Friday, June 27, 2008

A nice little nugget

Provided by the beautiful Mango.

From our patron saint:

"If you play chess, you can watch baseball. If you play checkers, it's not fast enough for you. Go watch football."- Sal Fasano

God Bless Saint Fasano

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Daily Pugilist: A Baseballer?!?!?



Baseball has produced some great fights, no doubt, but rarely is it known for such.

However, Shawn Chacon may have upped the ante to Latrell Sprewell territory when he took Astros GM Ed Wade by the neck and threw him to the ground.

Now while I don't condone physical altercations especially with your boss when it didn't seem like anything big happened, I do hate Ed Wade. He has been known as an ass-face and is a bad GM (high quality closer for a 4th outfielder...really Ed?). Regardless, this was clearly an awesome brawl (see illustration below).


O RLY?!?!

A little trading action in the NBA.

The Indiana Pacers agreed to send F/C Jermaine O'Neal and the 41st overall pick in tonight's draft to the Toronto Raptors for PG TJ Ford, C Rasho "The Magical Gnome" Nesterovic, F Maceo "Ham Sandwich" Baston, and the number 17 overall pick in said draft.

This was a pretty good trade for both teams.

The Raptors do themselves a service by unloading Ford who had become a hassle because he's not Jose Calderon, the team's better, cheaper starter. In addition, O'Neal gives the team another big man other than Chris Bosh who can bang down low and takes the pressure off Bosh to be the man. The change of scenery should also help O'Neal.

As for the Pacers, they clearly go into full-on rebuilding mode. O'Neal was the only player resembling a star the Pacers have had since the retirement of Reggie Miller but he showed himself to be incapable of being a team's number 1 guy. Now he moves to a location where he can be the 3rd or 4th option and should thrive in that situation. The Pacers do pick up Ford, a decent point guard who should be an asset to the team and Nesterovic, a big body that can be traded later. Plus the number 17 pick the team could pick a player like Brandon Rush, Mario Chalmers, or, if they wanna go big, Roy Hibbert (I guess...) or Robin "The Worse" Lopez.

It's rare when two teams get together and decide to make a mutually beneficial trade, especially in the NBA. So this was nice. Huzzah.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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Monday, June 23, 2008

In memoriam


As many of you (certainly anyone who's a regular reader of this site...all 3 of you) by now, comedian George Carlin passed away today at the age of 71.

Carlin was best know for his routine "the 7 Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television," a bit that landed him in the middle of a freedom of speech debate that made it all the way to the Supreme Court. No matter where you come down on that debate, or whether you find Carlin to be a genius or a vulgar excuse of a performer, one cannot deny the impact he made as a comedian, in terms of both his art and his influence.

He will be missed by many.

(Surprisingly SFW)