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October 21, 2009
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Martin St. Louis plays strip shootout.
posted by rcade at 09:42 AM on October 21, 2009
posted by yerfatma at 11:24 AM on October 21, 2009
Do the umps actually pay attention to the game?
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 12:25 PM on October 21, 2009
Dear Tiger,
Anything you can do, I can do better.
Signed,
Mark Benevento Jr.
posted by BoKnows at 02:05 PM on October 21, 2009
I have to agree, YYM. That was probably the worst call I have ever seen in major league baseball. I mean, we have all seen blown calls where an ump was out of position or too far from the play to get a good read on what happened. But in this case the ump was right there. And the players all moved after the play as if to let the ump know that they were getting away with something. And where was the help from the rest of the officiating staff?
posted by THX-1138 at 02:10 PM on October 21, 2009
It has been mentioned in comments in a couple of other threads, most recently the Klosterman Dinosaur thread, so here are a couple of posts about the Wildcat.
Chris Brown of the NY Times Fifth Down blog : How the Wildcat works.
The same Chris Brown, for his Smart Football site, with some brief words and footage of the Wildcat.
The same Chris Brown, again, in discussion with Mike Tanier on Football Outsiders, in a Dolphins-Jets game walkthrough. (Skip past the (accurate) nonsense about the new NFL red zone channel.)
Chris Brown now owes me $5.
Not-Chris-Brown at Scouts Inc looks at the plays run in the Wild Cat (and gets it a bit wrong, as the Dolphins have three bread-and-butter runs, not two).
Scouts inc also have an article entitled "How to beat the Wildcat", which I haven't linked to because it offers no such thing.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 03:06 PM on October 21, 2009
Not quite meaty enough for a FPP but this article has Mark Cuban's take on steroids. I'm with Cubes.
posted by tron7 at 04:23 PM on October 21, 2009
great stuff, Bismarck.
posted by bdaddy at 04:58 PM on October 21, 2009
Thanks Mr. B. I'm forwarding your links to Rex Ryan as it is clear he has no idea what the wildcat offense is.
posted by cjets at 07:13 PM on October 21, 2009
I've just noticed my third link is the same as my second link - see... the wildcat really does always look the same.
This is what the third link was supposed to point to :
The same Chris Brown, again, in discussion with Mike Tanier on Football Outsiders, in a Dolphins-Jets game walkthrough. (Skip past the (accurate) nonsense about the new NFL red zone channel.)
posted by Mr Bismarck at 07:18 PM on October 21, 2009
American soccer fans ar rising in joy at the news that Fox Soccer Channel has extended their deal to show Premier League games for another three seasons. So much for ESPN jumping in whole hog.
posted by billsaysthis at 07:20 PM on October 21, 2009
Why would I be rising in joy when ESPN games are in HD now while FSC won't be going to HD on my cable system until sometime after Noggin?
posted by yerfatma at 08:46 PM on October 21, 2009
Fox Soccer is supposed to be going HD in January.
posted by rcade at 09:35 PM on October 21, 2009
Fatty you missed my humorousnessity!
posted by billsaysthis at 11:21 PM on October 21, 2009
I think I would want to wear these shoes too.
posted by BoKnows at 12:25 AM on October 22, 2009
Meanwhile, a club that once asked my uncle to be a Director, is in even more trouble.
He said no. Wisely it seems.
posted by owlhouse at 05:28 AM on October 22, 2009
Fox Soccer is supposed to be going HD in January.
Well, my household could go HD today with a simple trip to Best Buy for cameras, but it wouldn't get me onto Comcast's HD tier any time soon. I'd still be stuck in the 400s.
posted by yerfatma at 07:41 AM on October 22, 2009
I've never liked A-Rod (and especially not his representative), but his sweated up and dirty uniform from last night's game -- after what he did, I don't know that I would let anyone wash that thing.