Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Watch A Young Millionaire Descend Into Happy Madness

Chad Johnson Has a Reindeer in His Garage :

   He's insisting that it isn't hurt, and that he will somehow incorporate it into his end zone celebration at the end of the week. If I turn on that game and see a bloody sheet over a huge lump in the end zone, I'm either going to not let my children watch or insist that they do.

   Chad may have Dolittle-like powers of communicating with animals, but I have to think that he's shull of fit at the moment. Perhaps the deer fainted, and Chad was able to hogtie it. Or perhaps Chad has a box van, and he was able to lure the deer into it somehow. God only knows, and He may be trying not to pay attention.

   I've spent enough time in small towns  (A New Hampshire Standoff ) to know that deer aren't to be played with. A deer, when threatened, will rise up on it's hind legs and deal out repeated stiff arm shots with those cloven hooves at the end of the 400 pound body. Each one will break whatever bone it lands on.

   This is only if it doesn't kill you outright, by goring you with the antlers. It's a cruel and painful way to die, as the deer- a herbivore- will leave your broken body to be killed and eaten by wolves. I'd bet Santa doesn't get jacked much.

   One of the best episodes of When Good Times Go Bad  involved just such an incident, and the man- who had walked right up onto a mother deer who had obviously seen Bambi- may have had every bone in his body broken. It rocked.

   If this goes down, it will surge past the guy who landed the personal helicopter in the Bowe/Holyfield fight as the craziest thing I've seen happen in a sporting event.

   Chad will have to bring in Idea People to top this. I'd be glad to help, if the right money is on the table. Here's what comes off the top of my brain:

- Attack a cheerleader, and perhaps even obtain penetration

- Climb into the stands and sacrifice a virgin

- Casually hand the ball to an official... then goose him

- Grab a crack pipe and teach kids how to properly light the stem

- Take an Uzi out of the goal post padding and kill 20 people in the stands

- Orchestrate a reenactment of the Carolina cheerleaders bathroom stall incident

- Sneak up on the cornerback he just toasted and pants him

- Get his hands on a microphone, and read some Sylvia Plath poetry (Dirge for a Joker) to show fans his sensitive side

- Produce a hypodermic needle and inject himself with a triple dose of androstenodine, then run around the stadium non-stop, pretending to be a plane

- Jump into the crowd and refuse to come out, then buy hot dogs for everybody in the section

- Take himself out of the game, and stand on the sidelines without pants.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Coming soon...Dennis Rodman on SBL

Dennis Rodman  makes an appearance on 

  • Sports Bloggers Live!
  • soon. Here's what I'm interested in hearing about from him:  

    Dennis Rodman Questions:  

    - Who performs better in bed... Madonna or Carmen Electra?  

    - Did Air Jordan get mad when other guys shot the ball?  

    - Was it hard not to LOL when Coach Jackson started in with all that Zen nonsense?  

    - The argument at my house is that Pippen is either gay, or that he gets a ton of hot chicks. What's the dilly?   

    - When does Double Team II  come out?  

    - Has he ever considering consolidating with Roy Tarpley and Ron Artest for an All-Insane frontcourt  

    - What size dress does a 6'8" guy wear?  

     - Did Bill Laimbeer get girls?  

    - Ask him if there's such a thing as a "Triangle Offense," or is that a Zen term for "let Air Jordan shoot all the time."  

    - Were you ever so mad after a Spurs home loss that you went out into the street and beat Mexicans?  

    - Did he stop listening to Coach Jackson's theories of Zen once he realized that Jackson didn't know how to do roundhouse kicks?  

    - What's it like being a 6'8" rainbow-haired black guy in Texas?      

      

    See if you can trick him into:

    A) Outing a gay NBA player, perhaps Avid-Day Obinson-Ray  

    B) Saying that Larry Bird wasn't that good, and only got attention because he was white  

    C) Saying that he could kick Van Damme's ass  

    D) Revealing Madonna or Carmen Electra's favorite sexual position  

    E) Honoring the player with the biggest unit he ever saw in the NBA shower rooms  

    Thursday, December 15, 2005

    Stuff

     

    1443 pound Rhode Island pumpkin

     

    Chain-smoking gorilla

         

     

    Surfing Mouse

       

     

    Miss Longest Hair In China, 2005

       

     

    George Bush on a special version of Madden

       

     

    Wakeboarding Cat

        

     

    646 pound Thai catfish

       

     

    Green Puppy

       

    Burmese Python explodes after consuming 13" crocodile

     

    First photo of a live 26' giant squid (Architeuthis?)

      

    local6.com - Slideshow

    Monday, December 12, 2005

    Cape Cod Today

    Cape Cod Today :: Cape Cod News and Information

    I'm all over the Internet like some kind of awful virus. Look where the Smurf is blogging these days:

    Cape Cod Today :: Cape Cod News and Information

    They needed a sportswriter, I love exposure... and look at what happened:

    East of Boston

    My first post there drew angry comments (I managed to upset everyone in town, everyone at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and the Hell's Angels... in one sentence), and things only look to be going downhill quickly as I food snob all the local kitchens and do the annoying stuff that my family and friends tell me I am prone to do.

    I'm sure that the good people of the Cape aren't used to writers calling their readers "a waste of sperm and egg," as I did while managing my comments section there today (what's worse... the guy I insulted was half right in what he was complaining about).

    They'll also have to get used to Sports Coverage that occasionally features a recipe or an anecdote about my border collie. Many will hate it, but enough people (me) should get a kick out of it to keep me blogging.

    "East Of Boston" is sort of a local expression used when describing our location to tourists, who we seem to hope will go East of Boston... into Boston Harbor. It's sort of a lesser-used "Cape Cod Tunnel." As long as they wash ashore in Quincy or Scituate, they're not Our Problem.

    Even if you end up hating my work there, there aredozens of other links to visit. You'll have a good time, and you may even learn something before we're through... HEY HEY HEY!

    Why I don't do photoblogs exhibit #4

    Friday, December 9, 2005

    Once you Go White...

    White Guy NBA All Star Game:

       This would be a living museum of how the sport would have looked if it weren't for the ground-breaking done by men like Fritz Pollard and Jackie Robinson. I'd work it into the Dunk Contest/3 Point Shootout part of the festivities.

       The big problem for me would be whether to count Hispanic guys as white or not. Charlie Sheen would say "yes," but Mariah Carey may have a different view.

       I'll leave it to my audience, and I'll just go by looks (i.e., Nene isn't white, while Manu Ginobili is).      

       This was more difficult than it sounds. Some solid white big man talent is sitting on the waiver wire for Bob Sura's inclusion, but we needed guards. Likewise, only some creativity on my part prevented the East from being an entire team of huge European centers.     

       In case you ever wondered about this, only the injury-prone status of Andrei Kirilenko prevents one from fielding a White Bread NBA fantasy team. There also seems to be a Petrovic-sized hole at White Boy shooting guard.         

     

    My Eastern and Western Squads:

       EAST:  

    C- Zydrunas Ilgauskas

    F-Raef LaFrentz

    F- Austin Croshere

    G- Kirk Hinrich

    G- Jason Williams

      

    Bench:

    Zaza Pachulia, Primo Brezec, Darko Milicic, Sarunas Jasikievicus, Andrew Bogut, Nened Kristic, Hidayet Turkoglu, Kyle Korver      

     

    WEST:  

    C- Brad Miller

    F- Dirk Nowitzki

    F- Andrei Kirilienko

    G- Manu Ginobili

    G- Steve Nash

    Bench: 

    Mehmet Okur, Bob Sura, Wally Sczerbiak, Marko Jaric, Pau Gasol, Troy Murphy, Keith Van Horn, Peja Stojakovic

    Thursday, December 8, 2005

    Sucks to be a Penguin

    ESPN.com - NHL - Super Mario in hospital

       Mario Lemieux's life sounds like a Canadian sort of Faustian Bargain.

       "OK, kid... you like Gretzky, huh? I'll let you be better than him, sort of the Great One with a serious checking game. You can win a few Stanley Cups. You can bang or whichever supermodel shows up at the game. Kids will grow up wanting to be you."

       I'd jump at that offer, and you can make an argument that hockey is only the #7 sport in America... depending on where you count Boxing and the WWE. I caught this guy's whole career, and he had the total package- power, speed, skill, and strength. He was what Lindros was supposed to be. Mario Lemieux was Blessed.

       He was also Cursed. In a sport as insane as hockey is, ML had it easy. He missed a lot of games with back and hip injuries, but those weren't gonna kill him. At the height of his power, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease. He made a courageous comeback from that, and all seemed well for Super Mario... until yesterday.

       "Well" is a relative term for Mario. He blew out of the box like a greyhound, which is impressive after a 2 year layoff... but he was -18 (Mario was around +50 at the height of his power) in his last ten games, and he was pretty much definitely going to tell Wayne Gretzky (Team Canada's GM is on an Olympian recruiting trip while his team has a 6 day layoff) that his spot on TC would be better filled by a younger man.

       That's class, and Mario deserves to go out classy. Instead, he may be going out at a sudden press conference.. or worse, brought off the ice under a sheet.

       An irregular heartbeat isn't that unusual in the general population, but it sucks when one of your favorite athletes gets it. Reggie Lewis was the Boston Celtic who had taken the team over, post-Larry. He exploded into a supreme scoring guard, second in the East to only Jordan.

       He was in the playoffs against the Charlotte (now New Orleans-Oklahoma) Hornets, with LJ, Alonzo Mourning, and Kendall Gill. For the first half of game one, he was absolutely abusing the Hornets. The numbers escape me... but he had around 20 in the first half, and we were already wondering how the Bulls were going to handle McHale and Parish if the breaks went our way.

        Then, Reggie was coming down the court... he staggered, and he collapsed. He didn't die on the court... he was merely sitting there, looking scared. There was an irregular heartbeat diagnosis, a medical Dream Team was brought in, the ugly spectre of cocaine emerged... and he was dead by August.

       I was heartbroken. Reggie was a local (Northeastern) kid who had taken the baton from Larry. Getting a staaah like Reggie at #21 in the draft seemed to take some of the sting out of the Len Bias death. Instead, my favorite player was dead, and the Celtics have pretty much had their face buried in Chocolate City ever since.

       Now Pittsburgh- and the NHL in general- is losing another star... hopefully to retirement. It's a shame, and not only because the NHL can't really afford to lose a name that people still recognize.

    Wednesday, December 7, 2005

    Diecast Dude's Book

    http://www.booksurge.com/product.php3?bookID=GPUB04997-00002Diecast Dude's Book

       'Tis the season to tailgate someone at 185 mph and smash some rookie into a fiery death on the turn.

       OK... that's not the true carol... but if NASCAR was around in Israel when Jesus was born, there would definitely be some sort of mention of it in any literature from that period.

       In fact, Jesus may have been tempted to slide in through the window and do one of those crazy Victory Lap donuts while red-lining the RPM needle. At worst, it would have made Mel Gibson's movie a lot less depressing.

        We are rarely afforded the opportunity to change things that happened in Nazareth in 4 BC. That's probably a good thing. A better thing is checking out the link I'm providing

    http://www.booksurge.com/product.php3?bookID=GPUB04997-00002

       That's a link to Diecast Dude's book, Restrictor Plate THIS! : An Unapologetic Look At Stock Car Racing.

      Sure, you could go out and get your spouse a scarf for Christmas. Scarves are handy, they keep the neck warm, they can be used again and again, and are often made in festive colors.

        Or you can take the carving knife and jam it into your own frontal lobe. Both acts would have the same effect on your enjoyment of the holiday.

       Why ruin a marriage with a bad gift, when you can pretty much guarantee a Christmas morning smile when they see Restrictor Plate THIS!  sitting under the tree with a nice red bow. 

        Even a non-fan will benefit from a literary examination of a cultural phenomena that screams Americana like a hot dog at a county fair.

       At worst... if you don't enjoy the book.... you have the real names of a couple of authors (foreword by Monponsett), and you can hunt us down and kill us.

       It's Win-Win.

       Don't waste time. Get to crackin' on ordering this book. You can thank (or stalk/kill) me later.

    MC Ren: "I hope you buy my album.... or don't buy it- I already got paid.... or buy it anyway... maybe I'll get paid more."