Based upon the turnout for the first semi-official practice of 2010, Beck is going to be leading off and playing the outfield. Not just 0ne spot. The whole outfield.
Yeah, I know. It was short notice, so everybody is forgiven. We’ll try to do better next week.
As a bonus, here’s an interesting video. Rich Eisen, formerly of ESPN but now working for the NFL Network, is shown running a 40-yard dash in just over six seconds. Now, watching him, he doesn’t really look that slow … but toward the end, they superimpose some other players at the combine against his run. You’ll see just how fast the prime athletes in the country are, and sadly, how the rest of us compare.
According to scientists, the Chile earthquake was strong enough to shorten our day by more than a millisecond. Oh, and it also shifted our axis by 3 inches.
Based on that, I think House should not be allowed to run the bases anymore.
I don’t know any New Orleans Saints fans. If I see you wearing Saints apparel, you are a frontrunning, carpetbagging SOB, and probably a damn Yankee cracker to boot. That is all.
I had a college friend who loved basketball as much as I — at the time anyway — loved baseball. We were both happy to rip each other’s sport at any opportunity. I would suggest they just shorten each basketball game to 2 minutes, because the first 46 minutes of an NBA game were meaningless except to assign a random number of fouls to each player.
He would yell, “Pitch the ball! Pitch it now!” at the TV screen while the batter stepped out of the box and the pitcher peered in for the signs from the catcher.
But, as it turns out, football has the same problem: A recent study showed that the entirety of action during an average NFL game actually lasts only about 11 minutes. The rest of the time is spent dawdling and milling about. And, oh yes, commercials.
We might have an early spring. I am in the middle (OK, early middle) of a series of updates to the website and other O-fer-related things. Posts are always sporadic in the winter because I’m on my mental vacation, but look for some changes to come in the weeks ahead.
Somebody posted a relevant comment on the Tiger Woods item, and somehow it “got deleted” through some arcane process that I don’t completely understand. So if you read this, and you know who you are, try posting again. I will do my best not to erase it the next time.
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