Great Moments in Baseball Management

Is this the normal look on his face?

Saturday night Baltimore manager Dave Trembley made a case that the O’s would be better off spending the roughly $750,000 a year he makes on sunflower seeds and letting some random fan run the team (assuming, of course, that Baltimore still has fans).  All managers really do these days is sit players who can’t hit/field (unless your name is Nick Punto with those photos of Gardy), and count to 100 before giving your starting pitcher the hook.  You also need to know who your opponent has available when you actually try to make a strategic decision.  Sadly, Trembley is a little lost when it comes to strategery.

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Tags: Baseball, Homerism, idiocy
Category Random Deviations |

A Western Conference Preview. Preview? Yes, preview.

Look familiar?

Yeah, this is a preview.  I was kidnapped by banditos and forced to impregnate all their senoritas because apparently riding horses across the Mexican frontier renders one sterile absolutely buried with real life shit.  Apologies to my horde of regular readers.  So there’s even more content here because I can look back and analyze what I thought would happen, which will appear in italics.  Sadly, it doesn’t appear like my beloved Wild will win the Cup this year.  So here’s a look at the Western Conference.

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Tags: Avalanche, Blackhawks, Canucks, Coyotes, Kings, NHL, Predators, Red Wings, Sharks, Western Conference
Category Previews, Prognostication |

Western Conference Playoff Preview Part 1

The best playoffs in the North American are upon us.  While I’m only covering the Western Conference, this is still simply too much for me.  So I’ve brought in the magnificent WeedAgainstSpeed from Sportress of Blogitude, NBC’s Out of Bounds, With Leather,  Deadspin, and formerly of Melt Your Face Off to answer a few questions.  His brilliance after the jump.

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Tags: Blatant Homerism, NHL, Playoff Previews
Category Uncategorized |

Wait, What Did He Say?

“…it’s very similar to what Hogan went through coming off the accident.”

Eldrick Woods

April 9 2010

Did you really just say that, Eldrick?  Well, since you did, let’s take a closer look, shall we?

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Tags: Angry WSR, Fuck you Eldrick, Tiger Woods
Category Uncategorized |

How to Spend the Morning after St. Patrick’s Day.

A squirrel re-enacting this morning for every member of The Gally Blog

1) Wake up to a friendly greeting from the fiancee

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Tags: A tradition unlike any other, Alcoholics Unanimous, WSR's day off
Category Uncategorized |

$300,000,000 Just Doesn’t Get You As Much These Days

Last summer, Spanish futbol club Real Madrid spent an estimated €228 on players to win the UEFA Champions League (and sell jerseys).   Last night they played Lyon in the 2nd leg of their round of 16 in the CL.  How did it go?

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Tags: HA HA, The other football
Category Schadenfreude |

Even For Olympians, Job Prospects Slim

Times are tough all over.  Even in Vancouver, home of the 2010 Winter Games, athletes are finding it tough to secure employment for after their 16 days of glory are over.  Sure, some people have gigs lined up.  The Japanese and Dutch Women’s curling teams will be hired to play with rocks.  Luge and skeleton participants will go back to their boring lives as minesweepers for the military, bomb technicians, and canaries for coal mines.  And Phil Kessel will go back to counting down the days before he can go golfing again without the pressure of playoff hockey.

Perhaps the most distressed groups of Olympians are the biathletes.  There may be a couple wars right now, but their skills just don’t apply.  There’s no snow in Iraq, and there’s no where in Afghanistan that has snow that comes even close to being a cross-country style skiing area.  So sadly, these world-class athletes are having to turn to shady private multinational organizations to find a gig.  According to most biathletes, the most prominent in recruiting has been SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion) who has been interviewing all medalists for a particular job.  Sadly, this job is a short-term job that includes no benefits, no perks, and very little job security.  In fact, according to Men’s 15k gold medalist Evgeny Ustyugov of Russia, it would be such a short-term job that it might not even cover travel expenses!  ”They want me to kill Roger Moore” said Ustyugov.  ”They actually think he’s still James Bond.  It’s not even funny, because he’s got to be close to 80.  I could knock on his door, hit him with a ski, and make it home for vodka and crumpets.  I thought they were joking, but then they killed (silver medalist Christoph) Sumann for laughing at them.”  Then he started to sob and stated “I might have to take it because it’s all there is for me, other than shooting protesting Redskins and Manchester United fans for ownership.”

A truly sad outlook for a proud athlete.

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Tags: Biathalon, Bond, Olympics, SPECTRE
Category Entertainment |

THE PRO BOWL IS COMING!

It's like the NHL All-Star Game, but with less defense!

Since we’re in the dead week before the Super Bowl and two weeks before the Pro Bowl¹, today seemed like the perfect time to offer a preview of the 2010 Pro Bowl in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii².

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Category Previews |