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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1815 on: July 08, 2011, 11:23:26 PM »
Bob Costas sat in with Dave Fleming for a half-inning tonight on KNBR, and apparently Al Michaels did the same w the TV side. They're in town b/c they'll be doing tomorrow's game together for MLB network. 


Beat me to it... I was listening in the car when Costas dropped in.  A TV guy who loves radio, bless his heart.


Al Michaels & Bob Costas now doing their fill-in for Kruk'n'Kuip on Comcast for innings 6 & 7 (K'n'K are on MLB Network for those innings, but you can't see that in SF).

I was watching the game on MLB, so saw some of Kruk & Kuip's turn in the 6th & 7th.  Then had to go grill some salmon, came back and saw Costas and Michaels doing the 8th & 9th. But where were those two during the early innings? They had the usual MLB idiots doing the first few innings--far inferior to either of the two duos that followed.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1816 on: July 12, 2011, 09:20:02 AM »
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1817 on: July 12, 2011, 09:36:48 AM »
haven't been here much, but have you guys seen this!?

story here:

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/6760900/former-dallas-cowboys-player-michael-irvin-gay-magazine-equality

yeah, big story on Outsports.com today. Apparently Irvin had a brother who was gay.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1818 on: July 12, 2011, 10:15:31 AM »
haven't been here much, but have you guys seen this!?

story here:

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/6760900/former-dallas-cowboys-player-michael-irvin-gay-magazine-equality

yeah, big story on Outsports.com today. Apparently Irvin had a brother who was gay.

yep, deceased of stomach cancer some years back.  I gotta say a) I am SOOOO glad a prominent black athlete is finally calling out the African-American community on its endemic homophobia, and in particular pointing out the cognitive dissonance of it all, & b) Who, I mean really, who would ever have guessed that the one to do it would be Michael Irvin!?!?  But more power to him.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1820 on: July 14, 2011, 11:11:29 AM »
SF Giant Brian Wilson comments on his one-piece spandex tux at last night's ESPY Awards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8EavZELups

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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1821 on: July 14, 2011, 11:43:45 AM »
SF Giant Brian Wilson comments on his one-piece spandex tux at last night's ESPY Awards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8EavZELups


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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1823 on: July 16, 2011, 09:08:26 AM »
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1824 on: July 22, 2011, 02:32:03 PM »
as if all this KFOG demographics stuff isn't already making me feel old... the SF Giants just posted a poll: which of these songs should they play tonite at the 7th Inning Stretch?

1: Dynamite by Taio Cruz
2: Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
3: Hey Baby by Pitbull
4: No Speak Americano by Yolanda Be Cool
5: Firework by Katy Perry

Seriously? sheesh.
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1825 on: July 23, 2011, 03:31:05 PM »
We were at a restaurant last night and I saw for a second Kruk and Kuip wearing these outrageous harlequin shirts/jackets/whatevers at the beginning of the game.  Does anyone know anything about this?  Is there a pic anywhere to post?
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1826 on: July 27, 2011, 11:31:52 AM »
A Giants/Carlos Beltran deal said to be very close...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/giants/detail?entry_id=94048

ETA: still pending. And in other news, Cain to start tonite; Timmeh, like AL, is still ill.

ETA2: still no G-Men/Beltran deal as of 9pm.  But the A's are kicking Tampa Bay butt, 13-0 (!)
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1827 on: July 27, 2011, 11:28:59 PM »
A Giants/Carlos Beltran deal said to be very close...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/giants/detail?entry_id=94048

ETA: still pending. And in other news, Cain to start tonite; Timmeh, like AL, is still ill.

ETA2: still no G-Men/Beltran deal as of 9pm.  But the A's are kicking Tampa Bay butt, 13-0 (!)

You sure? I guess technically it's not completely finalized until the league signs off tomorrow, but ESPN was talking like it was pretty much a done deal since I turned on Baseball Tonight at 7:30. And what I'm seeing on SFGate sounds that way as well.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/27/SPT11KFSJT.DTL
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1828 on: July 30, 2011, 07:12:51 PM »
Buh-bye Rich Harden (again): A's trading him to the Sawx.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/athletics/detail?entry_id=94320
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Re: The Sports Thread
« Reply #1829 on: July 30, 2011, 08:15:44 PM »
Thought I'd posted about this before but couldn't find it anywhere: Josh Willingham of the A's has as his walk-up music... "Your Love" by the Outfield. He knows neither the song nor the band's name has anything to do with baseball, right?
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