Let’s be honest, every major league baseball manager could get fired…that’s what they do. They aren’t like popes who usually get to die in office; being a major league manager means having your ass welded to a revolving door. But there are some who simply have a much better chance of getting revolved out of… Read More Ten Baseball Managers Who Could Be Fired in 2013
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With baseball’s Opening Day just hours away, Blast-Casters Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism take a hard look at the upcoming season. This isn’t you normal preview of cming baseball attractions, rather Meehan and J-Dub have compiled a full nine innings worth of baseball “locks;” things…
Back in 2005, the NCAA declared that Native American mascots were “hostile and abusive” and outlawed them. Eight years later, the fact they are still around may be the perfect example of why the NCAA is the standard by which one measures ineffective and hypocritical organizations. The fact the debate spread beyond that is even… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 5: “Offensive” Mascots Prove The Hypocrisy of the NCAA
It’s that time again. With Opening Day less than a week away (for the record, we will never count those games played in Japan as the real opener (if for no other reason Opening Day is about consuming your weight in hot dogs and beer, not sushi and sake), it is time to give you… Read More The Dubsism 2013 Pre-Season Baseball Power Rankings: What You Need To Know About All 30 Teams
The Hindenburg. Challenger. My 2013 NCAA Bracket. All of them were disasters which made you understand how fleeting life can be. While my bracket will never have the ever-lasting imagery of the Hindenburg or Challenger, it was a tragedy of unparalled proportions in my own bracket-filling history. Never in my twenty-plus years of bracket mayhem… Read More The 2013 NCAA Tournament: Finding the Perfect Analogy For My Bracket
Now that my brackets are so much smoldering wreckage, it is time for a big dose of what the original purpose of this blog was: a profanity-filled tirade about shit I don’t like. This promises to be a particularly nasty edition since for the first time in the history of my filling out brackets, I’ve… Read More Trash-Talking The 2013 Sweet Sixteen
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In the third episode of the Blast-Cast, co-hosts Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism take a break from the March Madness to break down the winners and losers in the madness known as NFL Free Agency. J-Dub and Meehan both have five teams who they believe…
If you haven’t filled out a bracket yet, you are running out of time. Games start at noon eastern time tomorrow, which gives you just under 24 hours to fill out your bracket, and spend time tweaking it. Up until then, you can still join the Dubsism Bracket Challenge. But when it comes to your… Read More Two Things You Need To Know While Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket
Without further ado, here is the official 2013 Dubsism NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket: MIDWEST REGION: Midwest Region Champion: Michigan State WEST REGION: West Region Champion: Gonzaga SOUTH REGION: South Region Champion: Georgetown EAST REGION: East Region Champion: Miami (FL) THE FINAL FOUR: Gonzaga over Michigan State; Georgetown over Miami (FL) NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: … Read More The Definitive Dubsism NCAA Tournament Bracket – See If You Can Beat It
If you are my age, you remember “Emergency!” – the Jack Webb-produced homage to firefighter and paramedics. This was my favorite show when I was seven years old, and it made me want to be a firefighter, until I realized they are basically mailmen who get to drive a way cooler truck and have to… Read More College Basketball EMERGENCY! Dr. Brackett Is Here To Doctor Your Bracket
OK, so I get that the Berlin Wall came down close to 25 years ago. But it still has far-reaching impacts. Stolichnaya vodka isn’t hard to get anymore. Guys can beat off to pictures of Maria Sharapova without feeling like a traitor. And college basketball is full of guys with names that can’t be pronounced… Read More Thanks To The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, College Basketball Is Full Of Names I Can’t Pronounce
Absolutely. It is pants-shittingly funny for a whole host of reasons. , and on so many levels. Let’s just go through the story to see why. An Illinois town’s little league program is raffling an AR-15 assault rifle to raise money. Atwood Armory is raising money for the Atwood-Hammond Little League program to replace old… Read More Ask The Geico Guy: Is it Hilarious That a Little League Group Is Raffling An Assault Rifle?
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Being that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is in his first full day as Pope Francis, and since he’s the first to take the name Francis, here’s hoping we are the first to notice how much he looks like Yankee legend Yogi Berra.
I’ll admit, it is really only the mention of tetherball that provides even the loosest tie to the world of sports, but if there were ever a sign that we are hurtling toward the apocalypse, this HAS to be it. Let’s be honest. The American approach to sex education has throughout history has been incredibly… Read More Signs We Are Near the End Of Civilization: They Are Teaching Your Kids To Masturbate with a Tetherball Pole
As a Philadelphia Eagle fan, of all people I know what it is like to watch your team languish in the doldrums of mediocrity. For example, I know what it is like to watch a team enter a season with Jeff Kemp as the starting quarterback (shudder). But I also know what it is like… Read More The Dubscast, Volume 4: Minnesota Vikings’ Fans Need To Quit Whining About Losing Percy Harvin
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In today’s episode of the SBM Blast-Cast, co-hosts Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism examine how the sports media has exposed it’s own hypocrisy with the all the commentary that has surrounded Chicago Bulls’ guard Derrick Rose stating that he doesn’t feel ready to play after…
Let’s face it. Your city sucks. You may not see why your city sucks, because you live there. Much like skunks can’t smell themselves, being a resident may blind you to the mountains of suck that surround you. Trust me, I’ve lived in several of these cities; one of them is essentially my “hometown,” and… Read More The 51 Professional Sports Cities In North America and Why They All Suck
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Oddly enough, while we were making fun of B1G Ten commissioner Jim Delany’s quest for world domination, we noticed that Delany bears a striking resemblance to Jeff Dunham’s prototypical crabby old man character Walter.
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In the initial episode of the SBM Blast-Cast, co-hosts Ryan Meehan from East End Philadelphia and J-Dub from Dubsism breakdown the amazing performance to date of the Chicago BlackHawks, who are flat-out running away from the rest of the National Hockey League. Chicago seems like a cinch to capture…
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Time for a little college hockey love while we point out that former North Dakota Fighting Sioux and current Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks head coach Dean Blais and formerly funny late night guy David Letterman were obviously separated at birth.
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