Sure, visible minorities may be shrinking in number in baseball, but Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal posits that they may not be looking to sign with the Boston Red Sox because of the perception they are a very "white" team. The BoSox look to survive tonight in Game 5 at Fenway...the Philadelphia Phillies punched their ticket to the World Series, riding a dominant Cole Hamels start. They did this despite Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard and Chase Utley hitting a combined .250 in the playoffs so far...Charles Barkley says in terms of point guards, Chris Paul is driving, with Deron Williams in the back seat. Steve Nash? He's in the trunk, says Sir Charles. That would put Jose Calderon somewhere around the tailpipe...my boy Wayne Rooney is in some kind of form for England, scoring his sixth goal in five games yesterday with a pair against Belarus. Would prefer he saves those up - all of them - for Manchester United...What year is this? Shaq's been vowing to make the free throws when they count for over a decade, but whining that Hack-A-Shaq doesn't work because a certain team didn't go all the way despite them knocking you out isn't the height of logic...Tony Romo will be giving it a go after all so to those that were salivating at beating the Cowboys and Brad Johnson - which only the Giants would've in the next three - dial it down. Sounds like Romo isn't the only QB in the NFC East that is hurting: Eli Manning is banged up, too..Madonna and Guy Ritchie are officially done. Expect a bevy of uninspired A-Rod comments today...Andy Pettitte wants to pitch for the Yankees in 2009. I love Pettitte, but it is time to shut it down Andy. Of course, I said the same about Mike Mussina last year and we know how that turned out...if you can pre-order, it must be true: Chinese Democracy is coming out next month. Is there any need to even say who the artist is?...New York Knick Eddy Curry maight want to mix in a salad: he sat on a resistance ball, and it blew up...a Vancouver group including Steve Nash, and a Montreal group including Habs and Liverpool owner George Gillett are among the seven bidders for two MLS franchises...and hey, what ever happened to YF?...have a great Thursday.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Sure, visible minorities may be shrinking in number in baseball, but Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal posits that they may not be looking to sign with the Boston Red Sox because of the perception they are a very "white" team. The BoSox look to survive tonight in Game 5 at Fenway...the Philadelphia Phillies punched their ticket to the World Series, riding a dominant Cole Hamels start. They did this despite Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard and Chase Utley hitting a combined .250 in the playoffs so far...Charles Barkley says in terms of point guards, Chris Paul is driving, with Deron Williams in the back seat. Steve Nash? He's in the trunk, says Sir Charles. That would put Jose Calderon somewhere around the tailpipe...my boy Wayne Rooney is in some kind of form for England, scoring his sixth goal in five games yesterday with a pair against Belarus. Would prefer he saves those up - all of them - for Manchester United...What year is this? Shaq's been vowing to make the free throws when they count for over a decade, but whining that Hack-A-Shaq doesn't work because a certain team didn't go all the way despite them knocking you out isn't the height of logic...Tony Romo will be giving it a go after all so to those that were salivating at beating the Cowboys and Brad Johnson - which only the Giants would've in the next three - dial it down. Sounds like Romo isn't the only QB in the NFC East that is hurting: Eli Manning is banged up, too..Madonna and Guy Ritchie are officially done. Expect a bevy of uninspired A-Rod comments today...Andy Pettitte wants to pitch for the Yankees in 2009. I love Pettitte, but it is time to shut it down Andy. Of course, I said the same about Mike Mussina last year and we know how that turned out...if you can pre-order, it must be true: Chinese Democracy is coming out next month. Is there any need to even say who the artist is?...New York Knick Eddy Curry maight want to mix in a salad: he sat on a resistance ball, and it blew up...a Vancouver group including Steve Nash, and a Montreal group including Habs and Liverpool owner George Gillett are among the seven bidders for two MLS franchises...and hey, what ever happened to YF?...have a great Thursday.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Ha, the Bucs will make sure to knock him back out.
Habs had their 100th season opener, and beat the Bruins in a SO. Laraque fought his first shift as a Hab...
you Habs fans will love Big George. He was perhaps the classiest Oiler ever. Takes off ice community involvement to a level you have never seen. A genuine great guy who cares about community. And he is amazingly entertaining in the media.
your gain. MacT really dropped the ball in his handling of Laraque ... one man who deserved to play out his career as an Oiler.
YF has never left the building. The life of an english major (writing a paper like every 3 days) combined with a girlfriend. I haven't had much time lol. Haven't forgotten the Rondo though, still part of my every morning routine.
Everyone I talk to (including Jays fans) admit that the Yanks need to be in the playoffs. It's just boring without them...
Stealing a line from the great one...make the world a better place, punch Pacman in the face.
>Everyone I talk to (including Jays fans) admit that the Yanks need to be in the playoffs. It's just boring without them...
disagree...they were in it last year and the playoffs were boring.
playoff excitement doesn't depend on one team being in it, rather on suspense-filled games and, better yet, suspense-filled series.
only one series went the max last year and so far nil this year.
that's what makes it boring (overall).
That series with Cleveland last year was better than anything I seen this year (keep in mind I wrote that comment when Rays were 7-0 in the top of the 6th and I was celebrating LOL)
Agreed it's not based on one team but having BoSox or Yanks not in it just doesn't feel the same. Watching Philly is pretty hard, no appeal there. Dodgers still had Manny to keep us entertained.
I don't think the playoffs need the Yanks in to be interesting, but they no doubt generate greater interest from the casual fan with the built in story lines of Hank/A-Rod/Jeter and so on and because the casual sports fan who might not follow baseball is more likely to have some knowledge of them. They're also polarizing - you either love them or hate them and they're nobodies second fav team so that makes it more interesting.
But "need", no.
Post a Comment