Saturday, August 29, 2009

Chinese Taipei in LLWS Finals

After the abysmal showing in the World Baseball Classic by the so called "professional" baseball players from Chinese-Taipei, the kids from Taiwan have reclaimed their honor by reaching the finals of the Little League World Series.

The representatives from Asia-Pacific avenged their earlier loss to the El-Tri by spanking them in the International finals 9-4.

The Mexican youngsters actually stayed on the field after they lost, slipping and slide around in the mud and water when the rain started up again.

Having fun, and playing the game hard. That's what it's all about.

Obviously they didn't listen to that retarded piece of shit Jim Rice.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Really Jim, Really?

You see, this is what happens when you let a grouch with borderline numbers into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Speaking to the Little Leaguers before the Little League World Series, Jim Rice urged the kids not to use today's players as role models:

"You see a Manny Ramirez, you see an A-Rod, you see Jeter, Guys that I played against and with, these guys you’re talking about cannot compare.

We didn’t have the baggy uniforms. We didn’t have the dreadlocks. It was a clean game, and now they’re setting a bad example for the young guys."


Yeah, yeah - I'm being a bit hard on the old man here, he must have confused the name Jeter with Ortiz. Honest mistake. really.

Someone in the Sox P.R. department perhaps should do a better job in the selection of locations for Flex Magazine's promotion at Fenway last night.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Child Please!

Chad Ochocinco kicked the winning extra point in the Bengals' 7-6 preseason win over the Patriots.

Tom Brady was thrown down a couple of times by Bengals defenders, shockingly non of them were named Roy Williams or Tank Johnson.

I didn't watch the game, but judging by the box scores and the final score, the Bengals probably didn't play Ol' Roy a lot of downs.

The Bengals are terrible, but at least they are providing us with some entertainment.

"Esteban' Ochocinco is back, the most interesting footballer in the world, Everyone has to remember, I’ve always said that soccer is my No. 1 sport. I think Ronaldinho would be proud of me right now."

- Chad Esteban' Ochocinco

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Karma is a Bitch Phillies

Phillies' center fielder Shane Victorino was doused by a full cup of beer as he was catching a fly ball during Phillies 12-5 victory over the Cubs on Wednesday night.

While I like Flying Hawaiian as a player, and thinks this type of fan behavior is deplorable (full fucking cup of ball park beer? in this economy?!), I can't help but feeling happy that a Philadelphia player is on the receiving end of an asshole fan action.

Why am I happy? As a Dallas Cowboys fan, I have witness over the years the bad behavior from Philadelphia sports fans. Every Cowboys game at the old Vet was an orgy of drunk fans throwing everything that was nailed down at the visitors - from batteries to snowballs, sometimes snowballs with batteries rained down onto the field.

The City of Brotherly Love was also home to the coach Buddy Ryan who once famously placed a bounty on the Cowboys kicker and Troy Aikman and remarked "hey, if there is snow on the stands, people will throw snowballs" when asked about the unruly Phillie fans.

This was also the place where Michael Irvin lay motionless on the shitty Veteran Stadium astroturf, with a possibility of permanent paralysis, and the fans cheered.

I can go on for days about the bad Philadelphia sports fans, but I won't. I'll just let Google do the work.

Gutter whores, all of them.

Let's go back to this beer throwing Chicago fan. I heard on ESPN radio that another Cubs fan (coincidentally who looked like Steve Bartman) was mistaken as the beer thrower, and he was roughed up by some of the Phillie fans sitting around him; while the real beer assassin bolted from the stadium. With the release of the footage of the incident, and Victorino's complaint with the CPD, the real assailant turned himself in.

What a sucker, I would have taken my chances with the cops not finding me. Come on, the CPD couldn't even find the one arm killer dude for almost a year, Harrison Ford had to do all the legwork for them.

Chicago fans are no angels either. Who can forget this incident? Warms my heart to see a shirtless drunk father and son team working together.

Okay, enough about the bad Philadelphia and Chicago fans. The most famous beer (or what M.L. Carr called "unidentified liquid, definitely not beer) toss in my mind, was the cup that was thrown at M.L. Carr as he was walking into the tunnel of the L.A. Forum after the Celtics game 6 victory in the 1984 NBA finals.

This act so enraged Maxwell that he told DJ: "Let's kill them on Tuesday. Let's kill those freaks."

The rest, as they say - was history.

Roy "Thong" Williams

Caught the first episode of the HBO "Hard Knocks - Training Camp With the Cincinnati Bengals" last night.

If you're haven't seen it, don't bother - it was boring as all hell. Even Ocho Cinco was lame.

There was a scene where they showed a defensive back trash talking Ocho Cinco before a inter-squad scrimmage, it was so contrived and uncomfortable - the guy must of practiced it in front of a mirror for 5 hours this week; and still somehow manage to deliver it like a fifth grader in his first play.

But what did interest me was that it showed two former Cowboys that, Mike Zimmer (former and now) Bengal's defensive coordinator, picked up from the Cowboys' trash heap - Roy Williams and Tank Johnson.

Tank was seen asking a child (not sure if it was his son) entering 4th grade, if he would "fight back if he was 4 and 12" (in reference to coach marvin Lewis' call for the team to fight back after a disasterous 2008). The kid answered no, and Tank playfully said they will have to talk this over during dinner. The kid pretty much had the "you're an idiot - what the hell are you talking about" attitude the whole time.

Probably not very smart if Tank is your dad; or worse - not your dad and he owns a bunch of fire arms.

But that was not the worst showing of the two former Cowboys.

The worse was Roy Williams. He was in several scenes, some reprising his jovial happy veteran role from last year's Cowboys edition of Hard Knocks. In others, he was just getting his ass handed to him.

Yahoo's Shut Down Corner article nailed it:

"I'd imagine Roy Williams is a little embarrassed this morning about his showing. He lined up against Maurice Purify in the Oklahoma drill (one running back, and one blocker going one-on-one with a defender in a confined space), and things did not work out well for Roy. Purify erased him. With his propensity to get beat deep, and his inability to even put up a fight against a rookie wide receiver blocking him, I'm having trouble figuring out what it is that Roy Williams does well."

"Erased him" might even been a little too kind. Annihilated or mauled might be more accurate. Yeah sure, one can say that Purify is an undrafted rookie, giving his all and then some to trying to catch on. But come on Roy - a guy who is trying to resurrect his once great career - coming to a new team trying to earn the respect of his new teammates, this is not how you go about it.

Roy showed absolutely zero effort against Purify - he was just a talking blocking sled during the drill. Got owned in the first part of the segment when the voice over was still explaining what an "Oklahoma Drill" was, and got absolutely destroyed by the rookie at the end of the segment. I mean, it was so bad that you kind of feel embarrassed for him.

I have read accounts from several sources that Roy Williams' problem is that he seemed to have lost his passion for football, or more accurately, his passion for playing football well. It was never more evident than in this episode of Hard Knocks (other than the times he missed tackles, blown coverages in the last two years for the Cowboys - but I digress).

Again, for a guy who once was one of the most feared, hard hitting safety in the league, now seen walking around joking and goofing off and plotting with teammates to not go at each other as hard in contact drills. Way to earn respect Roy.

After seeing this, I am ecstatic that the Cowboys dumped him (now it seems like a no brainer). I suspect Roy has retired 3 years ago, he just never bothered to tell his employer(s). If I was coach Lewis, Roy would be on the first bus out of town this morning, just to make an example out of him.

Of course I can't talk about old Roy without posting a picture of ladies in thongs.

Monday, August 10, 2009

God Damn Chinese Gamers!

From the blog, ChinaSmack (read the comments on ChinaSmack - high comedy)- I bring you a video made by a Korean gamer criticizing Chinese gamers:



From the comments section, someone posted a video made by a couple of Chinese guys mocking the Koreans' anger towards the Japanese.



Can't we all just get along?

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

I Think I Just Got My Own "Teachable Moment"

I got a call tonight - actually a message, from a buddy of mine:

"[JM] blah this is [my buddy] blah *noises in the back ground* *gibberish* softball *gibberish*"

After listening to the message three times, I still couldn't make out what he was saying, so I decided to call him back.

[My Buddy]: Hey dude, do you know a team named the Scrubs, that plays in the Boston West Coed Softball League?

[Me]: Name sounds familiar, but mmm.. not really.

At this point, i opened up the Boston West Coed Softball League web site, and saw that the Scrubs were on the brink of going through the regular season undefeated; that would explain the excitement in the earlier message.

[My Buddy]: Anyways, they are all Asian, and they are ranked third, and we played them tonight and beat them! *Quick recap of the game*

[Me]: Hey wait, you assume that I would know them because they were all Asian?! Yo man, that's racist!

[My Buddy]: Haha, ha.. ha.

[Me]: Haha, yeah, I probably know them. (checking via Google Chat with a Asian buddy of mine who plays in that league - I do know them)

[My Buddy]: I'll talk to you tomorrow.

[Me]: Alight, later dude.

I am kicking myself, if I had responded with "I'll beat yo mama in softball!!", I would be having my own teachable moment with a bucket of free suds tomorrow at the Sunset Grill.

I have never seen a pitcure of guys who are more uncomfortable while drinking beer.