To round out our tip-to-buzzer college basketball discussion this year (give us a break, NCAA Tournament Media Relations Department, we started in March), I can’t help but put a few words up about this year’s “coaching carousel”. We started by bringing to you very quickly, if not first, the news of Virginia’s new hire, Tony [...]
The Foolishness of the First (Or For That Matter, Any Single) Week
I have a coworker who left for the bar below our office building at 4:30pm today, just about eight hours after returning from two weeks of vacation. Whilst admiring his boldness yet feeling a bit timid myself (I left at 4pm yesterday), I’m struck with boredom as I sit here, without anybody to talk cube-to-cube [...]
Quality Starts: Just One Part of the Story
I kept hitting Refresh yesterday on my Internet Explorer as I watched one of my favorite young sleepers – Tampa Bay’s Matt Garza – throw an absolute gem in his first start of the year against the Red Sox. In Boston, mind you. 7 IP, four hits, five strikeouts and one earned run in what [...]
The Luther Vandross Version
So I had a realization last night at about 10PM, only a few hours before Tarheel fans risked third-degree burns in celebration and just an hour into Jim Nantz’s desperate effort to figure out where Billy Packer was, that I did not have to wait through a horribly boring basketball game just to see the [...]
MLB Opening Day: It’s 3pm and…
I’ve been watching ESPN’s MLB Scoreboard for 2+ hours. A few thoughts for your afternoon poo-er: Good Lord should Cliff Lee be bothering owners right now. The Indians are down 4-0 in Texas, with Lee providing the fastballs resulting in all four earned runs, on six hits, in two innings. K:BB is 1:1. 28 strikes [...]
MLB Opening Day: Welcome, and Thanks for Coming
Today is a very important day, one-seventh of a very important week. Major League Baseball’s official Opening Day, the first of many days during which 162-games will be played by each team, was yesterday. This is the first Opening Day in recent memory that has not been played a week or so early in some [...]
There’s Only Room for One Jay Cutler in this Town
There are two Jay Cutlers. One is the dainty little Commodore turned Bronco who puts a few good years under his belt and thinks he’s the sheriff of the wild AFC West. The other is this man: Jay Cutler the Football Player is a weiner. 6’5″, 225. Laughable. The Real Jay Cutler is 5’9″, 310 [...]
The Coaching Carousel Begins: Part I
As teams fall out of the Tournament, the annual coaching carousel begins. Sources confirming (even to CAPS LOCK CARL himself!) that Virginia hires itself a new basketball coach, 39-year old Tony Bennett of Washington State, breaking news at about 5pm on Monday. CAPS LOCK CARL, whilst perusing the web late in the afternoon to waste [...]
Red Sock/x: Curt Schilling’s Place in this Painful Era
Congrats to Curt Schilling on a great career, his retirement officially announced earlier this week on his blog, 38 Pitches. For a tangent, kudos also to Deadspin for catching a SportsCenter moment that may well contribute to the job loss number for March (I’m Sure This Won’t Annoy Curt Schilling One Bit).
Diamonds in the Points League Rough
Continuing our lessons learned and observations session from Cubicle GM’s recent fantasy baseball draft, I’d like to offer a few thoughts on fantasy leagues with a “points” scoring system. A bit of set-up is probably worthwhile before I dive in. CAPS LOCK CARL plays with a motley crew of degenerates in a 10-team league that [...]
