The Roundup: Video of a Red Sox Fan Drinking Beer Out of a Shoe, Mark Madsen’s Bad Buy, Goodbye Stewart Bradley
Baseball, College Football, ESPN, Fans, High School Sports, MMA, NBA, NFL, NHL, Soccer, Video August 4th. 2009, 8:00am
For the Mad Men fans: Christina Hendricks in Esquire … an Obama joker poster that keeps popping up in LA …oops … hell hath no fury, etc … man steals golf cart at Buick Open … a collection of the jokes made by the late-night talk show hosts after the beer summit …
Gina Carano must have a new PR team, because there are stories about her everywhere lately. (NYT)
What it’s like to … sneak into the locker room after game seven of the Stanley Cup and capture the moments on camera. (Dayton Daily News)
Definite soccer name to watch: 15-year-old Alfred Koroma, who is on the U-17 team and has a great story. (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
Weighing in on the all decade high school basketball team. (Sparty & Friends)
Jerry Crasnick takes a long, hard look at what the Pirates might be doing. (ESPN)
Dancing machine Mark Madsen bought a stolen website for 100k. (LA.ist)
A letter to Ken Griffey Jr., featuring old, great baseball cards, of course. (Joe Sports Fan)
Philly MLB Stewart Bradley has a torn ACL and is done for the season. This, coupled with the passing of defensive coordinator Jim Johnson and it might be time to rethink the Eagles as rulers of the NFC. (Dirty Wudders)
Edinson Volquez could miss 12 months due to Tommy John surgery. Dusty Baker to blame? (Enquirer)
Celtics sign Candace Parker’s husband Shelden Williams. (Yahoo Sports)
Baseball’s All-Schadenfreude Team. (Hard Knox Sports)
College football coaches have an agenda when voting? Get out! (Denver Post)
You must have insider, but Chad Ford breaks down next summer’s monster FA class. For those without insider: It’s more numbers and speculation (Bosh to Toronto? Miami?) than actual news. (ESPN)
DaJuan Summers of the Pistons is racing an adult film star to 4,000 followers on twitter. (Detroit 4 Lyfe)
via Red Sox Monster
When the interview subject is Ovechkin, nothing is out-of-bounds (via Game On)
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August 4th, 2009 at 8:10 AM
I either missed a really huge story over the offseason, or the Eagles are still in the NFC…
August 4th, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Panthers lost a starting DT to an Achilles’ tear
August 4th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
chocolate covered bacon, on a stick.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Cue the MSM: “Poor Donovan McNabb. He’d win it all if they’d get him some linebackers.”
August 4th, 2009 at 8:19 AM
I would do wonderfully athletic things to Christina Hendricks.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:19 AM
Seriously, how many young promising pitching careers will Dusty Baker ruin before he isn’t allowed to manage anymore??
I am a Cub fan and I still point the finger at him on Prior and Wood. Now Volquez…Something isn’t right here.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Always been a fan. Wonderin’ if they’re real.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:22 AM
thisiswhyyourefat.com if you haven’t seen it yet, enjoy.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
Wonderin’ if they’re real.
That’s lately ceasing to be the question. These days, as long as they look good, and feel right (like a bag of sand), they’re awesome. Although I doubt this chick is going to let me touch her boob.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
just found out that FIOS on demand lets you watch back episodes of mad men, so i might try to start watching the show. im weird like that – unless i get in on the ground level, im not likely to just start watching a show in season 2 or 3.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
mad men is incredible. people have described it as being a little dry, but the stories are extremely compelling.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:43 AM
It’s more numbers and speculation (Bosh to Toronto? Miami?) than actual news
Bosh is coming to Orlando in December
August 4th, 2009 at 8:43 AM
I like Mad Men a lot and I watch every week, but I just don’t think it’s the other-worldly show the critics make it out to be. I can’t think of any current dramas better than it right now, however.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Mad Men is very, very good. Extremely well written. And the sets and the fashion are spot on.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
i love mad men. i can’t get through an episode without getting drunk. oh how i wish it was still acceptable to drink at work at 10 am.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
/tj
TBL, have you done anything about the coach at Hawaii yet? this guy is getting murdered for what i’m guessing was nothing more than poor word choice.
/end tj
August 4th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
that is a revived trend i could get behind. first fedoras and now drinking at work. i like it.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Sir Spicious, he did it this week, or was it last?
My comment was that if he said that about Louisiana Tech, we would have never heard about it.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:54 AM
August 4th, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Yeah, but lets not get to far. People “like me” top out at elevator attendant.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Bosh is coming to Orlando in December
for Gortat, Anderson, and who?
I’ve got Wade coming to Dallas just before the trade deadline.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Add huuuuuge racked redheads as secretaries to the revived trends and I am ALL FOR IT.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Sir – just a one-liner last week and then CRM took it this past weekend. but yeah, i may revisit.
as i said over the weekend, i think the fine was incredibly excessive
August 4th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
if anyone finds this space beach T-shirt online (or in a store), can you please notify me?
http://media.photobucket.com/image/space%20beach%20pharrell/danpbailey/bbc-ice-cream-season-7-2.jpg
haven’t been able to find it on at the BBC (been looking there occasionally for about a year), and i totally want the shirt
August 4th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Just heard that the Arena League is supposed to be officially folding today. I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I’ll miss it. Why is it so fucking hard to give us some form of spring/summer football? I’m even watching the Canadian league right now.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Would it have been better or worse if he used the N-word? It is basically the same thing.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Would it have been better or worse if he used the N-word? It is basically the same thing.
except instead of Al Sharpton calling for your job, you get Big Gay Al, from South Park.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:01 AM
@dirt- Redick
August 4th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Sir and Jay – I think it was a little more than poor word choice. the guy is a public figurehead and has to know that he has to be politically correct when criticizing, even jokingly. I can talk with friends or my wife and say “_________ is retarded” or “_________ is so gay” and they know I’m using a figure of speech and not bashing mentally handicapped people or gay people. but, if I said that in a public setting, I’d be hanged and I’m not any kind of figurehead.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
i get your point Maggs, but i think there is an order of magnitude difference. we didn’t import gay guys for hundreds of years of forced labor, followed by systematic oppression.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:06 AM
@dirt- Redick
I think with Redick, it takes Bass, and not Anderson. Either way, it’s one of those two. But why go to Orlando? Are they inking him to a 5/100 deal, or letting him go with a ring?
August 4th, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Maggs – maybe it’s just me but I don’t think they’re the same thing. the n-word has been used for generations as a belittling word to a group of people whose basic similarity is their skin color. he would have been immediately fired if he’d used the n-word.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
b/c it takes attention away from the NFL optional training activities, mandatory camps, overpriced preseason games, the draft, free agency, the pro bowl, etc. I’m all for choice, i just think it’s a damn shame in a free market society the big sports have no competition.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
the n-word and ‘faggot’ are the same thing? how?
August 4th, 2009 at 9:09 AM
@dirt- Im dreaming. It probably wont happen now after the spending spree the Magic went on this summer. There was rumors before, but nothing in recent months
August 4th, 2009 at 9:09 AM
being owned by white people >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> not being married and not getting health benefits
August 4th, 2009 at 9:11 AM
@dirt- Im dreaming.
me too. when wade shows up in dallas, he still gets all those cheap whistles.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
I think the fine was exessive, but when you say stupid things like that AT A PRESS CONFERENCE!! you should be fined for stupidity. My favorite part is how he tried to get the reporters to not use his words.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
irish i dont know if you listen to bill simmons’ podcasts, but on one of his recent episodes he was hinting that the magic already have a deal for gortat that has been agreed too…he didnt have specifics but thats what he heard
August 4th, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Shoot the boot! Shoot the boot!
August 4th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
No offense intended to anyone out there, but if he said that “they were dancing around like a bunch of N’s (or monkeys),” he would have been fired on the spot.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
And deservedly so
August 4th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
the n-word and ‘faggot’ are the same thing
he said faggy, not faggot and he was using it to mean unmanly. i think this is a guy that grew up using that word and it was something that was part of the vernacular. instead of raking this guy over the coals, teach him 1) that homosexuality and masculinity are not mutually exclusive and 2)why it is hurtful. i’m not sure layering punishment upon punishment teaches the guy that it’s wrong, just not to say it to a reporter
August 4th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
The guy used a poor choice of word that offends a group of people. It doesn’t matter what word or what people. He still said that word in a public forum. He deserves to get raked through the coals. Especially at a public university where some of these f-words might be paying taxes that help fund the school.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:15 AM
I bet there was a simultaneous pump of the fist from several of the reporters there. “finally, he said something worth writing down! high fives all around!”
August 4th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Normally, I’m of the mind that offensive terminology is offensive terminology i.e. there’s no difference. But there’s centuries of history behind the “N-word” that I think can’t just be equaled by any other word — or put aside by having rappers copping it as empowerment material.
And I’ve loved Christina Hendricks since “Firefly”. That is a woman.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:19 AM
@mmonasty- I didn’t listen to the podcasts
August 4th, 2009 at 9:20 AM
They probably looked at him and said, “look dude, we are covering he WAC. Normally this is a dead beat, but you just got me on the front page of the Boise newspaper. You couldn’t take this quote away from me with an army.”
August 4th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Well shit. If he said “lard ass defensive tackle” he would have offended all the fat dudes that pay for that school too.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
we need a gay black guy to put this issue into perspective.
Regarding Gortat, of course there’s a deal in place, but it’s a minimum. Orlando the first few weeks of the regular season to feature this dude, and test their chemistry with VC and see what’s up. When he signed the offer sheet with Dallas, he became infinitely more valuable as an asset. Otis Smith even slipped up and called him a “valuable asset” during the presser announcing they’d match.
ny deal already worked out is the minimum they’ll get for him.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
It would be foolish to argue for absolute equivalence between the two. But it’s equally foolish to overlook the characteristics they share — both are hate speech and both have been used to intimidate and dehumanize. They are the language that make violence permissible and that render groups alien in the midst of their homes.
It’s beyond me, TBL, with the words you’ve banned, why you still allow commenters to use the “f word.”
August 4th, 2009 at 9:28 AM
calling Tampa Bo!
August 4th, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I know you meant NFC, but last I heard they didn’t win their division or their conference championship last year. Rulers may be stretching it. That’s still the G-Men’s conference to lose.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
@thedude
Perfectly stated. Although I would argue that they are exactly the same thing based on the fact that they are “both are hate speech and both have been used to intimidate and dehumanize” My opinion. At least African Americans are at a point in history where they are treated as equals, something gays have yet to attain. Maybe someday though.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
if he bans the F word, people will just start saying goop-gobbler. there’s no end to cruel words.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
TBL Mad Men will have a marathon , one week before the season starts
August 4th, 2009 at 9:33 AM
I actually asked my best friend about this. He is gay. He said it did not bother him. In his words, the gay people that are up in arms are the “in your face, flaming guys”. He understood the context of what they guy was trying to say.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:35 AM
People don’t run around using “black” as a word to describe everything that they feel is stupid, terrible, awful or all around unacceptable like they do the word “gay” either. I would argue that gays are more mistreated through verbal abuse than any other minority, today.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Seriously, where does it end? There’s a group of people who will be dehumanized or intimidated by damn near everything a football coach says (any coach worth his salt, that is). People need to chill the fuck out.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:36 AM
I’ve seen BBC shirts at Ross and T.J. Maxx, for reals.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:44 AM
i dont doubt that, clown, but im talking about that one, specifically. cant find it anywhere
August 4th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
have you seen The Stig shirts there? that’s one i’d really love to get but won’t pay an arm and a leg for just to ship it.
August 4th, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Not positive, but I’m pretty sure “lard ass defensive tackle” is not something yelled at someone while you are killing them for being fat. Context.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Paging John Amechi!
August 4th, 2009 at 4:00 PM
So the context was “things that are offensive if you yell them at your murder victim”? Holy shit… I’ve gotta admit, I completely missed that. I thought we were talking about a goofball coach using the word “faggy”.
If a gay person hears the word ‘faggy’ and immediately thinks, “That’s hurtful, people say those kinds of hateful things when they’re killing gay people!”, then he or she is just too tightly wound for life. Sorry, that’s just the way it is.