In an earlier phone conversation with my brother he was going through a list of famous people who have/had birthdays today, or died on this date and such, and the name Darrell Porter came up.
Porter was a catcher/drug addict for mostly the Royals and Cardinals in the early 1980’s, and according to his bio on Wikipedia, he was a bit of a pool shark as well:
Porter told the Associated Press that during the winter of 1979-1980, he became paranoid, convinced that Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, known to be tough on drug use, knew about his drug abuse, was trying to sneak into his house, and planned to ban him from baseball for life. Porter found himself sitting up at night in the dark watching out the front window, waiting for Kuhn to approach, clutching billiard balls and a shotgun.
Obviously, drug addiction is a serious matter, but if you let yourself get past that for a moment, the last sentence of that paragraph is pretty classic. The following paragraph about Don Newcombe is pretty good itself.
As you can see from the article, Porter would have been 54 today, if he hadn’t gone out to play in the snow.
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ESPN just interviewed Roger Clemens in front of a backdrop promoting EA Sports’ new college baseball game. Since I’m fairly certain ESPN would have no reason to promote this game by itself, are you telling me that the only way “The Worldwide Leader” can pull an interview with Roger Clemens is to wait for a satellite tour promoting a video game comes around?
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Speaking of ESPN, could someone, anyone, PLEASE make this happen?
And Bill, if you’re going to put a calendar on your site listing the days you’ve posted, you might want to write more than once every other Tuesday.
Weak.
Well, you know, when real journalists don’t think someone’s doing something well, they criticize. Perhaps repeatedly. Simmons doesn’t have any legitimate editorial oversight (other than to apparently say, “No, you can’t rip Chris Berman”), so he can go beyond that and mock. His repeated mockery deserved an ass-beating, much less that reaction.
EA Sports and ESPN have an agreement. For the next 15 years EA Sports will be the sole provider of ESPN games.
Of course, that happened a year ago almost to the day. According to the article, the agreement didn’t start until 2006, so maybe that’s why we’re starting to see more of the “convergence” now.