Obligatory Sports Babe
This morning we’ll go with Angelica Bridges, ex of Sheldon Souray, who is embroiled in a child custody case with the Edmonton Oiler defenseman, and also really hot. via
To Aggregate Or Not To Aggregate…
In a great piece from The Big Money that examines the invaluable baseball rumour site, MLB Trade Rumors, and notes that the debate over sites that aggregate other people’s content is fierce in most corners, “except, curiously, in the sports world, where the media-aggregator relationship has remained surprisingly sympathetic, and maybe even symbiotic.”
Never Heard That One Before…
“If a guy makes a mistake, they make a big deal out of it,” says Joe Torre’s bench coach, Don Mattingly, to LA reporters, talking about the New York media. Then, mind-bogglingly, according to Fan IQ, he continues: “They don't let them off the hook like you do on the West Coast. I think you should be tougher on the players. Be really hard on these guys.”
Well, The Blue Light Was My Baby, and the Red Light Was The Group Of Marathoners Who Had To Wait For The Damn Thing To Pass…
Kenyan Simon Sawe won the weekend’s Des Moines marathon, according to USA Today, but not an unscheduled wait, thanks to a wonderful bit of course design. “Sawe was leading countryman David Tuwei by 10 seconds when, after a left turn onto the final stretch on Southwest Fourth, he stared right at a train passing on the road. … Tuwei caught the 40-year-old Sawe and the two waited ... and waited ... and waited for the train to pass. … A 26.2-mile race came down to a 400-meter sprint.”
Quickly
The Captain America Hoodie is a little awesome. [Walyou]
The Oakland Raiders use a pigeon on special teams. [YouTube]
Some outstanding news caption fails. [Buzzfeed]
Bill Walton apologizes to the city of Portland. [Can’t Stop The Bleeding]
Aw… why not? A new Drunk Jays Fans Podcast. [The Score]
Bissinger: Moneyball Dead
In part due to the recent firing of JP Ricciardi, noted baseball author and blog hater Buzz Bissinger has declared Moneyball “dead”. This prompts Patrick Hayes of mlive.com to absolutely nail him, pointing out how “Bissinger is obviously a protector of the old-guard in baseball. He likes the romanticism of an old scout chewing tobacco and discovering some farm kid hurling 95 MPH at a tire swing out in the sticks. Unfortunately, even in the most old-fashioned front offices, things rarely happen like that anymore. The legacy of Moneyball is not that Beane discovered a long-lasting way to beat an unfair system, he obviously didn't. The book, however, has lasting relevance because it caused all front offices in baseball to start paying attention to better statistical measurements and to stop using flawed stats like RBIs (which are solely dependent on teammates' ability to get on base) or pitching wins (which are dependent on teammates' abilities to score runs and field the ball competently).”
Exotic Fights?
Someone forwarded this to me, and I have no idea what this it's all about except that I’m pretty sure it’s either a joke, or really wrong (but mostly a joke…).