Showing posts with label Elias Sports Bureau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elias Sports Bureau. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Isiah Thomas's To-Do List


We here on Long Island have suffered through the misery that is Isiah Thomas for several years now. I feel like we've been through a lot together, from the Marbury trade to the Jerome James signing. This, however, is the year that everything changes. Isiah Thomas is ready to get OUT there, man, and boy-o does he have a plan.

-Trade $1.00 for 75c
-Trade an XBox 360 for an XBox.
-Give the previously mentioned Jerome James a contract extension, it just might motivate him to get in shape.
-Sign that Johan Santana fella, he really seems to know what he's doing out there. Oh, let's also trade for Todd Bertuzzi, we really need an enforcer.
-Paint the game floor green in order to confuse opponents.
-Make the baskets 11-feet high.
-Try to get that Yao Ming guy from Milwaukee. Or is it Wang Zhi Zhi? Yi?
-Hire Rickey Ledee as a motivational speaker.
-Play to win the game!
-Buy Eddy Curry a dictionary, tell him to look up "defense" and "rebound."
-Convert David Lee to point guard.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Baseball Milestone

Frank Thomas hit his 500th career homerun today and Craig Biggio collected (why collected for hits?) his 3,000th career hit. My question is: Has this ever happened before, and if so, when? My thoughts are that it's incredible unlikely, maybe the good ole folks over at Elias will mention it in their ESPN report.

UPDATE!

From Jayson Stark, of ESPN.com

Never in the history of baseball had we seen one man hit his 500th home run and another man get his 3,000th hit on the same day.

Heck, only twice before (Ernie Banks-Hank Aaron in 1970, Tony Gwynn-Wade Boggs-Mark McGwire in 1999) had we witnessed both of those magic numbers arrive in the same week.

My questions are silenced, for now.