Who comes to mind when you think of the heroic names in the history of the Baltimore Orioles? While there are many, the list wouldn’t be complete without Jim Palmer, Brooks Robinson, and of course Cal Ripken, Jr. Now you can add Elroy Jetson, er…Buck Showalter to that list. Don’t look now, but the very… Read More Elroy Jetson Leads Resurgence in Baltimore
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. There is a rule in the blogosphere that says if you tag more than three posts with “college football,” you are required to do a pre-season ranking. It’s really almost like a chain letter; failing to engage is such willful prognostication can mean your goodies… Read More The 2010 Dubsism Pre-Season College Football Rankings
With the Cincinnati Reds acquiring of Jim Edmonds, the veteran outfielder has now worn his fourth uniform in the National League Central. CINCINNATI (AP)– In a move made on Monday to add experience to a younger team poised for a stretch run toward the playoffs, the Reds acquired outfielder Jim Edmonds, sending outfielder Chris Dickerson… Read More Jim Edmonds: One Step Closer To Playing For Every Team in the NL Central
A while back I wrote about what I believed to be the Ten Biggest Fallacies in Sports. Leading that list is the steroid scandal tainted the integrity of baseball. One of my primary assertions is steroids were an easy scapegoat for a host of other factors which have changed the game. Allow me to reprise… Read More Finally, Somebody Else Gets It
Mr. DawgShark, whoever you are out there on the interwebz, today, binge drinkers everywhere must salute you. Drinking games are what America great, and you have raised the bar for all of us with the invention of Shark Week, The Drinking Game. Normally, what you will see on my television is sports, sports, and…Did I… Read More Sport or Not, We Love a Good Drinking Game
I’ve been saying for years that while Joe Paterno is chronologically 83 years old, he only gets called old when his detractors have a criticism. JoePa hasn’t been old since the Orange Bowl win in 2006, but it seems to some he is getting old again. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find an article… Read More I May Finally Have To Admit Joe Paterno Is Old
Rankings by Division AFC East Any way you slice it, the Jets made a statement during last season’s playoff win in San Diego. The scary part is they have built on that team since then. Granted, they need to get the holdout situation with Darelle Revis resolved, but once they do, it will be very… Read More The Dubsism 2010 Pre-Season NFL Power Rankings
Yeah, we’ve all been here before. At least we’ve learned over the last four years how this plays out so that we can all really ignore most of this bluster and get back to what matters most: heaping scorn and derision on the false idol Vikings fans have accepted. Tuesday brought us Stage 1: The… Read More The 4th Annual Brett Favre Retirement Party – The One Where You Get to See His Dick
Whether it’s stocks, fantasy baseball, or the real thing, trading can be a dangerous proposition. There’s no guarantee that the deal will work; only time will tell whether your investment pays off or whether you get to sell you blood to make the rent this month. But, one thing that is certain; where there’s trading… Read More The Baseball Trading Deadline – The Shark Week Edition
How many times have we been through this story? I’ll have an answer for that as soon as I can borrow NASA’s supercomputer. Favre has been a regular Waffle House; since 2002, he has talked several times about walking away from the game, only to return every goddamn time. King Brett I’s crutch this time… Read More Brett Favre to Retire: In Other News, Sun Rises In The East; Oprah Winfrey Still Fat.
Editor’s Note: Mr. McGrath has long and storied history in the management of professional sports franchises, most notably as the general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs of the now-defunct Federal League. Oh, and this is probably a good time to mention that Mr. McGrath’s views are his own, and do not necessarily reflect those of… Read More Guest Column: Joe McGrath on the Olympics
If nothing else, Jamie Moyer is a pragmatist. Moyer left his last start Tuesday in St. Louis when he strained his left elbow after making a pitch. He returned to Philadelphia on Wednesday to be examined by team medical personnel. Moyer stood at his locker Friday afternoon, speaking to reporters of pitching again, not retirement.… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 7/24/10 – Hopefully, This Isn’t The Last One
Usually this takes until some time in August, or in a “good” year on the North Side we may get to an even more painful collapse in October, but for 2010, its official! The Chicago Cubs are dead. They are as of today 11 games out of first place, they have as good a chance… Read More Rest In Peace, Chicago Cubs
So, let me be sure I got this straight…Alabama head coach Nick Saban, the same man who has deserted two universities and an NFL team strictly for money is calling anybody a pimp? HOOVER, Ala. (AP)—Nick Saban didn’t pull punches Wednesday when discussing the improper contact with athletes by unscrupulous agents, comparing their behavior to… Read More …And For Your “Pot Calling the Kettle Black” Moment
For me, the All-Star break has always represented the “far turn” in the horse race that is the Major League Baseball season. This is the point when general managers acting as jockeys must decide whether they are contenders or pretenders; whether to go to the whip (trade for talent to augment a “stretch run”) or… Read More The Dubsism Baseball Power Rankings: The “Race at the Far Turn” Edition
For those of you unfortunate enough not to be Minnesota Twins fans, you may not know that the “Soul Patrol” was the moniker giver to the fans of Twins’ left fielder Jacque Jones in the early part of the previous decade. Jones was a key cog in the machine that brought a baseball resurgence to… Read More Could We Be Ready For a Return To The “Soul Patrol?”
Sadly, all roads have bumps, particularly those that take 24 years to traverse. While Moyer has a lot of history in the Windy City, it would be a safe bet to say he would rather not remember the most recent bit of it. Last night, Moyer took a beating, giving up 6 earned runs on… Read More Your Jamie Moyer Update 07/16/10 – It May Be Time To Say “Phuck Philadelphia Phans”
Remember the movie “Forrest Gump?” Despite the fact it’s one of the most-overrated movies of all time, it did give us the classic line “stupid is as stupid does.” Sometimes, it’s more like stupid is as stupid says. At first, I thought Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert had a lock on the stupid comments in… Read More This Week’s “Shut the Fuck Up” Moment: Jesse Jackson and Dan Gilbert
Yes, this is another Caster Semenya update. He she Semenya scored its first win since being restored to international competition by the IAAF. The only “female” athlete allowed to compete with “internal” testicles won the 800 meters on Thursday against a field of non-testicled women. The South African she-male won in a time of 2… Read More More Proof Dudes are Better Athletes…
Originally, this was just going to be a good-bye to my favorite corpulent coach, Mark Mangino, formerly of Kansas. But lo and behold, somehow in the process we also unearthed an archive of goodies on another fat coach, Phil Fulmer of the hated Tennessee Volunteers. In either event, we found ourselves with a ton of… Read More File Dump: The Mangino/Fulmer Edition
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