Keys to Surviving the Offseason

What? You're not reading Jose Melendez's KEYS TO THE GAME (capitalization his)? Well, you should be -- it's only the best damn sports blog on earth. Being a Red Sox fan helps, but it's Jose's style that keeps you coming back. (Note: Jose Melendez was a particularly forgettable Bosox pitcher from the early 90s. The blogger's real name is Daniel Kobayashi, as best as anyone can tell.) A couple recent examples example of Jose nailing a partisan sports topic while making any fan chuckle:

ON THE YANKEES' ALLEGED CLASS: Whenever anyone uses the word classy to describe the Yankees, Jose has the same reaction as when Donald Trump uses the word "classy." "Oh, you must think classy means grotesquely expensive, horribly tacky and an affront to decent people everywhere."

ON THE SOX'S UPCOMING VISIT TO THE WHITE HOUSE: [Former Sox utility outfielder Gabe Kapler]'s probably more interested in an opportunity to see Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s famed bouffant hair up close than to meet President Bush. (Note: Koizumi’s hair has been a subject of much discussion in Japan and around the world. In Jose’s opinion it looks like he got a 20 dollar bill at some point, saw the portrait of Andrew Jackson and said “That’s what a leader should look like!!!”)

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Posted on February 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Feb 21, 2005

R.I.P., H.S.T.

Hunter S. Thompson is dead -- by his own hand, they say. Unless he was terminally ill, the "Union" has to assume it was an accident.

One of the many classic H.S.T. lines that has stuck with this reader over the years was from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 -- something to the effect that putting Muskie up against Nixon would have been like pitting a three-toed sloth vs. a wolverine.

However he actually said it, it was slicker and harsher than that. Time to dust off those old paperbacks. Or at least check out this photo gallery.

Posted on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack