Nash vs. Donovan

Posted by Sean Doyle, October 15, 2010

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Our Long National Nightmare Is Over...

Posted by Sean Doyle, October 12, 2010.

Image Courtesy Of New York Magazine.

On the crisp, clear morning of October 4, in the year of our Lord 2010, the New York Metropolitans parted ways with their beloved General Manager Omar "The Architect" Minaya, and Manager Jerry Manuel. Fans around the greater Tri-State area were left dumbfounded by the decision by the Wilpon Family to fire "The Architect" after another solid forth-place finish. One Met's fan who asked not to be named, (let's call him Timmy McNally of 1412 Tubbs Road in Bay Shore, NY) snidely remarked, "I'm puzzled by this...I mean 4 out of 5 is pretty good, no?" referring the the Met's 4th place finish in their five team division for the second consecutive year.

But in all seriousness folks, this move was long overdue. The last 4 seasons in Flushing have been nightmarish. Two consecutive collapses (2007 & 2008) followed by two outright failures (2009 & 2010) were more than enough to justify the end of the Minaya era. In a way, it's really kind of depressing. Minaya and company started out so well in 2005 with big moves that truly energized the struggling franchise. But soon enough, hope gave way to hype, and a number of horrible signings (Oliver Perez, Luis Castillo, K-Rod, etc) and strategic blunders (Tony Bernazard!!) left the Mets' organization in disarray.

Now for the first time in years there is light at the end of the tunnel for Mets' fans. To say the next move for the Wilpon family is huge would be an understatement.

It's Always Halladay In Philadelphia...

Posted by Sean Doyle, October 8, 2010.

Doc Halladay, the game's greatest hurler, just shut down the Cincy machine with ease in game one of the NLDS on Wednesday. He did so while pitching only the second no-hitter in postseason history. This on top of pitching a perfect game, winning 20 games, being an All-Star and likely winning the Cy Young this season. If the Phil's win the World Series could his (Halladay's) season be considered the greatest ever for a baseball player??

Here's my formula:

Cy Young + 20 wins + All-Star nod + Perfect game + Postseason No-Hitter + (Possible) World Series = Greatest Season Ever for Baseball Player. Bar none.

YANKS TO PLAYOFFS (AGAIN)!!!!!

Posted by Sean Doyle, September 28, 2010.

Photo Courtesy of Charlie Wenzelberg/ The New York Post.

Last night, with a 6-1 victory over the Blue Jays, the Bombers clinched their 15 postseason appearance in the last 16 years. How impressive is that stat? Well, in 48 seasons of existence the New York Mets have only made the postseason 7 times. The Yanks have more than doubled that stat in just the last decade and a half.

Today's Winners: The Knicks Superteam

Posted by Sean Doyle, September 29, 2010.

It now seems that the New Jersey/ Brooklyn Nyets have dropped out of the Carmelo Anthony sweepstakes. The trade, which would have involved 4 teams and have shipped Derrick Favors and Devin Harris out and brought Melo to the swamp, has passed the Nets' deadline without resolution. Knicksnation is now doing a cautious celebration dance. Although, we could have had the super-team below if LeBron chose the Apple instead of the Beach....

Albert Haynesworth Is Fat And Stupid.

Posted by Sean Doyle, September 27, 2010.

Image Courtesy of Fox Sports.

America's most overpaid athlete, Washington Redskin DT Albert Haynesworth, has found a new way to sink his already badly damaged reputation to new lows.

Here's what Mr. Haynesworth said:

"I guess, in this world, we don't have a lot of people with backbones. Just because somebody pays you money don't mean they'll make you do whatever they want. I mean, that means everything is for sale. I mean, I'm not for sale," Haynesworth said. "Yeah, I signed the contract and got paid a lot of money, but just because, that don't mean I'm for sale or a slave or whatever."

So Albert played the slave card. He of a $100 Million dollar contract, who just received a nice $21 Million dollar bonus payment in April, just played the 'effin slave card. Wow! In a nation which is just now coming out of the longest economic slump since the Great Depression (which saw us shed 8 million jobs and increase the number of American's living in poverty from 39.8 to 43.6 million people) this obese beast had the gall to refer to him self as potential "slave." All for playing a silly game sixteen sundays a year.

If Albert Haynesworth had any "backbone" he'd return the money to Snyder and apologize to the better part of the world's population whose hard work and intelligence he insults everytime he opens his mouth.

Captain America

Posted by Sean Doyle, September 7, 2010.

Image Courtesy of Hoops Wallpapers.

With King James' once solid reputation mired in "South Beach" and Melo tweeting his way towards the same dismal approval ratings, the Hoop world is in desperate need of a new hero. Enter Durantula! Kevin Durant, the 6'9 forward out of Oklahoma City has emerged as the face of USA basketball, and the future of the NBA.

Omar Flies Coach, Gets Heckled. There Is A God.

Posted by Sean Doyle, September 5, 2010.

Image Courtesy of TheRopolitans.com.

According to Deadspin, embattled Mets GM Omar Minaya was heckled on a Chicago bound Jetblue flight the other day. Minaya is the man I often refer to as "The Architect" for his deft handling of everything New York Metropolitans. I mean, after six years and almost a billion dollars spent (that's billion folks) he has exactly one playoff appearance under his belt. His (Minaya's) impressive resume includes destroying the Mets' once healthy farm system by placing utterly incompetent Tony "Little Napoleon" Bernazard in charge.... signing Oliver Perez to a 3 year $36 million dollar deal during the depths of the great recession when A) Not a single team in baseball would have given Perez a one year $10 million deal so they were bidding against themselves and B) Perez had up to that point (and since) a completely mediocre career and in no way was worth half that money...."The Architect" also gets kudos for accusing respected NY Daily News reporter Adam Rubin of burying Tony Bernazard (not because Bernazard was and is a low level thug but) because the Mets would not give Rubin a job!! Minaya performed this paranoid ramble while completely bungling the English language. Watch the hilarity below:

But back to the issue at hand. Here is a photo of "The Arhitect" on the Jetblue flight. Let's hope he got some peanuts to go along with those heckles.....

Here's some linkage:

Deadspin: Omar Flies Coach, Gets Heckled.

MVP Gotham: Omar Minaya Knows Time Is Ending.

Super Nova & The Falling Star

Posted by Sean Doyle, August 30, 2010

SUPER NOVA

Photo Courtesy of Frank Polich/Reuters

Yesterday, the Yanks beat the Chi-Sox in a brutal Second City heat. This veteran New York squad, so beset by injuries, looked to a youngster with approximately 0 career wins to lead them to victory. And lead them, Ivan Nova did. Nova pitched 5 and 2/3 innings of stellar one run ball back by 7 strikeouts and only one walk. This line was good enough to earn the rookie his first big show win and perhaps more importantly the high praise of his manager Joe Girardi "We're asking a young man to step up and that's exactly what he's doing," said Girardi after the game.

Look, the Bombers needed a spark and Nova provided a flame. I'm not fitting the kid for a Cooperstown Plaque but we needed this stiff kick in the ass. With Burnnett and Vazquez roaming blindly in the pitcher's wilderness, fresh arms are needed in the Bronx asap.

As one man starts the road to glory, another man takes a tragic fall....

THE FALLING STAR

Photo Courtesy of Doug Mills/ The New York Times

One day after Nova blinded the Chi-Sox with his Super Nova heat, a man known as The Rocket ambled into a DC courthouse, his legend fizzling all the way. Roger Clemens, a man of 354 career victories, 4,672 strikeouts, 7 Cy Young awards, 11 All Star nods, and 2 World Championships, a man known as The Rocket for his blistering fastball, that man looked a lumpy shell of his former self in our nation's capital today. Clemens was there to plead not guilty to felony charges of lying to a Congressional committee.

It's funny how life works. Five years ago, Nova was a skinny 18 year old kid living in the D.R. getting ready to navigate the minor leagues. Ivan Nova was then a name unknown to the world. On the other hand, Roger Clemens as a larger than life icon considered by many to be the greatest pitcher of all time, was a household name. Five years later as one man looks to the future with bright prospects, another man fights a losing battle to save his fading past.

Roger Clemens 2057 - watch more funny videos

Wednesday's Whips Vol. VI

Posted by Sean Doyle, August 26, 2010

(David Lee and Derrick Rose discussing the 2016 free agent class and the possibility of teaming up on the Brooklyn Nyets...)

As the Summer of 2010 winds down, it's time we look back. Superteams were formed, superstars were made, legends walked away and icons passed on. A King abdicated his Clevelandic throne and took his "talents to South Beach." A pair of Old Mariners, Sweet Lou and Junior Griffey both ended their hall of fame careers mid-season. Brett Favre retired, returned, retired, returned, retired, and then almost took his talents to south beach before returning yet again. Brock Lesnar returned from near-death to retain his dominance over the UFC heavyweight division by outlasting Shane Carwin. The Los Angeles sun is now setting on "Mannywood" as that bad bum b-movie comes to it's inevitable end.

Just wondering?

How much money would a Mike Tyson-Kimbo Slice fight in the UFC make on pay-per-view? Yes, I know, it would be a garbage bout between a former legend and an overhyped street brawler, the ol' has-been vs. never-will-be scenario. But selling PPV buys is all about selling hype and drama. And this fight would have more hype than a Strasburg start in D.C.

It's Still Giants Stadium, After All....

Posted by Sean Doyle, August 23, 2010

After all the bluster and hyperbole, the heavy hits and "hard knocks", the new ball park in the swamp is still Giants Stadium. The media crowned this useless preseason game (scrimmage really) a battle for "stadium supremacy" between the supposedly fading NY Giants and the way-over-hyped NY Jets. But it was behind the light touches that we got to see a sneak peek of what the 2010-11 season may bring for these two tri-state titans.

And we did we see exactly?

Giants 31, Jets 16

I know, I know, the NFL preseason is about as useless as Isiah Thomas at the trade deadline. But in the first football played in the New Meadowlands Park it was trusty old Big Blue who stomped out the faux-sexy Green Machine. Old Coliseums crumble and new epics arise but in Jersey swampland some things just never change.....

Photo by Sean Doyle

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Sean Doyle, August 6, 2010

Can it be?

The worst GM in the history of professional sports, the man who single handedly de-valued the NBA's flagship franchise in five nightmarish years is now back in the New York Knickerbocker fold?

Can it effin' be???

The man who committed $100 Million dollars to Jerome James and Eddy Curry to create the stinkiest (and laziest) center tandem in the Association's history, is walking back in the very Garden he so foolishly fowled? Let me just get this clear in my head, Isiah Lord Thomas, the dude whom, when he wasn't sexually harassing Anucha Brown Sanders, was getting into fist fights with Quentin "Donuts are the only thing I'm Dunking" Richardson?

That dude!?!?!
That dude is coming back to the greatest stage in pro sports as a trusted member of Boss Dolan's inner circle?

Only in New York, I guess.

By the way, here is one of "Zeke's" best quotes during his tenure as Knicks' boss:

"Bitch, I don't give a fuck about these white people," said Isiah Thomas to Anucha Brown Sanders. (In reference to the long suffering Knicks fan base whom he tortured with his piss-poor variation of general managing...)

Photo by Sean Doyle

- He also made us watch Renaldo Balkman shoot free throws. For that offense alone, he should be forever banished to the Phantom Zone (The one from Supergirl.)* But I digress...