Someone Tell The Flyers PR Guy Drinking And Facebook Don't Go Together

This one's going without a comment.

Do San Francisco Schools Teach Math At All These Days?

Uh, sir with the broom, you were attending Game 5 of the NLCS. That means that both teams must have won at least 1 game in the series. Therefore, it is technically impossible for the game to be a sweep.

Now for what the guy was most likely going for, the arbitrary 3-game sweep of the games in San Francisco. It's still just as dumb. Seriously. Talk to any baseball fan. How many people were saying that the Giants fans should bring out the brooms because they have a chance to sweep their home part of the series? I reckon not many. And those that did, well, they are just as dumb as this guy apparently is.

The Latest Act Of Fan Hooliganism Not From Philadelphia

Seeing as this is the Christmas season, I shall ask, which is the more grinchier of actions? Booing a really bad, poorly costumed, ill-prepared Santa Claus when your team sucks or throwing foam fingers and water bottles on the court because you are not happy with the officiating in the game? We all know about the former incident, but check out LA fans engaging in the latter last night.



And that my friends, is a microcosm of the Los Angeles fan base. One person thinks a team is cool, and suddenly the entire city jumps on the bandwagon., One drunken idiot thinks it is a good idea to throw foam fingers on the court, and the entire arena follows suit. Simply pathetic.

Giants Fans Do Not Appreciate DeSean Jackson Walking Backwards Into The Endzone

First off, what a game that was last night. Certainly one of the most entertaining 3 and a half hours of regular season football that you could watch no matter who you are.

Mike Vick is finally starting to have a positive impact on the field in this Eagles offense (surely much to the chagrin of the 1 fan out of thousands is sticking to their threatened boycott of the Eagles after the signing), and DeSean Jackson is a mother fucking beast. He seriously has more than take over the role of Brian Dawkins as my favorite Eagle. The guy is just awesome and last night, he proved once again why Brent Musburger deemed him the "Wizard of Returns".

Aspeaking of DeSean Jackson, there was an incident last night and I am not talking about his 2 spectaular touchdowns. Well, actually, yes, I'm talking about the one, but not because of anything he did. Rich Hoffman of the Philadelphia Daily News made a rather interesting observation following his 60-yard TD catch in the game.

With outrageous protection from the offensive line, McNabb waited and waited and watched Jackson run completely clear. The 60-yard touchdown was accomplished with Jackson running effortlessly (and backward) into the end zone. There, he did a "Riverdance" kind of thing as celebration and was greeted by two launched beer bottles from the stands in reply.

Again, this is not to say that Philly sports fans are perfect angels, but if this was a Philly fan that did this to Hakeem Nicks or Mario Manningham, it's a national headline and the New York Post will cry of our foul depravity. Oh wait, they do that anyways.

Regardless, do you get my point? Granted maybe there has not been enough time for this story to develop, but why is this not gaining the national attention it would if it were an Eagles fan throwing a bottle at Nicks? It's the point I've been making all along, Philly being a sports hooligan town is only perceived that way because of the past reputation from booing Santa and cheering an unconscious Irvin that whenever an incident occurs at a Philly game, there is a national outcry along with national headlines, yet, when shit like this happens elsewhere, it just gets buried in a blurb in a Philly article summarizing the game. Don't take me out of context here, I'm not saying shit does not happen in Philly games, I'm just saying it happens elsewhere and people only care when it is occuring at Philly games.

Here is the video of the TD, and I type this from a lab with a horrible screen so I can't make out much of anything, other than a guy in a white shirt catches some brown thing and scores a touchdown and Al Michaels uses the term "street ball", but here it is anyway for your enjoyment.



Enough of my soapbox rant and now onto more videos of this great game.

The highlights of the game featuring the great Merrill Reese calling the big Eagles play, including the touchdown from above, Jackson's big punt return, and another Vick TD.



Remember the last time the Eagles played the Giants and DeSean Jackson tried to bump Andy Reid? Yeah, the result of that is now my Blogger profile pic. Well, they tried it again this week and here is how it went down.



DJax is my hero. End of story.

Scott Niedermayer's Stick Causes Fights

Having been to many a hockey game in my life, I can say that it is always a good time to see who gets named the star of the game and then seeing that player skate on the ice for a few seconds and wave to everyone. That being said, never in my life did I think that anything could ever go horribly wrong with it. Well, it turns out I'm wrong. Last night, after being named the star of the game, the classy veteran captain of the Anaheim Ducks, Scott Neidermayer thought it would be a good idea to and his hockey stick to a little girl in the audience. Good idea, terrible execution. Watch as the little girl does not exactly get the stick, but rather, 2 guys who, with the aid of lots of alcohol, channel their inner hockey player and get into a fight over the stick.



Good times! You gotta love Neidermayer's reaction to the whole thing as well. Helpless to do anything, he stood there and saw the whole thing.

In fact, during an interview, he was even asked a question about the sudden instabrawl that broke out.



Somehow I don't think that little girl will ever get that stick. What a shame as it was a really nice and classy gesture from Neidermayer that just went horribly and yet, very hilariously awry.

VIDEO: Fight breaks out over Neidermayer's stick (SB Nation)

Epic Fail Rioting: 2009 NLCS Championship Edition

I never understood the fun of a shitload of drunks going out in the street after a championship and rioting and doing supremely stupid stuff that could get them arrested and/or them or somebody else killed, but that happens all the time in every city after a championship and when it fails, it's a riot in it of itself. For example, these 2 videos from last night. There's something to be said about the idiocy of a guy who humps a tree, a guy who pole dances on a traffic light, and the uber-moron who thinks that it is a good idea to jump on a taxi cab as it is stopped at a red light. Check out these two videos from The Fightins.





Too funny! If ever the tag "stupid things stupid people do when they are stupidly drunk" applied directly to a situation, it's here and now.

If I come across any more, I'll be sure to add them in this post.

If You Can't Win Game 2, You Might As Well Make Fun Of A Dodgers Fan From Game 1

As you all know from my vlogs, I have glasses. I've had them since I was in elementary school. And as you can imagine, I have had more than my fair share of embarassing instances with them falling off, getting lost, and so on and so forth. But lucky for me, at least none of that occured on national TV like it did for this Dodgers fan. Thanks to The Fightins for finding this hilarious video.



LOL!

Then again, I imagine that that was a good thing for him as I presume he would have rather NOT seen that Ibanez 3-run homerun off of George Sherill.

Rule #1 Of World Series Ring Heists: Do The Opposite Of Everything This Guy Did

Oy ve. I can't.......I don't even know where to begin with this.

There are a bunch of dumb criminals in this world. And then there is this guy who tried to steal 3 World Series rings and well, I'll just say How To Steal A World Series Ring 101 would have been quite a useful course for this guy. Via Big League Stew

A Phillies fan has been charged with stealing three 2008 World Series rings from a Citizens Bank Park office during Thursday's Game 2 loss to the Rockies.

According to Philadelphia police, 22-year-old Matthew Mervine attended the game dressed as a masked "Rockies Killer" — the Philadelphia Inquirer actually took a picture of him — and was ejected by security officials during the game for acting too rowdy.

But instead of heading home, Mervine allegedly stole three World Series rings — valued at about $1,100 apiece — from a ballpark office. Police say they know this because a security camera caught him in the act shortly after he filled out a job application to work at the park.

Also filed as evidence? The job application Mervine left behind, complete with all of his contact information. Whoops!

Police say they later recovered the rings — which were made for team employees and cost substantially less than the $11K versions given to players — at Mervine's home. There's no word on whether he was still wearing the "Rockies Killer" mask when arrested (though I have a strong suspicion and hope that he was).

Nothing cracks me up more than a great dumb criminal story and boy oh boy, I'm pretty sure that this one has to be one of the best we've seen in baseball in quite some time. I mean good grief, could he have made it any easier for him to be found? Actually, the only thing he did not do was wear a shirt that says "I'm About To Steal World Series Rings Arrest Me Now Please!"

Oh, and I'd be willing to pay upwards of a million dollars* for that mug shot with him wearing the Rockies killer mask.

*slight exaggeration

/RJBO'd.

It Gives Me No Pleasure In Telling You Guys This....

....but the internet in all of the dorms across Bloomsburg University is down. The internet was lost at around 1 in the morning last night and has been down ever since. Right now, I have found a working lab with the internet, however, until the problem has been fixed, I don't know what to tell you other than I obviously won't be live blogging anything as there is no TV in the lab and I don't get internet on my cell phone. Now the problem could be fixed in a couple hours, or in a week. If you think that the latter option sounds utterly crazy, last year in September the internet was down for a week, so it's a good possibility that by no fault of my own, I won't be around next week for the Pammies, 49er16's open thread, and the live blog. They claim that they are working on the problem, but I just talked to my CA (most of you know them better as RAs), and he said that that is code for "oh shit, we have a massive problem".

All I know I have told you above and while I might be able to get on these university computers once or twice a day (tomorrow I have about 10,000 committments so I probably won't be doing much blogging until late at night at best regardless of internet or not). Until then, and knowing the people that we are dealing with, I would assume the worst and hope for the best. I'd like to say I will be around this weekend, but if my CA is even remotely close to the size of the problem, then the answer is most likely a whopping hell no as to whether I'll be live blogging this weekend.

Thanks for your continued patronage and I'll have a post up when all is well in the dorms. Until then, enjoy this video of a (most likely) drunk fan climbing the goal posts at a CFL game (hat tip to kt1000).

It's Douche Bags Like This That Give Philly Fans A Bad Rep

It is true with just about every team these days have their people, if you will. You know, the overly obnoxious fans who do something extremely stupid during the course of the game to make everyone else that give the entire team's fanbase a bad reputation for a few days. But when something like this happens with a Philly fan, a city known for that is constantly berated for it's allegedly rude fans, and the act is one of the most egregious things a fan has ever done in a game, you know what is going to happen next. Prepare for a media firestorm in 3....2....1....Via NBC Philadelphia

A laser pointer was the weapon of choice for one Phils fan at Saturday's game.

A fan at the Cards/Phillies game used a strategically placed laser pointer to try and distract the St. Louis hitters.

In the top of the seventh inning the fan first used it on Julio Lugo, who eventually struck out.

Then the fan tried to distract Albert Pujols before umpire Jim Wolf called time and tried to find the fan. Security went to the section but the culprit was never caught, according to ESPN.

Once the pointing stopped Pujols responded by knocking a single off Chan Ho Park.

It was just the latest classless move made by a Philly fan that will surely be met by a firestorm of criticism. This moment will be lumped in there with booing Santa Claus, throwing snowballs on the field and the infamous Eagles court.

Just imagine the field day Joe Buck would have had complaining about Philly fans if he was broadcasting the game.

+1 to Dan Stamm, the author of that NBC Philadelphia article, for that last line.

But seriously, I'm not lying or being sarcastic in any way when I say that it is douche bags like this that give Philly fans a bad reputation. When some (undoubtedly) drunken fan shines a laser in the eyes of Julio Lugo and Albert Pujols, it casts a cloud over every single Philly fan which is not right and is not fair but it is what is done. Find some sports forums or blogs with a post on this and see the generalizations that some people make about every person that goes to a Philly game. And okay, so the people near them could have done a better job at seeing what was going on and pointing out the person who was doing it, but there is a chance that the person was doing it from afar by the concourse level. That still does not make every person that goes to a Phillies game a thug.

Every team has stupid drunken idiot fans who occasionally get out of line and do something. Deny it all you want that your precious team has rowdy, out of line fans who occasionally cross the line, but it's a damn fact. To me, it's just sad when one Philly idiot does something extremely stupid and dangerous and every Philly fan gets put in a bad light over what some idiot who had way too much to drink did. It's at this point where I would say I hope they catch them, but it's only going to gain the idiot fame, noteriety, and an appearance on some late night talk show, all things that douche bags like that do not deserve. So to that extent, I hope he forever remains anonymous.

Update: Here's 2 YouTube videos of the incident. The first one is a replay of the laser on Julio Lugo and the 2nd one is a replay of the laser on Pujols.

This Mets Fan Had A Really Crappy Night

Emphasis on the word crappy, without a doubt. Last night, a woman at CitiField lost a tooth in the pooper and her hand got stuck in a shithole. No, really. That's exactly what happened! Via the New York Post.

A hapless Mets fan tried to make a diving catch when her gold tooth fell into a Citi Field toilet -- and got her arm stuck in the commode.

The unidentified woman's bizarre Flushing adventure happened during last Wednesday's game against the Atlanta Braves, sources said yesterday.

It's unclear how long she was trapped screaming in the john, but stadium security guards and emergency medical personnel eventually showed up.

But they could not pry her loose on their own.

They called for back-up -- dialing up a worker from Cardoza Plumbing, the company that installed all 646 ultra-low-flow toilets at Citi Field.

He rushed to the scene from his company's Jamaica headquarters 7.2 miles away, the sources said.

The anxious victim, meanwhile, could only wait as the toilet continued to flush over her arm.

At one point, she became more entertaining than the game -- which the Mets lost 8-7 -- as fans gathered outside the bathroom near Section 338 to see the off-field action.

It's unclear if the toilet had to be destroyed to free her.

The woman did not recover her tooth, but was plenty relieved just to leave the bathroom.

And sorry folks, but there is no truth to the rumor that her tooth was located in Flushing Meadows Park.

Just Another Reason Why The Nickname "Shitty Field" Fits The Mets New Stadium

Keith's Sports Journal has been on top of everything today, including getting this hilarious video of a rather bare and revealing moment at Citi Field Tuesday night. Presumably they were in between innings (or junk time, as you might want to call it) when all of a sudden, a rather unwanted and uninvited guest showed up on the field and started strutting his stuff. Here's the video and folks, he's off like a bulb of gas.....



AND THE STREAKER IS SAFE AT 2ND!!! ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE, FOLKS!

But alas, it can now be officially said. The Mets are indeed the ass of baseball.

Chris Jericho Takes WWE To A Whole New Level

Before I stopped watching WWE last spring, I had followed it religiously for over 10 years (I just got sick of it and stopped watching). And thus speaking as someone who knows quite about WWE, I have never seen anything like this happen before. As we all know, wrestlers' personalities are not what they are on camera. Some of them, even the heels (a.k.a. the bad guys), are supposedly the nicest people you could ever meet. Others, such as Randy Orton, are reportedly complete douche bags outside of the ring. And then there's Chris Benoit who took steroids and went crazy. However, what's surprising about the following video is that I never saw Chris Jericho being involved in something like this.



In defense of Chris Jericho though, he was provoked and the security did jack-shit to help him. I think that they actually may have been protoges of Paul Blart. Anyway, the good news is no one was severely hurt that I know of and as soon as he was physically able to, Chris Jericho got the heck out of there.

Stay classy, WWE Fans and Chris Jericho.
Stay on the valium, WWE security in Vancouver.

Donovan McNabb's Off-Season Home Looks A Little Different Right About Now

For those that don't know, Donovan McNabb makes his off-season home in the desert in Arizona, where he often spends his time working out with his receivers. Well apparently, a couple of crazed Cardinal fans got a hold of this information. From the Philly Inquirer

"Police arrested two Arizona Cardinals fans who they say burned messages in the front lawn of Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb's home in Chandler, Ariz., a day before the NFC championship game.

Police tracked down the pair after they discovered a sticker containing the home address of one of the men on a cardboard sign left in McNabb's yard.

Rex Michael Perkins, 37, of Chandler, and Ryan Hanlon, 29, of Gilbert, were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage Sunday after police questioned Perkins about the sign that said: "Go Cards" on one side and "Beat Philly" on the other, Chandler police said.

Perkins and Hanlon also are accused of pouring diesel fuel in McNabb's yard to read: "Go Kurt," and "Go Cards," causing an estimated $2,000 in damage, Chandler police Sgt. Joe Favazzo said.

I like how they did it before the actually game.....yeah, this would have been so much more hilarious if the Eagles won. McNabb took the whole thing in stride and apparently the two morons did it as a prank. Prank or not, this is what is most sane people call vandalism. Enjoy your stay in the pokey, and oh yeah, stay classy!

2 Held After Damage to McNabb's Lawn (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Mesa Tribune East Valley Tribune Has More On These Two Idiots (East Valley Tribune)

Today is a Historic Day

Today is one of those days that no matter who you are, where you are from, or what your political ideology is, you will never forget.

When Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America at noon, this country will never be the same again. I realize that while I am a product of the presidency of Bush XLI, I am currently majoring in history and while I did not experience the turbulent times of the civil rights period, to the greatest extent that one possibly can without living through the period, I understand what this day means to our country, and to the world.

I won't bore you by repeating all of the rhetoric surrounding today's historic events, but it is about time someone responsible is in the White House. As Al Michaels allegedly said (and when I say allegedly, I mean, Wikipedia says he said it), "The adults are back in charge". Of course, Al's quote was back in 2000 when Bush XLIII was elected. But aside from being a failure in all other ventures of his life (i.e. he was at-best in average student - he spent most of his days college days partying and doing drugs and alcohol, he failed in all of his prior business ventures before becoming president....and actually he failed in that as well), he single-handedly plundered more money from the U.S. Treasury than any president has in history, he also has authorized the use of waterboarding (which is torture, and that is something that either in the comments section or in another forum I am willing to debate with someone at any moment at any time, just a warning though, you will not win). I've read several lunatic-fringe right wing blogs (a. for the hilarity and b. because I do like to read up on the opposing viewpoint), and they like to blame Clinton for the 9/11 and the current mess our country is in. As someone who is a history major and someone who several relatives well-versed in history, I can tell you with all certainty that in 50 years or so, Bill Clinton will be judged as a great president, while as Bush XLIII will be known as one of, if not the worst president ever.

Which is what makes today's events all the more memorable. Not only is this a time of re-birth from the current hole Bush XLIII got us in, but it is also a re-birth of a nation that for centuries forced blacks into slavery. And now. January 20, 2008, that same black man is about to be president of the United States of America. And there are those that say, well, Obama is not a real black, he's half-white and half-black. And that is true. His mother was white. But throughout the course of history, if you even had a great-grandparent who was a man of color, you were considered black and were discriminated against and denied your rights.

So let's sit back, relax, and enjoy the inauguration of now-President-elect, soon to become President Barack Obama. I'll have the video up later in the day.

Giants Fans Are A Tadbit Upset That The Eagles Beat Them.

Great find by Awful Announcing and The 700 Level. Apparently a few Giants fans are a bit miffed that their team lost angry to the point of insanity that the Eagles whooped their asses (again) in the Meadowlands. I've heard some stories of drunk fans after some games but this one takes the cake. I'll let the videos do the talking. All I'll say is that idiocy knows no limits.




Way to break your leg and make yourself look like a complete idiot in the process. And if you thought that was insane, check this out.



Good times.......gooooood times in New York East Rutherford. You stay classy, Giants fans!

Giants Fans Took The Playoff Loss Well (Awful Announcing)
More Drunk Giants Fans, Now With More Drunk Destruction (The 700 Level)

Update: Game 2 of the Fantasy World Series is below. I started the thread before this one, which I guess explains it, even though I just published it...