• 100% INJURY RATE scratches up some frightening photos of the Lakers’ Sasha Vujacic getting mauled by a California Cougar.
She was probably just enraptured by Sasha’s song.
• In honor of his recent Ron Burgundy episode, THE WORLD OF ISAAC looks back on Charles Barkley’s most memorable TNT moments.
• Michael David Smith of AOL FANHOUSE wonders if mainstream bloggers like MJD of YAHOO SPORTS should be held to the same blogosphere contempt as the mainstream media.
• BABES LOVE BASEBALL break out their Voodoo Sabermetrics again, this time to analyze bungling Barry Zito.
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After demoting the $126 million man to the bullpen a whole week ago, Barry Zito found himself back on the rubber in the bottom of the first in Pittsburgh last night: a putative starter for a putrid team yet again.
He managed mediocrity, taking nearly 100 pitches to eke out five innings of two-run ball against the Pirates. Unfortunately, that pathetic Giants offense only scored once. Giants lose.
(Bruce Bochy Business Success Tool (assumed))
The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE notes mechanical changes and mental focus and miscellaneous other unlikely and/or unprovable nonsense. Barry Zito is who he is. Now the question is: who the hell does Bruce Bochy think he is?
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• Darren Rovell of CNBC cashes in on the story of how your new NBA MVP Kobe Bryant got his marketing groove back.
• The CHICAGO SUN-TIMES reports that Bud Selig probably won’t let the air out of the White Sox’s clubhouse blow-up dolls.
• AOL FANHOUSE wonders why Barack Obama’s basketball skills aren’t helping him with voters in hoops-mad Indiana.
• Neil Best of NEW YORK NEWSDAY hears Big Apple radio host Michael Kay criticizing Joe Torre for still being in contact with Yankee players.
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• YAHOO’s BALL DON’T LIE has the poop on Denver’ mascot finding some relief before the Nuggets got flushed by the Lakers.
• EMPTY THE BENCH teases us with some classic commercials of Pistol Pete Maravich displaying his fine b-ball skills and even finer hair.
• BABES LOVE BASEBALL brings up some broads (and a bud) that could help Barry Zito break his slump.
• SPORTS TSAR bounces over word that the NBA’s official website has already acknowledged Kobe Bryant as the 2008 MVP.
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For San Francisco Giants fans, the phrase “buyer beware” certainly could have braced them for the 0-5 start Barry Zito has thrust upon the bay. But whether or not he wins 20 or loses 20, Zito — like every other non-commission based lunchpail worker — gets paid the same. Which raises the question: how many more garlic fries could Zito buy than you?
(It’s a simple question. A baby could answer it.)
Thankfully the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE has come up with this handy Zito to fries conversion chart. You simply enter in your salary, and it tells you how many years it’d take you to work at that base salary to earn the $14.5 million that Zito will collect this year. Read more…
For those of you who think the San Francisco Giants are rapidly in danger of becoming a perennial also-ran, think again! Chris Haft of MLB.com reports that the club’s starting pitchers have hatched a plan to reclaim respectability in the National League West.
The starters intend to wear stirrup socks, a staple of bygone eras, as a demonstration of solidarity amongst themselves. Noah Lowry and Tim Lincecum displayed the look Friday while throwing off bullpen mounds. The pitchers’ sartorial expression is consistent with the refreshed clubhouse atmosphere the Giants insist will prevail this year — thus enhancing, they believe, their on-field cohesion. Read more…
