The Daily Nooner
- What a sad sad day. The death of one of sports most legendary figures occurred yesterday. I feel games all across this great land should be cancelled in memoriam to the Great Dick Weber. Dick Weber was first and foremost and gentlemen and a champion. He inspired a generation of youngsters like me and Lou Wong that it was okay to be a bowler. There was no shame in spending time at Fiebles Bowling Alley that you were not just some degenerate drunk bowling loser, but that you were a man and could be one day like the Great Dick Weber. You will be missed.
- Game of the night. No, you silly people it was not Texas Tech over Kansas. Nope not the second night in a row that the Charlotte Bobcats lost on a buzzer beating three pointers. No the Utah/Phoenix track meet or the thrilling end to the Knicks/Sixer game, nope it was way down in Savannah, GA where the Savannah State Tigers fell to the Florida A&M Rattlers. What a thrilling 49-44 victory. The Tigers were able to achieve their season long goal of running the table that is right folks 0-28. That is a special season, one for the history books. Heck they barely came close to winning any games losing by an average margin of 23 points a game.
- How about the credibility of this lady that claims to be Barry Bonds mistress? I know some of you will attack me saying that I am just a Bonds apologist, but let me speak first. I know Bonds has slept with approximately 400 women that are not his wife that is what athletes do because slutty women throw themselves on jocks. Secondly, I am also well aware of the fact that Bonds took steroids. I am just saying this lady, comes shooting out of the dark, nobody has any idea who she is and of all the things to go on to claim her story she goes on Fox news. Not just Fox news, fucking Geraldo Rivera. I would sooner trust Gerardo the singer, than a news report by Geraldo Rivera. At least Canseco went on a fairly reputable program like 60 minutes (as long as Dan Rather did no produce that episode).
- If anyone caught Sports Center, which I am sure most of you did, you alls aw the interviews with a few Yankee players on how Giambi will be received by his teammates. They interviewed 4 players; Carl Pavano & John Flaherty both of whom have to report by this morning. Tino Martinez who lives about 10 minutes from the Yankee complex and Derek Jeter. He does not have to report for another 10 days, but he is there already getting ready for the season. This guy never disappoints, how can you not root for this guy. He just puts his head down and goes to work.
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- In international news, Kara DeBlasio is representing our great country as an ambassador to Spain. As if that is not bad enough she spent a day traveling to the continent of Africa to visit Morocco. While in Morocco she rode a camel. Now anyone who knows my sister knows she has what some may consider a “foul” mouth. Just picture the humor of her yelling at a camel. That is priceless.
- Game of the night. No, you silly people it was not Texas Tech over Kansas. Nope not the second night in a row that the Charlotte Bobcats lost on a buzzer beating three pointers. No the Utah/Phoenix track meet or the thrilling end to the Knicks/Sixer game, nope it was way down in Savannah, GA where the Savannah State Tigers fell to the Florida A&M Rattlers. What a thrilling 49-44 victory. The Tigers were able to achieve their season long goal of running the table that is right folks 0-28. That is a special season, one for the history books. Heck they barely came close to winning any games losing by an average margin of 23 points a game.
- How about the credibility of this lady that claims to be Barry Bonds mistress? I know some of you will attack me saying that I am just a Bonds apologist, but let me speak first. I know Bonds has slept with approximately 400 women that are not his wife that is what athletes do because slutty women throw themselves on jocks. Secondly, I am also well aware of the fact that Bonds took steroids. I am just saying this lady, comes shooting out of the dark, nobody has any idea who she is and of all the things to go on to claim her story she goes on Fox news. Not just Fox news, fucking Geraldo Rivera. I would sooner trust Gerardo the singer, than a news report by Geraldo Rivera. At least Canseco went on a fairly reputable program like 60 minutes (as long as Dan Rather did no produce that episode).
- If anyone caught Sports Center, which I am sure most of you did, you alls aw the interviews with a few Yankee players on how Giambi will be received by his teammates. They interviewed 4 players; Carl Pavano & John Flaherty both of whom have to report by this morning. Tino Martinez who lives about 10 minutes from the Yankee complex and Derek Jeter. He does not have to report for another 10 days, but he is there already getting ready for the season. This guy never disappoints, how can you not root for this guy. He just puts his head down and goes to work.
AND
- In international news, Kara DeBlasio is representing our great country as an ambassador to Spain. As if that is not bad enough she spent a day traveling to the continent of Africa to visit Morocco. While in Morocco she rode a camel. Now anyone who knows my sister knows she has what some may consider a “foul” mouth. Just picture the humor of her yelling at a camel. That is priceless.
2 Comments:
First, I didn't know of Dick Weber expect that he's the father of PBW or whatever that cool guy who gets excited about bowling's name is. I miss summer afternoons, headed to the bowling alley in Hackensack to beat the heat and will always remember the shocked look on my face when told that Chris Buscavage got a bowling scholarship to Witcha State. Bowling is cool and it doesn't take Kingpin to make me form that opinion.
The Big Lebowski was enough.
The true game of the night was in Boston as the mighty Boston University Fighting Terriers brought another Beanpot title back to Commonwealth Avenue with a 3-2 overtime win over Northeastern. During my four years at BU, we never lost a Beanpot, so all of you college basketball and football fans can stick it in your pipe and suck it. College hockey rules!!!
Sorry, I still owe them money...
Why is Kara in Spain, by the way, and how did they let her into Africa? Haven't you white people done enough damage in that once-fertile motherland? I hope she gets back save, though...
Kris, I know you'll hate me for doing this. Well, hate me more than you already do, but since it's all about steriods and I'm eagerly awaiting your 2005 baseball thoughts (You know I'd be geeked for spring training), i thought I would share my most recent column for the Madison County Herald (www.mcherald.com). Check it out for the best sports coverage of high school sports in Madison County, Mississippi.
(Oh dear God, what have i done with my life?)
Anyway...
I’ll begin by saying that I love three women — my mom, my sister and my girlfriend — and none of them “dig the long ball.”
n I’ve always believed that two doubles or a triple and a single are better than one home run because in the latter scenarios, there’s still a runner on base and the pitcher is going out of the stretch.
n The fashionable thing nowadays is to say that after the strike season of 1994, it was the chase of Roger Maris’ immortal 61 home runs by Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire that saved baseball.
First off, baseball wasn’t going to fold up and die like the NHL. If that was going to happen, wouldn’t it have taken place in 1995? Yes, I’ll admit attendance skyrocketed that season and every one after, but what that year did, what those two men did, was bring back the casual fan, the fair-weather fan to the National Pastime.
n If someone is looking to blame someone for the current situation baseball is in, with witch hunts for dripping needles, alleged mistresses talking to Geraldo Rivera and spicy tell-all books dragging folk heroes under the proverbial bus, let’s take a step back and think about it.
The blame belongs to those who live by their remote control, those sports fans of the short attention span who flip through 100 channels in under two minutes looking for a highlight.
n Since we’re speaking of highlights, why not drag ESPN, Fox Sports and every local television sports anchor into this discussion? It’s SportsCenter that’s glorified the home run with colorful anchors like Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen giving us phrases that intruded everyday life like “Gone” and “Got it.”
I was an intern at a television station, logging games and picking the best highlights for the 25 seconds provided to detail the entire game, so I understand how easy it is to package a couple of home runs with a strikeout and call it a day, especially when you’ve got three more games to worry about.
n The love of the long ball and players willing to use their bodies like lab rats focuses around one great American principle — money. We take God out of everything — government, school, work — but on every form of money, we have the saying “In God we trust.”
I’m not saying this from the religious right, but just as a point of reference to anyone saying that steroids ruins the integrity of the game. Was there integrity when minorities weren’t allowed to play, when pitchers hid nail files in their gloves and spit on the ball or when players used corked bats?
We as a people have lived through contradictions of character, from slave owners writing laws that all men are created equal to billionaires complaining about other billionaires spending their money on their team instead of themselves.
Plus, none of this will really mater in 45 days once the MLB season begins. Sure, steroids will get huge press coverage when Barry Bonds passes Babe Ruth on the home run list and when Victor Conti and BALCO finally go on trial, but as the season progresses, the game will become the story once again.
n Finally, Bonds was a first-ballot Hall of Famer before 73 home runs. How many people have three MVPs in four years (’90, ’92, ’93)? The answer is none, and that’s the truth.
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