Super Links: Blogging Week in Review: Around the Blogosphere

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Max

Some Many links and a (hopefully) full weekend of very late post-game analysis.

Phillies Signings

Here’s a complete recap of how much the Phillies are paying this season.

Future Phillies?

Coaching Carousel

“‘Round and ’round the carousel goes

On who it will stop, nobody knows

Will it be Reid or his former student Brad?

If Herm doesn’t go, I’ll be mad”


As long as the “Carousel of Unemployment” in the National Football League continues to spin, I will never be mad.

Here’s your Unemployment Update in the None un–Fired League, in Google Documents form.

Quick takes about the Carousel…

  • My Herm Edwards slogan: “He plays to win the game… and fails every time.”
  • If “The Flabbergasted Four” used to consist of Herm, Cromeo, Fat Andy, and Brad, but Herm and Cromeo got fired and Marvin Lewis is as close to a given as there is to represent AFC North, then who takes the final spot? If I was a betting man, I’d find a bookie who allows you to place bets on sports on the Internet and put money on Dick Jauron or Norv Turner. That would be a great idea, though. For example, instead of “Who will win the NFC Championship Game: Eagles or Cardinals?” why not “Who will win the Deadspin Civil War: Will Leitch or A.J. Daulerio?” (Outcomes here and here) Come on, Bill! As Sports Czar, you need to get on this.

Week in Deadspin recap
Tuesday: Blogs making inaugurations sports-y
Tuesday: Minnesotans(?) are allegedly pretty… and not humble
Tuesday: Richard Daley, Chicago mayor, wants as many NFL teams as Philadelphia/Washington D.C. area, more terrible
Before I move on to Wednesday, let me first quote Mr. Daley:

“We should have a second NFL team in Chicago. If San Francisco has two, New York has two, Florida has three teams … and when you take Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, they have three teams there in that region, we could easily support a second pro football team,”

And now Deadspin’s Dashiell Bennett in response to Mr. Daley:

“Interesting theory. OR! Perhaps Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia can support three football teams because they are actually three distinct cities. Shocking, but true! At last I checked, the Chicagoland area is just slightly smaller than the state of Florida. Plus, East St. Louis is in your state, so it’s practically like you own the Rams anyway.”

Exactly what I thought as I read the quote.
Tuesday: Arizona Diammodbacks fire bobcat mascot who is not a snake.
Wednesday: Papelbon is Bonds! Bonds is Papelbon! Papelbon is black! Papelbon did ‘roids! Oh, my god! Papelbon did ‘roids! (2 separate links)
Wednesday: Holy crap! More ‘roids news! “Today on Family Feud, it’s the Bushes and the Clemenses! Then, in a special second episode, it’s the McGwires and the McGwires! No, I’m sorry. That’s Family Court.”
Thursday: A Texas Christian school’s girls basketball team wins. Big. By 100. Without giving up any points. Against a team with 8 girls. From a school of 20 girls. With “learning differences”.
Thursday: Note to self: The next time I send Jay Mariotti a letter, or hate mail, or maybe even a birthday e-mail, I probably shouldn’t expect his response for at least 4-5 months. I should also probably expect his response to be hate-filled.
Thursday: Super Bowl Betting Sub-plots!!! I’ll take the over this one: “o/u 3.5 on blown calls by refs”
Thursday: Seriously? A reality show to find the next Dallas Cowboy? Hosted by Michael Irvin? And it’s on SpikeTV? And they’re only trying out wide receivers and defensive backs? Oh, my god, I already love this show.
Thursday: McGwire family updates: Book excepts, ex-fiancee corroborations, and family reunions. (Okay, that last one was sarcastic.)
Thursday: The reason anyone would watch the NHL All-Star Game isn’t playing. Why I’m reporting hockey, I don’t know.
Friday: You need to see this picture:
Friday: FAU basketball coach, Mike Jarvis, receives four straight technical fouls, police escort out of building. Porn star Mary Carey attends game. In unrelated news, porn star Ron Jeremy still attends Orlando Magic games.
Friday: Giants receiver shot. Wait, that isn’t news! Oh, it wasn’t his fault. But seriously, they’re falling like flies! Or Spinal Tap drummers!
Friday: I must admit, when I started this blog, I didn’t expect to be linking to John Rocker news. But I always said to myself, in the back of my mind, “John Rocker needs to do something stupid.” I am so glad he did.
Friday: Rapid Rocker response!
Friday: I’m sorry, but I have to mention this again: HERM WAS FIRED! HERM WAS FIRED! RIOT IN THE STREETS!

The 700 Level
Monday: McNabb’s Arizona house vandalized by a**hole Cardinals fans
Tuesday: Analyzing Upcoming Eagles Offseason: Quarterback. I start as many words with vowels as possible.
Tuesday: Name Philly’s new soccer team! Choices: SC Philadelphia, AC Philadelphia, Philadelphia City, and Philadelphia Union. Please don’t pick all of them.
Wednesday: A**hole Cardinals fans caught
Wednesday: Analyzing Upcoming Eagles Offseason: Running Back
Thursday: Analyzing Upcoming Eagles Offseason: Wide Receivers/Tight Ends
Thursday: Daniel Briere to miss 2 weeks. No, now 4. Oh, god, I’m reporting hockey again. I just posted a soccer link. What has the world come to?
Thursday: I’m so sorry, but more hockey. But Antero Nittymaki now owns the Atlanta Thrashers.
Thursday: Now we can boo Freddy Garcia, and hate him!
Friday: Another reason I’m excitedly awaiting pitchers and catchers reporting (19 days, 23 hours): To see Todd Zolecki at mlb.com as their Phillies beat writer, and to see who inherits the Phillies Zone. (Reported via the700level through thefightins.com. Still haven’t seen Todd actually address on his blog.)
Friday: Sixers (may) go old school (according to something a blog is reporting someone told someone else)

Miscellaneous
Kay Yow dies of breast cancer at 66. Sixth all-time among Division I women’s basketball coaches with 737 career victories.
USC wins 46-44 over Washington State. Why do I know this? I took USC in ESPN’s Streak for the Cash. What can you take out of this game? Both defenses are good, both offenses suck. Do I have any crazy stats from the game? Of course. Come on, the couldn’t score 100 together! There will always be ridiculous stats when that happens.
Game high scorer: Klay Thompson, Wash St., 15
USC’s assist leaders: Taj Gibson, Keith Wilkinson, Daniel Hackett, Marcus Johnson, all 1 (yes, that means they had 4 assists as a team)
USC bench minutes: 28
USC bench points: 7
Wash St. bench minutes: 53
Wash St. bench points: 5
USC FG%: 35.1% (13-37)
Wash St. FG%: 27.5% (14-51)
Combined FG%: 30.7% (27-88)
Score at halftime: 19-18, Wash St.

Update: A few things I forgot real quick, 2 from the Mag.
1. Rick Reilly wrote an interesting piece on Larry Fitzgerald, Sr. covering Junior in the Super Bowl, plus it has a Life of Reilly video on the Cowboys and Yankees! If I knew how to embed videos from the internet here, I would, but… I have no idea.
2. You know who also has an ESPN the Mag article? Some guy by the name of Weezy. His nickname is Weezy. I don’t know what Weezy is. Oh, wait. It’s just “Lil’ Wayne”. That’s kind of weird, isn’t it? A rapper with a blog in a sports magazine? That would be like Mort or Peter Gammons talking about a rap album. And the other weird part? A rapper with a nickname for his nickname?
3. Mike Shanahan has no intentions to coach in the 2009 season. But did he have any intentions of calling a play that included Tatum Bell this past season? And not only, is Shanahan not coaching, he’s not even coaching the Chiefs! “But hey, Herm Edwards is available!”
4. Former Deadspin comment guru and writer of their “Comment Ombudsman” column, stepping down just two months ago yesterday, celebrated a birthday yesterday. I don’t know if this is news or not, but other bloggers seem to be all over it.
Okay, kids, those are your Super Links for the week of Jan 19-Jan 25. Look forward to very delayed post-game playoff analysis, but don’t expect it. I very well may have had enough after this 1,369-word marathon.

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