Watney seems to know something is up, too. Probably because her ass is burning up from the eye-lasers Andrews is firing at it.
Does ESPN’s Alpha Hottie sense some competition? Could this turn ugly when both of them go to interview/grab the bicep of Jason Varitek at an upcoming Sawx game?
Last night, the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers on one swing of the bat by Jim Thome. Thome blasted a 3-run shot in the bottom of the first inning, which gave the White Sox a three run lead which they never relinquished, winning 5-1.
ESPN.com has a name for a three-run bomb like that … “Grand Slam“.
What? You though Grand Slams were Home Runs hit when the bases were loaded and worth four runs? ESPN.com begs to differ.
If you know the name of this blog, you’ll know that we here at Home Run Derby LOVE the Home Run Derby. It’s the most wonderful day of the year.
The best thing about the MLB Home Run Derby is that it’s all just fun.
No pretentiousness about the sanctity of the game.
No forced urgency about home-field advantage during the World Series.
Heck, even the incoherent ramblings of Chris Berman and Joe Morgan on ESPN can’t ruin Home Run Derby for me.
But if you can’t stand the ESPN telecast… maybe you need a little something to take the edge off … like Home Run Derby’s Second Annual Home Run Derby Drinking Game!!
We did this last year for the Home Run Derby in San Francisco and it was so much fun I had to call in sick the next day. My arm hurt from raising my glass so much.
I’m always in need of a day off from work … so let’s do it again !!
Short Version
Put 911 on speed dial
Take a drink every time Chris Berman says “Back” as in “Back-Back-Back”
Take a drink every time Joe Morgan says something stupid.
Add ESPN announcer Rick Sutcliffe to the list of coaches-fans-players-announcers who have objectified Erin Andrews.
Last night, the lovely and talented Erin Andrews wore a bright yellow dress during ESPN’s telecast of the Braves-Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Sutcliffe and his broadcast partner Dave O’Brien made mention of the dress … which prompted Sutcliffe to say …
“I got a new favorite color, I know that”
and
“I’m more worried about Erin than I was me … wearin that skirt in the windy City? You think all eyes weren’t on her during batting practice?”
Sometime before the White Sox played the New York Yankees on Wednesday, ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews had a chat with Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain.
Chamberlain was talking about his father, who apparently has been getting better after collapsing earlier this month.
But as Andrews wrapped up the interview … she reached out and held his arm in support … and it looked as if Chamberlain said something that made her roll her eyes and scrunch up her face.
Okay - who can read lips? Does he say “I love you” or something like that?
Whatever Chamberlain said isn’t picked up by the microphone … but it made Erin Andrews wince in exasperation, if not disgust. She looks like she got Punk’d after showing genuine emotion towards Chamberlain about his family situation.
If that’s the case (and it might not be - I really can’t tell what the heck Chamberlain said or if that’s what caused her reaction) - that’s just obnoxious.
Andrews gets and takes a lot of crap from horny college students (and coaches) at NCAA basketball and football games - solely because she’s an attractive woman. But this is the first time I think I’ve ever seen her catch it from a professional athlete.
Somebody out there really knows me (actually, full disclosure: I do have a friend at ESPN Zone that forwarded this on to me) and designed the perfect contest for me, and probably many readers of this site.
Yep a “watching TV, eating, and drinking as much as you want all while sitting in a perfect recliner” contest. The ESPN Zone in Chicago is running its 6th annual (who knew they had already run 5 of these before), Ultimate Couch Potato Competition.
This is no joke, it is a real competition.
The rules are simple: sit in a comfy DreamSeat recliner in the front row of the Screening Room facing a wall of HD TVs, all showing non-stop sports programming and featuring the college bowl games.
Participants can order unlimited food and beverages compliments of ESPN Zone, however they may not sleep or leave their chair and restroom breaks are permitted every eight hours.
Five lucky participants (including last year’s champ) have a duel to see who can sit on the recliner the longest while watching sports, eating and drinking without falling asleep. You get a bathroom break every 8 hours. According to the site, last year’s winner made it 40 hours.
I think this Greek could take this in a breeze, but alas, there is NO way I get a 2 or 3 day hall pass to compete, especially from work (the contest starts on New Year’s Day and this finance guy can’t miss year end close).
It really is too bad, because among the prizes you win if you are the last person awake is a 42 inch HD TV, which I really need. And get this … no matter win or lose, if you make it 12 hours, you get to the keep the recliner!! 12 hours … any amateur sports watcher should be able to do that.
Maybe one of you guys out there have the right stuff to do this! Check out the site and enter if you so choose. Maybe Richie will throw in a Homerderby.com T-shirt if you win …
So Dick Vitale, the overcaffeinated and bombastic NCAA basketball analyst for ESPN, recently made some predictions for the Major League Baseball playoffs a little while ago on ESPN Radio with Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic.
I wonder how those turned out?
Let’s hear what Dickie V had to say about the MLB playoffs and how his predictions held up …
He makes this abundantly clear every time he announces a Giants game. He always has a new interview for that special time before the game when he “catches up” with Barry (it seems more like stalking to me).
Now, there is nothing wrong with this on the surface. It’s fine that Joe has a standing play date every time he’s in San Francisco and that Barry has found a member of the media he doesn’t wish would die a fiery death.
Barry might want to think about this, though, because Joe has gotten quite close to another prominent baseball figure in the past, and that player went on to get banned from baseball. I’m talking, of course, about Joe’s graceful aftershave conversation with Pete Rose in this classic 1979 Aqua Velva commercial.
So this past Sunday night, during the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecast of the Mets-Cubs game - which also happened to be Tom Glavine’s 300th career victory) there was some typically horrible broadcasting.
But this time it wasn’t Joe Morgan’s doing.
During the game, ESPN play-by-play man Jon Miller had these priceless words while the cameras were on the Cubs’ Derrek Lee (paraphrased since I forgot to record the game) …
And now for the Cubs … Carlos Lee
Oops. Hey Jon - Carlos Lee doesn’t play for the Cubs and he never has.
Well, during the commercial break, someone on ESPN’s crack production squad must have told Miller that Carlos Lee doesn’t play for the Cubs and that Derrek Lee is the Cubs’ first baseman, so he issued a “correction” (again, paraphrased) …
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Now, there is nothing wrong with this on the surface. It’s fine that Joe has a standing play date every time he’s in San Francisco and that Barry has found a member of the media he doesn’t wish would die a fiery death.
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