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Jim Joyce Blows Up the Internet, Featuring @cdouglasroberts
Written by ScottiePP7 on June 3, 2010 – 11:25 AM -Last night Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers threw a perfect game. It won’t count in the record books as a perfect game because an umpire names Jim Joyce blew a call at first base. Instant replay could have fixed this issue, but instant replay isn’t allowed in baseball.
For a quick comparison, I missed this. I was watching the Stanley Cup Finals, a game that saw two great uses of replay to ensure the puck crossed the goal line and make sure the game was called fairly.
Naturally the twitter world went nuts:
Check out the twit pic here, it shows just how bad the call was:
Cato June provides a glimpse into the future where Armando discusses this event:
(if you don’t know who Katt Stakcs is, do some Google research – she is crazy)
The Kanye West meme comes back:
Chris
Dougey-Roberts really owns this topic and claims to have come up with the trending topic himself, here are some highlights:
You are asking what Clay Matthews had to say about this? He was… busy
Tags: Armando Galarraga, Cato June, Chris Dougey-Roberts, Jim Joyce, Kanye West
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@JoseCanseco Puts The Finger Wag into an Existential Crisis
Written by Wille Beamen on May 26, 2010 – 7:52 PM -Here’s what we do at The Finger Wag… We make fun of athletes. They usual don’t deserve it. Though sometimes they do.
We certainly add no value to the world. We just leach of their fame and try to get a few page views with a snarky comment.
Then we get fodder like this…
That’s Wagging Gold!!
Or so I thought. Within a few minutes I thought to myself, “Why do we actually hate Jose Canseco?”
It’s true. He performed what was truly a valuable service. Everything he said ended up being true. It basically beat Bud Selig into cleaning up the game.
And truth be told, he’s probably going to keep a few kids of steroids. And that’s a good thing.
So I decided to highlight Jose’s tweet as true. And ask the question to you, why do we hate him?
But I didn’t get further than the background on his Twitter page until I realized exactly why people hate him.
Here’s the background…
Then it all came flooding back to me…
The celebrity boxing.
This unfortunate scene from the Surreal Life.
Baseball promos like this (though it probably wasn’t totally his fault. Managers and PR people can get celebrities to do the strangest things).
His odd fashion sense.
And finally his circus-MMA fight against novelty fighter Choi Hong-man.
I think he was on the Celebrity Apprentice too, but no one watches that anymore.
So I’m not trying to pile on Jose here. Because here is the important thing…
He actually did, in his own way, a helluva lot of good for baseball and sports. People like to think that cleaning up steroids in the game is one of those things “that would have happened eventually.”
I disagree. You needed a whistleblower. And you needed one with some credibility.
It’s true. Jose probably did it to sell some books. That motive is as clear as his finest sheer movie-premiere attire.
But sportswriters could scream until they were blue in the face. Until a player, in those clubhouses–who was there while players used steriods– came forward, nothing was going to change.
So I, for one, thank Jose for his bravery and capitalism.
Now we just need a test for HGH and a colorful NFL character to clean up that sport. My pick: Steelers kicker Jeff Reed.
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Random Athlete Tweet of the Day
Written by Wille Beamen on September 16, 2009 – 2:38 PM -
That’s C.J. Wilson, relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers.
All I can say is I have no idea what exactly this means. But I feel like I agree with it.
Also, I’m getting the fail whale on Twitter right now. Remember when MySpace thought they could have horrible service and people would keep coming back? That’s a topic for another day, I suppose.
We’ll try and hit you with a nice mix of short posts coupled with longer diatribes with ScottiePP7 confessing what a b-ball nerd he was in middle school. So keep your eye out for some more random athlete tweets… which is the true beauty of Twitter in the first place, isn’t it?
And a bonus one for the road…
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Tags: Athlete, C.J. Wilson, Fail Whale, Random, Trent Shelton, Tweet
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