Top 10 Lists– They’re usually dumb…
Checked out the Chron’s Top 10 Bay Area Sports Stories of the year– Paly High doesn’t make the list. I know they did another “list” for the high schools but that’s just idiotic. When a small high school that’s never won the State Championship before rises up and WINS IT ALL you don’t stick that story with the rest of “the other high schools”–you stick it right up there next to the Giants winning the World Series…..
At this time of year everyone wants to do lists about things. I think it’s dumb, they’re never interesting in the slightest. The other day the Chron did a list for Most Memorable Bay Area Sports Figures (or something like that). Who couldn’t have guessed that list? I would rather see a list of all the “B-Room” guys. Those are the guys I remember. That’s basically what I was doing with last year’s “Retro Giant of the Day” section.
Growing up my favorite Warriors were World B Free and Purvis Short. One of my favorite Niners was Wendell Tyler. Not sure why, he fumbled a lot. Anyway, those are the lists that I would pay attention to. Not “Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Barry Bonds, Rick Barry, etc……”
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I’ve got this Giants fisherman style hat that I wear a lot. I’m at the beach in Kauai yesterday and this Room B charter member walks by and asks “Is that a Sox hat?”
My reply?
“No, its the hat of the World Champions.”
In some ways I remember Freddie Solomon and John Taylor more vividly than Jerry Rice. (And I really remember Renaldo Nehemiah getting clocked . . . . ;))
I took a look for the Nehemiah vid and instead found this. I think a number of sports fans share your insight BF:
John Taylor was the axle that turned the wheels. I loved that guy.
I’ve seen some sloppy play but the 49er’s are reaching a new low today.
World B Free? Purvis Short? There on my forgettables list….
I’d fire Singletary at halftime.
Niners look like 5-9 crappola so far today….
They look like 1-13
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone defer on the coin toss in a DOME before, where the wind isn’t a factor.
Like I said on Chuck’s blog, Sing was making a statement by going on defense first–“I’m a dolt”…
The game was lost right then and there, Z. Good for me tho, I’ve been saying GO RAMS ! ! ! all week.
And then….how about THAT! It’s funny, because….we always have to remember that the Rams suck, too.
Rams are terrible. So, they’ll beat Niners by only 12…
That fucking TD to Crabtree was intended for Vernon. Shit went through his hands. I’ll be interested to see if they’ll admit their good fortune. Troy Smith is one lucky fuck. Started with that pass in London that went for a big gain to Walker. Two Bronco DBs coulda/shoulda fair caught that punt. I wish I knew who Troy liked at Santa Anita today. “I’d rather be lucky than good.”
Son of a bitch. I wouldn’t even count that PR as a TD, the Niners don’t deserve it.
They don’t deserve the middle of a donut. Mike Singletary is the devil. Cast that motherfucker out.
“The power of Christ compels you!”
The Niners have 3 1st downs and 7 penalties in the first half yet lead by 2.
They win this shit it will further go to prove that God not only hates Jay Trotter, but hates myself as well.
GO RAMS ! ! !
Saw a replay.. Vernon didn’t appear to be anywhere near that pass?
On the Crabtree TD? The ball zipped by his hands. As Singletary would say, “better go watch the tape” please.
to re-re-re-repeat from yesterday’s th-th-th-thread:
“Christmas joy [insert vocative comma] Flappers and Flapperettes. And non-list-making heartfelt best wishes for 2011. Yesterday evening my wife and daughter and I watched Game 1 of the Series on DVD with K&K announcing. A real winter’s night, Nativity treat. A secular Vespers. It was the game before which Pawlie Kokonuts met Big Flavor (aka Magnus) in a summit meeting worthy of geopolitical titans. How do you spell BASKING? G-I-A-N- . . . you get the picture (“yes, we see,” as the red-hot Shangri-Las sang).”
And 2010 — until I am dust unto dust again — will always and evermore resonate in my soul as a year of joy for the simple reason it really happened, beyond all reason and right, something trivial to the world outside this cathedral but something sacred within these walls. I ain’t kidding. As years roll on — Deo volente — I’ll think, “2010? Oh, that’s the year the Giants overcame all odds magically. Joy upon joy, of psalmists and harpists, of catchers and pitchers, of batters and fielders. Victory!”
And thanks once again for this chapel of community, with its Fuckwadian Choristers of Curmudgeonly Critique.
Got the Topps set of WS commemorative cards, 27 cards. A couple oddities: the Bochy writeup on the back is all 2009 stuff about the team. Hunh?? Really. As is 2010 didn’t happen. Another weird thing: a WS highlight card has a photo of Renteria’s HR but the text on the back is about Bumgarner’s pitching. A third puzzlement: 27 cards, with the aforesaid Bochy card, with an NLDS highlight card, an NLCS highlight card, and one, maybe two, WS highlight cards, meaning cards for only 22 or 23 players. Question: was the roster 25 players? If so, whom did Topps leave off? And why? Conspiracy theorists, comment away.
correct above to “as if”
Shitty ass stupid fucking Singletary FINALLY bringing Smith in. Fuck Sing.
Over on Chuck’s blog, I predicted Alex’ killer turnover as soon as he came in. That’s a prediction that’s EZ to make…
To be a little bit fair, the offensive line really stunk at the end of the game.
It was unreasonable to expect to just insert him into the game in the 4th Q and expect a miracle. If A-Smith plays that entire game there’s no doubt in my mind that we win.
This loss had absolutely zero to do with Alex Smith..
Sing won’t be the HC even for the season Finale, BTW..
The killers were Troy’s INT and the missed FG. And Anthony Davis, again.
Well, Singletary has clearly lost total control of the team. When Smith was going off on him and Ginn stepped in to try to stop it, Ginn turned to Singletary, who hadn’t walked away, and said something like “Come on, Man”….Either way, I have ZERO belief that York will fix this until he hires actual football people, stick them at the top, and let them make ALL the decisions. York just hires guys with weird ass, difficult to spell, names……..
Didn’t get enough for the gamer- still a nice PC- dual core, 500 GB hard drive, burner, 2 Gigs RAM, etc.
Thanks Twin, these contests keep an otherwise boring off season interesting..
So York says he’s going to hire a GM. He better hire a well respected guy. As it stands, the Niners have NO CHANCE to hire a reputable coach— there’s no way a legit coaching candidate comes to SF without a QB and without a draft pick to get one……
I don’t know what his deal is with Cleveland but if I’m the Yorks, I hire Holmgren as team president. Let him get the GM and HC. The dude should have been home a long time ago, it’s time to quit fucking around and just do it.
by the way, Toledo on the $ line….