Pete Rose gambled, he didn't cheat, and this Superbowl ad was my favorite.
Tag: Baseball
Triple Play! Sí Se Puede!
....This is a cute video of a 6 yr. old kid pulling off a triple play in a baseball game. Sí Se Puede! ...Move over MLB, 6-year-old Little Leaguer turns unassisted triple play
Johnny Damon the myth of sports news
Local news on TV gets a scant few minutes of coverage, where the story of the day vies with weather to edge out everything else that isn't fluff. In national news, interviewees can seldom get an answer in edgewise before they're rushed off for the commercial break. "That's all the time we have" ends every news story, yet the day's sports story is paraded before sport desk after sport center. I used to envy the attention Americans gave to sports, until I saw the scrutiny was illusory. For example, Johnny Damon's double stolen base in game four of the World Series. 11017
Ask Alex Rodriguez how he does Tic Tacs
A-Rod held a press conference to explain his now admitted steroid use, a mistake he blamed on his youth, when he was 24-26. While the "Boli" which Rodriguez got through his cousin, over the counter in the Dominican Republic, remains a mystery. Rodriguez claimed he did not know it was a steroid. Asked why he kept the twice-a-month for-three-years injections a secret, he admitted he knew "We weren't taking Tic Tacs." The comparison might be a dismissive reference to the innocuous breath mint, but it implies a small pill taken orally, doesn't it? For your breath. Can you inject a Tic Tac? Maybe it's time to ask: what in professional sports circles is a "Tic Tac" injection?
Alaskan anti-Palin rally drew record numbers, CoSprings rally not so many…
as a baseball game. One in which there is no Pennant chance or pennant impact. The Rockies on Tuesday night drew a crowd of 25,000. 4824
102 Olympic medals for white swimmers
Michael Phelps his poised to beat Mark Spitz's record for medals won in a single Olympics. Does it say something that both are swimmers? Maybe there are too many swimming events? You don't find 1/2 length, or 1/4 length fencing matches. You certainly don't have shooting medley relays. 4256
Caps off to Goose Gossage
Tears are free falling this afternoon. Goose Gossage was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, and it is about damn time. 3874
Tim Robbins is an activist god
Maybe it's the start of baseball season -- I'm watching the 22nd inning of the Rockies-Padres game! -- that has me remembering the first time I saw the movie Bull Durham. It was a movie that had everything I love -- sport (baseball), romance (Costner and Sarandon) and humor (in the form of an idiotic-yet-talented young pitcher). The imprint of Bull Durham remained on me for a long time. I pictured Crash Davis and Annie Savoy living in Happily Ever After, and hoped that someday I might be as lucky. 3123