Nice link for the TATB muse. I remember seeing that part in the movie and immediately realizing, "Wow, Pam's hot!"
I would have voted Woody Paige, with Bill Platschke as 5b, into the no. 5 spot of those to get hit with a meteor. Hit them while they blather on on "Around the Horn." Or when they put up one of their horrendous pun-filled/poetry-infused columns that lowers anyone's IQ when read.
I used to think Plaschke was good. Fire Joe Morgan helped me see the light.
An excellent call on both the Mercury chick and Cheryl Ladd, but you could have surely found a more pleasing shot of Cheryl than what you posted.
I know Saunders is a playoff question mark, but does that make Glen Rivers?
Lyla is definitely hotter, but you know if you take Tyra to prom you're gettin' some.
I nominate Chris Berman. I like Easterbrook, although even I got tired of his Patriot rants. He was right about them not being able to win it all if they couldn't run the ball, though, something few others noticed beforehand.
Five baseball players I wish I'd seen play:
1. Christy Mathewson
2. Smokey Joe Wood
3. Walter Johnson
4. Bobby Doerr
5. Ty Cobb
I think Doc's a better coach than Saunders, actually. Of course he has to prove it in the playoffs.
Berman might be No. 6, Donovan. I've still seen only one of those videos.
Please please can't one of those meteors have Joe Buck's name on it? I know he really isn't so much sports media as "announcer" who likes to look at his reflection in the camera lens, but I just don't know how much more of him I can take. I mean, baseball *and* football?? Did I do something to FOX to deserve this kind of torture?
Your baseball player list is pretty similar to mine, but if I had the power I would set the time machine to show me Koufax vs. Gibson.
Bruno Sundov, a poor man's Stojco? How poor would you have to be that you couldn't afford Stojco Vrankovic? The best part of Stojco was how Heinsohn and Cousy used to call him "Stoy". Honestly, that's all I remember.
I guess I'm surprised Clint Hurdle was still playing in 1985. I still remember the Baseball Digest cover with him and Rich Gale on the cover in their Royals baby blues, being hyped as the future of the Royals. (1977 maybe?)
Lyman Bostock?
I was lucky enough to see Ted Williams play in left. I was sitting in the right field grandstands when Teddy Ballgame came up for the last time. It was a great thrill. I remember in those days by the 7th inning a large cloud of smoke would settle about 40 ft above the crowd because smoking was allowed. There was just organ music and tradition. It was a youngsters memories that still live on today.
Ron Boisseau
I'm about a quarter of the way into Leigh Montville's book on Ted Williams. I had no idea how gonzo he was - cursing at the fans, spouting almost annual trade demands before rescinding them, practicing his swing (with his glove on the ground) in the middle of the outfield while a ball's being hit to him, etc. It's a great, great read so far.
When my father was 16-17 years old, he was playing golf early in the morning and Williams and a friend played through. Williams introduced himself, asked if him and his friend could join my father and his friend, played one hole and then weht ahead to the next hole. My father said that he's never seen a ball hit farther in his life in person, and he's never heard someone swear as much in a 5-minute span as Ted.
The reasons for Bostock are evident on this page. He's always been our pet cause.
Koufax. How'd I miss him?
Maybe it's a bad photo, but I'm not so sure about that Connie chick, Dirt. She's a little too rugged for me (and most definitely for you).
Chad,
I know it's not the same thing, but did you ever see Bostock on TV?
Thank you for calling out the LASG on Mount Crapmore. His list was the sort of historically tone def perspective I'd expect from one of those crazy teens we have nowadays.
Bea Arthur would wreck Jeter.
Can't recall seeing Bostock, Chris. Started following baseball in '78, the year he was killed.
With ya, Steeb, but you need to watch the show to understand. I believe the operative word is Milf. (For her, not you.)
I considered doing a list of five on Simmons. He's got to be the least self-aware person on the planet. That sappy paean to his beloved New Orleans was ridiculous. Does he think his readers forgot about his hatchet job of the city years ago? And I also got a kick out of him half-joking he could beat their ombudsman at Scrabble. She's an immaculate writer, and I'm fairly certain she could whup him without using vowels.
What you all need to know is that Chad's wife looks remarkably like The Official Muse of TATB, Non-Wife Division.
True Story.
You are so dead on with the Mercury girl, she is one of the underground hotties of tv land, how come she never gets work elsewhere?
//I'm about a quarter of the way into Leigh Montville's book on Ted Williams. I had no idea how gonzo he was -//
Makes Manny look positively benign, doesn't he? 
Phenomenal call on Jill Wagner, the Mercury girl. She is en fuego.
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Please for the love of GOD do a "Simmons Sucks" piece.
Maybe solicit e-mails and posts and call it a 'mailbag'?
Five primary personnel needs for the Patriots this offseason:
1. That's not BB's style, he likes experienced ILB's. At least one speedrusher either on the DL or OLB would help though.
2. Bah, we've seen NE shut down everyone with dogs back there. What is really needed is a speedrusher or two to apply pressure on the QB, take pressure of those DB's. I don't buy NE's passrush. Even though they had the 2nd most sacks in the league, they were ripped apart by more than a few college QB's because they had all day to throw.
3. Cassell could be the next Bart Starr and we wouldn't know it. He's been given no time. If you're saying instead that they should go with experience at backup QB, and pay more, that's another story. I don't think they have the bucks this year though.
4.
A guy who can get to the QB with consistantcy.
5. 82% after two years in the league. Maybe BB has more confidence in Brady instead of less in Ghost?
Wager on BB drafting a J Tuck type.
Egads, how could Shaughnessy not make the list?
Because I work at the Globe, for starters.
Cassel can't play. He's going the way of Rohan Davey this year.
Yeh, Damn Yankees is pretty...um...damning. Nice call on the Matthew Sweet, though.
Introducing the head coach of the 2008 New England Patriots, Dom Capers!
I predict that Belichick will be suspended for the 2008 season. The sharks in the media and around the NFL are on a feeding frenzy and unfortunately for us Pats fans, Belichick is going to get bitten to shreds.
Don't count out the Spurs, at least on the basis you cite. They face the same problem that every other team in the West faces: An absolutely loaded conference. San Antonio, Utah, New Orleans, and Los Angeles could each win the whole ball of wax. Dallas and Phoenix aren't far behind. Golden State is on a pace to win 50 games and right now they aren't in the playoffs. In other words, anyone could beat anyone in the first round. The Spurs need a healthy Tony Parker. Old pros Damon Stoudemire and Jacques Vaughan have held the fort in Parker's absence, but they can't go deep into the playoffs against this field without him at the top of his game.
P.S. How could you leave Tim McCarver off the meteor list?
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, sometimes there aren't enough meteors.
LOL. And at 6:00 a.m. PST.
My mother was from Pittsburgh and we visited there often when I was a kid. I got to see the Great Roberto many times growing up. One we're sitting the right field stands at Three Rivers Stadium close enough to the field that the warning track was hidden from view. The Phillies had a runner on second with less than two down when someone launched a high fly to the warning track. It was a routine play, I suppose, although we couldn't see Clemente make the catch. What we did see was an absolute frozen rope of a throw come screaming out from beneath the overhang. At exactly the correct spot in front of *third* base, the ball dipped, kicked up a little cloud of dust, and hit the third baseman's mitt waist high. The Phillie runner took all this in from second -- he hadn't budged -- while the rest of us went nuts. The players' didn't call that arm El Bazooka for nothing.
Chad - I had the privilege of seeing both Lyman Bostock and Lance Allworth play many times on the same playing field - Fenway Park.
Bostock was a Hall of Fame hitter who was a Bill James prototype - a decidedly patient, selective hitter who, when he saw his pitch, lashed away with abandon. As a longtime Twins' observer, he had Carew's eye and Oliva's bat. He was also a fine defensive player who was graceful and dependable.
I saw Bambi play at Fenway from 1964-1968, before I saw him play at BC and then at Harvard Stadium. Simply put, he had the finest pair of hands of any receiver I've ever seen. He was not particularly fast, but he could out jump virtually any defensive player, and his moves after the ball were surprisingly agile. Nevertheless, it was his circus-like catches of errant John Hadl passes that made him unique.
Finally, Stinger was the real deal in every way. He was a combination of Stanley Morgan and Harold Jackson - speed, deception, and brains - and had a real chemistry with Grogs. In the end, he was a 1970's version of Wes Welker.
Finally, kudos on a seamless job of reporting on the 2008 Red Sox for the Maple Street Press’s 2008 Red Sox Annual.
I saw Dewey do that a few times, CK. To home a few more. The balls never touched dirt. Talk about a bazooka for an arm.
I know, as a Boston fan, that you're under some contractual obligation to bash Jeter. And I know, as a Yankees fan, that pretty much any ground ball hit up the middle is going to be a base hit. But to say Jeter is one of five players you wouldn't touch in fantasy baseball is just silly. You're willing to take a pass on 200 hits, last years .322, 73 RBI, (hitting second on that team), and 100+ runs? I would think he's worth a mid-round flyer at least.
On the other hand, I'd probably pass on Schilling.
Oh, and Jill Wagner, the Mercury babe? Check out "Blade: The Series" wherever Spike TV sells DVDs. Her work as a vampire given to roaming the streets in little more than her underwear was criminally not recognized at the Emmys.
I actually had Jeter last year. (And Posada. And Damon. WAY too many Yankees. Just like them, I finished second.) He was disappointing - lots of singles, no real production. I should note the main league I'm in is weighted toward power. Steals (and Juan Pierre) are useless.
Hoping to get something posted tomorrow morning, but considering I lifted weights today for the first time since my daughter was born, I'm not sure I'll be able to lift my arms up to the keyboard. Do stay tuned.
Call Roger. Not only will his solution heal your shoulder but it may win you the 5th spot on the Sox pitching staff.
Well, what a surprise. Two Yankees on your top 5 fantasy flops.
Jeter's in great shape and will probably battle for the batting title again. Pettitte will be solid.
I'm predicting your take on these two will pan out about as well as your Patriots blowing out the Giants in the Superbowl prediction. I still get a big smile on my face when I think of that game.
A big, toothless smile, I assume.
To paraphrase cinematic Adrian Cronauer, I'm sure it's a privilege to take writing notes from a "man" of John's stature -- and he probably plays the banjo pretty well.
While I'm all for Hogepodge getting it twice, why can't Shannon Sharpe get one right in the kisser? The guy has a major problem with using the English language and is to analysis what oil is to water.
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