Recorded Wednesday August 6, 2014.
On Andrew McCutchen’s injury, the unwritten rules, and the San Antonio Spurs awesomeness.
Part-Timers Sports Podcast: Episode 20: How About a Little Respect for the MVP?
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Melky Goes Yard, Destroys Windshield
Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrerra hit a HR from each side of the plate Monday night…and this one, over the Green Monster, destroyed a windshield on its way down!
Monster night at Fenway for Melky Cabrera. Cabrera hits 2 HR, 5 RBI & 1 windshield as Blue Jays beat Red Sox, 14-1. pic.twitter.com/fkepOwEtI8
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 29, 2014
Is Melky back on the juice?
How long before the MLB “randomly selects” him to pee in a cup (like the NFL did to Drew Brees after he said he could play until he was 45-years-old)?
These are questions that need to be answered, dammit!
Tiger in Mid-Season Form
Should’ve taken a club to those idiots’ heads.
Or just smashed them in the face with a drive…
Tiger finished Round 1 at 3 under par.
Jaromir Jagr Top 10
The worst trade in NHL history happened 13 years ago today; the Pittsburgh Penguins traded Jaromir Jagr (439G, 640A at the time; 705G, 1050A currently) to the Washington Capitals for Kris Beech (25G, 42A in 198 career games), Frantisek Kucera (24, 95A in 465 career games), Michal Sivek (3G, 3A in 38 career games), and Ross Lupashuck (0G, 0A in 3 career games).
And The Dark Age ensued.
(Stick Tap to The Pens Blog for the anniversary/video)
The Final 81 Games of My Life as a Yankees Fan: Game #1
They say you always remember your first love…For me that was the New York Yankees.
The Bronx Bombers weren’t a team, they were a religion. For my friends and I, memorizing all the significant names and numbers of Yankees history was way more important than anything we could ever learn in school. If you called yourself a fan but didn’t know the significance of the numbers 714 or 2,130 or .353/52/130 then you were labeled a “poser” and not considered a “real fan.”
But with Derek Jeter‘s retirement at the end of the 2014 season will also come my “retirement” as a Yankees fan, for reasons I’ll explore later in future posts.
Game 1: Rays 2 (37-49) Yankees 1 (41-41)
It’s not just that the Yankees lose, it’s that they lose in the most boring way possible. I know this might be an indictment about the state of Major League Baseball as a whole but three hours and 13 minutes to play a 2-1 game? Really? I’ve got a 200-dollar-per-month cable bill and more channels than I can count, so why would I want to spend 1/8th of a day watching a baseball game in which only three runs get scored? Sometimes it feels like a chore watching this team play. And, for the record, I have no idea why a hitter has to adjust his batting gloves after every pitch, even after the ones he didn’t swing at.
They Yankees wasted a superb effort by SP Hiroki Kuroda by going only 1-9 with RISP and left 8 men on base. The #4 (Mark Teixeira) and #5 (Carlos Beltran) spots in the lineup, which make $37.5 million between them (or only $7,044,174 less than the entire Astros team makes) went 0-4 between them.
After watching this shit-show I wished I had gotten caught up on all the Ancient Aliens episodes I’ve got DVR’ed instead.
The New Best Rivalry in Sports
Ladies and gentleman, we have a new best rivalry in sports and it is…the Tampa Bay Rays and the Boston Red Sox! What makes it the best if that there is genuine disdain between these two clubs which has already resulted in several bench clearing incidents this year and it’s just barely June.
Jonny Gomes would like to have a conversation with Yunel Escobar
But before we talk about the now, I would like to take you on a journey back to the dawning of the rivalry ‘tween these two clubs we now see blossoming right before our very eyes. I remember it very well because I watched the game.
It was August 29, 2000. The 15-4 Pedro Martinez (who would win the Cy Young that year) took the mound for the 2nd-place Boston Red Sox against some guy named Dave Eiland who was just helping the team then known as the Devil Rays kill time until the end of another dismal 60-92 season. This would be the 3rd of 10 consecutive losing seasons the Rays began their baseball existence with.
Boston was in Tampa. Gerald Williams was the Rays’ leadoff hitter. The count is 1-2 when this happened:
This was memorable for 2 reasons:
The 1st is, Gerald Williams gets a great shot in on Pedro. I’d always wanted to see Pedro get punched in the face and now I had. It was a bonus that Williams was a former Yankee whom I always liked because he played hard.
YES!
The 2nd is because Pedro took a no-hitter into the 9th which would have been a perfect game had he not plunked Williams and, of course, that was all the announcers could talk about. It made for great debate, the possibility of Pedro tossing a no-no but his stupidity costing him a shot at perfection. I remember sitting there wanting to see it happen. The Yankees were in 1st and 2004 was four years away so I didn’t care if they won the game because I thought it’d be hysterical to watch the Red Sox player I despised the most throw the most disappointing no-hitter in MLB history.
In the bottom of the 9th Martinez was facing the 8-9-1 spots in the Rays’ lineup which meant that light-hitting catcher John Flaherty was leading off. He singles. No-no gone. It was depressing. I felt as if Pedro knew that if he completed the no-hitter that the story would forever be the perfect game that wasn’t instead of the no-hitter that was, and decided he did not want that to be part of his legacy. I honestly felt as if Pedro had willingly given up a no-hitter just to not talk about the imperfect game.
So that is how it began and here are some of the more notable incidents through the years.
Last year John Lackey and Matt Joyce got unfriendly.
This year we have all this Papi-David Price stuff going on.
A few weeks ago Price hits Ortiz and Mike Carp, tempers flare.
Then Ortiz proclaims “war” (douche bag) on Price.
Here Price perfectly refutes Ortiz’s moronic war comment and more.
As i said earlier, in case you didn’t know, Tampa Bay-Boston is the best current rivalry in all of sports because there is genuine disdain and vehemence between these two teams who have to play each other 19 times a year.
So if i were you, I’d mark my calender for Friday July 25th which is the next time these two teams will meet again because there is sure to be some lingering issues these team will need to discuss by throwing baseballs at each other. An extra helping of July fireworks if you will.
The Greg Hardy fella’ sure sounds like a swell guy!
Check out the above article for full story on the incident regarding Carolina Panthers DE Greg Hardy and his girlfriend.
Here some excerpts from the article outlining Hardy’s (alleged)actions:
“Arrest warrants accuse the 6-foot-4, 290-pound Hardy of throwing the 24-year-old Holder to the floor and into a bathtub, slamming her against a futon and “strangling” her during an argument at his home.”
“Hardy also said he would kill her, the warrant stated, a threat “made in a manner and under circumstances which would cause a reasonable person to believe that the threat was likely to be carried out.””
“But in a complaint accompanying her request for a restraining order against Hardy, Holder added compelling details to her version of the fight. They include allegations that an enraged Hardy choked her with both hands and threatened to kill her.”
“At one point during their struggle, she said in her complaint that Hardy picked her up and threw her into a tub, then dragged her across the floor by her hair. As Hardy screamed threats, Holder said he lifted her over his head and threw her on a couch “covered in assault rifles and/or shotguns.”
“She said Hardy keeps a cache of 25-30 “AK-47s, automatic-looking weapons, shotguns, rifles and pistols” in his North Tryon condo and a former residence.”
“Holder said Hardy threatened to shoot her if “I went to the media or reported his assaults to anyone,” according to her complaint.”
There seem to be some question as to how the incident began but, the way I see it, the “she started it defense” is something only a complete fucking asshole would use as justification to do the things Hardy, a Pro Bowl DE standing 6’4″ 279lbs, is accused of doing to a female who is literally less than half his size.
It amazes me that in the state of North Carolina, choking a woman with both hands then suplexing her onto a pile of loaded assault rifles and threatening to kill her, is only a misdemeanor and a $17,000 bond. But what’s even more incredible is that nowhere does it say that Hardy had to surrender his arsenal.
The NFL needs to starts getting a little more heavy-handed with its discipline when it comes to incidents like this (as well as the Ray Rice incident) and relax on the season-long bans for trivial (compared to this) things like marijuana.
Here is something that will help you put Roger Goodell’s and the NFL’s idea of discipline, and priorities, into proper perspective. In 2006 Miami RB Sammy Morris got a 4-game ban for taking Sudafed, or, exactly as many as Ben Roethlisberger received after his second alleged sexual assault in 2010 and twice as many as Mike Vick got after serving his sentence for his role in a dog fighting ring.
Somebody needs to inform Roger Goodell, the 32 owners and the NFLPA as well, that taking over-the-counter cold medicine and (allegedly) sexually assualting a woman (twice), murdering dogs and/or choking/punching females are transgressions which are not all created equal.
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