DarrylStingley
Boston Sports
I hold these truths to be inviolate:
1. The BB taping was not a big deal. Bad judgment to continue after the NFL memo. Bad getting caught. But in terms of competitive advantage and impact on games, it was not a big deal.
2. David Ortiz's cheating is not a big deal. It's bad that it happened. Cheating is never good. But when everyone is doing it, pointing to one player and saying "Got ya!" "tainted" or whatever is beyond dumb.
3. 2004 Red Sox remains the most amazing, unique sports story in my life. Not because I'm a Sox fan. 2007 was great but it's great like 2008 Cs was great and SBs 39 and 39 were great. Between the 86 years and the 0-3 comeback, and all the post-season drama that came along with it, nothing really compares to 2004 (though I know many Pats fans will say that they enjoyed 2001 Pats more, and that doesn't contradict my point, as my point is uniqueness, not individual fan enjoyment).
4. Johnny Damon is a tremendous douche for signing with the MFYs after he said he would not and while knowing that signing for that team would thoroughly annoy many of his former fans. That the Sox did fine without him doesn't make him less of a douche. Adam's bad decision isn't in the same stratosphere as Johnny's.
5. Bobby Orr is the greatest, most dominant hockey player who ever lived. Gretzky was close. But no one controlled the whole game like Bobby. No one combined offense, defense and toughness like Bobby.
6. There are no sports fans anywhere as mean spiritied, hypocritical and entitled as NY Yankee fans. We will see this graphically tonight. They will chant "19-18" and hammer Ortiz, all the while conveniently ignoring that every champion in the PEDs era had plenty of cheaters on it, they're own "Dynasty" teams had multiple cheaters and Alice the Wussy is an admitted cheater.
7. Grady Little made the single worst managerial decision in Boston sports history. Bringing Pedro back after 7 grueling innings and then leaving him in all the way through Posada was criminally stupid.
8. Ben Dreith was either on the take or wildly incompetent. Either way, he gave the Raiders a playoff win over the Pats, and the Tuck Rule game doesn't make up for that. The Tuck Rule was called correctly. The Pats were lucky as hell to get the call and that the rule exists. But it was called correctly.
9. That there is no salary cap in baseball is a joke. Forget the Yankees for a second. The Red Sox should not be able to have a competitive advantage over more than half the teams in the game because they're richer. It's stupid.
10. The Patriots were better than the Giants even though the Giants played and coached better on that day.
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Either comment on those, ignore this thread, hurl insults at me or list your own 10 truths.
I need a cigarette (and I don't smoke).
1. The BB taping was not a big deal. Bad judgment to continue after the NFL memo. Bad getting caught. But in terms of competitive advantage and impact on games, it was not a big deal.
2. David Ortiz's cheating is not a big deal. It's bad that it happened. Cheating is never good. But when everyone is doing it, pointing to one player and saying "Got ya!" "tainted" or whatever is beyond dumb.
3. 2004 Red Sox remains the most amazing, unique sports story in my life. Not because I'm a Sox fan. 2007 was great but it's great like 2008 Cs was great and SBs 39 and 39 were great. Between the 86 years and the 0-3 comeback, and all the post-season drama that came along with it, nothing really compares to 2004 (though I know many Pats fans will say that they enjoyed 2001 Pats more, and that doesn't contradict my point, as my point is uniqueness, not individual fan enjoyment).
4. Johnny Damon is a tremendous douche for signing with the MFYs after he said he would not and while knowing that signing for that team would thoroughly annoy many of his former fans. That the Sox did fine without him doesn't make him less of a douche. Adam's bad decision isn't in the same stratosphere as Johnny's.
5. Bobby Orr is the greatest, most dominant hockey player who ever lived. Gretzky was close. But no one controlled the whole game like Bobby. No one combined offense, defense and toughness like Bobby.
6. There are no sports fans anywhere as mean spiritied, hypocritical and entitled as NY Yankee fans. We will see this graphically tonight. They will chant "19-18" and hammer Ortiz, all the while conveniently ignoring that every champion in the PEDs era had plenty of cheaters on it, they're own "Dynasty" teams had multiple cheaters and Alice the Wussy is an admitted cheater.
7. Grady Little made the single worst managerial decision in Boston sports history. Bringing Pedro back after 7 grueling innings and then leaving him in all the way through Posada was criminally stupid.
8. Ben Dreith was either on the take or wildly incompetent. Either way, he gave the Raiders a playoff win over the Pats, and the Tuck Rule game doesn't make up for that. The Tuck Rule was called correctly. The Pats were lucky as hell to get the call and that the rule exists. But it was called correctly.
9. That there is no salary cap in baseball is a joke. Forget the Yankees for a second. The Red Sox should not be able to have a competitive advantage over more than half the teams in the game because they're richer. It's stupid.
10. The Patriots were better than the Giants even though the Giants played and coached better on that day.
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Either comment on those, ignore this thread, hurl insults at me or list your own 10 truths.
I need a cigarette (and I don't smoke).