Sunday, April 23, 2006

New Mets Song

In the grand tradition of "Go NY, Go NY, Go!," "Meet the Mets," "Lets Go Mets Go" and "Here Come the Yankees!" is a new and hilarious theme song for the Mets.

New York Mets: Our Team, Our Time!

An aside, while looking for audio of the songs above, I stumbled across the new Nets song, "Go N-E-T-S!"

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Monday, April 17, 2006

Ain't Wet


I don't know why I find this so funny, but I do.

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Awards

The Barry Bonds player profile on ESPN.com has a section for Awards, including his many MVP awards, Gold Gloves and... ESPY awards?


Who cares about the ESPY's? I really hate this sort of artificial inflation of these stupid award shows.

Thankfully his CBS Sportsline page doesn't include this faux honor.




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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Barry Bonds and Perjury

I don't really understand what the big deal about Barry Bonds and perjury is. The case that's being investigated is whether or not he lied to a grand jury in 2003. It's been reported previously that Bonds told the grand jury that he used the "cream" and the "clear" which turned out to be steroids, but didn't know what they were. The question is whether or not Bonds knew that these were steroids. Seems pretty hard to prove.

But is ignorance any excuse for breaking the law? I always thought the answer was no. If you killed someone and then said, "well, I thought it was ok" you wouldn't gain any more sympathy. Likewise if Barry Bonds had been smoking crack. In other words, who cares if he lied, he took steroids, that should be the end of the question. While we may wonder about the duration of how long he took steroids, it seems to me a more constructive question would be to find out who else was taking steroids.


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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Double Meaning?

Let's just say that for a moment, I thought this headline on CNN.com was about Venus Williams.

Probe photographs Venus' south pole

I know, this is a really classy operation I've got going on here.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Fox News Ratings

I just heard that the President's approval ratings, along with the Republicans in Congress were at an all time low in a recent Washington Post / ABC News poll.

Thinking about this some more, I was curious to find out if there was any relationship between the ratings of Fox News Channel and the general negative perception of the Republican Party. Since Fox News is generally perceived to have a conservative bias, it would seem to me that either 1) ratings would not change if a loyal base of viewers are responsible for most of the audience or 2) ratings would drop if their viewers represented a broader spectrum of attitudes. Of course, there's some other data that would be necessary to fully relate the two to each other (increases in ratings with improved approval ratings, current affairs, changes with other news networks).

My personal suspicion is that the ratings are fairly immune to the approval ratings but I could be wrong.

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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Snow Doubt

Snow on April 5 in New York City?



Yes. I can't believe it!


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Boot Camp

Apple is introducing , a program that allows new Intel Mac users to run Windows XP if they'd like. While this is a nice idea, since so many people are familiar with the Windows OS, it's sort of funny that a new selling point to a Mac will be that it can run a somewhat inferior product. They should market this as, "You know all those crazy viruses and trojans that keep cripping your friends' computers? Well now you can get them too!"

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Enter Sandman

Do yourself a favor and go to the webpage and listen to: Joe Benigno "Tue. Mar. 4th - Joe is invaded by Mike Francesa and Don Imus as they discuss Billy Wagner and his 'Enter Sandman' theme song." This stuff is hilarious.

Here's the issue. When enters a game at Yankee Stadium, they play 's "Enter Sandman" to the game. It's actually pretty cool - the place goes wild and they even now put the lyrics up to try and get everyone to sing along. When entered games for the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies, he too, played the song "Enter Sandman." So on Monday, when Wagner was asked to get a save for the , "Enter Sandman" was played and sports talk radio went crazy! How it's inappropriate, how it's ridiculous, and that Wagner should change his song.

Yes, it's probably not the best move for Wagner to be playing the same song as Rivera but who really cares? I suppose people would see it the same way if the Yankees got a big top hat in center field with an apple popping out of it after every home run, or if the Mets started playing Cotton Eyed Joe or YMCA at every game.

Great stuff. Talk about a meaningless argument!

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Flight 93 Movie

A movie dramatizing Flight 93 (the one that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11) is on its way. The Daily News reports that the trailer brought some filmgoers to tears.

I know it's Hollywood's way to take any tragic / historic / heroic event and turn it into a film. There's no event that is immune from being turned into a film. Also, regardless of when it is turned into a movie, there's also no doubt that there will be questions that it is "too soon" or "insensitive." But this still doesn't sit well with me. Maybe it's because this was so much closer to me than a World War 2 film, but something about this film bugs me a little.


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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

D'Oh!

A Simpsons movie? I love the show but is this really necessary? It looks like they are just trying to milk the franchise for every last drop before they let it go.

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Jimmy Rollins' Hit Streak

There's a lot being written about , the shortstop, who got a hit last night in his 37th consecutive game. This of course, brings up the topic of , who managed to hit in 56 consecutive games. DiMaggio had his streak in one season, where Rollins is running his streak from the end of one season to the beginning of the next. Does that make a difference?

I'm not really sure what all the fuss is about. Yes, what Rollins is doing is remarkable and would approach the "most consecutive games" streak in a literal sense. But what DiMaggio did is quite different since it was all in the same season.

I guess it boils down to baseball being a game where everybody loves to talk about records. The DiMaggio record is pretty hallowed ground. One thing I'd like to note is that we don't ever discuss most of these "records" as over more than one season. We never say, who has the most consecutive wins (not necessarily in one season) or HR / RBI in a 162 game period. I guess we might have to make that distinction now. For Rollins, while the winter break between seasons is certainly a big hump to overcome, I think he will certainly benefit from decreased media coverage since he isn't doing this all in a single season.


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Monday, April 03, 2006

Opening Day

It's Major League Baseball Opening Day!

Yay! Now ESPN.com's front page can remove all their *yawn* Women's NCAA Final Four stories (no offense, but nobody's watching) and focus on MLB (which admittedly, fewer people are watching these days).

Opening Day is always exciting, especially this year, when a lot of teams have much higher hopes than in the last few years. I think it was a little silly for there to have been a game last night (White Sox / Indians) only because it seems a little bit isolated.

A few years back (2001, I believe), I skipped work in the afternoon and was lucky enough to go to the Yankees season opener. That was probably my favorite opening day. Tonight, the Yanks start on the west coast, with the A's. They had been starting the year on the left coast for a while, but then in the last few years were on the east coast. Now I guess they're mixing it up again.


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