The Drubbing

The WWE is about as popular as the MLS, and the people that run it are about as big of whiners as the Lakers or Spurs. The bumbling idiots that manage the Pepsi Center in Denver, home of the Denver Nuggets, were foolish enough to schedule a WWE event on the same night as a potential NBA playoff home game. Instead of taking it like a man, trying to reschedule for another day or rearrange the time of the event, the chairperson of the WWE, Vince McMahon, decided to throw a public tantrum and cry like the little woman that he is.
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I want you, not the guy next to you, you. Stop acting like one of the Night at the Roxbury guys and get out here

Near the end of my last column on the pitchers I have been tracking since before the season, I wrote the following about Ramon Troncoso:

“In the article before the season, I said that Ramon’s worst enemy was Joe Torre. I worried that he might blow out his arm. Currently, he has pitched 53 innings in 82 Dodger games. That’s on pace for more than 100 innings. Here is my prediction: Either Troncoso gets injured in August or he gives up a devastating hit in the Division Series because his arm is shot. Write it down, its a lock.”

After writing that, I got to thinking about whether or not Joe Torre was bad on relief pitchers. Everyone seems to say that he is, and as you know all to well now, once I start thinking about something I have to know if it is true. So, once again, lets start with an explanation, show you a chart, and then talk about what it might mean.
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The festivities outside Toronto's Rogers Centre

Saturday, June 6th Rodney, Nate and myself all took in a Blue Jays vs. Royals game at the lovely Rogers Centre (formerly the SkyDome).  Yes, that is Centre with an “re” not an “er”.  Let me first say that for the most part, Canadians are very nice.  Throw in a french accent and its downright joyful to talk to the locals.  The stadium itself is right downtown near the lake.  There were a lot of festivities going on outside, and since the weather was in the mid 80′s and sunny, we got to enjoy the dome roof being open.  All and all a great day to catch a game (would have been better if we were not so hung over, but that is for another post).

The stadium itself is very nice, and extremely clean.  Since the Royals and Jays do not exactly have a huge following we were able to get tickets the day of, and sat about 20 rows directly back of home plate.  Good times all around.  I purchased an old school Blue Jays hat to add to my collection of hats from stadiums visited (its up to 9 stadiums and 8 hats.  Sorry old Yankee stadium, i think an NYY hat will burn in my hands if i purchase it) and we then hit up the food vendors.
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Recent weeks haven’t been kind to the celbrity ranks. There was Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Steve McNair and most recently Walter Cronkite. Last week boxing lost one of it’s own, Arturo “Thunder” Gatti. Aside from a brief mention on SportsCenter and the replay of some of his matches on ESPN Classic, it appeared that despite the odd circumstances of his passing, the death of Arturo Gatti went largely unnoticed. Much of the sports world was steel reeling from the untimely death of Steve McNair. And the average sports fan may have never heard of Arturo Gatti.
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Weekly poll recap:

What is your favorite fantasy sport to play?

60% of you liked Fantasy Football, while baseball and basketball each got 20%.

Now on to the links:

If a WNBA player gets a DUI, and no one pays attention to the league does it still matter?  Also, what is “extreme DUI” ?

Hey Kobe, besides no meaning no, what will never happen at one of your camps?

Go ahead, make your jokes, Mr. Jokey… Joke-maker. But let me hit you with some knowledge. Quit now. Save yourself the embarrassment of losing with these losers in Las Vegas, La Fleur.

Looks like Antoine Walker’s 3point shot wasn’t the only thing that is suspect.

Your Weekly Chuck Norris Fact:

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* Please note that Chuck Norris is in no way affiliated with The Drubbing or its writers. If he did find out we were using his name in a gimmick he would roundhouse kick all of us to death.

A couple of weeks ago, I looked back at the article I wrote about last year’s rookie hitters. So for today’s treat, we’ll check in with those rookie pitcher’s from last year that I previewed before the year. If you missed last year’s article, you can find it here. So without further ado, here we go first with the chart I included in the first article, followed by the chart showing this year’s stats:
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While most people either took a night off from sports, or watched the Home Run Derby on mute (Berman, Morgan, McCarver, Buck…yikes a quad of annoyance).  I DVR’ed the derby and strolled down a few blocks from my Chicago condo to see a new Gatorade commercial.  It was actually pretty cool.  The setting is an old run down basketball court underneath the El tracks (that is the elevated train tracks to you non-Chicago-ans).  There were about a thousand Gatorade bottles arranged to display Michael Jordan doing his split legged dunk.  They used different flavored bottles to project a different color.  When a train passed from overhead, the producers got the crowd clapping and cheering, as the crew that assembled the picture jumped up and down and congratulated each other.

See the attached pictures below which i captured with my iPhone.  They lit up the lights when the train passed by, which really made the outline of MJ pop out:

The cycling world, and those following the action to see what Lance Armstrong does, have been treated to some great racing through the first eight stages of this years Tour de France. Armstrong riding with team Astana is currently in third place after stage 8 which concluded today in Saint Girons in Southern France. Armstrong’s rival, and teammate, Alberto Contador is two seconds ahead in second place.
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Weekly poll recap:

Given the chance which race would you participate in?

80% said the Sausage race, 20% the Triatholon, and the Boston Marathon got zero love.

Now on to the links:

This is BIG news, regarding the World Cup.  But what i want to know is, who at the AP did the numeric write-up? We got dollars per hr, week and month all compared to each other as well as a wage increase of 13% compared to a 65%.

Last weekend was the anniversary of one of the greatest baseball speeches ever.  The original iron man.

One of the Drubbing’s favorite Eastern European tennis players has undergone some reduction surgery.  To quote Seth from Superbad, “That’s like slapping God across the face for giving you a beautiful gift.”

Anthony Kim hits a 1 and a million shot.

Vote for Pablo.  Not just because he is on my fantasy baseball team, but its a great video.

Your Weekly Chuck Norris Fact:

Chuck Norris’s blood type is D.O.A.

* Please note that Chuck Norris is in no way affiliated with The Drubbing or its writers. If he did find out we were using his name in a gimmick he would roundhouse kick all of us to death.

May 2010 “Mr. Torre, it looks like you broke another one”.

A couple of weeks ago, I looked back at the article I wrote about last year’s rookie hitters. So for today’s treat, we’ll check in with those rookie pitcher’s from last year that I previewed before the year. If you missed last year’s article, you can find it

here. So without further ado, here we go first with the chart I included in the first article, followed by the chart showing this year’s stats:

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