by Stop Mike Lupica on August 24 at 2:07PM
"What's wrong with SML? That fool is just throwing up links on a daily basis? Where's the original material at?"
I don't do Fridays in the summer - we only work half-days at my real job, and then I go and run in the (central) park, play a little soccer with Steve Nash, cap it off with some beach time. I thought ya'll knew that already. But since it is a bit damp here today, I do have a few links and spurious thoughts to share - it'll be very random, as in whatever is on my mind. "Real" posts will be coming over the weekend and starting Monday, so don't call me lazy just yet (though it is absolutely true).
-Jordi at The Serious Tip wrote a nice story about a special bat he got from his father.
-Along those lines, I'm sure you read this by now, thanks to the love from both Free Darko and Posting and Toasting (which is where the 100% of our audience that isn't from The Starting Five or The Big Lead's ample love for SML, comes from) but if you haven't - it's a nice, very well written story about ballin' in the city, as penned by Jake from Bread City. Bread City has some great stuff on it, and is one of the best up and coming sites - I love this great image of Rip Hamilton, but there are some other amazing things to be found on the site. One post that I'm particularly fond of is called "Ocean Parkway Basketball"; the post itself is pretty simple, but it does remind me of the weirdness that was South Brooklyn. Boring SML story time:
The Greek Professor lived in Bayridge, some time after his family finally fled Flatbush. Once in a while I would hang out with the GP out in the Ridge in the mid 90's, a neighborhood that was way out there in west bumblef*ck. Seriously, I would ride the R-train out way past civilization, past the boonies, to get there. So having a car was necessary. One time GP and I drove out to Astoria, met up with some other friends, chilled, stayed out late. Very late, like the sun would be rising soon. In fact, we started seeing the sun rising as we were driving back to Bayridge on the highway. We got off the BQE, and we stopped at a red light, next to a park. We look over in direction of the park, and what do we see?
Yeah, like that, but with real swords, not fake. These two cats were going at it, having a swordfight in the park at sun rise. Like the GP said: "This sh*t is straight out of Highlander!"
Bread City's posts also remind me of that photo from Morocco that got away - the one of the basketball court in the middle of the desert. In lieu of that, and in honor of BC, I'm just going to post a few of my favorite pics from that trip. But first, lieu is one of my favorite words - it has one of the rarest ligatures in the English language. Actually, upon checking that link (which DJM sent us after a lunch conversation), I see that "eu" is not actually a ligature. But "ae" is, as in "encyclopaedia". Photos:
Saviola, b*tches! Seeing Crespo and Saviola jerseys were actually really common in Morocco, and the occasional Riquelme. Hardly any Messi jerseys, though. No Tevez, either. Weird. It's like the reverse of my closet.
I forgot which bad movie this was. I think it was Big Trouble, the one with Tim Allen and Puddy. Yeah, that was definitely the one. We're gonna start a new trend - it'll be foreign versions of American movies.
Oh, and we are going to start another trend: Foreign versions of American fast food.
The GF is waiting for me, so I'm going to wrap this post up fast...
-Modi at Cosellout has another great Bonds post. We were working on something a while back that would work as a companion post for his post - maybe we'll flesh it out. Yes, there are those Bonds critics (who are on his website right now) who would argue that "Bonds admitted taking steroids". They have a valid point, of course, but it misses a few key points: One, he admitted to taking the clear and the cream, which he says he wasn't aware were steroids. The government has yet to prove, or even allege, that Bonds lied about that. They may indict him on perjury eventually, but have not yet. Also, the gov't has prove what the "cream" and the "clear" were.
But besides all that, the main point of Modi's post is that Bonds career path mirrors Aaron's very closely. Instead of presuming that Bonds used steroids to pass Aaron, or more importantly, that steroids is the biggest and sole reason why his performance increase, Modi uses stats to make the case that it's not abnormal, and that other factors play a role. Bonds is diligent about his workout ethic since he was young; he had better lineup protection at the end of his career than he did early on.
On a sidenote, The Big Lead gave Modi's piece a link today, despite the fact that they are on the anti-Bonds bandwagon. I do think that shows a good amount of journalistic creditability on their part; showing love to those who aren't agreeing with what you believe, just because the piece is so well written and researched, is a trait that I wished more sites, particularly the larger ones, in the blogsphere would show....
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I don't do Fridays in the summer - we only work half-days at my real job, and then I go and run in the (central) park, play a little soccer with Steve Nash, cap it off with some beach time. I thought ya'll knew that already. But since it is a bit damp here today, I do have a few links and spurious thoughts to share - it'll be very random, as in whatever is on my mind. "Real" posts will be coming over the weekend and starting Monday, so don't call me lazy just yet (though it is absolutely true).
-Jordi at The Serious Tip wrote a nice story about a special bat he got from his father.
-Along those lines, I'm sure you read this by now, thanks to the love from both Free Darko and Posting and Toasting (which is where the 100% of our audience that isn't from The Starting Five or The Big Lead's ample love for SML, comes from) but if you haven't - it's a nice, very well written story about ballin' in the city, as penned by Jake from Bread City. Bread City has some great stuff on it, and is one of the best up and coming sites - I love this great image of Rip Hamilton, but there are some other amazing things to be found on the site. One post that I'm particularly fond of is called "Ocean Parkway Basketball"; the post itself is pretty simple, but it does remind me of the weirdness that was South Brooklyn. Boring SML story time:
The Greek Professor lived in Bayridge, some time after his family finally fled Flatbush. Once in a while I would hang out with the GP out in the Ridge in the mid 90's, a neighborhood that was way out there in west bumblef*ck. Seriously, I would ride the R-train out way past civilization, past the boonies, to get there. So having a car was necessary. One time GP and I drove out to Astoria, met up with some other friends, chilled, stayed out late. Very late, like the sun would be rising soon. In fact, we started seeing the sun rising as we were driving back to Bayridge on the highway. We got off the BQE, and we stopped at a red light, next to a park. We look over in direction of the park, and what do we see?
Yeah, like that, but with real swords, not fake. These two cats were going at it, having a swordfight in the park at sun rise. Like the GP said: "This sh*t is straight out of Highlander!"Bread City's posts also remind me of that photo from Morocco that got away - the one of the basketball court in the middle of the desert. In lieu of that, and in honor of BC, I'm just going to post a few of my favorite pics from that trip. But first, lieu is one of my favorite words - it has one of the rarest ligatures in the English language. Actually, upon checking that link (which DJM sent us after a lunch conversation), I see that "eu" is not actually a ligature. But "ae" is, as in "encyclopaedia". Photos:
Saviola, b*tches! Seeing Crespo and Saviola jerseys were actually really common in Morocco, and the occasional Riquelme. Hardly any Messi jerseys, though. No Tevez, either. Weird. It's like the reverse of my closet.I forgot which bad movie this was. I think it was Big Trouble, the one with Tim Allen and Puddy. Yeah, that was definitely the one. We're gonna start a new trend - it'll be foreign versions of American movies.Oh, and we are going to start another trend: Foreign versions of American fast food. The GF is waiting for me, so I'm going to wrap this post up fast...
-Modi at Cosellout has another great Bonds post. We were working on something a while back that would work as a companion post for his post - maybe we'll flesh it out. Yes, there are those Bonds critics (who are on his website right now) who would argue that "Bonds admitted taking steroids". They have a valid point, of course, but it misses a few key points: One, he admitted to taking the clear and the cream, which he says he wasn't aware were steroids. The government has yet to prove, or even allege, that Bonds lied about that. They may indict him on perjury eventually, but have not yet. Also, the gov't has prove what the "cream" and the "clear" were.
But besides all that, the main point of Modi's post is that Bonds career path mirrors Aaron's very closely. Instead of presuming that Bonds used steroids to pass Aaron, or more importantly, that steroids is the biggest and sole reason why his performance increase, Modi uses stats to make the case that it's not abnormal, and that other factors play a role. Bonds is diligent about his workout ethic since he was young; he had better lineup protection at the end of his career than he did early on.
On a sidenote, The Big Lead gave Modi's piece a link today, despite the fact that they are on the anti-Bonds bandwagon. I do think that shows a good amount of journalistic creditability on their part; showing love to those who aren't agreeing with what you believe, just because the piece is so well written and researched, is a trait that I wished more sites, particularly the larger ones, in the blogsphere would show....
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SML, thanks for the love. I think the question that should be posed is why has no MSM ever shown Bonds career progression for the evolution that it is. It simply CANNOT be explained by incompetence from MSM alone. That is what is so bothersome (not that incompetence is not bothersome, but you get the point)
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