Month: April, 2009

Things in sports that annoy me: NASCAR highlights on ESPN

So I’m starting a new category/thread/tag — whatever you want to call it — here on WCBias. And, unless you’re a complete moron, you’ve figured it out by now: Things In Sports That Annoy Me.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m a big sports fan. I watch them, I enjoy them, and — unlike most sports writers [...]

Who’s the better basketball player, Kobe the distributor or Kobe the finisher?

It’s easy to answer when you look at the way the Laker’s are rolling so far in the 2009 playoffs. There’s about 4 minutes left in the 2nd quarter of game 2 against Utah. Kobe’s got 3 points and 5 assists and the Lakers are ahead by 12. 
But if Kobe had numbers like that his [...]

Ain’t No Party Like a Bloc Party Party Cos a Bloc Party Party Don’t Stop

Yeah I went to Vegas for the weekend and yeah it was fun but seriously, who really cares? We’ve all been to Vegas and we’ve done whatever there is to do there. You know where you HAVEN’T been though (Jeff Greenfield excluded) is a Bloc Party show and that is what I would way [...]

Hitters Most Likely to Drill You in the Head

Sometimes,  like that Walter Mitty dude, I pretend I’m someone else.
Like maybe I’m a succesful novelist, who tours the country on a book tour. Or maybe I’m a drummer in a famous band. Or a better surfer.
And, of course, I often envision myself as a baseball player. Because, you know — I’m kinda lame.
Except the [...]

Bleh

Thanks to some jankyass friend chicken from Albertsoons I’m home from work today with an amazing case of explosive diarrhea.  So my first question is: is being home sick with explosive diarrhea >, < or = work?  Today I am going to go with > because there are four baseball games on, including the Yankees’ [...]

Naming stadiums after greedy corporations sucks

Remember when the Denver Post refused to call Mile High Stadium by its new crappy corporate name?
That was so awesome.
“The community at large thinks of this as ‘Mile High,’ ‘new Mile High’ or ‘the new stadium,’” Post editor Glenn Guzzo said in 2001. “Outside of official circles, seldom do you hear Invesco Field, except in [...]

What is the toughest record to break in sports?

You know, it wasn’t that long ago that I thought: Nobody’s EVER gonna break Hank Aaron’s record.
And I imagine a lot of people felt the same way about Babe Ruth’s homerun record. But, as they say — records are made to be broken.
Or are they? Here are my Top Ten Records to Break in Sports:
10.) [...]

Happy Easter

Negative surf out there today my friends, might as well stay home and watch Augusta play like it’s freaking Golf N Stuff
.  Oh, and while you’re wrapped up in the Tradition Unlike Any Other, you may have missed this bit of managerial magic by the semi-maligned Joe Torre, I’ll break it down for [...]

Allen Iverson is dead? Nope, but quality sportswriting is

Allen Iverson has averaged 27 ppg in his career, fifth all-time in the NBA. But apparently he’s “dead” like Tupac.

Sad news Thursday out of the OC about Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, who was killed along with two others by a suspected drunk driver early that morning.
We don’t tend to follow breaking news like this [...]

3 Outs is 3 Outs is 3 Outs

Today was a shit day.  Instead of being nestled comfortably at my desk surrounded by copious amounts of early baseball games I was stuck in a godforsaken conference room in Thousand Oaks being lectured along with 20 or 30 other poor saps about how the economy really isn’t that bad and we can sell [...]