To be honest, I don’t know who this is more embarrassing for. From Jerry Crasnick’s Twitter:
The Mets are close to agreement on a minor league deal with (former Met) Mike Jacobs. He’ll go to camp on a non-roster invite.
Do you smell that? It’s the overwhelming stench of desperation on the part of both the Mets and Mike Jacobs. The Mets have got to be pretty desperate to sign a guy they traded away years ago in the Carlos Delgado deal, especially considering he’s perhaps the worst defensive first baseman in all of baseball and struggles to reach base safely even 30% of the time.
On Jacobs’ part, he’s returning to an overweight, psychopathic ex-lover after getting released by the Royals, a slightly less-overweight lover. The fact that it’s a minor league deal just means that the Mets are allowed to blow other dudes.
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Click on photo to read about ‘Nova’s big win against #4 West Virginia
The Big East boasted 4 teams in the Top 7 of the polls this week. W. Va, my final four pick from yesterday, took one on the chin last night at home against the Villanova Wildcats. Are you as curious as I am to see how Syracuse does in the tourney? They’re 23-1 and I’m not sure I’m a believer, maybe the Kentucky fans were right about me…..
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Your guide to the Super Bowl Commercials [YepYep]
20 Hottest Athlete Shoots of all Time [BleacherReport]
If Famous Filmmakers directed the Super Bowl [CoolMaterial]
Girl Gets completely owned by a treadmill [TotalProSports]
Worst Free Throw of all time by Brady Morningstar last night [Guyism]
Marissa Miller’s Tanline Ass [Don Chavez]
Hoover vs. Spain Park High School Brawl, yeah the same Hoover from 2-A-Days [BustedCoverage]
More Marissa Miller ass and Kendra Wilkinson Crying.. Perfect [Barstool]
You know what’s amazing from this video? It’s not just the rivalry of these two guys. It’s the ridiculously stupid dramatic music background. Also, remember how good a dunker Jerome Kersey used to be?
By the way. What do you think these dunks would score in today’s dunk contests. 45? Maybe 46? It’s amazing how selfish fans and judges have gotten for the dunks these guys put up.
I’m actually kind of glad it’s evolved this way.
Ivory Coast fans are still stewing over their countries early exit from the African Nations Cup. The Elephants were the favorites to take home the title with a loaded squad that features players in big time leagues around the globe. Their super star Didier Drogba, of Chelsea, is now shouldering most of the blame for their loss.
Ivory Coast fans gathered per usual before the Chelsea v. Arsenal game Sunday but this time they watched, not as admirers of their beloved hero, but as bitter disappointed observers. After Drogba’s double, they weren’t left in elation, but with questions. Why doesn’t he play that hard for his country? If he gave a quarter of that effort the Ivorians would have went further.
Surely, Drogba’s money is made in England and an injury could effect his career, but his countrymen still feel like he dogs it. They feel he is disloyal and cheating his country with his mediocre play in international contests. Of course, it doesn’t help his cause when he has been destroying EPL competition. Drogba lights the lamp quiet often for Chelsea, (2nd to Wayne Rooney), but fails to do so for his homeland.
The World Cup is this summer. The Ivorians are loaded with talent, but sit in the midst of the group of death. Drogba is talented enough to elevate them, will he?
It looks like the shimmy has found yet another home:
Apparently Antoine Walker needs the cash pretty badly — after not landing an NBA gig he has taken a physical and signed to play with Guaynabo in Puerto Rico. Former Bull (and Buck and Hornet) Marcus Fizer will join him.
Walker has been out of the game for more than a year (remember his season in Minnesota in 2008? Don’t worry, nobody does). Still he hoped to find an NBA gig but not even the Wizards have been willing to pick him up. Come to think of it, he may not have been the best fit for that locker room right now — remember he was arrested last year for writing $1 million in bad checks to Vegas casinos.
Hey, when you need the cash, you need the cash. Even though Walker’s old and far beyond washed up, you have to think he’d be dominant in a Puerto Rican league, right? Isn’t all the good competition in Europe? It can’t be that tough in Puerto Rico. Walker can launch 10 threes a game (and connect on two of them) and nobody’s going to say shit. Dude must be living the dream right now: ill-advised shots with no repercussions, short-armed floaters in the lane that hit front rim, and no defense whatsoever.
Someone at NY Knicks Beat has taken issue with the non-call on Shaq in the above clip:
Saturday, the Knicks who were riding a Nate Robinson wave cut the Cavs’ lead to 8 after being down as many as 24. During a drive to the basket, Nate was clearly fouled and should have be awarded two free throws potentially cutting the Cavs’ lead to 6. Instead there was no call made and it became an empty possession for the Knicks. Nate’s revenge on Shaq was sweet, but the no-call was still another injustice by NBA officials.
It’s pretty obvious that Nate Robinson was fouled by Shaq, unless the rules suddenly changed to allow body checks when someone is shooting. But what my friend over at NY Knicks Beat has failed to recognize is that THE NBA IS FIXED AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. Not necessarily the outcomes of games, but it is still impossible to watch a game and not notice the preferential treatment that stars and the home team receive. Lebron gets looked at and it’s a foul, and if he’s playing at home, he could probably stab someone in the spine and not get called for it. It’d probably be a charge.
I mean I guess one had to know there was a Seattle University but honestly I have never heard of the Redhawks and I certainly didn’t know who the Redhawks Cheerleaders were. Did you know that Seattle University is one of the largest independent educational institutions in the US Pacific Northwest? How about that!
In any event, it turns out that they have a nifty little bunch of girls responsible for the pom pom action. So naturally it was my instinct to bring these girls to you.
FYI, we’re working diligently on bringing you more party pictures of said cheerleaders. It’s not an easy task.
The reception given to the Saints was just a tad bit more impressive than what was waiting for the Colts back in Indianapolis.
The end of the Indianapolis Colts’ season came down to 11 people. Not the 11 players on the field during the Super Bowl, but the 11 who showed up at Indianapolis International Airport on a cold, snowbound Monday afternoon, when the team returned following their 31-17 defeat Sunday by the New Orleans Saints at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.”Win or lose, they’re still our team,” said Brownsburg resident Karen Calhoun, who carried a “Where’s the parade” sign.
I wasn’t quite sure what to think of Colts fans after reading this, because on one hand, just 11 people showed up to greet the team at the airport. Which, when you think about it, is essentially the same as zero people. I’m guessing some Colts players didn’t even notice. But on the other hand, there’s no chance I would stand in the cold snow to greet my team even if they had won the Super Bowl, let alone lost. Waiting around with a stupid sign for hours just so some lineman in a shitty mood can glance my way for two seconds before rolling his eyes? No thanks.
But after reading that someone had a “Where’s the parade” sign, I have to think that my reservations are correct and that the people who showed up are morons. The parade’s in New Orleans, you imbecile. Chicks are showing their tits and everything.
