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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Sports
Honestly, this post went up for two reasons:
- We really wanted to use the above image again. It’s like Tim Curry is clawing his way out of the page!
- We genuinely thought you’d be interested to see some screenshots of the Wii and DS versions of EA’s well-received Skate.
Skate It promises to fully adapt the franchise’s controls for Nintendo’s platforms, with the Wii version supporting both the Wii remote and the Wii Balance Board, ideal for “the full on immersive types.”
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For the first time in franchise history, the Devil Rays are five games over .500. They’ve won four in a row, and they have the opportunity to make a huge splash with a four-game set at home against the Yankees this week. (Before heading to Busch for three with our Cards; the Cardinals vs. the Rays will never look right to us.) Can they really pull this off?
Baseball Prospectus was raving about the Rays at the beginning of the season, but you got the sense even they didn’t quite believe it. We must salute those long-time Rays bloggers who have been dutifully documenting this team and, maybe, perhaps, who knows, could actually be rewarded this year. Predictably, they’re trotting out the Bad News Bears references.
Five games over .500 is uncharted waters for the Rays, but why stop there? The earth isn’t flat and we’re not going to fall off if we surpass 5 games over. Let’s hope that our team plays with chips on their shoulders, rather than listen to ESPN/Fox or any other fairweather media outlet who have started to toot Tampa Bay horns because the Rays have a better record than the Yankees. (Ed. Note: We haven’t the slightest idea what you’re referring to!) Last time out, when we had our 3-game sweep of the Red Sox, we had a day off and my only guess is that the team listened to all the BBTN positive remarks and they were quickly brought back down to earth on the Tuesday game.
I know a few posters here were alive when the original “Bad News Bears” movie was out in theatres, or was played on TV, and Walter Mathau’s character was reading the schedule of the games up ahead. Next up is the Yankees, what does it mean for the Yankees?? Bad news for the Yankees!!!
We can’t help but cheer for the Rays all week. Not just because they’re playing the Yankees, of course. This sort of optimism is so rare in Tampa that it would be devastating, we think to see it extinguished so quickly.
The Bad News Rays [Drays Bay]
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There are many reasons to cheer against the Spurs in their series against Chris Paul and the former NOOCH New Orleans Hornets. The rapidly multiplying Spurs mascots would have to be considered pretty high up on that list. Lord.
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Among the many wonders of Walt Disney World in Orlando are the Magic Kingdom, Space Mountain, and of course the occasional kid wearing the Mark Chmura jersey. Guess who’s not allowed in the hot tub portion of the hotel pool?
Kids Wear The Darnedest Jerseys [Zoner Sports]
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One of our favorite early-season baseball rituals is the old “on-pace-for” game. Unfortunately, it’s slim pickings this year; no one’s hitting a ton of homers, and there aren’t many individuals completely tearing up the league. (It’s almost as if they’re missing some sort of value-added supplements they’ve had in the past. Theoretically.) The best we can probably do is hope someone’s gonna hit .400.
That seems awfully unlikely too. The only current major league hitting .400 is Chipper Jones, and you can’t like his odds to keep that going.
He’d like to get exactly 502 PAs, which is the minimum required to qualify for the batting title. If he did that, his odds would be 1 in 225. As those PAs go up, it gets very unlikely, very quickly. Weighting the 618 PA scenario as 40%, and the other three as 10%, 30%, and 20%, respectively, we come to odds of 1 in 546.
If he keeps this up (unlikely), some enterprising gambling site will probably offer odds on whether he’ll hit .400. I’ll be interested to see what they are, although I’m sure they’ll be absolutely terrible. If they were listed now, I think they’d probably be along the lines of 50:1, maybe even 25:1.
To be fair, Chipper is already 3-for-3 today.
Baseball is entering a stage now when records will fall at a far slower rate than they used to. We find this a relief. The fewer records that are broken now, the fewer moralizing nostalgic, “there will NEVER BE ANOTHER MICKEY MANTLE” warblings we’ll have to read. We’re ready for a break from records and milestones for a while, thanks.
What Are The Odds? Chipper’s Quest For .400 [Vegas Watch]
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We would like to formally thank everyone who made our visit to Milwaukee this weekend so enjoyable. We saw two NL Central “contenders” fire their closers, two games decided in the ninth inning and we even took the “hard hat” tour of the Miller Brewing plant, where we saw, first hand, why people are chubbier in the Midwest. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
A word, however, on Miller Park, and that retractable roof. The roof has been closed for every game so far this season, and we asked about 15 different people why that was — it didn’t rain either day — and got about 15 different answers. (The Brewers have had tons of problems with their roof anyway.) Some said it was because it takes forever to open, some said it has to be a perfect day, some said the ball carries better inside and the struggling Brewers offense needed all the help it could get. But no one seemed to really understand why, and that includes several reporters who could, conceivably, ask.
But they did have dollar hot dogs all weekend and a massive parking lot in which we drank many Miller Lites and watched people play a game called “Testicle Toss.” And the beer man freaked out our parents and us by saying, upon handing us our MGD Lites, “Hey, you’re the guy who got yelled at on TV. Man, that guy was just goin’ crazy.” There are more HBO subscribers than we realized, apparently. We quietly sipped our beverages, kept score and remained focused on the game after that. Freaking Isringhausen.
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Show me your Jazz hands. Chris Paul is clearly screwing up Deron Williams’ endorsement deals. If the Hornets’ point guard didn’t exist, everyone would write love letters to Williams and and name their pets after him. Even thoug, Williams dropped 29 points, 14 assists and three boards as the Jazz tied up the series 2-2, there were still 14 newly registered Shitzus outfitted with “Chris Paul” doggy tags over the weekend.
The Jazz fans came out in full force again and some of them even chose to deny God for a chance to root against the Lakers. Or, in Mormon fan Bree Kasten’s case, for the Lakers: “I’m not supposed to come, but I did anyways. It’s kind of sad because my religion is supposed to be first and foremost to me, but it’s the Lakers and I couldn’t help it.” Kasten was found later that evening riding the bus because, once again, “her car was eaten by locusts.” This is what happens when you choose the Black Mamba over God.
The Spurs are determined to make the NBA playoffs as boring as possible : Speaking of Chris Paul, the Shitzu’s 23 points and five assists weren’t enough to edge the San Antonio Spurs toward the brink of elimination. Tim Duncan showed everyone why he’s still Tim Duncan, throwing up a stoicly dominating performance that resulted in 22 points and 15 boards. (Does Tim Duncan still have his tongue pierced, by the way? ) The Spurs completely destroyed the Hornets 100-80 and now have the series tied up again at 2-2, much to the displeasure of every casual NBA fan who doesn’t want to suffer through another Finals of slumbering team-oriented basketball with a French point guard. Speaking of which, the Frenchman’s wife, Eva Longoria actually attended the game last night in San Antonio, even though her show’s season finale was airing at the time. Also in attendance, actor Tommy Lee Jones, who was there to cheer on his new beau, Ime Udoka. The series is tied 2-2.
