Like a Virgin (Hey!) Touched by Mohamed Atta...

Doug:
Well, as is often the case, Schilling proved actions speak loudah than words when dealing with his critics.

 

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Mike:
Nothing like an eight-inning, five-hit, one-run mastahpiece to say, "I've got your hurt from a 133 game pitch count right heah, a-holes." Beautiful.

 

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Doug:
Yeah, and Francona took the words out of my mouth in describing Ortiz's single on that 3-0 pitch that got things going in the 3rd: "That was a gorgeous swing."

 

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Mike:
That's the thing about David Ortiz. His grace with the bat is phenomenal. His singles look every bit as perfect as his moon shots. Viva El Papi.

 

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Doug:
And that he's followed by Manny? I mean how sweet can life get?

 

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Mike:
When the Manny Ortez comes up to bat, everyone, no mattah where they are or what they're doing, stops to watch.

 

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Doug:
You know, bitches like Lindsay Hohan and Parasite Hilton wish they could be as a hot as the Manny Ortez.

 

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Mike:
Thank heavens for baseball stahs, because they just don't make celebrities like they used to.

 

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Doug:
No kidding, even Madonna is tarnishing her legacy by dragging her fit, but still ridiculously haggy and shop worn, ass all over the stage in her Confessions of a Tired Vagina Tour.

 

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Mike:
Note to Madge: The whole cross thing is way the fuck overdone. That crap might get few Cardinals all pissy, but for the general public it's not edgy, it's not shocking, it's boring.

 

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Doug:
These days, fucking around with Christian iconography is about as edgy as buying a "Speak Truth to Power!" t-shirt at Wal-Mart.

 

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Mike:
Seriously. If Madonna really wanted to create a stir she'd skip the cross and the crown of thorns bullshit and get up on the stage in a see-through burqa and start dry humping one of her gay dancers impersonating the Prophet Mohammed.

 

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Doug:
Yeah, and she'd rework her song "Like a Prayer" into "Like a Beheading."

 

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Mike:
Now that's the hizzy shit that'd get her edgy street cred back.

 

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Doug:
You know, Madonna is so old and washed up, I'm surprised the Yankees haven't signed her to a long term contract.

 

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Mike:
Yeah, she and Redneck Randy could sit around watching old VHS tapes of their greatest moments last Century.

 

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Comments

[Jason O.]

The Middle East is no stranger to cricket, so explaining baseball would not be that difficult.

[IkeG]

I'm with Scott on the ESPN announcers. I was not at all nervous about the game nor the fact that Papelbon was forced to throw a few pitches in the pen. When they said "every pitch Foulke throws, Papelbon throws one in the bullpen!!!" it made me laugh. Now, if Papelbon had to get up every single night and throw like that, OK maybe by the end of the season he gets a little tired, but a few warmup pitches here and there does not a dead arm make. ESPN has tried to do that in the past with Rivera, making the audience think that it's a big deal that the opposing team has scored a couple of runs, and SUDDENLY, MARIANO RIVERA HAS TO GET UP AND THROW!!!! OOOOOOOOOH! I suppose that's the kind of crap you pull when it's a 9-5 game in the 9th and you have run out of interesting things to say.

I had a friend who used to like to say things for shock value, and then he'd say "Call me Padre!", which was supposed to be the male equivalent of "Madonna".

[h.b.]

Definitely the desire to get free publicity is at issue, but I'm pretty sure many of these celebrities really do see themselves as "heroic" figures that are trying to help all of us little people see the light of their great wisdom.

Madonna is in this group. As is Clooney, Babs Streisand, JoliePitt, Tom Cruise just to name a few off the top of my head.

What's sad about Madonna in particular, at least from my perspective, is at one time she did push the boundaries. No, she didn't invent the stuff, but she had a keen eye for what was going on in the underground and brought in mainstream regarding dance and pop music.

Seeing the whole cross thing redux, is sad, really.

Understand, of course, I own every Madonna album. :)

[louclinton]

I take umbrage at the suggestion that Neil Young needs Rick Rubin for anything.

Neil Young is God.

[Dave S.]

Yeah...ESPN announcers are, shall we say, a bit sensationalist. They get paid to drum up drama where there isn't any. Rare indeed is the game that starts 9-1 Sox in the top of the ninth in Fenway that retains even a shred of tension. Last night was most certainly not that game.

[Griffin]

//I've got to give Red Light credit, he loses velocity and develops the curve ball and better location to compensate.//

Derek Jeter is pitching now?!!?

Thanks everyone for the rational comments on Keith Foulke. Every pitcher throws a stinker now and then. His change-up's been dropping beautifully, but last night it was hanging like mad. When it does that, out it goes. It happens.

[americantrotter]

"because, you know, its cool to Bash Dubya, works for Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Springsteen"

Leave pearl jam out of this whole thing. pj has been liberal and vocal since they began. They bashed Bush1 Clinton/Gore and now Bush lite. Same with Springstien. If you dont like liberal rockers, fine. Just dont make a decent point about the Dixie Chix and then go all ignorant at the end.

[americantrotter]

and....oh yeah it is cool to bash the President. Because that's what makes us American. The ability to speak our minds. (however much that notion is under threat)

On another note: Win tonight baby, dont let them get-up. Like in the Karate Kid "No Mercy".

[pawsoxpop]

Madonna is in this group. As is Clooney, Babs Streisand, JoliePitt, Tom Cruise just to name a few off the top of my head.

Don't forget Bruce Willis, Drew Carey and the biggest Hollywood bubblehead of all, Ronnie Reagan.