Idiots Write About Sports - September 2004 Archives

September 2004

I Against ESPN: Part Two (Hack-O-Meter Edition) (19:55) - As mtvcdm points out in the comments of yesterday's Hack-O-Meter update: another day, another tedious Fake Quote column. Let's go...
I Feel Happy.... I Feel Happy... (15:29) - "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!" Here's one. I'm not dead yet. "'ere... he says he's not dead...
I Against ESPN: Part One (12:03) - So earlier this week, I came across this excerpt from Peter Gammons' latest column for the Worldwide Leader in Sports:...

Who's Your Hacker? (23:18) - Speaking of running things into the ground, what's our old pal Jim Caple been up to? Why, it's another one...
Yes, Phil Plans to Beat This Frank Francisco Thing Into the Ground; Why Do You Ask? (16:30) - So following Milton Bradley's bottle-inspired tantrum, surely we're going to be subjected to the same tsk-tsking and finger-wagging about obnoxious...

My TiVo Concedes to Anaheim (21:38) - Not long after Erubiel Durazo popped up in the bottom of the seventh with the bases loaded to nip any...
Paying Peter By Robbing Paul (20:14) - The Montreal Expos are on the move to Washington, D.C., to become the Senators III or the Nationals or whatever...

Why, It's An Outrage! Or Not... (17:15) - As predicted, John Donovan did not print my letter pointing out that none of the things he cites as examples...

Hud The Homer (14:32) - Your Fox broadcast team for this afternoon's A's-Angels tilt -- the very under-rated Mel Proctor and the unspeakably abysmal Rex...

Grumpy Phil (16:52) - Mean things about John Kruk. Pissy dismissals of Jayson Stark. Long, rambling treatises on events that were old news a...
Maybe Tom Arnold Was The Intellectual on the Best Damn Sports Show Set (16:01) - So who do you think has been the most valuable player in baseball? I posed this question to my wife,...
You Can Have My Beer When You Pry The Plastic Cup From My Cold, Dead Hand (09:00) - After the chair-throwing comes the meddling -- the on-rush of pundits armed with well-meaning-but-ultimately-idiotic proposals to make sure that situations...
That Is One Crazy Cowboy (01:35) - Writing for Slate, Robert Weintraub offers a thesis about a certain cowboy who grew up a mere 18 miles from...

You Know What? I Think I Will Mess With Texas (21:50) - (You know the bummer thing about taking a vacation, even when it's to someplace beautiful like Kauai? It takes you...

Blood-Red Green (22:24) - My peaceful Tuesday-morning bus ride was interrupted by the shocking news that the San Francisco Chronicle has killed Glenn Dickey's...

I Just Flew Back From Kauai... (12:06) - ... and boy are my arms tired. Over-used Henny Youngman jokes aside, I've been traipsing about the Garden Island for...

The (Hopefully) Last Picture Show (09:58) - One of my favorite books is Fever Pitch, which I first read a few years back at the suggestion of...

Good Natured G.M.-Ribbing (16:58) - From the Chronicle's account of last night's A's-Blue Jays contest: Not to be outdone, another A's outfielder, Bobby Kielty, put...

Swish! (17:24) - As I write this, Nick Swisher, Oakland's first-round pick in the 2002 draft, is making his Major League debut in...
Baseball Footage Sanitized For Your Protection (16:26) - I was watching the A's-White Sox game the other night on Fox Sports Net Chicago -- a situation that entitles...