Archive for March, 2008
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Monday, March 31st, 2008As you can tell from the incredibly depressing photo above, there wasn’t exactly a “buzz” around Camden Yards today. You can see just a few fans lingering about in an area — Boog’s BBQ — that is usually rife with activity, especially on Opening Day. The franchise and its fans are completely devoid of the [...]
It’s Okay to Be Envious of Andy Roddick
Monday, March 31st, 2008Today’s news has officially and permanently solidified Roddick’s spot atop my All-Envy Team: He is engaged to Brooklyn Decker (via With Leather). You know, the 20 year-old, impossibly hot SI swimsuit model. Here’s a refresher:
Andy, you could never win any grand slams for the rest of your career (and don’t worry, we aren’t expecting you [...]
Bill Clinton Is Throwing Out the First Pitch
Monday, March 31st, 2008Say what you will about Dubya, and plenty of folks did, but, for however bad he may be at presidenting, he sure does throw a solid first pitch. The opposite could probably be said for ‘93 Triple Play Bubba (nice hat though).
Dukes, Chief Both Injured Last Night
Monday, March 31st, 2008It’s been about 12 hours since the awesomeness of last night’s Zimmerman walk-off, and while we’re still basking in its glow (I have this photo pinned up in the cubicle today), it’s not all happiness.
The team placed Elijah Dukes on the 15-day DL with a strained hammy. He injured it during spring training — see [...]
Zimm’s Walk-Off: Too Good to Be True
Sunday, March 30th, 2008When you root for perennial baseball losers, as we do, you hold on to the little things. Although what happened tonight could hardly be considered “little” by any standards.
The most unlikely, and undesirable, Opening Day starter imaginable, Odalis Perez gave us five solid innings, giving up just one run. The Nats managed two runs [...]
It’s Business Time For Meat Hook, Nats
Sunday, March 30th, 2008With the Nationals set to start their ‘08 campaign tonight, and officially christen their new stadium, Dmitri Young and Lastings Milledge give us a few last minute pieces of evidence that, regardless of their record, it’s going to be a great season of DC-area sports blogging:
We have searched for an explanation as to why Da [...]
Ben Howland Is Prince of the Neg-Burn
Sunday, March 30th, 2008First off, this is just a spectacular sporting Sunday: Memphis-Texas at 2:20, Kansas-Davidson at 5:05, Nats Park opening night at 8 and Wiz-Lakers at 9:30. I’m glued from 2 p.m.-past midnight, as I should be.
Before all of that though, I shared CBS analyst Seth Davis’ staggering Neg-Burns, which prompted Joe Sports Fan baller Pat Imig [...]
Michael Wilbon Just Doesn’t Understand
Saturday, March 29th, 2008Because of one specific blogger (not himself), Mark Cuban recently banned all bloggers from the Mavericks’ locker room. David Stern made Cuban lift the ban, primarily because the blogger in question is a reporter for the Dallas Morning News, which led to Cuban declaring that anyone with a blog has access to the Mavs. All [...]
CBS’ Seth Davis Is King of the Neg-Burn
Saturday, March 29th, 2008In this country there is problem, and that problem is the Neg-Burn (or Negative Sideburn). The late-20th century epidemic is diminishing but still widespread in the deep south and midwest, and its peoples have a champion in smarmy CBS analyst and master Clark Kellogg debater Seth Davis.
If you don’t see a problem there, you may [...]
Blog Show No. 43: ‘Drunk Food Du Jour’
Friday, March 28th, 2008We approximated the Luther Burger this week, which sounds well and good, but the real Luther Burger consists of “a bacon cheeseburger, which employs a glazed donut in place of the bun,” while our version consists of a cold McDonald’s hamburger patty on a stale Krispy Kreme. Rarely have I been so low as staring [...]
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