Shitty.
Best wishes to Javon Walker. Hoping for a quick recovery.
You know who in the MLB looks most like Steve Malkmus from Pavement? Cole Hamels. Good for him.
Hamels was impressive last night in the way he buckled down after surrendering back to back home runs. This is something that a lot of good pitchers don’t even do well. Props to Cole Malkmus.
JD Drew is apparently back from the grave (thinks about the guy from the Denali commericals). Drew has already hit more home runs this season (not quite half way over) than he did all year in 2007.
Does it ever bother you that no other sport actually has a 1 year season? It annoys me. basketball is the 07-08 season, same for NHL and for Football barring that the teams you are talking about made the playoffs. Its just so much easier to say the 2007 season. And it looks better too.
I loved the game NHL 96. I liked it even better than NHL 94 (which critics think was the best one ever). But if there was one thing Sega Genesis did correctly, it was NHL games.
Speaking of Sega Genesis, i also absolutely adored “Sports Talk Baseball”. What a game that was. The Wikipedia article is riddles with typos (even though its only like 100 words…) but the game featured different batting stances for batters and different attributes for different players. That is the first game I ever played a season in. I was the Oakland A’s and had this killer lineup:
C Terry Steinbach
1B Mark McGwire
2B Mike Gallego
3B *Ernest Riles
SS Mike Bordick
LF Rickey Henderson
CF Dave Henderson
RF Jose Canseco
DH *Harold Baines
*Jamie Quirk
Lance Blankenship
#Walt Weiss
Carney Lansford
*Doug Jennings
For some reason Walt Weiss was a starter in the game. Which was HUGELY annoying. He could not hit at all. The rest of the team was like power city. I also remember using Blankenship and Lansford to pinch hit in a lot of situations.
It was a great game. The “sports talk” was a series of phrases that were ALWAYS used in situations that triggered them. So anytime you threw to second it would say “Throws to second” and so on. So if you ever got anyone in a pickle, it was the most redundant and annoying thing ever. I remember my parents telling me to lower the volume on many occasions during pickles.
Also, the game had an inexplicable (but brilliant) 10 run mercy rule. Which sometimes allowed me to win a game in one inning (that’s how good the A’s were and how much I exploited the glitches in the game). I kind of wish all games had a mercy rule like that.
OK. My stomach feels less like I’m going to throw up. Good. Only 5.5 hours until tip off.
