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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1395 on: December 09, 2009, 03:30:47 PM »
Quote from: SFGuy on December 04, 2009, 01:20:02 AM

It's not news that an athlete cheated on his wife with another woman. It would be if he had cheated on his wife with a man.

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"God bless Tiger. This week we got a huge uplift: Front Page, News, Sports, Gossip. He just filtered through the whole place. It is better than Michael Jackson dying; it is kind of hard to put an ad next to a funeral."

— Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz tells a UBS conference that Tiger Woods has become an important man in her life.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1396 on: December 09, 2009, 04:00:24 PM »
Quote from: mshray on December 09, 2009, 03:30:47 PM
Quote from: SFGuy on December 04, 2009, 01:20:02 AM

It's not news that an athlete cheated on his wife with another woman. It would be if he had cheated on his wife with a man.

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"God bless Tiger. This week we got a huge uplift: Front Page, News, Sports, Gossip. He just filtered through the whole place. It is better than Michael Jackson dying; it is kind of hard to put an ad next to a funeral."

— Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz tells a UBS conference that Tiger Woods has become an important man in her life.


Hah!  Willie Brown had an interesting observation in Sunday's Chron, something to the effect that Tiger led a sheltered life; "his father wouldn't allow him to date, even in college (!) ... I don't think Tiger discovered women until after he got married"
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1397 on: December 10, 2009, 09:46:01 AM »
I was focusing more on the fact that a Fortune 100 CEO suggested that Michael Jackson DYING was good for business, but Tiger committing adultery was even better for business.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1398 on: December 10, 2009, 10:02:25 AM »
Quote from: mshray on December 10, 2009, 09:46:01 AM
I was focusing more on the fact that a Fortune 100 CEO suggested that Michael Jackson DYING was good for business, but Tiger committing adultery was even better for business.

Makes the stomach hurt, dunnit?
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1399 on: December 11, 2009, 09:42:42 PM »
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1400 on: December 12, 2009, 12:31:11 PM »
Quote from: ggould on December 11, 2009, 09:42:42 PM
Image of Golf Digest Tiger/Obama cover

Ooops.  Faux News will dine on that for days.

Yesterday I posted on FB that all these ex-"girlfriends" of Tiger's spilling the beans has given new meaning to the phrase "waking up with wood" -- and I got more comments than I've gotten on anything else I've posted there in the last 8 months.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1401 on: December 12, 2009, 10:05:30 PM »
WTF is up with the Sharks? Yikes, it's been a bad couple of weeks. Alicat! Help them!
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1402 on: December 14, 2009, 07:12:43 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on December 12, 2009, 10:05:30 PM

WTF is up with the Sharks? Yikes, it's been a bad couple of weeks. Alicat! Help them!

maybe that 11-round shoot-out loss to the Stars really hit them emotionally.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1403 on: December 15, 2009, 07:38:18 AM »
Quote from: mshray on December 14, 2009, 07:12:43 PM
Quote from: RGMike on December 12, 2009, 10:05:30 PM

WTF is up with the Sharks? Yikes, it's been a bad couple of weeks. Alicat! Help them!

maybe that 11-round shoot-out loss to the Stars really hit them emotionally.

here's hoping it does.. having 5 days off between that loss and their next game (Thurs) should give 'em plenty of time to think, for sure.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1404 on: December 15, 2009, 01:23:08 PM »
Hey Mark, whaddya think of the Cards offering Matt Holliday $130M over 8 years? (needless to say, his agent is Scott "The Evil One" Boras)
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1405 on: December 16, 2009, 09:40:54 AM »
Stephen Colbert graces the cover of Sports Illustrated this week. Spandex suits him.

http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/1401ap_us_people_stephen_colbert.html

BTW did you see the related story about the US speedskater Shawni Davis who called Colbert (who has raised $250,000 for the team) "a jerk". Apparently Davis doesn't realize that Colbert is , y'know, a satirist when he makes fun of Canadians.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1406 on: December 16, 2009, 01:07:10 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on December 15, 2009, 01:23:08 PM

Hey Mark, whaddya think of the Cards offering Matt Holliday $130M over 8 years? (needless to say, his agent is Scott "The Evil One" Boras)

I think they can afford it.  Did you know that Holliday & Pujols are exactly one day apart in age?  Both turn 30 next month & if the Cards can sign Holliday they will almost certainly lock up Pujols (whose $14.6M contract has 1 year left) as well.  On the other hand, nothing would confirm early speculation of Prince Albert leaving than the failure to sign a cleanup hitter like Holliday.

If they sign Holliday, I think they will have a core of Pujols, Holliday, Yadier Molina Chris Carpenter, & Adam Wainwright for the next 2-3 yrs, and another 2-3 yrs of everyone but Carpenter (the only one over 30 today).  That group should provide 2-4 All-Stars every year barring injury.
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Cy Young winners on the block
« Reply #1407 on: December 16, 2009, 01:41:11 PM »
Toronto sends Roy Halladay to the Phils; Phils in turn send Cliff Lee to the Mariners (!).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/16/sports/s115705S79.DTL&tsp=1

Not a bad deal for the Mariners, who also signed Chone Figgins last week. Could they finally be making a run at it?
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Re: Cy Young winners on the block
« Reply #1408 on: December 16, 2009, 01:49:55 PM »
Quote from: urth on December 16, 2009, 01:41:11 PM
Toronto sends Roy Halladay to the Phils; Phils in turn send Cliff Lee to the Mariners (!).

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/16/sports/s115705S79.DTL&tsp=1

Not a bad deal for the Mariners, who also signed Chone Figgins last week. Could they finally be making a run at it?

They must be; if they can't do well with additions like that they should just give up. I guess they think the A's (who just gave up on Jack Cust) will continue to suck. Sadly, I think they're right.
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Re: Cy Young winners on the block
« Reply #1409 on: December 16, 2009, 02:11:03 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on December 16, 2009, 01:49:55 PM
Quote from: urth on December 16, 2009, 01:41:11 PM

Not a bad deal for the Mariners, who also signed Chone Figgins last week. Could they finally be making a run at it?

They must be; if they can't do well with additions like that they should just give up. I guess they think the A's (who just gave up on Jack Cust) will continue to suck. Sadly, I think they're right.

Go M's!!

Did anyone pick Cust up yet?  I saw that yesterday and for whatever reason I dreamed about it last night.  Don't ask me why.
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