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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Bill's Sports Binge: Rays' streak (and attendance) at 3, ex-Bolt gets sentenced and Jim Brown is a grumpy old turd
Posted by Bill Freitas on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Forget about the huge crowds all weekend, forget about the fact that it's an awful stadium in a crappy location and kills in TV ratings; forget about the fact that this team is so new that folks who "grew up watching the Rays" are still not old enough to drive; forget about the fact that there's simply not as many Canucks as there are stubborn, stupid, loud, obnoxious, arrogant, ignorant, pale, fat, lard-eating, wife-beating, high-school-not-completing Red Sox fans living amongst us to fill the seats; forget about the fact that it's Monday f*****g night and there's another one tonight. Where are you, Rays fans? Wah!
We all know why there's attendance issues here. Stop asking. You're not impressing anyone. In what marketing class does it suggest that, to generate excitement in the community, berate and bully the customer into coming to your broken-down venue in the middle of nowhere? I can see the billboard now:
Rays baseball: Come over and have fun now you rotten bastards, or we'll move
Cut me a break, it's a school night. Admit it. Which sounds better?
"Rays win! Where's the car?"
"Rays win! Where's the remote?"
Quicker Hits:
Much to the disappointment of California pretty-boy quarterback Matt Leinart, Arizona Cardinal head coach Ken Whisenhunt hasn't named a starter yet for the post Kurt Warner era after surprisingly starting Derek Anderson against Chicago last week (guess the coach doesn't just hand the starting job to the top draft pick by entitlement but makes you earn it, you know, by competing for it. How refreshing, "cough" Raheem "cough"); Lightning 2004 Stanley Cup winning goalie Nikolai Khabibulin (if you pronounced it right, your mouth is totally full of phlegm right now) will be sentenced Tuesday for a DUI arrest in February when his Ferrari was clocked at 70 mph in a 45 zone (slow down, ya fuzzy little foreign dude. You'll miss the Taco Bell dive-thru); and legendary Jim Brown refuses to attend the Ring of Honor ceremony at Cleveland Browns stadium on September 19 in a strongly-worded letter to team president Mike Holmgren, liking the offer to "a mascot."
In the letter, Brown told Holmgren, "I don't claim to be the best at anything, and I do not need validation from any man, so I will not participate in your Ring of Honor."
Am I the only one not at all surprised to hear that? I've always thought that dude was kind of a dick with an attitude problem and a permanent the-world-owes-me expression on his mug. And lose the stupid angry hacky-sack beanie already, Jimbo. The 60's are over.
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