Lessons from the bachelor's cookbook... take the wrappers off the fajitas before tossing them in the microwave...
- The Jays have signed a reliever named Chad Blackwell. Forget about whether Mr. Blackwell can pitch... will he do something about the fashion-don't black and teal uniforms? The team is the Blue Jays.
- Hey, James Mirtle of Mirtle fame covered the Jays game for globesports.com yesterday. Effin' rights!
- Bill (Spaceman) Lee's life has received the feature-length documentary treatment: Filmmaker Peter J. Vogt's High & Outside premiered last Wednesday at the Maine International Film Festival . There's four words we never thought we would type in that order.
- Honestly, likening Calgary Stampeders coach Tom Higgins to "your Grade 8 gym teacher" was a one-off joke, never meant to apply that he would pull a stunt that was actually straight out of junior high school. Higgins did just that Saturday vs. the Argos, calling for a fake field goal with two minutes left and a three-touchdown lead. As Boatmen Blog put it, "But hey ... at least you showed that non-divisional rival who's boss, at least when said non-divisional rival is playing with its third-string quarterback and no receivers."
- Perry Lefko at sportsnet.ca is proudly on the same Ork cloud as Hamilton Tiger-Cats coach Charlie Taaffe, apparently:
"Just to be sure Coach Lefko was on the same page as Coach Taaffe, I called him. Turns out I was right about his decision. Charlie figured even if they scored a point and recovered the onside kick, the Lions would have gone into a prevent defence and made it impossible to come close to field-goal range.
Huh? Didn't Hamilton have to recover an onside kick no matter what?
" 'The chances of recovering an on-field kick aren't that great," he told me. 'This way we had a chance to win the game and get out of there.' " - This is incomprehensible: Mike Coolbaugh, a coach for the Colorado Rockies Double-A team, died last night after being struck by a line drive.
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That story about the minor league coach just rips my heart out. He had two young children, and a third on the way. Incomprehensible is about the right phrase. How does he not see a screaming line drive coming at him? A baseball field at the senior levels is a very dangerous place to be distracted, even for a second.
As for Perry Lefko, he can stop cheerleading and covering for CFL coaches now that he doesn't work for the league anymore. Did these two even know what the score was? His explanation, and that of Taaffe, makes zero sense. The Lions being in a prevent is exactly the circumstance that WOULD allow you to get close enough to kick a field goal. We've all made coaching mistakes before -- I would have a lot more respect for Taaffe if he had said, "I blew it, and I take responsibility".
Wally Buono had a brain freeze last year also, inexplicably trying to kick a field goal on first down in an overtime session. The Lions missed, the Riders easily ran it out of the end zone. The Football Gods, angered at this display of coaching incompetence, ensured that the Lions ended up losing. No one has bigger ego than Wally, though, and predictably he tried to defend the decision instead of stating the obvious - he blew the call, and at least should have run it up the middle a couple of times to get his kicker a bit closer.
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