The Sports Chick Blog

 Even though I’m the Sports Chick I can’t throw or catch for the life of me! All those genes were thankfully left to my brother! But even I have to cringe when I saw this video on YouTube. It is that of Mariah Carey throwing the first pitch at the recent Yomiuri Giants v. Rakuten Eagles baseball game at the Tokyo Dome.

Mariah is in Tokyo to promote her new CD, E=MC2, **cough and her new husband, Nick Cannon, cough cough**. After watching the horrendous throw you have to wonder if Derek Jeter ever talked the mechanics of a straight throw with his one time lover… probably not!

click on the picture above to view the sorry throw! and those heels!!

 I love the Yankess (no shock there), and like any other New York based Yankee fan I watch the games on the YES Network. You see Jon Miller on ESPN makes me wanna pull every effing hair out of my head (mainly because he is a Yankee-hater), on Fox if it’s not Joe Buck it’s a no-name announcer, and radio?!? forget it! You can only listen to John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman squwak for so long. So like I said before I watch my Yankees on YES.

My only pet-peeve about YES games is Michael Kay. He is a great announcer, but there are a few Michael Kay catch phrases I can live without! When I was browsing through the internet the other day I came across a website that had a “Michael Kay Drinking Game.” Basically everytime Mr. Kay says certain phrases you take a drink, shot, swig, whatever you want! So I decided to come up with my own MKDG buzz words! Enjoy, and trust me you’ll get shloshed by the 5th inning!!

1. “Only on YES” - I know YES has to plug their own shows and their catch phrase, but is “only on YES” the best slogan they came up with?
2. “See Ya…” - Ahhhhh, the classic Michael Kay HR call! Every announcer has one, and apparently Kay’s “See Ya!” is so catchy that little Natasha Rodriguez repeats it over and over when her Daddy is up at bat! Ahhh youth!
3. “Those Maple bats splinter all the time” - a new one for the 2008 season! Mo’s cutter can break any bat and Johnny Damon splits more wood than a lumberjack, but Michael Kay’s maple wood bitch fest is getting old!
4. “Paul O’Neill is eating once again” - Paul O’Neill maybe works 3 games a month for YES, and every inning I have to hear about what the great number 21 is eating instead of a play-by-play of the actual game!
5. “You know Girardi trusts Farnsworth, because he caught him in Chicago” - For me it’s always nice to hear about the Farns, but for the 2903790235726596th time WE ALL KNOW THAT JOE CAUGHT FARNSY!!!! It’s not that exciting!
6. “Michael Kay hosts …” - This one only counts if Kenny Singleton, John Flahtery, Bobby Murcer, Al Leiter, Nancy Newman, Paul O’Neill, or Bob Lorenz says it. Does YES have anyone else to hosts shows?
7. “Jim Kaat used to say that …” - Jim Kaat retired. Apparently Michael Kay misses him alot! Awwwweee announcer lovin’!
8. “Ohhhhhhh What A Play …” - There are many great palys in baseball, and ESPN has there top 10 web gems every night. Michael Kay thinks their should be at least 25 plays from the Yankee games that are web gem worthy! It’s that exciting!!!
9. “That was a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious catch by Derek Jeter.” - Michael Kay went to Fordham, most of us did not. Therefore, we must hear about it often followed by some big ass nerdy word that we’ve never heard before! That is unless your studying the SATs. In that case watching the YES Broadcast is a great study tool!
10. “Generation Trey” - that refers to Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes, and Ian Kennedy. Probably the stupidest nickname I ever heard for a group of three people. And Oh lemme recap: Joba is now a starter, Hughes has a mysterious cracked rib, and Kennedy has not one win (and is now on the 15 day DL with a strained lat), Generation Trey indeed!

 Cher is that you? Oops, No, it’s Kobe Bryant’s nut-case wife Vanessa. Did she really wear a tutu while Kobe got his MVP award? This definitely deserves a fine by the fashion police!!!

thanks to Perez!

 According to everyone and their mother Jose Canseco is now trying to be a boxer. The fight, with no opponent yet, will take place on July 12 in Atlantic City, NJ. Canseco is promoting without an opponent because he wants to attract a “big name” to face. Also if you win you will be paid the whooping celebrity sum of … $5,000. WTF! Who in their right mind with a “big name” would fight for that!?!

Canseco is also promoting himself as “the bad-boy of baseball.” Listen you small balled dope! The only thing bad about you was when Carlos Martinez’ long ball became a homerun when it bounced off your big steroid filled head!

19-13 … enough said … this sucks!

 Being from Long Island, you can’t help but be excited for this weekend. It’s the first BBQ’s, fireworks, first drive out to the Hamptons, the Blue Angels at Jones Beach, and if you know someone who plays college lacrosse, then you’re must likely huddled in front of your TV watching ESPN2. It’s Championship Weekend in college lacrosse and once again New York is dominant!

As I type there are 2:01 minutes left in the first Sudden Victory for the Virginia - Syracuse semi-final game. Tomorrow my school, Cortland, will be facing off against Salisbury for the THIRD year in a row. C-State shocked everyone 2 years ago by beating the heavily favored Salisbury in OT. Last year was another C-State - Salisbury showdown with the Seagulls besting the Red Dragons with vengance. And wouldn’t you know that in Foxboro tomorrow the D III Championship will once again be Cortland Red Dragons v. the Salisbury Seagulls.

Besides Syracuse and Cortland being in their respective championships, nearby LeMoyne will be playing NYIT in the D II playoff! It’s all New York lax baby!

So let’s go Red Dragonnnnnnsssss! Make this Cortland girl proud!

UPDATE: Syracuse won!! 12-11 2/OT. They’ll play either Johns Hopkins or Duke in the D I Final tomorrow! Check back for that score later today.

UPDATE 2: Johns Hopkins ended Duke’s season last night. It’ll be DI Syracuse v. Johns Hopkins, D II LeMoyne v. NYIT, and D III CORTLAND STATE RED DRAGONS v. Salisbury! Enjoy!!

 Last night was probably the best Yankee game I saw all year, and mainly because it was the first walk-off win of the season. Joe Girardi says his Pinella-like hissy fit was not a factor in the win against the Orioles last night, I would have disagree because it clearly lit a fire under the team. However, the MLB Police showed it’s gusto again and suspended Girardi for one game and fined him an undisclosed amount. And why was he suspended? Apparently when he was kicking some dirt around some got on the Ump’s (Chris Guccione) shoe. Oh boo-hoo my shoe is dirty!

Girardi said he was shocked my the decision because he didn’t intentionally kick dirt at the Ump. Ok, but honestly MLB, is this little literal dust up suspension worthy? No, they should’ve just suspended Girardi for being ejected and arguing balls and strikes. Instead of trying to be the MLB version of the NFL Sock-Police! 

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