Synergy Paradigm (file under: Ad Wizards)
Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under Drugs, Money, Pain, Sports, Television | Leave a Comment
Via FJM: “Log on to ESPN.com and search ‘Excedrin’ to answer additional trivia questions.”
Read More..>>Iconic?
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Money, Photographs, Sports, Statistics, Words (In Print) I Hate | Leave a Comment
Thus spake the Associate Press (at ESPN.com) [emphasis mine]. NEW YORK — The Upper Deck Co. has made a pitch to buy The Topps Co., a bid that would join two iconic baseball card makers that have sold sports memorabilia to generations of fans young and old. And if you trust wikipedia: Upper Deck Company, [...]
Read More..>>who’s dumber now
Posted on May 7, 2007 - Filed Under Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Got an amazing trivia question for you. Who do you think made more money last year, Tiger Woods or Carrot Top? And when they inevitably say “Carrot Top” I can say, “No, Tiger Woods … what are you, some kind of moron? It wasn’t even close. Tiger Woods made like 300 million dollars. Carrot Top [...]
Read More..>>Trotsky on Baseball
Posted on April 5, 2007 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Politics, Sports | Leave a Comment
Jon @ SFist coming correct with Leon Trotsky’s predictions for the 2007 baseball season: “You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!†Hey, it’s been almost seven years since the Yankees won the Series, all this despite [...]
Read More..>>out at the ballgame
Posted on April 3, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Sports | Leave a Comment
MTV.com has a video of The Hold Steady’s take on Take Me Out To The Ballgame. Unsurprisingly, Finn gives it a Twins slant, but still very good.
Read More..>>opening day
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
In lieu of any effort on my part, I send you off to Joe Posnanski who is live-blogging opening day in Kansas City. He’s kind enough to include some REO tour dates for those who want to keep on loving them, too.
Read More..>>Breaking Down Crash
Posted on March 22, 2007 - Filed Under Movies, Sports | Leave a Comment
Joe Posnanski tries to figure who’d be the ‘real-world’ Crash Davis (dismissing Buck Rogers as an unlikely Pynchon reader). Some good analysis in the comments, too, from Devin: Crash was probably caught in a numbers game. I think he would have been in his prime around the time teams stopped carrying three catchers and during [...]
Read More..>>new fantasy baseball community
Posted on March 8, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
I’ve decided to dip my toes in the Ning waters, creating a fantasy baseball “community”*. If you have any perceived or real interest in fantasy baseball, feel free to join. I don’t have any immediate plans for this … but am curious to see if/where it goes. http://baseballfantasy.ning.com * what happens when you throw a [...]
Read More..>>welcome addition
Posted on March 2, 2007 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
New to me, Joe Posnanski writes for a blog, The Soul of Baseball — to honor the memory of Buck O’Neil (and also help sell Joe’s new book on the man). Even if you aren’t a Royals fan or aren’t familiar with Joe’s writing I think this would be an enjoyable site for any baseball [...]
Read More..>>Fantasy Baseball 2.0?
Posted on March 2, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Robot Brains, Sports | 1 Comment
I’m looking for a “social”* fantasy baseball site and welcome any recommendations you, kind Internet, may have to offer. The closest I’ve come is a couple leads on Ning found by searching for “fantasy baseball”. Unfortunately, all two hits on this purportedly “social” site yield variations of: I’m sure there are great reasons for having [...]
Read More..>>Excuse Me While My Head Explodes
Posted on February 22, 2007 - Filed Under Pain, Sports | 1 Comment
A Royal Fan in Atlanta* is optimistic …. hoping that Angel Berroa may be a latter day Andruw Jones (or possibly a Jeff Francoeur). * – Still not sure if he’s really a Royals fan. Seems inconceivable to me. How can a long-time Braves fan suddenly become a Royals fan? Without leaving Atlanta for KC [...]
Read More..>>Hype: Under the Boards
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under Race, Sports | Leave a Comment
So a friend is about to go to press (U of Nebraska to be precise) with his racial analysis of the NBA. Here’s an excerpt: Regardless of one’s familiarity with hip-hop, the 2Pac-Biggie saga made it unequivocally clear that hip-hop existed on two planes: on the one hand, it was a cultural and commercial powerhouse [...]
Read More..>>It Gets Really, Really Bad
Posted on November 7, 2006 - Filed Under Caffeine, Pain, Sports | Leave a Comment
Today I see in my office breakroom that the (passable) Starbucks “House Blend” has been replaced with Folgers. Joy. Poppers pop Breakers Break Raiders Suck Writers Write: “Watching the 2006 Oakland Raiders makes me yearn to read fiction about 9/11 written with many, many adverbs.” Well-Balanced Bastards of the Day Tire of Nick Hornby? Why [...]
Read More..>>Damn Yankees
Posted on November 5, 2006 - Filed Under Language, Sports | Leave a Comment
Favorite use of baseball characters in an analogy this week (so far): “to call Lakoff a Chomsky disciple is like calling Dave Winfield a disciple of George Steinbrenner.”
Read More..>>Ad Wizards
Posted on October 27, 2006 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Money, Music, Politics, Sports | Leave a Comment
From today’s Sports Guy column: George in Chicago: “What is your problem with the ‘This is Our Country‘ Chevy truck ads? Whoever thought that Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam War, Watergate, western wildfires, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 should be bunched together to sell a truck is a genius! When Chevy opens a new [...]
Read More..>>Spray, Magic Spray
Posted on October 24, 2006 - Filed Under Pain, Sports, Statistics | Leave a Comment
Prepare yourselves for this shocker: “FIFA have revealed that more than half [58%] of the players treated on the pitch during this summer’s World Cup were not actually injured.” Pete Lit revisits the Six Word Stories. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at SF’s Tenderloin. Without a login, I can’t read more than this: [...]
Read More..>>Buck O’Neil
Posted on October 9, 2006 - Filed Under Death, Sports | Leave a Comment
The Kansas City Star has put together a special section (available online) in their Sunday edition in memory of Buck O’Neil who passed away this weekend. MLB.com also has some multi-media links.
Read More..>>It Takes A Village
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Sports, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
I know critiquing Tim McCarver is shooting fish in barrel… but from the Sports Guy’s live journal of the Tigers/Yankees game: 7:47 — Toronto reader E.H. Zwick chimes in: “McCarver should be congratulated for raising our cultural awareness for noting in amazement that Wang and Kuo come from the same ‘village’ known as Tainan City [...]
Read More..>>Links are so verry, verry goood…
Posted on October 4, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Film, Sports | Leave a Comment
…for me to Dump On You!! Clinton at WFMU’s blog takes an impressive look back at the Choose Your Adventure series, staple reading for yours truly when I roamed the halls of Thomas Alva Edison Elementary. Geek out on lexicography with a healthy dose of Orwell references. Next year starts today. Are we there yet? [...]
Read More..>>Turn Back The Clocks
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under Sports, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | 1 Comment
How far behind the times is JoePa? According to research done by ESPN.com, one week apparently:
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