The Sports Chick Blog

So one of my favorite websites On The DL is FINALLY back posting their scandalous blind items! This one caught my eye immediately and if you read this blog often, then you know why! Enjoy -Chicky

 oh! ps- visit Trixie and the girls of On The DL here!

Crossword Time:
1 Across: Nine-letters; emotional pain or distress brought on by a recent breakup

The two sexy pitchers (one of them cute and boyish, the other seasoned and handsome) featured in this item play for the same AL East team. Our insider tells us that they’re good friends, with one of them serving as a mentor to the other. Both have suffered relatively recent breakups with their significant others; the older with his illicit mistress and the younger with his girlfriend. Supposedly, the recent decline of the grizzled veteran’s skills is not only due to aging, but also due to his heartache over losing his long-time woman on the side (we were the first to report this relationship years ago). On the other hand, the younger pitcher is harnessing the despair from his own breakup, caused in part by problems between his over-bearing mother and gorgeous ex, and transforming it into positive energy. He looks more ready than ever to take on other teams and finally lead his boys to their first title in a handful of years.

Just who is our *Heartache* Duo? That’s for you to figure out!

 I love the Yankees and I love being a Yankee fan, but here is a message to my fellow Yankee fans, “Get Over It!” It’s now 9:44pm top of the 8th and the Yanks are losing to the Rays 9-4. Newly acquired bullpen righty, LaTroy Hawkins, is on the mound and not doing a very good job. HOWEVER, instead of booing Hawkins and his poor performance, the fans attending the game are chanting “Paul O’Neill, Paul O’Neill, Paul O’Neill!” And why? Simply because Hawkins wears number 21, the number formerly occupied by Pauly.

Yankee fans! Enough! Paul O’Neill was a great Yankee and even better person. Eventually the Yanks will retire his number to honor the ’90’s dynasty (along with Torre-6, Jeter-2, and possibly Bernie-51), but for now it’s not retired and Hawkins wears it. So fans, are you still gonna chant “Paul O’Neill, Paul O’Neill, Paul O’Neill” when Hawkins dishes a 1-2-3 inning? Probably not!

 But I gotta go! Thompson just took Hawkins out and replaced him with that hunky-piece-of-man-meat, Kyle Farnsworth!! ( THAT S.O.B FARNSWOTH JUST GAVE UP A 3-R HR!!!! THIS GAME IS DEFINITELY FORGETTABLE!)

peace! -The Chick

 Much like March Madness, Opening Day in baseball is a “Sports Holiday.” Today my Yankees will be facing off against one of their AL East rivals, the Toronto Blue Jays, but the real story is that this home opener is the last in the House That Ruth Built. However, it is raining like crazy in NYC. So it makes me wonder …

… if people really are in heaven and have an influence on every move we make here on Earth, then did the Babe make the heavens burst with rain today, thus canceling the home opener? Nobody rains on the Babe’s parade, even we he’s dead!!

 ps- Opening Day part duex in the bronx will take place tomorrow night at 7:05pm. Wang v. Halliday. Let’s Go Yankees!!!

 

Wanna know a secret? …

… Yankees relief pitcher, Kyle Farnsworth, is my favorite MLBer! I know it’s shocking and weird, but really this chick digs the fastball, not the long-ball!

So I was soooooo upset when I read this MLB.com article from beat writer Brian Hoch. He did an interview with Farnsy about the 2007, expectations for 2008, Joe Girardi has the new skipper, and oh yeah the Farns had the MRSA Staph Infection! What!?!

Kyle went on to explain that in early January he thought he had a spider bite on his thigh. When it was checked out by doctors they discovered that it was actually the deadly MRSA Staph. According to the MLB.com article, Farnsy’s thigh was beat red from his knee cap to the top of his thigh, and he was hospitalized for two days. Thus putting a damper in his off-season training. According to other media outlets, Yanks GM Brian Cashman admitted that Farnsy could’ve lost his right leg because of the virus! :’( Luckly, everything worked out and Farnsy seems to be ready for the 2008 season.

 ps- here’s some bonus footage of Farnsy from YESnetwork.com … ugh I love that southern accent!! haha

… GREATNESS! Just kidding! However, I was informed not too long ago that The Sports Chick blog is the 2008 Winner of the Cortland Writer’s Award in New Media! Yay!!!! Thanks to the panel and judges that voted for my website, and thanks to everyone who reads the blog to keep it running!! I will be recieving my award and $100 during SUNY Cortland’s Scholars Day. Come and stop by if you like!

 xxoo

The Chick!

 Since I dislike both the Giants and Patriots, I decided to do a little experiment and watch the Super Bowl like half the worlds population … I watched as a female, and not a football fanatic. After experiencing the Super Bowl like a “girl” I’ve realized why my fellow females HATE THE SUPER BOWL!!

We were forced to watch two teams we could care less about (the score being 7-3 most of the game didn’t help either!), watch a Halftime show featuring a singer that is 20 years older than my Dad, and the biggest dissappointment of the night was definitely the commericals! As each commericial went by I thought “well hopefully this one is better,” but no they were terrible!

Each commercial made me wonder why the hell would a company spend millions and millions of dollars on 30 seconds of pure crap! Now there were a few “haha that was cute” commercials such as, the Bridgestone squirrel scream, and the Rocky themed Budweiser. But other than that the commercials were the worst I’ve ever seen! click here to see the misery for yourself! However, my favorite of the night was the NFL sponsored spot of the Super Ad. It featured Houston Texans Ephraim Salaam and Chester Pitts. The NFL had various players tell stories from their NFL careers and the best story would be featured in an Ad. The Texans story was cleary the best, and funniest! Click here to see it!  

After the NFL Super Ad aired my experiment ended. I realized that no matter how much I hated my NY Jets rivals, I was still a football fan! I still got the chills during the National Anthem, and during the touchdowns! Football is a sport that thrills those who thrill it. The commercials never got better, and by the 4th quarter I was back to my old form and watching the game for the game. The Manning to Tyree pass within the last minute of the game was one of the greatest Super Bowl moments I’ve seen! So congrats to the Giants (and to my friends and family who are Giants fans). I only hope that your Super Bowl 42 win will make you heckle me and my fellow Jets fans less, but I’ve lived under the shadows of NYC for too long and I know it’s only gonna get worse! So LET’S GO JETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve made it no secret that I’m a huge NY Jets fan on this blog. And I have to admit that also being a NY Yankees fan I’ve always wondered what the 1986 World Series felt for my fellow NYY fans. See in 1986 I wasn’t even conceived! That World Series was the famous “Bill Buckner” through the legs game. And was also the creation of “Gotta Believe” by NYM pitcher, Tug McGraw. My fellow Yankee fans must’ve wanted to pluck their eyeballs out and not witness the pain of having two of their top rivals reach the mecca of all baseball… the freaking World Series! In the end the lesser of the two evils, the New York Mets, beat the Red Sox in seven games and captured the 1986 Champs title.

Now like I said before, I always wondered how it felt to be a Yankee fan during that series. And now I do, and boy I wish I never thought those evil thoughts! My Jets were having the worst season possible, and I always though to myself, “Well it can’t get worse than the Kotite-era!” But it did, and not because the Jets sucked big time! Throughout the whole 2007 NFL season the story was the high and mighty Patriots, and the story in the New York metro area was the emergence of the NY Giants. Eli Manning went from sucker to super in a matter of weeks in December. And even though the Pats beat the Giants to secure an undefeated season of 16-0, I thought that that was the last I would see misery this football year. And again, I was wrong!

I watched all the playoff games like a good girl would, and I secretly watched to see the Draft order unfold (April 26th can’t come soon enough!). But I was disgusted as the weeks went by and the Giants kept coming from under nowhere (thank you two Bays team scum!), and the Pats kept rolling along leaving nothing behind. And then it hit me on late Sunday afternoon in my bed doubled over with a wicked stomach virus … It’s a Giants versus Patriots Super Bowl … and I puked again!

So unlike last year when I went to the Super Bowl, I’m not going this year! I’m telling people that I won’t watch, but secretly I’ll act like the ditsy blonde bimbo out there and watch the game just for the commercials. After all Jeter’s in a Gatorade one, and Justin Timberlake is in a Pepsi one! Go Super Bowl Commercials, and asterisk next to the Patriots victory please!!!

Since the fall semester ended I’ve been taking some much needed time off! So with the spring semester starting within the next few weeks, the blog will be up and running again!

Sorry for the delay, but I have tons of juicy gossip coming up for the spring. Stay tuned ….

**CHICKY**Â

The Chick is taking some time off to celebrate her brithday!!

I see throwback jersey violations week after week after week! But this week was the worst of them all: MY BELOVED JETS HAD BLUE AND GOLD THROWBACKS ON! And why? To honor the beginnings of the AFC and the New York Titans. Get rid of the Throwbacks already, my little heart can’t take the fashion crisis anymore. ps- Why is every throwback jersey some sort of blue and gold?