Saturday, November 15, 2008 - Bush League Humour

-Suspensions were handed out for the PHX-HOU brawl, and somewhat surprisingly, Shaquille O'Neal escaped with just a slap on the wrist fine. Perhaps David Stern is getting soft? Whatever the case, expect a few boo-birds come all-star weekend.
-In college football related news, five Florida State players were suspended for the recent campus brawl, but what really caught my eye when reading the article was "...female bystander who wasn't involved in the fight, which broke out at the university's student union, was struck in the face by a thrown chair."
-One of C.C Sabathia's good friends is newly acquired Yankee, Nick Swisher. Take it for what it's worth.
-George W. Bush showing us Sparky's pitchfork. I find it funny that not a single person suggested that it might be in bad taste to post this image on the official White House website of all places.
-Michael Phelps was the only athlete to make it onto EW.com's list of Top 25 Entertainers of '08.
-The Auburn Tigers' trainers have continuously played the song Crank That to motivate the team, as that is Georgia's anthem. That would be freaking torture.
-Some of the more unique NBA promotions going on this year that might interest you...
-Kwame Brown said with a smile (on the Los Angeles crowd booing him): ''They booed me when I was here.''
-The Tampa Bay Lightning have fired Barry Melrose in what was said to be a "tough decision" just 16 games into the season. I never see the logic in firing a head coach just weeks into the season, especially one who's been out of the coaching limelight for what 14 years? Unless they're completely brain dead like a certain Toronto basketball coach, it's never a good move.

Everybody's boy, Terrell Owens presents Letterman's Top 10 - #3 is priceless:

Sunday, May 18, 2008 - George Bush likes the Doc.

-Death Cab for Cutie's new album Narrow Stairs is real solid - as expected.
-President George Bush was asked who his first pitcher would be, if he was an MLB general manager (and everyone was a free-agent), his answer? Roy Halladay.
-The Jamal Crawford to Toronto for T.J Ford rumours? Can't say I'm in love with Crawford's game, but the guy gets a tonne of slack for playing on two the worst teams in his short career.
-I was surprised to see the Dallas Stars go down 0-3 against the Red Wings, thought they were better than that. They will now try to pull off an '04 Red Sox comeback on Detroit. The series is currently 3-2. Marty Turco will need to step up if they're serious about the miracle on ice.
-Hard to imagine that Matt Stairs may have been in the NHL instead of hitting homers for the Jays - had different circumstances occurred.
-The Price is Right's Drew Carey is just a terrible game show host, in my golden opinion. Was a huge fan of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Drew Carey Show, but the guy just makes for a bad host. Ditto Craig Ferguson, who coincidentally was a regular on the latter show.
-All seems to be well in the Mets locker room after Billy Wagner apologized to Carlos Delgado, and their organized team meeting. Airing dirty laundry in public is never a good approach in any sport. And you'd think the Mets would know that by now - especially in the media frenzied Big Apple.
-Raptors forward Jamario Moon made the NBA's All Rookie Second team. Talk about a weak draft class. The only potential all-stars are Kevin Durant, Al Horford and possibly Greg Oden. The rest will become role-players, albeit good ones - but nothing more, in the years to come.
-During his interview, Ben Stein stated that George Stroumboulopoulos of The Hour reminded him a great, great deal of his good friend, Jimmy Kimmel.
-Blue Jays catcher Rod Barajas had 2 HR's and 5 RBI's against his former team the Phillies.
-.186, Ryan Howard. Hard to believe, huh?
-According to an MSNBC.com survey, the most commonly used password by people is the word, "password". Remember guys, stupid is, as stupid does.
-I'll be back in a month, take care everyone.