For your sports fix, head on over to SportsByBrooks.com, where I wrote Friday's update. Some good stuff this time around, including Jerry Lawler quotes, nude video game volleyballers, Pat Williams holding his balls and me — yes, me — defending Manny Ramirez as a Hall of Famer.
I also have a bunch of pics from the Yankees' 4-3 win against the Tigers on Thursday night. If you haven't seen these same crappy shots a million times, you haven't been around here too long.
Stat of the Day: Keith Foulke, having allowed 17 earned runs in 22 innings this season, would have to pitch 73 consecutive scoreless innings to better Mariano Rivera's 1.53 ERA (3 earned runs in 17.2 innings). Rivera, as you may have heard in April, is shot.
Shout Out: To my buddy BassAleMan for representing the Big Apple and taking the crown at the latest SbB event in Santa Monica. You look skinnier than that Crawling Soldier you won.
If you're a New Yorker, start making plans for Brooks' NYC event on June 23. Don't even think of beating me in the trivia challenge.
And as We Welcome in the Sux: From the AL's leading MVP candidate Alex Rodriguez's shrink: "Losing is a disease..."
Took me awhile to get to the Manny remarks as I got momentarily sidetracked by the 4,000 pics of SBB girls. (and when I say 'awhile', I mean about 10 minutes which leaves me roughly 3,967 more girls to go and atleast 124 more pleasurable visits to the site.)
Once I got to the comments, they didn't strike me as particularly shocking if only because they are accurate. Manny always has been a great hitter whether at home or on the road and, in fact when it comes to homeruns, Fenway probably has taken away more than it has given Manny over the years. Then I had to consider the source of these comments.....and that was shocking.
Are you selling out on us?
Posted by monte at May 27, 2005 12:41 PM