76-72???

And the NHL thinks they have a lack of offense....

That game sucked. And don't give me any crap about it being a defensive struggle. Pierce sucked. Allen sucked. James sucked.

Randy Johnson is still around? No shit...

@Hustler of Culture: True, but.

1 Sucky Win > 1 Awesome Loss.

@Hustler of Culture: Agreed that they all sucked, even so, there was some excellent D played.

What you missed while realizing it is a great year to cover politics in the State of New York.

[www.nydailynews.com]

First Spitzer. Then Paterson and now this guy, Congressman Vito Fossella. DUI!! Possible love child!!! It's a smorgasboard of scandals in NYS.

@Sh!tShow: Always true. But as someone who doesn't really care which teams wins, I'd rather see a good game....

@Afino: @Hustler of Culture:

It was painful to watch.

And you also missed Deadspin being turned into essentially a chat room entitled "George Michael-greatness"

@RachelRayIsTheDevil: I pray that is an Arrested Development reference.

What you missed while hearing a Barry Bonds to KC rumor and getting giddy.
99 problems but a pitch aint one.

What you missed while making the sad realization that your work decided to block Wizznutz

@formerly Chief Wahoo: Thats a big negatory.

What you missed while Francona pulled Wakefield in favor of Timlin.

I'm generally a Francona supporter, but seriously, what the fuck?

What you missed while watching Rick Ankiel use his arm for good instead of evil...

@UkraineNotWeak: Rep. Vito Fosella? Was the "sick kid" really a sit-down with Johnny Sack?

What you missed while Bobby Cox took the term "closer by committee" literally, using three different pitchers in the 9th to get one out apiece

Hey, at least Acosta didn't blow it. He was trying to, though.

What you missed in between hearing Don Cherry has joined ESPN and making your peace with God for the apocalypse is nigh.

@Doyle McPoyle:

Johnny Sack is dead.

And most recently of all, a "Roman Toga Party" was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here.

@Afino: Holds for everyone!

@Afino: It was
good to see Bobby realize its okay to take Acosta out of the game. Mike Gonzalez can't come back soon enough

@Matt_T:

I read that he had a "typical" Tommy John setback and won't be ready until the end of the month.

But agreed on all counts.

@MitchKayak:

(Rising from chair)

A point of parlimentary procedure!!

@UkraineNotWeak: No spoilers!

@Hustler of Culture: at 4:30 yesterday work started blocking all gawker sites... Yikes. I ctrl/shift/del'd firefox and all's well again, somehow. I'm not holding my breath, though.

What you missed while botching the lyrics to Mr. Tambourine Man

What you missed as you realized the Democratic Primary season has now turned itself into an NHL playoff hockey game. We've just entered the fifth overtime.

@UkraineNotWeak:

These are the people I am supposed to give my money to? I'm supposed to cut a part of my income to guys for hookers, blow and driving hammered. If i knew they were doing that they could just give me my full check and I'll distribute it among my co-workers.

@Matt_T: There hasn't been a dive like that since the 1919 World Series. Seriously, if he wanted to go home he probably could've just called in sick or something...how do you forget "jingle-jangle morning"?

What you missed while enjoying the salty delicacy that is Hillary Rodham Clinton's tears...

Ding dong the witch is dying...

@MitchKayak: Go ahead, list them - we don't want to disappoint Buzz.

@UkraineNotWeak: We're not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America!

@Yostal: I think it's more like, ninth inning, 2 outs, no one on, Hillary trails by 7 runs, fouled off like 9 pitches in a row.

But listening to the current "Media Narrative", I'd say last night was a called strike three.

That concludes this extended mixed metaphor.

@UkraineNotWeak: Don't forget the Upstate U.S. Rep who got busted for DUI with a twenty-three years old bimbot in the passenger's seat & possibly fellating him.

@Magnakai Haaskivi: You are extremely baked. I got a contact high just watching him

@Matt_T: As bad as he was, though, I still want to see Archuleta go home. It was rock week and the kid picked possibly the least interesting songs possible; at least David Cook is interesting.

What you missed while watching Rick Ankiel's otherworldly throws to third base from deep center field.

@Magnakai Haaskivi: He picked those songs because he has the worst taste in music of any 17-year old ever. He has a good voice but he's boring as shit. Also, I'm getting a little sick of the "ohmygod are the judges going to like me?" look on his face after every performance.

@josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...: Please tell me that was John Sweeney...

@Sex-Panther: The one and only. A dirtball partyboy who was replaced by a slithery, slippery sneak.

*sigh*

@MeSoHornsby: Agreed. He's grated me ever since he covered "Imagine".

Remember that completely random Australian song he did for the "Year You Were Born" week? The judges really need to come down on him just once.

@Magnakai Haaskivi: There are millions of 13-year old girls who would also like to "come down on him". He will have none of that, though.

...San Jose State was among the hardest hit, seeing 12.17 scholarships cut in five sports and an NCAA warning issued to a sixth. Sacramento State saw seven of its 20 sports sanctioned.

Those assholes must have stolen the wrong fucking exam!

STOP..... Hammertime

@MeSoHornsby: Less surprisingly, Adam Eaton still sucks.

Normally Eaton doesn't combust until the fifth or sixth inning. I guess last night's early bedshitting must have been due to the change in time zone or something.

Notice how schools like Yale, who you would assume had strong academics, had sanctions in every single sport? Quit recruiting athletic dummies and luring them in with the promise of a Yale education (which they can't handle anyways!) and you wont have problems like that!

@mistresschristina: Those teams listed at the end of the article are the teams that had perfect scores, not the teams that were sanctioned.

@Yellow Tail Swine: That throw in the 8th inning was a thing of beauty, wasn't it?

@Pesti-Esti: Wow. Does my idiocy make sense if I told you that I went to Washington State for undergrad?