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| Sep-07-11 | | benjinathan: Plus Mike Dunleavy the father of the current Pacer, Mike jr. Harvey Catchings is the father of an WNBA star-Tamika Catchings (top 15 WNBA history) But my Fsavorite was World Be Free "nee Lloyd". I once saw him shoot a 3 pointer on a breakaway- but he was playing with the clippers then so that doesn't really count. |
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Sep-07-11
 | | perfidious: Here's a gem from another sport: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/... |
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| Sep-07-11 | | Travis Bickle: Hello Dr Benoni, are you getting ready for the upcoming NFL season? |
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Sep-07-11
 | | WannaBe: < Travis Bickle: Hello Dr Benoni, are you getting ready for the upcoming NFL season? > Yes, he already have his paper sack ready, eyes cut out. (Oh, that's for Halloween, sorry. =) On a slight more serious note, I see that Verlander only pitched 6 innings today, was it due to heat/humidity, or are the Tigers resting him for the play-offs? |
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Sep-07-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> Mainly pitch count; in 6.1 innings, he threw 117 pitches. Verlander hasn't been as sharp lately, despite (or perhaps because of) an extra day of rest here or there. Today, he allowed only four hits, struck out eight, walked two, but two of the hits happened to be two run homers. Tigers still won, so he goes to 22-5 overall, with a 20-1 streak. Tigers now have back-to-back sweeps of the next two teams in the division (Chicago and Cleveland), and have an 8 1/2 game lead with under twenty games left. Should be enough. In fact, they've just passed Texas for the #2 spot in the playoffs. <Travis> Glad football season is starting. Suh is just hankering for a Deep Dish Chicago Quarterback. |
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| Sep-07-11 | | hangingenprise: hi <phony> lion fan will have an opening football day win, and it
will not be one of those "official"
bear wins! the only question is: will
the bucs score a touchdown?
this year there might be a tear in
mr. bickle's bear? just a little cautious since it is still the lions. |
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Sep-07-11
| | perfidious: Anyone bet the house on the over in Red Sox-Jays tonight? It's 8-5 in the fifth. |
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| Sep-07-11 | | Jim Bartle: Isn't 22 wins already the highest in several years, with probably five starts left? When's the last time somebody won 25? |
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Sep-07-11
| | Phony Benoni: Probably four more starts, at best.
22 hasn't been done since 2008. The last with 25+ was Bob Welch, 27, 1990. http://www.baseball-reference.com/l... |
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| Sep-08-11 | | David2009: Hi PB, thanks for visiting, cheers, David |
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Sep-08-11
| | WannaBe: Remember my post, about two weeks ago about how 9-3 put-out is embarassing? http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/bi... |
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| Sep-08-11 | | I play the Fred: <Glad football season is starting. Suh is just hankering for a Deep Dish Chicago Quarterback.> SI picked the Lions to finish second in the division with a good chance to make the playoffs. God, I hope so. It's not that I'm particularly a Lions fan; I just hate to see a team mired in losing year after year.* * - Does not apply to the Lakers, Cowboys, or Yankees. They are free to lose in perpetuity as far as I'm concerned. |
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Sep-08-11
| | WannaBe: <I play the Fred> How about the New England Patriots? |
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| Sep-08-11 | | I play the Fred: I don't root for the Patriots these days, but my dislike for them isn't close to what I feel for the teams I listed above. They attract bandwagoners by the bucketful. |
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Sep-08-11
| | perfidious: <I play the Fred: SI picked the Lions to finish second in the division with a good chance to make the playoffs.> I'm by no means sold on them; I think they need another year. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, which would, of course, be the first time ever. <* - Does not apply to the Lakers, Cowboys, or Yankees. They are free to lose in perpetuity as far as I'm concerned.> Can't agree more on the Pinstriped Scum, but the others are two favourites. Oh well. Yes, all those teams get plenty of fans who jump aboard when things go well, but where were they when Dallas went 1-15 in 1989? Probably where all Bulls fans went once Jordan and Pippen left in the late 1990s. |
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Sep-09-11
| | Phony Benoni: I'd agree it's not going to be the Lions' year, but they will show improvement. Second place might be possible, but they really need a better running game. And, for all practical purposes, Matthew Stafford is still a rookie. My father was a Yankee fan; well, he grew in New York during the Ruth/Gehrig/DiMaggio era, so what do you expect? So my hatred of them is tempered somewhat. Besides, I've always had an admiration for excellence. But that's the good thing about living outside the Northeast. I can root for both the Yankees and the Red Sox if I feel like it! |
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Sep-09-11
| | WannaBe: That's what I have always liked about Barry, I'm retired, and I'm gonna stay retired. I left on my terms, and dog-gone-it, I <AM> retired! A lot of my bar crowd all agreed, he left because he got tired of losing, a team with no O-line, but he still ran like a son-of-a-gun. The pub crowd, also agreed, if he had an O-line, and stayed around, he would have amassed records that would be (nearly) unbreakable. |
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Sep-09-11
| | Phony Benoni: I don't think it was mainly the poor offensive line that made Barry retire. That group did help him get over 2000 yards one year, remember. It was the losing, and even more the general attitude and culture surrounding the team, both on the field and in the front office. He just decided not to take it anymore. And this was before the Matt Millen era, when things really went downhill. |
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Sep-09-11
| | perfidious: <Phony Benoni: ....And this was before the Matt Millen era, when things really went downhill.> If I were to vote for worst general manager in sports history, Millen would be one of the finalists-his track recored was what one might call 'proven'. Millen's wretched drafting took a team which had been respectable and doomed them to a mess from which they're still recovering. Wideouts, one year after another? He finally scored with Calvin Johnson, but I would venture to say that one of us kibitzers could keep picking high and eventually get one right. <WannaBe> It would have been good to see Sanders stick around, even as a Dallas fan, but he had his reasons.
One thing sure: he was a class act. Many players today in his shoes would be whining while still playing, finally retire, then we'd hear about it from them some more. The argument always has gone that Sanders had no line, whereas Emmitt Smith had the outstanding one in front of him. We shall never know what might have been. Whenever anyone discusses the greatest backs to ever put on a pair of cleats, hard to keep either of those names out of the mix one way or another. |
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| Sep-09-11 | | Jim Bartle: I don't know why Sanders retired, though I suspect the reasons were very personal and not so much team-related. But I agree with WannaBe that had he had a first-rate line he would have done a Beamon to the rushing records. Remember, Sanders holds the record for most rushes for a loss, or most yards lost rushing, or something like that, as well as all those yards gained. He's responsible for a lot of those, running backwards instead of taking a short gain, but poor blocking has to be a big reason as well. |
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| Sep-09-11 | | I play the Fred: My favorite Barry Sanders story: in an interview, he was once asked about the possibility of rushing for 2000 yards; he mentioned that OJ Simpson was special for reaching the mark in a 14-game season. In 1997, Sanders rushed for 2053 yards. Incredibly, he only had 53 yards rushing after the first two games of 1997. The downright strange part? Sanders got 2000 yards exactly late in the fourth quarter on a short, straight ahead run and came out of the game after the play. I was pleased that Sanders hit the rare mark. Well after that one play, Sanders came back in. I was worried that he might get the ball and lose yardage. Lo and behold, he took the handoff on the next play and ripped off a - wait for it - 53 yard run. You can't make this stuff up. |
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Sep-09-11
| | perfidious: <Fred> That's UFB (un frigging believable). Truth really is stranger than fiction.
Another thing: the term 1000-yard rusher is bandied about as though it's something special, but the players who were doing it when, as mentioned, there were 14, or 12, games in a season-that was a bit tougher than now. Players such as Jim Brown and Bronco Nagurski would laugh some of the wimps who play today out of existence. |
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| Sep-09-11 | | Jim Bartle: I heard an announcer quite a few years ago tell analyst Jim Brown a runner was pretty good because "he's a 1000-yard runner." And Brown just scoffed, "1000 yards in 16 games? That's nothing." |
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| Sep-09-11 | | Jim Bartle: Rushing records are strange in that they can be broken and then unbroken. I remember in the late 60s a back named Lowe broke the AFL all-time rushing record (admittedly not the greatest of records; the league was only eight years old), they celebrated, gave him the ball, etc. Then he was hit for a five-yard loss on the next play and lost the record. |
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Sep-09-11
| | perfidious: <Jim Bartle: ...Brown just scoffed, "1000 yards in 16 games? That's nothing."> That would have been a bad year for Brown-in the twelve-game seasons! |
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