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Baseball-1988 NLCS. The Mets lose to the Dodgers in 7 despite clearly being the better team (I know everyone would expect Kenny Rogers in 99 in Atlanta, but the Braves were the better team and deserved to win, the Mets were better than the Dodgers in 88) Football- Giants blow the playoff game to the 49ers in 03 Basketball-Knicks, Reggie Miller scores 234 points in 4 seconds, Game 6 1994 Finals in Houston, Starks goes 1-66

Braves continue their dominance of Tom Glavine, it's like they know what's coming. Braves are red hot, the only question they seem to have is Kolb

Are you watching the Mets again?! How dare you. Turn off the TV this very second. nope, Time Warner won't let me! Gary Cohen all the way. I started listening again yesterday

John Smoltz looks like he will finally get his first win of the season

ESPN is going to love this, the Braves are killing Pedro, so much for that pitcher's dual

I'd like to seem do Jordan v Haas and put the title on Haas, but that ain't happening as the company is down on Charlie

DDT, doing the move is hard because the person I put it on wouldn't cooperate

anyone just hear Morgan "You know I hate statistics John", stop being so subtle Joe

Braves with another shutout as they sweep the Phils. They are playing scary good right now

a "Star Vehicle" for Anthony Anderson LOL Jay Mohr is also in it.

Usually when the Braves go on their streak in June/July, the Mets have their patented AAA line up going and they go 6-0, 5-1 versus them

The way the Braves are playing right now, I can see them going on one of their classic runs, like 23 of 30 or something similar. 5-0 Braves bottom of the 1st

I really think Dusty is praised by the media because he's the "anti-moneyball" manager, he promotes small ball and focuses on "intangibles" Plus he's a "player's manager", which all the ex-player analysts seem to love. Chris Russo has praised Dusty for years as being "easy to play for" and that he "brings out the best in mediocre players" His moves in the playoffs in 2000 against the Mets were some of the worst I've ever seen. I don't care that he is a "good motivator" he is terrible at in-game decisions, he has been his entire career as a manager, not just now.

Keller wrote a great article on Piper around 2000/2001. Basically Piper knew that he wasn't a great wrestler and knew that to stay over he could never job or give his opponents a lot of offense. He would refuse to job time after time and knew he could get away with it because of his drawing power. When he turned face he still never got beat down or swerved, he was always a step ahead of his opponents. He was quoted as saying "losing isn't my thing"

I can't stand it when people like Chris Russo badmouth Marbury and says he doesn't have any "intangibles" or doesn't "make other players great". If you look at pure numbers, Marbury is a GREAT player. He has had the misfortune of not being at the right place at the right time

It's a shame Steph is turning into her father. From all accounts she used to be a super nice, down to Earth girl when she first came on the scene and ever since she got all this power, she's turned into an egomaniac. Gotta love the wrestling business sometimes

here's a great line:

Back to what we were talking about earlier, Chris Russo and Mike Francesa were just ranting about how the Dodgers start is a fluke and they are doing it with smoke and mirrors. It's great to see these "experts" backpedal.

UPN officials thought that Shasta McNasty would be the show that put the network on the map. They hyped the hell out of it and did cross promotion with the WWF, but none of it worked. They had the same idea 4 years later with ..... The Mullets

what happened to Nomar was almost the same exact thing that happened to Mike Piazza in San Francisco in 2003. The injury happened to Piazza in late April/early May and he did not return until late August.

this was during the brief period where I was into WCW more than WWF (pretty much from Sept. 95 till the Piper angle in Nov. 96 which turned me off to the product). I actually liked the Hogan/Vader storyline and Flair/Savage. The DOD gimmick was so corny that I actually kind of got a kick out of it. It was so 80s WWF (which I'm a mark for)

I got great enjoyment watching Bill Platschke STILL try to say he doesn't buy the Dodgers. Particularly after the sabermetric community picked the Dodgers to win the division, while "expert" baseball analysts like "Wrong Hole" Buster Olney pegged the Dodgers for 75-80 wins. Strummer said a few weeks ago he heard Chris Russo pick the Dodgers to win less than 80 games because of their lack of team chemestry. This team is a Moneyball hater's worst nightmare. A team that pissed away the concept of team chemestry and kept winning. A team that traded for a "platoon player" at first base and kept winning. A team that lost its "proven closer" and kept winning. A team that traded its "heart and soul" and kept winning. A team that decided to forego defense in favor of offense at second base, and kept winning. A team that lacked a number one starter, and kept winning. A team that kept a supposed "clubhouse cancer" in Milton Bradley, and kept winning. I don't gloat often, but I am doing it now. Myself and a lot of other nerds with computers said the Dodgers were a force, while idiot writers like Bill Platscke, T.J. Simers, and Buster Olney dismissed the Dodgers off-hand. And they can choke on this one. The Giants are not competing without Barry Bonds. The Padres are weak without Khalil Greene for a month. The Dodgers are going to win this division. And if the Phillies do not reach the Series, I hope its Oakland/LA just so I can watch heads explode. Al, one of Buster's greatest hits, a year anniversary of "productive outs" Yup, the lack of productive outs really hurt the Red Sox last year, and the Tigers used their prowess in productive outs all the way to the Series. Good call Buster. You did it again!

Kreski was quoted as saying he didn't even like wrestling. In an interview after he was released Kevin Kelly talked about he would talk to members of the creative team on Tuesdays and say "Did you see the show last night" and they would respond "No, I don't like wrestling"

funny how nobody mentions those vignettes when talking about the great Steamboat/Savage feud Ricky was awful in those vignettes, just AWFUL

Caliendo is the only guy in the history of MAD TV that I find to be legit funny. He's hilarious and is wasted on that amateur hour show