What is it going to take? Someone is going to die in the name of professional sports. Did you see the elbow Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) threw at James Harden! He could have killed him!
There was a movie many years ago, called The Deadliest Season. In that movie a hockey player killed another player…. Here’s a summary:
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
And the viciousness of today’s sports are putting us right on the cusp of a death occurring during a sporting event.
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Suspend Mr. Peace (ironic huh?) for the remainder of 20112 – 2012 season and the entire 2012 -2013 NBA season.
File assault charges against Metta World Peace.
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Here are some violent sports videos.
(a) Yesterday: Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) assaulting James Harden during an NBA game.
(b) 1977: Kermit Washington hitting Rudy T during an NBA game.
(c) Dale Hunter hitting Pierre Turgeon during an NHL game.
(a) and (c) are very similar in that they were both after a score and the other person had no way of knowing they were about to be the target of an assault. Please take a look at the videos below.
KingJamesLeBron James — Guys get on that TV and act like they was all WORLD when they played. How bout encouraging him and wishing him the best instead of hating!!
KingJamesLeBron James — Listened to Merril Hoge today on SC and he was just blasting Tebow. The man hasn’t even play a full season and its only his 2nd year in.
KingJamesLeBron James — Tim Tebow will succeed in the NFL. He’s a hard worker, a student of the game, a natural born leader and most of all a WINNER! It takes time and he’ll be nice (extended)
Learning from your mistakes? Mr. James? Didn’t you learn anything from your public relations nightmares of the last year? Who is running the Lebron James “Camp”? Someone needs to sit Mr. James down and teach him the ABC’s of “how not to be a public relations nightmare.” This book is also known as “How not to lose fans and sponsorship opportunities.”
Again – It’s pretty condescending to anyone who is not an All-Pro in professional sports. Lordy. Lordy. Lordy.
Merril Hoge is one of the top football analysts. Most of the time he is right on target. Your tweets (@KingJames) show your consistent immaturity.
Hoge’s honest assessment has nothing to do with Hoge’s playing career. Sorry if everyone can’t be the self proclaimed “King”. That’s pretty arrogant coming from someone who has never won an NBA Championship.
Shout out to Lebron James: Merril Hoge has as many NBA Championships as you – ZERO.
My buddy “PC” made a comment recently about Mark Jackson getting the Golden State coaching job. He commented that point guards tend to make good coaches. They are forced to really know the game and get everyone into the flow of the game. It made sense but I decided to look for myself.
I looked at the NBA coaches with 300 and more wins. I looked at what position they played in college or professionally. I broke it out by guards, forwards, and centers, I did not get more specific like point guard, shooting guard, power forward, etc… There may be errors and I welcome all corrections.
I was not able to identify the appropriate information on all the coaches.
In the chart below, if there is a ‘?’, I simply did not know the answer. If there is an ‘x’, I believe they did not play college or pro hoops.
There are 84 NBA Coaches who have 300 or more wins.
46 of them played guard. Please note, if someone played both forward and guard, they were counted for both positions.
(xx) 27 coaches either (a) did not play basketball, or (b) I could not determine the position he played.
84 coaches minus the 27 (xx above) leaves us with 57 coaches to use in this exercise.
So 46 of the 57 coaches played the guard position in college or professional basketball.
80% of these NBA coaches played guard.
That’s an amazing statistic; more than I would have expected.
(Note: I am sure the stats on these coaches are incomplete or inaccurate. Even if I’m off by 10%, that’s still pretty amazing.)
No I did not watch the Major League Baseball Home Run Hitting Contest (All Star Break)…. I had better things to do.
This morning on ESPN Sports Center, I see that Robinson Cano of the NY Yankees won the contest. Being a Yankee fan I immediately thought “Oh no. He is going to have a bad second half of the year.” He probably messed up his swing trying to yank everything out of the ballpark.
“Damn.”
Then I get to the office and I voiced my concern to one of the guys (let’s call him Buck). He passionately said “That’s not true. The winners of the home run hitting contests don’t necessary have bad second halves. You’re beginning to sound like Bert” (Where Bert is the name of someone in our accounting area.)
So I decided to look for the stats and see if the All Star Home Run Kings tended to have poor second halves.
For each winner, I compared their total home runs for that year, the home runs hit before and after the All Star break, and calculated the percentage hit after the All Star break. I also entered their total number of At Bats to make sure they played the entire year. Note: I only had the stats since 2000. Everyone had over 500 At Bats.
Regular Season Home Runs
MLB Home Run Derby Winner and Year
Total HR for Year
PreAll Star
PostAll Star
% PostAll Star
AB
2010: David Ortiz
32
18
14
44%
518
2009: Prince Fielder
46
22
24
52%
591
2008: Justin Morneau
23
14
9
39%
623
2007: Vladimir Guerrero
27
14
13
48%
574
2006: Ryan Howard
58
28
30
52%
581
2005: Bobby Abreu
24
18
6
25%
588
2004: Miguel Tejada
34
15
19
56%
653
2003: Garret Anderson
29
22
7
24%
638
2002: Jason Giambi
41
22
19
46%
560
2001: Luis Gonzalez
35
23
12
34%
609
2000: Sammy Sosa
50
23
27
54%
604
Based upon these numbers, 4 of the 11 years, the winner had significantly less home runs the second half of the year. I wish I had more data but it is interesting to think about.
My conclusion? It does happen enough times to think about it.
Go Robinson! Here’s to a great second half of 2011.
Note to the Mrs. : Now you have someone to root for on the NY Jets. The Jets quarterback, Mark Sanchez, in addition to being a clutch performer on the field, loves the culture of New York. When he is off the field he loves attending Broadway plays. He even keeps the soundtracks to Broadway plays in his car! (Just like you.) He even likes the same plays as you!
Note to self: If going on a long car trip with Mark Sanchez, make sure to empty his CDs out of the car before starting the trip.
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This is a very, very interesting video story about the New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.
There are many articles around about Brett Favre texting some hotties when he was a NY Jet. The timing is interesting. Hmmm… The week the Vikings play the Jets. Was this released this week as a part of the Jets “Psychological Game Plan”?
With his self-aggrandizing, narcissistic one-hour TV exit – The Decision – LeBron James ruined his public image, not racism. LeBron inflicted more damage to his image Wednesday night when he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that race is a factor in the public backlash against him since The Decision.
Lebron, just between us, do you really believe it’s race? Come on. Really. Tell me. It’s just between you and me.
When I watched the beginning of The Decision, it brought back memories of Rocky’s Apollo Creed coming into the room in an Uncle Sam costume.
I cannot know what it’s like to be a person of color in America. I cannot know what it’s like to be a multi-millionare at age 23. I cannot know what it feels like to have people kissing my butt since I was a little kid because I was going to be a world class athlete.
I can give you a bit of advice from John Q Public.
People are smarter than you think. Do not underestimate them. (Example:) Nobody fell for The Decision being a fundraiser for The Boys and Girls Club. We all know it was about you.
You can’t fight the press. And with the number of microphones being stuck in your face, you are bound to make some errors.
Take ownership. Take a step back. Hire a top public relations firm. You should worry about playing basketball.
With his self-aggrandizing, narcissistic one-hour TV exit – The Decision – LeBron James ruined his public image, not racism. LeBron inflicted more damage to his image Wednesday night when he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that race is a factor in the public backlash against him since The Decision.With his self-aggrandizing, narcissistic one-hour TV exit – The Decision – LeBron James ruined his public image, not racism. LeBron inflicted more damage to his image Wednesday night when he told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that race is a factor in the public backlash against him since The Decision.
Lebron – you need to surround yourself with different people. Who is guiding you?
This move to ask for an hour on ESPN to announce your decision, shows you in bad light.
Don’t pretend it’s for charity. (Yes, we all know the advertising proceeds will go to The Boys And Girls Clubs.That’s nice. You can write a check to the charity for more than they will make tonight.)
Please don’t kid yourself. We all know it’s all about you – Lebron. It doesn’t sit well with people.
This is not helping your brand. It’s simply showing your ego and how “Team James” is misguiding you. A simple press conference would have been appropriate.
People rise and fall quickly. This is not what Michael Jordan would have done it. Perhaps you should speak with MJ?
Are you starting to believe you really are King James?
After seeing The San Diego Padres pull a 5-4-3 triple play against the NY Mets, I wondered if that was a common triple play.
I sent this email to a few friends:
I assume you all saw last night’s triple play. How often does that type (5-4-3) of triple play happen? Often a triple play involves a line drive – sometimes with the runners going… It would be an interesting stat to see.
One response I received:
I would think more double plays would be turned 5-4-3- (I assume he meant triple play).
May 14, 2006 – Popped up bunt attempt, caught in the air, started the triple play
May 27, 2006 – Ground ball to second baseman, tags the runner going from first to second, started the triple play
June 11, 2006 – Fly ball caught by an outfielders started the triple play
September 2, 2006 – Strikeout and a pick off of a runner off second base, started the triple play
September 18, 2006 – Line out to third baseman started the triple play
April 21, 2007 – Ground ball to third, 5-4-3 triple play
April 29, 2007 – Line drive to the shortstop starts an unassisted triple play
August 27, 2007 – Ground ball to third, 5-4-3 triple play
May 30, 2008 – Ground ball to third, 5-4-3 triple play
April 12, 2009 – Line out to shortstop started the triple play
May 4, 2009 – Line out to shortstop started the triple play
May 20, 2009 – Lined drive to second baseman with the runners going, started the triple play
August 23, 2009 – Unassisted triple play started with line drive to second baseman
September 6, 2009 – Ground ball to third, 5-4-3 triple play
April 22, 2010 – Ground ball to third, 5-4-3 triple play
May 19, 2010 – Line drive to centerfield started the triple play
June 10, 2010 – Ground ball to third, 5-4-3 triple play
That’s seventeen triple plays since 2006 . Six of those triple plays were 5-4-3 triple plays…
That’s 35% of the triple plays since 2006 have been 5-4-3 triple plays.
