February 2009 - Posts
Somebody ought to tell Scott Boras that you can’t use leverage if you don’t have a lever. While they’re at it, inform him that if he doesn’t think the Dodgers are throwing enough money at Manny Ramirez now, just wait and watch it evaporate.
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Alex Rodriguez made more of an apology and more of a confession than just about everyone who’s ever been caught using performance enhancing drugs in any sport – ever. I accepted it with its flaws and holes and shortcomings and decided it’s time to move on.
Then I turned on ESPN and discovered that I am utterly, completely, entirely, wholly and in every way wrong.
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A-Rod stories got you down? Depressed by Darryl Strawberry’s revelations about the 1986 Mets in his new book? Outraged at Miguel Tejada’s guilty plea to charges of lying to Congress?
Do yourself and your battered spirits a favor. Take a cyber trip to the Special Olympics World Winter Games and remind yourself of the true value of sports.
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Let’s start with the obvious: When it comes to common sense in social situations, Michael Phelps is not the freshest clam in the chowder. When you’ve spend the last six years of your life soaking in chlorine every day, that’s probably not that surprising.
But Phelps is a regular Einstein compared to Sheriff Leon Lott of Richland County, S.C. That’s the lame-brained lawman who has declared that he is going to try to prosecute the 14-time gold-medalist swimmer for smoking pot. Lott’s evidence is a picture that appeared in a British newspaper of Phelps sucking on a bong.
“Our narcotics division is reviewing the information that we have, and they’re investigating what charges, if any, will be filed,” said Lott’s spokesman, Lt. Chris Cowan. (Apparently, the way to get ahead in the Richland County Sheriff’s Department is to have an alliterative name.)
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It was Saturday evening, the toughest night to get a table at a good restaurant. And Donatello’s in Tampa is as good an Italian restaurant as you’ll find in any city in America; so good, a friend told me, “It’s worth spending your own money to eat there.”
But around 7 p.m. on the night before the Super Bowl, three guys walked in without reservations and were seated immediately.
If you wanted evidence that the Super Bowl is getting hammered by the recession, that was it.
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