Sure the World Synchronized Swimming Championships are now long over — taking place in Rome from July 17-August 2 — but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some photographs of the event right?
If you can’t enjoy headless torsos writhing around in water then I simply don’t understand you.
[NY Post]
Adrian Beltre is in his free agent year and his expected contract push was just starting to heat up when his season was tragically derailed. In Wednesday’s game against the White Sox, Beltre took a one-hopper straight into his junk.
Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu after the game told reporters that Beltre is out indefinitely and may require surgery due to BLEEDING inside his testicle.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Terrifying.
Beltre was “walking stiffly with his legs far apart” before yesterday’s game with the Yankees, which he obviously didn’t participate in.
“[The trainers] don’t want him doing anything, just sitting and resting and icing,” Wakamatsu said, “They say if it’s a major surgery it could be at least a month, maybe more, so there’s a chance of that. … It’s healing already, it’s just a matter of whether they’re going to have to go in and fix it surgically. We’ll know shortly.”
Beltre told reporters in 2008 that he doesn’t wear a protective cup when he plays. “I hear that a lot, that I’m crazy, stupid. [The other players] might be right. There is some stupidity to it.”
And now he has a bleeding testicle. Ow. OW OW OW OW OW OW.
At last, we can sleep peacefully now, thanks to an active campaign to track him down, the dastardly Chicago Beer-Tosser has been CAPTURED!
After Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino pressed charges for getting a beer tossed on him from a previously anonymous Cubs fan, the media blitz was ON to find the culprit.
Johnny Macchione, the fan in question, turned himself in yesterday to Chicago police where he was booked and released on bond after being charged with a count of battery and a count of illegal conduct within a sports facility. He’s now the second-most infamous Cubs fan.
“I’d like to apologize to Shane Victorino. It really was nothing against him,” he said. “The Chicago Cubs, I’m sorry I disgraced you.”
Wow, disgracing the Cubs is a hard task, and yet, Johnny feels he did. And in some ways he has, in others he merely threw a beer on someone in a cowardly manner. As Victorino was saying yesterday, “[The fan] i’s probably at home thinking, ‘I got away with it.’ I hope he gets the understanding, hey, you can’t do stuff like that. I mean, if it happened in the streets, I don’t think you’d be walking too far (without a reprisal). It’s just not something you do.”
This summer’s biggest moving piece in the NBA has clearly been Quentin Richardson, who yesterday was traded for the 4th time, THIS SUMMER.
Bringing with him an expiring $9.35 million contract and little else, Quentin began his magical mystery tour when the Knicks traded him to the Memphis Grizzlies on draft night. Then the Grizzlies traded him to the Clippers. That marriage didn’t last too long as the Clippers about 20 days later traded him to the Timberwolves. I hope Quentin didn’t start house-hunting yet though, because 24 days after being traded to the hinterlands of Minnesota he’s on the move again, this time to Miami.
“We are very excited to add Quentin Richardson,” Heat president Pat Riley told the AP. “Over the course of his career, he has proven to be a fierce competitor, a great locker room presence and a very prolific 3-point shooter who may be one of the strongest perimeter players in the NBA. We feel that he will be able to match-up well against the top scorers in the league.”
We’ll see. Judging by the way things have been going this summer, and the attractiveness of his expiring contract, it wouldn’t be crazy to see Quentin get traded at least one more time during this upcoming season.
[Examiner]
The makers of this video claim that it’s the first ever 720 dunk, clearly they have never seen me play NBA Jam. This is Taurian Fontenette, nicknamed “The Air Up There” playing in an And1 game and throwing down the aforementioned 720. Not too shabby.
Bronson Arroyo has never been the brightest bulb. Hell, even in baseball which is populated with plenty of dim bulbs, Bronson’s burns among the dullest.
For instance, last week he said that he’s probably on the 2003 list of positive tests for his many supplements, but he hasn’t changed his practices at all. MLB has told all the players that before they take ANYTHING, even over-the-counter stuff that they should check with MLB first to make sure that it is allowed. Seems reasonable, after all, something you bought at GNC is not worth getting suspended over, or having your public image marred. Unless you’re Bronson and your public image already sucks.
“I have a lot of guys in [the locker room] who think I’m out of [my] mind because I’m taking a lot of things not on the [MLB-approved] list,” Arroyo said, “I take 10 to 12 different things a day, and on the days I pitch, there’s four more things. There’s a caffeine drink I take from a company that [former Boston Red Sox teammate] Curt Schilling introduced me to in ’05. I take some Korean ginseng and a few other proteins out there that are not certified. But I haven’t failed any tests, so I figured I’m good.”
Great! And going back to 2003 when he was taking andro amongst other supplements, Bronson had these choice words to say, “Man, I didn’t think twice about it. I took androstenedione the same way I took my multivitamins. I didn’t really know if this was a genius move by Mark McGwire to cover up the real [stuff] he was taking, but it made me feel unbelievable. I felt like a monster.”
Don’t worry, he’s not done, Bronson also gave the USA Today this great quote regarding the potential health risks from the supplements and vitamins and such:
“It might be dangerous,” he said, according to the report, “but so is drinking and driving. And how many of us do it at least once a year? Pretty much everybody.”
Yeah, not everybody. Some people try and act responsibly and make good decisions. But obviously Bronson wouldn’t know ANYTHING about that. This is the man who thought cornrows would be a good look for him…
[ESPN]
On Monday, Argentine soccer team Velez Sarsfield held an event to honor their 2009 Clausura championship and to show off their new uniforms. Learning from Linfield FC of Northern Ireland’s example, Velez didn’t use their players to show off the new unis. Instead they got some hotties! Much better choice. Although, I’m still left wondering what the shorts will look like, since these ladies seem to have disdain for them…
When a good buddy of mine was in town this weekend he requested I get some more nature and outdoors-y stories out on the blog. Ask, and ye shall receive.
The quality of the video is stellar and maybe it’s just easy to say from here, but most of those rapids don’t seem all that hard to navigate. It looks fun as hell, certainly, but that hard? I dunno…
Also, “Take the Power Back” came out in 1992. Sigh. I feel old…
Yesterday’s Cubs/Phillies game saw Shane Victorino go back for a fly ball in the 5th inning. He got the ball but he also caught a face-full of beer thrown from the fans above him. That’s pretty bad.
Not HALF as bad though as what the fans in Mexico were throwing at the US soccer team in yesterday’s game:
The man with the tri-colored mohawk took a swig of beer, stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited the mixture back into his cup. In the next seat another man, who was wearing a T-shirt with a cartoon drawing of the decapitated heads of Barack Obama and Landon Donovan, poured out what remained of the Corona beer he had been chugging and urinated into his cardboard drinks container.
Welcome to the Estadio Azteca, where allegedly projecting bodily fluids at another human being is acceptable in the name of soccer fanaticism.
Then, according to a neutral bystander who witnessed these disgusting acts, the pair stood on their seats, high-fived and hurled their vile concoctions in the direction of Donovan, the United States men’s national team star who was preparing to take a corner kick 15 yards away.
Now, I love the Red Sox, enough to vomit in a cup and then throw it at someone… well, maybe not… Ah well, soccer truly is the Beautiful Game…
[Yahoo!]
Sometimes I worry for the future of America and the world based on the time I spend around children. However, whenever things get too bad something always comes along to refresh my faith. This time, it was this 10 year old Broncos fan who wants to make August the National Jay Cutler Burn Jersey Month.
Finally, a cause I can get behind!
The friendship between Bill Belichick and Jon Bon Jovi was on display at yesterday’s Patriots training camp and it always makes me laugh. Can you imagine two more disparate people?
What do they talk about? Can I hang out too?
The Slanch Report has started an online petition asking the MLB Network to air the Dock Ellis no-hitter he threw on June 12, 1970 against the San Diego Padres. The moment was a seminal piece of baseball history and is certainly worthy of being rerun.
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