Today must have been North American Sports Freakout Day, and here is my rebuttal to most of it.
Greg Maddux isn't a unanimous Hall of Famer!!
Greg Maddux looks like a guy that would only apply to be a librarian if someone promised to have the custodian help him restock the heavy books on the top shelf. That fact that he made any sports HOF other than maybe bowling is a miracle. I love Greg Maddux. I watched him do a really cool thing for a street guy he knew outside of Wrigley when he was with the Braves, and he might have been the smartest guy in all of sports at his position during his career. He won a ton of games (after starting his career only winning in the single digits and losing in the doubles) and his whole body was the size of one of Roidger Clemens' thighs. If you would have asked him in 1987, he would have been happy if he was invited to his high school reunion
Greg who ? Did we cheat off him in chemistry lab?
and he would have choked on his Big League Chew if someone would have mentioned the Hall of Fame to him.Now he's in. So who gives a losing Pete Rose bet slip how many votes he got?
The big stink was over the L.A. reporter who was only going to vote for Jack Morris, who had a 100 less wins then Maddux and who reporters liked about as much as sports writers like the words "last call". That one lack of vote allegedly was gonna ruin "Mad Dog"'s shot at immortality.
As it turned out, Maddux wasn't close to unanimous or even Tom Seaver's record vote total. He simply got in, I'm sure he's thrilled and there is nothing to see here. Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas got enshrined, too and they both damn well deserved it. In the words of Judge Smails "Don't you people have hoooooommmmes??"
A bunch of my favorite guys got left off the USA Hockey roster!!
A generation ago, the US was playing Minnesota farm boys against Central Red Army tank commanders and still won. Now USA hockey is a world power, and not everyone can make the small squad that goes to Sochi. Forget bitching about it, have some fun with it and start a rumor that Dustin Byfuglien and Jack Johnson were left off the roster because the US is afraid they're gonna defect and play for the KHL. Be happy that the US has some choices now and that the Soviet Union is splintered into more Stans than a South Park cosplay convention.
Dwyane Wade Travels More Than Anthony Bourdain!!
The NBA doesn't bother to even enforce a basic, inherent rule of the sport. What else is ancient in that irrelevant spectacle? It's one thing to let players drag a one square inch of rubber when they are driving to the hoop for one of a million dunks that will show up on highlight reels even though they're more common than wheat pennies, but to let someone who is supposed to be one of the most talented players of his era stumble around like Dennis Rodman after a gallon of soju in Kim Jong Un's inflatable palace is just stupid. You know what the solution to shit like this is ? Watch the NHL. It takes actual skill to skate and with a few Sid notable Ney exceptions Crosby, everyone has to play by the same damn rules.
Greg Maddux isn't a unanimous Hall of Famer!!
Greg Maddux looks like a guy that would only apply to be a librarian if someone promised to have the custodian help him restock the heavy books on the top shelf. That fact that he made any sports HOF other than maybe bowling is a miracle. I love Greg Maddux. I watched him do a really cool thing for a street guy he knew outside of Wrigley when he was with the Braves, and he might have been the smartest guy in all of sports at his position during his career. He won a ton of games (after starting his career only winning in the single digits and losing in the doubles) and his whole body was the size of one of Roidger Clemens' thighs. If you would have asked him in 1987, he would have been happy if he was invited to his high school reunion
and he would have choked on his Big League Chew if someone would have mentioned the Hall of Fame to him.Now he's in. So who gives a losing Pete Rose bet slip how many votes he got?
The big stink was over the L.A. reporter who was only going to vote for Jack Morris, who had a 100 less wins then Maddux and who reporters liked about as much as sports writers like the words "last call". That one lack of vote allegedly was gonna ruin "Mad Dog"'s shot at immortality.
As it turned out, Maddux wasn't close to unanimous or even Tom Seaver's record vote total. He simply got in, I'm sure he's thrilled and there is nothing to see here. Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas got enshrined, too and they both damn well deserved it. In the words of Judge Smails "Don't you people have hoooooommmmes??"
A bunch of my favorite guys got left off the USA Hockey roster!!
A generation ago, the US was playing Minnesota farm boys against Central Red Army tank commanders and still won. Now USA hockey is a world power, and not everyone can make the small squad that goes to Sochi. Forget bitching about it, have some fun with it and start a rumor that Dustin Byfuglien and Jack Johnson were left off the roster because the US is afraid they're gonna defect and play for the KHL. Be happy that the US has some choices now and that the Soviet Union is splintered into more Stans than a South Park cosplay convention.
Dwyane Wade Travels More Than Anthony Bourdain!!
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