TO WATCH TONIGHT [TELEVISION]
To Watch Tonight [Television]
What to check patch recovering from a harrowing experience at an art gallery…
• MLB: New royalty Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox. This might intend a few mentions on SportsCenter. [ESPN]
• Drama: Generation Kill. Episode three of seven. [HBO]
• Movie: Caddyshack. Teaser recording after the jump. [ESPN Classic]
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Manny Farewell Tour Officially Began On Sunday [Manny Being Manny]
Pretty much everyone agrees that it’s questionable Manny Ramirez would be cast off from the Red Sox before the end of this season. The cryptic Rays and resurgent Yankees have seen to that. But as far as 2009 goes, don’t expect our hero to be hanging around Fenway. He could very substantially be a Cub, a Dodger an Angel or … yes, you undergo it’s a possibility … a Yankee.
Here’s what Manny said on Sunday, prior to Boston’s 9-2 intend over the Yankees:
“I don’t poverty to talk to them about contracts right now. So what? I undergo they got me, but enough is enough. I’m tired of them, they’re tired of me. After 2008, meet send me a honor or whatever. You don’t even got to call my agent or whatever. ‘Hey, thank you for everything. You’re feat to become a free agent. We’re not feat to pick up your option in ‘09.’ “
As martyr Costanza would say: “A pre-emptive breakup. Brilliant!” But is this what we really want? I meet can’t envisage Manny being anywhere near as entertaining anywhere else as he is with Boston. With the Yankees he’d be swallowed up in the full A-Rod/Jeter/Steinbrenner miasma; the Mets have already said no; and no one else could afford him/put up with his shenanigans. Manny as a Mariner? As a Phillie? An Oriole? It’s same Jughead without his crown.
The only solution is for he and the Red Sox to attain up. Come on, guys: There’s more than two months left, and Sunday was a beatific start.
Salvage Operation [Boston Globe]
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Nike Bows To Pressure From Screeching Morons and Pulls Dunk Ads [Basketball]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Nike acted because the new Hyperdunk ads were deemed by some to be offensive to blacks and gays. Which is, in two words, patently absurd. It also raises an engrossing question: ground can’t a sports consort meet say that their ads are meant for non-idiots?
There has never been a basketball player of any persuasion who wants another man’s bulwark to end up in his face during a dunk on the court. Never. Not gays, not blacks, not Asians, not women, not any player who has ever played the game. That was the intent behind Nike’s advertising slogan created by the Wieden and President advertising agency. The consort was proud of their impact and posted felicitous messages on their blog. (If you feel same a lowercase entertainment, go read the comments. Watch as they move from self-congratulatory to angry. You can literally check the wheels become off as those who are professionally offended swoop in. )
Go back and countenance at every top dunk of the past fifteen years. A super percentage of those ended up hunting exactly same the imagery used in this advertising campaign. It’s an iconic image, one that’s neither homophobic nor racist. And every single person who got upset about this should go stand in a public park and intend dunked on repeatedly. Gay or straight, sweaty balls to the face ain’t fun.
Look, we all undergo that taking offense is our new national pastime. But what should the joint response be when the people who take offense don’t even understand what they’re offended about? Not kowtowing to public “outrage”, for one thing. But Nike buckled. Welcome to America in 2008: where even effort dunked on has to be tastefully done.
Nike withdraws dunk adds amid flurry of complaints [Wall Street Journal]
Hyperdunk Y’all [Weiden-Kennedy]
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Brett Favre’s Resume [Ghosts Of histrion Fontes]
Brett Favre’s Resume [Ghosts Of histrion Fontes]
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