The Roundup: George Brett Curses, and Turn Back the Clock Day Starring Harold Miner and Tony Rice
Baseball, Cheerleaders, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, Video May 19th. 2009, 8:00am
Evangeline Lilly at Cannes … there goes the “smart” money … the mannequin who drove business but needed to “cover up” … government (that grows pot) is cool! … not winning mom of the year … for the investor in you: Corporate Bonds …yup, no class warfare coming anytime soon, not with ideas like “Soak the Rich” …
Orlando and Boston’s Game 7 drew 8.4 million viewers and was the most-watched 2nd round game on cable TV in NBA playoff history. (Sentinel)
The secret to Hedo’s (the Michael Jordan of Turkey!) Game 7 success: Partying the night before. (Inside Track)
Carlos Delgado goes on the shelf indefinitely for hip surgery. (Knuckle Curve)
Video of the Dolphins cheerleaders calendar shoot in St. Marteen. (CBS4)
Historically, home court advantage trumps rest when it comes to the conference finals. (WSJ)
The Economist grows, while the other magazines shrink. (Monday Note)
The Maxim Top 100 omitted Brooklyn Decker, which makes the list completely irrelevant and no longer worth discussing here. (Hot Clicks)
Injury-plagued Richie Weeks is lost for the season due to a wrist injury. (Milwaukee J-S)
Kwame Brown merely thinking of exercising his $4.1 million option is the funniest NBA news we’ve heard this week. (Rumors and Rants)
Cougars watch Gamecocks lift weights, doing sit-ups. (Busted Coverage)
A good, realistic look at the financial state of the NY Times. (David Carr)
The Florida Marlins are who everyone thought they were. (Sun-Sentinel)
Look at Harold Miner levitate.
George Brett, angry.
Notre Dame’s Tony Rice.
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May 19th, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Fixed to deflate the hyperbole balloon.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:10 AM
i see that the forgotten cowgirl, fabiola, is back as a dolphins cheerleader.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Boston Herald gossip page said Hedo was out partying the night before? What a bunch of bullshit. Fuck Boston
May 19th, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Jesse Ventura on Stern…what a great interview…
May 19th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Orlando and Boston’s Game 7 drew 8.4 million viewers and was the most-watched 2nd round game in NBA playoff history that aired on cable.
Celtics/Bulls Game 7 was the most-watched 1st round game ever watched on cable also
Both games were outwatched by horses running around in a circle on a Saturday afternoon and a documentary on watching Farrah Fawcett dying
/where Amazing Happens
May 19th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
This Mark Sanchez spread in the Post is out of hand. Nice shorts, dude.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:38 AM
damn you Hernia, you ruined a soon-to-be post!
cereal today: Fruit Loops. Tomorrow, Frosted Flakes (no milk – that cereal gets soggy, quick)
May 19th, 2009 at 8:41 AM
I was gonna make a case for Kwame Brown opting out, but I’m mesmerized by the summer of 2010, as his agent should be.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Cereal for breakfast? I would’ve thought you were having this.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Oops. Currently putting self in sleeper hold.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
TBL: answering the questions that would neve have been asked.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
No discussion of Kwame Brown is complete without reading the Washington Post article from his rookie year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A14426-2002Apr19¬Found=true
One day I’ll figure out how to link on here instead of pasting long URLs.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
I apologize for swearing so early. I just hate Boston
Raisin Bran is the way to go
May 19th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
No milk TBL? Frosted flakes will gash your mouth if consumed dry.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Raisin Bran is for old farts or soon-to-be-bitter Majick fans.
/just poking you in the ribs, irish…it’s been a while.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:56 AM
usually use milk with all cereals, FF is the only one.
i have an aversion to soggy shit – i have a vivid memory of vomiting once when someone cut up a banana and put it in their cereal. i have never had a banana – the mere smell of them make me queasy.
/it’s to help your weak material
May 19th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Anybody see the news that Brian Grant has Parkinson’s?
/Wasn’t here yesterday to see if it was discussed…
May 19th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
I’m that way with olives TBL. I have trouble even walking past those olive wagons in grocery stores.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:01 AM
That guy looks like he hasnt slept in 48 hours and was using vodka in his cereal. Seems to work for him though.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Oh man, bananas in cereal are great. So is banana bread. My mom and cousin both get ill at the smell of bananas, though, don’t know what’s up with that. Missing out on some killer yellow curved cock.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Of course.
TBL, grabbed a little more LAL to win the title at +195 last night.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
that picture gives me a reason to geek out for a minute: So speculation was that Rose and Bernard are the Adam and Eve skeletons. Remember they were found with rocks on them, one black and one white. so yes that is true. The other we were wondering about the Jacob flashbacks and how we didn’t see Juliet, well she was not on flight 815.
/end nerdsplosion
May 19th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
wally – gets his own post today.
banana bread IS great.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
SW – there will be a lost post. tomorrow.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:05 AM
correction, jacob did not see/talk/touch Juliet because she was not on the flight.
/Post script nerdsplosion
May 19th, 2009 at 9:07 AM
I heard he read it off a telemprompter. And then a bunch of people in the crowd were pissed because he was supposed to get them laid once they got that horrible Blagojevich out of there. And then the Tribune did a story on what he was having for dinner.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Mike NYC just throwing $$$ away
May 19th, 2009 at 9:11 AM
New Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn wants a 50% increase in the income tax rate on the wealthy because this is the “fair†way to close his state’s gaping deficit.
@MikeNYC: Tom Golisano, the Buffalo Sabres owner, is moving from Rochester to a condo in Naples here in FL to save $5 million/year in NYS income taxes.
This is going to work out well for getting Florida back on it’s feet again, chasing the rich people left up north to move out. Thanks!
May 19th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Injury-plagued Richie Weeks is lost for the season due to a wrist injury
I realize no one cares about the Brewers, but Richie Weeks? Come on… That sounds like a white dude.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Tom Golisano, the Buffalo Sabres owner, is moving from Rochester to a condo in Naples here in FL to save $5 million/year in NYS income taxes.
How much money do you have to make that you pay $5 million in state taxes? Even if the rate is 20% (which it’s not) you’re making 25 million dollars per with no deductions.
I think you wrote that down wrong. Maybe he’s moving to naples to save from paying state taxes on 5 million dollars a year.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
@Dirt:
from the article…
Golisano said this year’s state budget — which raised the income tax rate for high earners to 8.97 percent from 6.85 percent — was the final straw. Moving to Florida, he said, will save him $5 million in state taxes.
here’s the link to the whole thing
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/675921.html
May 19th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Anybody see on ESPN where the Nuggets owner rented the Pepsi Center out to the WWE for next Monday the same day that game 4 of their series is scheduled?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
nugs owner is a moron…they fucked.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:26 AM
The guy owns a hockey team. I bet he’s making a lot more than $25MM per year (though probably not off the team itself, because the NHL is gay.)
Irish — you have that much confidence in the Cavs, huh?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:28 AM
finally a woman outside of FL has broken the boy/sex monopoly wi had for so long.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:30 AM
nugs owner is a moron…they fucked
funny story. Vince McMahon said they are still coming to town
@Mike NYC- you are betting $$ on the Lakers to win the title right? You should wait until they make it first. Denver looks real good. The Lakers have no answer for Billups. Be smart and save your $$
May 19th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
A rich guy is trying to get out of paying taxes? Why isn’t this a bigger story?!?!
May 19th, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Ah, but then the price will not be so generous.
They’ll get past DEN no problem … ummm, right Clown?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:41 AM
I like the Lakers in 6 against the Nugs. Everyone is talking about how Nene and Birdman did this and that gainst the Mavs, but Pau and Bynum will own them on the boards and there is not a single player in the state of Denver that can guard Kobe as well as Battier could. LeBron can’t guard as well as Battier, so you know Kobe should have a field day every night. Who is going to guard him, by the way?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Who needs the WWE when the Nuggets already have more, and better, story lines?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:42 AM
@Triston- your owner signed the contract at the end of the regular season. He had no faith in his own team. sad
May 19th, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Do you always go with the slower, less athletic, smaller guy with worse basketball instincts? Would love to see you picking sides at the Rec.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:45 AM
I really want to know how this shit gets sorted out.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
A lot of different things had to work out for this to happen. Who knew the Lakers would have to go to 7?
May 19th, 2009 at 9:49 AM
I still like Denver in 6
May 19th, 2009 at 9:53 AM
irish, you should hope for the Lakers since the Magic swept the LA this year.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:55 AM
/fixed
Why yes, when I’m trying to guard someone, I would go with the better defensive player. Lebron’s an above average defender who’s great at jumping passing lanes. Battier is a significantly better man to man defender.
May 19th, 2009 at 9:59 AM
@clown- i know. We do own the Lakeshow. I just like Billups and Melo. they are playing great basketball. I believe you were the only one on this entire site to pick Orlando and LA in the Finals at the beginning of the year. big props to you if that happens
May 19th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
@Brave: I disagree. Over the course of a full season, Battier is better defensively, because he absolutely has to be. It’s the only reason he has a job in the NBA.
But Lebron is more skilled at stopping an opposing player. Lebron sometimes loses his own man in help-side situations, so I’d give Battier the edge there, but Lebron the edge on-the-ball. He’s much longer than Battier, so he can play off of quick guys more and yet still recover on their jumpshots.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:05 AM
@Nick: In a single “have to shut down the opposing player” situation, I’d probably go with Lebron for the reasons you listed. But for an entire series, Battier is the choice. He has to be better defensively like you said. Plus, he doesn’t have to save anything for offensive side of the ball. Lebron can’t run full tilt at both ends of the court for an entire game.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Very good points, sir.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Do you really think LeBron is a better on-ball defender than Battier?
May 19th, 2009 at 10:19 AM
I’d agree completely for a full season, but I don’t see why he can’t for the next 14 games max. He’ll have plenty of rest b/w games, and he’s entering this stretch with the last 10 days off.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I think LeBron is the best talent in the NBA, but he cannot guard as hard as Battier for an entire series.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Lebron is going to have his hands full guarding the Michael Jordan of Turkey
May 19th, 2009 at 10:26 AM
I realize no one cares about the Brewers
That sir, is blasphemy. 7 game winning streak. Gamel went yard in his 2nd at bat yesterday. (Braun, Fielder, Gamel would be the deadliest 3-4-5 in the NL) and if he learns how to make the easy plays at 3rd base I see division champs written all over this season!
/early season fun
//our pitching is incredible right now
///I highly doubt its going to stay that way
May 19th, 2009 at 10:34 AM
@Nick: That’s true, especially since he’s still so damn young.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:35 AM
I like LeBron in that one, but each will win their share of battles. The key for the Magic will be Alston and Lewis. Alston needs to get his assists and Lewis must be a consistent 20 point scorer. Hedo will get his at times, but not everytime.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:39 AM
I want to see if Howard will man up and play like a super star. Leave the running hook in the bag and shit on Big Z/Varejao for 15-15-4 all series long. I think the Magic take 2 for sure against the LeBrons, but can they take 4? I’m not sure. I do think it will be closer than the Cavs homers think it will be though.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Leave the running hook in the bag
He wont need that shot against the Cavs frontline. No Kendrick Perkins to push him away from the basket. I see Howard putting up gaudy numbers this series
May 19th, 2009 at 11:26 AM
that’s wonderful.
cavs in 5.
May 19th, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Thanks for the vintage Notre Dame clip TBL Godfather …there have been few highlights since I was graduated in 1994 with regard to any viable run to the National Championship. The biggest win I remember since then was on the road at Florida State back in 2002 when we were still 8-0 before falling apart the rest of the season again. Not much hope for our Irish anytime soon otherwise, so we have to do like most schools without National Championship hopes — focus on winning the easy games and being the spoilers by beating a few ranked teams. Fortunately next year’s schedule sure looks easy as does Ohio State’s, which has essentially 8 home games and deserves to be trounced by a real opponent yet again. The ultimate justice would be to see overrated Pryor knocked out of the game after a hard hit.
May 19th, 2009 at 11:45 AM
overrated? yea, because true frosh QB’s do what he did all the time. get outta here.
May 19th, 2009 at 11:46 AM
cavs in 5
you are not playing the shitty Hawks. Your team will be tested
/still no prediction yet
May 19th, 2009 at 11:47 AM
like fumble in the 4th quarter in one of the most important conference games of the year?
/had to get one in while i can
May 19th, 2009 at 12:58 PM
sponge…he was 18 years old. lebron in cleats will make up for it the next two years.
tested like how orlando was against a team giving 30+ minutes to a slovenly, short PF and brian fucking scalabrine?
mmkay.
/false bravado
May 19th, 2009 at 1:00 PM
love the Cavs bravado
May 19th, 2009 at 1:12 PM
hey, it’s what happens when your team takes care of business against undermanned teams in the playoffs and doesn’t let lesser talented teams stick around.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Swing homer swing! Yeah, right, Pryor is not overratted at all with those great performances against USC, Penn State, and awesome Purdue? But he did show some promise against Texas, but get over yourselves in the Big Ten please.