Comments on: Bacon, Boobs & A Blowjob: All Star Trash Talk

By: fatster

fatster — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:35:30 +0000

A counter-point to the bacon bra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ature=fvsr

By: john in sacramento

john in sacramento — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:46:07 +0000

Way EPU’d and really don’t want to bag on him but …

What’s up Obama? You Mariah Carey’d the pitch. You bowled it to Pujols

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSm0QXBcb8

Next time ya gotta take lessons from Shrub

By: bmaz

bmaz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:04:12 +0000

It’s a full service blog!

By: ManOutOfTime

ManOutOfTime — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:13:27 +0000

I assumed by the headline of the post you were re-writing the lyrics to “My Favorite Things.”

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:17:33 +0000

Now scribe, why are dissing places like Illinois, Kentucky, Texas, and all the other place in the US that have had extensive experience in ballot box stuffing?

Truly, it is the American Way!

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:47:38 +0000

At least cook the damn bacon. Come on. Dang that’s gross.

By: scribe

scribe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:20 +0000

Ok, but stuffing the ballot box and getting away with it seems to be a deeply-rooted Southern Ohio tradition.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:57:47 +0000

Wrong year. The ballot box stuffing for the All-Star game took place in ‘57. By ‘61, the players and managers were showing they weren’t really much better at picking all star teams than the fans.

I remember the ‘61 team as I was a 9 year old, avid baseball fan that watched many a game on the radio, listening to Ed Kennedy and Waite Hoyt do the play-by-play.

“Get moody with Hudy - America’s only 14K golden grain beer - Hudepohl”

By: scribe

scribe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:52:48 +0000

How could you not remember that lineup? Seeing as how Cincy fans stuffed the ballot boxes for the All-Star Game that year so their Reds formed the entire starting All-Star lineup, it would likely be impossible to have forgotten.

And that put the kibosh on fan voting for All-stars for something like 15 or 20 years.

And we almost lost it again when, early in the computer/internet era, some wiseguy at MIT or Harvard programmed his computer (and, IIRC, passed around the program) to have it continually cast multiple votes for Nomar and other Sawx on the MLB voting site. The hack was almost successful.

By: BayStateLibrul

BayStateLibrul — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:12:30 +0000

Wonderous explanation…

David Halberstam has a different swing… The Fan Divided?

“I grew up with my soul divided for I am both a man of New York and of New England. Things as critical as this, the selection of a favored baseball team, are not, as some suspect, a matter of choice; one does not choose a team as one does not select his own genes. They are confirmed upon you, more than we know, an act of hereditary.” Boston Globe, October 6, 1986

Since birth, I cheered for the Sox, Celtics, Bruins and then the Patsies..
But in my soul, I love the Sox the most…
My depression suddenly left me in 2004.
I’m forever grateful…