First of all…this is awesome. It’s good to see two teams who absolutely loathe each other. I hope they meet up in the NLCS and Wainwright lights BPhil up with a 98 MPH heater to the neck and they brawl in the middle of the field. Wainwright would kill him but the whole thing would be awesome. And that series would be an absolute bloodbath.
Also, did you know Phillips is giving Travis Henry (some EPIC quotes in that article) and Antonio Cromartiea run for their money (literally) in the KSW department. For those of you wondering what KWS is: a complex mathematical formula calculating the total number of Kids a given person has in a given number of States by any number of Women. KSW.
Maybe Yadier “impeded” on BPhil’s “territory” and he was upset? Of course, you’d probably have a 50-50 chance of “impeding on his territory” in the state of Ohio and a 200 mile radius in all directions. But whatever…Cards Reds NLCS, let’s see it.
Members of the North Korean soccer team fear for their lives after not making it past pool play in the World Cup?
I’d rank this between “USC gets caught in a major recruiting scandal involving lots of cash and multiple agents” and “somebody named Federar or Nadal wins Wimbledon” on the “this is the least surprising thing I’ve ever heard” scale. That was a lot of quotation marks.
The best part of that story? The manager had to get a construction job. Can you see Bill Belichick getting run out of the Northeast seaboard and being forced to work on high rises and scaffolding for the new stadium they’re building in Minnesota? He’d just stare daggers at construction workers all day as they all contemplated jumping off the stadium to their death. Good times in North Korea!
I was perusing Barnes & Noble last night doing my usual two-step with the business/entrepreneurship section and the sports section when I happened upon a book that caught my eye. Skinny Stanford Tiger (as opposed to he-might-be-on-steroids-but-nobody-has-the-balls-to-ask-after-the-other-“incident” Tiger) was on the front cover staring off into space. I opened it up and started flipping the pages. ..
To my delight the entire book was about the 1995 NCAA golf championship when Oklahoma State just rammed 7-iron after 7-iron down the throats of Notah Begay, Casey Martin, and Skinny Tiger. Needless to say, I’ll probably be reading this book.
Oh, and one of my buddies works at a gym where Notah Begay works out. He said he’s been really tempted to say something like “how’s that ’95 tourney taste, Notah?” but he’s refrained because he likes his job. It should probably be noted that this is the same dude who openly wondered if Elin and Jack (as in Nicklaus) were texting buddies…
I was taking a shower last night and thinking about Joey Votto. We should probably just shut this baby down right now so I can go seek some extramarital counseling but let me explain…I was going to make a list of “5 underrated fantasy baseball players” or “5 guys you need to draft in 2011.” But nobody knows these things. Fantasy “experts” are nothing more than people we read because we want to be entertained. So I decided just to list 5 of my favorite FBB players in the league today…
Joey Votto – If his pins were striped or his sox were red (although his socks are red) we’d be talking about him in hushed, reverential tones the way fantasy football owners talk about Tom Brady’s 2007 regular season. The fact that he was a late addition to the all-star game while he was tied for the NL lead in bombs is…embarrassing.
Carlos Gonzalez – He’s a middle-class man’s Carlos Beltran circa 1999-2005. He has no holes. He and Josh Hamilton were on waivers at the beginning of the season in my 8-team league. I thought I was set with the Adam brothers (Lind & Dunn), Ryan Braun, Kendry Morales, and Pablo Sandoval. I want to split my own temples open with a baseball bat.
Chase Utley – My fantasy conundrum. I’ve been in love with him since I started playing fantasy baseball. Inordinately in love. Love to the point that I would have taken him 2nd overall ahead of anyone that didn’t play 1st base for the Cardinals. However, as his legend has grown in fantasy circles and his greatness devalued at the 2B position (Robinson Cano, hello?) other people have become just as infatuated. So do I over-reach for an amazing player when I could settle for Cano|Kinsler|Pedroia much later? Like I said, my fantasy conundrum.
Adrian Gonzalez – Thank God he plays for the Padres and nobody knows he’s been hitting 40 HRS for the last 3-4 years…otherwise I’d have to take him like 2-3 rounds higher than I do. If he was on the Braves or Phillies we’d be talking about him as a 1st round pick.
Kendry Morales – Well he was until he broke his leg in May CELEBRATING A HOME RUN. My team collapsed so completely that I renamed them “Kendry killed my team Morales” for the months of June and July. He’s usually good for a .300|35|100 line. Just not this year…
How does Tiger go top 5 in U.S. and British and finish in the bottom 5 in every other tournament he plays in? That’s odd, no?
Too bad for the aforementioned striped one they’re in Wisconsin this weekend and not…say…Nevada. Also, is there a bigger anomaly amongst states than those two?
Everyone is aware our 4 major champions going into the PGA are Lefty, Graeme McDowell, YE Yang, and Louis Obereurerhasjrhaushe, right? Is this
good or bad for television networks?
I would have put $100 down on Lee Westwood winning a major this year. He removed himself from this weekend’s competition with an injury. Alas.
One of my friends wondered aloud the other day if Jack (as in Nicklaus) had texted Elin something along the lines of “check his phone” or “listen to his messages”? Minor hole in this theory: odds that Jack can text, has Elin’s number, or even has a cell phone are…um…high
