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October 27, 2011
SportsFilter: The Thursday 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.
The spirit of the World Series rain delay was in full flower at the Connecticut - Pittsburgh football game last night.
The amount of moisture that was either flying out of or desperately being held in by the mouth of Lou Holtz completely exceeded my tolerance threshold as a listener.
I assume that all the critical surfaces in the booth were covered by drop cloths.
With the amount of money that ESPN spends on the telecasts, you would think they could have a small trombone slide surgically implanted in Holtz' jaw, so he could open the spit valve once in a while.
posted by beaverboard at 07:32 AM on October 27, 2011
A bit of background: I was one of Chuck's first followers on Twitter. Doc Gooden passed his account my way, because I helped Doc get his follower count up when HE first joined Twitter.
Now to just find someone who gives a shit. This isn't high school, Holmes.
posted by yerfatma at 07:59 AM on October 27, 2011
Good luck getting the USPTO to trademark a vulgarity, Bald Vinny.
posted by rcade at 08:21 AM on October 27, 2011
Zdeno Chara is a fuzzy pink bunny
posted by tommybiden at 10:53 AM on October 27, 2011
"How the f*ck do you spell Rzepczynski?"
posted by tommybiden at 10:54 AM on October 27, 2011
Zdeno Chara is a fuzzy pink bunny
Scariest. Bunny. Ever. Since this one.
"How the f*ck do you spell Rzepczynski?"
Just use the name that everyone else uses: "Scrabble".
Not to be confused with "Eye Chart".
posted by grum@work at 11:04 AM on October 27, 2011
Not to be confused with "Eye Chart".
Used to play softball with a guy by that name about 20 years ago in Egypt (no he's not Egyptian, most of the league was expatriate Americans, Canadians, and Brits). We never tried to put his full name into the score book, just wrote down "Minky".
posted by Howard_T at 03:31 PM on October 27, 2011
Did you ever get the softball back?
posted by yerfatma at 03:55 PM on October 27, 2011
The lawyer for Frank McCourt suggested that Bryan Stow bears at least partial responsibility for being beaten nearly to death leaving a Dodgers game.
posted by rcade at 06:33 PM on October 27, 2011
I know you're all watching the World series right now (I'm at work), but here's a take on cricket and Moneyball.
One of my teachers/cricket coaches at school once coached Alan Turner. His view was that while he didn't score enough runs, no-one could get him out.
posted by owlhouse at 12:39 AM on October 28, 2011
In a battle of intellects Bald Vinny (previously) is accusing Chuck Knoblauch of stealing his 'Bahston Sawks Cack' t-shirt design.