Are you kidding me?
ESPN GameDay chose this over #1 Alabama vs #10 Arkansas?
Screw you Arthur Blank.
I imagine it went something a little like this...
Buster: AJ, I've got the story of the year and I think Deadspin should get it before you know... those other people I work for.
Daulerio: Huh? Well, ok. What is it?
Buster: Phillies would really like to have Pujols in their lineup.
Daulerio: .... and so would every other team in baseball. This isn't news.
Buster: but someone in the FRONT OFFICE said they would trade Ryan Howard
Daulerio: Source?
Buster: Well, he isn't actually 'employed' by the Phillies, but he was INSIDE the office when it was said.
Daulerio: I'm not posting this. The cheese rolling being canceled is a better story. And you know, it's accurate.
Buster: What?! Why? This is my big internet scandal moment!
Daulerio: Scandal is right, I can't post it.
Buster: You're going to regret this.
Daulerio: You're an idiot.
Say this much about the Sooners: they’re not Michigan. This performance was compelling evidence that they’re not violating the 20-hour weekly practice rule in Norman. At times it looked like they’d barely practiced 20 hours all August.
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Why I Love College Football
Turn on the NFL game on CBS.
Now change to the NCAA game on ESPN.
Can you hear the difference? Don’t even look at the screen, close your eyes and flip back and forth. That difference makes me smile.
Beautiful.
Dear ESPN,
As you know there was a 5+ hour rain delay for the Arkansas vs. FSU Super Regional today. This game was originally supposed to be shown on ESPN this afternoon. With the delay, I was excited that I might be able to still catch the Hogs this evening. But no, you are now showing that game on ESPN Classic; a channel that I do not get. Now I’m watching a Rice vs. LSU game and the only thing that will make this better is LSU losing.
In short, I despise you, all 16 of your networks and your ridiculous amount of poker tournaments.
Love no more,
Me
The Cardinals belted four home runs in their 6-2 victory in Washington, including round-trippers by their 3-4-5 hitters, Albert Pujols, Chris Duncan and Ryan Ludwick. St. Louis leads the major leagues in batting average (.337), slugging average (.623), home runs (19, tied with the White Sox) and runs batted in (76) from the 3-4-5 slots in the lineup.
The victory lifted the St. Louis won-lost record to 17-7, the best for the Cardinals through their first 24 games of a season in 65 years since the 1944 team, en route to a World Series triumph over its intercity rival, the St. Louis Browns, started the season 18-6.
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These comparisons to World Series years are still scaring the bejeezus out of me! I’m perfectly happy with not being talked about, not making headlines and just playing good baseball.
ESPN’s Jayson Stark reports some comparitive numbers between this April and last April. The difference isn’t enough to shake a stick at which can mean only one thing: Chill out it was only April!
Let’s just blame it all on New York and their fancy new stadiums:
“…that leaves only 11 teams that are down significantly in average attendance — but two of them are the Mets and Yankees, and only if you look at their raw numbers. If you measure them by adjusting for stadium capacity, you find that both are selling virtually the same percentage of their seats this year as they were last April.”
