text message on patrol:

from my father: "Good career move josh. Have fun in latvia next year." Jun 29, 6:56 a.m.

they said it

one of my fellow Law Clerks:

"Rafael Nadal should cut off his Capri Pants and sow them to his shirt so he has sleeves."

U.S. Open Update

a quote from a certain family member while discussing sports today: "These days I can name more professional golfers than fucking baseball players and I still have no idea who Aaron Baddeley is."

Those folds have got promise

I ask you to watch this little clip not for the valuable scouting insight it offers into Yanks pitcher Philip Hughes, but for the transplendent four seconds of neck-fat about 2/3 of the way through. I'd tell you to keep an eye out for it, but it's pretty much impossible to miss/awesome.

Childhood

This one goes out to Brooks and Brett. They were my neighbors as a kid, and they helped fuel my short-lived enthusiasm for pro wrestling, as well as basement hockey and backyard golf. Nowadays I feel the same about pro wrestling as Ben does about interleague play, except for the "tradition" part.

no need to check Craigslist Kansas City

believe it or not but a ton of good tickets remain for next weekend's super hot Royals-Marlins series; man interleague play gets more exciting every year!! I'm really glad baseball trashed 100 years of glorious tradition for an inane novelty.

AFLAC trivia question: Who got the first hit ever in a interleague game?

Ans: Why Stan Javier of course. (Nothing sums up the contemptible mediocrity of the entire enterprise more than this fact).

Speaking of the Rocket

Roger Clemens completed his last minor league assingment on Saturday defeating the Double A Pittsburgh Pirates of the Eastern League.

Good! Great! Grand!

The AP says that Roger Clemens closed out his Yankees debut "with a signature fist pump just before receiving a playful tap on the rear from Derek Jeter." That is just darling. Reminds me of the complete abandon displayed by this year's College Baseball World Series teams and players.

Itchy and Scratchy movie

these pictures from the Washington Post capture the mix of depraved seediness and exclusivity that makes horse racing such a great sport; I like pictures and stories!!

if you like words then I suggest either Andrew Beyer (who went to Harvard and once went to the track won $250,000 and wrote a column about it the next day - do a Blog entry like that Deadspin) or William Nack who even though he is 70 could I'm pretty sure kick the living crap out of Will Leitch (although most 70 year old men could)

see God does care

the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup this week; few people care and even fewer people watched but the triumph of the hockey team closer to the San Fernando Valley than any other is worth nothing for one reason:

the Ducks won because they changed their nickname/logo/uniform last summer and were rewarded for this wise decision by our Heavenly Creator

You might remember the Ducks came into being in the early 1990's as the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. A team owned by Disney, near Disneyland and based on the horribly depressing movie "The Mighty Ducks" starring a young Pacey

The "Mighty Ducks" had to be the worst nickname in the history of professional sports beating easily the Toronto Raptors of the NBA and the East Texas Water Purification Systems of Major League Baseball; check out this horror show:



thankfully Disney sold the team and last summer the new owners decided that perhaps just perhaps you don't want your team named after a 1993 Emilio Estevez movie and dropped the "Mighty" and changed the logo to the tastefully understated:



the reward? Hockey Immortality given by an angry God who hates crappy uniforms

Today's Baseball Note

Boof Bonser has been dropped by 4200 teams in Yahoo! leagues

in the days of yore

PTG is proud to commemorate the 14th anniversary of a legendary moment in Sports video gaming history:

on June 3 1993 a young Colin Rogers discovered that the most effective offensive play in Bill Walsh's college football for the Sega Genesis was the fake punt. 1st and 10? Call a fake punt. 2nd and 1? Fake punt time. 4th and 38 from your own one yard line? Dance with the girl that brung you - Fake punt it!!

Recap

PTG has this exclusive photo of yesterday's action at Wrigley Field. Who knew who knew that quickly throwing 300 million at every random free agent out there wouldn't immediately turn things around for the worst team in baseball last year. I'm shocked.