Matt's Die-Hard Cleveland Sports Blog

yeah, the sixers might be awesome now, but the problem is that kenny thomas is awesome when he's healthy, obviously not as good as webber, but pretty damn close if you look at his stats. now i just want to see what happens to iverson now that he can only shoot 40 times per game instead of 50. maybe iverson will call john chaney to ask him to send his guys in to play defense on webber to hurt him if he's taking too many shots. i can't believe chaney did that...that's awesome. lenny wilkens always used danny ferry to do that on jordan in the 2 years after the harper/ferry trade/debacle. ferry would come in and literally punch jordan after being on the floor for 30 seconds. it was hilarious. now that's good coaching.
matt


>From: Chris Balakrishnan
>To: Matt Wasowski
>Subject: big day in sports?
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:07:09 -0500
>
>The Sixers?
>
>I think this move rocks! Even though I don't especially like Chris
>Webber...they needed to get someone to play with AI. I love that
>guy...I'm officially on the destined to fail sixers band wagon...Go
>Eastern Conference!
>
>The Kings?
>Huh? I don't get it.
>
>Cowboys?
>Seems they are trying to follow the example of other crappy
>franchises like the defunct NY Rangers. Old guys don't win in
>football. (See Eddie George last year). I suppose there are some
>exceptions though..
>
>Vikings?
>Probably didn't get their money's worth. IS that guy they got
>awesome?
>
>Raiders?
>Moss is good....
>
>Who is going to get Plaxico??????
>
>Chris

Gary Sheffield is officially in the Ray Lewis class of "nuts". Have I said that before? He STILL claims that "the cream" is not steroids. Don't we already know that the cream IS steroids? http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1992729

Trot Rules. Everyone forgets that he missed 2/3 of the season last year, and we had fat-ass Millar in the outfield...I'm pretty sure I wish the Sox still had Mienketasiocz

Damon
Bellhorn
Ortiz
Ramirez
Millar
Varitek
Renteria
Nixon
Mueller

That is ridiculous. Not quite Yankees (pre-steroid ban) ridiculous. Or 90s Indians ridiculous. But pretty darn close.
Chris


>On Feb 16, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Matt Wasowski wrote:

"Like Rodriguez says," Nixon said, "he's running stairs at 6 in the morning while I'm sleeping and taking my kids to school. I'm like, well I'm not a deadbeat dad, Alex."

I find it incredibly hard to believe that I now think Giambi is even more of a scumbag that i've considered him to be the last few years. when Giambi wept throughout the 2003 and 2004 claiming he was a victim of bad luck because he'd mysteriously become so injury prone, it evident to everyone that he was a roided-up monster who was denying the obvious truth of the situation, yet Giambi continued to cry day after day about why everyone was secretly (and openly) wondering if he was a ‘roid guy. he really seemed genuinely surprised – and eventually annoyed – that reporters were constantly barraging him with questions about BALCO, steroids, and performance enhancers. and this is a reflection on how quirky our sensationalistic society is. we all know that everyone loves a good scandal, but lately, scandals only arise when someone continually lies about something everyone else knows is true. bill clinton lied for 18 months about getting a blowjob and was nearly kicked out of the white house, but president bush readily admitted (laughing the whole way through) that he did piles of cocaine and the story was forgotten about quicker than bush could snort another fat line. seriously, this was in the papers for one day. I mean, for godsake, our commander and chief was coked up for a decade of his life and no one cared for the simple reason that bush admitted it! and the same idea applies to this whole beyond-absurd steroid situation. it's clear to everyone on the planet that Giambi and bonds are roided-up monsters who juiced their way to mind-boggling offensive productivity, yet they continually deny their usage and therefore are forced to call press conference after press conference during which they never admit the obvious truth; therefore causing them to put out more fires, answer more questions, and call more press conferences during which they continue to be evasive. this has already gone on for 2 years. and then there's gary Sheffield, another obvious 'roid guy. but after numerous denials he finally comes clean in fall 2004, is called a scumbag by the national media for a few hours, and then is forgiven. i don't even remember hearing one comment during the entire ALCS last year mentioning that he admitted he was on 'roids...because that's how our culture operates. instead of forgive and forget it's just forget. the forgiving part never even materializes because there's always another scandal lurking that needs to be uncovered on put on the front page. in this case, an admission of steroid use is only front page news the day after the confession, and after that there's always something else the publishers feel is more scandalous. so why did giambi call that damn press conference today and not admit anything???? he gave vague, evasive answers and barely even alluded to using steroids. he simply said today that when he testified in front of the grand jury last year that he told the truth. and that was it. so you know what's gonna happen next week? another press conference. more steroid allegations. more microphones and tape recorders waiting for him at his locker. and you know what will happen in 2 weeks? the same. and in a month from now? the same. and giambi wonders why he's being harassed. you have to be a dumb guy to take steroids in the first place, but you have to be a buffoon to think you're fooling anyone, especially yourself.

chris,
you're pretty much right, the game made absolutely no sense by any definition of the word 'sense.' first, the eagles had 3 fake turnovers in the first 10 minutes and still weren't losing by 21 points. i mean, how pissed was tedy bruschi that he actually sacked mcnabb on that, and more importantly, when was the last time you saw a quarterback telling the refs that he knee was actually down? i've definitely never seen that before. second, it doesn't make any sense how mcnabb almost threw for 400 yards but you never once thought they'd really score after the first quarter. i mean, owens and pinkston were awesome but nothing ever seemed to actually happen. and yes, the slow-down-hurry-up offense was the most absurd thing i ever saw. do you realize it took them 3 minutes on that drive to go from their own 20 to their own 41 yard line? that's not so good when the freakin SUPER BOWL is on the line. and also in the 2nd half mcnabb couldn't even come close to hitting a receiver in stride. he kept throwing down and low and everyone had to dive and couldn't run after the catch.

but then the patriots never seemed like they wanted it either, except in their first drive after halftime when you knew belichick simply said, "all right, let's stop fucking around and just run it down their throats on this drive," and that's pretty much what they did.

so the eagles could have won by 30 if they would have actually scored as many touchdowns as they should have in the first quarter, but after not being able to capitalize on any of that nonsense it was clear they were doomed.

the best part was roman phifer knocking out dorsey levens on a screen pass in the 2nd quarter. that was hilarious.

>From: Chris Balakrishnan
>To: Matt Wasowski
>Subject: super bowl.
>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:35:33 -0500
>
>Thoughts?
>
>I think that was one of the weirdest games I've ever seen. During
>the first half the Eagles kicked the Pats ass, but it ended up 7-7.
>During the second half the Pats kicked the Eagles ass, won by 3, but
>the game was not suspenseful at all. McNabb looked terrible but
>threw for 350 yards. Dillon/Faulk looked unstoppable but did not run
>at all in the first half. Then there was the hurry-up offense of the
>eagles...I have no idea what that was. But it was one of the worst
>things I've seen. Eagles should have won the game I think.
>
>The best thing about the whole game was Josh Miller punting to the
>corner, getting the ball out of bounds at the 4, thereby ending the
>game. I love punting to the corner. I guess there were two
>ridiculously good catches. One TD throw by McNabb, and one catch by
>Branch.
>
>Chris
>

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