The Roundup: Time to Get a Halloween Costume
Baseball, College Football, Courts, Legal, Fans, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL, NHL October 1st. 2008, 8:00am
If the dollar rebounds next year (ha!) and we fly across the pond, perhaps we’ll be lucky enough to bump into Cheryl Cole … we put next to no stock in Presidential polls, but this is for those of you that do … man jumps into the water to save his dog from a shark! … Erik Compton is a golfer everyone can root for …everybody hates comScore! … Hank Baskett’s girl hooked up with Joe Francis? …
Some amusing NBA media day photos. (Craig Sager’s Suit)
Vlad Guerrero is A-Rod(ish) in the postseason: 16 games, .183 batting average. (LA Times)
Bengals fan auctioning off his fanhood, plans to donated proceeds if there are any. (eBay)
Magazine covers of the year contest. (ASME)
There is no something called the Eagle Bank Bowl. (Juiced Sports Blog)
This is how you get arrested: “Michele Allen, 32, will spend the next month in jail after admitting to a wild drunken weekend dressed in this silly cow outfit.” (There Will be Laughs)
Ole Miss is two plays from being 5-0. (Grab Your Balls)
Sergei Gonchar of the Penguins injured his shoulder, and he’s out 4-6 months. (AP)
Just as we said yesterday: You can’t trade David Wright. (NY Post)
Soon-to-be former Yankee Jason Giambi treats 25 people – including the bus driver! – to a nice dinner recently. (LoHud)
His and her Ankiel jerseys. Awwww. (Joe Sports Fan)
Stephon Marbury, slowly veering off the deep end. (NY Sport Space)
Begging for a QB change in Phil Fulmer land. (Tennesseean)
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October 1st, 2008 at 8:03 AM
Bengals are 4 games from being 4-0.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:07 AM
The guy saving his dog from a shark is the coolest story
October 1st, 2008 at 8:10 AM
The Raiders are 10 years from being relevant.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:11 AM
ARod has a career .279 BA with 7 HR in 147 ABs. But if you repeat something enough then it must be true.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:11 AM
WCNYFG are a bye week away from being 4-0.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:13 AM
and how long until we get, “but that includes everything before game 4 of the 2004 ALCS,” argument?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:13 AM
Vlad, on the other hand, only has 60 postseason ABs. The equivalent of two-three weeks of the regular season. Maybe we’re dealing with a small sample size?
p.s. If he had 4 more hits he’d be hitting .250. But, Hef, how could that be?!?!?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:14 AM
Every one of those hits and HRs came before the 6th inning with the Yankees in the lead.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:14 AM
agreed
because .279 is on par with his regular season #’s
while you’re researching, care to take a look at his postseason stats from the 7th inning and later? just curious.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:14 AM
And btw, Cheryl Cole looks like a robot. A nasty, plastic robot.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:15 AM
ha, great minds, all that
October 1st, 2008 at 8:17 AM
/fem bot’d
October 1st, 2008 at 8:18 AM
I believe Crash Davis explained this best:
“Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It’s 25 hits. 25 hits in 500 at bats is 50 points, okay? There’s 6 months in a season, that’s about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week – just one – a gorp… you get a groundball, you get a groundball with eyes… you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week… and you’re in Yankee Stadium.”
October 1st, 2008 at 8:20 AM
ARod has zero go-ahead hits in the postseason.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:20 AM
I won’t stop until I find damning evidence. I’ve seen him screw up late in the game so he must not be clutch. That’s just science. Why look here, he’s only batting .125 when he’s 6th in the lineup. What, does he care more about his stats that he doesn’t try as hard when he’s not in a featured spot?!??! Blasphemy! He hates the game and his teammates!
October 1st, 2008 at 8:20 AM
if, if, if …
if i’d only had the cajones to ask Sophia Bush for her digits a few years ago, who knows what might have happened.
if my congressman had a clue, he wouldn’t have voted for the bailout
October 1st, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Last time I checked, basic math dictated that by adding 4 to 11 and then dividing by 60 you get .250.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:22 AM
If Florida doesn’t get an extra point blocked, then Ole Miss could easily be 2-3.
To see the term “Houston Nutt is a great coach and great recruiter” makes me want to vomit.
The main reason Arkansas is so bad right now, is because HDN didn’t recruit any on the defensive side of the ball. And he wasted scholarships on guys like, Reggie Fish, THEN he let guys like Reggie Fish attempt to return punts in the SECCG.
HDN is ALMOST as bad of a coach as Tommy Bowden. Period.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:22 AM
I assume your wife doesn’t read sports blogs?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:22 AM
TBL, we all know that you don’t understand baseball, why do you bother?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:24 AM
A-Rod carried the Yankees in their last postseason series win in 2004 against the Twins. where is the blame for everyone else the last few years?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:24 AM
yup, i have no clue about the sport. none. you have forgotten more about baseball than i’ll ever know. how’s Brad Penny doing these days?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:24 AM
ARod’s only hitting .208 at PNC Park! Does he hate the people of Pittsburgh? Or do their blue collar values intimidate him since he’s such a phony?
/USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 8:26 AM
Who cares about ARod. Let’s talk about TBL’s unhealthy obsession with Kendra, aka the skank with tit acne.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:26 AM
I don’t understand this part of your comment. What does Brad Penny have to do with anything?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:29 AM
ARod’s only hitting .111 at the Tokyo Dome. The Japanese obsession with honor distracts him since he has none.
/USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
October 1st, 2008 at 8:29 AM
ah, A-Rod has upstaged the MLB baseball playoffs, again. Don’t let Peter Gammons see this blog.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Johnny, you took the words right out of my mouth. It’s funny that people who know nothing about Nutt say he is such a great coach. if he was that great of a coach would he have a career 2-5 record against Vandy and Kentucky, most of those coming at home? People who have no clue say Arkansas fans are irrational for wanting a change, yet have no idea what went on. He can win games with other people’s players (see 1998 and this year as prime examples). Sure he can recruit the occasional D-Mac and Felix, but no one seems to remember what he let get away in the past couple years as well.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Hef, aren’t you the baseball sage who said Brad Penny was one of the best pitchers in the NL West, ahead of Chris Young of the Padres?
or did i mix you up with someone else?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Dude, Chris Young sux.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Any ome see the Riaders press conference ? How scary looking was Al Davis…that dude barely looked alive.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Ooh – baseball fight!!! Let’s all run out onto the field and hold each other.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:36 AM
Whats with all the baseball. Jakrs, yeah dude, scary stuff, that was one pissed off crazy corpse.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:36 AM
Yeah right, you’re the type who punches people in the dogpile. I’ve seen you around here before.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:37 AM
superjakrs, I saw bits and pieces of it this morning. It looked like someone had rolled him straight out of golden oaks retirement home. Did he make that sweater himself in arts and crafts or something? Damn, someone needs to let him know halloween is at the end of the October, not September.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:37 AM
Wait, that wasn’t an episode of Tales from the Crypt?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:37 AM
Thank you, baseball oracle. Who will win each first round series? Just so i can bookmark it and praise you when you go 4-for-4
October 1st, 2008 at 8:38 AM
I get a laugh whenever I see the whole “if player X just got one additional hit per week, he’d be an All-Star”.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:39 AM
little excitement around here this morning huh?
Rick Ankiel jerseys were missing a feew things. No needles, no peds, no cheaters guide. none of that. I want my money back
October 1st, 2008 at 8:42 AM
He does not need a mask for Halloween that is for sure. When he passes who is going take over the Raiders ?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:42 AM
I hate it when my internet friends fight. Especially over who loves A-Rod more.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Badger – The people on the outside looking in are as brainwashed as the people who thought HDN was so great the last few years. People point to all his wins the last couple years, he should of had 3 or 4 more on top of what he had.
Typical of HDN to lose to Vandy at home this year, then go and upset Florida and make people forget about Vandy.
As you said, when he has to recruit his own players ( mainly QB’s ) then people will realize what kind of talent evaluator and actual coach he is.
HDN and the Murray State Mafia inflict more harm then anything else. If they don’t like you, and I mean on a personal level, then they aren’t playing you. I have heard this from numerous former players.
It makes me sick to think what might have been if we would of gotten Tubberville. I could start in on why Broyles was here 10 years to long too. I would kick it off with passing on TT for HDN.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:51 AM
there’s no fight, folks … it is simply people disagreeing on a subjective topic.
feel free to disagree, but when topics are subjective like this, anyone can be right. there’s no ‘wrong.’
hell, i finished ahead of 50-some odd sportswriter-types on that MLB prediction thing. Does that make me smarter than all of them on baseball? of course not. which is why i find it comical to hear someone say, ‘you don’t understand baseball.’ that’s fine. the only way to quantify this is to have some sort of jeopardy contest … and we all know that’s not happening.
just because somebody loves the NBA or NFL or baseball, it doesn’t mean they ‘understand’ the sport better. i follow those three sports (and college hoops/football), at times with equal passion. it doesn’t mean that when Irish says Kobe > LeBron, he’s right and I’m wrong because I think LeBron > Kobe.
CRM would whip my ass on MMA, though. ANd diekemper would do the same in hockey. sportsgal could destroy me in hockey. and music.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Houston Nutt lost to an undefeated Vandy team? What an ass!
Petrino’s a douche.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:53 AM
johnny, you going to the game this weekend? If you want some tickets let me know. Believe it or not there are plenty available.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Some amusing NBA media day photos.
This was funny.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Don’t forget about romantic comedies.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Chris Young is one of the most overrated pitchers in baseball. He really, really sucks.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:55 AM
TBL would whip my ass in MMA
/guns’d
October 1st, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Cardinal fans are gay.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:56 AM
Clown, if it was only this year that he lost to Vanderbilt, it would be understandable.
Ole piss is on the cover of SI this week. Puke.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:56 AM
I don’t think I am.
That Bama game did me in on the early games. Its one thing to go down after noon for a night game, drink all day and have a good time. But getting up at the ass crack of dawn to go watch some team hang 50 on us, doesn’t even sound fun. As of right now at least.
Thanks though.
Also, how was Crooked Creek? You all kill them?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:57 AM
@clown – you have to take into account that he watches 90210, Gossip Girl, etc. I think I just write more freely about my love for films with such stars as Hugh Grant, Ann Hathaway, Patrick Dempsey, etc.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Nick _ love that link. So Young had been steadily improving for four years, lowing his ERA and Whip … and he has an injury plagued season, gets hit in the face with a baseball and he ‘is overrated.’
awesome.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:02 AM
clown:
Andy – Do you know anything about movies?
Dwight – I know everything about movies. I have seen 346 of them.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:04 AM
If not for a gust of wind two years ago, Vandy would have a three game winning streak over HDN. When was the last time Vandy went to a bowl game???
Petrino is ten times the coach HDN has even thought about being. He is having to put up with the junk left behind by HDN. He is also starting to rebuild us the right way, with good recruiting and getting the best players on the field and into the action. Not choosing kids whose parents played with him on scout teams at Oklahoma State.
Before he left Arkansas, Bowden and HDN were the two longest tenured coaches in a BCS conference to never reach a BCS bowl.
Smoke and mirrors, that best describes, HDN.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:05 AM
I wouldn’t call Chris Young a staff ace, but I don’t think he qualifies as really, really sucking. A title like that is reserved for Kip Wells, Bronson Arroyo, or Livan Hernandez.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Actually I thought Al Davis sounded quite lucid in that press conference. That was awesome to watch.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Ok, i know that HDN = Houston Nutt, but what does the D stand for?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Houston Dale Nutt. ( should be Douche )
October 1st, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Petrino is more a assclown than Saban, and that’s saying something. True he brought Louisville from absolute nothing and made them a pretty good team. But it still doesn’t exclude him from basically quitting his NFL job before the season was over. Who would want their kids to play for someone who quit when times got tough? “ohh, Vick’s not here, I’m taking my ball and going home!”
October 1st, 2008 at 9:10 AM
TBL needs a Kobe jersey to wear in the big apple
October 1st, 2008 at 9:10 AM
He is an assclown, but also a pretty good coach
October 1st, 2008 at 9:10 AM
johnny, I hear you. My girlfriends dad has good tickets and he isn’t going so I am going to go for a bit. Nothing like bloodies at 7:30 on a Saturday morning.
Yeah, my buddy and I tore them up. Crooked Creek is a hidden gem, I’ve always done pretty good there.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:15 AM
Would anyone have blamed Kiffin if he would have quit on the Raiders? I kind of doubt it. I’m not trying to defend what Petrino did, and his situation wasn’t exactly the same, but from what I understand Blank was ready to get rid of Petrino before he even quit. Should he have waited until the end of the season, probably. But he knew that the NFL wasn’t for him and an opportunity arose where he could go do what he wanted. If he would have waited until the end of the NFL season he would have had no time to recruit.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:16 AM
My favorite part of the Al Davis press conference is his repeated reference to “Mortenson”, said with such disdain.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:18 AM
If you think he’s improving, you don’t know what you’re looking at.
W/L is garbage, ERA is half-garbage.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:21 AM
dont think anyone did. i believe the discussion was the 5 best pitchers in the NL West. i believe – not sure – i went lincecum, peavy, haren, webb and c young (not in that order). billingsly and lowe were very good this year, and some might taken colorado’s jimenez or matt cain.
if they’re all healthy, i’ll take young.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:22 AM
who mentioned W/L? I just mentioned ERA and WHip lowering in each of his first four seasons. but please, for those of us who have no clue what we’re talking about, tell us what isn’t ‘garbage’
October 1st, 2008 at 9:24 AM
You have Chris Young ahead of Aaron Cook and Chad Billingsly? That’s just inexcusable.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:24 AM
The problem with both ERA and WHIP is that it depends heavily on team defense and ballpark. PetCo Park is heaven for pitchers. It’s really difficult to hit homeruns there.
If you preface your selection of Young by saying you’d take Young IF he pitches in PetCo WITH a good defense over the other guys, then sure, take Young.
But if you take Young in a context-neutral setting versus those other guys, the real Chris Young will appear, and it will be a sorry sight.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:24 AM
I am not gonna sit here all day and go back and forth about it. But I can guarantee you right now, there was more to the story then Art Blank and ESPN tried to drive into people’s heads. Remember who Blank was CEO for and remember who sponsors Gameday and many other programs at ESPN. Not hard to see that Blank has some pull at ESPN, as far as painting a picture to the general public.
Petrino had a handshake/gentlemens agreement that if he EVER wanted to leave the Falcons to go back to college football, that was his option. Blank agreed to it because he wanted Petrino so badly. Then when Petrino decided he didn’t want to deal with the Falcons and the NFL, he let Blank know he was leaving and going back to college, per their agreement. One reason Petrino didn’t gel real well in the NFL, is because he is a straight hard ass, NFL players hate that. Blank suppsoedly was irrate and acted as if he didn’t know what was going on or what he was talking about. He then barred Petrino from being able to go back and talk with the team and explain his situation to them. Or say anything. Thats where the whole “left a letter” situation came about.
I guarantee you Petrino would never of left Louisville if he could do it all over.
Trust me, I can tell you from basically first hand experience, HDN is ten times the assclown then about anyone you will meet. From emails, to affairs with news anchors, to benching kids because they talked bad about him behind his back. Was one thing after another.
Petrino and his F-Bomb tirades are a beatiful thing compared to who was here…
October 1st, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Also, Chris Young bangs dudes.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:33 AM
interesting. opponents have never batted above .252 against Young.
yet they have never batted BELOW .279 against Cook. interesting.
and Cook isn’t a home/away thing … this year his ERA is a bit lower, Whip is higher, and opp BA about the same on the road.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:36 AM
nttawwt?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:36 AM
I wonder if that would have anything at all to do with Young playing behind a much better defense every single season of his career?
Come on, man. This is inarguable.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:39 AM
TBL..Chris Young is one of the most hittable pitchers in baseball…now can those guys be successful? Sure Chein Ming Wang is, Young is too but he is not Brad Penny and strikeout pitcher and staff ace and Penny is no the best on his team..Chad Billingsley is…The two AZ pitchers are better as is Peavy, Billingsley, Penny, Lincecum and Cook
October 1st, 2008 at 9:39 AM
TBL…you must use adjusted averages
October 1st, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Cain’s better than Young, too. And probably Sanchez.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:50 AM
I’m taking Ian Kennedy.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:53 AM
it seems to me the best way to improve your pitching stats is to get traded from the al to the nl. ask cc.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:22 AM
in your opinion.
indulge me with a fact here.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:36 AM
TBL…Here is a small blurb I snagged in regards to Young home and Away
At home, Young posted a 1.69 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, and only surrendered 50 hits in 85.3 IP. But away, Young posted a 4.52 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, and surrendered 68 hits in 87.6 IP. First of all, to give up just 118 hits in 173 IP is not only impossible to do, but is also impossible to sustain. Second of all, Young’s control is suspect. He walked 72 batters in just 173 IP, which gives him a Ctl of 3.74.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:37 AM
RWH, are those stats from this year? When he was hurt? or last year?
October 1st, 2008 at 10:38 AM
oh, and link?
October 1st, 2008 at 10:43 AM
TBL…forgot the link…He is another from Baseball Analysts…He is an extreme Flyball pitcher..23.69% of his outs are by Strike Out. 29.15% are on the ground. 47.16% are in the air. That means playing in Petco has kept his ERA lower
October 1st, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Here is the other link…the numbers from both above are from his healthy 2007 AS season..tehr borrow some number from Baseball Prosepctus
October 1st, 2008 at 10:49 AM
So if you look for Brad Penny, you will notice he gets about 49% out on the ground…that leads to limited runs…Same thing with Aaron Cook and Chad Billingsley. Now do I think Chris Young Sucks? No..I think he is a good 2 or 3 starter that has nicer numbers playing in a big ballpark
October 1st, 2008 at 11:58 AM
The dude’s basically league average.
He’d be a fine end of the rotation candidate if you didn’t have to pay too much.
PetCo makes him look like a rockstar.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:34 PM
hi everybody!
October 1st, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Chris Young pimpsmacked Derrek Lee last year. i’d take that on my team any day.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:29 PM
@Johnny B – where do I start??? Holy shit.
Do you really think Arthur Blank has any pull with ESPN because of his former association with Home Depot? Really? How tenuous of a connection is that? So, you’re implying that ESPN reported the Petrino situation in a pro-Blank manner because Blank owned a company 8 YEARS AGO that is now a sponsor for one of ESPN’s gajillion programs?
Are you retarded? Never mind the fact that ESPN isn’t the only sports medium out there…so, did the fact that Blank used to own Home Depot prevent Yahoo! Sports from reporting accurately? What – did someone at Yahoo! buy a hammer from HD? C’mon man… get real.
What is this “handshake/gentleman’s agreement” that you say Petrino had in place? Where is this cited? I’d love to hear about that. Why did he even sign a contract, then, if the handshake agreement took precedent? Holy shit, I feel dumber for having read your comment.
Again, please provide your source for the “Blank barred Petrino from telling his players he was quitting” thing. I’d LOVE to see what reputable journalism outfit that came from. It’s sad that you can just put shit on the internet and not have to have one iota of truth or fact behind it.