bartolo colon might not be dead?

last night in a grapefruit league game he started, went 3 innings, gave up 2 hits, no runs, and struck out 5.  unless you paid close attention this off season, you probably don't know who he pitched for.  after winning the cy young for the angels in 2005, colon's career fell off the table.  he had 2 more bad years in anaheim, and it looked like he might retire after posting a 6.34 era in 2007.  the red sox gave him a shot in 2008, but he only managed to pitch 39 innings.  then the white sox dug him up and signed him for 2009, where he went 3-6 in 62 innings.  last year i honestly have no idea what he did, other than not pitch for an MLB team.  well now he's back, on the yankees.  at least for the time being.  as a sox fan, i do love the look of their starting pitching.

miller lite ad execs are either total idiots or sneaky brilliant

so i'm sure everybody knows the commercials where some d-bag guy doesn't care how his beer tastes, and the hot chick bartender gives him a generic crappy beer instead of miller lite (to me that in itself is the funny part of the commercial).  there's sunglasses at night guy, guy in a skirt, guy in a speedo, guy in dragon clothes, etc.  but the ad i hate is the one with skinny jeans guy.  skinny jeans guy gets his beer, then goes back to his friends and says "is the score still 21-32?"  his buddy then delivers the punch line "yeah, just like you jean size."  in the history of guys sitting around in a bar watching football, nobody has EVER said "is the score still 21-32?"  anyone who is even the slightest bit of a sports fan knows you always say the leading score first.  always.  assuming the target demographic is guys like me who watch sports and drink beer, then this ad is stupid and annoying.  on the other hand, if this add is actually targeting the girlfriends/wives of beer drinking/sports watching guys, it may be genius.

perk's got a hurt knee, now nate has knee surgery? what???

espn is reporting nate robinson is out 4-6 weeks after having arthroscopic knee surgery. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6181370  wow, this trade is looking better and better for boston every day.  and they say he first felt pain after practice on monday, but that's not true.  he was playing with a gimpy knee in boston 3 weeks ago.  hmm, why would a team make a trade for 2 injured players?  maybe cause CCHS patriot sam presti is still a celtics fan at heart?

i still can't get over this BYU honor code

i legitimately can't believe this is real life in the US in 2011.  i keep expecting this story to be a joke.  no booze?  crazy but whatever, i can see that.  no sex?  again, crazy, but i can understand the religious reasons for that.  no coffee, tea, or anything with caffeine?  what's the point of that?  um, if you can't go to a bar, and you can't go to a coffee shop, where can you hang out?  the soda shop on main st in pleasantville?

how tall do you have to be to guarantee you can play in the NBA?

I have a theory that anyone who is 7 ft tall can play in the NBA.  The reason I think this is that you just don't see random 7 foot tall guys walking around.  I mean never.  Well tonight a guy walked into my bar and I thought to myself "holy crap, that guy is legit 7 feet tall."  For a second I thought my theory was shot.  I told all this to the other bartender, and she laughed at me and said "I know him, he actually did play in the NBA."  I just looked it up, Paul Grant, first went to BC, transferred to Wisconsin, drafted #20 overall by Minnesota in 1997.  Theory confirmed.  On another note, I went to a Bullets game once where Manute Bol and Muggsy Bogues stood next to each other during the national anthem, ridiculous.  I also ran into Manute at a blackjack table at Mohegan Sun a few years back.  He didn't really think it was funny when I tried to get him to stand back-to-back with my buddy Cliffy to see who was taller.

lebron does what lebron does: brick 3's with the game on the line

last night i watched from the garden as phoenix went on an 18-0 run before the celtics starters came back in and held on for the W.  well, it didn't work out that way tonight for the heat in miami.  they led 73-49 with 8:56 to go in the third.  the magic then went on a ridiculous 40-9 run over the next 14+ minutes, and ended up winning by 3.  miami is now a sub par 14-16 vs teams with winning records, and a borderline pathetic 5-12 in close games decided by 5 pts or less.  oh, and nice spike bosh.

chris webber, jalen rose, juwan howard, jimmy king, and ray jackson

i can't wait for this.  i loved that team.  when i was 14 years old in the fall of '91 my dad took me to a BC-michigan football game, and desmond howard went nuts (if i remember right he had a kick return td and two others).  then that winter these guys came along and i've been a michigan fan ever since.  the two years they played together are to this day still my favorite college hoops seasons ever.