This week’s televised voyage into the irreverent heart of blogness features Steinz breaking pencils, me sipping a flask and us touching hands as we nervously fumble for the blogger bell. All of which makes for groundbreaking work, but these efforts are easily eclipsed by the creation of Blog Show producer Adam Littlefield’s new blog, The Dude Abides. That’s right, we’ve infiltrated TV land and are turning their own against them!
That last part may be an exaggeration, but let’s hear it for Adam, the hands-down MVP of our program and, as it turns out, a damn fine blogger. We’d be dead in the water without him. Now, before I tire from — and he grows uncomfortable from me — patting him on the butt, let’s get on with the program. Enjoy the clip, leave a comment, spread the word, buy some commercials, etc.
Topics: Mascot dance-off, fun with autographs, crazy funny hockey stuff, drunk coaches, drunk girls, drunk football players, AFC North quarterbacks, hot bloggers, etc.
Sites Mentioned: 38 Pitches, Larry Brown Sports, Home Run Derby, Deuce of Davenport, Off Wing Opinion, FanHouse, Ted’s Take, On Frozen Blog, Gilbert Arenas, With Leather, Deadspin, Mondesi’s House, Ladies…, Dan Shanoff, and, gratuitously, DC Sports Bog and Mr. Irrelevant
Other Quotes Considered for the Headline Here: ‘That Was a Dirty Joke, Steinz,’ ‘Sorry We Touched Hands Just Then,’ ‘Unfinished Keg Beer’ and ’My Swagger So Right’
Note:Blog Show is on the talking picture box Fridays at 6 p.m. as part of Washington Post Live, airing Monday-Friday from 5-6:30 p.m. on ComcastSportsNet in the D.C.-Baltimore region and also on washingtonpost.com. Subscribe to BlogShow’sYouTube feed.
As we remind you to grab your cards and flowers for Mother’s Day on Sunday — we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be in Mattoon this Mother’s Day — we thought we might take a moment and remember some of the special mothers in the world of sport.
But for our money, nothing can ever beat LeBron James’ mom. Let’s take a moment and remember the highlights of her drunk driving arrest last year.
• She was “driving in an erratic manner, weaving in and out of traffic at a high rate of speed.”
• When they first tried to put handcuffs on her, she wrang herself free before she was sedated again.
• Once in the car, she kicked out the side window of the backseat.
• The police, exhausted with dealing with her, eventually sprayed her with mace.
So, Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! Hopefully your mom will find a way to avoid the mace.
Saturday, June 9th will also be a popular night because it is the [Dunedin] Blue Jays annual “Scout Night and Sleepover”. Boy and Girl Scouts from all over the Tampa Bay area are expected to attend. Following the game, the Blue Jays will have their second fireworks spectacular of the season. Then the field opens up to allow families to set up camp and sleep on the Knology Park grass. Tickets for people wanting to sleep over are $10, which includes a ball park meal, a ticket, and breakfast the next morning.
Ah, to stretch out beneath the stars in a minor league ballpark, with second base as your pillow and the sounds of crickets to lull you to sleep (and around about 1 a.m., the automatic sprinklers). Just think, kids; your sleeping bag could be on the very spot where outfielder Eric Nielsen spits his chew. [Thanks to Reasonable Doubt].
Elsewhere in upcoming promotions:
• Beach Raft Giveaway. Today, Hickory Crawdads (Single-A, South Atlantic League). Do the Crawdads know something we don’t know concerning tropical storm patterns? The answer is unclear. What is known is that the first 1,000 fans will receive a handsome beach raft. But whatever you do lady, don’t pull on that cord. Pulling the cord would be a bad thing, because the raft … oh no … lady, lady!
• “Squeeze Me” T-Shirt Giveaway. Monday, May 14, Vero Beach Devil Rays (Single-A, Florida State League). I have enough trouble without a walking grapefruit instructing me on what should and shouldn’t be squeezed. Yes the t-shirts are cute, but leave me out of this transaction. Side note: When Vero Beach was brainstorming ideas for a mascot, I suggested a wheat toast.
• Dave The Horn Guy Performance. Saturday, May 12, Myrtle Beach Pelicans (Single-A, Carolina League). If you must squeeze something, better it be one of Dave’s 25 “chromatically tuned horn bulbs,” which are attached to his body. His performance, we’re told, also includes “streams of confetti being shot into the crowd from his turbo-charged jetpack.” Just a hunch, but we have a feeling that Dave ain’t stable, folks. In about five years we see him with 25 sticks of dynamite attached to his body, holding up a bank. [Thanks to Benjamin Hill]
• Mustache May. All this month, Fresno Grizzlies (Triple-A, Pacific Coast League). Members of the Grizzlies front office are growing mustaches this month, all in the name of charity. May 31 will be Mustache Appreciation Night, and prizes will be given in the following categories to front-office members: Best in Show, Most Money Raised for their Mustache, Best Tom Selleck Look-Alike and Most Pathetic. The awards will be called the “Bochy’s,” in honor of Bruce Bochy, the formerly mustached manager of the San Francisco Giants. How one raises money for a mustache is unclear, but I’m sure we’re all with the Grizzlies in spirit.
• Bobblehead of the Moment. Mr. Celery, Wilmington Blue Rocks (Single-A Carolina League). Our old friend Mr. Celery has finally been immortalized with a bobblehead giveaway; and we couldn’t be prouder. On Thursday, 1,250 lucky fans took home the toy depicting the baseball mascot which is most delicious when smothered in peanut butter. (Ed. Note: If anyone has an extra one of these, we desperately want Mr. Chandler to have one. Please let us know.)
• Team Logo Of The Week: Other teams in the Independent Baseball League have already learned to fear the fierce chili pepper logo of the El Paso Diablos.
We want your minor league tips! Send info on upcoming events, photos, or grapefruit segments to RickChand@gmail.com. And thanks!
This man is Richard Seigler, and he’s a third string linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played one game last year, and had one tackle. As a practice squad player two years ago, he earned a Super Bowl ring. He played for Oregon State in college and was a fourth-round draft pick.
Oh, and, according to Las Vegas vice detectives, he was the head of a prostitution ring. He was arrested yesterday in Pittsburgh … just after the Steelers cut him. Rough day. If only he had some way to ease all the stress and tension.
Seigler became a suspect as Metro vice officers probed a juvenile prostitution case. They found out that Seigler allegedly tried to entice a girl to work as one of his hookers, and then learned that he has other women working for him as escorts in Las Vegas.
Seigler is originally from Las Vegas, which would explain why he based his operation there rather than in Pittsburgh. (Well, that would be one of the reasons.) We are pleased to see that sports has returned to its working-class roots, requiring its players to spend their seasons out doing real manual labor, like in the good ole days.
This man is Richard Seigler, and he’s a third string linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played one game last year, and had one tackle. As a practice squad player two years ago, he earned a Super Bowl ring. He played for Oregon State in college and was a fourth-round draft pick.
Oh, and, according to Las Vegas vice detectives, he was the head of a prostitution ring. He was arrested yesterday in Pittsburgh … just after the Steelers cut him. Rough day. If only he had some way to ease all the stress and tension.
Seigler became a suspect as Metro vice officers probed a juvenile prostitution case. They found out that Seigler allegedly tried to entice a girl to work as one of his hookers, and then learned that he has other women working for him as escorts in Las Vegas.
Seigler is originally from Las Vegas, which would explain why he based his operation there rather than in Pittsburgh. (Well, that would be one of the reasons.) We are pleased to see that sports has returned to its working-class roots, requiring its players to spend their seasons out doing real manual labor, like in the good ole days.
Remember in the last game of the NBA regular season, when the Bulls simply needed a victory over the Nets to clinch the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference? If they hadn’t lost that game, this Bulls-Pistons whitewash could have been our conference finals; this could be all there is.
There is no implied destiny involved with these losses. The NBA doesn’t work where you lose in the first round a couple years, then the second round a year, and eventually you get to the Finals. It worked that way 20 years ago because they had Michael Jordan. It doesn’t work that way for every young team, and the history of the league is littered with abandoned young squads that once had the promise but never made it. The whole situation needs to be re-evaluated, not just because they’ve lost, but how every time Detroit wanted to put them away they simply did, making this talent gap seem pretty vast. If it takes minor tweaks (plus internal development) or a more thorough overhaul is up to Pax, but we can feel reassured to know that from what he’s told the media Pax himself isn’t satisfied with this cute fun little team he’s assembled.
You have to think, by the way, that the Pistons would have beaten the Heat in three games, at this pace. Meanwhile, of at Detroit Bad Boys, they have a fantastic analogy for this series.
You know how — as a kid of the ’80s — sometimes you’d think you pressed pause on the awkward Nintendo controller during mike tyson’s punchout… and say you were fighting Glass Joe… But you didn’t really pause the game, so while you were getting some Kool Aid, talking on the phone, or destroying a Micro Magic cheeseburger, Glass Joe was having his way with helpless Little Mac?
You know when you came back to the game, Little Mac had already been knocked down once and his energy level was way down? Well, when you came back to the game, you didn’t press reset, did you? I mean, you were fighting Glass Joe for godsakes. You just grabbed the controller and beat the hell out of him for the remainder of the fight.
Yep: That’s exactly what last night’s game was like. We arrived in Chicago just in time to watch the second half, and the Bulls were, without question, Glass Joe.
• Clemens Story Just Keeps Getting Better. We have to admit to becoming a bit giddy when we heard the news: Roger Clemens might make his Yankees debut at Fenway Park. Great quote by Joe Torre: “It’s going to be a circus anyway, It doesn’t really matter. Wherever it falls, it’s going to fall.” Circle June 1-3 on your calendars, kids; that’s when the Yankees next visit the Red Sox. Speaking of them, Tim Wakefield went seven innings as Boston beat Toronto and Roy Halladay 8-0. It was the ninth straight loss for the Blue Jays. Mike Lowell homered for the third consecutive game for Boston, which has won seven of eight.
• Yankee Go Home. Meanwhile, we’re sure that Yankees fans are delighted that Alex Rodriguez let a guy get away in a rundown — who scored the go-ahead run — in the Rangers’ 14-2 victory. Mark Teixeira had three doubles and a single for the Rangers.
• Junior Achievement. Ken Griffey Jr. is amazing — in a non-steroids, when-he’s-not-injured kind of way — as he proved again on Thursday. He passed Rafael Palmeiro on the all-time home run list with a two-run shot that led the Reds over the Astros 9-5. It was No. 569 for Mr. Griffey.
• And The Crowd Goes Wild! Josh Willingham, now available for all your fantasy Whiffle Ball and big league dreaming needs. Willingham hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to provide all the offense in the Marlins’ 3-0 win over the Dodgers. Sergio Mitre held the Dodgers scoreless for eight innings and the splendidly named Taylor Tankersley pitched the ninth..
According to BoxingTalk.com, IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron has been offered a three fight contract by EliteXC. Cintron is the fighter who accepted the challenge extended by UFC president Dana White to Floyd Mayweather to fight UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk.
It’s hard to tell if Cintron is serious about getting involved in MMA or is just putting his name in play to increase his profile. It’s also uncertain if White is interested in taking Cintron up on his acceptance of a challenge that really was offered to him. Cintron is a legitimate boxer, but is relatively unknown amongst the mainstream. A fight with Sherk might benefit Cintron more than anyone else.
As we remind you to grab your cards and flowers for Mother’s Day on Sunday — we are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be in Mattoon this Mother’s Day — we thought we might take a moment and remember some of the special mothers in the world of sport.
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