Sportsune Cookie 20090414

Welcome to Manny Stiles FORMER Daily Weekday Column:

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The Mondays hit so hard that they rolled over into Tuesday...

Warning: Read the following at your own risk. Possible Probable side effects inculde eye strain, brain scratching, and a probable cause of stupidity...

Today's Weather: 20% lateness, 10% earlyness, .5% Lockness, 90% mourning, 40% unusual...

Sportsune Cookie

Dandrew picked up a seven-ten split on the Wii bowling...

Dandrew also hit a 635 ft home run on the Wii baseball...

Take that Mickey...

The family Wii console and Wii Sports game were lent to an associated family branch. When the Wii returned (two months later) all the Mii people had been erased. Dandrew's Wii baseball score was at 2798 (the graph was literally off the television screen). It is difficult as hell to express the frustration of having to start back a zero and have no proof of this high player score. Alas, one deep breath and one home run at a time will get the score back. This time a picture will be taken as the "proof" to confirm the score...

Preemptive Maneuvers

Saying Good-bye

Thanks for the memories Harry Kalas. Growing up just outside Philadelphia, it was hard for an aspiring fan to not hear the voice of the Phillies. He embodied such a realistic portrayal of the game through his voice alone. Thank the lord for letting him call the Phillies 2008 World Championship. It would not have been quite the same otherwise. Rest in peace Harry, we know you will...

Post-emptive Maneuvers

Chien-Ming

The final verdict was to be half right on predicting Wang's fantasy collapsing game against the Rays. After one inning of eight earned runs, six hits, three walks, and one hit batsman, Wang was pulled from the game. In "The Show" (a league Romiezzo and myself are involved) other pitchers can help make up for his failings over the course of the week. In the AGM league, Wang simply posts a -3.62 score on the day. Sorry Romi...

300

Give it up for Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko. Three hundred home runs today is nothing spectacular, but for each of them to reach the mark in back-to-back at-bats is something that stands out. Dye after the game spoke; "We've been fortunate to hit a lot of home runs, but then you look over at Jim, and he's still [243] ahead of us." Thome is at a high mark, and if he can contine to put up 30+ home runs per season, he can even reach the point where he has twice as many home runs as Paul and Jermaine (given that they stop hitting home runs all together). Congrats boys...

Hudson cycles around Orlando

As the Dodgers celebrate a rout over the Giants and The Giant, secondbaseman Orlando Hudson celebrates a personal achievement. Three of Orlando's hits came off Johnson and resulted in a single, homerun, and double. In the bottom of the sixth, he legged out a triple against Brandon Medders to complete the first cycle of the 2009 MLB season. Celebrating a personal achievement is sweet, but it was made all that much sweeter for Hudson as his team also won the game...

* Quote brought to you by mlb.com

Fantasy Break

Click on the Pic to see the score

The Neelmiester rolled over The Cannons in the final match-up of the fantasy hockey season. This further proves than when it comes to fantasy sports knowing the sport doesn't matter as long as you know the system. Same reason for being in the fantasy basketball championship (even though the Firebirds are whipping ass)...

Know the system, know the game, and get lucky, and even you can be a fantasy sports champion...

Unsportsrelated Havoc

Walking down the up escalator is more difficult than it at first seems...

Ever Wonder?

What if, in baseball, the bases were run in a counter-clock-wise fashion?

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Obviously ____ when this one was though up...
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Tossing Pennies

If the perfect athlete were to be built, what would be their name?

Personally, he would be named Dandrew Junior Neely. Which is the name of my sontobeonedayborn...

WTMF Sports

Channel Manny Presents:

W.T.M.F. Sports with your guest-host, DAndrew...

Brought to you by Lessons To Live Life By:

"Today's Lesson: Shut your mouth and watch the boobies bounce..."

Reporting on... um, now... today, April somedate... Dandrew

02520 - Today, as the memory of Nick Adenhart remains fresh in the minds of baseball fans, adding the deaths of Harry Kalas and Mark Fidrych make this a mourningful day across baseball...

The Adventures of ManRays

Today's "Ray of the Day" is Carlos Pena...

What early season struggles? Pena drove in six runs in the Rays home opener. All three of his hits went for extra bases too.

Honorable Mention: Jason Bartlett...

Give some love to the guy rounding out the order. Bartlett stole his second base and hit his second home run on the season. The boy went three for four against the Yankees raising his batting average to a high .444...

On Deck - The Rays' second home game of the season. The Yankees are still at Tropicana; where the Rays were an impressive 57-24 (.704) last season. They will continue to use their indoor field to yeild an advantage over their opponents...

Go Rays!

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This bunch is from yesterday... when nobody guessed

Cincinati Reds
Arizona Diamondbacks
Texas Rangers
Florida Marlins
St. Louis Cardinals
Baltimore Orioles
Houston Astros
Toronto Blue Jays
San Diego Padres
Minnesota Twins
Los Angeles Angels

A Picture is worth 1000 Memories

Strike A Prose

This was more Stiles' thing. Hang in there until a temporary replacement section is developed...

Answering the Questions

ATQ - Finally, a question has been asked. Shwayze wonders, "what if you didn't exist???"

Sadly, this question cannot really be answered in full because if I did not exist, than there would be nobody to ask this question to, therefore the question wouldn't exist, nor this situation...

Notes From Apostrophe

Yes... that just happened

As always, leave 'em below...

Disclaimer: Written as always in IMO font...

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RomiezzoLegend

240 days ago

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I'm not that big on Wii... probably because I don't own one. However, I still play MVP Baseball 2005 (yes... 2005). It's the BEST GAME EVER! I can't help not playing it sometimes. The longest home run I hit was by a guy by the name of Salman Pour, who just happens to be my best friend. He's meant to be a speedy guy, but he can also hit for power (kinda like the Alfonso Soriano we saw in 2002). I ranked his power about 80/100... and I hit a pitch with him recorded at 590 feet over the Green Monster.

It is so sad that both Harry Kalas and The Bird are gone... on the same day. Kalas got the chance to call both World Series that the Phillies won. I only got the chance to hear him announce the 2008 World Series, but he was so great to listen to... and he made us know how he felt with the emotion he had on the mic. A well deserved former Ford Frick award winner as well... Rest in peace, Harry the K. You'll be missed.

Mark "The Bird" Fidrych also passed away today... and what a guy he was. Although he didn't have a very long career, most people will remember him for his personality. He had the strangest antics: manicuring the mound, strut around the mound after every out, and throwing back balls that "had hits in them," saying that they needed to be removed from the game. RIP, Mark. You'll alway be remembered.

Wang had a horrible game. WHAT WAS I THINKING!?

Congrats to Jermaine Dye and Paul Konerko. That's awesome... to do that in back-to-back fashion is just incredible, even if it's only 300 homers.

Congrats to Orlando Hudson as well. But you hurt me by knocking around Randy Johnson too much.

Well, at least there's some good in my FL: Carlos Pena! Thank you...

Can you at least give us a hint for the list of 11? (I have a feeling they're all teams that someone like Kenny Lofton, who just shifts from team to team, has played in).

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RomiezzoLegend

240 days ago

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So, Dand... how 'bout that clue? Will you give it to us, or will we stay stumped forever? ;)

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Steel TownDraft Pick

240 days ago

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The fun starts tomorrow night DAndrew.

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DAndrewJV Squad

240 days ago

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This is true, Hockey Baby!!!

GO FLYERS!!!

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Sj-hypocycloidAll-American

240 days ago

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Bummer on the Wii, dude. I think I have scores similar to 635 and 2798 myself. I will have to check when I get home. Wii Sports is an amazing game. All games should be that much fun. I love the bowling.

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Steel TownDraft Pick

240 days ago

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My company is putting together a Wii Sports tourney next weekend. Winners of each event get 1/2 paid vacation day.

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Sj-hypocycloidAll-American

240 days ago

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Can I sign up for Home Run Derby and Bowling??

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DAndrewJV Squad

240 days ago

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I wish my work would have a Wii Sports tourney... Actually, if they did it, it would probably be Wii Rock Band (which I'm not a fan of because it is nothing like really playing instruments)...

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

240 days ago

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"Dandrew's Wii baseball score was at 2798" - Is this in the HR Derby or the game of baseball? (I wish there was a 9 inning version)

By the way, my daughter hit a 600+ft "Out Of The Park" HR once, too... she's 5.

Yes, Wii bowling is more fun than the real thing.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

240 days ago

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"What if, in baseball, the bases were run in a counter-clock-wise fashion?"

Then playing third base would really suck and Manny Ramirez wouldn't be a leftfielder anymore.

But blame it on the Coriolis effect, dude.

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DAndrewJV Squad

240 days ago

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If it were the Coriolis effect, then when South Africa came to the World Baseball Classic, they'd be running the bases backwards thanks to their southern hemisphere origins...

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DAndrewJV Squad

240 days ago

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Too bad there isn't a nine inning version of baseball on the Wii Sports? I never make it past the second inning (thanks to the mercy rule)...

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DAndrewJV Squad

240 days ago

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2798 is the skill rating in baseball (you know, that stupid line graph chart they show at the end of every game). Mine was a steady increase to 2798 and climbing... My Wii ranking was around 1400 for bowling and 2500 in tennis...

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Sj-hypocycloidAll-American

240 days ago

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Oops. Ha - the 2798 (or so) was my cumulative score in the HR Derby. Duh.

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RomiezzoLegend

240 days ago

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I'd understand why people would think that's your HR Derby score, Dand. And I can understand why you're pissed. I don't own a Wii, but I wish I did. I'd be on that thing all day. (Shut up, SSR!)

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