The Roundup: Some Red Sox Like Kenny Chesney
Baseball, Boxing, Car Racing, ESPN, High School Sports, Music, NBA, NFL, Tour de France July 28th. 2008, 8:00am
Because it’s been a few weeks since we’ve seen Marissa Miller … man shoots self in head, and yes, alcohol was involved … damn drunken Germans … now, maybe Howard Stern can go back to voting for democrats … ha! …Shia LaBeouf has now been arrested in Chicago and LA – New York must be next, right? … Japan’s 73-year-old male adult film star … angry man shoots lawnmower … Steve Jobs, probably not dying! … if you’re reading online, does it count as reading? … yup, pretty much our highlight of the weekend, outside of a bunker chip shot that came within three feet of the cup …
Margarito and Cotto put on a nice show Saturday. (My Stupid Blog)
Will people sooner remember the Tour de France winner, or the number of riders busted for doping. (AP)
There’s now a Cincinnati Reds drinking game. (Bite my Tongue for No One)
Underage Olympic gymnasts? (NYT)
Didn’t take Devin Hester long to get paid. (Bear Backer)
Count Ethan Albright of the Skins’ as yet another quirky long-snapper. (Washington Times)
Coming soon to a rebuilding program near you: the 11-man football offense. (Rivals)
Proposing the idea of a European division in the NBA. (Sparty and Friends)
Some Red Sox heart Kenny Chesney. (Inside Track)
Headbutts and kiwis, oh my! (Beautiful Game)
Tony Stewart may soon sign up for the same anger management classes Danica Patrick is taking. (Yahoo)
Richard Simmons is the answer to Dimitri Young’s weight issues. (Nationals Enquirer)
Screengrabs of Orel Hershiser looking mildly crazy last night. (Sports Hernia)
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July 28th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Was away from the CPU all weekend, so still getting caught up on emails, helping people become commenters, and all that fun stuff.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:19 am
In America, neither because no one gives a shit about people riding bicycles unless it’s Lance Armstrong.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:37 am
$15MM guaranteed for a kick returner? I wonder how SG feels about that.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Kick the ball out of bounds or go for it on 4th. The Bears wouldn’t score a point.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:39 am
The European division of the NBA is an intriguing idea.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Look at you making the gossip column!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Howard Stern is like every other corporate entity; he will vote for whomever will make him a richer man. Let’s not pretend he’s the same guy from the “crucified by the fcc” days. He’s got a young, out-of-his-league girlfriend/fiancee to support.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:42 am
For all the times Marisa has been featured on here I don’t ever remember anyone mentioning that she had done topless modeling for Perfect 10 back in the day (which I found out this weekend). For shame!
I’d do everyone the favor of linking it – but I’m at work.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:44 am
15 does seem excessive. But losing this guy would have been worse.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Somehow I’m not suprised that Red Sox players are fans of the most overrated one-dimensional country singer ever.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Roeth –
I did NOT know that! That will be something to research this evening. A Marissa fix will do nicely this evening…
July 28th, 2008 at 8:50 am
What dimension would that be?
And name someone who has more than one dimension and what those multi-dimensions are.
Not being an ass – I just have no idea.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:52 am
i just commented, don’t see what i said, but if i try to submit again it says that it is a duplicate comment???
July 28th, 2008 at 8:52 am
$15 million isn’t excessive for your most dynamic offensive player. Of course, for most teams that player isn’t your kick returner.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:53 am
hey hester, catch a pass!
July 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Your wish is my command, Roeth. (NSFW, probably)
July 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am
So I got stuck watching an episode of gossip girl yesterday afternoon, and I have to say, it was horrible. I couldn’t make fun of tbl w/o seeing an episode, but now its over.
July 28th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Why would Stern or anyone with a brain vote Democrat? I’m sure they don’t like to give 70% of their money to an inept government.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:00 am
@Nick, after his first debut album, every album since has been about drinking on the beach with sand in his toes. All aimed at the same college girl audience.
And name someone who has more than one dimension and what those multi-dimensions are.
How about Alan Jackson? Brad Paisley? They write more than one type of country song (insert classic all country songs are the same joke here).
July 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am
@Jake – coming together, and bringing down walls?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
@ill: Gotcha. Thought you meant musically showing different ranges or something, but I get that. And yeah, he does seem to want to be the country Jimmy Buffet.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
what episode?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Thanks guys, like Monday isn’t long enough now I have to spend it knowing that there are topless MM pics that need looking at.
I’m not sure which makes TBL happier, being mentioned in SI or NYPost.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Oh yeah, he basically outsells every other male country singer. I think that one dimension is working out nicely for him.
/Brad Paisley is the bestest
July 28th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Jake
See chart up top
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-27-deficit_N.htm
July 28th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Country music sucks.
/50 Cent rules!
July 28th, 2008 at 9:07 am
@Miz, using sales to rank musicians is like using RBIs to rank hitters…
Paisley is money, but I’ll take George Straight first.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:08 am
CRM doesn’t like white people’s music.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:09 am
/Kanye Paisley
July 28th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Coop – SI was just the .com, not the actual magazine. But i received far more emails from the SI mention than the Page Six one.
re: Golf …
Solid off the tee, although my driver continues to hook nightmarishly right, so I’m mostly using the 3-wood. Had a stellar showing with the irons from the fairway. Where i shit the bed was with in the short game. Was 0-for-6 with my pitching wedge and twice is completely fucked up would could have been par attempts.
Putting was hit and miss, although mostly miss. Favorite club is the 9 iron, or maybe the 3 iron (which is a hybrid and awesome).
July 28th, 2008 at 9:10 am
@ill – I’m not disagreeing at all that he’s one dimensional and there are a plethora of better country music singers; I’m just saying he’s latched onto a market that is making his serious bank. I don’t blame him for trying to be the country Jimmy Buffet at all. Hell, even Alan Jackson did “5 O’clock Somewhere” with Buffet and had a huge hit.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Are you lefty?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@tbl, it was the one in which blair needed to take the pregnancy test, but wouldn’t, so the hot chick got her one, and everbody thought the hot chick needed it when in reality she was getting for blair, then blah blah blah, blair was going to leave the country to stay with her father for awhile but the hot chick talked her out of it. But, the hot chick is a definite hot chick, so it has that going for it.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:14 am
@miz, I hear ya. I was just trying to provoke some of the old stat-heads out there.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:15 am
We all know they key to a successful career in country music is depth and variety.
/sincere
July 28th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Made poppier.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:17 am
@tbl if your right handed thats a slice man, don’t go getting yourself in trouble on the course trying to explain your hook thats actually a slice.
/assuming your a right handed swinger
//trying to save you some face for later.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Nope, which is what makes it so galling. It’ll go straight, and then hook (or rather, slice) really, really badly right. I have a feeling I’m not turning over the club or something.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Holy crap. Are you people debating the musical chops of Kenny Chesney? There is very little that sucks more than this guy.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I can’t believe you people like country music. i thought it was for rednecks and females.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:37 am
TBL – a right handed slice is very common for beginners. Usually has to do with swing plane (outside in on the way down) versus “turning the club over.”
Do your divots point to the left of your target? If so – work on the swing plane.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Don’t worry man, my slice is brutal as well. Got a bachelor party golf outing this saturday and I haven’t golfed in over a year due to shoulder surgery. I’m hoping that ‘fixed’ my slice as well. I’m talking aiming like 20 feet to the left of the fairway to start and let it come back to the middle bad.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:42 am
This is good, good stuff. Will look it up. But also, i purposely didn’t keep score because we got wrecked the night before and woke up with no shower or breakfast (just water) and played 9. driving the carts was fun as hell, though. The carts had GPS, which is so money, because there was no guesswork involved about distance to the hole.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
@sean jean – if chops of Kenny Chesney = success of Kenny Chesney, then yes, I am debating it.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:47 am
@benji – I am a redneck (due to the horrific sunburn that I gave myself yesterday)
July 28th, 2008 at 9:50 am
miz: It doesn’t.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:53 am
@sean jean – well then, negative; we weren’t arguing the chops of Kenny Chesney. We did agree that there are many country singers that are better though.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Can Chesney even set foot in Knoxville after doing the Gator chomp on national TV?
July 28th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Yes, but he must tread lightly.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:20 am
August: Not in my book.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I don’t mind the Hester signing, that team needs some kind of excitement to get me to watch. On the other hand, the guy that writes that Bears Backer site needs to use Roman’s ellipsis writing or something because the current format is not working.
On the golf scene, I’m going to puff my chest a little because I’m finally getting back to my college level playing days. Shot 81 and 78 this weekend at 2 tough courses. Really want to get back out there today but work kind of gets in the way.