Archive: Weirdness
Pros vs. Joes at RFK
As Steve Goff has already noted, RFK Stadium is currently tricked out with a basketball court, a boxing ring, 60 yards worth of a football field, great amounts of television equipment and lights, and diagrams for yet more fantastical sports competitions. Never mind that D.C. United is getting ready to...
By Dan Steinberg | October 16, 2007; 04:08 PM ET | Comments (7)
Watch Blog Show
After 22 episodes of Blog Show, I finally worked up the courage to watch an episode beginning to end. Yes, that's right, this is the first time I've ever watched this groundbreaking television series myself. Why? Well, because Jamie Mottram and I cut a rug or two in the episode,...
By Dan Steinberg | September 12, 2007; 10:41 AM ET | Comments (3)
Competitive Pizza Eating Comes Back to Greenbelt
Bertoletti, after his win. (Courtesy Major League Eating) Somewhat amazingly, the news that Dmitri Young's son Damon "Damage" Young has sprouted a mohawk turns out only to be the second-most important D.C. sports mohawk news of the week. The most important, of course, is the pending arrival of Patrick...
By Dan Steinberg | August 17, 2007; 04:54 PM ET | Comments (9)
Obama Balling
Everyone in America will have seen this within the next 48 hours, but here's Obama, in high school, with hair, playing ball. HT to Shoals at FanHaus, who found a way to post this in between arguing with me via e-mail on the cuteness factor of various small mammals....
By Dan Steinberg | August 17, 2007; 12:37 PM ET | Comments (1)
A Mascot Birthday
So much mascot news, it's hard to know where to begin. 1) The Frederick Keys's coyote-shaped mascot, Keyote (sounds like peyote?), is having a birthday party this Saturday night. Yes, there will be cupcakes, plus appearances from many of your favorite local mascots, all on the same ballfield. Here's a...
By Dan Steinberg | August 16, 2007; 03:59 PM ET | Comments (7)
Best Sports Mustaches in D.C.History
Anyone with half-a-blog brain knows by now that the American Mustache Institute is running a tremendously wonderful "Best Sports Mustache of All Time" election, a contest that has been mentioned in far too many blogs to list in this space. What you may not have known is that Aaron Perlut,...
By Dan Steinberg | July 25, 2007; 01:24 PM ET | Comments (10)
The Contents of My Stolen Van
Because I started the story here, I might as well finish it. Blogs are all about personal obsessions, right? When the story started, my hot hot hot 1996 Dodge Caravan was stolen from outside my house in Northwest, then recovered, all-crashed-up in Northeast, then taken to Maryland, from where it...
By Dan Steinberg | July 25, 2007; 10:31 AM ET | Comments (11)
David Beckham Arrives
Live blogging the biggest event in the history of the world. --Well, Beckham is still doing TV interviews. He was with CNN a minute ago. Pat O'Brien was a feet away, saying "Welcome to David Beckham's America" into another camera. There are empty water bottles everywhere. Since I left, I...
By Dan Steinberg | July 13, 2007; 12:29 PM ET | Comments (86)
Amanda Beard and John Basedow in My Mailbox
This being the dregs of summer..... Quite an assortment of reading material in my WaPo mailbox this morning. 1) "Fitness Made Simple" by John Basedow. The power to change your body, the power to change your life. 3 Steps, 8 Weeks, 1 Killer Body! Sample passage: "Johnism: Don't be an...
By Dan Steinberg | July 2, 2007; 11:57 AM ET | Comments (8)
Famous Stolen Cars
Since some of you seem curious about the progress of my dowdy but missing Dodge Caravan, I bring you important research from City Paper: Dowdy Dodge Caravans, Chrysler New Yorkers, and Plymouth Neons have become favorite targets of kiddie car thieves. There is some accounting for taste, says [Lt. Brian...
By Dan Steinberg | June 15, 2007; 04:37 PM ET | Comments (5)
Pardon Me For One Second
Ok, you don't care about my life, but for the record, I recently borrowed my wife's car and drove to Gaithersburg, which is like halfway to Canada, and it took me 44 minutes door-to-door, and then today because my car continues to have been stolen, I took a D.C. public...
By Dan Steinberg | June 15, 2007; 01:08 PM ET | Comments (19)
Hot Weekend Events
This, friends, is a hot hot hot weekend for local sports fans. In several parts. 1) The Washington Freedom? The defending and future champions of the WUSA, or whatever the women's pro soccer league will be called when it comes back? Well, in addition to crushing W-League teams, they'll be...
By Dan Steinberg | June 15, 2007; 09:52 AM ET | Comments (2)
Pictures You'll Want to See
1) Go to Information Leafblower, right now, to see a picture of Nelly Furtado wearing a D.C. United kit. Look at the form on that jumper. (Via Skinscast; go there for more.) 2) Also on the list of things I should have done over the weekend: Jesse Armstead's Celebrity Hoops...
By Dan Steinberg | June 11, 2007; 10:44 AM ET | Comments (7)
Gilbert Among the Video Gamers
As you all know, MLG Meadowlands is this weekend, a Halo 2 event featuring top-seeded Final Boss in the four vs. four pro tournament. Final Boss, as you all know, is the gaming team sponsored by Gilbert Arenas, which is why he'll be heading to New Jersey after his Hoops...
By Dan Steinberg | June 7, 2007; 05:20 PM ET | Comments (3)
A Spelling Bee Star
[Note to readers: I will be abandoning the Spelling Bee momentarily. This is one of the poorest decisions in modern sports blogging history.] In regards to the concerns, stated below, about Spelling Bees and pressure: Look, I get that people challenge the results of pinewood derby contests in rural Arkansas,...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 05:40 PM ET | Comments (12)
On Spelling Bee Pressure
My Spelling Bee day started on the sixth floor of the Grand Hyatt, in makeup, with ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, watching a review of an incorrect ruling on a word that had actually been spelled correctly. The ruling was fixed. Claire Zhang was saved by instant replay. My...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 04:59 PM ET | Comments (1)
The Patel Drama Escalates
An appeal may or not still be underway for Samir Patel, the presumptive favorite, who so graciously exited the stage. A media horde gathered by a back doorway to try to figure this all out. "We're not going to make any comment to the press," said a word list manager...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 01:14 PM ET | Comments (4)
Samir Patel Goes Down
The overwhelming favorite Samir Patel went down. He biffed on Clevis. "I'm just angry at myself," he said repeatedly, while being mobbed by media members. "Because the first thought in my mind when I heard the word was 'clevis,' and I wanted to just say that out, but then I...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 12:47 PM ET | Comments (9)
Some Spelling Bee Controversy
This isn't news if you're glued to the TV, but the Spelling Bee almost had its Tuck Rule Moment today. It was crazy. ESPN person Mike Greenberg, who, for whatever reason, I'm following around, was in the make-up room on the sixth floor. Claire Zhang was spelling some word I've...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 11:46 AM ET | Comments (7)
A Car Ride With Mike and Mike
This is the dramatic stuff that happens when you ride in a car with Mike and Mike from their morning radio show at Atlantic Video to the Grand Hyatt, site of the Spelling Bee: Not much, really. Isn't a very long car ride. So now I'm waiting in the make-up...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 10:44 AM ET | Comments (8)
D.C.'s Roller Derby Girls
On my list of "things to do" last weekend was to attend the D.C. Roller Girls "Rolling Thunder" roller derby event at Dulles SportsPlex. Why? It's "LOUD ENOUGH TO KNOCK YOU DOWN!" It's "With Liberty and Justice to Brawl." Clearly, they employ the same writers as Blog Show (tm). (Yes,...
By Dan Steinberg | May 31, 2007; 09:01 AM ET | Comments (3)
High School, Streaker, Jock Strap, Click Here
Since our company's new business plan appears to include highlighting stories about high school athletes that seedy low-brow bloggers will just love, I figure it's incumbent upon me to mention the case of one Cameron Blazevich, the high school junior and well-regarded athlete from Arizona whose jock-strap-only streaking sprint at...
By Dan Steinberg | May 30, 2007; 11:19 AM ET | Comments (2)
Betting on the Spelling Bee
Because this is the sort of offer you can't really refuse, I will be watching the Spelling Bee tomorrow morning on site with Mike and Mike, as part of a credentialed member of the ESPN production crew, although I won't technically be producing anything, except possibly sweat. Some bloggers have...
By Dan Steinberg | May 30, 2007; 10:53 AM ET | Email a Comment
Meet Gloria
Today, we were all introduced to the Washington Glory, our new National Pro Fastpitch women's softball expansion team. We were introduced to a dozen players and their just-named head coach Carie Dever-Boaz, a former Virginia assistant, who said that "only in America can you get paid, as a female, to...
By Dan Steinberg | May 23, 2007; 07:15 PM ET | Comments (9)
Wise Preakness Race Fans
I swear, this'll be the last Preakness post until next May, but this is the video evidence that (close your eyes) a few beverages other than Vitamin Water and Fresca may have been consumed during Saturday's Preakness. Or maybe they were all just in really, really, really good moods because...
By Dan Steinberg | May 22, 2007; 10:09 AM ET | Comments (6)
The Caps on the Preakness
I was at the Preakness Saturday, so I didn't suffer the hockey fan's indignity of seeing an overtime game in the Eastern Conference finals be preempted in favor of a horse-racing pre-game show. Hockey bloggers will be able to make their living off this for several years. From Off Wing...
By Dan Steinberg | May 21, 2007; 03:46 PM ET | Comments (8)
Race Fans Honor Barbaro
Just so everyone's clear on the fact that Clinton Portis doesn't have an exclusive on animal insensitivity, I bring you Drew Fluegel, Eric Berens and a group of their friends, several of whom came to Pimlico on Saturday wearing the t-shirt pictured here. Touching, really. On the other hand, they...
By Dan Steinberg | May 21, 2007; 02:59 PM ET | Comments (4)
Blair Thomas Rocks a Sun Hat
The Preakness actually has two infields: the one where drunk guys take off their shirts and sprint over port-a-potties while their friends pelt them with beer, and the one where ladies in sun dresses and men in suits drink cocktails and listen to big band music while noshing on hors...
By Dan Steinberg | May 21, 2007; 01:59 PM ET | Email a Comment
Port-a-Racin' at the Preakness
Comcast SportsyNet's Adam Littlefield and I spent some quality time in the Preakness infield on Saturday. First off, let me say that if you're not a 21-year-old college kid whose idea of heaven involves Milwaukee's Best, tasteless t-shirts and rolling around in the dirt, this event will invariably make you...
By Dan Steinberg | May 21, 2007; 09:57 AM ET | Comments (4)
Al Saunders, Journey and John Walsh
Also known as, a much shorter version of what I wrote about polo. In case you've forgotten, here is what I wrote about polo, featuring Al Saunders, Journey and John Walsh. And here is the video version, courtesy of Adam Littlefield, Comcast SportsyNet producer extraordinaire. Upon rewatching this, I believe...
By Dan Steinberg | May 16, 2007; 12:29 PM ET | Email a Comment
Al Saunders Loves Polo
When I arrived at the America's Cup of Polo Saturday in Leesburg, there were women in sun dresses, men smoking cigars, a massive sound stage for the Journey show and U.S. Park Police performing some sort of choreographed horse demonstration to the music of James Bond and "Mission: Impossible." The...
By Dan Steinberg | May 14, 2007; 04:53 PM ET | Comments (3)
The Prez of the Ritz Loves Rugby
Not a headline that I expected to come out of the America's Cup of Polo, but strange things happened during that magical afternoon in Leesburg. For a really comprehensive review of all the strange things that went on, check The Dude Abides. The part where we interviewed TV superstars and...
By Dan Steinberg | May 14, 2007; 02:54 PM ET | Comments (3)
Mike Wise on Journey
Since this is the Interweb's No. 1 spot for information on the America's Cup of Polo, the horse-and-rock-and-gourmet-food-fest that Leesburg will unleash on the world this weekend, I wanted to touch on the other time in my life that Journey, the band, interacted with the glamorous world of sports media....
By Dan Steinberg | May 11, 2007; 11:07 AM ET | Comments (14)
Polo Preview
The serious sports writers are, for whatever reason, not writing about polo just yet. I know of at least one serious sports writer, rumored to be on the pass list for Saturday's America's Cup of Polo, who lists "see Journey perform" as his or her primary motivation. But me, I'm...
By Dan Steinberg | May 10, 2007; 04:26 PM ET | Comments (3)
Polo Hats and Polo Cheese
I've sat through a lot of sports press conferences in my life. Today's polo press conference was the first I've ever attended that offered a cheese plate featuring, among other selections, Cypress Grove's Humboldt Fog (a creamy, delicate, sometimes oozingly drippy California goat cheese centered with a thin layer of...
By Dan Steinberg | May 10, 2007; 03:16 PM ET | Comments (2)
Polo Excitement Builds in Loudoun County
As everyone knows, the America's Cup of Polo is this weekend in Leesburg, although the Web site is still calling it America's Polo Cup. The rock-show stage is mostly assembled, the audio system for the Journey concert is being tested (it's the same audio system U2 and Aerosmith toured with,...
By Dan Steinberg | May 10, 2007; 02:27 PM ET | Comments (5)
Local Urinal Advertising Update
[Introductory note: This item contains certain slang terms for urine. Don't read it if you're offended by that sort of thing.] [Introductory note No. 2: You really know you've made it as a blogger when entrepreneurial small business persons contact you regarding their urinal-based advertising products.] So Scott Linke is...
By Dan Steinberg | April 17, 2007; 01:27 PM ET | Comments (10)
Final Thoughts
Item: George Washington guard Carl Elliott, a former football star, will attend a workout with the New York Giants on Monday. Carl Elliott, making like he's a footballer (Joel Richardson - TWP). Item: I was supposed to post this earlier, but I forgot. Frozen Four finals tomorrow. BC-Michigan State. Official...
By Dan Steinberg | April 6, 2007; 06:21 PM ET | Comments (4)
Polo Q&A With Jim Moran
Since this didn't fit into the last polo item, lemme include a pretty accurate transcript of my polo-related Q&A with Congressman Jim Moran, which has to be the longest polo interview Moran has ever conducted. Seriously, I publicly wonder why I don't get more comments on this blog, and then...
By Dan Steinberg | April 3, 2007; 01:30 PM ET | Comments (9)
Big-Time Polo Comes to Virginia
This is a week late, and has already been blogged about on this Web site, but I don't care. A moving pictures version of this entry can be seen tonight on Washington Post Live, which will also feature the equally compelling Thom Loverro. Anyhow, last week, I went to what...
By Dan Steinberg | April 3, 2007; 12:45 PM ET | Comments (7)
The New Bog Baby Pool
All the congratulations for Dan is quite moving really, but it got this pinch-Bogger to thinking: When will Steinberg actually break down and why? Those of us with children know -- and the rest can surely imagine -- that the first few days with your first are among the most...
By Matthew Rennie | March 1, 2007; 05:02 PM ET | Comments (16)
Where to Watch Cricket in D.C.
Apologies for the slow day. In the meantime, can someone please help this reader? I admit, my Cricket connections are not what they once were. You may or may not be aware that the Cricket World Cup starts in March in the West Indies. [Answer: not aware - ed.] I'm...
By Dan Steinberg | February 1, 2007; 03:17 PM ET | Comments (18)
Didn't Greek Athletes Smear Themselves in Oil?
This has little to do with sport, unless you, like I, have always thought naked grapeseed-oil-smeared races against taser-bearing police officers really ought to be an Olympic sport, in which case this has everything to do with sport. The story comes via Bad Jocks, and it was sent to me...
By Dan Steinberg | January 30, 2007; 02:21 PM ET | Comments (6)
Redskins and Gnarls Barkley
Big day in downtown Washington. Apparently the Chili Peppers and Gnarls Barkley are playing the VC tonight. I know this only because when I left Wizards practice, the back hallways smelled like 17 billion ashtrays had just been emptied. And I know for a fact that James Lang doesn't smoke,...
By Dan Steinberg | January 25, 2007; 02:49 PM ET | Comments (4)
Who's Watching American Idol Tonight?
The checklist: Me: Absolutely. I will duck out early from the Capitals' Bloggers' Happy Hour in order to watch Idol in its entirety. Ravens tight end Daniel Wilcox: "Absolutely. Absolutely. I haven't seen it every year, but every time I get a chance. I'm horrible with sitting and making sure...
By Dan Steinberg | January 16, 2007; 05:37 PM ET | Comments (7)
You the Man: Someone Call the Academy
I think someone I work with once expressed the opinion that there might not be enough weirdness to support a local sports Bog. Well, in the last, say, 18 hours, the following things have happened. 1) The Wizznutzz have turned up photos of world championship video gamers, sponsored by an...
By Dan Steinberg | January 11, 2007; 08:59 AM ET | Comments (15)
A New Pre-Game Diversion
If I were an NBA player, this is what I'd do pre-game, this being shooting green laser beams out of a floating, scowling Sam Cassell head, while accompanied by other little green Sam Cassells, and attempting to blow up floating Yao Ming heads. Well, that, plus playing online poker. YAYsports!...
By Dan Steinberg | January 10, 2007; 01:51 PM ET | Comments (2)
Blog Briefs
Local things to check out. 1) CapsNut is making the valid point that NHL all-star game ballot-box stuffing continues to mount. If you check the latest tallies, you'll note that Ovechkin is now eighth overall in the East, and fourth among forwards, behind Crosby, Malkin and Briere. Of the top...
By Dan Steinberg | December 7, 2006; 04:04 PM ET | Comments (2)
A Much Briefer What You Need to Know
Since I'm again delayed this AM, I'm going to steal Reader Glenn's late-night summary of last night's very busy local calendar, which will have to stand on its own for an hour or two: The Late Night Update sponsored by Taco Bell Without The Green Onions: *Mason destroys a powerhouse...
By Dan Steinberg | December 7, 2006; 07:49 AM ET | Comments (6)
Updates on Boswell's Foil, Agent Zero, Funniest Sports Celebrities
1) In case anyone missed this comment from the Bobby Boswell "Guts" thread, we're one step closer to the goal. Here's the comment about "Guts" champion and Young Bobby foil Robin Rexroat: Ive known Robin for about 15 years now. Yes she is from orlando and she graduated from Boone...
By Dan Steinberg | November 20, 2006; 01:45 PM ET | Comments (9)
Another Judging Controversy
Quite a night at the Improv on Tuesday. Although I left in a raging fury. It's taken me three days to get enough perspective to post a recap. I've been waiting for the D.C. DCRTV to follow up on its promised recap, but it never happened. FishbowlDC, disappointingly, gave us...
By Dan Steinberg | November 17, 2006; 10:43 AM ET | Comments (19)
Mike O'Malley Weighs In on Boswellgate, and Jimmy Johnson Likes Beer
Two pieces of exciting news in the inbox today. First, Mike O'Malley, the TV superstar and ex-host of "Guts," responded to my query attempting to locate Bobby Boswell foil Robin Rexroat. Here's what Mike wrote (in two e-mails). The things you learn as a blogger.... No idea how to track...
By Dan Steinberg | November 15, 2006; 02:49 PM ET | Comments (10)
Hot Local Sporting Events
Two not-to-be missed upcoming events on the local sports calendar. 1) Next Tuesday night at the D.C. Improv, the Second Annual Funniest Sports Celebrity in Washington contest. I was asked to compete, but I said no way, so I'm a judge. Post columnist Mike Wise was asked to compete, but...
By Dan Steinberg | November 10, 2006; 11:02 AM ET | Comments (3)
Lonergan Update
Since everybody else is doing it, here's a Mike Lonergan update. I ran into Mike, easily the most manic man I've ever interviewed, while he was conducting a phone interview in a Comcast Center foyer after Vermont's win over New Orleans last night. He was chugging a can of orange...
By Dan Steinberg | November 8, 2006; 10:44 AM ET | Comments (1)
Tonight's Hoops Homecomings, Featuring Jason Green
So the TV people tonight will all be talking about Mike Lonergan's homecoming, Lonergan being the former Catholic head coach and Maryland assistant who now heads up Vermont, which faces Maryland tonight. If they have extra time, the TV people will also mention former Terps walk-on Matt Hahn, now a...
By Dan Steinberg | November 8, 2006; 09:57 AM ET | Comments (2)
Testing the Basketballs, Part Four: The Bounce
(Btw, Mark Cuban had some actual scientists do actual scientific experiments with the old and new basketballs, and they also used the phrase "Executive Summary." Wild.) Executive Summary of Our Part Four Findings: When thrown off the fourth level of a multi-purpose stadium such as RFK, the old, leather basketball...
By Dan Steinberg | October 27, 2006; 05:14 PM ET | Comments (10)
Testing the Basketballs, Part Three: The Roll
Executive Summary of Our Part III Findings: Unclear; more research may be needed. Some people at Lucky Strike thought the old ball had a little bit more bounce down the lane. Others thought it was harder to achieve a straight roll with the new ball, which tended to pick up...
By Dan Steinberg | October 27, 2006; 04:34 PM ET | Email a Comment
Testing the Basketballs: An Interlude, With An Actual Expert
So I happened to run into Spalding senior marketing manager John Salay the other day, and we had a long conversation and examination of the two basketballs. Everything made more sense. I'll give John his say. He said that Spalding introduced a composite (synthetic) ball in the early '90s, and...
By Dan Steinberg | October 27, 2006; 03:47 PM ET | Email a Comment
Testing the Basketballs, Part Two: The Look
Not trusting my sense of aesthetics, NBA editor Alexa Steele lined up Michael O'Sullivan, art critic for The Post's Weekend section, to compose this entry. Michael writes: Viewed from the side, with its web of criss-crossing black lines, the old game ball resembled nothing so much as the musty old...
By Dan Steinberg | October 27, 2006; 03:19 PM ET | Comments (4)
Testing the Basketballs, Part One: The Grip
(My research assistant and videographer in the pursuit of basketball science was Jackie Alvarado. She gets half the credit. And many thanks to the Wizards' PR wizards for providing the basketballs.) Executive Summary of Our Part One Findings: A panel of experts, which included future D.C. Council Chair Vincent Gray,...
By Dan Steinberg | October 27, 2006; 03:03 PM ET | Comments (8)
Old basketballs, New Basketballs and Pumpkins
This day is complicated by a lecture that I need to give to some journalism students. Really. Go figure. But much of the rest of the day will be taken up with my long explanations of a series of extremely scientific experiments we at The Post conducted with the NBA's...
By Dan Steinberg | October 27, 2006; 10:54 AM ET | Comments (14)
Randle El's Inspiration
At first I thought Randle El was just being a goof with that running into the goal-post thing, but then I just received a link to this touching video, part of a documentary about an obsessive marathoner and his quest to make everyone else run. Anyhow, watch the clip for...
By Dan Steinberg | October 23, 2006; 03:25 PM ET | Comments (2)
Budweiser: Watered-Down Trophies
Yes, that's right, Budweiser has been parading around a "replica" of the World Cup trophy to ardent fans who think it's the real thing. (As an aside, I held the actual MLS Supporters Shield in my hands yesterday afternoon, and I promise to blog about it at some point, after...
By Dan Steinberg | October 6, 2006; 11:37 AM ET | Comments (3)
Playing Scrabble is Harder Than Kicking Field Goals
Straight from one of the few people qualified to judge. Stefan Fatsis, whom I'll identify as a Bog Friend, D.C. resident, Wall Street Journal Writer, author of the sportswriting classic Word Freak, ESPN Scrabble analyst and former kicker for the Denver Broncos. ("I have the greatest resume," he acknowledged.) I...
By Dan Steinberg | September 29, 2006; 01:02 PM ET | Comments (2)
Fight Songs, Week Four
1) This Homage to Orgeron is indeed hilarious and will almost assuredly make you squeal with delite. (Thanks EDSBS.) 2) Is "Les Expos sont là" still the official song of the Nats? Do the Nats have an official song? Besides the "Frank Robinson Swan Song?" UPDATE: I foolishly forgot Honky...
By Dan Steinberg | September 28, 2006; 12:47 PM ET | Comments (1)
Live from the O's Protest, Postscript
Like every great American protest movement, the FreeBirds have a strong social element. After a hard day of marching, singing songs and carrying signs, they retire to local watering holes called Pickles Pub and Sliders to down American lite beers, and sometimes shots of Jagermeister or bottles of Twisted Tea....
By Dan Steinberg | September 21, 2006; 06:39 PM ET | Email a Comment
Live From the O's Protest, Part III
The nostalgia train rolls on, with an extended "Sell to Rip-ken" chant, an "El-rod Hen-dricks" chant, a "Da-vey John-son" chant, a "Jo-on Mil-ler" chant, a "Pa-at Gil-lick" chant, an "Ea-rl Wea-ver" chant and several more rousing renditions of "Ed-die, "Ed-die." (I don't believe I've ever heard a chant to a...
By Dan Steinberg | September 21, 2006; 05:01 PM ET | Comments (3)
Live from the O's Protest, Part II
Inside the park now. Section 384. Cheapest ticket I could find. I guess the cheapest ticket all the FreeBirds could find, too, since there are thousands of them up here. And nearly as many cameramen. And the FreeBirds are loud. "Pete Must Go!" they're now chanting. "Edi-die, Ed-die," they're chanting....
By Dan Steinberg | September 21, 2006; 04:15 PM ET | Email a Comment
Live from the O's Protest, Part I
I'm outside Camden with a huge mob of fans in black "Free the Birds" t-shirts. We just walked here from the Hard Rock Cafe. "Hey Hey Ho Ho Greedy Petey's Got to Go," they shouted. "Yankees Suck!" they shouted. "Pull Peter Out!" they shouted. '"Sell the Team!" they shouted. "Bring...
By Dan Steinberg | September 21, 2006; 03:29 PM ET | Comments (1)
Fight On! And Stuff Like That (including some WVU hiphop all the way at the bottom)
The exciting news about the Vikings' raunchy-sounding and utterly bizarre new fight song got me in a peppy kind of mood. (Read racially charged responses here.) I've felt fondly about the Vikings and their many fight songs since my night watching MNF with Vikings fans and listening to them sing...
By Dan Steinberg | September 20, 2006; 05:09 PM ET | Comments (1)
On the Orioles Protest
And I thought my posts were too long. The people behind tomorrow's "Take Back the Birds" campaign have a mission statement that clocks in just south of 3,500 words. "Angelos" appears 23 times. "Bad" appears 11 times. Prominent descriptions include disgruntled, disgusted, disenfranchised, suppressed, betrayed, ignored, abused, depressed, fragmented, unprecedented,...
By Dan Steinberg | September 20, 2006; 02:17 PM ET | Comments (9)
Pink: The New Silver and Black
So reading D.C. Sports Chick's angry rant about pink Caps gear got me thinking yet again about pink sports merchandise, which has been much in the news as an official actual newspaper-certified trend (repeatedly certified), with NFL teams seeing "a lot of pink in the stands" and Reebok execs wanting...
By Dan Steinberg | September 18, 2006; 12:06 PM ET | Comments (9)
Guest blogger
(This was composed a few days ago, apologies if some references are dated--editor.) OffTheMeter Speaks.... 1. I need Soriano back with the Yankees DC! He will be the first 50/50 player and he will be back in the Bronx one day. I want one real Dominican.... I will have a...
By Dan Steinberg | September 9, 2006; 09:41 AM ET | Email a Comment
Best Croc Hunter Moment
Without a doubt, 'twas this. Made me laugh every time....
By Dan Steinberg | September 8, 2006; 05:35 PM ET | Comments (1)
