Snakes In My Pants

“For self-importance on the grandest of delusional scales, there is no entity in sports quite like Notre Dame football, winner of three games last season, routinely whacked like a piñata in recent bowl games and not a national championship to its name in 20 years, or since the Gipper was about to hand off the presidency of the United States to George H.W. Bush.”

NYT, today.

I don’t really care that much, but this was just such a great lede. Luckily, I have no college football team allegiance to prevent me from just stirring the pot. Go Violets!

Evidently, posting on a sports blog can get you fired, if you admit to it.

Not really news, in some ways, because it’s happened before to bloggers on many topics, but this guy was funny, and he worked at the WaPo in Montgomery County.

… and he looks a little like E-Rod.

From the Onion, the next chapter in the Rivalry.

Is that a snake in your pants, or…

“It’s going to spunk us up” - Lastings Milledge, on the new stadium.

(that’s Nick Johnson, btw, I still can’t embed good photos)

File under “Thanks, I guess”.

In today’s NYPost, Mike Borzello, former Yanks bullpen catcher and A-Rod confidant tells Joel Sherman there’s no way A-Rod could have been doing steroids without Borzello knowing:

“No way, with as much as this guy trusted me, would he have kept that part of his life secret from me. He trusted me with everything, and I was with him every day all day long. It would have been impossible to show me everything behind the curtain except for this. He is not that bright to be able to pull that off.”

Faint praise indeed…

So the Falcons signed Michael Turner (Romary), finally getting him out from behind LT, and making him more valuable (possibly a keeper back as a 10th rounder)… except for the fact that he’s in ANOTHER platoon now, with Jerious Norwood (Schlesinger) who watched Warrick Dunn on the way out and was looking for more carries, which he still won’t get.

So they are still worth diddly.

Question: Who’s gonna get ’stuck’ with Sean Alexander in Round 6-7 as “best left on the board” as he won’t even be getting TDs this year (see Duckett, T.J.) to make up for declining yards?

“The best way I can describe it is it felt like somebody bungee jumped off my right nut,” Griffey said.

That is the most concise, even elegant, injury description I have ever heard, getting right to the visceral “OOOOh!” (cross legs) reaction a groin injury evokes in any guy.

From bostonherald.com :

Griffin Whitman, a 10-year-old Red Sox fan from Swampscott, was excited to attend his first Yankees vs. Red Sox game Friday night. The young autograph -collector was even more thrilled to score Yankees outfielder Shelley Duncan’s signature before the game. That is, until Griffin read the message from the 27-year-old rookie:

“Red Sox suck! Shelley Duncan.”

“It was cool to get his autograph,” Griffin said. “It didn’t make me feel happy when he wrote that.”

Waaaay out of our usual coverage, I know, but a bit of family pride here.

http://www.row2k.com/news/news.cfm?ID=31472

My two cousins are in the gold medal 8 boat.