Mavs post the Warriors up 111-86 with a surprise return of Dirk Nowitski, who chipped in with 18 points. For those that counted the Mavericks out as dead, THIS is what we've been waiting on! Suddenly we have that spark....we're hungry again!!! =D
This game means more than just one win in the standings; with the tighter than a sphincter race in the West for the last playoff spots, this is huge in terms of us adding another quality win, one for morale in general, as well as head-to-head tiebreakers. Now if we can stay on our winning ways, we'll hit the 8 seed, take on the Hornets at 1 and hope for the best!
[ESPN recap]
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
(in my best Vin Scully voice) ITS TIME FOR DODGER BASEBALL!!!
The excitement is so palpable, that I can taste the Dodger Dogs. Inevitably, every winter we go through a drought of enjoyable sports here in LA, particularly an outdoor sport. We have no football teams (save for SC but that's in the fall and only 6 games a season...and try getting tickets for USC now! I'm alumni and can't get tickets!). No one cares about soccer here. This is our saving grace, and what a savior!
Dodger fan all of my life, and this will be my 2nd year as a season ticket holder. Next year, we're moving Spring Training to Arizona, so Lord willing, I'll be at a bit of that as well. There's something about the team, and it all emanates from the history and background at Dodger Stadium. Sitting in those seats that have been through so much history, in the beaming, glorious southern California sun, watching the boys in blue take on other great teams....there's just something about it that's such a great draw!
My personal excitement is at levels that I've never experienced before. I always read about Opening Day for baseball in LA being the unspoken holiday with hundreds of thousands calling out of work to either attend the game or watch on TV in a bar. Now that I'm in the working world, this will be my 2nd Opening Day (there's no hotter ticket in LA -- period). But even before that, I get to enjoy the upcoming Dodger v. Red Sox game at the LA Coliseum. To make a long story short, the Dodgers played there for 3 years while Dodger Stadium was being built. Will have many pictures and hopefully video posted after the weekend. Cannot wait!!!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Congressional Hearings turn into Perjury?
Just for those that can't get enough of this story...
In the aftermath now of Roger Clemens' testimony to Congress about steriods, HGH, B-12, Winstrol, et al, Congress has now given an 18-page recommendation to the Justice Department that they investigate into possible perjury by Roger Clemens. In reality, this is an indictment being handed down by Congress, and they they did the legwork for it. Of note in the file from Rep. Waxman, are the facts that the abcesses on Clemens' buttocks (yes, buttocks) are not comparable to B-12 shots, rather HGH. There are numerous contradictions in his testimony, which at one point leads Congress to believe that he may have intentionally been trying to mislead the panel. Finally, they describe how his story doesn't match up with anyone else's regarding any of the events and circumstances surrounding everything. Add that to the fact that he reacted in certain ways in which a normal individual would not have acted in these circumstances, and you can see the noose tightening around his neck, so to speak. You can read the memo from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at the link.
[Referral via ESPN]
In the aftermath now of Roger Clemens' testimony to Congress about steriods, HGH, B-12, Winstrol, et al, Congress has now given an 18-page recommendation to the Justice Department that they investigate into possible perjury by Roger Clemens. In reality, this is an indictment being handed down by Congress, and they they did the legwork for it. Of note in the file from Rep. Waxman, are the facts that the abcesses on Clemens' buttocks (yes, buttocks) are not comparable to B-12 shots, rather HGH. There are numerous contradictions in his testimony, which at one point leads Congress to believe that he may have intentionally been trying to mislead the panel. Finally, they describe how his story doesn't match up with anyone else's regarding any of the events and circumstances surrounding everything. Add that to the fact that he reacted in certain ways in which a normal individual would not have acted in these circumstances, and you can see the noose tightening around his neck, so to speak. You can read the memo from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at the link.
[Referral via ESPN]
Bitch-slap from Washington!
The FANTASTIC news of someone finally callling Comcast on its unregulated practices is the most welcome bit of info I’ve read in weeks.
After Comcast/Time Warner’s practice of throttling down BitTorrent and P2P data, regardless of legalities or not (some of us DO download open-source installers such as Ubuntu over BitTorrent due to constant updates and large sizes). After this practice was made public, then the experiments in charging customers based on bandwidth usage, the FCC is finally making good on their promises from CES and is clamping down. Serious charges could be pressed against Comcast from federal regulators, but lets hope it doesn’t get that far and Comcast just lifts its policy and frees up its internet again!!!
[via the NY Times]
After Comcast/Time Warner’s practice of throttling down BitTorrent and P2P data, regardless of legalities or not (some of us DO download open-source installers such as Ubuntu over BitTorrent due to constant updates and large sizes). After this practice was made public, then the experiments in charging customers based on bandwidth usage, the FCC is finally making good on their promises from CES and is clamping down. Serious charges could be pressed against Comcast from federal regulators, but lets hope it doesn’t get that far and Comcast just lifts its policy and frees up its internet again!!!
[via the NY Times]
Helloooo Petra!
Having already enjoyed her spreads in the SI swimsuit edition a while back, new shots of Petra Nemcova are ALWAYS welcomed! Here’s her latest spread.
[Petra Nemcova shoot via The Superficial]
[Petra Nemcova shoot via The Superficial]
Absolutely ridiculous
Apparently you’re not allowed to express emotion or excitement in sports anymore. A 9 year old in Australia was banned from a local tennis court center due to her ‘grunting’. Those familiar with Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams and other tennis stars that exert a grunt noise when striking the ball, know that this is due to the extremes to which they push their bodies to deliver maximum force. Apparently, you’re not allowed to do it unless you’re a tennis superstar. Even the Queen allows it at Wimbeldon, but this court is too high-brow for it!
[via ESPN]
[via ESPN]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Friday, February 01, 2008
The Glory Days!
This one sure takes me back.
The Sports Guy has a batch of links this morning, one of which presents an answer to the usual ‘Madden Sim’. For those that may be unaware, EA and the Madden team will annually have their simulation of the Super Bowl, and sometimes large games, on their flagship product, Madden Football. Sure enough, there was another edition of it this year to add to the Media Week for the Super Bowl this week.
The article I’m referring to though is a sim of the game presented on the “old school” Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES, with updated rosters for the 2007 NFL season. Yes, the Pats QB is Tom Brady, all 32 NFL teams are included, and its still a thrilling game! Highly worth checking out, the video is obviously split into the halves, and the 2nd half is a must-watch. You can find the video here:
http://www.armchairgm.com/Article:Tecmo-izing_The_Super_Bowl
What do you all think? Is that sim accurate?
The Sports Guy has a batch of links this morning, one of which presents an answer to the usual ‘Madden Sim’. For those that may be unaware, EA and the Madden team will annually have their simulation of the Super Bowl, and sometimes large games, on their flagship product, Madden Football. Sure enough, there was another edition of it this year to add to the Media Week for the Super Bowl this week.
The article I’m referring to though is a sim of the game presented on the “old school” Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES, with updated rosters for the 2007 NFL season. Yes, the Pats QB is Tom Brady, all 32 NFL teams are included, and its still a thrilling game! Highly worth checking out, the video is obviously split into the halves, and the 2nd half is a must-watch. You can find the video here:
http://www.armchairgm.com/Article:Tecmo-izing_The_Super_Bowl
What do you all think? Is that sim accurate?
Today starts...well....today, which is a new day
After seeing the listing of the sites up for the Bloggie awards (http://2008.bloggies.com) I’ve come to realize that the standard setup by Blogspot, although meticulously setup and provided for our benefit, just doesn’t cut it. Perhaps I wont get a million readers, but at least I can create something a bit more personal to have on here. Today, I embark on updating this blog to reflect something of myself, of my own creation. To be honest, I don’t even know to what extent I can customize things here on Blogspot, but I’ll find out. Alot of these websites have the snazziest setups, that I was truly in envy of. We’ll see how long it takes....
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Eli Manning laughs at all of Us
For what it’s worth, this was one of the best playoff games in recent memory. I can think of numerous games that had highly memorable moments (Music City Miracle, Tuck Rule), or games that pushed players on the bubble into superstardom (Mike Vick at Lambeau just a few years ago), but I find it hard to remember a game that was this exciting and thrilling. Bearing in mind, neither myself or my girlfriend are fans of either the Packers or Giants, but we found ourselves switching alliances and cheering so much throughout the game, we might as well be bandwagon fans. Thrilling game all around, and by far, one of the most entertaining. The only thing I take from this is that the Super Bowl might be a let down now after this, and can only hope that this level of drama continues to follow the Giants around. They seem to make for good TV lately.
The aspect that I’ll probably remember this game the most for, aside from being only the 2nd time history that an NFL playoff game ended with an overtime FG, is the overnight growth and coming out party of Eli Manning. Seriously, where did this guy come from? A month ago, we were knocking him for having the sourpuss expression, for being immature and possibly a bust, for never reaching potential and genetics that gifted him with a quarterback’s ability. Now, two MAJOR upsets later, he’s leaving GM’s scratching their heads at how this punk ruined their seasons. Have we reached the stage of Eli “Road Warrior” Manning? He’s led his team to 10 straight road wins, and although some were total cupcakes, and he was never his best, he’s never been better than the last three (Tampa Bay, Dallas, Green Bay). Even harder to believe -- for someone who’s perceived to be as shaky as he is, he’s thrown a total of zero interceptions this post-season. Seriously, who knew he had it in him?
I almost believed it last week, when we say Eli showing the poise of a veteran in a 2 minute drill at the end of the first half against Dallas. The talking heads on TV would go on and on later about how greatly Eli ‘managed’ the game. Game managers, the Trent Dilfers and Vince Youngs of the world could not have pulled this off. Not at any point in their careers. The real world equivalent of this would be Jeff Spicoli proving that he not only learned lessons in History class to get to go to prom, but goes on to make valedictorian, gets into Brown and writes a dissertation on the effects of drug use on teens -- you always wish he could do it, but when he does show it, you want to tell yourself that he always had it in him, but it’s still a shock. Eli was not managing this game though -- the offense ran through him. He picked apart the Green Bay secondary time and again, starting hot and staying hot throughout the game, making the throws when he needed. For as much as Plaxico physically abused, and possibly legally abused Al Harris (more on this topic later), Eli had to make all of those throws right on the money, and he did. Honestly, I expected him to defer to the running game in the cold weather, and anticipated Bradshaw or Jacobs to break the big run that would keep the Giants in the game. Instead, it was Eli quietly racking up 250+ passing yards, and spotting every coverage breakdown.
However, this wasn’t just about him proving himself, but he did it, again, in the worst possible scenario. Gametime temperature of -1℉, at famed Lambeau field, against Brett Favre and the improbable team of destiny, with a banged up Giants secondary, no Shockey, no Derrick Ward, and it being for all the NFC marbles. I half expected at the post-game on field interview for Eli to take his helmet off and reveal that it was Peyton playing the whole time and laughing maniacally, while Archie and the rest of the Manning clan followed suit in their box above the field.
But what of the counterpart, Brett Favre? This was the season he would guide his motley crew back to the Super Bowl, defying expectations of him at his age. He started well enough, slinging to receivers downfield, and it seemed as though he would leave them bruised just enough from his fastballs by the end of the game. By the 2nd half though, Favre was as cold as the field. In his post-game interview, he would talk about how disapointed he was, and rightly so. He was at his home field, in his own little Mecca that he created, and he couldn’t take out ELI MANNING with every advantage, save for the weather, in his favor. Will this affect his comeback for next year? Who’s to say...although I don’t think that he wants to go out on this type of note. He was quoted as saying that the last thing that would stick out in your mind is your last game, and that for him, the last play on offense would be the starting point for him (where he was intercepted on a horribly underthrown ball). It doesn’t feel as though Favre can leave on this note; on the legacy that he’s built, he can’t leave on a pick, he has to leave on his own terms. Even if he does leave, you cant say that he didn’t go out shooting.
For all accounts though, this wasn’t Favre’s loss, but a united team effort. After the 2nd quarter, I started telling myself that this Packer team didn’t seem like they wanted to earn the victory, rather they were entitled to it by virtue of being the team of Lambeau, and hoping that the stadium’s mystique would carry them to a victory. Not the case this Sunday, as the team failed on several points. Coverage in the secondary broke down time and time again, no one could stop the tailbacks if their lives depended on them, and special teams were atrocious. For the highlights (see the crazy Favre interception where the DB was stripped and one of the O-line guys recovered), there were so many low lights that would leave the coaches yelling till mini-camp in the Spring at their squads.
The run game was non-existent. Total of 28 yards on the ground. The coming out party held last week for Ryan Grant seemed to leave the worst hangover ever, as the Giants d-line didnt let a fly get by them. The Packers went a combined 1 for 10 on 3rd down conversions (last time I checked, that wont get it done, especially not in the game before the Super Bowl, although the Giants checked in at 6 for 16, but they converted when it mattered). In the end, it seems that the Pack were looking ahead to the Pats and wondering how they could beat them to solidify Favre’s legacy and send him off into the sunset a winner.
If we’re going to pick apart a team’s flaw though, the biggest thing all game was the absolute destruction by Plaxico Burress of Al Harris’ manhood. If not for the repeated catches and huge receptions, the Giants would be on a sad ride home, and Eli would be wondering when the next shrimpin’ boat would come into town back home so that he could get some fresh scallops. The closest way I can relate how badly Plax ate up Al Harris is the KFC ‘Big Box Meal’; if you’re planning on taking down that much, you have no zero remorse, as overwhelming as the task seems. Only difference being, instead of feeling sick after eating the whole thing, it’ll be Harris who’s gonna be sick for months after this performance. Only until the 3rd quarter did McCarthy pull Harris off of Plax, but by that point, the morale of the secondary was blasted all the way to Milwaukee. Harris seemed to bite on every one of Plax’s moves, to the point where it looked like the offense running drills against the scout team. Did Harris forget that Eli planned on throwing it to Burress from time to time, or did he think that the power of the dreads would catch Eli’s attention like a child suffering from ADD and would freeze him up long enough to get sacked? Needless to say, Eli wasn’t not only unshaken the whole game, he played with a poise and confidence that we’ve never seen from him. Give credit to Plax though; he made several amazing catches, but where was the vaunted defense from the Pro Bowler Harris that’s earned him praise? It looked worse than an overmatched college DB out there.
On the other side of the token, if Al Harris lost the game due to poor play, then Lawrence Tynes won with his leg. After nailing two early FG’s with a frozen ball and crazy wind conditions, who could blame him for missing two critical FG’s in the same conditions, and in Lambeau, in a situation that he’d never been in before. Kudos to Coughlin for keeping him in the game for the OT kick (granted, he might have even had another available kicker), but it speaks to the confidence the head coach has in his players when he sends them out for the biggest play of the season, 15 minutes after berating him on national TV. Practice must be tons of fun around these guys.
However, for everything that stands out in my mind, perhaps the one thing that will stand out in Green Bay infamy (or at least should for anyone with some sense), is the play that wasn’t made by Bush on the punt return fumble. So many times in this past season I’ve yelled at the TV for players to FALL ON A FUMBLE instead of trying to be a hero and being greedy, thinking of running it back for glory. You can’t stress it enough, and I can only imagine how many special teams coaches will make it their motto next season. With the game in the balance with a little over two minutes to go, Nixon fumbles the punt return, and Bush can fall on the ball to give Green Bay the ball back, with timeouts and giving Favre one last chance to march down the field and march into Arizona. Instead, he tries to pick the ball up and run, skipping over the ball, and knocking it further from him, allowing the Giants to recover. It was the one bad bounce that didn’t go Green Bay’s way all night. What happened after this? Why, Eli drove down the field to the GB 20 yard line, giving Tynes a chance to win it all (which he shanked). No matter. Tynes, Coughlin, and especially Eli, got the last laugh this night. And something tells me that Eli’s not done laughing.
The aspect that I’ll probably remember this game the most for, aside from being only the 2nd time history that an NFL playoff game ended with an overtime FG, is the overnight growth and coming out party of Eli Manning. Seriously, where did this guy come from? A month ago, we were knocking him for having the sourpuss expression, for being immature and possibly a bust, for never reaching potential and genetics that gifted him with a quarterback’s ability. Now, two MAJOR upsets later, he’s leaving GM’s scratching their heads at how this punk ruined their seasons. Have we reached the stage of Eli “Road Warrior” Manning? He’s led his team to 10 straight road wins, and although some were total cupcakes, and he was never his best, he’s never been better than the last three (Tampa Bay, Dallas, Green Bay). Even harder to believe -- for someone who’s perceived to be as shaky as he is, he’s thrown a total of zero interceptions this post-season. Seriously, who knew he had it in him?
I almost believed it last week, when we say Eli showing the poise of a veteran in a 2 minute drill at the end of the first half against Dallas. The talking heads on TV would go on and on later about how greatly Eli ‘managed’ the game. Game managers, the Trent Dilfers and Vince Youngs of the world could not have pulled this off. Not at any point in their careers. The real world equivalent of this would be Jeff Spicoli proving that he not only learned lessons in History class to get to go to prom, but goes on to make valedictorian, gets into Brown and writes a dissertation on the effects of drug use on teens -- you always wish he could do it, but when he does show it, you want to tell yourself that he always had it in him, but it’s still a shock. Eli was not managing this game though -- the offense ran through him. He picked apart the Green Bay secondary time and again, starting hot and staying hot throughout the game, making the throws when he needed. For as much as Plaxico physically abused, and possibly legally abused Al Harris (more on this topic later), Eli had to make all of those throws right on the money, and he did. Honestly, I expected him to defer to the running game in the cold weather, and anticipated Bradshaw or Jacobs to break the big run that would keep the Giants in the game. Instead, it was Eli quietly racking up 250+ passing yards, and spotting every coverage breakdown.
However, this wasn’t just about him proving himself, but he did it, again, in the worst possible scenario. Gametime temperature of -1℉, at famed Lambeau field, against Brett Favre and the improbable team of destiny, with a banged up Giants secondary, no Shockey, no Derrick Ward, and it being for all the NFC marbles. I half expected at the post-game on field interview for Eli to take his helmet off and reveal that it was Peyton playing the whole time and laughing maniacally, while Archie and the rest of the Manning clan followed suit in their box above the field.
But what of the counterpart, Brett Favre? This was the season he would guide his motley crew back to the Super Bowl, defying expectations of him at his age. He started well enough, slinging to receivers downfield, and it seemed as though he would leave them bruised just enough from his fastballs by the end of the game. By the 2nd half though, Favre was as cold as the field. In his post-game interview, he would talk about how disapointed he was, and rightly so. He was at his home field, in his own little Mecca that he created, and he couldn’t take out ELI MANNING with every advantage, save for the weather, in his favor. Will this affect his comeback for next year? Who’s to say...although I don’t think that he wants to go out on this type of note. He was quoted as saying that the last thing that would stick out in your mind is your last game, and that for him, the last play on offense would be the starting point for him (where he was intercepted on a horribly underthrown ball). It doesn’t feel as though Favre can leave on this note; on the legacy that he’s built, he can’t leave on a pick, he has to leave on his own terms. Even if he does leave, you cant say that he didn’t go out shooting.
For all accounts though, this wasn’t Favre’s loss, but a united team effort. After the 2nd quarter, I started telling myself that this Packer team didn’t seem like they wanted to earn the victory, rather they were entitled to it by virtue of being the team of Lambeau, and hoping that the stadium’s mystique would carry them to a victory. Not the case this Sunday, as the team failed on several points. Coverage in the secondary broke down time and time again, no one could stop the tailbacks if their lives depended on them, and special teams were atrocious. For the highlights (see the crazy Favre interception where the DB was stripped and one of the O-line guys recovered), there were so many low lights that would leave the coaches yelling till mini-camp in the Spring at their squads.
The run game was non-existent. Total of 28 yards on the ground. The coming out party held last week for Ryan Grant seemed to leave the worst hangover ever, as the Giants d-line didnt let a fly get by them. The Packers went a combined 1 for 10 on 3rd down conversions (last time I checked, that wont get it done, especially not in the game before the Super Bowl, although the Giants checked in at 6 for 16, but they converted when it mattered). In the end, it seems that the Pack were looking ahead to the Pats and wondering how they could beat them to solidify Favre’s legacy and send him off into the sunset a winner.
If we’re going to pick apart a team’s flaw though, the biggest thing all game was the absolute destruction by Plaxico Burress of Al Harris’ manhood. If not for the repeated catches and huge receptions, the Giants would be on a sad ride home, and Eli would be wondering when the next shrimpin’ boat would come into town back home so that he could get some fresh scallops. The closest way I can relate how badly Plax ate up Al Harris is the KFC ‘Big Box Meal’; if you’re planning on taking down that much, you have no zero remorse, as overwhelming as the task seems. Only difference being, instead of feeling sick after eating the whole thing, it’ll be Harris who’s gonna be sick for months after this performance. Only until the 3rd quarter did McCarthy pull Harris off of Plax, but by that point, the morale of the secondary was blasted all the way to Milwaukee. Harris seemed to bite on every one of Plax’s moves, to the point where it looked like the offense running drills against the scout team. Did Harris forget that Eli planned on throwing it to Burress from time to time, or did he think that the power of the dreads would catch Eli’s attention like a child suffering from ADD and would freeze him up long enough to get sacked? Needless to say, Eli wasn’t not only unshaken the whole game, he played with a poise and confidence that we’ve never seen from him. Give credit to Plax though; he made several amazing catches, but where was the vaunted defense from the Pro Bowler Harris that’s earned him praise? It looked worse than an overmatched college DB out there.
On the other side of the token, if Al Harris lost the game due to poor play, then Lawrence Tynes won with his leg. After nailing two early FG’s with a frozen ball and crazy wind conditions, who could blame him for missing two critical FG’s in the same conditions, and in Lambeau, in a situation that he’d never been in before. Kudos to Coughlin for keeping him in the game for the OT kick (granted, he might have even had another available kicker), but it speaks to the confidence the head coach has in his players when he sends them out for the biggest play of the season, 15 minutes after berating him on national TV. Practice must be tons of fun around these guys.
However, for everything that stands out in my mind, perhaps the one thing that will stand out in Green Bay infamy (or at least should for anyone with some sense), is the play that wasn’t made by Bush on the punt return fumble. So many times in this past season I’ve yelled at the TV for players to FALL ON A FUMBLE instead of trying to be a hero and being greedy, thinking of running it back for glory. You can’t stress it enough, and I can only imagine how many special teams coaches will make it their motto next season. With the game in the balance with a little over two minutes to go, Nixon fumbles the punt return, and Bush can fall on the ball to give Green Bay the ball back, with timeouts and giving Favre one last chance to march down the field and march into Arizona. Instead, he tries to pick the ball up and run, skipping over the ball, and knocking it further from him, allowing the Giants to recover. It was the one bad bounce that didn’t go Green Bay’s way all night. What happened after this? Why, Eli drove down the field to the GB 20 yard line, giving Tynes a chance to win it all (which he shanked). No matter. Tynes, Coughlin, and especially Eli, got the last laugh this night. And something tells me that Eli’s not done laughing.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
A sense of civility and renewed faith in mankind
http://kotaku.com/342519/3-companies-bar-egm-from-coverage-following-poor-reviews
I read this story in the context of the dirt that was kicked up from the Gamespot/Jeff Gerttsmann debacle. Frank Provo, an editor at Gamespot, left about a week ago, citing the Jeff firing as his reason for leaving, saying that he wouldn’t want to be fired for being honest in a review.
Now comes the news that MAJOR video game publishers went ahead and threatened a publication with less ‘privileges’, so to speak, in an effort to get what they wanted. Seems that this publication wanted nothing to do with it though, and let the proverbial shit hit the fan, with a letter from their very editor, who said that his publication will not stoop to such levels.
Granted, yes, as a developer/publisher, you’re not going to like those that review you. Some that review you may be biased in their own way, dishonest. However, when you get to the point where you favor those that review you well, that’s when you’re double dipping and become hypocritical. It’s almost like Roger Clemens thinking that he can attack McNamee and believing that he’s immune from even potential criticism. Such is the world....
I read this story in the context of the dirt that was kicked up from the Gamespot/Jeff Gerttsmann debacle. Frank Provo, an editor at Gamespot, left about a week ago, citing the Jeff firing as his reason for leaving, saying that he wouldn’t want to be fired for being honest in a review.
Now comes the news that MAJOR video game publishers went ahead and threatened a publication with less ‘privileges’, so to speak, in an effort to get what they wanted. Seems that this publication wanted nothing to do with it though, and let the proverbial shit hit the fan, with a letter from their very editor, who said that his publication will not stoop to such levels.
Granted, yes, as a developer/publisher, you’re not going to like those that review you. Some that review you may be biased in their own way, dishonest. However, when you get to the point where you favor those that review you well, that’s when you’re double dipping and become hypocritical. It’s almost like Roger Clemens thinking that he can attack McNamee and believing that he’s immune from even potential criticism. Such is the world....
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
THE Gold Standard
This is why John Holllinger is the absolute best....
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=EastAllStars-080108&action=upsell&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2finsider%2fcolumns%2fstory%3fcolumnist%3dhollinger_john%26page%3dEastAllStars-080108
http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=EastAllStars-080108&action=upsell&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fnba%2finsider%2fcolumns%2fstory%3fcolumnist%3dhollinger_john%26page%3dEastAllStars-080108
desperation and disgust
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3185701&categoryId=2521705
McNamee sounds like a completely devastated and distressed, desperate man. He’s essentially telling Roger Clemens that he’ll go to jail for him, just to get everything to go away and in the hope that Clemens will foot the bill for his son’s medical expenses. It’s sick and discomforting to hear this play out. These are real people with real situations; why does that have to be played. This tape does nothing to add to Clemens’ case, it truly detracts. He never once denies anything, and uses this to try to push the envelope. You can almost hear his lawyers in the background attempting to get McNamee to bite and have him take the fall for this and recant and go back on his word, so that Clemens’ name can be cleared, and this tape is the backup in case McNamee doesn’t do it. McNamee is smart enough to not lay out in full words that he’ll committ perjury, waiting to see if Clemens asks for it first. Either way, this is just a terrible and disgusting move on Clemens’ part. This adds nothing to his case, and his lawyers know it --- WHY would they play this for the national media?
I truly feel bad for McNamee and wish the worst on Roger Clemens and his failed, miserable life.
McNamee sounds like a completely devastated and distressed, desperate man. He’s essentially telling Roger Clemens that he’ll go to jail for him, just to get everything to go away and in the hope that Clemens will foot the bill for his son’s medical expenses. It’s sick and discomforting to hear this play out. These are real people with real situations; why does that have to be played. This tape does nothing to add to Clemens’ case, it truly detracts. He never once denies anything, and uses this to try to push the envelope. You can almost hear his lawyers in the background attempting to get McNamee to bite and have him take the fall for this and recant and go back on his word, so that Clemens’ name can be cleared, and this tape is the backup in case McNamee doesn’t do it. McNamee is smart enough to not lay out in full words that he’ll committ perjury, waiting to see if Clemens asks for it first. Either way, this is just a terrible and disgusting move on Clemens’ part. This adds nothing to his case, and his lawyers know it --- WHY would they play this for the national media?
I truly feel bad for McNamee and wish the worst on Roger Clemens and his failed, miserable life.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Absolute Fucking Awesomeness
For as stupid of a title as I gave this post, its the only way I can really describe this video clip, titled "Night at the Starbury". Enjoy! =D
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