What I had to show for a Broncos-Raiders live blog: a collage of famous and influential Mikes. ◼ Deadspin
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You Guessed It … Missing Show
By Matt Sussman | Apr 21, 2008 | Filed Under Tech Issues
For those brave souls who wander into the twice-weekly Treehouse Fort radio show dutifully hosted by yours truly and Yours Tuffy, you might wonder what happened to Friday’s amazing awesome show. Well, due to Syntax Error 2029, the show never archived and is gone forever, except in the hearts and minds of those who listened live. So here we are.
The only tangible item from that episode is the Weekend Update-style cold open I performed before the show, and it’s probably best just to share its entirety with you now. Actually it’s probably best to just delete the file and reformat the hard drive to ensure it never shows up again, but I flipped a coin and we’re going with “sharing.”
STARTING OFF WITH BASEBALL NEWS, the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres played a 22-inning game starting last night, finishing up this morning after 1 a.m. local time, with the Rockies winning 2-1. It was the first 22-inning game since 1993, and the longest game since whenever it was the last time Steve Trachsel made a start.
Houston Astros infielder Miguel Tejada admitted to his team that he was born in 1974, not 76 making him 33 years old instead of 31. The Astros responded by also admitting they had deceived Tejada, that they were not the Astros but rather the Double-A Frisco RoughRiders.
Thursday morning Pope Benedict 16th visited the Washington Nationals Stadium where he held mass in front of 40,000 people. Ironically, this was the first congregation in a baseball stadium since 1973 where nobody had a poster saying “John 3:16.”
IN NBA NEWS, the Milwaukee Bucks fired head coach Larry Krystkowiak after his first season, mostly because Bucks owners, like many other basketball fans, had never heard of him.
The NBA Playoffs begin tomorrow and oddsmakers are tagging the Lakers and the Celtics as favorites to reach the NBA Finals. It should be pointed out that these odds are not a sure thing, given that anything could happen between tomorrow and when the NBA Finals actually begin, which is sometime in august 2012.
IN NFL NEWS, the league released its 2008 schedule on Tuesday, at which point the Miami Dolphins were eliminated from the playoffs.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS Alabama head coach Nick Saban got into an argument at a press conference when asked about what he was going to do about the situation where his team currently has more scholarship football players than the NCAA allows on a roster. Saban snapped back that the situation was quote “none of your business,” then denied rumors that he was interested in the New York Knicks job.
And finally IN OLYMPIC NEWS, an investigation is underway as someone baked the Australian olympic team some chocolate muffins and stuck paper clips in them. In similar news The Polish Olympic team also reports muffin sabotage, claiming someone secretly wrapped the bottom half of all their muffins in some kind of paper.
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Stuff I didn't write, but that doesn't necessarily make it any worse
TSN showed their Top Ten NFL plays from 2007. Two of them were Cleveland Browns plays. Josh Cribbs’ disaster-to-master return TD, and the one where the New York Jets forgot how to tackle Jamal Lewis.
Comments (0)Now that David Eckstein is with the Diamondbacks, he’ll play second next to Adam Dunn at first. Eck actually called off Dunn on a pop fly, and Mark Grace on the FSN broadcast said it looked like a father-son game. ◼ AZ Republic
Comments (0)If the rest of the synchronized swimming team really wanted to win the gold, they’d have all attempted to drown in solidarity. ◼ SI
Comments (0)Announcer, during the Rangers-Tigers game: “Baseball is a game of inches. [pause] It’s also a game of Inges.” Gak. ◼ FSN Southwest
Comments (0)UT hoops signs Emeka Okafor’s cousin … Emeka Okafor. This was done to make family reunions easier to gather everyone at the drop of a hat. ◼ Blade
Comments (0)So I’m watching some Olympic water polo match online (yes, I know) and it’s halftime. The song they picked? Why, the instrumental version of “Cotton-Eye Joe.” Not sure what’s more shocking. That they’re playing the instrumental version of “Cotton-Eye Joe,” or that someone made an instrumental version of “Cotton-Eye Joe.” Is this how all water polo matches go? ◼ NBCOlympics.com
Comments (0)UT graduate Jerrah Young doubles Ireland’s black population by signing pro hoops contract with Cork’s UCC Demons. ◼ Xs and Mo’s
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Since I’m not cool enough (or uncool, depending on whether or not you identify with Colin Cowherd) I can’t post on Deadspin, but just wanted to say that double life post was one of my all-time favorites. Very well done.
Needs more “crack whores.”