Tirico Suave

The 85-year-old Bronx resident finally started to show signs of age on Tuesday evening.
He said the raucous All-Star weekend, which brought in guests from around the globe, took quite the toll on his health.
“I had that weekend off for the last 31 years,” he said. “It was utterly ridiculous to think I could play host [...]

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I used to look forward to Sports Illustrated’s “Sign of the Apocalypse.”
But in today’s digital crusade, the apocalyptic tidbit is usually staler than Josh Hamilton’s catchy addiction story Kimbo’s bread.
Some renegade blogger usually scoops up an interesting / quirky factoid off the tubes and runs with it.
SI — a depressing T-rex fossil — is [...]

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I just wanted to read the AP story on the Yankees game and look at the photo gallery (Sorry, brontosaurus spines newspaper stalwarts, this is as old school as I get).
But instead I got this . . .

McCain hustling at Yankee stadium and Obama ‘08.
*Sigh*
I’m already voting for the corpse of John Adams, so quit [...]

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According to NFL Film’s Steve Sabol, Marv Levy has quite the adventurous vocabulary.
Rich Eisen wrote a book last year about life on the NFL Network - how could the world do without a book on that subject? - that has a trivial tidbit on Bills Hall of Famer Marv Levy. During an interview of NFL [...]

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Dear Rick,
Please stop acting like a character.
ESPN doesn’t need a b-rate Kenny Mayne.
You have the skills and wit to escape your current predicament.
Let’s hope your soul isn’t tattered beyond recognition and you return to form.
Signed,
An old fan veering on becoming an ex-fan

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Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips — playing against the Mets this evening — turned one of the most aesthetically pleasing double plays I’ve ever seen.
I don’t know if it was on par with his two-bag thievery last season, but it was certainly close.
You tell me.

Oh, yeah, Chad Johnson’s job security is in danger.

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El Duque’s career has once again lost its footing.
This, of course, prompted thoughts of Daniel Day-Lewis’ role in the Oscar winning film “My Left Foot.”

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Gotta love those Midwestern minds at work.
I’d love to see fat boy try and sell this one.

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So, about those MLB playoff commercials.
As a blogger, I was insulted.
So, yeah, I did something about it.
Enjoy.

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NEW YORK — Clay Council’s “country strong” right arm turned into “city cellulite” on Monday evening in the Bronx.
The 71-year-old North Carolina native — who was pitching to Texas’ Josh Hamilton in the 2008 Bloodsucking Insurance Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium — said he felt a twinge in his right elbow midway through the [...]

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