Snakes In My Pants

Duke…  Get this… is FAVORED over ACC rival Virginia.  BY A TOUCHDOWN!
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Tee hee!  I predict a UVA blowout.  :-p

It’s 6:50pm Mountain Time, and I’m sitting 21 rows behind the visiting AZ Dbacks dugout. Let’s PLAY BALL!

Read it all..

…it’s used as the basis of a practical joke, which gets another player SO mad that he’s “ready to kill someone” rather than be traded there. Doh!!

The Nats have re-signed SS “Sister” Cristian Guzman to a 2-year extention, and traded closer Jon “Wookiee” Rauch to Arizona for a second-base AAA prospect. More to come…
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/

(I’m bloggin’ from my Bberry - how freakin’ technosavvy am I??! )

Could be, say MLB sources, to ESPN. Nats GM Bowden says he and the FBI were just having a harmless chat, but ESPN says that - while still early - he and Nats front-office advisor Jose Rijo are indeed under investigation in a probe involving illegal activity related to signing Dominican ballplayers. Stay tuned!

The Grammar Bitches on this blog (we know who we are!) should enjoy this one: There’s really no nexus here, but I stumbled across this site tonight while trying to find out exactly how many syllables are in Ronnie Belliard’s last name (according to the AP Sports pronunciation guide, 3. according to Mary Stuart Mackey in 1922, only two).
Heh.

I’m laughing on the outside, but crying on the inside at this. Duke Football has officially proven - in a court of law - that it sucks:

A Franklin, Ky., Circuit Court judge sided with a devilishly clever argument and ruled in favor of Duke University yesterday in a breach of contract lawsuit brought by the University of Louisville.

Judge Phillip J. Shepherd agreed with Duke’s lawyers — that its football team is so bad that any Division I replacement would do. U of L sued Duke for $450,000 — or a series with another Atlantic Coast Conference opponent — after the Blue Devils backed out of a four-game football contract with three dates remaining.

The contract called for a penalty of $150,000 per game if a date with a “team of similar stature” could not be arranged. Duke’s lawyers argued that the Blue Devils, who are 6-45 the past five seasons, are so bad that any team would be a suitable replacement.

LOL! And this is why, my fellow SIMPians, that Duke Football has a new (dare I say, legitimate) head coach, a new Atheletic Director, and a strategic plan to (god forbid) do everything it can to get better in this sport!

Along with other SIMP alma matres Virginia and Syracuse, Duke Men’s Lacrosse will play in the 2008 Final Four this coming Memorial Day weekend, in Foxboro, Mass. This marks the 3rd time in the last four seasons that the Blue Devils will play in the Final Four — the only time they weren’t there being in 2006 when the school voluntarily canceled the team’s season following the blatantly false indictments of three players by rogue prosecutor and since-discredited and disbarred Mike Nifong. Duke lost in the National Championship games in both 2005 and 2007 to Johns Hopkins.

REVEEEEEENGE!!!!!!!!!

National #1 and top-seeded Duke advanced to the Final Four by defeating Ohio State in the quarterfinals 21-10. No, that’s not a misprint, or a backwards football score. TWENTY ONE to TEN. Duke is now 18-1 on the season, having lost only at then #10 Georgetown back on March 22. Duke now takes on 5th seed Hopkins (10-5), whom the Devils beat 17-6 on April 5. Cuse is the 3-seed, and UVA is the two. Duke beat UVA 19-9 during the regular season, and again 11-9 to win the ACC Title. Duke has not faced Syracuse this year.

Saturday, May 24

Virginia vs. Syracuse 12:00 pm (espn2)

Duke vs. Johns Hopkins 2:30 pm (espn2)

And in a nice little twist of fate - call it kismet, perhaps - the Duke Women’s Lax team will also be joining the men - albeit in Baltimore, at the Women’s Final Four.  It’ll be Four Straight Final Fours for the lady Blue Devils as they knocked-off Maryland, 9-7.  National #11 and unseeded Duke pulled off its second straight upset in the NCAA Tournament (after beating 6th seeded Georgetown in DC), this time a 9-7 victory in the quarterfinals against 3rd seed Maryland, in College Park. In doing so, the Blue Devils will now make their fourth consecutive trip to the national semifinals, where they’ll play 2nd seed Penn. #5 seed Syracuse is in the other semifinal against #1 seeded Northwestern.  Games are this Friday and Sunday. 

Nice.  In The Onion today: Zimmy foul ball takes out Capitol Dome.

I don’t care much about Fenway, specifically, but this would be cool if shot just about anywhere.
One Day At Fenway - Letus Extreme Film - Time Lapse - HDTV from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo

I particularly like when the entire crowd stands up. And then files out in seconds, while it takes “minutes” for them to file in. Kinda neat look at human/crowd dynamics.