Morning Link Dump - 09/02/10
Obligatory Sports Babe
This morning we'll go with TV personality Kristin Cavallari, who, rumour has it-- in this case, rumour being With Leather-- is being wooed by Bears QB Jay Cutler.
Quote of the Day
"For me, a little bit has to be put back on Strasburg here. OK, you throw a pitch, it bothers your arm, and you immediately call out the manager and the trainer? Suck it up, kid. This is your profession. You chose to be a baseball player. You can't have the cavalry come in and save your butt every time you feel a little stiff shoulder, sore elbow. ... Stop crying, go out there and pitch. Period." - Incredibly obtuse ex-Washington Nationals analyst Rob Dibble, who was fired for comments about... uh... actually for exactly those moronic comments quoted above-- which come via FanHouse.
Rethinking the NBA's System
"LeBron James fled, Chris Bosh bolted and Amar’e Stoudemire drifted away. Chris Paul chirped with envy. Carmelo Anthony grumbled. And N.B.A. executives in every time zone shuddered a bit... The N.B.A.’s best players are either relocating or trying to, upsetting the league’s balance of power and undermining a system that was once fine-tuned for parity and stability," says the New York Times. "The reckoning will come, as with everything else, at the bargaining table, where owners will try to wrest back control in the next labor deal. Already, there is talk among team executives of franchise tags and heavy financial penalties for players changing teams, measures that are anathema to the players union."
Water Balloon Fight!
From Devour here's a music video from Kyle Andrews' "You Always Make Me Smile," featuring what's got to be the world's largest water balloon fight. It involves 4,000 extras with-- supposedly-- 120,000 water balloons in total. So... why am I not embedding it or putting it into it's own post? Because the song can so totally go fuck itself.
Cubs Win ... Off The Field
"Though not always successful on the baseball field, the Chicago Cubs have a track record of making fans happy and filling Wrigley Field. And they're taking an extra step Monday night to satisfy a group of fans who usually can't enjoy the Friendly Confines in person," explains Big League Stew. "Yes, for the first time in team history, the Cubs are hosting a group of fans who are allergic to peanuts in a special suite that will be peanut free."
Quote of the Day II
“He's not the only guy who has said stupid stuff like this to me, I'm used to it. And I'm smart enough to fight him smart and not fight him with emotion and make a mistake.But when it's time to punch him, just the little extra motivation I'm going to have at the end of the punch to twist my knuckle into the head, it will be good thing. It will give me an extra power edge.” - Georges St. Pierre, responding to moronic tweets from his next opponent, Josh Koschek, who's been saying stuff like "We got a frenchy's ass to kick," according to the Globe and Mail.
Quickly
Busted Racquet gives us the full details of Andy Roddick's loss, and flip out, yesterday at the US Open.
Speaking of the US Open, remember Federer's between-the-legs shot earlier this week? Well, here's a YouTube clip that reminds us how they used to do stuff like that back in the 90s. (Or, well, maybe not they, but at the very least Goran Ivanišević).
Want to see the future of Rock Band? Or at least what the future of Rock Band should be? Here's an outstanding preview from the Daily Dish.
According to Dirty Tackle, Icelandic forward Eidur Gudjohnsen would rather play for Stoke than sit on the bench in Monaco. Makes sense. (Note: According to two Icelanders I once met in Peterborough, one of whom was staggeringly hot, everyone in Iceland either knows Eidur or a member of the Sugarcubes. True story.)
Full Metal Disney
Because I don't care that this doesn't have anything to do with sports, here, via the Daily Dish, is a wicked-awesome scene from Full Metal Jacket as it would have sounded like if Donald Duck was the drill sergeant.
