Archive for June, 2008
« Previous EntriesJack Kent Cooke’s Daughter Is Drunk, Fancies Herself as Kind of a Big Deal
Monday, June 30th, 2008The late Jack Kent Cooke has a 20 year-old daughter (the math on that creeps me out), Jacqueline Kent Cooke, who apparently enjoys partying and has a slight problem with authority. Early Saturday morning, after partaking in some late-night munchies in Boston, this went down:
Police said an officer followed Cooke and her friend after they [...]
That’s Not a Rivalry. That’s a Rivalry.
Monday, June 30th, 2008In light of this past weekend’s Beltway Battle, there’s much talk on/in The Post about the intense nature, or lack thereof, of the Nats-O’s rivalry:
George Solomon: ‘This Could Be the Start of a Beautiful Rivalry’
Dan Steinberg: ‘Nats-O’s Rivalry Gets Serious’
Chico Harlan: ‘Do you consider Washington-Baltimore a rivalry?’
To answer Chico’s question, I’d say yes, of course. [...]
Nats Park, Walk-Off Wonder of the World
Monday, June 30th, 2008Now that I’ve moved from D.C., I do things like go to the beach when the Nats and O’s go into extras. I believe this is known as pulling a Simmons.
What I missed is Washington topping Baltimore in the 12th on a two-out, two-strike, two-run walk-off homer by roly-poly Ronnie Belliard. What’s amazing isn’t that [...]
Sidney Ponson, the New York Yankees and Emotional Confusion
Saturday, June 28th, 2008For O’s fans, it was tough seeing Mike Mussina take the money and sign with the Yankees. Over time, as he’s been good-not-great and New York fails to win it all, that pain has dulled a bit. He’s become more theirs than ours and, if he reaches 300 wins, he’ll have an eternal “NY”on his [...]
Pick Washington’s 2008 Meathook All-Star
Friday, June 27th, 2008Yesterday we picked Baltimore’s token All-Star representative; its Meathook All-Star if you will. My choice was Brian Roberts, and reader votes are tied up between B-Rob and George Sherrill. By All-Star standards, neither will light anyone’s fire, but neither is a pockmark on the game either.
Today, however, we look at Washington’s token rep, and, whoa [...]
The Blog Show Two Reunite ‘On the DL’
Friday, June 27th, 2008If you can handle Dan Steinberg and I talking about ourselves, Blog Show, Wilmington, Cooley vs. Arenas, The Big Lead vs. everybody, blogs in general, Hitler, ESPN.com, the Olympics and so on and so forth for almost an hour, hit the latest On the DL podcast, where host Dan Levy serves up the program in [...]
Shaq Drops ‘Eco-Friendly Diesel’ Album
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I realize that the Shaq “how my ass taste” freestyle is, like, sooo two days ago, but my buddy from SN radio Matt Spiegel put me onto this commercial for Shaq’s upcoming album, which is definitely not just my buddy from SN radio Matt Spiegel pretending to be Shaq:
Spiegel and his brahs are just getting [...]
Inside Scoop on the Wizards’ Draft Plans!
Thursday, June 26th, 2008This just in via Wiz beat reporter Ivan Carter (pictured):
“The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Wizards president Ernie Grunfield is either going to stay at 18 and take the best player on his board or move up or down.”
So they’re either going to “stay at 18″ and pick someone, or [...]
Pick Baltimore’s 2008 Meathook All-Star
Thursday, June 26th, 2008During last night’s O’s-Cubs game, MASN put up a graphic asking fans to support three players in particular for All-Star selection: Brian Roberts, Nick Markakis and … wait for it … Melvin Mora. Yes, the same guy whose OBP is under .300 and who hasn’t been any damn good since ‘05. Then play-by-play man Jim [...]
Nats Season Summed Up in a Paragraph
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Chico Harlan, who has the unenviable task of following this joke of a team around all season, wrote this in his recap of the Nats humiliating 8-3 loss to the Angels last night:
By the time Hill walked from the mound in the first inning against the Angels, showered by jeers, he had allowed five hits [...]