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17
Jul
08

Jerry Manuel Gets Grilled

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Categories: Baseball and Television
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Mets manager Jerry Manuel spoke with CBS 2 in New York the other day, and since local news is so damned schlocky, they needed a nice hook, how about Jerry getting interviewed by his daughter, Natalie, who is working as an intern at CBS this summer (I wonder how she got that job…)

I thought Manuel’s response when asked if the interim title bothered him was great, saying “I really disregard the title. I think even when you have a contract you’re interim.”

Fast forward to about 1:30 to see Manuel’s cute daughter asking her daddy about discipline.

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17
Jul
08

Sad Day For Baseball

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Categories: Baseball
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First Alyssa Milano announces that she no longer will be dating baseball players–we’re dating now instead–and now this, Hideo Nomo has announced his retirement. It’s like baseball is losing all the great ones.

For Nomo, this technically marks his second retirement, as in order to become the first Japanese pitcher in the US, he had to “retire” from Japanese baseball, thus using a loophole to leave his contract in Japan and come play for the Dodgers. In his first year in the bigs, Nomo won the Rookie of the Year award, led the league in strikeouts and started the All Star game, striking out 3 of the 6 batters he faced. His second season featured his first of two no-hitters, in pre-humidor Colorado no less!

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17
Jul
08

What Have You Accomplished This Year

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Categories: Awesome and Golf
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glauserDave Glauser is just a typical dude from Toledo, he’s 61 years old, works as an auto parts salesman and enjoys playing sports. It just so happens though, that he’s awesome at sports. On Monday, while playing a round at Giant Oaks Golf Club in Temperance, Ohio, he fired in a hole-in-one. That’s pretty neat, but not extraordinary, lots of people have done that, even at his age.

However, this is now his 3rd hole-in-one, to go along with the 3 times he’s rolled a perfect 300 bowling game. According to about.com, the odds of an amateur golfer hitting a hole-in-one is 1 in 12,750 and for rolling a perfect game, 1 in 11,500. This guy has now done both, 3 times each!

“He’s very modest about it,” Glauser’s daughter, Allison Schroeder, said. “He pretends like he’s calling about something else and then he says, oh by the way, I got a hole-in-one. He’s very excited about it, but he’s not the type to brag.”

Glauser has no intention of slowing down, “I’ll keep going as long as I can. I’ll keep doing the same old thing, playing until I can’t play anymore. I just love the challenge and I try to keep active.”

17
Jul
08

Caption THIS!

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Categories: Captions and Other Sports
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From my favorite new picture blog, The Big Picture, here are a couple fun photos from the Tour de No-One-Cares-Without-Lance. I’m throwing these out there for all of y’all to come up with some fun, witty captions in the comments. Best one out there gets a prize (maybe a video game, maybe just a smooth handshake.) Click on the images to see the larger, non-scrunched versions and please specify which one you are captioning. There is no excuse whatsoever for you NOT to participate, everyone should get in on the fun!

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17
Jul
08

Curly-Haired Doppelgangers

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Because I know you’ve been distraught not seeing any new ones for a bit, here is a new doppelganger for you. Please make sure to vote in the poll below to see if this doppelganger can move on to the illustrious doppelganger page.

Hall of Famer Don Sutton won 328 games in his career, 58 of them were shutouts and even had 5 one-hitters. Today he’s forced to sit through Nationals games as one of their TV broadcasters.
Dan Shaughnessy is a long-time Boston Globe sportswriter, who is probably the only person in Boston who was rooting for the Red Sox not to win a World Series so he could continue writing books about the curse. He also contributed to Theo Epstein briefly leaving the team by writing an article that criticized Theo with information that could only have come from Larry Lucchino. Carl Everett notoriously nicknamed Shaughnessy “CHB” or Cury-Haired Boyfriend.

16
Jul
08

Look Out Kelly Slater

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Categories: Boston, Hot Women and Other Sports
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Not content with being the best quarterback on the planet, dating the hottest woman in the world along with being incredibly attractive and intelligent, Tom Brady has decided to up his cool quotient by taking up surfing. Out in Costa Rica with Gisele, The Big Lead came across some shots of Brady getting ready to hang ten, or whatever it is that surfers do. Of course, Giselle is along and looks simply smoking as usual.

So long as Brady doesn’t hurt himself, I’m totally fine with this, but seriously, you’re making the rest of us look bad out here…
At least I have my totally successful sports blog to fall back on!

Sigh.

[The Big Lead]


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(After the jump, some hot new pics from Gisele, because I can)

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16
Jul
08

What Were the Judges’ Qualifications?

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Categories: Awesome and Random
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In olden times in Greece anything was game in terms of sex, if it had a hole and a heartbeat, it was fair game, nowadays, society has drastically changed. With Leather has the sad story today of a competitive competition shut down by the Greek society police.

9 British women, on the popular vacation island Zakynthos, were arrested, along with 6 British and 6 Greek men, their crime? Encouraging obscene behavior. Shit, I encourage obscene behavior at all times. It seems the local gendarmes found a local bar’s promotion of a public blowjob competition to be obscene. I can’t believe it! That’s not obscene, that’s an awesome promotion! Sure as hell beats most of the happy hour deals at bars in NYC…

The article unfortunately has no details on the standards the judges intended to use, the prize to be won or the pedestals on which the women would have performed. However, I think it is safe to say that if it is no longer to hold BJ competitions on the Greek Isles than I simply don’t know what’s becoming of this world. I miss the good old days of classical history.

[With Leather]


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16
Jul
08

Shortstop Tony Peña Jr. Upset He Doesn’t Have A Base

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Categories: Baseball
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This article from the Onion is simply too perfect to pass up.

“KANSAS CITY—Royals shortstop Tony Peña Jr. expressed his long-held grievances Wednesday concerning the unfairness and injustice involved in not having a base of his own to cover. “It’s not fair. Why does every infielder get a base but me?” said Peña, who has received two warnings from umpires in recent games to stop bringing out his own base to shortstop. “[First baseman Mark] Teahen gets to stand right on his very own base all day. And [catcher John] Buck gets to wear all that cool equipment and hang out by the most important base of them all. I’m stuck in no man’s land, just throwing the ball to everyone else. This sucks.” Second baseman Mark Grudzielanek later met with Peña to discuss a compromise in which both players would stand approximately the same distance from second.”

[The Onion]


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16
Jul
08

I Hope This Doesn’t Spoil Your Excitement

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Categories: Olympics
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Are you an Olympics junkie, unable to wait for the opening ceremonies on August 8th? Well, good news jonesers, despite trying to keep the ceremony’s fireworks display under wraps, it required a rehearsal and it’s not so easy to keep that totally hidden. Since China is so open with the media, there was little doubt these photos would get out to interweb’s tubes, and being an expert journalist, my secret Chinese sources smuggled these out to me via the British newspapers.

Check out here for more, better quality photos.


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16
Jul
08

Competition Goes Into Overtime

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No, we don’t mean the All Star Game, we’re talking about MUCH more important sporting events, the 647th Kýrkpýnar Oil Wrestling Championships, DUH! This annual Turkish sporting tradition, first held in 1362, found itself needing an overtime period to crown a winner this year. Recep Kara ended up besting Ekrem Yavuz during a 10-minute overtime to win his second championship, all of which was a shocker to me, particularly since I had put all my money on Yavuz. I’m coming for you Ekrem, you ruined my life!

Over the three-day, male wrestlers only, event, over two tons of oil was used to lube up these gladiators. Don’t start your training just yet though, the event is only open to Turkish citizens. Which is totally fine, it’s not as though I WASTED 10 months of my life intensely training for this year’s championships only to find out that I couldn’t participate.


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16
Jul
08

A Room With a View

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The Indianapolis Colts’ new home, Lucas Oil Stadium has been recently opened to some press for some walk-arounds, and has not overwhelmingly impressed. For one thing, the roof, which ostensibly is used to keep the weather OUT of the stadium has in fact been leaking water. Not exactly what you’re hoping for from a domed stadium.

While on the walkthrough, media members noticed certain sections of seats that present truly abysmal views. Take for instance the photo to the right. Those are actual seat views in the stadium, can you imagine paying big bucks for some rare Colts tickets and you get to the game and these are you seats. I think I might go on a three-state killing spree like during my sophomore year of college. I mean, that killing spree I DIDN’T do, yeah, that’s the ticket…

Sure, this isn’t the first stadium to have obstructed view seats that are pretty shitty. Fenway is famous for its own obstructed view, if you’re lucky, this could be your seat at a sold-out game in the Fens. Then again Fenway was built in 1912, and Lucas Oil Stadium is due to open this year. Conceivably they would realize how shitacular these obstructed view seats are and not even bother.

Reportedly, these seats may be removed for the 2012 Super Bowl to install more suites, but in the meantime the fine people of Indianapolis can look forward to the chance to seat behind any of the few dozen truly horrid seats at the stadium.


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16
Jul
08

No One Wants to Be A-Rod’s Friend

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Alex Rodriguez is a very popular man, his teammates love him and would walk through a brick wall to help him. That’s why when he threw a party at Jay-Z’s 40/40 club, none of them showed up.

It’s sad when no one shows up to your party and, according to the NY Post, you are left throwing back shots sitting next to your mommy.

Meanwhile Derek Jeter continues to torture me by dating Minka Kelly, as she came to his party at Marquee. STAY AWAY FROM HER JETER, YOU’VE HAD ENOUGH, LEAVE SOME FOR THE REST OF US!

Sigh. At least Alyssa Milano and I are still dating…


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