A Superbowl Question

Why on earth did Dan Rooney thank President Obama upon being presented with the Vince Lombardi trophy?

• The president called in a pivotal play a la Richard Nixon.
• Rooney was actually thanking the president for making him ambassador to Ireland.
• On January 29th, the president issued an Executive Order requiring that he be thanked first at all award ceremonies, public or private.
• It was an easy mistake to make: Rooney actually meant to thank not President Obama, but God.  (The other One from whom all good things come).  He regrets the error.

Cool site for baseball fans.

Last night the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 19-17.  It was a remarkable game, to say the least.  The Red Sox scored ten runs in the first inning, but trailed late in the game before scoring four runs in their final at bat.  The Rangers’ pitcher allowed twelve runs, but did not get the loss.  David Ortiz hit two three-run homers in the first inning.

Here’s a cool way to see all of this information in a glance:

Win Expectancy from Fangraphs.com

This graph was generated by looking at all the baseball games in a vast database.  For each inning, score, number of outs, and baserunner situation, the site determines the chance of the home team winning (or losing).  The graph is updated in real time.  There are also all sorts of charts available for every major league player’s stats, which I would imagine would be useful for fantasy league players.

It’s all here: fangraphs.com.

Yankees vs. Red Sox

My desktop for this weekend:

Hey, Boston Globe, give Curt a break!

Curt Schilling, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, has started a blog called “38 Pitches.”  (Schilling wears number 38.)  He answers fans’ questions and gives exhaustive breakdowns of his starts, pitch by pitch, win or loss.  It’s interesting for a baseball fan to hear what the pitcher and catcher were discussing on the mound, or what a pitcher was thinking when he served up that gopher ball.  Only the Boston Globe doesn’t like it.

 

Liveblogging the Superbowl

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Terrell Owens’ Top Ten Excuses for the Cowboys’ Loss

1. Bill Parcells got blotto during halftime
2. No one got him the damn ball
3. Middle-East tensions distracting him
4. George Bush hates black people
5. Was afraid to unleash the full measure of his divine power lest a national audience be struck blind by his radiance

Real quick…

I just finished watching the Giants-Redskins game on NBC.  Every time either team failed to convert on third down, the color man said, “They turn it over on downs.”  This is before they punted.

Is this new terminology?

At the end of the game the Redskins failed to convert a fourth down, and he said… nothing.  They just went to commercial.

It just aggravated me, is all.