The Yankees have apparently decided that they need to worry less about turning things around than staying the course.
To wit, the New York Post reports today that Jeff Suppan could be on their radar screen. Let’s see: a mediocre (106-101, 4.61 ERA) NL starter who is coming off a career, err, post-season? Can you say [...]
Snakes In My Pants
Cause, you know, we need more people talking ’bout sports.
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Oct 31
Time for Supp-err?
Oct 30
Reviewing review
Building on the “fun” of yesterday, I commend to your attention this column from the New York Daily News’ Tim Smith:
“The force-out part of that is not reviewable,” Carey said. “Whether he caught the ball inbounds or out is. But there was clearly no body part that landed inbounds. There was nothing to review.”
If that [...]
Oct 30
Week 9 College Wrap-up
Top Fifteen (Week 9):
As I predicted, the upsets began this past week with Southern Cal falling and Tennessee, Texas, and Auburn very nearly falling. Including championship week, there are only five weekends left in college football. Instead of ranking the fifteen best teams in the country, the fifteen teams with ANY chance of [...]
Oct 30
Congrats on being World Champs. Your city is still a hole!
St. Louis named nation’s most dangrous city.
i’m just glad it’s not NYC!
While I have no particular love for the Red Birds, nor disdain for the Detroit Tiggers, for the record, I’m also glad the NATIONAL LEAGUE won the Series. Very convincingly, too, I might add. Perhaps Detroit’s team - like [...]
Oct 29
My humble thoughts on changes to MLB
I grew up a big baseball fan. My grandfather used to take me to Orioles games as a kid. I went to the first game in Camden Yards. Then there was the “strike,” and I stopped watching baseball for years. With baseball’s return to DC, I’ve become quite a fan again including a partial season [...]
Oct 29
The Jets get screwed
The zebras bent the Jets over in Cleveland today, and had at them, f******g them raw.
OK, that’s a little extreme. The Jets bent over voluntarily and spread themselves wide by assuming that they could just show up (or as was the case, not) and they would win the game. They stank like dead, rotting hookers [...]
Oct 29
Stupid play-calling tricks
Jags-Eagles game, Jags’ Fred Taylor rips a 16-yard run and immediately goes out of the game.
Fine. Give him a breather.
The Jags proceed to run the ball six plays in a row, all with Maurice-Jones Drew. He gains a total of 19 yards.
Can someone please explain the thinking here (wrote the frustrated Fred Taylor-owning fantasy football [...]
Oct 29
Problems in Snyderland
Its no secret that I am not a Redskins fan. In general, I find that teams who set records with massive payrolls very rarely are able to turn that into success on the field. (Rob, feel free to argue about the Yankees. You can argue its worked some years, but the Tigers [...]
Oct 29
Stupid announcer tricks
I encourage all my SIMP colleagues to post their favorite stupid announcer comments from today’s NFL games. I’ll update the main blog periodically.
Here’s a start: Bengals-Falcons … Michael Vick hits a receiver on a sideline route. Commentator: “Nobody questions Michael Vick’s ability to put it on a dime.” Well, actually they do. The rap on [...]
Oct 28
Polls and Cheeseburgers
It seems odd to write something about polls and cheeseburgers that doesn’t involve Bill Clinton.
I was planning to write about Notre Dame’s latest invention — the “off-premises home game” – but that will have to wait for next week, because Cheeseburger Charlie’s midweek press conference was simply too delicious not to mention.