Letters to the Editor
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Basketball Androids
By the time androids are playing basketball instead of athletes, it'll be the computer programmers who make the big bucks. Heck, the programmers will be the coaches for all intents and purposes! And it will be about time, too.
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Why's The Guy Playing?
With the bid locked up and routing Idaho.
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Good analysis
King: cerebral take on a cerebral move by those bastards who profit off other dudes playing a game.
I'm just about at the point where you slowly raise your palms to the sky and kind of shrug. What can we do? Nothing. American sports past the high school level are huge business (unless you're in the great state which produced LeBron and Ken Griffey Jr. - where the talent allows for the profiteering to start early).
Like a dog, conditioned for the 1000th time to not bark, the MLB has smacked me with the rolled up business section, and we go back to the status quo.
Where is my Josh Hamilton story?
fyi - don't take a date to a conference tournament. someone tell me a worse group of people to let eyeball your hottie than drunken idiots watching their 3rd and 4th game of the day, while they spill beer and eat everything under the garden's sweet roof. (wait, i probably know the answer: inmates or deployed soldiers)
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Griffey Griffey Griffey
How about posting about Griffey everyday when he gets his batting average above .250, his on base above .300, and his slugging above .500
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Griffey
He broke his hand playing with his children. Barry Bonds doesn't even know his children's names - unless they're plastered all over the walls of the weightroom. Life is short. So, Griffey has decided to make the all-century team, and be a human. Let him join up with Adam Dunn and Josh Hamilton and you have the most powerful outfield in the history of bat and ball sports. Unless they're facing a lefty, of course.
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A joke in there somewhere...
Something about Tom Brady mixing it up and getting the ball down field to his great set of receivers. Maybe something about going deep or coming out of the back field for the late show, which gets a little blue.
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Adam Dunn
LMAO---.234 average, 194 strikeouts, .221 runners in scoring position, 12 errors in left field, a lug on the base paths............hits a ball 500 feet every now and then and the fans go WOOOOOOW.
These Reds fans that pay for seasons tickets will watch this guy for 15 years and at the end MAY figure out he's one of the main reasons they didn't play in the post season the entire time.
I'm not even sure they can trade him. Who wants that?
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How Can You Keep A Straight Face?
.234 average, lower in the clutch, 194 Ks, 40 homers, and 92 RBIs.
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I'm lost
Why are we talking about the Reds outfield?
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I've seen sticker problems before
Earlier this year, I was watching a Villanova game that was played at Wachovia Center. Most of the floor stickers were along the baselines (to cover up the Sixers' logos), but they had Big East logo stickers at the top of each lane. Fortunately, nobody got hurt, but after the third time somebody slipped on those lane stickers, the refs stopped the game and had the arena crew peel them up.
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I Don't Know Either
What did the Reds finish last year? 3 games out........Here's Dunn in September and October. Read carefully--------87 at bats, 37 strikeouts, 14 hits, .161 average, 2 homers 5 RBIs.
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50 games a year should do it
Outside of sports columnists, people should not be able to watch 5000 games a year. Read a book, play a sport, play with your kids, talk to a woman, follow local politics, etc. I think the world will be a better place if this deal becomes exclusive. There is no actual victim or villian in this game of billion-dollar companies.
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Anti-trust obligation...
As long as MLB enjoys anti-trust exemptions, then they are morally obligated to make their product available to the entire U.S. public at a reasonable cost. Like many thousands of fans, I shouldn't be denied access to "out-of-town" baseball simply because my apartment faces the "wrong" direction.
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Evil Baseball Lords
What Paul said is right. What MLB has done could be called brilliant if it wasn't so transparent (which it is, since every columnist and blogger today is writing about it). This whole thing went public in late January, DuPuy takes six weeks to figure out a way to not make him/MLB look like the bad guy, figures, hey, everyone hates their cable company, voila, those of us that live in apartments without balconies are screwed...
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Suspend Les Jones, Mike Wood, and Sean Hull
What I want to know is why hasn't the ACC suspended referees Les Jones, Mike Wood, and Sean Hull? In case anyone hasn't heard about them -- and let me say that the silence from the media is deafening -- this is the group of referees that called a foul on Clemson's K.C. Rivers with 1.5 seconds left in the Clemson-FSU game yesterday. At the time the game was tied at 66. FSU's Al Thornton was making a last-second desperation drive in hopes of throwing /something/ up that would go in. He made a quick stop and heaved up a shot from around the free throw line as he fell backwards. Rivers, who had been trying to guard Thornton on the drive, shot past him when Thornton came to a dead stop. From what I could tell there was no contact, no foul, no nothing.
Here's what Thornton himself had to say about the call:
"You usually don't get that call. I thought it was gonna go overtime, cause I think the refs were letting us play throughout the game. So really I thought it was gonna go overtime. I was kinda shocked that I did get the call."
That call put Thornton, an 82% FT shooter, on the line for 2 shots with 1.5 seconds left. The odds he would miss both shots were around 1-in-31.
So here we have a situation in which the refs made a questionable call that no one -- not even the beneficiary of the call -- thought was going to happen. The direct result of this call is that with nearly 97% odds FSU wins the game, and that doesn't even take into account the odds of Clemson having to go the length of the court and put in a 3 to win. Furthermore, this essentially knocked Clemson out of the NCAA tournament.
WHY THE HELL HAVEN'T THESE REFS BEEN SUSPENDED? WHY ARE NO MEDIA PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT IT?
Wait!! I've got an idea!
[Enters alternative universe]
In case anyone hasn't heard about them -- and let me say that the silence from the media is deafening -- this is the group of referees that called a foul on Clemson's K.C. Rivers with 1.5 seconds left in the Clemson-Duke game yesterday. At the time the game was tied at 66. Duke's Josh McRoberts was making a last-second desperation drive in hopes of throwing /something/ up that would go in. He made a quick stop and heaved up a shot from around the free throw line as he fell backwards. Rivers, who had been trying to guard McRoberts on the drive, shot past him when McRoberts came to a dead stop. From what I could tell there was no contact, no foul, no nothing.
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The direct result of this call is that with nearly 97% odds Duke wins the game, and that doesn't even take into account the odds of Clemson having to go the length of the court and put in a 3 to win. Furthermore, this essentially knocked Clemson out of the NCAA tournament.
[Leaves alternative universe]
Anyone want to guess on the (a) amount of foaming at the mouth the media is doing in the alternative universe, doing Zapruder-like analysis of McRoberts's drive, and (b) odds that the alternative universe Jones, Wood, and Hull have been suspended?