Ladies and gentlemen– I present to you…
… the 2007 AL East Champions…
… your American League pennant winners…
… the team with the best record in baseball…
… the best pitcher in baseball…
… the best closer in baseball…
… the best fans in baseball…
… the 2007 World Champions…
THE MOTHERFUCKING BOSTON RED SOX!
How can you not LOVE this team?!?
Dolphins LB Channing Crowder, who appears likely to start in the middle Sunday against the Giants with Zach Thomas ailing, says he didn’t know until Tuesday that people in London speak English.“I couldn’t find London on a map if they didn’t have the names of the countries,” he said. “I swear to God. I don’t know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I know London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That’s the closest thing I know to London. He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London. I’m sure that’s a coincidental name.”
Last night I got to cross another thing off my list of bowling accomplishments to achieve before I die. I converted the 7-10 split (around 5:14 PM at Helen Newman Lanes on lane 14, but who is counting, right?).
Nothing spectacular, threw the Black Widow at the 10 (since Snuffy is still chillin’ under my bed), came back out of the pit, flew over, and kind of sat spinning right in front of the seven pin (duckpin bowling anyone?). Just as I began to assume the setter would get there before the pin, the ten finally grazed the seven and tripped it backwards and to the left.
I’m pretty sure that’s the last legitimate split I needed too– I’ve picked up the “Greek Church” (4-6-7-8-10 or 4-6-7-9-10) before, the “Big Four” (4-6-7-10), the 4-6, both the 7-9 and 8-10, any variation of “Grandma’s Teeth” you can throw at me, and then the “infinitely easier” 6-7-10 and 4-7-10’s. So now that that’s done– I guess shooting a (sanctioned) 800 would be next on the list. Holla.
(Which reminds me, I should get my 300 ring resized so I can wear it around more often.)
tHE Boston REd Sox are goingu to teh motherfcking world SerieS!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111
Weeeeeeeeewoooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!111
“When Manny went deep, my first thought was, ‘Quit posing, Manny, we’re still down 7-3.’ Then it dawned on me that Manny probably had no idea what the score was. In fact, he probably isn’t aware that baseball games are determined by which team scores more runs. Manny’s only point of differentiation comes when, after hitting a home run, he sees his teammates waiting for him at home plate — it’s at that point he knows it’s time to go to the strip club”
Reader during Bill Simmons running diary of game 4 of the ALCS.
The Price is Right LIVE! goes to Foxwoods!
Mashantucket (WTNH) - Game show lovers come on down. Foxwoods Resort Casino announced today that it will host an 8-week run of America’s most popular television game show, “The Price is Right.”
The onstage “live” version will be held in the Fox Theater from October 30 through December 19.
Patrons will have a chance to win prizes daily. Shows will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets are $25 for general admission. You can purchase them at the Box Office or online at http://www.foxwoods.com or by calling 1-800-200-2882.
I mean.
Seriously.
How cool is that?
PA Classic was this past weekend in Lancaster, PA. Pretty much the exact same result as last year.
Team started off pretty good– we were in 6th after 3 team games– and then faded fast after that. Finished 15th/28. Last year we were in 2nd after 2 (thanks to mine and Rich’s obscenely hot starts) before finally falling to like 18th/24 (in our defense, last year we had three BRAND new bowlers who had never seen a tourney shot– who then proceeded to finish dead last, second to last, and fourth to last overall). This tournament we pretty much returned two guys (myself and Mark) which is really like 1.5 considering I’m the only one that bowled a full season last year. So once again, no real continuity this season.
Pattern was long and wet– I was told 38 feet, but it felt a lot longer. High volume across the lane, low ratio and lots of OB right, found the ball seemed to recover from deep if I got it to break at like 12 and from down and in at around 8. Of course, “recover” meant it kind of rolled up and weakly hit the pocket, what with my three revs and all. Started off shitty– 178 or something– then threw a 194 the second game, that could have easily been a 220+ but my first shot in the tenth, I came up high and left a 3-4-6-7 which I then proceeded to get three of (it was off a four-bagger I think– at least a turkey). Third game I miraculously (the key word) shot a 277 thanks to a ball change suggested by the intelligent teammates (I’m glad they’re smarter than me this year). Fourth, fifth, and sixth games sucked– I don’t remember the scores, but I was only around 5 for the 2nd set. Sunday, started the day in 18th overall (189 average) and proceeded to throw 5 opens (and 6 strikes) on my way to a 165 in the first game. Feeling hope was lost, I completely ripped off one of my teammates lines and managed a 234 the second game (should have been a 250+ but left a rock-solid stone 8 on the first shot of the tenth coming off X’s in the 8th and 9th). [My note: When I say SHOULD HAVE been, I’m neglecting to discount my myriad of pussy-light carries I randomly got, so don’t get the impression I was out there looking like Walter Ray or something.] Finished out the day with a 190ish for a 9 game average of 191 and change which ended up being good for 12th overall (28 teams with 5-7 guys each, so out of 170ish?). Field average was around 175ish. (Last year I was at 191 and change as well, finishing 16th/139). Bakers went pathetically, I won’t even talk about that. I was nowhere close and made some stupid adjustments and just couldn’t hit a target to save my life. I made an “executive decision” and moved myself out of cleanup about halfway through.
In summation, the scores aren’t indicative of how poorly I bowled. I only averaged around 13.5-14.5 mph most of the time– I missed ~12 easily makable spares in 9 games– I came in light (or with a shitty angle) on a ton of my strikes. I left an awful lot of 6-7-10’s (I wasn’t getting away with balls that jumped) and left an equal number of washouts too. All in all, I’m not really sure if I should be ecstatic that my numbers look so good even though I bowled so terrible (only can go up?) or I should be pissed that I was so fundamentally bad and merely some combination of dumb luck and good timing allowed me to string together enough strikes to stay up towards the top of the individual standings.
My goal going into the season was top be top 25 (qualified) in the country in average differential– but that was before I decided (like a retard) to take the summer off as well as the unfortunate incident involving my knee/wrist/face and a concrete driveway. So at least this didn’t kill that. Yet. BRI in 3 weeks– bowled horrible there (well technically here) last year so we’ll see if I can keep this up. I’m not sure how we’re going to split up the A and the B team– couple guys from last year should be ready, but that puts me in an awkward position of demoting someone to captain the B team. I guess we have a couple weeks to work that out.
So far (since porch-gate) I have averaged 185ish on the wall known as Helen Newman (and to a lesser extent Sky Top Lanes). However, I am at like 210 on sport compliant shots.
What is wrong with this picture? If you said “something in your brain” you are probably right.
Remember this?
Word out of New York is that Joe Torre’s job is on the line as the Yankees try to avoid being swept by the Indians later tonight.
Lost amid the “OH NOES!!11 TEH TORRE FIRED!!1″ was this little snippet on “bug-gate.”
Steinbrenner also had some choice words about retiring veteran umpire Bruce Froemming and his decision to play through the late-game bug infestation during Friday’s Game 2 extra-inning victory for the Indians.
“The umpire was full of [expletive],” Steinbrenner told the paper. “He won’t umpire our games anymore.“
Steinbrenner: Fuck that guy! He’ll never work in baseball again! You hear me!
Yankee Assistant: Uh, George, he’s retiring.
Steinbrenner: His career is over! He’s done with!
Yankee Assistant: … yeah.
Steinbrenner: Never again! Never again!
Yankee Assistant: Uh sure.
Steinbrenner: A-Rod and apple juice dammit!
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