Monday, May 03, 2004
RIGGITY-RANDOM
>> Reason #210930 why I'm watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs instead of the NBA Playoffs:
In Game 1 of the Nets/Pistons series, the halftime score was Detroit 37, New Jersey 25. And yes, that's only the lowest-scoring first half EVER. Something's really got to change about the NBA before I can watch it with enjoyment again. The Sonics being good would help, but if they were in 84-80 games on a nightly basis, then I'd just have to throw up everywhere. Of course, there's a chance that such boring games would sap my motivation to where I couldn't even make myself throw up in displeasure over a sporting event.
>> Of all the things on Jim Rome's resume (radio host of "Sports Jungle," host of Talk2 during the infancy of ESPN2, calling Jim Everett "Chris" and getting rushed by the former Rams/Saints quarterback), I never thought "master of ceremonies at Pat Tillman's memorial service" would ever be one of them. To his credit, he did a good job.
I wish ESPN could have obtained some sort of FCC waiver or a better 7-second delay button for the memorial (there was a good amount of curse words), but their dump button was bleeping out more than just curse words, such as vital parts of the Tillman stories.
Bottom line is, Pat Tillman was absolutely nuts, gave his opinion whether you wanted it or not, was larger than life, and genuinely cared about the people around him. Big loss.
>> If by chance you didn't get the "Chris" reference that Jim Rome threw at Jim Everett, just think about pro tennis from a couple decades ago and you should piece it together.
>> If you drink orange juice after brushing your teeth or eating lemon bars, you just can't win.
>> I don't mind rooting for the Flames against the Red Wings right now, but I have the feeling I'm really going to hate them next year when I settle back into my Canuck phase.
>> Dennis Dodd has a long article on Mike Price settling into his new digs at UTEP.
The passage catching my eye...
>> The former Pedro Lite, Ramon Ortiz, is so putrid right now the Angels have removed him from the rotation for Aaron Sele. Ouch. Arte Moreno needs to unload Sele if he hopes to have that team win the World Series. I'm still a firm believer that the Angels would NOT have won the World Series in 2002 with a healthy Aaron Sele. Presuming he was far back enough in the rotation (I'm thinking 4th), the Angels would have been eliminated in the ALCS. If he was top-3 that year, the Angels don't make it past the first round. It's that simple.
>> Shaun Alexander of the Seahawks was the "student" on the SportsCenter Final Exam today. One multiple-choice question asked the question "which of the following could you legally serve alcohol to?" The answer was Josh Beckett. The other choices were under 21. Shaun's choice? Freddy Adu. All 14 years of him.
>> Jim Moore has written his 23094450845th column involving Amber Lancaster (former Seagal). She is moving to the brighter lights/bigger city of LA.
Okay, I'm gonna get my walk on over here in Ell'burg. More later.
In Game 1 of the Nets/Pistons series, the halftime score was Detroit 37, New Jersey 25. And yes, that's only the lowest-scoring first half EVER. Something's really got to change about the NBA before I can watch it with enjoyment again. The Sonics being good would help, but if they were in 84-80 games on a nightly basis, then I'd just have to throw up everywhere. Of course, there's a chance that such boring games would sap my motivation to where I couldn't even make myself throw up in displeasure over a sporting event.
>> Of all the things on Jim Rome's resume (radio host of "Sports Jungle," host of Talk2 during the infancy of ESPN2, calling Jim Everett "Chris" and getting rushed by the former Rams/Saints quarterback), I never thought "master of ceremonies at Pat Tillman's memorial service" would ever be one of them. To his credit, he did a good job.
I wish ESPN could have obtained some sort of FCC waiver or a better 7-second delay button for the memorial (there was a good amount of curse words), but their dump button was bleeping out more than just curse words, such as vital parts of the Tillman stories.
Bottom line is, Pat Tillman was absolutely nuts, gave his opinion whether you wanted it or not, was larger than life, and genuinely cared about the people around him. Big loss.
>> If by chance you didn't get the "Chris" reference that Jim Rome threw at Jim Everett, just think about pro tennis from a couple decades ago and you should piece it together.
>> If you drink orange juice after brushing your teeth or eating lemon bars, you just can't win.
>> I don't mind rooting for the Flames against the Red Wings right now, but I have the feeling I'm really going to hate them next year when I settle back into my Canuck phase.
>> Dennis Dodd has a long article on Mike Price settling into his new digs at UTEP.
The passage catching my eye...
[UTEP president Diana] Natalicio is a baseball fan. The St. Louis native once tutored one of Stan Musial's daughters while attending Saint Louis University. Her current favorite book is Moneyball, the Michael Lewis account of how Oakland A's GM Billy Beane beat the system.
"UTEP is the higher education equivalent of the Oakland A's," she said. "We have to be very strategic because we don't have George Steinbrenner's money. Hiring Mike Price was a Moneyball decision. We would have never been able to recruit him here under normal circumstances. He would have been at Alabama."
>> The former Pedro Lite, Ramon Ortiz, is so putrid right now the Angels have removed him from the rotation for Aaron Sele. Ouch. Arte Moreno needs to unload Sele if he hopes to have that team win the World Series. I'm still a firm believer that the Angels would NOT have won the World Series in 2002 with a healthy Aaron Sele. Presuming he was far back enough in the rotation (I'm thinking 4th), the Angels would have been eliminated in the ALCS. If he was top-3 that year, the Angels don't make it past the first round. It's that simple.
>> Shaun Alexander of the Seahawks was the "student" on the SportsCenter Final Exam today. One multiple-choice question asked the question "which of the following could you legally serve alcohol to?" The answer was Josh Beckett. The other choices were under 21. Shaun's choice? Freddy Adu. All 14 years of him.
>> Jim Moore has written his 23094450845th column involving Amber Lancaster (former Seagal). She is moving to the brighter lights/bigger city of LA.
Okay, I'm gonna get my walk on over here in Ell'burg. More later.
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