The 30,000th Nighty Cap
by Geep on Monday, February 12th, 2007 at 01:17am
• No I haven’t done 30,000 of these. It’s about SportsCenter. You know the show that used to be really good and covered sports. Back when Berman had a full head of hair.
What has it become now? A corporate shill for every Disney movie? Booyah. A place that fires David Aldridge for Screaming A Shit? Now they insist on spoon feeding us nightly Nascar updates because they will be covering (smothering) that. 30,000 is a lot of shows, but I don’t think I have seen many good ones in the past 10,0000.
The one story SportsCenter didn’t cover well enough this year was the memorial service for Barbaro. Because we all know just how much they like to beat a dead horse.
• Dicegame has a drinking problem. Actually he has no problem drinking and that may be the problem.
An advertisement for Asahi “Super” Dry beer shows the Red Sox wunderkind chugging the title product — an act that has drawn the attention of the team, the Boston Herald reported on its Web site early Sunday.
• Bud wants his balls kept cool. “The specifications that Rawlings recommends are a 70 degree temperature and 50 percent humidity,” baseball senior vice president Joe Garagiola Jr. said Friday.
“We have contacted all 30 of the clubs, and they have all confirmed to us that they will be storing their baseballs in a temperature-controlled facility. We’re not going to have humidors everyplace, but every place will be temperature controlled, and so I think there will be a very high degree of uniformity.”
• The first baseball power rankings of the season are posted here. The Evil Empire is ranked number 1 and we aren’t talking about DirecTV.
• Did you notice that SI has changed their website? They found another square inch or two they could shove 16 more fucking ads into.
• Back in 2001 the Twins took a lot of shit for passing on Mark Prior in the draft. They were called cheap, which they are, and contraction did seem like a good idea. Instead the Twinkies took Joe Mauer, a hometown boy, and things have turned out pretty well. Sunday he signed away his arbitration years for a 4year – 33million contract.
• For those of you that like to kick a Dukie when they are down. Maryland 72-Duke 60. Strawberry went 3-4 with 4 RBIs.