COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERYWritten by: Mike in DADate posted: 12/25/2010SPORTS DEATHS: OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010OCTOBER:12 - Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles). 14 - Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack.
26 - Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes. 31 - Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer.NOVEMBER:2 - Clyde King, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds) and manager (New York Yankees). 4 - Sparky Anderson, 76, American baseball player and manager (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers), member of Baseball Hall of Fame, complications from dementia.
8 - Quintin Dailey, 49, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics), cardiovascular disease.
10 - Dave Niehaus, 75, American sportscaster (Seattle Mariners), 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, heart attack.14 - Lew Carpenter, 78, American football player (Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles). 15 - Ed Kirkpatrick, 66, American baseball player (California Angels, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates), throat cancer.20 - Rob Lytle, 56, American football player (Michigan Wolverines, Denver Broncos), heart attack. 22 - Tom Underwood, 56, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Oakland A's), pancreatic cancer. 28 - Gil McDougald, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees), prostate cancer. JOKES FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY: #256John Lopez, Chris Jones, and Rich Lord leave the stadium after a game and come across a dead, naked woman lying in the middle of the street. After they call the cops, they each take off their baseball caps and place them on the dead woman out of respect and to cover her private parts until the cops arrive.
John places his Houston Astros cap over her left breast, Chris places his Phillies cap on her right breast and Rich places his Yankees cap on her pubic area.
The cops finally arrive, and the officers take statements from the guys to find out what happened. After explaining that they found her naked and covered her up with their caps, a cop went over to examine the body. He briefly lifted the Astro cap, and quickly replaced it; then he lifted the Phillies cap, and also quickly replaced it.However, when he lifted the Yankees cap, he stared and stared for what seemed to be two or three minutes. Finally, he let the cap drop, walked away, wrote in his notebook, then returned and lifted the Yankees cap once again and stared for a long time. As he was walking away the second time, the guys were curious and stopped him and asked him why he spent so much time looking at the woman's genitalia, and he said, "It's the first time I've seen anything but an asshole under a Yankees cap."KEVIN GARNETT GIVES A FAN A LAP DANCE!
FLUB OF THE DAYJosh Innes (SR610 afternoon show) should stick to his pop 1980’s culture because if he flubs there, I’m probably not going to catch it. On Thursday’s afternoon show (12/23), Josh said that Boise State beat Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl. Not only did he have the wrong team (Oklahoma), but also the wrong year (2007).
On Christmas Day (12/25), Barry Warner on SR610 called Rosh Hashanah the "Day of Atonement". He meant Yom Kippur, as Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year.FROM THE HMW MAILBOX! JO and Badweatherman left comments on Lamont Mann’s post of 12/17, "DARK DAYS FOR SR610 AND POSSIBLY OTHERS" (http://sheltonmedia.blogspot.com/2010/12/dark-days-for-sr610-and-possibly-others.html): “As far as the new 10 o'clock slot, Innes is gone, so that is a good thing. This Meltser kid, seems to know his sports so I will give him time before I pass judgment.” – from JO – END.“Excellent post. I believe the ONLY things that have kept KILT viable are the affiliations with the Texans, Rockets, and Longhorns. KILT does not have to mix it up in ways that the other stations have to. Maybe it’s just me, but the entire schedule is stale. I also agree with you in that one does not turn from one sports talk station to another - they turn it off. Listeners like what they like, relative to the styles of the format. Also spot on with John Granato. While he is somewhat entertaining on occasion, by and large his talk is either somewhat predictable or some variation of "who doesn't." LZ (Lance Zierlein) is far and away the more creative element on that show. That being said, Granato is part of the management structure that is allowing new voices (like Raheel and Nuno) to come onto the air and entertain us. I would love to see them get Marcus (Coleman) a show. I also think the addition of Travis Rodgers is a huge upgrade from the Hoffman adventure.” From Badweatherman. - END.Anonymous left a new comment on Lamont’s post of 10/19, "WHOSE STYLE OR CONTENT WILL DYLAN GWINN STEAL NEXT?": (http://sheltonmedia.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-style-or-content-will-dylan-gwinn.html)“Dylan is a really bad host and very good at pissing people off. He is also very stupid. On his 12-16-10 radio show, he was talking about how the Texan players like playing for Kubiak because he is soft and goes easy on them. Dylan stated "players like it that they don’t get killed in practice, players like it when they don’t get killed in the film room". I called a few minutes later to ask him how he knows what goes on in the film room. He said "I don’t recall saying that, Did I say that?" Then he referred to the Texans not having any players that stay late in the film room. It is all there on the 790 website podcast. This guy is terrible and his callers are also terrible.”NEW HAMPSHIRE IS THE "LIVE FREE OR DIE" STATE, SO WHY DO THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH GILBERT ARENAS AND HIS GUNS?!NO-TRADE CLAUSE IS A BULLSHIT COMMITMENT!Several times over the last few weeks, I talked about Jayson Werth’s seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals for $126M. I failed to mention that it also contains a “full no-trade clause”. Players and agents and teams used to spin those clauses to convince fans that all parties had a commitment to each other in this deal; everyone was “in for the duration”. BULLSHIT!! No-trade clauses are nothing more than greed wrapped up in "legalese". That clause now allows Werth and his agent, Scott Boras, to squeeze out even more money out of a team that might think of trading for Werth anytime in the next seven years. AP TOP SPORTS STORIES OF 2010
Tiger Woods might have gone the entire year winless on the PGA Tour and lost his #1 ranking, but at least he won one thing this year. He was able to beat out Drew Brees, LeBron James, Brett Favre and others to be named the "Sports Story of the Year" by the AP (Associated Press for the acronym-challenged). When that #1 ranking comes from your entire world crashing down, I'm not sure it classifies as a "win", but perhaps it's the boost he needs going into 2011. Tiger's titanic fall from the top is certainly worthy of the number one slot this year.
It's a good thing Tiger didn't listen to me at the beginning of the year when I suggested that he sit out the year to get his life back in order or he never would have made it to the top of the list.
The AP Top Ten Stories follow:
1. TIGER WOODS: Woods returned to public view with a 13½-minute statement in February, then came back to golf at the Masters in April with a fourth-place finish. That would be one of his few highlights on the course. Woods went winless on the PGA Tour for the first time in his career and lost his No. 1 ranking for the first time in years. In August, he and Elin Nordegren divorced.
2. SAINTS WIN: New Orleans residents loved their Saints for not abandoning the city after Hurricane Katrina, but it was hard to imagine the team bringing much joy on the field after 42 mostly losing seasons. Then Drew Brees and Co. upset the Indianapolis Colts in their first Super Bowl, to the delight of French Quarter revelers and fans nationwide who adopted the Saints.
3. FREE AGENCY FRENZY: NBA fans were captivated by the mystery of where MVP LeBron James and other marquee free agents would land. Few would have guessed that three of them would sign with the same team: the Miami Heat, who became basketball’s "Evil Empire" by adding James from Cleveland and Chris Bosh from Toronto to Dwyane Wade.
4. WORLD CUP: A World Cup of firsts ended gloriously for Spain and for Africa. South Africa hosted the continent’s first World Cup without the pitfalls many predicted. And the Spaniards brought home the first World Cup title to the soccer-mad country with a 1-0 victory over the Netherlands in extra time.5. GIANTS WIN: The San Francisco Giants hadn’t won the World Series since they moved to San Francisco in 1958 and since 1954 overall. This didn’t seem to be the year to end the drought when they barely squeaked into the playoffs. But with dominant pitching and clutch hitting, they beat the Texas Rangers in five games.
6. NFL CONCUSSIONS: New posters distributed to teams before the season warned of concussions’ dangers in much harsher language than before. Another sign of how big the issue had become: increased reporting of concussions by players. Midseason, the NFL cracked down on helmet hits with huge fines and threatened suspensions.
7. JIMMIE JOHNSON: The NASCAR driver extended his record with his fifth straight Sprint Cup title. Perhaps most impressively, he did it despite not being in top form all season. Johnson became the first driver in the Chase’s seven-year history to overcome a points deficit in the finale.
8. BRETT FAVRE: This comeback was nothing like last year’s magical run to the NFC title game for the 41-year-old quarterback. His Minnesota Vikings struggled badly, and the NFL launched an investigation into whether he sent lewd photos of himself to a Jets employee. After voting began, his record streak of 297 starts ended.
9. UCONN WINS: The Huskies’ women’s basketball team extended their record winning streak to 78 games with a second straight national championship in April, becoming the first team to post consecutive unbeaten seasons. And Connecticut is a powerhouse again this season, as they keep on winning and adding to the streak.
10. WOODEN DIES: The Wizard of Westwood died June 4 at the age of 99. John Wooden coached UCLA’s men’s basketball team to ten NCAA championships, including seven in a row from 1967-73 and an 88-game winning streak.
BRETT FAVRE STILL DRAWS A CROWD!Speaking of Brett Favre (AP #8 above), we may not want to see as much of Brett as Jennifer Sterger has seen, but we do want to see the future Hall of Famer. The Bears-Vikings game this past Monday night (12/20) scored huge television numbers. In Chicago, the telecast received a combined 40.7 rating (26.5 on local WLS-ABC and 14.2 on ESPN). In Minny, the game did a combined 48.5 (32.9 on the local affiliate and 15.6 on ESPN).
Nationally, the telecast produced a 10.8 metered-market average. ESPN’s "Monday Night Countdown" pre-game also hit the jackpot with a best-ever national rating of 3.5. The three highest rated ‘’Monday Night Countdown’’ shows on ESPN have preceded games involving Favre and the Vikings. Is Favre drawing all this attention because he’s the NFL’s all-time leading passer, or because his life has turned into a soap opera and we enjoy our soaps?
I would go with Favre as the proverbial “train wreck” on and off the field and there’s no better story than an athlete who has fallen off the tracks (see AP #1 above). Favre has taken the worst PR beating of any NFL QB since Michael Vick, and on the field he’s been slapped silly. It’s too bad our obsession with Favre has occurred after his prime years with Green Bay, and we now get off on seeing the guy self-destruct.ODDS AND ENDS:1. Maurice Jones-Drew wears the number, 32. His choice of that number is not in honor of Jim Brown or OJ Simpson who wore that number before him; he chose that number to represent the number of teams that passed over him in the draft in the first round. The number reminds him that he has to prove to everyone that he should have been taken earlier. In the 2006 draft, Jones-Drew was the sixth running back selected behind: Reggie Bush, Laurence Maroney, DeAngelo Williams, Joseph Addai, and LenDale White.
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John places his Houston Astros cap over her left breast, Chris places his Phillies cap on her right breast and Rich places his Yankees cap on her pubic area.
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