PM Roundup: Retiring Ruth’s #3 For All of Baseball?
Baseball, Cricket, Fantasy Sports, Movies, NFL, Race June 2nd. 2008, 3:45pm
Yup, we’re on a Mila Kunis kick. In other news, if you signed up for comments but the lame system hasn’t sent you a password, drop us an email and we’ll handle it.
Interesting take on the arms races in the NFL, and the potential impact on St. Louis and potentially Cincinnati. (Sports Biz Blog)
Breaking: Woody Paige makes an illogical arguments regarding trading Matt Holiday. (Vegas Watch)
Willis McGahee, Reggie Wayne and a bunch of other athletes attend the birthday party of Santana Moss. (DC Sports Bog)
No licensing for fantasy baseball! Sweet! (Roto Nation)
The best cricket writer we know just went to India, and wrote about his cricket experiences. (CricInfo)
Shyamalan vs. Hollywood. (NYT)
Tampa: Where criminals carry 30-inch machetes! (This Just In)
After repeated viewings, this remained too elusive to comprehend. (Improv Everywhere)
Sort of wrong, but funny: Athlete duos that should be married. (Pyle of List)
More on the Whitlock tattoo mess, but we actually agree with him about Delonte West. (Deadspin)
Retiring Ruth’s No. 3 throughout baseball? (Undrafted)
First the alien, and now men robbing a store wearing thongs on their heads. Denver is the new Tampa! (Yahoo!)
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June 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
That’s like the 10th best improv everywhere skit. So man amazing ones.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Was that Vegas Watch’s best FJM impersonation?
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Mike’s the biggest snark on the site. I’m a big fan. Well played sir.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Hyperbole
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
If that was his best impersonation…yikes.
Whitlock:
Just found out one of my friend’s law school classmates is F’ing this dude, herpes lip and all.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Smoot never misses a party.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Vegas Watch already gets ripped apart over at covers.com. We don’t have to do the same over here.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
normally I’d say Woody is retarded for thinking the Giants would give up Lincecum for Holliday, but maybe Woody is thinking 2 steps ahead in realizing that Brian Sabean is retarded and might actually do that.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I’m glad to see that the supreme court refused to hear the fantasy case.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
@Nick
Fucking Whitlock or someone less disgusting? JK Whitlock, I love you man, just not in the naked and sweaty sort of way… dude.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
side note about retired numbers. the yanks have 15. once jeter’s is retired, 6 will be the only number between 1 and 10 available
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
who the fuck cares about tattoos? if someone wants to sleeve their arms with ink, knowing damn well that skin loses its elasticity when you get old, then go for it. but, other than being visually distracting, are they really that bad?
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
+✡ for the Mila pic, btw
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Enough already with retiring league numbers. Shocking how much the Babe’s grand daughter looks like him though.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I would let Mila Kunis sit on my face and never get up. If I died there, I’d be okay with it.
/too much
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
@king
Why don’t they just stop putting numbers on the backs of baseball jerseys? I certainly don’t know my favorite players number. I think it is least utilzed in basbeall of any sport.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I have to say that my GF agrees with Whitlock on this one. I don’t know how many times I have been watching an NBA game and she has asked me why they have so many tattoos. Granted, this is the same woman that thinks baseball should ban players from dipping during games as well.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Megan Fox >>>> Mila Kunis
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
dushku > kunis
but i love em both
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
i liked what Whitlock said about the Nuggets. I cant stand that team and JR “young Rich” Smith. Looks like JR Smith spent his signing bonus on tattoos
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
The ‘tattoos are scary and worn by badasses’ is a long dead meme. Lebron has a slew of highly visible ones and nobody gives a damn. The day it died for me? When my grandmother said she liked that Miami Ink show…
No one wants to watch Delonte West or Larry Hughes play basketball. It’s uncomfortable and disconcerting.
Agreed, but that’s more so because Larry sucks and Delonte’s cold sore was unsettling.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Tattoos became the surest sign you were a douche like ten years ago.
Nick: +✡✡ on the +✡
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
That Dennis Rodman is a punk.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Tattoos are pretty much like everything else except weed and sex they are great but only in moderation. JR, Delonte, Iverson two many tats
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
no joke. how sabean keeps his job is beyond me.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
i like what you have to say…continue.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I think people just latch on to any reason they can to say the NBA is a thug-league, even though the NFL is much, much worse.
It’s a fucking disgrace, IMO.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I will say this about the Tats…to some it gives a first bad impression…my dad hated Allen Iverson and couldn’t understand why I liked him…then he heard AI on one of those Sunday Conversations and thought he got a bad rap and was really smart and a tough kid…for me I still hate tats on Chicks…sorry..you butterfly tat is not hot..your tramp stamp is not sexy
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
thank you Nick P, for typing the truth… I love the NFL a hundred times more, but the NBA’s alleged image problem is a joke.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
@RWH
100% agree with you on chick tats, awful and WT as all hell.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
the NBA doesnt have a thug problem. it’s bigger problem is a quality coach/management deficiency. seriously…how is mike brown still employed? how did chris wallace land another job?
that’s far worse than a leaguewide marijuana problem and rampant gambling.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The image problem with the NBA isn’t about it being too thuggish. It’s about their players not trying/caring seemingly 50% of the time.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The problem with Image problems is that it takes like 5 to 10 years to catch up to the actual image..when the NBA was truly having problems they were still being swept under the rug at the end of the MJ era…as the NBA fixes it they are getting the backlash over what was not properly admonished when it happened…as much as we live in a now society..word of mouth and remembering what happened is still prevalent in the mind as opposed on things that are happening now.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I’d let Mila Kunis play the carnival game with me.
She sits on my face and I guess her weight.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
phat: 220.
MK: fuck you
/rips ass
phat: it was still worth it
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Megan Fox “O” Face
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
@maggs
good point. i can only think of a few. it might look weird on the back though…. kind of like those unpersonalized jerseys. spend the extra $50 people- you look like a dumbass without a name/number
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
David Stern needed the Lakers to fill the void for the Knicks.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Maggs…I missed the number thing…really? Come on…I know all my favorite players numbers…I know most of the numbers of the best players on opposing teams. I think they are improtant especially at the ballpark when you are in the upper deck…
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
rwh- while you may know your favorite players’ numbers, it is far less important in baseball than in football or basketball. everyone stands in a different spot on the field or bats in the same order- you dont need to figure out who is who. sure, for traditions’ sake, numbers are important. just not functional
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
kunis is too skinny..no curves.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Kristin Bell > Kunis
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
@pkiguy22 usually she is, but on in Saving Sarach Marshall, Kunis in a landslide
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Surprised the Shyamalan link hasn’t gotten a mention. I’ll give it one:
Hey, Shyamalan. You’re a fucking hack and every single one of your movies is terrible (yes, including Sixth Sense). I hope you get raped by a barnyard animal and drown in quicksand.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Can I start a petition to retire baseball as a televised sport?
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
@xv43 No
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
@onterrio: Saw the movie, still disagree.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
@xv43
what, you don’t like watching grown men scratch their crotches? weirdo
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
@xv43- i would sign that petition. Andy Pettite still pitching blows my mind. F MLB
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
See Forgetting Sarah Marshall, then Kunis > everything. She’s so hot in that movie.
On another note, MTV still has awards shows?
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Maybe its a bad pic but Mila Kunis looks to be an a cup.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
@jb- barely that…so sad.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Yea seriously I hate M. Night Shyamalan. Ok the premise of one of his movies was that the Aliens (who are advanced enough to fly through space and get to another planet) land on Earth. What is the only thing that kills them? Water. Earth is 80% fucking water. That is like humans flying to a planet made of 80% fucking strychnine. M. Night thinks you are stupid. He makes his money off the fact that you don’t demand better.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
@ king of carrot flowers - Nice Neutral Milk Hotel reference; very underrated band from the ’90s. Also, I commend you for not naming yourself “semen stains the mountain tops.”
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Who is Shamlalyn?
I only know him as Shamalamadingdong.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Whether all his (Shamalamadingdong) movies are good or not, I commend anyone trying to do something creative in the wake of consistent piles of shit the rest of Hollywood puts out on the screen.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I love how nonconformist he paints himself and then says that’s where the criticism comes from. Lady in the Water, Signs, The Village…these movies got panned because they straight sucked.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
king…What is there is a double switch? What if there is someone warming up in the bullpen? What if someone goes on deck to pinchhit? TO me basket ball needs no number..you can see the guys face..baseball players wear hats and helmets