Back to basketball
Football and fantasy baseball. Fun while they lasted.
Let me quickly run through what happened yesterday regarding my two favorite other sports.
Football: I drove out to SLAM Art Director Stephen Goggi’s house to watch the Giants game. On the way there, I misread a turn and ended up driving head on into oncoming traffic. Somehow I kept my cool, backed out of it, went undetected by the cops, and got to Stephen’s house. That was the highlight of my football watching day. The Giants do not play what coaches sometimes refer to as “defense.”
Fantasy baseball: After 23 weeks of people obsessing constantly, talking so much trash, somehow it came down to the last game on a Sunday night. In my match-up, the only way I could possibly lose was if Mariano Rivera picked up a save. If you watched the Yankee-Red Sox game on espn, you saw how close he came to blowing it. There was money on the line. Derek Jeter’s home run off of Curt Schilling made a Rivera appearance possible, and then the 9th inning played out like a playoff classic. Mariano vs. Big Papi with 2 outs and the bases loaded after a run had already scored and the Yanks held a one run lead. Either he would blow the save or he’d nail it down. Whether the game was tied or won by either team was inconsequential.
I watched with the intensity of game 7 of the World Series. It is a tough one to get over. When I get to the office today, I will receive condolences. Ah… but we must move on.
Congrats to Cappy Pondexter and the Phoenix Mercury. Goody will have the WNBA championship recap for us today. Congrats to Russia and their MVP Andrei Kirilenko.
We should have another exclusive cover shoot video that I’ve been editing. Here is one final desperate plea, does anyone know how to rotate video 90 degrees using imovie? I know if you have a more advanced video editing program you can do it, but is there a trick way to do it for free?
31 Responses to “Back to basketball”
Sep.17 at 8:39 am
jetstar7 says:
If you have Quicktime Pro, you can. But that’s not free though… But check your System Preferences and see if your Quicktime Player declared for the draft and has turned pro without you knowing. Email me if you need a walk-through.
Sep.17 at 8:41 am
peteb80 says:
Yeah! Basketball! Pretty amazing Eurobasket tournament. I’m very happy that those Spanish soap opera actresses lost, they were bringing the arrogant bitchness every game, playing well but flopping and complaining all the time (signature move: the five man demand for a flagrant on the opponent, practically every other time one of them was fouled or had acted his way into a call).
Sep.17 at 8:48 am
white hot eboy says:
Sam, don’t feel too horrible about the Giants. I had to sit in the 90 degree heat at Dolphin Stadium and watch the Dolphins get roped by the fu*kin’ Cowboys. Plus it was like I was IN Dallas with how many “R(h)omo” fans that surrounded me. Plus, when I saw the Giants score on the Jumbotron, I had my real hometown heart beaten again. It’s gonna be a LONGGGGGGGGGG season.
Sep.17 at 8:54 am
Hisham says:
Did everybody have a good weekend?
Sep.17 at 9:00 am
white hot eboy says:
Hisham, just because we all don’t have the privleage of watching windmill races, don’t hate on our sorrow.
Sep.17 at 9:12 am
Cheryl says:
Here’s hoping the ‘Skins beat up on the Eagles tonight, cuz that ‘Phins game was sad. I feel for you, Eboy in the heat watching that crap. Can you say “rebuilding”?
Sep.17 at 9:23 am
white hot eboy says:
Cheryl, I think the Dolphins have more rebuilding to do in Miami than the homes that were destroyed in Hurricane Andrew.
Sep.17 at 9:27 am
Hisham says:
Ha! unlike you guys, i’ve already been able to watch bball.. basketball season has already started here.. so i’ve already attended a pro game and a national under 20 game this weekend.. Fun! and i won a stupid umbrella in a halftime shooting contest
Sep.17 at 9:29 am
white hot eboy says:
Hisham, do the players there were clogs?
Sep.17 at 9:31 am
white hot eboy says:
wear
Sep.17 at 9:43 am
Hisham says:
yeah, in fact the Rik Smits Clog Windmill just came out this week.. i just copped a pair.. American players love them!
Sep.17 at 9:43 am
Tariq says:
I’ve been looking forward to this Bolts-Pats game for some time, and now there seems to be some kind of problem with my satellite dish. F*ckin technology.
Sep.17 at 9:45 am
white hot eboy says:
Do you know the score already, H?
Sep.17 at 9:51 am
Hisham says:
to which game, eboy?
Sep.17 at 9:55 am
white hot eboy says:
I meant Tariq. Sorry Hisham. Damm, that can pass as Al-Qaida chatter, if someone didn’t know better.
Sep.17 at 10:00 am
Adrian says:
Speaking of fantasy leagues, why don’t you have a SlamOnline NBA one when the season starts, where all the regulars from here join a league….I’m sure everyone here would like bragging rights…
Sep.17 at 10:12 am
phunkykarma says:
Do you know US born JR Holden in the States ?
Sep.17 at 10:18 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
Jake Appleman and I have been very very very slowly brainstorming on how to have a slamonline fantasy basketball league.
Sep.17 at 10:19 am
white hot eboy says:
Sam, will it coincide with GO’s return next year?
Sep.17 at 11:18 am
H to the izzo says:
Highlight of a very depressing weekend for me was Notre Dame being annihilated
Sep.17 at 11:58 am
Jake Appleman says:
If we do it right, it will be amazing.
Sep.17 at 11:58 am
Russ Bengtson says:
I hear Touchdown Jesus is transferring to BYU.
Sep.17 at 12:35 pm
Noyd says:
Sam, the Mets got swept by the Phils once again. It’s ashame we can’t play you guys every game. I’m fully expecting the Phils to struggle for the rest of the season and to miss the playoffs by the slimmest of margins. Also, J-Roll is a more complete SS in every category(offense and defense). If the Phils make the playoffs, he’s got to get some MVP votes.
Sep.17 at 12:35 pm
Noyd says:
I meant to say that J-Roll is more complete than Reyes.
Sep.17 at 12:38 pm
Tariq says:
Yeah eboy. I actually thought that Bolts-Pats was the MNF game. I always have problems following my favorite sports. I missed most of the GSW playoff run last season, plus most of the NFL season, because I was in England. And now I can’t even watch La Liga because of TV wars. But I understand Randy Moss is finally playing like he can, right?
Sep.17 at 12:42 pm
white hot eboy says:
Tariq, Moss is finally in a structured system where if he act’s like an as*hole, he will be corraled with quickness. So yes, he’s looked good in the two games so far.
Sep.17 at 12:52 pm
peteb80 says:
Kelly Scott totally rules women’s curling. MDE? Maybe.
Sep.17 at 12:56 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
Reyes is still young? Can we keep using that excuse? The Mets like beating up on bad teams. Thankfully they play in the NL where there are a lot of them.
Sep.17 at 2:08 pm
Tarzan Cooper says:
the anaemic offense chiefs are hard to watch. i would crush everyone on slamonline in fantasy basketball.
Sep.17 at 9:50 pm
JB21 says:
I would like in on fantasy basketball, I don’t post much b/c I’m not on too much during the day but I read eryday, check the stats!
Sep.18 at 11:58 am
Blue says:
‘07 Randy Moss = ‘96 Dennis Rodman