Discovering The Wondrous Land
Now that Bozo the Clown has told us the tale of The Wondrous Land I feel like I have something to look forward to this baseball season. But a big part of discovering this far away place is cobbling together a decent enough first half that we have some pieces to sell off. Come on, nobody in their right mind thought Z was going to be able to deal Melanoma, Skinny Rick Ruschel or PomPom for shit. And yet, he got a decent haul.
His problem was that he stopped his gambling ways. He gave in to the FB housewives and Baer who touted the 2% chance they had to make the post season.
That shit has to end. No more sticking your dick in halfway. You wanna stick it in halfway STICK IN THE LAST HALF (sorry in advance to Bobby Bowden for that one).
Trade anything not nailed down by the deadline. Only then can we truly find ourselves in The Wondrous Land the Clown speaks of…..
A Place To Talk About Giants Baseball 
The Twilight Zone courtesy of Rod Serling, great show you weren’t around to watch Flav. It’s not happening, at least for position guys. Pitching, yeah I posted end of thread I can imagine Giants dumping the vets and going all kids by 2021 or year 3 of Z. Like what Pads did 2019, some will make it/some won’t so then you have to go back to acquiring vets–ergo 2022/23 is when Z plans to be competitive.
Giants have bunch of early picks in this year’s draft. But even if they draft/develop the next Matt Chapman, he’s not gonna be here until 2023. Rookie ball in 20, A ball 21, next level 22.
dad’s text today after he saw the hat
love the HAT!
can you still get one
that must be worth gundreds
tell sandhog hello
bobby
my dad writes texts and emails like he’s writing haiku’s but completely ignores the haiku rules….
and they ones you have shared are awesome. Gotta admit it’s cool to see people my age and older in store where I work share texts and pictures they take over something they might buy with younger gen. Really helps to be less isolated, and in touch with others you care about.
Some other shows from the 60’s that we’re really good besides Twilight Zone were Time Tunnel and The Invaders,and of course The Outer Limits.
No need to touch that TV dial, we control The transmission.
The Invaders..Where does a nightmare begin?David Vincent knows, he’s seen them, alien beings from a dying planet, they’re mission to make it they’re world,he needs to convince a unbelievable world that the nightmare has begun..
Daniel’s take:
Well that’s just to bad for the Astros.They know coming into this year they will be mercifully ridiculed on the road.Yeah baseball players have thick skin and can tune out crowds to a degree,but this bunch of cheaters have to know theirs a bullseye on they’re backs and should not get much sympathy from the umpires.
Every Astro player stats will tumble this year without cheating, imo..And that freakin Owner Crane who said “We didn’t effect the game” then backtracked from that statement, is just a slimy Owner that baseball should force him to sell the team!!!
just got my “playing pepper” questions in an email, will float them out to you guys once I respond. His Giants post goes up some time in early March
The collective chance that one of the IFers has a better season than last, that Dickerson or Yaz or Davis play well for an entire season, that a couple of the starters pitch effectively, is not terrible. Observing whether or not this comes to pass will keep me entertained at least until the All-Star game.
I’ve read where as many as 10 teams not only knew what the Stros were doing, but also complained to MLB about it. The Nats have come out and said they were tipped off about it before the WS.
So that makes me think that none of those teams liked the Dodgers enough to hip them to it.
There’s no way Z could have traded Bum and Smith after a 25-5 July, and the team was 2 or 3 games from a Wild Card spot. That’s just not humanly possible to do those trades with those circumstances. Nobody on planet Earth can be expected to do that. It’s not reasonable to criticize that, in my opinion. And I’m as onboard for the big rebuild as anyone.
Thanks for the love on the hat story fellas!
Its still in plastic. I did call Connie and tell her how much that meant to me.
One thing that made it possible is that they live in the same house today that they did in 1980! She said she saw an ad online for someone in the area who was looking to buy old farm hats, and she knew she had a ton of them in a box somewhere. While digging through it, she stumbled across the Giants hat, which stood out from the rest, and remembered our conversation from August. I guess she tried to mail it to me for Christmas, but she had my address wrong and it got returned to her.
She did try to say that she thinks my dad just offered it to her for her collection, but I ain’t buying that for a second!
They are all big time Twins/Vikings fans, so the Giants gear stood out, and no Loo, they don’t thinkly highly of the Chiefs!
Betts’ Red Sox possibly electronically cheated their way to the championship in ‘18. Do the Dodgers have any thoughts towards Betts about that, or will the Dodgers just sweep those thoughts under the rug?
The report on the Red Sox could be interesting when it finally comes out.
It is mindboggling that Crane went into that press statement to deny that the cheating affected the games. Manfred botched this. Crane is an amoral scumbag, and should have gotten a 1 year suspension.
That championship should have been vacated. Manfred didn’t have the courage to do that, but it would have been better for MLB going forward.
Agree Zumie!
Crane is a despicable excuse of a human being!!
If Manfred didn’t do anything even after teams complained about it years ago, why would you expect that assclown to do something about it now?
Good point.
The more the Astro players open their lying mouths the worse it gets!
Astro player Carlos Correa now is saying(due to allegations by Cody Bellinger about buzzer wearing) Altuve didn’t want his jersey ripped off,was because he had a unfinished ugly tattoo on his collarbone he didn’t want anyone to see! This whole team is a steaming pile of shit, and their damage control is even worse and totally non believable..
They just keep insulting our intelligence.
The more the Astro players open their lying mouths the worse it gets!
Astro player Carlos Correa now is saying(due to allegations by Cody Bellinger about buzzer wearing) Altuve didn’t want his jersey ripped off,was because he had a unfinished ugly tattoo on his collarbone he didn’t want anyone to see! This whole team is a steaming pile of shit, and their damage control is even worse and totally non believable..
Oops sorry for the double post..
The other day Correa said “if I’m lying to you right now, I’ll lose all credibility, and I don’t want that to happen.”
What credibility? Dude, you’ve already got none, zero, zilch.
The story has so many poignant angles, and maybe that’s why it holds my attention. David Robertson the other day said something like (paraphrasing): “This all sucks. In the ‘17 playoffs, the Astros hit my pitches hard, and I felt I was throwing the best stuff of my life. They were on every pitch. They got to go to the World Series, and I had to go home.”
It’s tricky. As with steroids, we don’t really know how exactly effective it is. How is that measured or proved? Z-man alluded to this, saying he wants to see what statistical analysis yields. He would.
Isn’t it conceivable that the garbage can banging is as distracting as it is potentially helpful? I mean, a batter doesn’t have a lot of time (fractions of a second?) to make a decision as it is.
No. Not when you are listening for it. A signal is a signal. There is constant noise at a game. You either hear the banging or you don’t.
Dusty wants MLB to protect Astros players from being hit by pitches. Dusty’s going to have an interesting season.
Players have always said they want to police themselves.
So, let them go for it…
That Bobby Bowden dick line is funny.
your dad is a haiku sensei
who is skinny Rick Reuschel
Sam Dyson. Loo named him that.
ah
Sam Dyson
Zumiee– I don’t know about not being “humanly possible.” The Giants never rose higher than 10% to make the post season. That was the highest % and it went down quickly from there. It was mired in the 2-8% range for almost all of July. Guys like Z pay attention to stuff like that. As they should. I suspect he knew the % but went the conservative route in keeping Bum and TFLR because it was his first year and he didn’t want to rock the boat so quickly. But if 10% was THE BEST chance they had, come on, what kind of chance is that?
Every time Altuve comes to bat, the pitcher or catcher should yell at him “Didya’ take that buzzer off yet?”…
Same with that weasel Bregman.Who you constantly see him smirking 😏 and smiling at teammates after he would score, and let them know what to look for from the pitcher!!
Yeah the Giants sure lucked out in dumping Dyson at the trade deadline.Not only did he get hurt soon after with a shoulder injury and might not be back for along time in 2020. Then he went out and bitch slapped his then GF around, not a good finishing year for him!
And the Giants ended up getting Jaylin Davis for him, which makes me very happy 😃
I apologize for the length. I’m a Bauer fan because he doesn’t just rll over, but explains himself and then stands up to any haters vs just duck and hide like most. he has some great takes imo…
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Trevor Bauer has said his piece on Twitter and on his own YouTube channel. That’s not a surprise. Since The Athletic published the bombshell report about the Houston Astros using technology to steal signs, Bauer has had more than enough information to say, “I told you so.”
Because, well, Bauer told us so.
Bauer, whose feuds with the Astros, and specifically Alex Bregman, go back to his time in Cleveland, is now with the Reds, who hold their first official workout on Saturday.
Long after physicals were done at the team’s spring training complex on Friday and other players had thrown their bullpens and Joey Votto rode his bike back to his Arizona house, Bauer threw his own bullpen with catcher Curt Casali. Then, in a near-empty Reds clubhouse, he spoke to reporters.
My question was simple – one that I had wondered for a while – even if the answer was not. Bauer spoke for nearly a half-hour, the vast majority on the topic of the Astros’ scandal and its ramifications. The answer to the first question was nearly 10 minutes and almost 1,500 words.
Here it is:
Why is it important to you to speak out?
Because for two years, three years, they mocked me for bringing up the fact that they could possibly be cheating.
What I brought up, there’s no denying that they’re doing it, which is the ridiculous part. There’s that part of it, how can you know you’re cheating and then just go and attack someone for saying it?
If I was cheating and someone called me out on it, I’d be like, “Oh shit, I’m not going to say anything, I’m going to try to ignore that.” They went on the offensive, attacking my character, demeaning me and stuff like this, all the while I know and they know that they were doing exactly what I said. On top of what I said are things that I heard about the organization. I couldn’t come out and say because I didn’t have direct knowledge of it, but we matched up against them in the postseason, we matched up against them in the regular season. They mocked everything about everyone who said they were doing something under the table or illegal or whatever. Cheating is one thing, it’s not OK. But at least if you cheat and you come out and you get caught and you’re like, “Look, I did this and it wasn’t right, this is why I did it. I’m not going to do it again, I learned my lesson.” Whatever, you can be contrite about it, speak honestly about it, but even now, we don’t even have a freakin’ apology that means anything from any of them. Not an acknowledgment that they might have hurt someone else around the league, not an acknowledgment that they probably cost many people multiple millions of dollars.
You have one of their players out there non-stop talking and bragging about how good he is and this and that and back-and-forth with me and meanwhile, you’re sitting there knowing every pitch that’s coming. How do you? It’s so hypocritical.
I don’t try … I don’t bother, I don’t go out of my way to bother anybody. I try not to interfere or interject myself into anyone else’s affairs, but if you come at me, I feel like I have every right to defend myself. Now they’ve chosen to make it about me and attack my character, I’m not going to let them forget the fact that they are hypocrites, they are cheaters, they’ve stolen from a lot of other people and the game itself was completely unfair. They’ve negatively affected the fans, they’ve negatively affected players, they’ve negatively affected kids and the future of baseball – which is what I’m most upset about. Now all the things they do really well as an organization are going to get completely washed away and forgotten about so the next generation of kids gets set back five or 10 years on the analytics, training and health and all the different stuff they do really well.
It pisses me off because all we want to do – everyone comes here to win, but we agree to play by a set of rules and we want to play fairly and compete and see are we better than you or not? So we all assume that’s what’s going on. When it’s not, it’s, “Hold on a second, why is it that I have to abide by the rules? That guy has to abide by the rules. That team has to abide by the rules but you guys think you are better than everyone and you don’t have to abide by the rules?” Fuck you. You know? That’s how I feel about their whole operation, especially, especially when you’re so outspoken against stuff. If you take a stand and you’re so firmly against stuff, you better fucking make sure that you’re not doing the stuff that you’re talking about.
I mean, I don’t know anything about the whole (Roberto) Osuna situation, right? But if you’re Justin Verlander and you decide to take a stance against domestic violence and speak out 100 percent against it and then you flip-flop your opinion when someone is now on your team and it’s affecting you, that’s not having character. That’s not taking a moral stand, that’s just pandering to the public. It’s the same thing as cheating. If you’re going to sit there as A.J. Hinch and tell me that I should probably sweep my porch and my accusations are unfounded and you’re going to laugh in the face of the media about the Yankees saying that he may be doing something in the postseason and saying, “Oh if I knew it was going to get in their head, then we probably would have done something.” Like, fuck you! How are you going to say that when you know damn well that you’re doing what they’re saying? I don’t know.
I’m big on honesty and having character and treating people well.
Whit Merrifield was not an All-Star because José Altuve was. Aaron Judge did not win the MVP because José Altuve did and things like this. So now Whit Merrifield, when he goes to sign his long-term extension, doesn’t have “All-Star” next to his name. “All-Star” probably makes him a lot more valuable in arbitration, which perhaps makes him not sign that deal or maybe sign the deal for that many more million dollars. Aaron Judge doesn’t have “MVP” next to his name. What is he worth in his first year of arbitration? That’s millions of dollars. The trajectory of the career, too. It’s not the first time where it’s a million or two, but then the next year it’s two or three and the next year after that, it’s four or five.
The whole thing is just like, it’s so frustrating.
Because man, if you take steroids – back in the steroid era – you take steroids and a lot of people are doing it, you don’t sit there and say, like, “It is wrong, it is this, that and the other, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. …” And then you get caught. It’s like, that’s why the whole Ryan Braun thing is so fucked up. He cost someone his job, wagging your finger in the face of everyone else, then you get caught and you shut up and you don’t say anything about it. Why?
At least the vast majority of people who got caught doing steroids weren’t attacking the character of other people in the league, blasting them for saying they might be taking steroids when they knew damn well they were. It’s just so … it’s filthy, it’s hypocritical. It’s underhanded. I don’t know.
I’m probably going to get myself in trouble for saying all of this different stuff, but it’s how I feel. I think it’s important to stand up and say something because I’m not afraid of the backlash. I’ve been out there on my own my entire life, basically. I had very few friends growing up, I really didn’t have a peer group. I’ve been attacked by coaches along the way and fellow teammates for training the way I did. I’m used to this. A lot of other players don’t have the standing in the league, don’t have that sense about themselves or just don’t want to rock the boat or whatever, but we all feel this way. We’re all pissed. If no one ever comes out and says anything then nothing gets done.
If Mike Fiers doesn’t come out and say something, nothing gets done. Nothing – even though all the players know this shit is going on, it’s the worst kept secret in baseball. If no one says anything, then nothing gets done – no one says anything publicly because reports have been given to the league for multiple years. The Astros had an employee in our camera well filming our dugout in the 2018 postseason. If you’re that brazen, if you’re that out in the open with that? What is it that you actually want to hide? Now we know more about what they actually want to hide or what they’re actually trying to cover up. To answer your original question before I went on this rant, that’s why I feel like it’s important to speak up because a lot of players around the league feel this way and don’t have a voice or don’t have the standing to where they can say something. At the end of the day, right is right, wrong is wrong. Integrity and moral character, those things all matter. That’s where I try to position myself.
I have no problem with people stealing signs if you’re on second base and you pick the catcher’s sign or pick what the pitcher’s doing, he’s tipping his pitches or whatever, you know? But when they go to that length to do it in real-time, to take away any possibility of any chance to compete against it, and like I said, the whole mocking of people for saying it, it’s ridiculous.
How do you feel about Mike Fiers?
I’m happy Mike said something. I know a lot of people, or some people had been like, “Oh, well he should’ve said something when he was on the team” or whatever. It’s just so unrealistic because he’d be banned, blackballed from the game. I don’t blame him at all for not saying something then. I’m happy he finally came out and said something.
We’ve been waiting two, two-and-a-half, three years, for someone with knowledge of the situation to be willing to talk. I figured it’d have to be someone once they retired when they had played their career out because that’s just generally how the game works. These things come out 15-20 years afterward and people are just telling stories afterward, like, “Oh, yeah, back in the ’80s, this guy was doing this.” It’s like, “Well, that’s cheating. Maybe we should’ve known then.”
I’m happy Mike came out and said something. I think it’s good for baseball. Good for him and for a lot of other players. It’s a very strong position and leadership role that he took.
Ultimately, on a wider scale, the players as a whole, we need more strength and leadership at the top. I think that’s the position that he took, which is important.
Did it anger you more when you saw the press conference yesterday?
What did you expect from them? The entire time they had been super dismissive and it’s very obvious that they don’t think it affected the game. They feel like they were in the right.
You can tell a fake apology when you have to give an apology, but you don’t want to apologize because you don’t think you were wrong. You can tell what it is when you see it. That was that. They didn’t give a shit. Of the people I saw speak, not a single one of them actually meant what they were saying.
Yeah, you have to say the words but honestly, in that situation, I would rather them just come out and say, “Yeah, we did it. We’re not sorry about it. Yeah, we cheated. We’ll take the penalty and come beat us.” At least it would be honest. Just tell us how you actually feel. Don’t lie. You’ve been lying the entire fucking time. Now you’re lying about your apology.
“We don’t think it affected the game.” You’re either lying or you’re a fucking idiot. And you don’t become a billionaire owner of a team by being a fucking idiot. So, you’re lying.
I don’t know. How can you not think that affected the game when you know what pitches, that’s just so ridiculous. That take, that quote, then basically the entire thing was like, “Oh, I’m sorry we got caught.” Not like, “Hey, we did this.”
Here’s the thing for you, if any of the Astros players would come out today and say, “Hey, I’m holding a press conference. I’m going to have a select group of fans, media, other players, we’re all going to sit down and I’m going to answer all your questions for an hour 100 percent honestly. We’re just going to talk it through.” That player could say anything about what they did, and all this different stuff and he’d actually be liked. That’s how ridiculous this situation has gotten. If a player came out and told you everything they did, and it was the worst possible cheating scandal in the history of baseball and he revealed it all, that player would be liked because the rest of them have been so disingenuous. Not a single one of them has said an honest damn word the entire time. Just such a ridiculous situation, man.
Whatever on the field, right? OK, so you fucking beat me on the field because whatever. But what about people who don’t have jobs? What about the people that lose out on millions of dollars and their whole career trajectory has changed? What about the people who don’t get signed at a certain position because someone who knew what pitches were coming took that position? What if someone gets DFA’d because there is just no more room for them?
Oh, we’re coming up in four or five days, you’re going to see pitchers throwing live BP with an L-screen in front of them because the hitters know what’s coming. Because it’s fucking dangerous. You have a hitter that knows what’s coming and smokes a ball off someone’s shin or hits them in the head. Maybe that guy is done. Maybe it hits him just right and he dies. Like these are the realities and however small of a chance it is, it’s a better chance if you know what pitch is coming that that’s going to happen. It’s dangerous.
Robbed from other people, you take their positions, their livelihood, the dollars, the experience of being an All-Star, the experience of moving on in the postseason, the experience of winning a World Series perhaps. It’s so far-reaching. To see them sit there and be like, “I’m sorry that we got caught. I’m sorry for the actions that the team and the organization and myself took. That’s all I’m going to say.” It’s hollow.
Coming from someone who is previously super outspoken and all over social and posting shit about (Nathan) Eovaldi and homering off him. Right before that playoff series, posting shit about me and back and forth, which is fine. I have no problem with that. It’s all fun and games online, bantering back and forth. But like, “OK, where is your talk now?” When it comes time to face the fire, which you started, you better be man enough to stand up and face it. If you’re not, then just fuck you. No credibility. No respect from anyone for anything.
That’s the thing, like, he’s a great player. They are all great players with or without it. But now, no one in the league respects them for anything they do. Not for how they work. Not for how they prepare. Not for how they play. Not for their skills. Nothing. Nothing. And it’s all of them, regardless of who participated or didn’t.
Do you think the banging scheme was just the tip of the iceberg?
I don’t know, man.
I’ve heard about the algorithms they had for a long time. I’m glad those finally came out about using a machine learning to decode signs and stuff in real-time. I don’t know what else they are doing. I’ve heard stuff. I don’t have first-hand knowledge of it.
It’s one of those things where you hear from enough people that are independent of each other that there is other stuff going on. It’s like, “Oh, man, well this person said it, but it could just be a rumor.” I heard the same from that other person, but they don’t know each other. I heard the same thing from that other person and none of them know each other. It’s like, well, you start to think something else is going on. I don’t want to spread, perpetuate a rumor with no inside knowledge of it.
I’ve heard from three separate sources about there is other stuff, but I have no idea if it’s true or not. I really don’t want to wade into that.
Have you heard from MLB after your tweets and video about Rob Manfred?
No. What are they going to say? It’s the fucking truth.
Oh, you’re going to get mad that I called the commissioner a joke when he lied to my face the first time we met each other. It was like, whatever.
You want to be mad, just fucking come talk to me face-to-face. Let’s sit down and have an open, honest conversation. Not a, “Hey, I want to be open and honest and have a collaborative conversation with the players in the league,” and then two minutes after you tell that to everybody in the room, you sit there and lie to my face and say the game being 2:59 is better than 3:01 because it’s a fan issue. No, it’s not. It’s a TV issue, which is fine. Everyone makes more money if the TVs are happy. Just tell me. Don’t say that it’s going to be open and honest, and then lie to my face.
If you want to have an open conversation and you actually want to discuss some stuff, if you actually care about the game and the industry that you’re presiding over and that you’re supposed to be running, and you think I have something valuable or you’re mad at me or something like that, then come talk to me. He can find me. What’s he going to be mad about? The truth?
I called him a joke. He lied to my face in ’14 in front of all my teammates and stuff like that when I asked him why the length of the game was important. No fan gives a shit if the game is 3:01 or 2:59. You think I’m stupid? I don’t know.
Not a fan of the guy with how he’s chosen to run the league, some of the constant focus on changing the game itself. The product is great. We have a good product. We have the best group of players the game has ever had, the most talented, the fastest, the most athletic. Just the packaging is terrible.
It’s so bad. I mean, from listening to a game on TV, if you can even watch a game, first off. Half the people can’t even see the damn games on TV or online or anything like that.
Then if you watch the game, you have announcers that are supposed to be working on behalf of the league to promote the game and then televise it and stuff like that, just shitting on it non-stop. “The product is so bad. The players strike out too much.” It’s all this negative crap.
Then on top of that, you don’t allow the players to have any personality at all. That’s systematic. You get taught in the minor leagues, don’t bat flip. Don’t show emotion. If you say one thing in the media, the media director is like, “Hey, maybe we shouldn’t. Let me teach you how to say something without saying anything.” So, you suck all the personality out of what, 40, 50, how many jerseys are in here?
61
Sixty-one times 30 organizations, times all the minor leagues, so you suck all the personality out of the most culturally diverse game with the most players that should be the most marketable. You just suck all the personality out from a young age on the field, off the field. All the fans are like, “Baseball players don’t have personalities.” None of them have been in the clubhouse. How much personality do you see in here? How many things would just be absolutely hilarious that you look at and you’re like, “Holy shit, that’s frickin’ funny that nobody gets to see.” There’s that problem and then you want to change the product itself instead of like, let’s just re-package it.
Let’s open it up. Let’s actually let people post highlights. They’ve done a little bit better job of that in the last couple of years. When you’re banning some of the most influential baseball accounts on social media a couple years back like Pitching Ninja, other ones that have gone through all that stuff, like what are you doing?
Meanwhile, you have the NBA that is just absolutely crushing everybody, that gives content away like, ‘Please post our content. Here you go.” Baseball playoffs are going on and Joel Embiid, in the second game of the NBA season that doesn’t mean anything, is trending. There are two basketball players trending nationally above anything baseball-related during Game 7 of one of the best World Series that we’ve seen.
Don’t change the product. And I’m not fully against changing parts of the product, either. I’m really not. Like, don’t just make changes to make changes.
Where is the polling that’s like what do the fans want? Why don’t we just take a poll and say, “Fans, what do you want to see?” When you make rule changes, let’s involve the fans, the players, everybody and take a vote. If it doesn’t pass with 70 percent or whatever percentage, there doesn’t need to be a rule change. At least you bring the fans and the players and the league together where it’s like, “This is our game, we’re doing this together.” Video games do that all the time. Online games, they have this community-based; they don’t let any new changes to the game or rules or anything like that change unless the community votes on it. Where’s that? Maybe, they’ve done polling and we don’t know about it. I don’t know. It sure seems like it’s trying to solve the problem of, “OK, how do we make more money?” Which is fine. Again, everyone makes more money if the league makes more money. But like, don’t just make changes to make changes. Have a reason. Yeah. Been a frustrating offseason.”…..
No problem at all with the length, this is great stuff
Well said, Trevor Bauer.
Thanks for posting this Mrsprtdude.
Yeah, that was interesting.
I remember that playoff clip of Hinch ridiculing a question about the Astros cheating, and all the while he flat-out knew his team was a pack of cheaters.
I’m convinced Hinch, Cora, and Beltran will never have MLB jobs again. Maybe small colleges would hire them.
Also the chances of any of that ‘17 roster making the Hall of Fame takes a big hit.
Someone is going to make an interesting movie about the ‘17 Astros someday.
Correa gave his big “apology” a few days ago, and now he’s back to being defiant. Wow, a few whole days of remorse.
The NBA is taking a whole week off because of the All Star game. Just like MLB.
Both ridiculous.
Seriously. It doesn’t get more dead than this dreary Feb week (in terms of sports).
Pat Cannughton dressing up like Billy Hoyle was a straight up dope move.
this dunk contest has been outstanding so far. 3 of these guys should advance to the finals (Dwight Howard, come on, his 2nd dunk was basic shit)
They should ban Alex Cora for life.
Yes.
Aaron Gordon should walk out of that arena with 2 fingers in the air and vow to NEVER compete in that thing again. Highway robbery. Again.
any of Gordon’s dunks should have won it for him but this one was incredible. If they want to fix the dunk contest they need to give each judge a single 11 vote that they can use at any time. That would break all these 50 ties.
this is the longer version. This is simply incredible
50 years ago tonight, I was at MSG to see my main man Jimmy Ellis get demolished by Smokin’ Joe. I think I gave the gate man $2 to let me in. I was devastated…
I had a fondness for the Great White Hope, Irish Jerry Quarry! He fought them all, Ali,Frazier,Ellis,Norton.. he was a tough undersized dumb Irishman with a good left hook, problem was so did his opponents from both hands, and he was a bleeder getting some of his bouts stopped early, even if he wanted to push the ref out of the way to continue..
bob foster light heavy guy wiped out Quarry’s little brother too.