Fixing the World Series = bad
The Angels scored three runs off the Sox in the first five minutes or so since I turned on the game. Not a good sign. Anyway …
*So I was briskly skimming the 3,978 or so pages of "who's hot/who's not" and "playa lifestyle" type items in Sports Illustrated earlier today when this random thought struck me: The Chicago White Sox have not been punished enough yet. I don't care if their last World Series victory was in 1917. THEY THREW THE 1919 WORLD SERIES!!! That's a sporting crime that deserves the equivalent of capital punishment. Another century of suffering might suffice.
*I want to thank Dave Scott, who is as good a friend as anyone I've never met, for his plug today. Scott's Shots is among the links on the left of the page, if you want to check it out.
At some point in the next couple weeks I am going to write a bit about new media, including his column and sites like sportsjournalists.com (which is back up and running). But for now, this is the best way I can sum up Scott's Shots' influence on the Boston sports media scene: One day in the office of my old employer, one of the super big-shots in the department was looking at Scott's Shots at his desk, and blurted out, to no one in particular, "This guy knows more about this place then I do."
*The latest installment of Massachusetts mixed martial arts madness had the city of Taunton stopping Saturday's event, which had been moved from Boston (There was a story in Friday's Taunton Gazette, but I am having trouble linking the site).
The ill-informed idiocy continues. Taunton mayor Robert G. Nunes claimed that last week's accidental death at a pro wrestling show in the city factored in his decision to sabotage the show. If Nunes was concerned, he could, you know, go ahead and regulate pro wrestling in the city. But instead, the city banned a legitimate athletic competition, which has zero to do with pro wrestling, which has previously been contested in Taunton several times without issue, and which has never had a death in a sanctioned fight in its history. Nice work, mayor.
Taunton officials have invoked morality as part of this decision, as usually happens when politicians get a microphone stuck in their faces. Of course, Taunton leaders are A-OK with taking in money from the Raynham-Taunton greyhound track, which preys off some of the lowest, most desperate gambling addicts on the food chain. A legitimate sporting event is considered immoral; preying on gambling addicts is legal and moral. What a country.
*Speaking of which, I'm going ahead and doing a UFC running diary tomorrow night, if I can figure out this satellite purchasing system which is supposed to be one-touch, but hasn't proven the case so far. That's assuming Patricia Malone and Robert Nunes don't round up a posse and go to Atlantic City to shut down the show.
*David Ortiz just came through with a game-tying sac fly in the seventh. Hazel is bowing, somewhere.
*I'm thinking of breaking off this site into two separate blogs. Based on feedback so far, there seems to be an even split of people reading this for Mixed Martial Arts and people visiting for Boston-related material, so at some point I might separate them. Oh, and I might actually get around to writing about the Northwest, too, since I actually live here. Umm … it is cloudy here today. But you probably already guessed that.
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