Lance Stephenson Commits to Maryland!

After delaying his announcement yesterday, "Born Ready" Lance Stephenson has decided to commit to the University of Maryland!

With Xavier Henry now reopening his commitment and likely to end up at Kansas rather than Kentucky, Lance decided College Park would be his new home.

More on this later!

Baltimore's back baby!

Boy, do these babies look good!


And I really like this new patch too!

Celtics Cheating?

I know I haven't posted here in a looooong time, but I couldn't resist posting this story and another story which will follow this one.

As I was watching Sports Center this morning, they were showing highlights from the Hawks-Celtics game last night.  With the Celtics down one, and with 7.4 seconds left, the Celtics inbound the ball and....the clock doesn't start for a full second after the Celtics touch the ball! Paul Pierce then nails the game winner with .5 seconds left! I can't believe no one has mentioned/caught this yet!

Video below...

 

I hate the Yankees

Since MLB released the 2008 schedule, I've been looking forward to September 21st, 2008. The scheduling gods had giving my Baltimore Orioles a blessing - a chance to ruin the last game at historic Yankee Stadium. The O's could have gone 1-161, so long as they beat the Yankees in the last game at that stadium. 

But that assumed that the Yankees didn't make the playoffs, which would never happen.  Even if they didn't win the A.L. East, thay would defiantly the Wild Card, right?

Well, when I went to my first and only game at Yankee Stadium last October, against the Cleveland Indians, I told my girlfriend that would be the last playoff game at Yankee Stadium as we walked out following the Yanks loss to the Indians that eliminated them from the playoffs. 

 Little did I know I would be right.  As this day drew close, I realized that this would basically be the Orioles playoff game- the Atmosphere, what they were playing for, would all generate a playoff atmosphere. And the Orioles would be on Sunday Night Baseball in late September for the first time since 1997. The Nation would actually be interested in a late-season Orioles game. 

It was tough to watch the O's jump out to a 2-0 lead and then lose 7-3. To see those damn Yankees celebrating and the O's not coming through in the biggest game they've played in since they lost to the Indians in the ALCS back in 1997. I so wanted the O's to beat the Yankees - the team that use to be in Baltimore before moving to New York in 1903. 

I think what really bothers me about the entire night isn't the fact that the Yankees beat the O's. What is really sad is that Yankee Stadium is a). going to be torn down and b). represents the death of baseball to the common fan. 

The House that Ruth Built was a first - a first 3-tier stadium, the first stadium that packed in fans from all walks of life. Yankee Stadium is a cathedral to baseball but it was also the site of the birth of the modern NFL with the 58 Championship game, it was the site of the first papal mass in the Western Hemisphere, site of some of the best boxing matches ever. So what replaces this sports museum - the House that was made into a home?

The death of baseball.  The death of the common fan.  The furthering of corporate America's intrusion into sports.  $2,500 seats PER GAME for baseball, insisting on having luxury boxes and thus needing a new stadium.  The New Yankee Stadium represents everything that is wrong with our world - the only thing missing is a corporate name on top of that new stadium.

Way the ghost of the Base haunt their new stadium and prevent them from ever winning another championship - punishment for tearing down a true sports and baseball cathedral.

death of sports - house that Ruth built - common man, no more.

welcome in an era of greed, corporate america  - onlything missing is corporate name.

Bye Bye, Tom

So I'm not one to ever cheer for someone getting hurt, so I want to start right off the top saying that I'm sorry for Tom Brady that he got hurt.  But, I couldn't be happier that this happened to Brady's douche bag, arrogant, son of a bitch coach, Bill Belichick. I hope the Pats miss the playoffs this year, so the world can see that this cheating son of a bitch is only as good as his hall of fame QB that the Pats drafted in the 6th round.  Hopefully I'm right so everyone can see that this d-bag is nothing more than a sweatshirt wearing d-bag.

Still hate Boston

Sorry for the lack of posting here.  Between writing now for Testudotimes.com, trying to find a house, and preparing to take the LSATS, I've had little time to think about teams I hate.

I was able to do some great hating last Tuesday though, August 19th when I went to Oriole Park to try to be the 50,000,000th fan in Oriole Park history (missed it by about 5 mins).

Anyway, we were sitting in the bleachers and we had a good bit of O's fans around us.  Sadly, as the Sox started winning, the Sox fans got louder and louder and I got more and more annoyed. 

After O's fans started cheering "Eli Manning" to piss off the Sox/Pats fans, this one Sox loser tells me to shut up because Baltimore has never been to the Super Bowl.  Well, I lost it. I yelled back at him "Baltimore won the NFL championship in 1958, 1959, lost in Super Bowl III, Won Super Bowl V and Won Super Bowl XXXV. We also won the Gray Cup in the CFL you stupid, ignorant son of a bitch dumb bastard."

The guy had nothing to say and soon after left, because that is what Sox fans are - stupid, ignorant sons of bitches who know as much about sports as a pile of road kill - they know a little about the bandwagon that ran them over and little else.

Chris Waters starting for O's tomorrow

MASN has just reported on their broadcast of the O's-Angels game, that Norfolk pitcher Chris Waters is at Anaheim Stadium and that he'll be the starting pitcher for tomorrow's game against the Angels.  Hopefully Waters will dominate MLB like he has AA and AAA.  We'll have to wait and see...