Now to Len Berman for what's happening in the world of sports...
How is it the Natalie Jacobson can still be hot in her 50's (60's)? Does that make me a freak? The woman has some sort of mind control going on over the entire state of Mass. And I'm all for it...damn straight.
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The Boston Globe Sports section officially has fallen BELOW the Mendoza Line. Fer Christ's sakes, who in Celtics World DIDN'T know that Paul Pierce had the option to opt out after next season? Just about the only one was the Globe's main man on the C's beat, the comatose Peter May. As well as every fact checker and editor at hallowed Globe Sports. My, how the mighty have fallen.,
Peter has seen better days. Back in the day, "The Big Three" was a decent read but pales to the wonderful insider's view provided by (now SI's) Jack McCallum in "Unfinished Business", one of the great sports books. Did May retire and not tell anyone? Not knowing Pierce's contract situation is akin to not knowing how many games up or down the Sox are on the Yankees. Everyone just knows. For shame.
Remember George Frazier? The great Ray Fitzgerald? Will fucking McDonough? Micheal Madden? Jack McCallum? Leigh Montville? All gone. Micheal Holley had attitude, but couldn't write an interesting paragraph to save his life, as anyone who bought his lousy Patriots book well knows. Stick to that ESPN "shouting at each other while making no sense" crap, Micheal. You don't live up to the legacy of the great Globe writers I grew up with.
And Shaughnessy is about as much fun to read as any Albert Goldman book. Just thrilling.
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From this morning's paper (7/18/06)...
1) The Yankees last night used a lineup of:
Damon - who even played some first base
CAIRO - batting .245
Jeter -
Giambi -
BWilliams -
APHILLIPS - .258
MCABRERA - yes, THE Milky Cabrera
NGREEN - .157
STINNETT - .224
Pitching for the Empire:
PONSON - ERA 5.40
VILLONE -
KWILSON -
Farnsworth -
PROCTOR - getting the W to go to 3-2
That is basically a AAA team, with Jetes and Giambi, Damon and ARod (who pinch hit late) added. What does $200m buy Georgie Boy? Not a lot of depth when the old guys break down. But yet they are only a half game out as of right now. Theo and John Henry are gonna break you, Steinbrenner! Dollar wise and performance wise: where's your Paps? Delcarmen? Hansen? Lester? All the so called prospects are gone from the Yankee system. Oh yeah, good thing you decided Contreras wasn't worth the wait, huh?
There is just no way I can imagine the MFYs winning their usual 100 games. The Sox, with 96+ wins (they are on pace to win 99), should take the AL East. Especially now that Lester is approaching "stud" status. It's all good news for the Sox, and if Wells gets back into 5th starter-type shape, all the better. And hopefully Wake didn't break his back.
2) The biggest game the Tigers have played in home in maybe 22 years did NOT sell out last night. They came about 1,000 folks short, according to the box score. No way there were a lot of no shows. This is how far a formerly great baseball town has fallen: best record in MLB playing the world champs, and they can't fill a 41,000 stadium. If they stay in first the rest of the way, certainly they'll sell out their last 20 or so games, but living here in New England it's hard to believe that such a huge matchup doesn't cause fans to storm the gates. The Red Sox streak of sellouts reaches back to 2003 and going strong.
3) 36 year old Garth Snow, the old UMaine goaltender, has pulled off something I have never seen nor heard of, or even imagined possible. Yesterday he was the backup goalie on a shitty NY Islanders team. Today, somehow, he is the brand new General Manager of a shitty NY Islanders team. I think they made a movie about this back in the '70's with Gary Coleman and the San Diego Padres, except he wasn't a backup player: he was the batboy or something. Same diff. Thank god the Bruins aren't as incompetantly managed by Jac....sorry, never mind. This move by Charles Wang may give the man from Buffalo some ideas..... Maybe the Ice Girls could make trades between periods. Hmmmmm.
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The Boston Globe Sports section officially has fallen BELOW the Mendoza Line. Fer Christ's sakes, who in Celtics World DIDN'T know that Paul Pierce had the option to opt out after next season? Just about the only one was the Globe's main man on the C's beat, the comatose Peter May. As well as every fact checker and editor at hallowed Globe Sports. My, how the mighty have fallen.,
Peter has seen better days. Back in the day, "The Big Three" was a decent read but pales to the wonderful insider's view provided by (now SI's) Jack McCallum in "Unfinished Business", one of the great sports books. Did May retire and not tell anyone? Not knowing Pierce's contract situation is akin to not knowing how many games up or down the Sox are on the Yankees. Everyone just knows. For shame.
Remember George Frazier? The great Ray Fitzgerald? Will fucking McDonough? Micheal Madden? Jack McCallum? Leigh Montville? All gone. Micheal Holley had attitude, but couldn't write an interesting paragraph to save his life, as anyone who bought his lousy Patriots book well knows. Stick to that ESPN "shouting at each other while making no sense" crap, Micheal. You don't live up to the legacy of the great Globe writers I grew up with.
And Shaughnessy is about as much fun to read as any Albert Goldman book. Just thrilling.
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From this morning's paper (7/18/06)...
1) The Yankees last night used a lineup of:
Damon - who even played some first base
CAIRO - batting .245
Jeter -
Giambi -
BWilliams -
APHILLIPS - .258
MCABRERA - yes, THE Milky Cabrera
NGREEN - .157
STINNETT - .224
Pitching for the Empire:
PONSON - ERA 5.40
VILLONE -
KWILSON -
Farnsworth -
PROCTOR - getting the W to go to 3-2
That is basically a AAA team, with Jetes and Giambi, Damon and ARod (who pinch hit late) added. What does $200m buy Georgie Boy? Not a lot of depth when the old guys break down. But yet they are only a half game out as of right now. Theo and John Henry are gonna break you, Steinbrenner! Dollar wise and performance wise: where's your Paps? Delcarmen? Hansen? Lester? All the so called prospects are gone from the Yankee system. Oh yeah, good thing you decided Contreras wasn't worth the wait, huh?
There is just no way I can imagine the MFYs winning their usual 100 games. The Sox, with 96+ wins (they are on pace to win 99), should take the AL East. Especially now that Lester is approaching "stud" status. It's all good news for the Sox, and if Wells gets back into 5th starter-type shape, all the better. And hopefully Wake didn't break his back.
2) The biggest game the Tigers have played in home in maybe 22 years did NOT sell out last night. They came about 1,000 folks short, according to the box score. No way there were a lot of no shows. This is how far a formerly great baseball town has fallen: best record in MLB playing the world champs, and they can't fill a 41,000 stadium. If they stay in first the rest of the way, certainly they'll sell out their last 20 or so games, but living here in New England it's hard to believe that such a huge matchup doesn't cause fans to storm the gates. The Red Sox streak of sellouts reaches back to 2003 and going strong.
3) 36 year old Garth Snow, the old UMaine goaltender, has pulled off something I have never seen nor heard of, or even imagined possible. Yesterday he was the backup goalie on a shitty NY Islanders team. Today, somehow, he is the brand new General Manager of a shitty NY Islanders team. I think they made a movie about this back in the '70's with Gary Coleman and the San Diego Padres, except he wasn't a backup player: he was the batboy or something. Same diff. Thank god the Bruins aren't as incompetantly managed by Jac....sorry, never mind. This move by Charles Wang may give the man from Buffalo some ideas..... Maybe the Ice Girls could make trades between periods. Hmmmmm.
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