I’m not sure we’re quite hitting Brian Roberts clonks himself on the head and winds up with a concussion territory here, but respect to Red Sox pitcher Carson Smith for a solid effort. Carson Smith hurt his arm throwing his glove in the dugout after he left the game yesterday. "It's unfortunate," Dave Dombrowski said. …
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I’m Sure There Must Be Worse Baseball Songs, But Marlins Will Soar Is Way Up There
Oh my sweet Jesus in heaven, what in the hell is this and how has it escaped me for eight years? And perhaps more importantly, how do I unhear it and get it to go away again? Woof. That sure is a lot of awful to cram into a minute and 47 seconds. But at …
The NHL Needs To Adopt The FIEGI Playoff Format Right Now
A few days ago I got to bitching about the NHL’s dumb playoff format and offered up one serious and one almost as dumb way to fix it. Without meaning to, I’ve just stumbled upon an article that takes part of my dumb idea (just put everybody in the damn playoffs since that’s what you …
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Let’s Fix The Playoffs
It’s just about NHL playoff time, which means I’m annoyed. Not because my favourite team is missing out again (go Leafs go!), but because the format is needlessly complicated. Seriously, have a gander at this shit. As has been the case since 1979-80, 16 teams will qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The format now …
The Name Of The Team
If I were smart I’d have asked Gill what the cheer was in her third item, because I laughed at the Boat Load and wouldn’t mind it being even funnier somehow. With the arrival of baseball season and hockey winding down we need to talk. Some team names have been placed beneath the microscope because …
Watt Gives You The Right To Talk To Me Like That
I’m not really a soccer guy, but I am a big fan of silliness, which means I enjoyed this. Former Arsenal forward Sanchez Watt received the most bizarre red card of the season after a referee mistook the player saying his own name for dissent. Watt, playing for Hemel Hempstead in their National League South …
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Let’s Play Some Basketball! Instead Of Singing? Good Idea!
Nelly Furtado, Fergie…I’m beginning to wonder if maybe the NBA should stop having folks sing national anthems at its All-Star games. Yes, I defended Nelly Furtado at the time and I stand by that decision even though her shaky start was quite a bit more jarring than I remember, But I’m not defending this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XBWZI6f-38 …
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There He Goes!
Update: On the Jeff Blair show earlier this week, they spent two hours with Jerry, talking about his career and retirement. There are guests, there are phone calls, there are memories, there are emotions. You can listen to it here. Original Post: I heard my first bit of Blue Jays baseball on the radio sometime …
Baseball On Ice
Today in sports stuff that probably wouldn’t fly anymore: Baseball on a skating rink. This silent footage (sorry, blind kids) is taken from 1924, but there is a much more detailed account of a game played in 1861, a time long before video or safety now that you mention it had been invented. On February …
Vladimir Putin, Voice Of Reason: December 2017-December 2017
Well, so much for my theory about Vladimir Putin trying to act like the sensible one where the Russian Olympic ban is concerned. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused U.S. agencies of manipulating evidence from the main whistleblower on doping at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Putin said Thursday that former Moscow anti-doping laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov — who is under witness protection after …
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