Dorks And Losers

Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent were team­mates for a very long time. You’d never know it, but those two hated each other. Yet the irony was the two were more sim­i­lar than they were different.

If you ever read sto­ries about the two nowa­days, you’ll hear how Kent was just as a loner as Bonds was. Even though Kent was enthu­si­as­tic dur­ing inter­views, it’s just that he’d only be enthu­si­as­tic dur­ing inter­views. He wanted to make him­self look like the anti-Bonds.

I guess great play­ers live alike as they play alike.

It turns out Mar­ion Jones was on the juice. I don’t think there any­one who didn’t think she didn’t use it.

“It’s funky, because you wanted to believe she was clean,” said Jon Drum­mond, a gold medal­ist in the 400 relay in Syd­ney. “It’s like that old say­ing, ‘Cheaters never win.’ So no mat­ter how glo­ri­ous or glam­orous things look, you’ll get caught and pay a price for it.”

Well, maybe that guy makes one.
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“He’s got two shutouts in his career in the reg­u­lar sea­son. And three in the post­sea­son. That’s absurd.” — Buster Olney on Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett’s mas­tery over the Los Ange­les Angels in Game 1 of the ALDS.
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“He has RBIs in his glove.” — Atlanta Braves man­ager Bobby Cox on his for­mer cen­ter fielder Andruw Jones.
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I never thought this would hap­pen. The Record­ing Indus­try Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica won the first trial against a sus­pected ille­gal file-sharer. In hind­sight, Jam­mie Thomas prob­a­bly should have paid the set­tle­ment, but given all the bad press and failed court cases against the RIAA, how could she have lost? She now has to pay $220,000.

This sets a bad prece­dent. The RIAA will now con­tinue to file law­suits, and will prob­a­bly see a lot more set­tle­ments instead of fights like the one Thomas just lost. This is going to pro­long the inevitable: the music indus­try chang­ing its busi­ness to fit the times.
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Face­book just keeps get­ting hot­ter. I think Yahoo! is kick­ing them­selves in the butt for now pay­ing the $1.5 bil­lion that Face­book founder Mark Zucker­berg coun­tered when Yahoo! finally offered $1 billion.

That’s gotta sting.

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