Jun 25

Jim Riggleman: Hero or Fool?

As we mourn the loss of the great Peter Falk (aaahhh… just one more thing), It seems there’s an interesting trend in the NL East. The division continued their apparent joint campaign with the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP) to show America that old people can still do their jobs just as good as…

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Jun 22

Lockout With Your C**k Out!

Summer has officially arrived, and I want to talk on the sport that’s on everyone’s mind. Football! All off-season we’ve been hearing about the dispute between the owners and the players, and the lockout that followed. I feel like I should weigh in on this issue. Or at least on how terribly the current NFL…

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Jun 20

Trader Jack Rides Again

It has been a tough June for the Florida Marlins. At the end of May, things were looking good in for them. They were 31-22, just behind the Phillies in the National League East and battling for the NL Wild Card. When the calendar turned to June, however, everything went to hell. They opened the…

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Jun 18

No Son of Mine: Dissapointing MLB Offspring

On June 6th, Major League Baseball held its annual amateur draft. This event is the culmination of months of pouring over scouting reports, watching film and even traveling to random Podunk high schools and colleges to watch prospective draft choices throw and hit baseballs. Then Bud Selig’s decrepit, rotting corpse announces every team’s draft choice…

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Jun 16

The Booing of the Bettman

Hockeygirl reacts to the Stanley Cup finals, from the Boston Bruins winning, the looting and rioting by the Vancouver Canucks fans, and the traditional booing of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

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Jun 13

His Royal Highness, Lebron James

So I was planning on using this image in a post about Lebron and the Heat whether they won or lost. If they had won, I would have named the post “Why Lebron Winning is the Worst Thing to Ever Happen to the NBA.” Thankfully, I didn’t have to write that post. Instead, I think…

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Jun 11

What Is the Mendoza Line?

On Thursday, Jorge Posada of the New York Yankees went 2-4. It was said he had finally pushed his batting average over the “Mendoza Line.” That’s a term I’ve heard many times watching baseball over the last 20 years or so, but it occurred to me that some of you newer or younger fans might…

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Jun 9

The NFL All-Felon Squad

As we all know, Plaxico Burress was released from prison at midnight on Monday, June 6th, after serving 22 months in prison, in connection with the shooting of… himself. For those of you with short memories… In 2009, shortly after the end of the NFL season, Plaxico took an unregistered (and therefore illegal) handgun into…

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