HEY NO BATTAH SWING...YA PRICK!

Posted by Colin Doyle, March 31, 2010


I'm not much of a heckler, though I can boo pretty loud. I've been at games and have found myself shocked at how personal some fans can get with players. Most of these hecklers are miserable in their own lives and rely on their team to lift their spirits. It makes for some priceless commentary from the stands when teams are mailing it in or rival ball clubs come to town for a series. Funny or just plain mean, there is an art to the heckle. No sport better accommodates this art form then Major league baseball.

I have decided to keep a list and will be updating it all baseball season. Here are a few of the nastier ones I can still recall from last year. Check back in for updates.


1) F__k you Jorge you rat lookin motherf__ker!!! (Fan @ Boston game to Posada)

2) Happy F__ckin Mother's Day Joba!!! (Fan @ Orioles game on Mother's Day after Joba's Mom got arrested)

3) I'll f__ckin kill you Marte !!!! (Me @ Yankees game )

To be continued....

Simulation Fail.

Posted by Colin Doyle, March 31, 2010.

Check out this video produced by the makers of MLB The Show. While this is a great way to generate publicity for your product, it is very important you get the simulation right to avoid "looking like your swinging a garden hose out there"

The Straw No Longer Stirs The Drink.

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 30, 2010.

Is Skinner On His Way To St. Johns?

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 30, 2010.

Photo courtesy of WWE.

Not that Skinner. This Skinner. Now that Boston College has relieved Head Coach Al Skinner of his duties after 13 largely successful seasons, will St. Johns be the next stop for the former New York Net? Skinner interviewed for the Johnnies post a few days before his firing. In my opinion , Skinner is a fine coach but "Slick" Rick Pitino is the man for job.

For more, here's Dandy Andy Katz at ESPN.

THE BROOKLYN NETS ARE OWNED BY THE MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD.

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 29, 2010

Image by Sean & Colin Doyle

Here are 10 interesting facts about Prokhorov, assembled by ESPN, based on his recent 60 Minutes Interview:

1. He hires production crews to record him performing backflips on a Jet Ski and then set the footage to music;

2. His shrewdest business decision - to sell his stake in a mining company - was a consequence of being at the center of a prostitution scandal at a French Alpine ski resort.

3. He lost a $53 million deposit when he decided not to purchase the world's most expensive home in the French Riviera (valued at $530 million).

4. He owns a $45 million yacht that he rarely uses because it makes him seasick.

5. He is Russian but he has never tasted vodka.

6. He does not have a cell phone or a computer and has only looked at the Internet three times.

7. Even when he was already extremely rich, he lived with his sister in a 500-square-foot apartment.

8. His first profitable business involved the manufacture of stonewashed jeans.

9. He works out two hours each day, including kickboxing with a coach of the Olympic team, and practices his jump shot on a basketball hoop installed down the hall from his office.

10. He admits to paying bribes, but the most recent one was 15 years ago.

BREAKING!! DOC BUSTED AGAIN!!

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 24, 2010

Photo Courtesy of SI.

Reportedly, Doc Gooden was arrested Tuesday morning in Franklin Lakes, NJ for a DWI after getting into a car accident. Right now, the details are about as sketchy as Doc's driving skills. However, word has it that Doc was driving with a child in the car and is facing plenty of charges. Another sad chapter for the once great Doc Gooden...

Read The NY POST Article Here: Doc Busted on DWI Charges.

FUHGEDDABOUDIT !!

Posted by Colin Doyle, March 24, 2010



This is how they roll out the Red Carpet in BKLYN. If Ratner thinks this is lousy treatment from local residents just wait till the Brooklyn Nets go on their first losing streak. Apparently, some guy hacked into the sign and changed the words to express his displeasure with the construction of the New Atlantic Yards Sports Arena that broke ground just 2 weeks ago. Even though I'm in favor of the project, as a former resident of BKLYN, I gotta grin when I see this.

Daily News Article HERE

KING DONOVAN?

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 23, 2010

Photo by Brian Cassella.

According to the NY Daily News, St. John's has offered Florida Head Coach Billy Donovan a multi-year deal for about $3 Million per year. Reportedly the offer came through wealthy St. John's booster Mike Repole. However Donovan, who has won back to back championships in Gainesville, has turned the offer down.

Tell me Billy D, what does Gainesville have on Queens?

Here's the Sporting News take: SNCB

I Try...

Posted by Colin Doyle, March 23, 2010

I try not to be a fair-weather fan but this is too much. It's really not that bad to stand by a team that has made a few big gambles (smart signings/trades, etc) that didn't work out. But its hell to stand by a team that has been the epitome of everything horrible on earth. And it's been going on for SO LONG. Even when we had a decent team (in the Spreewell/Camby late 90's) It was considered a team on a cinderella run, not a real championship caliber team. And shizzle, I can't even really discuss the "Isiah" era (error) because I've mostly blacked (read:drank) it out. Which brings me to the current time period which I'll label the "D'Antoni Looks Really Embarrassed" era.

How could such a big market franchise get to the state it currently finds itself in?

The owners just don't care enough!

I am often reminded of the famous story about how George Steinbrenner signed Reggie Jackson. How the mighty King George waited hours and hours in a dinky hotel lobby just to get a chance to see Reg-gie and get this deal inked. No matter what, Steinbrenner was determined to bring Jackson to NY. And what happened? Big Reggie helped a star-studded core bring home 2 Championships for the franchise. Do you really think the current owners of the Knickerbockers are going to go to that distance to see Lebron James suit up for NY? No! They'll send Donnie Walsh to the Holiday Inn in Akron with an I-Pod and a Bernie King poster. This really highlights what kind of impact a great owner can have. Steinbrenner returned a struggling $10 Million franchise to it's rightful place as the world's top team, which by the way is now worth well over a billion dollars!

So the lesson here is that you get out what you put into something like this. Steinbrenner hustled, bought, and threatened his way to 7 World Championships and you goddamn better believe he would do whatever he thought It took to win. The Yankees (not surprisingly) became a team that would and did mirror Steinbrenner's attitude.

As fans, what we see at the Garden (with the exception of David Lee, who is great) is one big mess. The Knicks current level of competitiveness rather well compliments their owners...sloppy, uneven, careless in the clutch.

I lose faith that even the much anticipated "clearing of the books" will result in any real turn-around. I dread that once the Lebron deal falls through, the team will turn into a ugly mish-mash of clashing talent and bad contracts. What the Knicks really need most is a finisher. (Not Joe Johnson) Look at the point spread on many of our losses this season. A superhuman athlete like Lebron James would tip the scale in our favor in most of those match-ups, as well as give the Knicks the confidence to be a different kind of team. In short, LBJ is a game changer and a much needed one at that.

Now the trick is getting George Steinbrenner to buy the Knicks so that it actually gets done.

ALL HAIL UPSTATE NEW YORK!!!

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 22, 2010

Photo of Ryan Wittman courtesy of The Daily News

Syracuse and Cornell both advance to the Sweet Sixteen. In other news, the Knicks and Nets both lost again. The best basketball being played right now in New York State is north of the Big Apple.

Here is your Sweet Sixteen Bracket from: NCAA.COM

Super Zeroes

Posted by Colin Doyle, March 19, 2010

Image by Colin Doyle

Here's the thing.... to be a pro athlete is to be tremendously admired by people of all ages and walks of life.  All-Star pro athletes are the closest thing we have to real life superheroes.  It is no wonder then that fans also make the mistake of projecting onto their favorite athletes the same type of incorruptible character we admire in our favorite fictional heros.

Unfortunately, the ability to save the day for your team is no indication that you have anything resembling morals at all.  In fact I would argue that with great power comes (in most cases ) great irresponsibility.

The truth is that if most normal people were given, the fame, the money, and the access of a superstar athlete, they would find it almost impossible not to be self indulgent.  In a way, having such exceptional talent can often leave these All-Stars with an underdeveloped personal character.  Its kind of like being born extremely attractive.  Those lucky few manage to avoid a great deal of the types of experiences that would otherwise help them develop into a deeper, better rounded person.  Instead, the All-Star coasts by because, like the extremely attractive person, they eventually realize they posses something everybody wants and thus use it as leverage to get what they want.

This is why we make such a big deal when real heroes emerge from a sport.  It is no small accomplishment to lead by example both inside and outside of the game you compete in.  For every one of these types of athletes there are a good thirty to forty Ben Rothlessbergers, or Plaxico Buresses limping from their escalades to their court dates and reminding us that speed, strength, and athletic skill are no match for human frailty.

The Ten Man Rotation starring your favorite Irish NBA players.

Posted by Sean Doyle


That said, here is my list of the best Irish American NBA players:

John Stockton
Chris Mullin
Bill Walton
Rick Barry
Kevin McHale
Jason Kidd
Dick McGuire
Troy Murphy
Billy Cunningham
Dave Cowens
Head Coaches: Chuck Daly, Pat Riley, Billy Donovan
GM: Donnie Walsh

(So as you can plainly see by the video, these guys totally missed a bunch of NBA stars of Irish ancestry...I mean Brian Scalabrine over John Stockton and Rick Barry?)

GOOD TIME RONNIE!!!

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 18, 2010

Texas Ranger Manager Ron Washington failed a drug test in 2009. His "first time" drug of choice....cocaine. Kind of brings you back to those lovable mid-80's Mets.

Blink Dammit!

If Kenny Albert doesn't learn how to blink we're going to have to kill him.

James Dolan Peephole Video!

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The James Dolan peephole video is a source of great outrage, and incalculable misfortune for the Planet Earth. The full video popped up several hours ago on multiple pro-chubby websites. The clip reportedly shows a naked Dolan, (through a peephole) eating pizza, crying, playing a few blues licks (well, struggling with a few blues licks), and repeatedly prank calling 1-800-Mattress.

Remember When The Islanders Were King?

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 10, 2010

And half the players didn't wear helmets?


I hope Tavares has watched this.

Are The Bricks Better Off Without T-Mac?

The 'bockers beat the playoff bound Hawks last night for the third time this season. The game was notable for the lack of a certain recently arrived "superstar." By the way, the 'bockers are 2-7 in games T-Mac has played...

TODAY IS THE YANKEE DEBUT OF C-GRAND!!!

Posted by Sean Doyle on March 3, 2010


The real question is....Will he be a Johnny Damon type or the second coming of Rondell White??

MARC SPEARS JUST RUINED MY NIGHT...

Posted by Sean Doyle, March 2, 2010