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07/23/2007: "Fly-By Sports Rant"

I've got a lot to do before I take off, but I did want to chime in on the weekend sports ...

- Tough choice on Saturday ... do I go down to Long Beach to watch the AVP Women's Finals, or cruise (no pun) over to the Home Depot Center for the Beckham Coronation. Being a typical SoCal guy, I did what typical SoCal guys do - I watched both on TV ...

- It was amazing to see the impact David Beckham had Saturday on the coverage of MLS soccer - even if just for a day. Credit to Becks for recognizing that unless his foot was falling off, it was critical that he at least made an appearance in the game. Credit also to the Galaxy, an also-ran team in MLS that sacked up - at least for one match - and managed to hold English powerhouse Chelsea to a single goal. We got a taste of what Beckham can do when he sailed a 60-yd pass right to the forehead of a downfield teammate - who had absolutely no clue what to do with it! Hey, you gotta start somewhere ...

- Congrats to Padraig VanDeVelde ... er, Harrington ... for pulling out the Open Championship. Carnoustie has taken its share of victims over the years, and for a while it looked like Paddy H would be one of them. I'll remember the sight of his ball bouncing on the bridge across Berry Burn - and damned near making it to the far side - for some time. Good to see a British subject hoisting the Claret Jug, although you can tell there were many English gritting their teeth to see an Irishman be the one. Better than a half-black, half-Thai American, I guess ...

- Scott Olson of the Marlins just keeps digging the hole he's in deeper and deeper. His run-ins with teammates left him with a black eye last year, and he's already been suspended by the team for two games this season. On his first day back from the suspension, he pitches the Marlins to a victory over the Reds. Unfortunately, he decided to celebrate the victory a bit too much, and was pulled over at 3:30 in the morning for a DUI. Rather, he would have been pulled over, except he decided not to stop. He drove the final few blocks home, and plopped his ass in a lawn chair out front of his house. When the cops arrived, he was apparently less than cooperative, so much so that he ended up being tased - ouch! We all like to see a pitcher with fire, but you need to understand when it's appropriate and when it's not. Scott still has a lot to learn.

- Much was made of Danica Patrick and her 2nd-place qualifying effort yesterday at Mid-Ohio, but she threw away the storyline in the first turn. Her rear end started to slide (on the car, wiseass ...), causing her teammate Tony Kanaan to pull up quickly. In the process, Kanaan clipped her other teammate Marco Andretti, resulting in Andretti's car flipping on it's lid. Not a pretty start. Danica recovered to finish fifth, but it's not a good sign. There's a lot of pressure on her to win, much of which she's courted herself, but I think in the end we'll find that she's a competant but not spectacular racer - something the middle of the pack already has in spades. The only question now is how long her good looks and advertising potential will allow her to keep a premium ride.

Replies: 5 Comments

On Tuesday, July 24th, 3 of 4 said:

Danica can geta high paying job as a cheouffer for Paris, Nicole and lindsey lohan. She's so fast she can drop all three off at different clubs in different cities on the same night. Prolly could have kept Olson out of trouble too. Well I doubt that

I hope Seattle's fun. Leave the Poppins gear by the door, jus wear flannel. I allways wanted to open a coffee shop there and use custom flannel cup condoms instead of those cardboard things.I hate those cardboard things

Were the two spectators hit wit golf balls victems of roid rage? Jus wondrin

Floods in Britain means you can go fishing for Blu-Ray DVDs.Hi Rog

And what's up wit all the Brit celeb puddle jumpers? American T.V. seems to be turning into a casualty of their deseased society. First that wicked mean cunt Anne Robinson. Then Snidely Simon Cowel. Then a bunch of wicked mean cunt nannies and a couple super nannies fo back up. Then Chef from Hell's Kichen Gordon Ramsey. And a mean dude on that inventors show. I think we got all the fuckers too rude fo France! Lets hope Becks and Posh start a new trend of good lookin fun to fuck with Brits.

IMO Bush should have stayed longer and got a semicolonoscopy to sort out his sheechablilities

On Tuesday, July 24th, 3 of4 said:

Speechabilities. maybe I need 1 too. lol

On Tuesday, July 24th, Hi, 3_of_4 said:

Blu-Ray DVDs be blowed, I'm waiting for some Basilisks, Enkis, Anddromedas, Ascension Pro Jets, Blue/Brown/Extreme Breakfasts and most of all some BLACK REIDEEs to trundle past in the flood water.

I'm beginning to wonder if program schedulers in U.S.A. think audiences LIKE clebs who are rude to them (or rude to contestants) ?

I never expected the Beckhams to make as much of a "splash" as they have. Clearly a case of the whole being more than the sum of the parts (the parts being her "posh"ness LOL ! and his skill + smartness). But I can't see interest lasting unless he starts scoring or making goals pretty quickly.
Or she starts dating Eddie Murphy or Justin Tmberlake or something like that.

Let's hope her publiscist (bet she has one) does not advise her to climb out of a car in short skirts while wearing no undies - that would be a sign of desperation or stupidity.

On Wednesday, July 25th, Dave West said:

[QUOTE]Good to see a British subject hoisting the Claret Jug, although you can tell there were many English gritting their teeth to see an Irishman be the one.[/QUOTE]

Hi Stan
Um….Methinks a history lesson is forthcoming.

The ’26 counties’ that form the Irish Republic (Eire) - or what was, in those days, referred to as the Irish Free State - separated from the rest of the United Kingdom to become an independent state under the terms of the Anglo-Irish treaty signed in December 1921. P was born in August 1971 in its capital city, Dublin.

So just like the original colonies on the Eastern seaboard of the USA no longer part of the British Empire.
Kindest regards
Dave (aka PanamaJack)

On Monday, July 30th, it is all in the marketing said:

while researching (yeah, right ! ) the Eye Candy of 7/27 , I saw her posing at something with Danica Patrick.

If the latter keeps her image in the public eye often enough, she'll keep a failry good (I'd hesitate to say a "premium&quot ride for quite a while yet; look how long Anna Kournikova kept busy after her tennis ratings started slipping.....