Phil Rogers says that the Cubs are going to miss Matt Clement. That’s right, because nobody could fake an asthma attack with runners on the corners quite like Matty. Look, I won’t deny his talent, but I will deny that he’s got the necessary set between the legs to ever do much with that talent. They’re going to rip him to shreds in Boston.
Groucho thinks the Celtics are cheating and he thinks both Rasheed Wallace and Steve Francis are leading the NBA in technical fouls.
Eddy and Tyson are sharing a seat. Eddy uses it in the fourth quarter while Tyson plays.
The Bears have brought the mountain to Muhammad and now might just draft a running back.
E-ramis sees an end to the Cubs franchise and it’s sometime in the next ten years. How else do you explain this?
“A lot of people talk to me about that, telling me there were a lot of third basemen here since Santo,” Ramirez says. “I just tell them the same thing: I’d like to be the last one.”
No wonder it’s so hard to get tickets.
Dusty thinks he might have some good starting pitching. I guess he didn’t chat with Phil Rogers or Paul White.
Gene Clines says Corey will strike out less. It’d be hard to strike out more.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut to feign being impressed by Muhsin. He rips him, he praises him, he rips him. It’s just so Jay.
Battersbox.ca has this with Blue Jays’ GM JP Riccardi and JP’s lament is one I have with baseballprimer.com. They think every prospect is going to be great, but signing a veteran is just pointless and doomed.
Oh, my god, don’t let Andy Sisco go! Nooooooooo!!!! How can you give Glendon Rusch a new contract?
See what I mean?
A very interesting interview with Seabiscuit’s Jockey and Sun Times’ Sox beat guy Scot Gregor. It’s obvious that the Jockey is a close-minded dumbass, isn’t it?
I never read [blogs]. I know some of the other beat writers that read them, but I don’t have the time or the desire. Sometimes people will email me a link to a fan site where someone is drilling me for something I wrote. I’ve learned never to respond. Some of these people are downright nuts. No offense to you, but everyone with a PC and a printer believes they’re a writer. That’s the worst aspect of the Internet Age — everyone has something to say and a blog to say it in.
This was pricelss. A Yankees fan won a bidding war for one-day naming rights to the Fleet Center in Boston, part of a charity fundraiser. He wanted to name it the Derek Jeter Center, and the Fleet Center refused saying it was “vulgar.” Good stuff.
Ken Rosenthal says (among other things) that the Astros are after Mike Cameron, but the Cubs aren’t. That’s too bad, because really, we could use another old outfielder who strikes out a lot. We’re short at least one now.
Tom Shales says that Chris Rock sucked and because of it, he’s sure the Oscar telecast last night was a ratings disaster.
The ratings say that Tom Shales doesn’t know a whole lot.
Michael Jackson’s accuser claims to know more about sex than Michael does. That wouldn’t take much.
America’s finest news source asks men on the street about COX-2 inhibitors. Check out the name on the short balding guy.
Funny, we thought we gave the 2 screenplay awards to “Sideways” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”?
Crap. Forgot Charlie Kaufman’s acceptance speech. OK, fine. I guess I’d have lost my pool then.
Happy?
“That’s the worst aspect of the Internet Age – everyone has something to say and a blog to say it in.”
Nice to see how enamored my former student is of the right to express one’s self. I would have thought viruses, spam, and underrage porn would qualify as “the WORST aspect of the Internet”, but it’s nice to see how Paul maintains such a healthy perspective while not demonstrating any insecurity whatsoever. No sir.
Now excuse me while I wrap this noose around my neck…
Ahem. Where’s my undergrad proofreader when I need her?
Ah, it wasn’t that hard to strike out more.
No, but after watching us, I bet you’re bored.
Looks like I’ll be speedin’ out of town…
Yeah, because the people that get to be a newspaper writer or get to be on the radio or on the TV should be the only ones that get to speak out about anything.
That part of that interview is just idiotic.
BC = the eternal champion of those that want to speak out about anything…. except him. Which probably went without saying, but it’s much more fun this way.
B.C.,
The whole interview is idiotic. Read it. To his credit, Sullivan’s counterpart Scott Gregor gives thoughtful, informed answers. He’s at least open to new analyses which, as a journalist, would be, oh I don’t know, INTEGRAL to doing a thorough job. Sullivan comes off as just downright condescending, bitter, and willfully ignorant (he admits that he doesn’t read James or ” his ILK”. What a petty–not to mention self-defeating– asswipe)
I mean–I’m no saber-geek. Most of that crap flies over my head. But to have a knee-jerk reaction like Seabiscuit’s Jockey says more about his insecurity than it does about his insight, which is, admittedly, hard to capture.
I like how Paul Sullivan’s Journalism Professor corrects his former student’s name, but twice leaves his course name missppelleded (“journalsim”). Another backhand for the undergrad proofer, no doubt. What do I know? I am just some writer with a PC and a printer…
Man, oh man, Mike D. You do a lot of breathless arm-waving there. Take the whole Ritalin; don’t break it in half. Sullivan [b]is[/b] an asswipe, but your dramatic vitriol can use more focus and less, oh, I don’t know, smarm.
Point taken, Freddy.
It’s all I could do to keep from having a convulsion, though.
Jake,
If people want to call my writings a P.O.S. that’s fine. It’s when they denigrate me that I have a problem.
Isn’t Sullivan switching over to the Sox beat this year? I thought the Tribune rotated their guys. Anyway, The Jockey’s just bitter because John Kass got the column on page 2 after Royko died. Actually, I’m bitter about that too, because Kass sucks.
Look up the term “douche bag” in any respectable dictionary, and Skip Bayless’ picture is next to it. I honestly can’t figure out how he hasn’t been beaten to a pulp yet. Mariotti must thank Skippy every day for being a bigger asswipe than he is.
I remember a semi-tractor trailer between Lake Forest and Platteville that tried to beat Skip to a pulp.
I thought I lead the league in T’s???
It’s interesting that Hillary Swank started as a bit actress on 90210 and Jamie Foxx as a half-assed comic and WB regular (or is it the U?). In any event, it confirms my theory that acting isn’t so much about talent as it is about getting a break.
You need some breaks in your career, but if you are not talented, and can’t act, the movie you make will be crap. Jamie Foxx did a great job in Ray. I mean when I saw him in the movie, i thought i was watching Ray Charles. The man is talented actor.
The man is a talented impressionist. May as well give Rich Little an oscar.
Was Antonio Banderas’s musical number any less ponderous in HD? The multiversatile Kevin Spacey had to be disgusted that he was passed over Banderas.
Carlos Santana also had to be miffed. Beyonce sang like 8 songs, in several different languages, and Santana gets stuck caddying for the Banderas number? What a kick in the huevos.
Well, at least Santana was giving a shout-out to me, a figure as reprehensible as most in Latin American history.
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