COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY
Written by: Mike in DA/SR Crew/The Crier
Date posted: 11/9/2010
Breeders’ Cup Winners
A review of the Crier’s Breeders’ Cup selections of last week shows a $450.60 Trifecta winner, three Exacta winners of $76.40, $72.00 and $17.80, respectively, plus the 7-1 winner (Unrivaled Belle) in the Ladies Classic. Well, if you're a pony player and were skeptical enough not to follow the Crier, there’s always next year.
COOL ATHLETE NAME:
GOODBYE JOE!
I read that ESPN has fired Joe Morgan by not renewing his contract. His partner, Jon Miller, has been asked to switch to the radio booth for Sunday Night Baseball, and discussions for that change are ongoing.
Dan Shulman will replace Jon Miller as Sunday Night Baseball's play-by-play man, and he'll be joined by Orel Hershiser and Bobby Valentine, assuming Bobby doesn’t get a managing job.
The sports bloggers of America now have one less person to rag on. Morgan has been laughingly bad for years, and this move was overdue. The worst part of all this is that some of the bloggers have to throw out the "Joe Morgan Is Terrible" post that they’ve been recycling.
We no longer will have to hear Morgan worship Willie Mays, rant against the modern game, give nonsensical analogies, and show his contempt and arrogance for anyone who dared to take an intellectual approach to the sport. Unless the Yankees, Mets, or Astros played on Sunday Night Baseball, I rarely watched it.
FLUB OF THE DAY
For the second morning in a row, the SR610 Morning Show failed to have its birthday segment, which almost always had a flub, so today's flub comes from the apparel industry. Check out the spelling of "Redskins" on these cheeleaders jackets.
MORE BULLSHIT HEADLINES AND STORIES WASTE OUR TIME! (SR CREW)
The following is a bunch of headlines taken from the Internet right after the Vikings released wide receiver Randy Moss early last week:
"Sluggish Bears offense needs Randy Moss"
"Tom Cable won't rule out Oakland Raiders trying to pick up Randy Moss"
"Don't Expect Randy Moss To Be A New York Giant"
"Should Seattle Claim Randy Moss?"
"Randy Moss a Jet? Never say never"
"Randy Moss A Chief? Why This Move Makes Sense For Kansas City"
"NFL Rumors: Could Denver Claim Randy Moss"
"Seattle Seahawks To Claim Randy Moss"
"Morris On Randy Moss: 'We Probably Won't Require His Services'"
"Top Ten Potential Randy Moss Suitors: Raiders and Patriots Are In"
"Eagles Notes: Vick Returns; 'Zero' Interest in Moss"
"Detroit Lions very unlikely to pursue Randy Moss"
"Miami Dolphins would have to wait their turn to claim Randy Moss"
"How a Pats-Moss reunion could work"
These bullshit headlines/stories and the many others that come about in similar situations should be a constant source of amazement and amusement to us.
That was 14 stories (and there were some more the next day) regarding whether or not Randy Moss should, would or shouldn't, wouldn't be claimed by a particular NFL team, written by 14 different dumbasses. This group of so-called “stories,” (stories always subject to being fiction) was the result of only one, single, momentary Google search conducted last Monday (11/1) afternoon at 5 pm ET.
Naturally, how did the story end? With something not in the stories: “Tennessee Titans awarded Randy Moss. Titans are only team to put in a claim.”
Only one team out of 32 was ever going to claim the narcissistic, 6’4” wide receiver who runs fast underneath footballs. So, why did these other reports have to exist at all? Those “stories” represented classic, bone-headed sportswriting of today: Irrelevant, distracting nonsense crafted by goofballs, ready for consumption by any schmuck (including some sports talk hosts looking for topics to fill the show) out there willing to soak it up, while the real news slips past everyone unnoticed until it actually happens, at which time the goofballs launch into commentary about why or why not the news is good or bad for the team, or other teams, for any schmuck out there willing to soak it up, etc., and the cycle just continues.
Imagine if somebody decides to sell their house with the aid of a real estate agent. Now, imagine if your local media outlets started calling you on the telephone to ask you whether or not you wanted to buy that house. What would you do? You’d tell them to get the fuck off your telephone and maybe threaten to beat the shit out of them for wasting your time. So, I don’t understand why people put up with these angles in sportswriting. The car will be sold to someone. Randy Moss will get claimed by someone, or not. Deal with the aftermath if and when it happens and ignore all this conjecture and supposition.
PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS NYC MARATHON!!!???
Is that an emaciated-looking President Obama winning the New York City Marathon on Sunday (11/7) with a time of 2:04:13? If it was, Mr. President came within 14 seconds of tying the world Marathon record of 2:03:59 set by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia in the 2008 Berlin Marathon.
And if that was really him, it would be the most impressive athletic feat achieved by a president in U.S. history, but only raises suspicions in some circles that Obama might be a closet Kenyan.
SOME TRASK TALK ADVICE TO KEVIN GARNETT:
CRIER’S CORNER
THE CRIER'S BCS ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT:
Going into Playoff Week #6, the Crier’s playoff elimination tournament is now down to six teams from the original 28 teams with Oregon and TCU still in the lead to meet in the Crier’s version of the BCS Championship Game.For the 22 teams that have already been eliminated, according to tournament rules, they are out of the hunt no matter how well they play the remainder of the season.
As mentioned previously, the purpose of these rankings is to determine the top two teams standing at the end of play on December 4. Hopefully, the BCS people will have the same two teams as "The Crier" for their championship game when all is said and done.
Below is this week’s rankings and the team’s opponents:
Rank – Team – Record – This Week’s Game
1 Oregon (9-0) at California
2 TCU (10-0) vs. San Diego State
3 Stanford (8-1) at Arizona State
4 Auburn (10-0) vs. Georgia
5 Boise State (8-0) at Idaho
6 Wisconsin (8-1) vs. Indiana
Last week, there was one head-to-head match-up (TCU over Utah both SU and ATS), so the Crier improved to 6-5 SU and 7-4 ATS on a cumulative basis for reading purposes only.
There are no head-to-head match-ups this week of the teams remaining in the tournament this week.
NBA ACTION
Yesterday’s Record ATS: 3-0
Cumulative Season Record ATS: 25-9
Today’s Action (for reading purposes only):
CLEVELAND (+2) over NEW JERSEY*
Two teams here trying to figure out just who they are at this point in time. The Nets took a step back after starting the year on the right note, but they played hard when covering in Miami the other night outscoring Heat by 7 in the final stanza. Cavs playing better than most thought they would early on. Avery Johnson is not an easy guy to play for, as he is demanding and that can sour on a real young team. CLEVELAND, 96-90
MIAMI* (-9) over UTAH
Face it, the Jazz have been a disappointment so far, but have had a few days to recoup after beating the Clips in overtime Saturday. Heat starting to get it together and it will be a work in progress. LeBron has been more of a facilitator and that will continue, since point Carlos Arroyo does well with what he brings to the table but that’s not all that much. MIAMI, 109-90
COLLEGE HOOPS: There is no action for the Crier tonight.
MIKE IN DA
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