Tag: New York Jets
Big Ben Whitney: Cris Carter’s Indefensible, Asinine Comments on Daniel Jones
Stamford, CT: We interrupt the regularly scheduled Mets’ stroke session to bring you some football news. Daniel Jones sure looked sharp in his first preseason action over the weekend, completing all five of his passes including a pretty TD. Though it was only one series, you’d think his performance would have been enough to get […]
100 Years of the NFL: Then And Now
“Personally, I think it’s a shame, all the star football players who retired in the prime of life. Lou Groza, washed up at 43. Ben Agajanian, prematurely retired at 45. Y. A. Tittle, gone when he was 38 and Bob Waterfield at 33. Norm Van Brocklin hung them up at 35 as did Otto Graham, […]
Replaceable Friday: Existential Mets Philosophy. Preseason NFL Ruminations
FLUSHING, QUEENS: To believe or not to believe that is the question Met fans? Do we go with Tug McGraw’s “Ya Gotta Believe” is it “Once Bitten Twice Shy?” Ironically that was written by the band Great White before they burned on stage in a bizarre pyrotechnics mishap. Will the Metropolitans face a similar fate? […]
50 Ways To Leave Mets Fans In A Flushing Toilet of Hell
ST LOUIS, MO – Ne’er has there been a more apropos moment in MTM history than a pinch-hit juxtaposed to Angry Ward’s closing words yesterday. Buddy Diaz may not be dead but he certainly should wish he is, considering that the long arm of the MTM governing body’s infinite reach is unending. Praise be… I […]
Tennis Anyone? Are Fittest Athletes Found On The Court?
BLOOMINGBURG, NY – Wow! That was some epic tennis match between Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. It was one I was smart enough to stay glued to, even though there were no groceries whatsoever in my apartment. I was on my second cup of coffee when I picked up the Men’s Wimbledon Final at the […]
Quick hits on the NY Mets, Jets, Knicks & Rangers Plus Soccer Predictions
EL BARRIO, EL FALLS – The dog days of summer suck. There is literally nothing to talk about. But I am being compenstated to write so I have to come up with something. Well not really compenstated but promised a friend I would so I have to come up with something. So I will do […]
Major League Pitching Problems, London MLB Flop
BLOOMINGBURG, NY – The NFL season can’t get here fast enough for me since all I’m left with to watch on television is baseball. This modern version of the American pastime is really somewhat irritating and is nothing like the game I grew up on. The London series (where baseball doesn’t belong) between the Yankees […]
Stupid Puig, Scalped Chiefs Reporter, Nets Haul Big Fish, Mets Tears
NEW YORK, NY – Wow! We barely slept after all the excitement this weekend in the sports world, kicked off by Different Matt’s Puck Head piece on Friday and followed up by Rain Man Junoir Blaber’s eloquence yesterday. But dagnabbit, there are some other big stories to take a gander at: Stupid Puig, Chiefs Scalp […]
Yanks v Sawx In London, USWNT v POTUS, Ha Ha Knicks, Calling People
EL BARRIO, EL FALLS – Earlier this week it was Short Matt’s birthday, so I called him. He was shocked by the call by and thought there was something bad had happened to me. I was like, “No man, you’re just special enough that I actually use my phone and call.” It made me realize […]
Mets Bullpen, Josh McCown And Jay-Z
EL BARRIO, EL BRONX – That’s right, you favorite writer is/was in the Bronx this weekend. I went to visit me Ma! And… commemorate the 4-year anniversary of Dad’s passing. I had a legit excuse to ask to be shifted to the top of the batting order for the week. That said, here is […]
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