Comments on: Things That Matter: Sports and Music

By: Char

Char — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:48:48 +0000

What makes intentional walks interesting is how many pitchers totally lose command after issuing one. How many times have we seen an UNintentional walk follow a intentional one? Naw, you have to leave it as it is; it’s also not unusual to see a pitcher throw the ball to the backstop on an IW. Just too many things can happen to make it “automatic.”
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By: Tom Curran

Tom Curran — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:25:23 +0000

Just like any sport, athletes(yes, I’m including goalies!!) have become more advanced physically and in their technique over-all but just like with any other position, great is great and a bad goalie is a freakin’ drugstore Indian! Your dad probably dreams he could have faced a corpse like Dan Cloutier !! Granted, I look back at replays of the 70′s and my hero Dryden looks very non-superman like!!
Judging by the comments on your blog, I’m thinking that yourself and your readers are not the demographic that the geniuses at NFL marketing are really trying to reach with the BEP’s!! Slam! by Onyx an old school “up to bat” rap

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:49:45 +0000

Marc– i never said they were good! hahah. they played airforce and they played like they were playing ohio state…which should be an interesting game…hmmm…but its more or less the whole fan experience…not even the actual game! haha if that makes any sense haha..

and hey home opener at the new stadium…i infact was part of history

By: Dad

Dad — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:05:15 +0000

What you youngsters seem to forget is, yes the goaltending is hilarious to look at now, but to get a shot meant taking a very heavy piece of lumber to your biceps and whatever the bone might be called there. And if you scored, you were told in no uncertain terms to never do it again.

I always did listen well.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:21:20 +0000

Now, not that I disagree that college football isn’t the best kind to watch, but that was the home opener for the Gophers in the brand new stadium. The gopher football isn’t anything to be that excited about.

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:08:55 +0000

Are you a fan at all of college football? I go to a pretty decent sized school in Massachusetts and our football team is 1AA so we aren’t that big of a football school. But i am in Minnesota for a semester at the U of M and just experience my first Big10 college football game…annnd needless to say it was AMAZING! If u ever get a chance to go to any division 1 college football game i highly recommend it!! it was nothing ive ever experience before when it comes to sporting events! juust wow

By: CMK

CMK — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:11:39 +0000

Here is something much worse than Tim McGraw & B-EP starting the football season: Def Jeezless Leppard starting the NHL season. Un freakin’ believable.

By: SDC

SDC — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:17:39 +0000

I can’t find the clip, but in the movie “Mr.Baseball”, there’s a great scene where former MLB’er Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) is being intentionally walked in the Japanese league. On the 4th pitch he steps into the outside pitch and knocks it out of the park. Then he’s called out for stepping on the plate. I guess there’s always the possibility of this happening too, in addition to the aforementioned overthrows.

I’ve been trying to think of another sport’s time-wasting equivalent, but the more I think, the only good examples are from baseball. Showing bunt then pulling back for a ball, the pitcher pick-off non-throw, and anyone calling time-out at anytime are all serious channel changers I’d lump in the same category.

By: SDC

SDC — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:08:18 +0000

I like Koharski’s swagger. “A Milli” is a dope track, remixed or not, and I’ve been a Wu-Tang fan since high school. The Raekwon song is a bumper. There is a lot of garbage rap, but when Eminem decides to play the intelligent thinking Marshall Mathers side, instead of the burping, farting, juvenile Slim Shady, it’s pretty thought provoking. The Game’s got a lot of strong lyrics, again inbetween the self glorification of everything he has and can do.

If I’m headed up to bat, currently I’m trottin’ to one of these:
50 with Luda – I Get Money http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLc_jOpvtfM&feature=related
Dogg Pound – Attitude Problem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cw2CoWlg74&feature=related

By: John

John — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:34:34 +0000

Goddamn, those old NHL games are a blast to watch. The other day I caught the 79 Rangers vs Russian Red Army on a show MSG Network does called The MSG Vault. Espo, Greschner, Disco Ron Duguay, Tretiak, Kharlamov. What fun. The Russian team beat the Rangers I think by three goals, but it was the same Russian team that went to Lake Placid two months later in the 1980 Olympics, and we all know how that went down. The 79 Rangers were a very good team, they made it to the finals against the Habs that year. It only makes Team USA’s accomplishment in the Olymics that much more mind-boggling.

I’ll never forget this. I was watching the CBS evening news with my folks, Walter Cronkite was anchoring. All of a sudden he stops his delivery as something is obviously coming over his earpiece from his producer. Mind you that the game was not shown live for some idiotic reason.

“…in a stunning upset Team USA has defeated…” etc. But the thing I got the biggest kick out of was when Cronkite said “…to put this in perspective it’s as if a junior varsity college football team had gone out and defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers…”

I gotta shout to Officer Koharski! You got great taste brother! Wu-Tang is outta control, and Raekwon is the balls! His ’95 hit “Glaciers of Ice” is in my top ten. In my thespian days I had the pleasure of playing opposite Rae in what I believe is the only acting work he’s ever done, a movie called “Coalition”. He was great fun to work with, and half the battle was keeping a straight face when the director yelled action, cause we were constantly cracking each other up in between takes. Great to see that he has new stuff out.