April 2010
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Learning to hate Curtis Granderson is going to take some effort. He puts cabbage in his hat when the weather gets hot! #openingday
Oh great, a sac fly. #runpreventionmachine #openingday
Crowd giving extra-long ovation to Mikey Lowell = all class. #openingday
The defense behind Josh Beckett is looking so crisp, he might be forced to crack a smile. #openingday
DO was tripping over himself with glee to say “wake up the Great Bambino” there, but even he couldn’t fuck this entrance up. #openingday
Theo, even the most well-oiled #runprevention defensive machine can’t prevent back-to-back homers. #openingday
Honestly, until his name was announced, I completely forgot JD Drew existed. I guess I thought he’d died. #openingday
Wow, the Eck really over-did it in the tanning booth getting ready for Opening Day. Mullet looks like a glorious animal, though. #openingday
March 2010
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that's my boyfriend
Josh Beckett went 5 innings, allowed 1 run, and struck out 9 today against the Pirates.
How many days ‘til opening day, again?
November 2009
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@thatsatommypoint
Last night during the Celtics broadcast, Mike and Tommy were talking about Dwight Howard being fined by the league for criticizing refs on his blog. Gorman started to speculate how many fines Tommy would have racked up if the internet had existed when he was a player. Would Tommy have even drawn a paycheck? Is there even enough money in the world?
LaDainian & Norv just hugged after that Phillip Rivers (is a bum) touchdown like they DON’T openly try to poison each other’s food.
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CBS Pats/Dolphins Pre-Game Show: Wildcat? Wildcat. WILDCAT! WILDCAT! WILDCAT! Wildcat? Wildcat. WILDCAT! WILD. CAT. Wildcat.
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Fell asleep last night during Cavs/Bulls game. Surprised all of LeBron’s screeching re: non-call at the end of the game didn’t wake me up.
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so, that happened.
Remember this girl?
You would think, at the very least, that I would try and time things so that when I finally got around to stammering out, “Uh, you’re really cute and, uh, it sucks that you live in New York because, uh, I really like you,” it would not be during the same week that the Yankees were in the process of — gulp — winning the World Series.
But again,...
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It's Time to End the Use of Gay Slurs in Hockey... →
This fall I went to a Bruins pre-season game with some out-of-town friends who are Rangers fans. Despite their best efforts, my understanding and appreciation of hockey remains a … work in progress. One of them linked to this article, which includes a really honest self-examination of homophobia and straight privilege in professional sports.
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an entirely red sox preoccupied preview of the...
—now, I uncomfortably dislike Curt Schilling as much as the next gay commie pinko liberal Red Sox fan who is grateful for his contribution to the 2004 World Championship but has, in the intervening five years, decided that his high-volume conservative politicking now outweighs his folk hero status, but. But!
The Phillies are already throwing Pedro out on the mound for Game 6; they should...
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Pagliuca’s senate campaign commercials = misguided. Ethics? Health care? Jobs? All ads should start: “FROM THE GUY WHO BOUGHT YOU KG ….”
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Philly crowd chanting “YOU TOOK STEROIDS!” loud & strong 3 batters into bottom of 1st. Never been there, but think I would love that town.
October 2009
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That shot of Derek Jeter’s awkward head-bop during the “Empire State of Mind” pre-game performance summed up his ENTIRE HUMAN EXISTENCE.
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ESPN.com’s Pedro-related headline reads “Daddy, I’m Home”. It’s vaguely dirty, slightly confusing, and I like it.
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like ripping off a ....
To commemorate the inauguration of the 2009-10 NBA season, I would like to dedicate this post to my roommate Julia.
Julia hates sports, and when the Red Sox season ended, she was lulled into a false sense of security regarding the state of our television. So, when she came home last night and I said, “Guess what we’re going to do tonight?” she was clearly expecting one of our...
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Probably best that Mike & Tommy are not announcing Celtics/Cavs game. Not sure I’m ready for Tommy’s reaction to seeing LEON on Cavs bench.
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When I fall asleep watching Monday Night Football, I always sleep like a baby. Unfortunately, I’m probably going to die alone & unloved.
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denouement
—well, I even changed into my lucky AROD SLAPS BALLS t-shirt when I got home last night in an attempt to capture some ALCS Game 6 magic, but it wasn’t meant to be. As we head into the World Series, sports fans, let’s all remember one thing: there’s 25 guys on the Phillies’ roster & 25 guys on the Yankees’ roster. The roster with the greater number of World...
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http://bit.ly/5HdHh ESPN stories about the Yankees’ ALCS are required to include pictures of Jason Varitek humping Alan Embree. <3
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Phillies fans chanting “Beat LA! Beat LA!” I’m in favor of beating LA in all sports, all contexts, but it feels … weird.
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Yanks/Angels: There’s still time. As we all know, it wouldn’t even be the biggest ALCS lead the Yankees have ever choked away.
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Jon Gruden, please stop shouting at me!
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In Case You're Confused (Which You Definitely Are)
I spend more time than I would like doing the following 2 things:
Listening to bad sports commentary
Hearing about Brett Favre
As you can probably guess, the former has a lot to do with the latter, especially when watching a Minnesota game. See, sports commentators, I hate Brett Favre. A lot. And I know you don’t because you appreciate fundamentals, or because you’re old, or maybe...
The Titans are basically the dirt that Tom Brady brushes off his shoulder.
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I am happier that Brady & Moss are back together than I would be if any of my last 4 ex-girlfriends asked if I wanted to try again.
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364 days out of 365, I hate Ray Lewis. But on the day when he sacks Brett Favre all the way back into the mid-90s ….
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to be made of glass.
Two stories:
1. Prior to Jon Lester’s last start of the 2009 regular season, NESN aired a short interview between Jon Lester and Heidi Watney. Toward the end, Heidi said, “What’s been the most memorable moment for you this season?” Lester — who is not the most articulate interview ever anyway, and where did he pick up that southern drawl, he was born and raised in...
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DO announcing this TBS playoff game is so weird. It’s like one of your high school teachers showing up to teach one of your college courses.
A-Rod’s first post-season at-bat: Christmas in October!
TBS pre-game crew is as good as in-game gang is bad. David Wells: no blazer, no tie, shirt unbuttoned to waist, calls strikeouts “punchies.”
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I watched last night’s Twins/Tigers game because play-in games are amazing, but also because I thought it would be a lobster-in-the-lobster-pot way of aclimating myself to the ear rape that is TBS postseason baseball coverage. That did not work so well. There is no way to prepare yourself for Ron Darling, Chip Caray and Craig Sieger.
I never thought an announcing crew could have me begging...
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Anyone afraid that a Yanks/Twins & Sox/Angels ALDS reenactment is going to help bring about the apocalypse?
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MNF asking Steve Young to compare tonight’s game to Niners/Chiefs MNF matchup in 1994. Oh, excuse me, I need to go self-cut.
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When someone is running around the office, I say they’re “mobile in the pocket.” But everyone I work with is gay & so no one gets it.
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Watching Tony Romo choke never fails to make me feel good about America.
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How disappointed am I that someone didn’t taser Bill Belichick and force him into a pink hoodie? I can’t even TELL you.
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some notes on the last day of the MLB regular...
1. Here is the most amazing thing about Minnesota’s fight to stay in the AL Central race until the last day of the season: they are pinning it all on starting Carl Pavano on three days rest. Seriously. CARL PAVANO on THREE DAYS REST. That’s like realizing that you have a chance to come from behind in a presidential race if you get the reanimated corpse of Richard Nixon out stumping for...
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Think Red Sox pitchers are competing to see who will be taken out back & shot like a lame horse before playoff roster is released.
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Can the NFL Tackle Homophobia? [The Nation] →
Good article, but it does fail to note that the NFL used to have a PFLAG-donatin’, sensitivity training mandatin’ commissioner, but then they got Roger Goodell, who was a lot more interested in handing out more petty discipline than a substitute teacher.
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Dear Tim Wakefield: Thank you, thank you, thank you. And … good night.
September 2009
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Heidi interviewing Red Sox Minor League Pitcher of the Year Casey Kelly. He looks like a gay(er) version of Johnny Damon.