Plus he takes an hour to hit the damn ball which is annoying as hell.

I manage a restaurant, that's why it was so easy to buy his dinner. Anyway, I was off yesterday, but his wife came in and left tickets for me. Right behind home dugout Sep. 21st against the Angels.

I was surprised by how much of the women's marathon they showed. Starts and finishes of marathons make great TV, but long continous shots of runners mid-race are not something I remember from Olympic coverage in the past. The scenery was interesting, anyways.

Maybe he'll kiss Yao Ming.

Oh, so that's who's draft is this weekend. Crap, thanks for the reminder.

I sucked at this (59, because I didn't know any of the crappy teams like rutgers and the like), but I have to say the movie games on that site are awesome, and if you're nuts, you can try to name all the world series winners. (Hint: the yankees were pretty good). It's a pretty sweet time waster.

Why do people talk to the press? Because Ron Artest is a Class A idiot. He did this constantly in Sacramento. It's like he'd go out to dinner and overhear someone say "Ron's an idiot" (the guy Artest overhears is probably talking about his buddy at work, FWIW), and the next thing you know Artest is texting the local newspaper, ESPN, the New York Times and God knows who all else claiming he wants to be traded and hates Sacramento. And then the next day he'd say it was taken out of context and he was misquoted. That's exactly what happened with Yao. Artest flew off the handle and texted everyone he knew, bitching and complaining and at the same time bragging about how "ghetto" (his word) he is. The dude is a complete wack job.

Just wait until he starts jacking up three pointers with the game on the line when he's already gone 5-for-21 and McGrady's flashing to the baskeet for an easy dunk. I swear for every game Artest won for the Kings, he lost just as many.

Shit it was bad enough they showed footage of Favre's plane arriving in GB yesterday.

So I picked up a weekend gig as a gigolo a couple years back and I showed up to this lady's house and you'll never believe who it was. Marge Schott! Sure I wasn't the rock-hard chiseled young man she'd requested, but she was pleased that I was, quote, "not a hook-nosed jew or a big-lipped spook." Good tipper.

Fuck the Bruins. Fuck Les Homotants. Go Whale!

Clearly a Division 1-AA (or Championship Subdivision or whatever) team going into Ann Arbor to a banged out Big House against a Michigan Team who desperately needed to win; and came out to not just play close and scare Michigan, but WIN OUTRIGHT. It's the clear winner to me.

It's the equivalent of the San Jose Saber Cats beating the Dallas Cowboys in Texas Stadium.

It's because it's been three years in the making. These two guys have meet in the last 3 years at the final in Wimbledon. Not only that they meet in many other finals, with the result being usually in th favor of Federer if you removed clay from the equation. If you want to compare this to golf you would need to have Tiger battle with Mickleson for 3 years at the majors, Tiger winning the the Masters, US Open and the Championship and Phil winning the British for the 3 years... That's how epic the Ferdere and Nadal game was on Sunday.

But I think the passing of the torch started last year, were Federer lost in Montreal in the finals against Dvokovic. No one saw that one coming. Now I agree that the duels Federer Nadal are far from over and they will still give us some great battles, but I think Nadal (if he can stay healthy, his still of play is very demanding) is the new #1 and Dvokovic is the new up and comming young star, not sure if he'll make it to the top, but he's the one to watch (has Eric said already). As for Federer he is the classiest player I've ever seen, and a great champ. He will still win some major championships, but not sure if he will be seated #1 in all of them.

Pierce couldn't do it without KG
Garnett couldn't do it without Paul P
Ainge was about to be fired
Until KG he acquired
Because McHale couldn't let 16 be


One thing these Finals taught us to grade
Finally something from a star beginning to fade
Also, Kobe's an adultress poker
And like Chacon he's a choker
And Shaq proved he could now only win with D Wade

And it looks like L.A.'s insider trading was a waste
Phil couldn't mend a winning gameplan with superglue paste
Now it's confirmed that the Lakers
Are Championship Fakers
And Shaq, how do the Spurs balls fucking taste?

His ring's in the mail, snels.

I say fuck it!
Unfortunately, that's all I can do, having no hot wife to go to!

Too lazy to start a new thread for this, even if it deserves it's own thread:

It has been announced that Green, Ellington, and Lawson are ALL coming back to Carolina next season.

Ho. Lee. Shit.

The only time I've ever seen Smith was on the Ultimate Fighter and I think he lost. I've never seen any other fights that he had been in, but he looked great in that one against their champ.

Exalt to AA for the link. (I'll try to remember to exalt Mike & Solly later, although the distillers of Bacardi probably deserve a share.)

This is as good a thread to do this as any. There are a bunch of spots open for a new section of Screaming Sports (as yet unnamed) which is just going to be observation/opinion pieces. Minimum would be one 700-word piece a week, but you could certainly write (lots) more. The more stuff from across the country (or even out of the country) the better; my goal is to get a cross-section of stuff so I don't have to beat the Celtics drum every week

It's a paid (not WELL paid but still) position and will be starting in the next few weeks, so let me know if you're interested via pm, email (tomasd420@hotmail.com) or AIM (tommyd4204eva)

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Heard on ESPN radio the other afternoon that the radio host (don't remember who--one of those screaming guys) said someone else said that Harrison was targeted for a gangland killing because of something his father, who's in jail, did. The dude Harrison shot was supposedly the guy wwho was supposed to kill Harrison. Take it for what it's worth considering my sources.

I've ump'd little league, 7-12 year olds. I've also done a smattering of 13-16 year old games, but I didn't really like those. Too damn much going on.

I ump'd for about four years until last year, when I coached a 9-10 year old team. That was fun.