We here at Sparty and Friends would like to apologize for the outage we experienced yesterday. GITC fell off the stationary bike that
keeps the server goin, and thus…you see what happens. Fear not, I’m going to make it up to you with a very special TMA.
People have asked us here at Sparty and Friends, “Guys, how do you wake up every morning and put all these links together so that we can not only get our sports news, but our morning chuckle too?
Well friends, I GatorTrey will bring you behind the scenes on what type of work it takes to get this together.
5-6ish PM – The Day Before: Finish the work day with my last clever, yet thought provoking, comment in Happy Hour.
7PM – After trekking home from my office, I sit down to an eloquent 5 course meal prepared by our personal chef, Pierre. Pierre graduated from a culinary school in France and is well versed in all cuisines (especially those of the “Lean” variety).
8PM – TV time in the theater. This 90 inch High Definition screen was a gift from the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka after I made him laugh while he was reading TWTWCFB last October.
10PM – Prepare for bed, on Tuesday nights this includes a 20 minute deep tissue massage from Annalisa. She’s Swedish and is funded by A-Rod, after I promised to be nice to him in my TWTWB posts last summer.
11PM – Bedtime
11:05PM – This is usually where I’m like, “Oh shit, is tomorrow Wednesday?” followed by “That’s my TMA day! Dammit!” I hurry out of bed, spend about 30-60 minutes linking and writing interesting tidbits on the days news.
11:30-Midnight – Sleep
5:30 AM – Wake up, go to the gym with my personal trainer, Jessica Biel. She was a gift from Turner Broadcasting after I agreed not to bag on how irrelevantly boring the rookie v. sophomore challenge is.
7AM – Work!
You get the idea? You just want links don’t you…Losers.
Derek Jeter has expressed frustration over the A-Rod mess…Maybe because he says he quit juicing when he got to New York? Just time to suck in clutch situations in New York…is that it Jeets? Luckily, the feds have decided to avoid this one.
Future trivia question!!! What do Miguel Tejada and Bill Clinton have in common?.
If you’re the owner of the bong that Phelps smoked out of…and you know the local Sheriff said last week he was contemplating arresting Phelps for smoking out of said bong…what make you think throwing said bong on ebay would be smart…Must have taken a few rips before this genius plan.
Flying under the illegal substance radar…ladies and gentlemen Mr. Dirty Bird himself…Jamal Anderson.
The NCAA says they will not jeopardize the integrity of the NCAA tournament to help with the current economic hardship…and your scores…including Kentucky’s win over Florida.
“At UCLA, we graduate our athletes.”
The Cavs can quit bitching now…Mo Williams is an All Star…And what NBA trade deadline would be complete without a blockbuster deal…And the rest of your NBA evening.
Sean Avery is getting a second chance…again…Still better than the deal Antonio Margarito got
Now kick back, drink your java, and enjoy hump day.
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Jessica Biel is a terrible trainer. jeslpus(Quote)
that Sri Lankan dude is a cheapskate or plays favorites. he only gave me a 19″ projection tv. mizerle06(Quote)
yeah, well i got you both beat. i got an urgent email from the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka asking for my help. i wired him $5k and should be receiving my $10mil any day now for helping him out sae(Quote)
He just found me to be the more humorous of the TWTWCFB duo. GatorTrey(Quote)
mize–He was afraid the 90″ would break your treestand…he didn’t realize how structurally sound it was. rekcalsa(Quote)
I don’t know if my night was as good as Trey’s, but Sharks > Bruins, Lakers > Thunder Fiesta Trio(Quote)
Michael Curry sucks. sparty(Quote)
good point, rek. I guess he was just looking out for me. he should have asked though. mizerle06(Quote)
sparty – maybe you should hire Lance Armstrong to power the stationary bike. i once saw where he did something similar at the World Wide Leader. just sayin. graddawg(Quote)
I’ve been advocating cycledan for the stationary bike. mizerle06(Quote)
speaking of which, where is cycledan? sparty(Quote)
Maybe if you didn’t produce such quality posts, you wouldn’t have web server issues because of too much traffic Fiesta Trio(Quote)
Aight…I’m off to catch my flight back to NJ…maybe I’ll be back on for a bit in the airport. rekcalsa(Quote)
rek – liveblog your flight in the comments. mizerle06(Quote)
Rek-is sully your captain? i hear his flights are really exciting. sparty(Quote)
geez, make one joke about a plane crash that nobody died or was seriously hurt in and suddenly everyone stops commenting. sparty(Quote)
I found it funny. GatorTrey(Quote)
Too soon, sparty. to soon HawkEye19(Quote)
Hawkeye, whats the weather like over there. my parents said it was 60 in Michigan yesterday. sparty(Quote)
Upper 30s to low 40s. Most everything is melted away. Now I get to look at dirt and dormant grass until the next snow storm comes. I hope that’s soon. HawkEye19(Quote)
Uh-oh…weather talk. Must be a slow news day in the world o’ sports. john(Quote)
let’s talk about how a short-handed Michigan State went into a hostile Crisler Arena and knocked off Michigan. Delvon Roe was impressive. sparty(Quote)
How about how the Vikings owners are still pushing for a new, $1billion stadium right now. HawkEye19(Quote)
I love how every Maryland fan is complaining about recruiting and then we somehow get a visit from Lance Stephenson. If we actually get that guy… wow. And we somehow already have his high school teammate. I’m amazed. Gary is stepping it up. guyinthecorner(Quote)
He’s done great the last 5 years with all the talent Maryland brought in. GatorTrey(Quote)
Hawkeye- tax payer money? sparty(Quote)
Zygi Wilf would contribute a whole $250 million to it. The rest would have to be raised by local or state taxes or out of a general fund. HawkEye19(Quote)
Somewhere Marco is reading this and trying not to yell loud profanities in front of his new baby. Shaughnessy defending A-Rod…
Critics overdose on hate john(Quote)
Of course Sparty.
I have no objections to tax payer money being used when times are going well AND the team gives a good percentage.
But we’re in a major economic downturn that has forced the city/county/state governments to cut a lot out of the budget.
NFL stadiums are tough too. They are used at max, 10-12 times a year.
Compare that to a NBA/NHL arena which is used 150-200 dates a year. GatorTrey(Quote)
We’re in an economic downturn? I hadn’t heard. john(Quote)
The fact a stadium an be used so little is my major problem with throwing that much money into it. The Wilfs want an open air stadium, which is great for football, not great for the other 8 months of the year where it won’t/cant be used. HawkEye19(Quote)
Trey- the Giants/Jets are not using tax dollars. of course season ticket holders are taking the hit. sparty(Quote)
Hawkeye- the Vikings had the best HFA before they moved into the Metrodome. sparty(Quote)
Um……what’s HFA? HawkEye19(Quote)
I’m guessing the Twins new ballpark is being helped out quite a bit by tax payers, right?…so the odds of the state helping out on two new stadiums are probably slim. john(Quote)
news to me as well… mizerle06(Quote)
john – correct. It’s a Hennepin county (where Minneapolis is) wide sales tax of 0.15%. I had little problem with that one since there will likely be a taxable receipts uptick due to the 80+ dates in the new stadium, and because the Metrodome sucks for baseball. HawkEye19(Quote)
Hawkeye- i don’t know if you are joking or not. sparty(Quote)
Just clicked what HFA is. Bone chilling cold helped alot, but the noise from the Dome also is a huge advantage. HawkEye19(Quote)
weather conditions are much bigger help if you ask me. then again, Eli struggles at home when the winds pick up. wonder if the wind will be the same in the new stadium. sparty(Quote)
Well, we’re talking about Eli here. And the weather at Lambeau has not been a great help last few years for the Pack. HawkEye19(Quote)
I am all up for the stationary bike thing.
I have been lurking a little but the cell phone industry is not standing still and we had a little work to do before the big Barcelona trade show.
Cell phone conference
Need to provide that real time streaming sports video and scores to your smart phones.
Actually did the stationary bike last night. I was going to work out this morning but the wife had other plans.
I am now on the no cookie, cake or ice cream diet this month. I never really diet but in my old age I am finding it tougher to shed my extra winter pounds. I also bought a new scale since my old one varied up to 5 lbs based upon which way you leaned. Turned out, it was reading low.
Never got to comment on the whole A-Rod thing. Did anyone seriously think that there was even a chance he was clean? If so, that Sri Lankan prince wants to send you the $3M right away. Nice that he admits it when a) he was playing for a different team and b) before it was against MLB’s rules. I don’t believe he has been clean since but then again, I don’t believe anyone in pro sports is clean.
Glad to be back and flooding the comments sections with my long rambling rants. cycledan(Quote)
that’s because Brett Favre sucks. sparty(Quote)
The crownd noise in a dome is only an advantage when the team pumps it through the PA system. *cough*Colts*cough* john(Quote)
shit, Seattle pumps it through the pa system, and they are an outdoor stadium. sparty(Quote)
Hey, my long post never made it on the comments section. Trying this one. cycledan(Quote)
Shit, I lost my post. Oh well. I was just saying that I would be happy to ride the stationary bike for the sake of keeping S&F’s going.
Also was saying that I have been lurking but just crazy busy at work here. Big trade show in Barcelona to make sure that you guys can get your streaming sports video and scores on your smart phones not to mention update your blogs.
Wireless Conference cycledan(Quote)
Hmmm, when I embed a link, it doesn’t seem to post.
Well I will check back later and see what happened. cycledan(Quote)
Just need to make my one and only comment on A-Rod. I got into a discussion with a coworker where he wasn’t sure if A-Rod doped. I told him I was 100% sure he did. People are so naive and this guy has a PhD in math so he is no dummy either.
For $28M/year, I am doping. Hell, for $1M/year, I am doping. I took 4 aspirin before a high school football game so I could play with a dislocated collar bone. So for a $250M contract, I would cut off my left pinky – and I earn a lot more than A-Rod would if he didn’t play baseball. … and I don’t believe for a second that he stopped in 2003. However, I am still going to root for him this season because he is no worse than any other player. 103 tested positive. They can only catch a small percentage of the cheats and only if they test them at the right times for the right substances. I would say conservatively that 60-75% of MLB players dope. And I really don’t care. cycledan(Quote)
P-Pie > A-Rod john(Quote)
BREAKING NEWS
Via ESPN…
Brett Favre to inform New York Jets of his retirement.
ESPN is running an entire feature on Favre as we speak. Funny because even though they just got the news they obviously had this ready because he does this every year. guyinthecorner(Quote)
Here it is…
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3898942
/lazy’d guyinthecorner(Quote)
I’ll believe that when he doesn’t play come September. Until then… HawkEye19(Quote)
BS, Favre’s said that every offseason for the last 5 or so, yet he keeps crawling back sae(Quote)
…and so it begins. A few months from now, I’m sure Peter King will write how Favre has changed his mind and wants to play again. john(Quote)
“We’ve heard this song before, but we’ll go through the drill just in case it’s real this time.”
-Jay Crawford, First Take (ESPN2) guyinthecorner(Quote)
Shit, I actually agree with Shaughnessy? Am I going to hell?
/yes The Mark Show(Quote)
This is the weirdest sports story I have seen in a while. Roberto Alomar reportedly had unprotected sex with his girlfriend (who is fine) while he had AIDS. He also reportedly got AIDS by being raped by two Mexican men. WTF? Just insane.
Roberto Alomar NY Post cycledan(Quote)
now that is weird. jpmanahan(Quote)