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If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either
write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing
- Benjamin Franklin
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Week Ending June 29, 2008
NEW!
Q: Is Don Imus a racist or just a complete moron? A: Unquestionably the latter and possibly unwittingly the former. NEW!
Do Met fans have battered person syndrome? Read on and decide.LINKS:
File this one under "Yeah, good luck with that one." Although, on the upside, complaints about airline food would probably drop dramatically. SandJ has been remiss
in failing to acknowledge the end of Will Leitch's reign at Deadspin.com. The past few days have been a full-on roast of Mr. Leitch, including a piece by Bill Simmons reminding us all how good he was before ESPN neutered him.
Week Ending June 15, 2008
NEWSFLASH: TIGER WOODS WINS THE 2008 U.S. OPEN
"When he came to bat in the first inning, the home-plate umpire, Angel Hernandez, pointed out the futuristic
scoreboard shot to Henderson: it featured him with a third eye in the middle of his forehead, huge ears and a bald conical
head." These colors don't run - you need to run from them.
The Belmont Stakes, Gruden and Various Averted Disasters - Part I
From the SandJ Archives: Apparently, in 1996, the accepted reason for Mark McGwire's ungodly power numbers was his "smartness" (also, check out who he's trailing for the HR lead at the time)
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Apparently
Clemens was all jacked up on Viagra as well as everything else he was taking. The article explains the benefits of it, but wouldn't there be some, umm..
obvious comfort issues involved with downing a bunch of blues before a start?
From Deadspin's "The Dark
Side of the Locker Room" - Stefan Fatsis (also the author of the wildly entertaining book about the world of professional
Scrabble - Word Freak) calls himself out for being in the Oakland A's locker room in 1996 and not realizing why everyone was so huge.
Week Ending June 8, 2008:
Ladies and gentleman, Big Brown, brought to you by Hooters - A Field Guide to the 2008 Belmont Stakes
Why the Steroid Era and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis are (Pretty Much) Exactly the Same Thing
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Keep in mind that, adjusted for inflation, the Cleveland Indians held today's equivalent of 3 cent beer night in 1974 - what could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah - a riot.
Shocker! - Evander Holyfield is broke! - In the words of one of his baby mama's lawyers: "My concern is there may be a lot of other mothers not be getting
paid, and I would like my client to be at front of the line"
Do you think this cop actually asked the question
"Have you been doing some drinking today, sir?"
Feeling bad about your job? At least you're not doing this for a living.
The Breakfast Manifesto - It's a good thing they included pictures, otherwise the third guy down in the fifth column would seem like a derelict,
but I guess the beret makes him a bon vivant
Via Deadspin - I believe the headline puts it best
From McSweeney's - This is something I've been reading for a long time and a bona-fide time waster: Dispatches from a Public Librarian - Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about libraries
MLB will go to any lengths to right the
wrongs of the steroid era, even if it means pretending it never happened
After midnight some nights, Pat Jordan's phone would ring. Show was calling to ask Jordan, a freelance
sports writer, “How do you know God exists?” - A profile of one of baseball's oddest and most tragic players, Eric Show.
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