Wayman Tisdale had part of his right leg amputated yesterday due to bone cancer in the appendage. “Everything went well” said his wife. Thankfully, he should still be able to play some sweet jazz music starting in the fall.
Archive for August, 2008
The Douchification Of America Continues

Somebody call the wahmbulance for America’s parents. They disbanding Little League teams because they have pitchers who throw real hard.
Nine-year old Jericho Scott has skills. When I say the boy has skills, I mean he has a 40 mph fastball. Instead of encouraging him, the Youth Baseball League of New Haven is trying to shut him down.
The league told him coach that Scott wasn’t allowed to pitch any more because he throws too hard. The coach ignored the edict and sent him to the mound for the next game. Get this. The opposing manager forfeited, packed up and left. Wah! Way to man up.
Now the league is disbanding Scott’s team, sending the players to other teams and refunding money. It said Scott’s coach, Wilfred Vidro resigned but he’s unaware of any resignation. Allegations are floating around that these actions are being taken because Scott refused to join the defending league champion who is sponsored by an employer of a league administrator. The league denies the allegations and says it is trying to protect the other players. It’s probably a coincidence that Scott’s team was 8-0 and rolling towards the playoffs when they shut him down.
Of course the kid feels like it’s his fault. “I feel sad,” he said. “I feel like it’s all my fault nobody could play.”
Regardless of motive, this is the definition of a a bitch move. It’s another example of how organized sports in this country are starting to turn kids into sniveling douches who are told that being good is a fault. Why not allow other kids to face him and get better by facing the best? It’s not like they’d have to face Scott every day. What is it about this country that has stopped parents from encouraging kids to be the best they can be? What happened to facing down adversity? Now they try to protect kids from every little thing that could be perceived as a threat or danger. Children taught to turn tail, run and sue instead of fighting and striving to get better. The kids on the forfeiting team probably got trophies for showing up that day. You brave little buckeroos.
Congrats to the parents for using children as pawns in their bullshit games over things that shouldn’t even matter like Little League Baseball. If Scott is such a danger, why were his services sought for the defending league champion? If this is just about him, why would they can the manager and disband the team over one pitcher? This situation walks, talks and smells like bullshit.

What are the chances Rafael Nadal made A-Rod cry when he told Menudo to shut up? I’ll let the manpris slide today.
The BBC Knows How To Stay Classy

Damn. BBC Commentator Chris Price went way over the line in describing the Bradford City defense this past weekend. He didn’t just go over the line. He went back and destroyed it.
Reporter Chris Price was speaking live on air when he said Rochdale ‘were making more holes in the Bradford defence than in a Spanish aircraft’.He was speaking on Saturday just three days after a Spanair plane crashed at Barajas International airport in Madrid killing at least 153 people.
BBC Radio Manchester issued an apology after numerous complaints from listeners. Just wait until they hear that a BBC reporter complained that the BBC isn’t doing enough to humanize the Taliban. They’ll love that.
Browns Fans Sh*t Themselves Over Sh*t Brown Pants
That’s it, Cleveland. It’s the pants that make you suck. Not dating site icon Brady Quinn.
The Browns wore chocolate brown pants for the first time in their history when they were molested by the Giants last Monday. Don’t let the final score fool you. Browns fans weren’t feeling the loss or the pants. Their loss had everything to do with the pants and nothing to do with the porous o-line and medicore quarterback.
Brady probably liked the molestation and the pants. We know he loves him some chocolate. This all sounds a bit racialist if you ask me. The Deuce does not approve of anti-deuce sentiments or behavior especially from anyone native to a city whose river has caught on fire.




