A laurel and hearty handshake to SNY’s Gary Cohen, deserving winner of our inaugural TV Voice of Reason Award for this exchange with Ron Darling entering the bottom of the eighth Friday in Boston: Cohen, after listening to almost everyone in Fenway singing together: “Fenway Park, where the fans actually like the song ‘Sweet Caroline.’” Darling: “Everyone participates. So loud
This week’s Sports Illustrated included an article from its “vault” on Tom Seaver’s 300th victory, for the White Sox at Yankee Stadium in August of 1985. It mentioned 54,032 cheered the conclusion of the event, but even if that many tickets were sold, I promise you there were not that many people in the stadium at the end.
The New Orleans Saints Jeremy Shockey was taken out via stretcher from Rehab , Las Vegas’s best pool party of the week. Rehab is arguably the greatest pool party in the world
A tip from the Joker to get your betting day under way…. Lugano. It’s the Swiss Monte Carlo, apparently
Form and results point to Matt Dartnall’s speedster, says The Lord. You have to fear (!) a number of things, more of which later, but there really is only one greyhound that can win the Derby at Wimbledon on Saturday - and that’s Ballymac Ruso ([3.7]). It’s the only scenario that form students can have after the quarter-finals and semis, because Matt Dartnall’s dog has been faultless from the boxes and set the fastest time in the event in both races.
Speaking of short outfield porches (see three posts down), here is a question I’ve asked before and never had adequately answered: Why are baseball outfields deepest in centerfield and shallowest in left and right? Why not a uniform distance all the way around?
Speaking of Barbara Barker’s feature on athletes who tweet, I got three tweets in three minutes reporting K-Rod was ambulatory in the Mets’ clubhouse this Sunday morning. Thanks, Lennon, Burkhardt and Davidoff! (I don’t remember how we all muddled through the 20th century without this stuff.)
24 May 2009
Brit miles ahead in the F1 title betting after Monaco GP. Jenson Button trades as the [1.3] favourite to win the Drivers’ Championship following his fifth win of the campaign at the Monaco Grand Prix today. No other driver trades in single figures following Button’s blazing start to the season with his nearest rival Sebastian Vettel on [12.0]
ESPN’s resident Bostonian, Peter Gammons, said here on “Mike & Mike in the Morning” that the new Yankee Stadium is poorly conceived and widely ridiculed.
If you’ve been distracted by all the NBA action lately, chances are you missed one of the NHL’s great performances last night.