Signs now banned from Redskins games

I wonder why...


Oh, that's why.

UPDATE: This was another actual sign removed from the game. A little over the top on the part of security, don't ya think?

Girardi doing his best elmer fudd impersonation

Vlad always amazes me

Here's a picture of Vlad's double in game 6 of the ALCS. It's really amazing that he hit this ball that far. Yes, I realize it was a bloop but he's still got crazy skills.

T-shirt of the day

This from the Tennessee-Bama game. "You can't spell SLUT without UT".

Proof that VT engineers are better than UVA engineers

During the game today between UVgay and GT it's pouring. While the fairies in the stands wearing suits and sundresses are quickly leaving the game to rush home for their cheese and wine parties the football game actually continues to be played. Raycom decided to show how hard it was raining by showing the following picture of the football field's drainage system.
In one of my classes recently we got tours of all the stadiums here in Blacksburg and the class was explained how complex the drainage system is at Lane Stadium allowing the team to play through games such as Miami this year and BC a few years ago with very little puddling or any problems. What does UVA use as a drainage system? They drain the water from the stands DIRECTLY ON THE FIELD!!!! How does this make any sense at all? I guess they sure don't want people's feet wet in the stands so they are going to get it out of there and right on the field.

The hate continues...

Courtesty of Dan Steinberg at the D.C. Sports Bog

[T]here's the above image, sent in by reader Trey. I actually called the Laytonsville District Volunteer Fire Department to make sure it wasn't a fake. The guy who answered the phone laughed when I asked if this was real, and laughed again when I asked why. It was a laugh, like, "dude, have you not been paying attention?"

"There's a bunch of Redskins fans here at the firehouse, and they're just not real happy," he said. "It's just a little humor, but we thought everyone could appreciate it."

Then there was the e-mail I got from Ryan, who reminded me of those signs at FedEx that encourage fans to text 78247 for assistance. Sitting in the very last row of section 418, Ryan and his friends decided to text for assistance.

Redskins: 2:24:21 PM, WHAT CAN WE ASSIST YOU WITH TODAY?

Ryan: 2:25:26 PM, WE NEED AN OFFENSE ASAP. TELL DAN

Redskins: 2:31:17 PM, TRY TO ENJOY THE GAME

Stephen Jackson at it again

Kobe Bryant is one of the best players ever. I understand this. So last Friday when Stephen Jackson's defensive assignment was Kobe you knew it was going to be a battle. Let's just say Mr. Jackson didn't put up much of a fight. His night was done after just 9 minutes with 5 fouls and a technical. Good Job Stevie.

Marcellus Wiley's take on the situation you may ask? "He's being a little gangsta out there right now"

Injury bug bites Wizards early

Washington Wizards Forward Antawn Jamison will miss the remainder of the preseason after suffering a right shoulder injury while attempting to block a Zydrunas Ilgauskus shot in a preseason win against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Jamison's status for the start of the regular season is still unknown. The two time all-star will be re-evaluated next week after swelling goes down.

Awesome shot by a 9 year old

Tulsa retirement home cancels Bingo Night

Late into the game tonight there was a spotting of a few elderly gentlemen wayyyy past their bedtime. It must have been a special field trip from the old folks home over to the ole football stadium. Good for them. Get that blood pumping in the pouring rain outdoors for 4 hours.

Press Hop

Found this on PFT - it's older but awesome.

Eli shows of his Stroooooong hand

Amusing Tweet Tweets

With the Twittersphere taking over the Northern hemisphere I finally caved in and joined the group. While looking around people I wanted to follow I looked to see if Dan Snyder, Jim Zorn, or even Vinny "glasseye" Cerrato had a twitter. I was of course unsuccessful in my search but found 3 accounts that are much more enjoyable. Here they are:

Vinny Cerrato
Dan Snyder
Jim Zorn

Enjoy them and here are some of my favorite tweets.

VC:
Umm @FakeJimZorn, we're gnna need to go ahd and mv u dwnstrs into storage B. Have some new ppl cmng in, and we need all the space we can get

Who is this Champ Bailey? Ya think I can trade for him? Rt @SI_PeterKing ...Champ Bailey ... And you'd win a lot of games. He's excellent.

Just hope my boss doesn't think I need a "fresh set of eyes" to help look over the 2010 draft... Gotta go get Danny's latte, see ya l8r!

DS:
Well off to eat lunch. @FakeVCerrato @FakeJimZorn have been in the kitchen all morning so I hoped they whipped me up something good to eat.

J. Zorn's Q: What do you do in your free time when you are not hassling your staff? A: I love this website http://tinyurl.com/2kcq53

I heard from a reliable source that when twitter was down today that Cerrato and Zorn took naps. I'm not sure though because I was napping.

JZ:
Vinny, @FakeDanSnyder and I make a great Entourage. Then again, that show is coming to an end.

If things don't work out in Minnesota, I'm sure @FakeDanSnyder will hook him up with a big contract.

@BoycottSnyder That's my boss you're talking about.

Sherman Lewis is George Costanza

Redskins next Head Coach, savior of the season, "Offensive Consultant" Sherman Lewis can only be described by me in one way: his job reminds me of George Costanza's role with the Yankees.

No one knows what he's really doing.

So he's supposed to be "another set of eyes?" I've been a set of eyes all season and I can name a dozen things going wrong - someone pay me. I'll take a 1/4 of what Shermy is getting.

Cerrato said it has not been determined what Lewis' role will be.

"They'll get that figured out here in the next day," Cerrato said.

Great. Let's hope at his age...Shermy doesn't get laid. Thanks, George!

Wow, There Is Another Nationals (Natinals) Fan Besides Me

And, what makes it worse - he's more unlucky too.

Meet Stephen Krupin. He and his father have been loyal (!) Nationals season ticket holders since the inaugural season in 2005. Krupin managed to make it to 19 home games this season. The significance? The Nationals lost all 19 of the games. ALL 19 OF THE GAMES.

Yes, the Nationals suck. We know. Still, they went 33-48 at home this season. Krupin asked one of his genius baseball buddies to do the math on the odds of this occurring. The result was a staggering 1 in 131,204. Here's the e-mail he sent to Dan Steinberg of the D.C. Sports Blog:

I figured that even with the worst team in the bigs, this 0-19 record couldn't have been an easy task. So I asked my cousin--a Ph.D. who works as an economist at the Department of Labor and moonlights as a statistics analyst/columnist on ESPN.com and Baseball Prospectus--to crunch some numbers. He and his mathematician friends figured out that the odds of my going 0-19 this year at Nats Park were 1 in 131,204.

His explanation follows:

It took into account that they were 33-48 at home this year, made up of 0-19 when you were there and 33-29 when you were not there. The odds that you would select 19 games out of 81, of which 33 would have been wins, and you picked none, that was the shocker. The other discussion is whether it was just 1 in 20,000, which would be the odds of going to 19 games of a team that wins 33/81 of their games in general, and seeing no wins. But we eventually decided that what was more impressive was that the team actually went 33-29 when you weren't there, and you just picked the wrong games.

The Nats were clearly the team most likely to foil a season ticket holder like that, but I guess so were the Royals, who apparently also went 33-48 at home. My co-workers pointed out that you might have been going mostly to games against particularly good teams; like, you wanted to see the Red Sox orDodgers or something, which obviously would make it more likely, but still really impossible.

[NOTE: I didn't. Outside of seeing the first two Red Sox games in the middle of the week, I almost always picked games based on my schedule].

It's gonna be a long time before you break back to .500. I'm wondering if you were the fan in baseball with the worst record of anybody in games attended. If it's 1 in 130,000, and each team gets a couple million fans on average, you might be the only one who attended at least 19 games and failed to see a win.

His last point is a good one. Of all regular attendees (19 or more games) around the country, fewer were probably frequent customers at terrible teams' games. It's much easier to understand why someone would go to one out of every four games at Fenway than at Nats Park. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

I was going to go last Tuesday to try and make it an even 0-20, but called a late audible for the U2 concert. Good thing, as the Nats beat the Mets that night.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy a lottery ticket. Or whatever the opposite of playing the lottery is.

No Business In The Front, Huge Party In The Back

This is pretty cool