Oops!  I did it again.  I played with your heart.  Got lost in the game.  Oh, baby, baby.  Oops!  -Britney Spears

Public Service Announcement:  Watching last night’s Red Sox – Rangers game brought back memories.  Terrible memories.  Horrible memories.  Painful memories.  It has been said that, “The heart that truly loves, never forgets.”  I truly love my Red Sox.  I don’t forget.  I can’t forget what happened on that fateful date of October 17, 2003.       Read More »

Oh baby, I’m a star!  Might not know it now baby, but I are, I’m a star!  I don’t want to stop ’till I reach the top.  Sing it!  -Prince

Public Service Announcement:  Everybodys’s jibbering about Ubaldo Jimminez.  Everybody’s jabbering about Stephen Strasburg.  Jibbering and jabbering.  Blibbering and blabbering.  What about this guy?  What about Bob Adam Wainwright?  Last night, Adam Wainwright hurled seven shutout innings to lead the Cardinals to a 6-1 victory over the Reds.  That may not seem like such a big deal to you, but know this:  Wainwright has now registered 17 wins this season.  Wainwright has now registered a 1.99 ERA this season.  All through 25 starts.  Pretty good, right?  Damn skippy it’s good.  Since 1970, only five other pitchers posted at least 17 wins and an ERA below 2.00 through 25 starts in a season.  Only Vida Blue 1971 (19 wins; 1.37 ERA), Gaylord Perry 1972 (17 wins; 1.70 ERA), Ron Guidry1978  (17 wins; 1.79 ERA), Dwight Gooden 1985 (18 wins; 1.64 ERA) and Roger Clemens in 1997 (18 wins; 1.66 ERA).          Read More »

Aiyyo!  Who can test I, the true King of New York?  Well ever since Big Boy died from Bed-Stuy I’ve been, controllin the street, holdin the heat.  -Fat Joe

Public Service Announcement:  I really don’t like to write this one.  Rather go on a hunger strike than write this one.  Off a cliff with my mountain bike than write this one.  But alas, write this one I must.  I have to give credit where credit is due.  Credit is now due to one Derek Sanderson Jeter.  The King of New York.  The King is dead!  Long live the King!  The hit king that is.  You all know by now that New York Yankees shortstop, Derek Jeter, passed Babe Ruth on the all-time hits list with an RBI single in the second inning of a 7-2 win over my beloved Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.  Hooray Derek Jeter!  But did you know that yesterday, while recording the 2,876th hit of his career with a single in the fifth inning in the Yankees’ 2-1 loss to the Red Sox, he tied Mel Ott for the most career hits for any player while playing for a New York team.  O is for Ott of the restless right foot.  When he leaned on the pellet, the pellet stayed put. Huh?  Didja?  Well, like Bell Biv DeVoe, now you know.

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Peace out homies.  Six two and Even!

If I ever catch up with you, I’m gonna love you for the rest of your life.  All I need is a miracle.  All I need is you.  -Mike & the Mechanics

Public Service Announcement:  Don’t look now but, here come the Red Sox!  This is the never say die Red Sox.  The never can say good-bye Red Sox.  This is the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie Red Sox.  That’s amore!  What’s not to amore?  Here is a team decimated by injuries.  A big hot messimated by injuries.  A team in real distressimated by injuries.  Here is a team who stood up.  A team that stood up against the scum, the dogs, the filth, the shit, the Yankees.  Here is a team who stood up.                    Read More »

Sometimes everything is wrong.  Now it’s time to sing along.  When your day is night alone, hold on.  If you feel like letting go, hold on.  When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on.  -REM

Public Service Announcement:  I keep hearing this is the Yankees year.  I keep hearing they cannot lose.  All day long at school I hear how great the Yankees are at this or how wonderful the Yankees did that!  Yankees, Yankees, Yankees!  I’m not biting.  I’m like Admiral Farragut.  I say, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”   I’m like Dylan Thomas.  I say, “Do not go gentle into this good weekend.”  I say, “Rage, rage against the naysayers.  Rage, rage against the not today sayers.”  I say, “This is our night.”  I say, “We will get our title shot outdoors at the ballpark.”  What do the Yankees get?  A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville!  That’s what!  Ha ha ha!          Read More »

I’ve seen the needle and the damage done.  A little part of it in everyone.  But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun.  Ooh, ooh, the damage done.  -Neil Young

Public Service Announcement:   Finally.  Finally Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez hit his 600th career homerun.  Like my main Derrick Coleman always says, “Woopty damn do!”  Finally, it’s over.  It’s over.  It’s all over!  Johnny Havlicek is being mobbed by the fans.  It’s all over!  Johnny Havlicek stole the ball!  That’s right sports fans, Alex Rodriguez stole another milestone.  Like Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds before him, A-Rod stole history.  There was a time  when no numbers were more historic, more poetic, or more vibrant than baseball’s numbers.  Baseball used to be a sport where statistical comparisons of players from different eras linked one generation of fans to the next.  Our superstar’s  pursuit of records used to mean something.  Used to mean something special.  You’re so fuckin’ special.  I wish I was special.  But I’m a creep.  I’m a weirdo  What the hell am I doin’ here?             Read More »

You love her, but she loves him, and he loves somebody else.  You just can’t win.  Love stinks!  Yeah, yeah.  -J. Geils Band

Public Service Announcement:  While everyone was waiting for A-Broad to reach his historic milestone, a funny thing happened on the way to the record books.  A funny thing happened to Phil Hughes.   Funny if you’re a Red Sox fan that is.  I am.  It wasn’t the milestone that Yankees fans anticipated, but it was a milestone none-the-less.  Last night, Phil Hughes who served up a bomb to Rick Ankiel.  Last night, Phil Hughes served up a bomb to Scott Podsednik.  Like may main man Nikita Khrushchev always says, “Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.”  I’m not so sure.  Bombs sure seem to be choosing Philthy Hughes as of late.  Hughes has now allowed 15 home runs this year, all at Yankee Stadium.  Big deal you say?  Who cares you say?  I say, Phil Hughes is the first pitcher to allow each of his first 15 homers of a season at home since 1982, when the Mariners Gaylord Perry allowed his first 21 homers of the year at the Kingdome.  Ha ha ha!  Roll Sox, roll!

Peace out homies. Six two and Even!

It takes two to make a thing go right.  It takes two to make it outta sight.  Hit it!  -Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock

Public Service Announcement:  Holy Chang and Eng Bunker, Batman!  Ever since little Bron Bron decided to take his talents down to South Beach to play along side the Flash, the Dynamic Duo talk started up.  That got me to thinking.  I got to thinking, who are some of the best Dynamic Duos is sports history?  Who are some of the best Dynamic Duos now?  After the jump you can see the results for yourselves.  You excited?  Sure you are.          Read More »

Memories light the corners of my mind.  Misty watercolor memories
of the way we were. Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind.  Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were.  -Barbara Streisand

Public Service Announcement:  Ahhh, the All Star game.  The Midsummer Classic.  Like my main man Terrence Mann always says, “We’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if we dipped ourselves in magic waters.  The memories will be so thick we’ll have to brush them away from our faces.”  What memories will this year’s All Star Game bring?  

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New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner has reportedly suffered a massive heart attack and ultimately died.  I wrote this post almost a year ago today.  In honor of George, I now repost it:

George, George, George of the Jungle, strong as he can be.  George, George, George of the Jungle, watch out for that tree.  -George of the Jungle

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Once again the Red Sox and Yankees are in a penant race.  Once again, the oldest and fiercest rivalry in American professional sports are in a penant race.  There’s no rivalry in sports that comes close.  It’s an embedded part of our culture.  In my lifetime, throughout this rivalry, from Bucky Bleepin’ Dent to Aaron Bleepin’ Boone, there has always one been constant.  The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been George Steinbrenner.  The Boss.  King George.  Phineas T. Bluster.  This rivalry has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.  It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again.  But the Boss has marked the time.  Without him, this rivalry now lacks a certain vim.  It now lacks a certain vigor.  It now lacks a certain spirit, a certain je ne sais quoi.  Steinbrenner:  “Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing.  Breathing first, winning next.” Read More »