ESPN Tuesday

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tomorrow, Glavine goes for 300, A-Rod for 500, Bonds for 756 and the trade deadline is going down.

Steve Phillips, bringing it all to you.

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: Tomorrow, Glavine goes for 300, A-Rod for 500, Bonds for 756 and the trade deadline is going down. Steve Phillips, bringing it all to you.

Talk about a great second act in life....jeez..

[bmfc1]

Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. I guess the Mets should concede since Phillips is so smart.

[nymr83]

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East. I guess the Mets should concede since Phillips is so smart.

He's always looking for an excuse to say that. they could have acquired kyle farnsworth and he'd have said it.

[metirish]

I remember not long after Phillips started doing games on ESPN he interviewed John Schurholtz in the booth and practically licked his arse on air......."great to finally meet the man I spent years chasing"....

[TransMonk]

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East.

At least he's consistent.

Consistently stupid. Consistently embarrassed. Consistently trying too hard.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Is this ESPN or The Onion?

[nymr83]

its lame is what it is.

[metirish]

That he is a working professor is a shame.

[DocTee]

ESPN is a joke.

Who's Now? Is that even a question?

A list of probable NFL Hall of Famers that includes players who have yet to appear in a game?

An article on the lack of Denver Broncos in Canton that says it won't get any easier because "Aikman and Marino will soon be eligible, thereby taking away votes from Terrell Davis" when both of those qbs are already enshrined.

And that's just this week-

It's the "entertainment tonighting" of sports.

[Guest Edgy DC]

metirish wrote: That he is a working professor is a shame.

He's more than a working professor, but a tenured chair. I read some of his older ESPN columns and they similarly fail to develop their theses with more than a "Come on, get real" attitude, but, just a short time ago, he wasn't writing in vernacular at all.

These self-promoting professors are a fascinating lot, in that they know how to play the media into turning a story into a publicity opportunity for themselves, and parlay that publicity into book contracts, tenured chairs (by 40!), and ESPN columns.

His wikipedia article reads like a press release, or the back of one of his books (it probably is), so I searched around for more on him.

http://www.newsthinking.com/story.cfm?SID=174

[Benjamin Grimm]

metirish wrote: That he is a working professor is a shame.

I'm starting to get the feeling that anybody can be a professor.

[Willets Point]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: ="metirish"]That he is a working professor is a shame. I'm starting to get the feeling that anybody can be a professor.

Can I be a professor?

[metsmarathon]

yes. i think it helps if you boil every single thing down to a matter of blacks vs. whites, rich vs. poor, or democrat vs republicans, wherein the one side, whichever it is, exists purely and solely to crush the other, by dint of its pure evilness.

hank aaron, selfish? i don't buy it. hank aaron saying fuck you to bonds? yeah, that i'll buy.

i wonder, if i lied on my resume and applied to usc to take a position that the esteemed "notorious phd" had his eye on, and he knew it, would he just shut up and shake my hand, or would he fight it?

do i even have to wonder?

bonds = hip hop? please.

that would be like if tiger woods' kid grew up and decided to turn into a rapper. where's his cred? bonds had it made, clean, and THEN he decided to turn dirty. he didnt need to. he wasn't forced into it because his daddy left his momma when he was still in the crib and the only way outta tha damn hood was to sell drugs to pay his way.

i'm actually a bit surprised that the professor didnt call hank aaron a racist because he doesn't support bonds. i mean, he did pull the "hank should support barry 'cos they're both black" bullshit, which is bad enough.

i don't stand by every white fool, and hank shouldn't stand by every black fool. and neither should the professor, but i don't think its in his best financial interest to agree with me.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, but you stood by the Notorious B.O.T., clean through all the robot-hatin'.

[Frayed Knot]

If that article is real it's idiotic, if it's sarcasm it failed.

[Elster88]

bmfc1 wrote: Steve Phillips just said that the Braves will win the NL East.

I can't be the only one who is extremely comforted by this.

[Elster88]

]Q: I just got the 1987 World Series DVD collection for my birthday, and while watching Game 1, I heard something I thought you might appreciate. Announcing the game: Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver. During the third inning, with Tony Pena batting, McCarver said, "If you're a contact hitter, you have to make contact if you want to hit in the major leagues." It's just good to know that some things never change. --Tim, St. Paul, Minn. SG: (Nodding.)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/070810