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Who Are These Guys?
by the goat… Ok the Sox are just mashing it right now, they’re making the White Sox look like The Royals. In their last 5 games they have outscored Chicago and the Spankees 37-10. It is just amazing how well they are hitting the ball right now, and they have been getting some nice pitching recently too. The most incredible part? They are doing it with this lineup…
- Ellsbury
- Lowrie
- Ortiz
- Pedroia
- Kotsay
- Bay
- Varitek
- Bailey
- Cora
Lil’ Dusty reportin’ for cleanup duty?! Michael Bowden was the starting pitcher? Seriously? If you showed me that lineup last year, I would say one of two things. Either the Red Sox are 20 games out, or Varitek and Ortiz are rehabbing in Pawtucket and that is the Paw Sox lineup.
But no, the Sox are only 4.5 games back in their division and hold a 3.5 game lead in the wild card. Now this next sentence might come as a shocker since I am usually a cynical bastard.
The Red Sox are showing the Yankees how a good organization works right now. Both teams have been ravaged by injury. The Red Sox have had 20 trips to the DL this season, and we’re not talking about role player type guys, we’re talking names like…
- Ortiz
- Schilling
- Beckett
- Drew
- Lowell
- Matsuzaka
- Wakefield
- Lugo
Many of the names on the list have been declared “disabled” more than once this season. (I’ve always wondered how actual disabled people feel about baseball’s insistence that “right shoulder tightness” makes someone “disabled”) .
Well Skanks, watch and learn. Instead of trading away every prospect you have for every high priced superstar you can get your hands on, maybe it is time to take a look at the Red Sox model.
Four key guys in the starting lineup, two starting pitchers and three key bullpen guys are homegrown talent. Also, remember when I called Theo out for only trading Manny and doing nothing else before the trade deadline? Well who needs to make moves before the deadline when you can get two key guys after it? (Byrd, Kotsay)
Kudos Theo and the Red Sox management for proving me wrong and restoring my faith in your organization and it’s master plan.
Just so you know I still believe that this is all happening through osmosis. When you are within the same state as Bill Belichick consistently, you just automatically become a sports management genius. Just ask Danny Ainge.
Interviewing 101
Today we have a post by the goat’s good friend Bob Loblaw. Although it isn’t sports related, the goat found it hilarious and very appropriate for today’s struggling economy. Enjoy…
by Bob Loblaw... Being in the middle of a job search myself, I’ve become somewhat of an “expert” on the business environment. I think the unemployment rate is pretty close to 32% right now in Massachusetts. That’s pretty high! (We are not officially in a depression yet though, that would call for an unemployment rate of 70% or something. Don’t quote me on that though.)
As I go through my search, I’ve compiled a list of some interviewing tips and tricks that may help out any fellow job seekers. I’ve talked to other job seekers in the past about their job search and I am continually amazed at how almost all of them are going about it all wrong! I won’t write a novel here but wanted to throw out a few key “pointers.”
You got the interview. Good for you. They are probably going to ask you lots of questions. One they might ask, “What do you know about us?” Say “Nothing” and then shut up. Many job seekers make the mistake of rambling on about everything they know about the company. Don’t make this mistake!
By saying that you don’t know anything about who they are or what they do, it gives the interviewer a chance to talk. And people love to talk about their company and what they do! Show interest by leaning forward while putting your elbow on the table and resting your chin on your closed fist. Keep saying “yup” even if you are not paying attention so the interviewer thinks that you are.
You may get asked, “What’s your greatest weakness?” Don’t fall into this trap either. You don’t have any. Next question. Read more
History Is Here
by the goat… Well it is upon us, the Red Sox are going into Yankee Stadium for what is definitely the last time in the regular season and most likely forever. I have to admit the gravity of it is actually starting to affect me. I didn’t give two shits about the nostalgia surrounding the All-Star game, but this seems different.
It is really strange to think that there will never be another wicked disappointment, another brawl or another magic run at Yankee Stadium for the Sox. I am feeling the history so much that I actually posted a photo of Yankee Stadium on BSP. It will never happen again, I assure you. Oh and if it makes you feel any better I am posting this from my brother in laws laptop, that way I didn’t have to download the picture onto mine. It would probably explode if I tried. Sorry Sean, I’ll delete it after.
This has all the makings of a great Sox Yanks series. A Sox sweep would virtually end the Yankees hopes at the post-season. How great would it be to slam the door shut on the Skanks’ season in the very stadium they are trying to extends longevity.
Buckle up, it’s going to be a great three days, and make sure to check in here. I am sure I will have lots to either rave or piss about.
This Country Is Going Soft
by the goat… Today’s post is about the decline of Western Civilization. In a New Haven 8-10 year old little league, they have told a nine year old pitcher that he is too good to play. No joke. He throws too hard and they will not allow him to pitch anymore. Don’t believe me, here is the story.
Wow. What kind of message is this? If you’re good at something we will punish you? The worst part is this kids team stood up for him and told him to pitch anyway and you know what happened? The other team packed up and left. Now the kid feels like shit because he thinks nobody got to play because of him. Oh that’s not it, after that incident, the president of the league disbanded his team and scattered all the players to other teams in the league. The hits just keep on coming!
The league claims that he throws too hard and is a danger, yet he has never once hit an opposing batter.
I am convinced that our society is so full of wuss adults that they feel a need to raise wuss kids. The kid is a year under the cut off. We are basically saying to these kids that they better not get really good at anything or they will be ostracized.
Sorry to tell all of you “everyone plays, everyone gets a trophy, let’s not keep score” parents out there, but if you don’t let your kids realize that other people are going to be better than them sometimes and that they are going to strike out every once in a while, they are going to end up crying their way through adult hood. This isn’t T-Ball, it’s little league.
What’s next in the “keep an even playing field” world we live in, are we going to give smart kids a C every once in a while even though they earned an A? Let some dumb ass win the spelling bee after he spells bug with a silent k in front of the b? Maybe we should give little Billy no hands ten points for getting hit in the face with a football at a Pop Warner game?
Ridiculous! We can not all be the same at everything. It is wrong to teach nine year olds that it is okay to shun the exceptional. Get over it New Haven, your kids suck at baseball, and if you don’t smarten up soon they are going to end up sucking at life too.
Guy Catches Ball With Beer And Chugs It
by the goat… This guy at a Cubs game pulls a real nice move here. He catches a ball in the stands with his Beer cup and then chugs the beer, ending with the ball in his mouth. Enjoy:
Now at first glance the reaction is to give this guy his props and write this off as a great feat. Let’s examine this a little closer though shall we.
We can clearly see in the 00:16 mark of the video that this dude’s beer is approximately 96% full. This puts him well within range where we automatically have to review this. We will be using the standard equation of “Awesomeness of Act vs. Loss of Beer”.
What we first need to do is use the goatagoras theorem to take into account the total volume of beer displaced by the baseball. According to my calculations (ball speed, circumference and smoothness of catch) this particular catch resulted in the loss of 68% of the guy’s beer. When you consider the prices of ball park beers these days it may seem to some that it just isn’t worth it.
On the other hand, the average drunk asshole spills 31% of his beer on the person in front of him at a baseball game anyway, which drops the overall loss of booziness to a mere 37%. Add this to the fact that Wrigley sells “Old Style” beer for a mere $6.00 (the price of just the empty cup at Fenway) and suddenly it doesn’t seem so painful.
So was it worth it?
The Verdict
Fuck yes.
Upon further review, even if it’s a flute of Dom Perrignon this guy did the right thing. In fact I would even go so far as to say that this man wears Awesome Sauce as cologne. This is what baseball and America are all about folks, kudos ball in beer chug guy!
This got me to thinking, what are the other situations in life when one is under complete obligation to chug their beer? Here is the early list, feel free to click on “comment” below the title of this post and add yours, I will update the list accordingly:
- When some douchebag clanks the top of your bud light bottle with the bottom of his (the menthos and soda effect)
- On Tuesdays
- When you accidentally poke a hole in your bud can with your keys while holding it horizontally
- When a ping pong ball lands in it
- When you pick up your cards before the president while playing “Asshole”
- When everyone is ready to go to the next bar and you have a full one
* Updates from reader comments below
- 20 minutes until last call and your the wing man with the ugly girl
- Just before they shut down the beer between innings at Fenway
Misplaced Man Love
by the goat… Okay it’s been long enough. I have come to terms with the fact that Manny is really gone. While I will always hold a special place for him in my heart, it is time to move on. I have been scouring the Boston scene for a place to deposit my man love and here are the finalists, all very deserving of man love in Boston:
- Jerod Mayo: This guy looks like he is going to be the real deal. A perfect fit for man love, he plays like his hair is on fire with zero regard for his own safety. Unfortunately it’s just too early to make a commitment to him, sorry Jerod maybe in a few years we can make some mustmayostardayonnaise.
- Jason Bay: A logical choice for sure, he is crushing the ball and looks to be settling into Boston nicely. I just simply can not overlook this photo. Posing with the lifeguard floaty thing is just too much for me to take. Jason loses out on a technicality.
- Tom Brady: Yeah he really needs more love.
- Eddie House: This one took a while. Eddie is very deserving in many ways. In the end the deciding factor was that he always has his kid with him. Even on the sideline during games. I mean how can you properly nurture a man love relationship with the kid always around?
- Lil Dusty Pedroia: This article is what got Dustin on the list, but in the end I would just feel a little too “Samwise Gamgee” giving my man love to such a Frodian.
- Paul Pierce: This post says it all.
- Jon Lester: Lester has emerged as the ace of the Red Sox staff this year. He is tough as nails and would be an excellent candidate if it weren’t for the fact that he is close with Curt “the Girth” Swilling. Sorry Jon but you’re guilty by association.
- Kevin Garnett: This post says it all, but in the end, like Mayo, it is just too soon.
In the end the decision came down to one thing. What is going to make me happiest. So I made a tough decision and came up with this:
My man love is staying with Manny Ramirez! I don’t give a shit what anyone says, we are going to make this long distance relationship work. If you don’t like it then take a hike.
The Olympics Are On?
by the goat… I have no idea how it happened, but somehow I am into the Olympics.
It may have been the U.S. beating the French swimmers who had shit talked the Americans.
French swimmer Alain Bernard fueled a media frenzy before the men’s relay when he said:
“The Americans, we are going to smash them, that’s what we came here for.”
Other French team members went so far as to say that the Americans were scared.
When I heard this I was actually nervous. If you think about it swimming can be a form of fleeing, and the French have so much of that in their history that it is entirely possible it has altered their DNA.
They very easily could have developed gills and webbed feet just in case they have to flee down the Seine when the Luxembourg Army takes Paris. Thankfully they did not, and the U.S. made Frenchie eat his words (what I will forever refer to as the “Beijing Breakfast”).
I also found quite a bit of enjoyment watching the Mens Basketball team destroy the Chinese. At one point about 30 U.S. points in a row were the result of Lebron James taking (not stealing or blocking, literally physically removing) the ball from someone and sending it down court for some ridiculous dunk.
Wal-Mart, Tibet and human rights violations aside, China just scares the living shit out of me. It may be the Cold War upbringing, but they just give me that Rocky IV feeling.They wear red all the time, unless they are wearing their military uniforms. They walk in perfect formation and rarely smile. I get the feeling that just looking at them on television will cause me to get nuked any minute. It’s like the ’80’s with the Russians all over again.
So the U.S. is killing it in the pool, Phelps is 3-0 on his quest to history, mens Basketball smoked the hosts in the first round, Venus and Serena are cruising to the third round and even the mens Gymnastic team was able to eek out a bronze even though they were huge underdogs because they ran out of ham (I must confess I don’t follow gymnastics so I have no idea why their lack of coldcuts would have that effect).
The U.S. is leading the overall medal count, all is right with the world, and somehow I am actually into the Olympics.
Brett Favre Traded To The Jets
by the goat… As if we needed another reason to hate The New York Jets. ESPN is reporting that Favre is now going to call the Meadowlands home. What a perfect fit for a guy who has completely turned on the team that made him.
Eric Mangini, a mediocre football mind that was thrust onto the national stage on the coattails of Belichick’s genius, went to N.Y. and completely forgot that he would still be a college assistant if it weren’t for Lord Bill. Now the leagues most famous tattle tale, who cried foul because it was the only chance in hell he would ever have of competing with The Patriots, gets to coach Favre, a mediocre quarterback who would have never lasted anywhere but the Tundra.
What’s next? Brett will accuse Green Bay of secretly triangulating ham radio signals from the sidelines during opponents warm-ups?
My predictions for next season:
- Brett Favre will retire after a 68-3 week two loss against The Pats
- Eric Mangini will eat the retirement papers
- Brett will be forced to come back in week three, but will throw 17 interceptions in the first half
- Eric Mangini will eat Brett Favre at halftime
- Green Bay will offer Mangini free meals for life at their stadium for ridding the world of Brett
- Mangini, upon hearing the incredible offer, will immediately retire from coaching and move to Green Bay, saying that he had accomplished all he could
- During halftime of Green Bays week seven matchup against the Indianapolis Colts, Brett Favre will leap from Manginis bowels in a Green Bay uniform to play quarterback
- Mangini, unable to catch anyone else, will eat Peyton Manning
- Without Satan Manning the Colts will not make the playoffs
- After an easy victory in the AFC championship game Bill Belichick will be overheard telling friends that he loves it when a plan comes together
Yup that’s right, the whole thing, Mangini to the Jets, spygate, the handshake controversy, Favre to the Jets, it was all orchestrated by Bill Belichick to get Peyton Manning’s ass eaten by Fat Boy Mangini. In Bill we trust!
I bet you didn’t see that one coming did you Mangina!
GOOOOAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!
by the goat… From Boston.com:
Last night, the SuperLiga Tournament final needed two 15-minute extra time periods before the Revolution emerged with the 6-5 victory on penalty kicks after a 2-2 draw following 120 minutes of play.
The Revolution became the first MLS team to win the SuperLiga title and defeated the Dynamo in a championship setting for the first time in three attempts.
From the game’s first minutes, the 9,242 fans in attendance at Gillette Stadium were treated to a fast-paced battle that saw the Revolution come from behind twice.
“The whole game was intense,” Revolution defender Jeff Larentowicz said.
My god, another championship win, at this point I think Boston could win a war with China. This is getting ridiculous. And what the hell is the SuperLiga? Are they just making shit up? Beantown has won everything so they had to invent new crap that they can win?
All this winning is getting exhausting. It’s a good thing I didn’t even know it was soccer season, or if soccer even has seasons, or that soccer is actually considered a sport by some people. If I actually followed it I would have gone into championship overload, it’s too soon after the last one. That said, I am happy to quietly chalk up another victory for the good guys, we who reside at this nexus of the universe we call Boston.
While we’re on the subject of soccer, I just wanted to also say that this:
From the game’s first minutes, the 9,242 fans in attendance at Gillette Stadium were treated to a fast-paced battle that saw the Revolution come from behind twice.
“The whole game was intense,” Revolution defender Jeff Larentowicz said.
Is an absolute lie. I have watched every level of soccer, from MLS and Premier to European Championships and World Cups, and I have never, not once, seen an intense soccer match. The fans in the stands may be intense, the announcer may get all intense, but a bunch of dudes kicking a ball around a field the size of Rhode Island is not intense.
Also, 9,242 fans in Gillette? That is pathetic. Apparently an MLS championship game is easier to get into than Salem State.
Paul Pierce Cuffed… Not Stuffed
By the goat… Ahhhh… it’s good to be the king.
Paul Pierce was allegedly acting a tad belligerent during a 3 a.m. traffic stop in Las Vegas. Apparently once cuffed, Paul calmed down a bit and was let go.
This story just adds to the legend of Paul Pierce as far as I am concerned. I am not sure what I like more about this. On the one hand there is the fact that Paul Pierce is still celebrating victory in Las Vegas (anyone else would be dead by now). On the other hand, Paul may be the first athlete in history to get to the point of being cuffed, but not get arrested.
I would imagine the scene went something like this:
Police officer: “Sir do you have any idea why I pulled you over?”
Paul Pierce: “Yeah ‘cuz I’m Paul motherfuckin’ Pierce and you want an autograph!”
Police officer: “Actually sir, you ran three stop lights and are driving quite erratic. It is against the law to have one hand waving out the window with the M.V.P. trophy while the other beeps the horn repeatedly.”
Paul Pierce: “Damn dood, you trying to kill my buzz or somethin’, we the champs fool!”
Police officer: “Um, that happened almost two months ago sir, will you please step out of vehicle.”
Paul Pierce: “Fuck this, don’t you know who I am? You got nuthin’ punk!”
Police officer: “Sir due to the way your acting I have no choice but to handcuff you and run some field tests.”
Paul Pierce (now cuffed): “Officer if I may I would like to take a moment to apologize for my prior behavior. As you know I have been through quite an emotional time in my life lately and have admittedly been caught up in the whirlwind. I would hope that this emotion I have succumbed to is in no way misconstrued, nor misinterpreted as offensive behavior towards you, or anyone employed by the commonwealth of Nevada. I would also like to take a moment and express that you will have my complete cooperation in all matters that may pertain to having this incident come to a swift and hopefully fair conclusion for all those involved.”
Police officer: “Well that is very nice of you Mr. Pierce, my superior officer has arrived on the scene and I have received the go ahead to settle this matter with a warning and a few photos of my fellow officers and yourself.”
Paul Pierce: “Now we talkin’ homey! Let’s set this off proper, I gots my digi in the trunk dog!”
Police officer: “Word?!?!”
Paul Pierce: “Word!”
Ahhhh… it’s good to be the king.
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Beantown Weather
Boston MANovember 21, 2008, 5:41 am 
Partly cloudy
current temperature: 27°Freal feel: 15°F
humidity: 53%
wind speed: 11 mph W
Windgusts: 11 mph
sunrise: 6:43
sunset: 16:17
Forecast November 21, 2008 day 
Intermittent clouds
36°F
wind speed: 9 mph WNW
Windgusts: 16 mphnight 
Mostly cloudy
22°F
wind speed: 22 mph NW
Windgusts: 43 mph-
Action!