The Daily Dose: July 2008 Archives

Scotty Bowman coming to the Blackhawks, perhaps the move of the day?
Griff coming to the Southside?
The Cubs clinching the NL Central?

Nope.

Ron Artest.

What a f#$@% moron. We knew this. True. But only guys with a special kind of mental aptitude could ratchet idiocy up a notch like this....

this is Ron Ron's response to new teammate and consummate pro Yao Ming hoping Ron Ron's fighting days were behind him...

"I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto"

"That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about."

"If you go back to the brawl, that's a culture issue right there."

"Somebody was disrespecting me, so he's got to understand where I'm coming from. People that know me know that Ron Artest never changed."

I wonder if all the other black athletes Yao has played with appreciate this...

i know you missed me.

I thought i'd return from my 2 week hiatus all full of p$%^ and vinegar, Daily Doses backed up like a 54-year-old in need of Benefiber....

but that's not true...unfortunately...

though i am wondering why the Angels would want Mark Texiera instead of Paul Konerko? I mean, shoot. Don't they know Konerko loves the Left Coast?

I listened to entirely too much sports talk radio in Milwaukee, but it was interesting to find out that they're all pretty much sick of Brett Fahv-rah too....

and Ned Yost....

and they're developing a real, real hatred for Cubs fans.....which is nice. Good to see that cheddar in the veins broil a little bit...though from all accounts the first game at Miller Park last night was nearly half Cubs fans anyway....

check this place out - there is something, um, how you say...well, you gotta love girls who love baseball, let's put it that way...especially White Sox baseball ... here ya go...

which means there won't be a daily dose for a few days. i'm not going to tell you how many. the goal is make this particular post the most seen in innnernet history, only because you'll be anticipating your next hit...fiends...
may The Fire and The Passion be with you ...

and something to chew on...
The Fire and The Passion has dropped in popularity, while Nick Swisher can now, temporarily, say he has more Fire and Passion...

Fortunately, Cubs fans only think Ryan Theriot has Fire and Passion, but clearly, he does not compared to the aforementioned...

Boo Weekley is right - the food across the pond sucks....anyway, I don't blame Kenny Perry, and neither should you...who gives a crap if he goes to Royal Birkdale, or that he didnt try and qualify for the US Open...he's been a non-factor the majority of his career in majors, so why is everyone so up in arms that he would be this year? because he's won a few events?

please.

it's one thing to win the Memorial. it's another to win a major. Sorry.

and, the guy is 47 years old...let's be honest with ourselves here.

here is the list of the oldest guys to win a major, and you'll see that Kenny Perry is not really on this level...

Julius Boros: 1968 PGA Championship, 48 years, 4 months, 18 days
Jack Nicklaus: 1986 Masters, 46 years, 2 months, 23 days
Old Tom Morris: 1867 British Open, 46 years, 99 days
Hale Irwin: 1990 U.S. Open, 45 years, 15 days old
Roberto de Vicenzo: 1967 British Open, 44 years, 93 days
Harry Vardon: 1914 British Open, 44 years, 41 days
Raymond Floyd: 1986 U.S. Open, 43 years, 9 months, 11 days
Ted Ray: 1920 U.S. Open, 43 years, 4 months, 16 days old

That Tony Stewart is "forming his own team?"

forgive my ignorance on the subject of the guys who speed through left turns all day (and night), but why does this matter?

to me, this is akin to a golfer changing equipment, or getting a new clothing sponsor....its the same guy....and there's potential that he may not perform as well in the past...but I fail to see why this is so huge that it warrants this type of attention...

"I'm tired of this crap" and "please, use a rubberband to shoot me in the eyes with Pez" ...
all the Brett Favre stuff.

I'm done with it. I'm done with him. I'm done with all the love for him.

the guy just plays football and beginning with the Pack's loss to John Elway in the Super Bowl in 98, he hasnt done it well when its mattered - he's 3-7 in the playoffs with 19 interceptions.
Honestly, ESPN, everyone in Wisconsin, we .... just ... don't .... care ...

and yet the instant reaction I hear from Cubs fans on this trade is ...
"how could they trade Eric Patterson and Matt Murton?"
"how could they trade Josh Donaldson?"

really? Josh Donaldson? I'd venture to say 99.7% of Cubs fans had no idea a guy named Josh Donaldson even existed let alone played minor league baseball for the organization.

The Cubs just got freaking Rich Harden(!) for the equivalent of that stuff in the corners of the Boston Market cup of cinnamon apples - you know what it is, theoretically, and where it came from...and that it might potentially taste good if you scraped it out, but really, it's not worth it...

Fire and Passion

I guess I should be telling you to vote for Sox outfielder Jermaine Dye, but let's be honest - when you can vote for Aaron Rowand, who without a doubt would run over the monuments in Yankee Stadium to rob A-Rod of a meaningless home run, you just have to.

They say the All-Star game is contrived, that Bud Selig went above and beyond in terms of making it "count", or "worth it" to the players....but what isn't fake, what isn't over the top, is The Fire and The Passion.

Rowand '08.

and I saw a guy that was a dead ringer for He Got Game star Ray Allen - only I highly doubt that that Ray was sitting in suburbia polishing off a chili dog ...

which got me thinking of all the random times and places that I've run into a pro athlete...

Fortunately for me, my line of work keeps me from getting all googly about seeing a sports star away from the field, but it's still interesting nonetheless...

like when I saw Greg Maddux in a truck stop Arby's between Tucson and Phoenix...

or Jermaine Dye on a Chicago street corner, waiting to get into a Mickey D's...

or a supremely mulleted Mitch Williams chilling in an airport...

sometimes it's easy to forget that these guys do regular stuff when not in uniform...

Justin Duchscherer?
Dana Eveland?
Greg Smith?

At least I've heard of Rich Harden and Joe Blanton.

Quick! Name three of the regular starters for the Oakland A's. Right now!

You can't can you? You probably said Frank Thomas, but the Big Hurt has been hurtin' big for most of his time back in Oakland.

I mean, Daric Barton, Jack Hannahan and Ryan Sweeney?

They're the Twins of the West - a team that always seems to win despite having no "name" players on the roster, always seems to beat the White Sox and always seems to find pitchers that for whatever reason dominate major league hitters on a regular basis.

AJ Pierzynski capped another prolonged White Sox winning streak with a walk off home run against Cleveland, and once again I found myself wondering where that phrase came from.

it's only slightly less annoying than hearing from an announcer that the guy went "Oppo" or that the greatest player in the 20th century was Yaz, and I got to thinking - who can I blame for this?

Then I really was irritated when upon reading here that the term was originally used for the pitcher, not the hitter. So that means a phrase I hate has been misrepresented as well!

Too bad not everyone believes what they read on the innernet like I do and stop using those two words together the next time a batter hits a home run to win a game...

BREAKING NEWS: Former East Aurora star Aaron McGhee will be playing summer league ball for the Milwaukee Bucks next week, and has an outside chance of making the team's final roster.

McGhee, who has traveled the globe since leaving Oklahoma in 2002, has a connection with Milwaukee in Bucks assistant Kelvin Sampson - his former coach with the Sooners.

McGhee is listed at 6-8 and is a scoring forward, but Milwaukee has eight players listed at that height or taller. He'll have to prove he can defend on the NBA level for new coach Scott Skiles.