Miscellaneous Sports Rants

[bostontricky]

The headline is probably funnier than the fact that this actually happened. Any comment from our man on the street in Mizzou?

http://deadspin.com/knicks-claim-charle ... 1792234698

[Captain Hate]

I didn't know there was a blog dedicated to shitting all over what Simmons has become which initially started out as a fan site:

http://www.sotsg.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

[walto]

Wow. And I thought *I* had a lot of free time.....

[The G Man]

In case there weren't enough reasons not to like Jim Nantz, read the headline of this article

http://awfulannouncing.com/cbs/jim-nant ... gulls.html

[walto]

Haha. Eww.

Nice we're finally done with Simms, though.

[Captain Hate]

Thank God we're done with Opie.

[Captain Hate]

https://mobile.twitter.com/EmmittSmith2 ... FPage%3D11

[walto]

https://mobile.twitter.com/EmmittSmith2 ... FPage%3D11

Hahaha!

[The G Man]

https://mobile.twitter.com/EmmittSmith2 ... FPage%3D11

Hahaha!

Damned spell check!

[Captain Hate]

Frank DeFord died.

[The G Man]

Frank DeFord died.

I liked him a lot.

[walto]

From a Globe columnist I do like, Christopher Gaspar:

So, that David Ortiz roast went awry, huh? The idea of playfully deriding Ortiz at a charity roast last week before the Sox retired his number at Fenway Park last Friday devolved into an expletive-filled evening with “comedy” that crossed the line from irreverent to downright offensive. No wonder NESN won’t be televising the roast, as originally planned. The performance of Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski was particularly cringe-worthy with remarks that relied on unflattering and ignorant racial and ethnic stereotypes in the pursuit of cheap laughs. Gronk should have spiked those Archie Bunker-imitation jokes from his act. Imagine the backlash if Colin Kaepernick had offered such off-color jokes in the same setting.

[Captain Hate]

The popularity of Gronk while mostly being a dumb asshole is something that has baffled me.

[walto]

Am I a sexist pig for thinking this is a giant raft of bullshit?--

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2017/ ... story.html

(If it's behind a paywall and you'd like to see it, I can copy and paste it here.)

[Steve Minkin]

Great track and field world championships from London!! Full of surprises, close races, upsets, and not entirely satisfying swan songs for two of the sports all-time greats -- Bolt and Farah. Biggest surprise -- a thrilling one-two finish for the American women in the steeplechase, first USA gold in the event since FBI agent Horace Ashenfelter back when I was a mere boy. And the first time Americans finished one-two in an international race 800 meters or longer since 1912.

[Steve Minkin]

Russian site, they'll take it down, watch it while you can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFd_ht9hXQ

[walto]

With top shelf frosh at every skill position, Ala shows it's going to be really good for, like, ever.

[walto]

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/999830661530714112

[Harold Baines]

So I drove a few of these kids for years to youth tournaments when my younger son played. At least one kid, now the leading scorer, wouldn't have able to play without my Van Pool ride.
(Three rules of Van Pool: No one talks about Van Pool. Van Pool never goes under a quarter tank. And Van Pool knows all the value menus in the greater tri-state area.)

Keonte, who hit the big three, loves my wife's tacos.

https://madison.com/wsj/sports/high-sch ... op-story-1

[walto]

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2605 ... ostitution