You are using 7 years of hindsight against someone who is doing live commentary. Its completely unreasonable to expect him to parse every phrase perfectly.

So how does it taste?

yes

he made an apology, and I believe he got a couple game suspension and that was it

now if only they'd get him into the HoF

That is dumb, LOTS of pro scouts thought Henson was going to be a franchise quarterback in the NFL. It would be stupid to say that about Henson today, but it was not at all stupid to say it back then. DUCY?

Let's talk about stupid things again:

This weekend in college one one of the national games broadcast on the EC, the color guy said:

'If you have the lead late in the 4th Q, you can sometimes win by running the clock out.'

Somebody get that guy a MacArthur Genius Grant!

Of course, nothing tops the immortal "One of the ways to win in football is to outscore the other team."
I don't think you can top that one.

mainly the media keeps saying this stupid one that needs to stop: "He's already been tried in the Court of Public Opinion ."

I understand this one and why they say it but it just sounds so pseudo-intellectual/cheesy and it seems like they try to work it into the segment anytime Vick comes up (or whomever).

On NFL Live just now, Trey Wingo, talking about Larry Johnson, said something like:

"And remember, the year after a guy has 460 or more carries, he NEVER has as good of a year the next year."

Ummm...yeah dude, go figure, the year after he has a ridiculous amount of carries (and therefore likely a ridiculous amount of yards and TDs) he never has a career year the next year. And what does NEVER mean? How many guys have had that many carriers (460 made up, I cant remember exactly what he said)? If its like 50 guys, and NONE of them have EVER had another career year right after, then it might be a legit point. If its like 4 guys ever?

just on the morning news in nyc
Newcaster is talking about the mets collapse. He says he will interview people on the street later and ask them who they think will win the NL East (let me guess a whole bunch of mets mans saying "you gotta believe")
Then he says for what its worth he thinks the mets will win it because the Phillies are the first professional sports team to lose 10,000 games. Brilliant.

Well, duh. It's hard to get the momentum going when guys like Chase Utley and Aaron Rowand are in the locker room for hours before the game discussing losses from 92 years ago.

Yeah, and I mean, Cholly Manuel only was around for 6000 of those losses.

From early in Joe Morgan's broadcasting career:

"There is no such thing as a great player on a bad team."

So, (dating myself here) he's saying Ernie Banks sucked? Or when Steve Carlton went 27-5 on a last place team he wasn't great?

McCarver said he asked Stats Inc if it was more likely to have a mulit-run inning with a leadoff walk than a leadoff HR. Yes, he did.

He was 'shocked' to find out a leadoff HR leads to more multirun innnigs as 'that is the CW.' Partner agreed [prolly to get him to shut up.]

Damnit. Beat me to it.

I remember a Tommy Heinsohn gem after one of the Celtics got called for blocking in a critical point in the game.

"THAT WAS A CHARGE!! BAD CALL BY THE REF, HIS FEET WERE CLEARLY OUTSIDE OF THE CIRCLE! THE REFS JUST COST THE CELTICS THE GAME!"

After FSN shows replays that the refs made the right call

"Well it looks like his feet were inside the circle. That was still a bad call anyway."

Not sure who it was, but today on the radio on some preview of today's games, a guy actually said "Notre Dame should be licking its chops on offense getting ready for Purdue."

Uhhhh...Notre Dame should not be licking its chops about anything at this point.

OK, so it only counts as stupid if we can prove it is stupid many years later?

OK...let me try then.

"Tony Gwynn Jr. will be a much better hitter than his dad ever was."

Now let's wait a few years to see how stupid I am.

I vote that I only get criticized by people who can spell.

Well praise the Lord you're not a moderator! Whew!

Saying, and inherently speculating, that Drew Henson would be a franchise QB before he ever got to the NFL wasn't nearly as dumb as would be somebody saying in 2007 (after seeing Gwynn Jr. hit in the bigs) that Gwynn Jr. would be "much better" hitter than his dad.

Your example sucks and you aren't proving anything. You clicking on this thread should happen no more. Think about what you did.

More of Hollywade's genius
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=sportevents&Numbe r=10201136

Someone mention the Suzy Kolber thing in the fantasy draft. It was Brett Favre.

Anytime any Toronto media person says anything about John McDonald. Also Rance Mullinks suggests hitting and running about 8 times every game he broadcasts.

god damn you're [censored] ******ed.

I caught the end of the Florida - Auburn game last night. Florida ties it at 17 in the 4th quarter on a QB draw by Tim Tebow. Tebow celebrates, then goes and apparently tries to hype the defense up...Mike Patrick starts talking about how competitive Tebow is and how he simply "refuses to lose"...sideline reporter then tells a story of how before the season, Florida had a tug of war between the offense and the defense and the players picked Tebow. Yeah, I don't know what that means either, but I'm pretty sure that's what she said. I guess he was the tug of war MVP. Anyway, Florida gets the ball back late, goes three and out, and Auburn drives down and wins with a FG at the gun. I guess Tebow decided to lose this time. Maybe they should wait a little deeper into a guys career than like, his first close game, before giving him the 'refuses to lose' tag.

Mike Wilner of the FAN590 tilts me every time he opens his mouth about J McD being the greatest.

Actually he tilts me every time he defends the team