part of the solution!
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
Good job TBL. I usually have to pay good money to watch chicks get pissed on by animals.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:45 am
Need a post on Pacman…apparently they caught the suspect shooter with Pacmans help along the way. May not be the biggest turd ever not in jail after all. Long ways to go to turn the turd boat around, but may be a small step in the right direction.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
Don’t people have to care about something to “miss” it?
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
i have never heard the term bologna tits before. Those were some big knockers, but she was weighing at least a deuce and a quarter
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Was actually referencing HIS rack in the final pic
Irish, in the NBA thread, will you project final scores for tonight?
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am
Your first sentence is structurally incorrect. It should be written, “Take us out to any ballgame at which Marissa Miller is throwing out a pitch.” Not, “Take, us out to any ballgame Marissa Miller is throwing out a pitch at” Don’t you feel better after having been corrected publicly?
/not sure why I did that
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
post it up TBL
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Am I on the wrong site, because there are nekkid dudes everywhere I look. Sadly I would imagine most of us are must closer to bologna tits than Santonio…
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 am
coop – No, you’re in the right place. This is just TBL’s way of letting us know that occasionally we need to take the day off from the internet.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
25% chance Sonics stay in Seattle??????? More like .25%. That ship has sailed. They are leaving.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 am
I don’t understand this $4 gas thing. It went over $100/barrel because of rumors that OPEC would cut production (which never happened) and rumors that there might be instability in Iraq, Argentina, or wherever (which never happened). Now it’s going over $120 based on more rumors? It’s all rumors built over lies built on rumors.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
“but when you look at the talent Brian Austin Green has locked up, how can he be the third worst rapper of all-time? …” TBL
Man, you got some sort of sick 90210 issue.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
I don’t buy that teams that draft well in late rounds are significantly better at evaluating talent than the rest of the NFL – I’m pretty sure that most scouts will see the same potential in most players.
I think the real difference is that those teams that get good players out of the late rounds of the draft are 1) better able to know what skill sets they desire in a player because of running consistent systems over a number of years (Bill Polian has acknowledged the same thing) and 2) those teams are better at developing talent to actually play.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am
Jay – It’s frustrating as hell. Immediately after 9/11 gas was selling for about $1.10 a gallon, now it’s up over $3.50. That’s where the futures markets and the oil companies do their price gouging. A camel shits in the desert, which is then perceived (or falsely overstated) as a threat to production, and oil futures skyrocket. It only takes 2 days for the price of gas to spike 20 cents a gallon, but weeks (if ever) to come back down to the pre-camel shit level.
Plus, the oil companies know that as with everything else, eventually people get used to paying a certain price and the sticker shock wears off. Ohh, and let’s not forget the lobbyists that have the ear of your congressman MUCH more than you do.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:59 am
@Jay – the rumors are a big part of it, you can blame the free market economy for that. The real problem, though, is the weakening dollar. The price of oil relative to gold hasn’t changed at all, but the price of oil relative to the US dollar has gone up 85% over the last year.
This is why I voted for the diminishing US dollar is the culture bracket so many times!
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
@Dirty Sanchez – I come from an oil family, the first thing people need to realize is that oil companies have absolutely nothing to do with setting the price of gas at your gas station. That gas station that says Chevron? It’s not owned by Chevron, they just license the name and then set the price according to their own local market dynamics. Likewise the high trading price of crude oil on the market isn’t set by oil companies, it’s set by traders in New York expecting prices to rise, so they pay more for it now because of this expectation (thus causing prices to rise… yay capitalism!).
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
This oil thing is something we and the media should be talking more about, if for no other thing, the public needs to be more informed on what’s going on.
But wait, there’s a bunch of polygamists in Texas. Let’s talk about that instead.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:06 am
Kerry Wood, with Marissa Miller, imagining he’s in the PSU library?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 pm
If it’s true about that goober Sandler banging Angie Everhardt, I just lost all respect for her.
And having been born with cerebral palsy, which affects my entire left side, it warms my heart(seriously) when I read stories about people like Shay Oberg overcoming their disability.