First Of All Canada, It Should Be Maple LEAVES …
Okay Toronto, put down that forkful of maple sugar pie for a second, I need you to explain your disproportionate affinity for those Maple Leafs.
Week Sauce: Where If You Crash A Party, Might As Well Crash A Cheerleader Party
Here’s a recap of the weirdest or most overlooked sports stories on the Interweb this week. Plus, as you’ve come to expect, all blondes look alike when they’re half-naked.
Is Milton Bradley’s Son The Reason He’s Distracted?
In a phone interview with the Chicago Sun-Times last week, Charlena Rector, the mother of beleaguered Cubs OF Milton Bradley, tried to come to her son’s aid and flesh out the motivation behind the recent frustrations that eventually led to his season-ending suspension.
Without even detailing exactly what Rector said, you just know there’s a whopper coming. Can you feel it?
Beer Interference Is The Best Of All Interferences
We get it. Shane Victorino got $8 worth of beer dumped in his eyes. The kid who did it didn’t get caught. He spent 20 hours getting called every colorful collection of adjectives bloggers could concoct, then turned himself in. He apologized. It’s over. In the end, it was just spilled launched beer. That’s it.
But what if that wasn’t it? The facts of the situation are that the Victorino’s Phillies were embarrassing the Cubs in a mid-August weekday game between two teams in different divisions. If the game were interesting or meaningful, we wouldn’t be talking about beer. Unless …
Nomar’s Return: Are Sawx Fans Getting Sawft?
Boston baseball fans will tell you they have a sixth sense about their brethren. They’ll tell you they have inside information of their beloved team and the players connected to it that is otherwise unavailable to those foreign to Red Sox Nation. They’ll tell you they patiently waited out David Ortiz’s horrific spring slump without boos or jeers because they knew – they just knew – Papi would turn it around. Without telling you that they know more than you, Sawx fans will tell you they know more than you.
