(By the way, I can't say this is totally relevant, but the Rockies black home jerseys with white shoulder trim sure did resemble the umpires' uniforms.)
2. SS Jimmy Rollins — So you want the National League to have an MVP award, but you're too ashamed to vote for the Coors Field-inflated numbers of Matt Holliday? How about the Philadelphia Philles shortstop, whose lineup begins and ends with his production.
Like Curtis Granderson, he has 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs, and 20 stolen bases — the fourth player in major league history to do so. Unlike Curtis Granderson, Rollins has a T-shirt that says DIVISION CHAMPIONS.
3. SG Gilbert Arenas — We haven't even begun the NBA preseason and we're already talking about the cerebral heart and soul of the Washington Wizards. Agent Zero has grown weary of the summer lull and decided to launch an Internet cartoon.
No episodes are live on the site, because Arenas doens't think it's as good as Family Guy yet. Well then, try using more flashbacks and repeat the same jokes. Then have the lead character get into a 3-minute fight with a guy in a chicken costume.
4. QB Joey Harrington — You know what? Good for him. I can't think of a more awkward situation to be thrown into as a quarterback. He was asked to lead a football team because the team's original star quarterback enjoyed electrocuting dogs who lacked superior killing skills. Picture Mr. Burns' company softball team missing its All-Star players. Now picture Bobby Petrino tell Harrington, "I want you to remember some inspiring words that someone else might have told you over the course of your lives, and go out there and win!"
You almost want to will a Kurt Warner-like MVP season out of him, but you know what he's done in the past — acceptable football that has yielded more losses than wins.
On Sunday, Harrington had an amazing game (23-for-29, 223 yards, 2 touchdowns) against the surprising Houston Texans, featuring last year's backup Falcons QB, Matt Schaub. His numbers resulted in a 26-16 win for the Falcons, the first of the year.
Article comments
1 - Tom
Coors inflated numbers? You obviously know little about either Coors field or Holliday's play this year. The Rockies have won without a Blake Street Bombers lineup. They've won with guys who get key hits, everywhere and not just at Coors, and with the best defense in baseball history.
Holliday has earned the MVP, he's got the batting title and the RBI title and both he and Tulowitzky (NL Rookie of the Year beyond doubt) put their team into the playoffs tonight.
2 - Benjamin Cossel
And San Diego had Trevor "Lights Out" Hoffman going into the 13th with a a two run lead, what the hell happened there? Season full of chokes, I swear.
3 - Matthew T. Sussman
When an 85 mph fastball is poorly located, well, it will locate itself between outfielders.
4 - REMF
"Oh, and Holliday injured himself on the slide."
A head-first dive is a "slide"?
With all due respect to Holliday's great season, I thought he sucked last night. 1) He struck out three times, twice with a runner in scoring position; 2) he let the game-tying ball go over his head in the eighth inning on a ball a seeing eye dog could've caught; and 3) he should've been called out on that last play, he didn't even come close to touching home.
And why go in head first? Woulda been safe by a mile with a traditional slide.
BUT...having said all that, I'm still glad the Rockies are in the playoffs!
5 - REMF
What's interesting about the accomplishments of Rollins and Granderson: the 20-20-20-20 had been performed only two times in the entire 120-plus year history of MLB, and then TWO guys do it in the SAME YEAR!!?!
Crazy...
6 - alessandro
Jamie Carroll is still property of the Montreal Expos.
I can just see goalies using the McAmmondesque logic: "I don't have problems stretching and stopping the puck. I have problems with people who know how to take dead aim and shoot perfectly through the five-hole."
Philadelphia Flyers brass after Downie ploughed into McAmmond: "He's perfect!"
7 - The Haze
1. The Padres take a Holliday......and we're not talking Disney Land!
2.Yeah,and the back of the shirt says,"courtesy of the N.Y. Mets"!
3.Agent Zero is the Anna Kournikova of the NBA.
4.Awkward moment???How about finding out that your starting fullback is gay and he can't stop staring at your ass?
5.think what would have happened if he would have asked the wizard for courage instead?
6."Lean in with your face son, you'll find what your looking for."
7."Break out the lanterns Boys,it's gonna be a long night"
8.Artis Chambers? Wasn't he the lead singer of the Dead Schembechlers?
9.Well the ship went down to the bottom of the sea and the only ones left were the fat cook and me so I looked to the sky with a tear in my eye........
10.(see above)