Panty Peeping

The Red Sox come back from a 8-1 deficit in the 4th to win, but …

Mike:
Well, the Pats winning 3 Supah Bowls couldn't usurp the Red Sox as the most talked about sports team in the region, but looks like they finally found something that could.

 

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Bill:
Yeah, well, somehow I don't think the "all publicity is good publicity" conventional wisdom is going to play here.

 

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Mike:
Seriously. A more appropriate quote is this one from Joe Paterno: "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good."

 

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Bill:
I'm not sure what is more fascinating, the cheating or the hubris. I mean they didn't even try to be surreptitious with it, did they?

 

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Mike:
Memo to Belichick: Spyware, hello!

 

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Bill:
So how big a hahd on do you think Belichick hatah Ron Borges has this morning?

 

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Mike:
Can you say "priapism"?

 

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Comments

[Bob]

My apologies if I've posted this before, but this Cadillac ad from 1915 says it all in regards to Bill Belichick, the Patriots, and this current hoo-haw:

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone - if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest genius. Multitudes flocked to worship at the shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could not build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is the leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy - but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions - envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains - the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

[Bob]

Temporary bad news:

Mike Lowell is out of tonight's lineup because of illness, possibly food poisoning, and Jacoby Ellsbury is also out with an ailing wrist.

[IkeG]

Worse news ... they're going to lose 2 of 3 to TB because they can't consistently hit that stellar pitching staff the D-Rays have.

[IkeG]

I stand corrected. Is it too gay to say that put me in a priapristic state? Schwing!

[iwikkidhahtthasawx]

Viva el Papi! Even if it was just to beat the Devil Rays, everyone loves a walk-off homer.
I don't thinks it's too gay to say; there will be quite a bit of priaprism in the Nation tonight.
Obviously we can't rely on the Yanks to show themselves the door, we'll just have to scrap it out. 12 and dropping.

[Rob in CT]

Okay, that was fun. I come in from a late night working (this job is starting to get to me...) turn on MLB radio, and wha-wha-wha?!? down to the Devil Rays, bottom of the 9th? Papi's juuuussst coming to the plate. I listen with not that much faith in my heart; one ball, foul, two balls, three... Whoo Ha! I looovve me some Big Papi!

Bob, I loved the Caddy ad! Thanks for sharing. I did a little cut & pasting with that one. Had to turn off BBTN after seeing Papi's heroics - NFL Live was leading with "Spygate". Okay, Mike Golic, STFU. Move on people, move on. Nothing to see here. Sheesh!

[Joe]

Two comments onthe justifications going on here:
First the everybody does it excuse, sounds like the I was just following orders excuse. Murders happen everyday doesn't mean you can commit one yourself. And yes I realize this is not on the same level, I'm just saying the excuse is BS.
Second, the it really didn't help excuse, then why do it, Duh?!?

[Bob]

Joe, the "everybody does it" isn't an excuse. Its fact.

A Packers offiial said the only reason they didn't call the Pats out for taping last year was because...

they were doing it too.

Think the Pack will get penalized?

Ha.