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The New York Mets Cannot Be Stopped By Man Nor Beast
One month ago, the Mets were 6 1/2 games out of first, had just fired their manager, and were the brunt of jokes by Yankees fans. Yankees fans were mocking them. Well, who's laughing now? David Wright hit a two-run homer in the ninth to tie it, and New York went on to a 10-8 win at Cincinnati to extend its winning streak to 10 games and give it a share of first place in the NL East. More »
Jason Giambi
Jason Giambi Eschews Your Petty Shot Glasses
The 'Stache must be sated. And sated ain't coming from a glass. Seriously though, does Giambi not have a buddy with him to point out that a night never ends well that begins with swilling straight from the bottle of JD? Guess not. We need to see the after pictures. I'm betting Giambi hopped a flight straight to Greece and narrowly avoided arrest for setting up the oral sex contest. More »
Fandom
New England Patriots Helmet Tattoo Guy Auctioning Off Rest of Body
Not content with the awesomest tattoo ever, Victor Thompson will now sell off other places on his body to the highest bidder. He's even set up his own website, tattmetoo.com . For the low price of $200 per square inch, you can make it happen. More »
Tom Brady
Gisele Bundchen's Buttock-Baring Shorts Can Finally Be Seen As They Were Originally Intended
Plenty of online pants-stirring commotion occurred a few months ago when photos of Tom Brady's girlfriend Gisele Bundchen getting a butt-buff were loosed upon the internet masses. Finally, V magazine's fall issue was released and the photos of Gisele doing her whole giraffe-wearing-Daisy Dukes routine can be flipped through and ogled at a hair salon near you. (Sadly, Kige, did not make the final print version.) More »
major league baseball
Babe Ruth's Teammate Speaks: 100-Year-Old Bill Werber
And Bill Werber brings some strong trash talk. Specifically he refers to current players as "a grubby-looking bunch of caterwaulers." A caterwauler? According to dictionary.com that's the sound a cat makes when it's in heat. So, yeah, I can see that. Werber tells stories about playing cards against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig on the train. And he even gives some advice Babe Ruth shared with him after Ruth hit a homerun. Per NBC, More »
Stephon Marbury
Marbury's Head Tattoo Reveals Itself To The Cheap Sneaker-Hungry Masses
Here it is, in all of its brand-pate'n glory, with nary a photoshop magician in sight. Starbury took some time to speak with announcers about his new fashionable (and cheap!) head tat during the Cleveland Cavaliers/New York Knicks summer league game. It's probably as subtle as you can get for a head tattoo and it clearly shows that for all of his questionable, unhinged behavior of the past year, Marbury is still a very savvy businessman. It's completely logical. One person asks, "Hey, what's that funny symbol on your head?" and then you just nail them with the cheap sneakers pitch. Ka-ching. More »
Pinches of DUAN
How Much Can You Overpay For Yankee Stadium Detritus?
On the eve of All-Star Game festivities, where everyone will conveniently ignore that Yankees Stadium is one of the most unpleasant venues in all of sport and was gutted in the early '70s - in an attempt to make it look like a wondrous relic worth cherishing - we get a jump on the House That Ruth Built nostalgia by looking at all the pennyante bullshit Yankees fans are willing to spend a small fortune on, like, say, hundreds of dollars for a pinch of dirt. More »
JUS' KEEP LAUGHEEN AT A-RAW
Canadians Deploy Secret Weapon: Gentle Mocking
Looks as though the "Ruin Romo" craze has made its way to our neighbor to the north,...[checks map] Canadia! A few fans were taunting A-1 Rodboy yesterday with pictures of Madge. Lenny Kravitz might have been more effective, as evidenced by A-Rod collecting one of the Yankees' two hits. More »
mlb closer
The curtailing of the About Last Night... feature eliminates some of my opportunity for monkeyshines (that is, gratuitous monkey references shoehorned into otherwise putatively sports-related posts). But this Sauron-esque picture from last night's Marlins-Dodgers games caught my, uh, notice. Best use of the video outfield wall in a photo since this one. Anyhowler, on with the recappings. More »
The All-Seeing Eye Thinks Your Hair Looks Fine
The curtailing of the About Last Night... feature eliminates some of my opportunity for monkeyshines (that is, gratuitous monkey references shoehorned into otherwise putatively sports-related posts). But this Sauron-esque picture from last night's Marlins-Dodgers games caught my, uh, notice. Best use of the video outfield wall in a photo since this one. Anyhowler, on with the recappings. More »
wayne rooney
Morning Blogdome: Sick-Boy, With Tattoos Up And Down His Arms, Don't Ya Know (Oh-ay-oh...)
•Wayne Rooney's artistic forearm is something to snicker at:The feisty soccer lad just got hit his forearm all tatted-up and it pays tribute to the Stereophonics album, "Just Enough Education to Perform." Interesting choice. But Rooney's questionable tattoo doesn't even come close to some of the ridiculous body art other athletes have. Robert Swift will be on this list the rest of his life. [The Angry T] More »
Media Meltdowns
Yankees Radio Announcers Have Grotesque Eating Habits
Apparently, New York Yankees' radio voice John Sterling is not unfamiliar with double-dipping the occasional chip in the media dining room. But sadly his food etiquette transgressions do not end there, according to the New York Post's Page Six (it's Page Six, so you know it's true). The following account of slovenliness is the most entertaining thing I've read today. Please enjoy it with me. More »
mlb beatings
Why, Red Sox Nation? Why?
What do you do if you're a group of Red Sox fans who spot a car stopped in traffic that happens to have New York Yankees license plates? (Keep in mind that there are at least two children in the car). Answer: You surround the vehicle, vandalize it, and then beat the driver with a baseball bat. That was an easy one. More »
MLB
Examining The Balance Of Power In The AL East
I've been in a meat coma since The Fourth, and have only just seen this great moment from Friday's Yankees-Red Sox game. A couple of questions here, of course: What if the ball had stayed perched atop the fence, instead of falling back onto the field of play as it did? And what's the ruling if, say, a large crow comes along and plucks the ball off the fence and flies off? Also, do you suppose the guy in the Red Sox jersey is as truly amazed as he looks here, or does he react that way to everything? "The vending machine is sold out of CornNuts? Whaaa?" More »
MLB Closer
How Will Yankees Fans Greet A-Rod Tonight?
Thank God for the Yankees that their next series with Boston is in New York. With a separation from wife Cynthia and rumors of canoodling with Madonna thicker than Newman's Own Thousand Island dressing, Alex Rodriguez must have more on his mind than Jonathan Papelbon. But how will his own fans greet him? Will there be any cone bras in the crowd? Sean Penn masks? The theme from Evita being sung by a heavenly choir of visiting Red Sox fans? Nope, probably not. After the Yankees' bats woke up in an 18-7 win over the Rangers on Wednesday, Hank Steinbrenner is not in the mood to tolerate distractions. Please be upbeat and courteous tonight, Yankees fans, or prepare to be waterboarded in the security office. Just like any Yankee game, come to think of it. More »
Lebron James
Let's Start Guessing Where LeBron Will Play In Two Years
The summer of 2010. That's when LeBron James will shun Northeast Ohio, get a plane ticket, head to New York City, play basketball, and win a championship with either the Knicks, the Nets, or an amalgamation of the relocated Memphis Grizzlies and Los Angeles Clippers, the Long Island Clizzers. More »
mlb closer
Sir Sidney Gives Up No Runs; Probably Ate Them All
Sidney Ponson made his unceremonious (only to Ponson, as ceremonious occasions usually have bacon gravy) return to the Yankees in the second half of a two-ballpark doubleheader yesterday with the cross-Gotham Mets. And he laid into them like they were an Aruban judge, tossing six shutout innings in the Yankees' 9-0 in Shea and improved to 5-1 on the year. Carlos Delgado was a force in the day game in the Bronx, homering twice and driving in a team-record nine runs in a 15-6 clubbing of the Yankees.Advantage: More Cluttered Beltway — Your simian editor was in attendance at the Nats' 4-2 win over the Orioles last night in D.C. Observed among the large-for-Nats-crowd: at least 10 people combining Orioles jerseys with Nats hats, about five of the inverse and one guy with an Orioles jersey and a Redskins hat. Allegiances are still a little muddied in these parts. Also, people are stupid. Odalis Perez threw four shutout innings before getting yanked too early with a 2-0 lead. With the score tied at 2 in the 7th, Kory Casto (yes, that Kory Casto) gave Waaarshington the lead for good with a double to left, with an assist to terrible fielding by Jay Payton. Elijah Dukes, who I found out from the program considered Hulk Higan his childhood hero and quit his first job at a barbecue stand because it was too hot, added an insurance run later in the inning. TWO IN A ROW, BAY-BEE!
Battles of Ohio and Los Angeles (Not the Rage album) Were Shutoutastic — C.C. Sabathia is upping his trade value, going 3-0 with a 1.13 ERA in his last four starts. Yesterday he blanked the Reds, striking out 11, with Ken Griffey Jr. tallying three of those Ks. Out west, Chan Ho Park (really? still alive?) struck out seven in six shutout innings as the Dodgers beat the not-really-of-L.A. Angels 6-0.
