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Bunky
May 27, 2018 11:55:17 GMT -5
Post by dex on May 27, 2018 11:55:17 GMT -5
Well said '82
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Bunky
Jun 9, 2018 9:16:24 GMT -5
Post by dex on Jun 9, 2018 9:16:24 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Edelman news worsens already bad offseason
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:
Tom Brady is back and the long national nightmare is over, this offseason during which the Patriots seemed to lose a little bit of their mystique, what with Brady on the other side of the country, out of sight, but never out of mind.
Right?
Well almost.
For now comes the news that Julian Edelman, one of TB12’s favorites, apparently will miss the first four games because of PED use, the kind of news no team wants, especially a team that already has had a difficult offseason. The kind of news that simply fans the flames of all the Patriots haters out there.
Talk about bad karma.
■ Old friend Doris Burke, the former PC women’s basketball player who has hit it big as a TV analyst, has been re-upped by ESPN.
■ LeBron to the Celts? That’s one of the hot new rumors, as it’s become very clear that he’s gone as far as he can go with the talent-deprived Cavaliers.
■ Speaking of LeBron, he recently said that the Warriors are one of the best NBA teams ever assembled.
■ Is Stormy Daniels’ appearance at the Cadillac Lounge about as close as we’re going to get to a presidential visit?
■ Robert Kraft turned 77 on Tuesday.
■ Tiger Woods’ last win in a major was the U.S. Open in 2008, if you’re trying to keep track of such things.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Which active franchise has gone the longest without an appearance in the NBA Finals? (Answer near bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Oklahoma freshman basketball sensation Trae Young, who is leaving school and is being touted as the next Steph Curry: “My main focus isn’t to be necessarily the best player in the draft, it’s to be the best player in the NBA.”
Say what?
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II also comes from LeBron on the winning team not being invited to the White House: “No one wants to go anyway.”
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III comes from actress Kate Rockwell in the New York Times: “Out here in the big world no one cares what you got on your SATs.”
■ The Celtics haven’t been in the NBA Finals in eight years, if you’re keeping score at home, Bunky.
■ Have we seen the best of Serena Williams, who pulled out of the French Open because of an injury, her first major in 16 months.
■ Don’t invite Donald Trump and the Philadelphia Eagles to the same party.
■ Speaking of LeBron, is it already played out in Cleveland?
■ And does he see the Warriors’ Draymond Green in his sleep?
■ Old friend Lou Lamoriello wasted little time in his new job as hockey boss of the Islanders, as he bounced general manager Garth Snow and coach Doug Weight.
■ Is the Miss America Pageant an endangered species in this new America?
■ And does Jackie Bradley Jr. hit well enough to be an everyday player on a contending team? Just asking.
■ A new book on the Warriors is “Golden Days: West’s Lakers, Steph’s Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball,” by former Sports Illustrated great Jack McCallum.
■ Another is “Golden: The Miraculous Rise of Steph Curry,” by Marcus Thompson.
■ There’s no truth to the rumor that LeBron is going to sue his teammates for nonsupport.
■ Or that parts of South County are almost ready to surrender to Connecticut and beg for mercy.
■ J.D. Martinez gives the Sox a power bat they were missing.
■ Raise your hand if you’re shocked that Edelman got a four-game suspension by the NFL for the use of performance enhancing drugs.
■ Speaking of PED use, you know it’s just of a matter of time, Bunky, before some big NFL star blows the lid off all of it, right?
■ R.I.P. Dwight Clark, former 49ers receiver at 61, who suffered from ALS.
■ There are few things prettier than a golf course on a beautiful spring afternoon.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: The Buffalo Braves/San Diego/ Los Angeles Clippers, 47 years.
■ Few things are more nostalgic than the summer songs of your adolescence.
■ My favorite Gronk story of the offseason? He reportedly was hanging out with tiger sharks in the Bahamas for a Discovery Channel series.
■ But there’s no truth to the rumor that the sharks couldn’t cover him.
■ MLB attendance is down in this young season.
■ The word on the street is that the Independent Man wants to go to South County for the summer, too.
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Bunky
Jun 16, 2018 8:54:55 GMT -5
Post by dex on Jun 16, 2018 8:54:55 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Offseason unlike any other for Patriots
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT’S
WORTH:
■ It’s not even the Fourth of July yet, and already this seems like the summer of the Patriots’ discontent.
Tom Brady’s absences.
Gronk’s contract.
Julian Edelman’s four-game suspension for PEDs.
What’s next, a warm and cuddly Bill Belichick?
Who knows?
But right now the Patriots are like a fine-tuned engine that is starting to give off a little too much smoke.
■ Tiger hasn’t won a major in a decade, if you’re trying to stay on top of these things, Bunky.
■ Mookie Betts has the most votes so far in the quest to be on the American League team in the All-Star Game.
■ Did you see where Rudy Giuliani says “... I don’t respect a porn star the way I respect a career woman or a woman of substance or a woman who has great respect for herself as a woman and as a person and isn’t going to sell her body for sexual exploitation.”
■ But politicians he likes?
■ Could it be as simple as a certain future Hall-of-Fame quarterback around here wanting a little more respect from a certain Hall-of-Fame coach around here? Just asking.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Five male players have shot a 63 in the U.S. Open, but only one did it in the final round. Who is he? (Answer at the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Bill Bradley, the former New York Knick and U.S. senator, talking about his former teammates: “Forty-eight years later and here we are, we remain close. I always refer to being on a championship team as a beautiful given the rest of your life. You’re always a champion. It’s like being a part of a family without the complications.”
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from a caption in the New York Post next to a picture of Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman: “Loopy & Hoopy.’’
■ “Johnny (Manziel) Football’’ is playing in Canada.
■ There’s no truth to the rumor that Boston is just about a dozen cars short of complete gridlock.
■ Or that LeBron’s last message to Cleveland will be “Adios.’’
■ Or that the best thing new Sox manager Alex Cora has going for him is he’s not John Farrell.
■ Now the word is kids are fast-breaking away from Facebook, in search of YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat.
■ Like who knew.
■ For a cool $13,950,000 you can buy Tom & Gisele’s pad in New York City.
■ Is there a more underrated player in the NBA than the Warriors’ Draymond Green, who does a little bit of everything?
■ Remember when baseball pants came right below the knee? Gone, baby, gone.
■ “Ocean’s 8’’ is a ripoff, of course, but it’s one with a twist, and it works.
■ Golden State is 5/4 to win the 2019 NBA title.
■ Serena Williams, who hasn’t won a Grand Slam title in over a year, due to a pregnancy and injuries, is the 453rd-ranked women’s tennis player in the world.
■ Few people ever sang a ballad better than Elvis did.
■ How dominant an NBA player was Wilt Chamberlain? He averaged 50.4 points a game in the 1961-62 season. That’s how dominant.
■ The American League East? There’s the Red Sox and the Yankees; the other three should hang white flags in their stadiums and simply surrender.
■ Kanye’s appeal eludes me.
■ Then again, the real story would be if it didn’t, right?
■ Brady will be 41 on Aug. 4, if you’re trying to keep score at home.
■ Isn’t it about time for Ricky Fowler to win a major?
■ Is soccer ever really going to be big around here, or is there simply no room on an already crowded sports docket?
■ I’m not really sure I understand why the Sox jettisoned Hanley Ramirez.
■ There are few things better than a Rhode Island summer.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Johnny Miller in 1973.
■ Kennedy Plaza on a summer night is not exactly the beach.
■ The Mets had 17 players on the disabled list on June
9.
■ You’ve seen a lot of rain delays, Bunky, if you remember when the only sign in Fenway Park was one for The Jimmy Fund.
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Bunky
Jun 27, 2018 23:12:17 GMT -5
Post by pcdad on Jun 27, 2018 23:12:17 GMT -5
Yankees Red Sox are the teams this year...
You need to suffer to be a Mets Fan... Save 1986.
They changed the darn rules for Wilt.... Anyone remember the "key". Yeah, Wilt changed all that...
Remember dropping 100 on the NY Knicks in Hershey, PA?
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Bunky
Jul 1, 2018 9:01:37 GMT -5
Post by dex on Jul 1, 2018 9:01:37 GMT -5
COMMENTARY A rivalry that never gets old
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ The Sox and the Yankees.
Can baseball get any better?
Not around here it can’t. Not when both teams are battling for the division lead on a summer weekend.
History and geography, passion and emotion, all in one big baseball pot with a lot of memories, too.
Enjoy.
Because the baseball gods are giving us a treat.
■ LeBron in Celtics green. Can’t see it. And don’t want it either.
■ No, the Patriots didn’t spend the last week in sensitivity training.
■ “The President is Missing,’’ by Bill Clinton and James Patterson, the No. 1 fiction bestseller in the country, will keep you reading.
■ Dan Hurley is inheriting a mess at UConn, as former coach Kevin Ollie’s tenure appears to have been marred by numerous NCAA violations.
■ The Red Sox season is half over, and so far it’s all good.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Name the four players in major-league history who have had at least 500 home runs, hit at least .300, and stole over 100 bases. (Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Mets general manager Sandy Alder-son, citing a recurrence of cancer that he had three years ago: “This isn’t Disney World. We have to deal with life as it presents itself and I’m OK with that.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from longtime baseball writer Bill Madden in the New York Daily News: “We are inexorably headed for the first year in baseball history in which there will be more strikeouts than hits.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III comes from Warriors coach Steve Kerr: “The guy who deserves the most credit for changing the way the game is played is Mike D’Antoni. He’s the guy who just eliminated the center position and said ‘Let’s go small and fast and shoot more 3s.’ ‘’
■ Gisele, you-know-who, is on the cover of “Vogue,’’ called an “Earth Mother, Eco Activist, and Fashion Superstar,’’ under a headline that says “Modeling Never Defined Me.’’
■ Jacoby Ellsbury, who has missed all season with injuries, is now in the fifth year of his seven-year $153-million contract with the Yankees.
■ In my next life I’m going to try to appreciate soccer more.
■ There’s no truth to the rumor that if you go see a so-called “summer movie’’ you come out of the theater having lost 10 points on your IQ.
■ Or that you could be put in ice for 50 years, come out and it still would be Red Sox and Yankees when you woke up.
■ Were there panhandlers in the original Renaissance City, too, or just here?
■ R.I.P. Charles Krauthammer, an American original.
■ And Hubert Green, too, at 71, the golfer who won the 1977 U.S. Open and the 1985 PGA.
■ Willie O’Ree, the first black player in the NHL, is going into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
■ The story of this NBA summer? Does LeBron stay in his native Cleveland, or does he roll the dice again?
■ The word is Kyrie Irving’s summer movie “Uncle Drew’’ is going to be a big hit.
■ Magic Johnson has said he will step down as the Lakers president of basketball operations if he can’t convince elite free agents to sign with the Lakers over the next two summers.
■ What are the odds that TB12 and Coach Bill will go to the beach together this summer?
■ The new book “Jim Brown: Last Man Standing’’ is a great look back at the former football great, written by Dave Zirin.
■ You’ve seen a lot of Rhode Island summers, Bunky, if you remember the old music festivals in Newport’s Freebody Park.
■ And when the Narragansett Town Beach used to be called “The Pier.’’
■ I’m not sure if I ever saw a swing any sweeter than Fred Lynn’s.
■ A public get-well to old friend Bob Terino, the longtime URI godfather himself, as he battles some health issues this summer.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols.
■ Mookie Betts is a superstar in training.
■ We will miss the PawSox if they go to Worcester.
■ Speaking of the PawSox, couldn’t we send the General Assembly to Worcester and keep the PawSox here?
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Bunky
Jul 5, 2018 11:33:08 GMT -5
Post by pcdad on Jul 5, 2018 11:33:08 GMT -5
...guess Magic's job is secure...
Willie Mays - may have been the greatest of all. If, ands, and buts... The years lost when enlisted during the Korean War (Conflict)... The wind blowing in at Candlestick... It was Willie Mays that should have surpassed the Babe's home run mark.... Willie Mays five tool player extraordinairre.
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Bunky
Jul 7, 2018 9:23:47 GMT -5
Post by dex on Jul 7, 2018 9:23:47 GMT -5
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:
‒ Here it is July, and you don’t have to be the reincarnation of Tom Yawkey to figure out that the Red Sox have a chance to be in this right to the end, one of the special baseball summers around here.
And, yes, there’s a lot of baseball to be played before this season sleeps.
And, yes, Red Sox history is full of talented teams that never made it first to the finish line, for one reason or another.
But this is a team that plays with a swagger, a team that knows it’s good and plays that way. And what else can you ask for in early July?
‒ Alex Cora is like a jockey on a great horse: just don’t screw it up.
‒ You’ve seen too many summers around here, Bunky, if you remember who the Cowsills were.
‒ The Sox and the Yankees are what Duke and North Carolina are in college basketball.
‒ The Lakers have missed the postseason for a team record five straight seasons.
‒ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Two PawSox pitchers once threw perfect games. Can you name them? (Answer near the bottom of the column)
‒ LINE OF THE WEEK I comes from the new Knicks’ coach David Fizdale, on the culture he’s trying to create around the Knicks: “You keep what you kill.″
‒ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark: “The truth is that democracy is in decline in every region of the world.”
‒ Rondo is now on his sixth NBA team, if you’re trying to keep up at home.
‒ Anything the great Leigh Montville, formerly of the Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, writes is well worth reading, and “Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971” is no exception.
‒ You know that summer’s on the clock around here with football magazines already in the stores.
‒ Are you ready for board game speed dating?
‒ The word is that one of the ideas floating around the NBA is to take the best eight teams from both conferences and seed them for the playoffs, but commissioner Adam Silver says the additional travel would be a major obstacle.
‒ And that former URI stars E.C. Matthews and Hassan Martin are playing in the NBA Summer League — Matthews for Grizzlies; Martin for the Celtics.
‒ You know it’s officially summer when the great Joey Chestnut wins his 11th straight “Mustard Belt″ at Coney Island by chomping down on 74 wieners and buns in just 10 minutes.
‒ Greatness comes in many forms, right?
‒ Did you see where A-Rod said that Red Sox sluggers Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez are better than the Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge.
‒ But there’s no truth to the rumor that A-Rod called himself the best player in the game.
‒ Does David Price hate everything, or just Boston?
‒ Memo from the “We’re Spoiled″ department: The Pats haven’t had a losing season since 2000, Coach Bill’s first season.
‒ And kicker Stephen Gostkowski was 37 for 40 on field-goal attempts last season, making all four of his attempts from 50-plus yards.
‒ You know things are tough in movie world this summer when one of the few things that seems almost watchable is “Uncle Drew″ with Kyrie Irving.
‒ Rondo on the same team with LeBron with the Lakers? Get ready for a lot of pouting when LeBron always has the ball.
‒ When I think about “summer in the city,″ I’m not thinking about Kennedy Plaza.
‒ QUIZ ANSWER: Tomo Ohka in 2000 and Bronson Arroyo in 2003.
‒ We’ve been losing the war on marijuana for almost a half-century now, just in case anyone’s still trying to keep score.
‒ Is this a bad patch for Dustin Pedroia, or a sneak preview of the end?
‒ It’s not even mid-July and this Patriots’ offseason already seems as though it’s been going on way too long.
‒ Tourism is great until it’s sitting too close to your blanket at the beach.
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Bunky
Aug 4, 2018 9:13:47 GMT -5
Post by dex on Aug 4, 2018 9:13:47 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Sox-Yanks rivalry remains ageless
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:
■ Few things are better around here than the Red Sox and the Yankees at Fenway Park in August in a series that means something. The names change and the seasons, they come and they go, but everything else is timeless. The history. The tradition. The emotion. All of it. And here it is again. Timeless. A rivalry out of some scriptwriter's dream.
■ But where's Bucky Dent?
■ J.D. Martinez leads the American League in home runs (tied) and RBI entering Friday night, in case you've been away on summer leave, Bunky.
■ Remember when social media was, like, social? Now it's all but warfare in letters.
■ The worst division in baseball? The A.L. Central, where Cleveland is the only team with a winning record.
■ Kudos to LeBron for starting an "I Promise School'' for at-risk kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Name the two NFL quarterbacks who led their teams in rushing last year? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Tom Brady after one of the Patriots' first practices: "It's all good.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II also comes from Brady, when asked if there was any tension between he and Bill Belichick: "I have no thoughts.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III comes from NBA superstar Kevin Durant in Yahoo Sports to an unnamed sports writer: “Man, get out the way. I done did the work, I done showed you what I do. I know y’all don’t like me, but get out the way and let this [expletive] roll. I ain’t want no smoke with nobody."
■ LINE OF THE WEEK IV comes from Belichick on how long he's going to coach: "Right now it's day to day.''
■ There's no truth to the rumor that if look up "low key'' in the dictionary Red Sox manager Alex Cora's face stares back at you.
■ Or that if you don't like something in the news, just call it "fake news,'' and keep moving on.
■ Or that Brady and Belichick are scheduled to star in a new TV series called "Odd Couple II.''
■ Speaking of Belichick, this is now his 44th year in the NFL, his 19th as the Patriots coach.
■ R.I.P. the great Boston sportscaster Clark Booth, at 79.
■ Do the Sox need more bullpen help?
■ McDonald's "Big Mac'' turns 50 this summer.''
■ A book on Aaron Hernandez, by his older brother Jonathan, aka DJ, a former Brown assistant football coach, will be out in October from Harper-Collins. It's called "The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother."
■ Just when you thought you've heard it all, Bunky, along comes the news that once upon a time Donald Trump wanted his daughter Ivanka to marry Brady.
■ The Sox and the Yankees? The Sox are better.
■ "Mission Impossible — Fallout'' is the hottest movie in the country, the sixth in the franchise.
■ I've just finished two of the best sports novels I've read in a long time. They're both about youth hockey, they are set somewhere deep in the middle of nowhere, and they're both written by a Swedish writer named Fredrik Backman. The first is "Beartown," and the second is "Us Against You.''
■ The latest reminder that big-time college sports are fragile? Urban Meyer, who has won three national college football titles at Ohio State and Florida, has been placed on leave at Ohio State as the school investigates how much he knew of a domestic assault by one of his assistant coaches.
■ Old friend Rick Pitino has a new book set for a September release, a tell-all tale of life behind the curtain of big-time college basketball. I'm sure it's not a pretty sight.
■ Best wishes to longtime high school sports writer John Gillooly, who's retiring after more than 50 years at The Journal.
■ Jimmy Garoppolo is on his way to becoming a star.
■ TB12 is going to play until someone pulls the uniform off him.
■ But there's no truth to the rumor it's going to be Garoppolo.
■ Hang on South County. The invasion's almost over.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Cam Newton of the Panthers, and Russell Wilson of the Seahawks.
■ You've seen a lot of summers, Bunky, if you remember when no one ever heard the expression ''log on.''
■ The Jets haven't made the playoffs in seven years.
■ There's a great picture in Thursday's Boston Globe of Brady, in uniform, walking off the practice field with his young daughter Vivian.
■ Just the latest reminder that even athletes as famous as Brady have lives away from the spotlight.
■ There's no truth to the rumor that the Independent Man is so bored around Providence, that he, too, wants to go to Narragansett for a little action.
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Bunky
Aug 4, 2018 12:17:03 GMT -5
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Post by wtm97 on Aug 4, 2018 12:17:03 GMT -5
Tip of the hat to Bunky for a mention of the passing of the GREAT sports writer, Clark Booth.
Clark was a superb master of journalism, his work was truly lyrical.
In retirement, he wrote a monthly column for the Boston Catholic Pilot, it was always something worth waiting for each and every month.
God Bless you Clark Booth...RIP
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Post by dex on Aug 4, 2018 13:13:01 GMT -5
Unfortunately Bunky is also one of the last to continue kissing Pitino's sorry arse.
Drives me nuts when someone on the board always says BUT he was magical for 2 years at PC
No Chit Einstein
That was then and this is now
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Bunky
Aug 18, 2018 8:44:50 GMT -5
Post by dex on Aug 18, 2018 8:44:50 GMT -5
COMMENTARY PawSox will be missed
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ The WooSox? Please. I suspect we will rue the day that we lost the PawSox to Worcester, and wonder what we could have done to prevent it, if anything. For it certainly seemed like a good marriage all these years, certainly seemed like it worked. If nothing else, it brightened our sports world, gave us a special link to the Red Sox, made us special in ways no other place — outside of Boston, of course — was. That was not insignificant. The PawSox were longtime members of the community around here, and that was good for everybody. Losing them is not a good thing. The WooSox? Sorry. Not around here.
■ Jimmy G. reportedly will make $61.2 million over the next two seasons.
■ So mama, don't raise your sons to be cowboys. Raise them to be quarterbacks.
■ Apple became the first publicly traded company to be worth more than a trillion dollars. Roll that figure around on your tongue for a while, Bunky.
■ If your quarterback stinks, odds are your football team does, too.
■ The Cleveland Browns are 1-31 over the last two seasons. Paul Brown is crying somewhere.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Who played in the most World Series games? Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Tom Brady on how long he wants to continue to play: “I’ve talked two years with my wife. I’ve negotiated that thus far. I’ve still got a little further to go.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from frequent column contributor Brad Dexter: “There’s no truth to the rumor Gina’s going to walk on water after she lights the next WaterFire.”
■ The Tiger Factor? CBS had 8.5 million viewers on Sunday for the PGA Championship, a 73-percent increase from last year.
■ You think you know everything there is to know about Michael Jordan? Trust me, you don’t, Bunky. But read “Michael Jordan: The Life,’’ by Roland Lazenby, and you’ll get a whole lot closer.
■ “Idiots Revisited,’’ by Ian Browne, who covers the Red Sox for MLB.com, is a very enjoyable book on the great 2004 World Series season.
■ There’s no truth to the rumor that the General Assembly is in South County for the rest of the summer.
■ Or that the Independent Man wants to banish Connecticut license plates there for the rest of the summer.
■ How could the Orioles be this bad?
■ The Celtics are going to be very good this season.
■ Is there a movie out there this summer for anyone over 30, or am I just missing it?
■ Two things that instantly would perk up baseball? A clock on the pitcher, and no stepping out of the batter’s box.
■ R.I.P. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, at 76.
■ Does the Independent Man get any time off for summer?
■ Would anyone be really shocked if Tom Brady announced he’s actually found “The Fountain of Youth,’’ and it will be marketed by TB12.
■ Pawtuxet Village is a little gem around here.
■ Like him, don’t like him, doesn’t matter. A golf tournament’s always better when Tiger is in it.
■ The NFL has too many exhibition games.
■ So do the Red Sox, even if they’re not supposed to be exhibition games.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Yogi Berra, who played in 75.
■ Just when you thought the culture couldn’t go any lower, along comes Kanye West to say he dreams of having sex with his wife’s sisters. Beautiful.
■ Five schools in college football have gotten 75 percent of the college football playoff berths over the last four years — Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma.
■ Speaking of college football, Sports Illustrated has Clemson as the best college football team in the country, with Alabama second.
■ And raise your hand, too, Bunky, if you ever thought tattoos were going to be a fashion statement.
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Bunky
Aug 18, 2018 18:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by wtm97 on Aug 18, 2018 18:29:44 GMT -5
Finally got the Bunky Quiz answer INSTANTLY!!
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Bunky
Aug 19, 2018 8:38:05 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Aug 19, 2018 8:38:05 GMT -5
Everybody loved Yogi
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Bunky
Aug 25, 2018 11:28:06 GMT -5
Post by dex on Aug 25, 2018 11:28:06 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Things are just starting to heat up
BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH:
■ The dog days of summer?
Not around here.
The Red Sox are running away with the American League East — with the Yankees in the rear-view mirror and 32 games to play, a dream season if there ever was one (so far, anyway).
And the Patriots are loaded up, ready for another run as they close out the preseason next week and open another campaign, complete with all the expectations they’ve built over the last two decades.
If you’re a sports fan, September looks like it’s going to be a real treat.
Now if we can just get those Connecticut license plates out of South County.
■ Old friend Lamar Odom says he had 12 strokes while in a coma after overdosing in 2015.
■ If the American League MVP Award were a horse race, would we say that Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez are neck and neck?
■ Michael Cohen is Donald Trump’s worst nightmare, the ghost of past sins.
■ The Orioles were an amazing 52 games back on Friday morning. Not the Rays. The Orioles.
■ Or where have you gone Jim Palmer, Baltimore turns its lonely eyes to you.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: What is the only NFL team that Tom Brady hasn’t beaten on its home field? Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale: “I’m on the best team that ever walked the planet.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from Rudy Giuliani: “Truth isn’t truth.’’
Then what is it, Rudy? We can’t wait to hear.
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III comes from the back page of one of the New York tabloids, on all the injured Yankees: “PAINSTRIPES.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK IV comes from Joe Torre, who threw out the first pitch on Sunday at Yankee Stadium: “You’re 30 games over .500 and you look at the standings and you’re still 10 games back.”
■ Victor Cruz, who played in the NFL for seven years, and also played at UMass with former Rhode Island high school star Liam Coen, has retired from the NFL and will join ESPN.
■ But there’s no truth to the rumor that the Independent Man will retire, collect his pension, then run for the General Assembly.
■ And, of course, eat at Twin Oaks, and go to Florida for the winter.
■ Then come back and get his kid a summer job working for the state.
■ Then go to sleep in his “Full Rhode Island’’ T-shirt.
■ Larry Lucchino and former PC basketball coach Gary Walters were once on the same basketball team at Princeton.
■ Springfield, Mass., is betting the future on a downtown $1-billion resort casino.
■ Maybe it’s a clue that the economy is not working when we need casinos to bail it out.
■ But Kobe Bryant doesn’t need to get bailed out. He reportedly has made $700 million in both salary and endorsements over the course of his career.
■ Roll that figure around on your tongue for a while Bunky. Then go out and work on that jumper.
■ The movie “Grease’’ came out 40 years ago.
■ Speaking of movies, my spies tell me “BlacKkKlansman’’ is also worth it.
■ The Red Sox seem almost unbeatable when they score first.
■ Mike Lupica, who started out writing for the Boston Phoenix decades ago and became one of the truly elite sports writers in the country, has left the struggling New York Daily News to write detective novels.
■ David Price has been well worth it since the All-Star break.
■ The word is that former URI basketball coach Jim Harrick is an assistant at Cal State Northbridge.
■ Urban Meyer is the latest big-time college football coach to find himself under a certain cloud.
■ Harvard is about to begin its 145th year of college football.
■ The Route 195 traffic nightmare? Really?
■ UMass has 100 players on its football roster, 27 from Massachusetts.
■ Did you see where Pedro buried the Yankees the other day, saying they don’t appear to be hustling?
■ Or in other words, they’re not his daddy anymore.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: The Seattle Seahawks.
■ Andrew Benitendi is having a great year in a season in which both Betts and Martinez are having super great years.
■ If Alex Cora wasn’t born to be the Sox manager, he’s certainly doing a great job of faking it.
■ The sound you hear is the General Assembly starting to warm up in the bullpen.
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Bunky
Oct 6, 2018 9:52:19 GMT -5
Post by dex on Oct 6, 2018 9:52:19 GMT -5
COMMENTARY
Time to exhale, Pats fans
BILL REYNOLDS
The return of Julian Edelman, who gains yardage after a catch in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s game against the Colts, gave Pats fans another reason to relax a bit.
Tom Brady lunges over the top of the Colts defensive line for a Patriots touchdown in Thursday night’s victory. Two straight wins have calmed the fears of New England’s fans.
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ OK, Pats fans — you can walk across the bridge now. No jumping off. No stopping in the middle wondering if it's going to collapse. Thursday night's game changed that, at least for now, as if we all woke up and realized the early-season debacles were just nightmares. The Pats are now 3-2, everyone's awake and ready to roll.
■ The definition of a dynasty? The Pats haven’t lost three games in a row since 2002.
■ If they played in Rhode Island, we’d call them a football version of the Democratic Party, right?
■ Who plays Trump in the movie?
■ Big perception game today for the Rams, as they host Brown in football.
■ Raise your hand if you ever in a million years thought that Harvard’s Ryan Fitzpatrick was going to have this kind of career as an NFL quarterback.
Put yours down, Bunky.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Who has the most home runs in World Series history? Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK is a recurring one from Bill Belichick, to one of his quarterbacks: “What the .... was that? I could get Johnny Foxborough from down the street, and he could make a better ..... throw than this.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from former Boston Globe writer Marty Nolan, who once wrote: “They killed my father, and now they’re coming for me.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III is this classic from Warren Buffett: “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.’’
■ LINE OF THE WEEK IV comes from Jets coach Todd Bowles: “It’s go time now.’’
Go where?
■ If there were an NFL dictionary and you could look up the word “uncoverable,’’ there’s no truth to the rumor that Gronk’s face stares back at you.
■ Or that if she wins again, a statue of Gina goes up on the State House next to the Independent Man.
■ If you read a sports biography this year half as good as “Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time,’’ by Ian O’Connor, let me know.
■ St. John’s hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game in college basketball in 18 years.
■ Odds are Alex Cora probably won’t go down as the greatest Red Sox manager of all time, but he’s having one great ride this year, no doubt about that.
■ This from Star Parker in the Boston Herald: In 1967, 10 percent of all babies in the country were born to unwed mothers. Now? Now it’s 40 percent.
■ Tiger has gone 13-21-2 in his Ryder Cup matches through the years.
■ If Mookie Betts isn’t the MVP, there should be an investigation.
■ Did you see where the Celtics’ Kyrie Irving has apologized for saying the Earth is flat?
■ What, they didn’t have Earth Science at Duke? n In the regular season, the Red Sox had a losing record against the Indians, Astros and A’s, and were 10-9 against the Yankees.
■ Am I the only one who feels like taking a shower after watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearings?
■ There’s a great story in Thursday’s Boston Herald about Terry Rozier Sr. — father of Celtics guard Terry Rozier — who just got of prison after 15 years and can’t wait to see his son play the game he once taught him to play, back when the NBA was as far away as the moon.
■ The Orioles finished 47-115, a staggering 61 games behind the Red Sox in the American League East.
■ And guess what? Manager Buck Showalter got fired because it’s obviously all his fault, right?
■ “Fever City,’’ a new novel by Tim Baker, all but grabbed me by the throat in the first chapter. Just sayin’.
■ The alliance between the sneaker companies and too many of the country’s big-time college basketball programs is a disgrace.
■ Mookie Betts gets all the love, and deservedly so, but J.D. Martinez has had a wonderful year, too.
■ R.I.P. Dave Anderson, the famed New York Times sports writer, at 89.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Mickey Mantle, with 18.
■ There’s no truth to the rumor that Joe Trillo really wants to be the new Independent Man.
■ Or maybe the Independent Man wants to come back as Joe Trillo. Who knows, right?
■ Or maybe the Independent Man just wants to enjoy his pension and listen to the Sox on the radio.
■ If you like baseball history, check out “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,’’ by Jane Leavy.
■ Word is a lot of summer people around here left behind a trail of tears on their way back to Connecticut.
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