November 2010
5 posts
11/24 JackO, Marc Stein, Joe House (Jeter, NBA)
jacko: the yankees literally have a license to print money. this is the team that gave kei igawa a $40M contract plus $10M just to talk to him (he’s in the minors). jeter is not worth 15/year (and definitely not 20) but so what? this is where you’re going to draw the line? with fricking derek jeter?
?? jeter is the one yankee that red sox fans kind of respect / fear / wish they had...
11/18 Mike Lombardi, Casey Wasserman (NFL, LA...
4630 oh yeah, cities have to pay teams to move to their city
5130 LA hasn’t had a final four since the 60’s, because all of its venues are too small. it hasn’t had a superbowl since early 2000s (san diego), but it used to be once every three years.
special football games aren’t taking place in california anymore
5530 the long standing belief that la cannot support an...
11/11 Buster Olney (MLB Offseason), Dave Dameshek...
2630 Gold Glove voting is comical - exactly as un-researched as it seems to the outsider. voters gathered in the room and say “hey who’s a good shortstop out there?” one person says jeter and then everybody goes oh yeah okay lets vote for him.
PART II
550 Aaron Rodgers should ask out Jenn Sterger lol.
11/10 Bill Carter ("The War for Late Night")
7 Leno’s 10pm show had a “Pay & Play” contract, which was peculiar. NBC had to pay him and air his show, instead of “Pay or Play” which could pay him and not air his show.
9 BS: ABC is geared more towards women
1130 Median age of Conan’s Tonight Show: 36. Median age of Leno’s Tonight Show: 56
12 The myth of the Tonight Show as an institution. As...
11/1 Adam Carolla (new book)
28 “Happy Madison” is the name of Adam Sandler’s office lol