October 25, 2006

Last night as I was heading to the Subway I passed by an open storm door. (I don’t know if that’s exactly what they call it in the City, but that’s what I’m calling it.) I look down and there’s a large brown fuzzy thing, which immediately makes me jump, but after the whole snake thing, I jump a lot easier. Anyway, I realized it was cat. It looked a lot like my brother’s cat Ephee.





World Series Update:

St. Louis Cardinals v. Detroit Tigers

Game 3 Recap:
Tigers 0 3 1
Cardinals 5 7 0
W: Chris Carpenter (1-0)
L: Nate Robinson (0-1)

Game 4
First Pitch: 8:19 PM/est on Fox
Stadium: Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO
Scheduled Pitchers:
Tigers: Jeremy Bonderman
Cardinals: Jeff Suppan

Cardinals lead the Series 2-1

Favorite title for an article about last night’s game: “Master Craftsman” (via si.com)

NASCAR Update:
David Ragan was unable to gain clearance from NASCAR to race at Atlanta this weekend. Subsequently, Roush Racing pulled the #06 car from the entry list. Ragan should really work on getting clearance, especially since he was already announced as Mark Martin’s replacement in the #6 car next year.

Giants Update:
The Giants’ game against the Chicago Bears at the Meadowlands on November 12th was selected as the first flex-game to air this season. The game will be played at 8:30 PM instead of the original 4:05 PM starting time. As part of the new TV contract, NBC was able to pick one game in each of the final seven weeks that was not a part of the five games protected by CBS and Fox during that time. The Pittsburgh Steelers’ game against the New Orleans Saints was moved from 1 PM to 4:15PM to replace the Giants game on Fox.

Around Sports:
Baseball
Some say beggars can’t be choosers, so apparently Joe Girardi is not a beggar. The former Marlin’s manager is reportedly not interested in the Washington Nationals’ job. Then again it’s only October, we’ll see how he feels come February.

Mets first baseman, Carlos Delgado was named the 2006 winner of the Roberto Clemente Award for his excellence on and off the field.

MLB announced a new player’s deal that will go through 2011.

Basketball
In a poll of NBA GMs, most chose the San Antonio Spurs as their favorite to win another championship this season. Yeah for fans of Eva Longoria, because they’ll be seeing loads of pans to her in her blinged out jeans well into June!

If only the preseason meant something, then the undefeated Golden State Warriors would be in good shape. Alas, it means nothing!

The NBA approved the sale of the Seattle Supersonics to a group of Oklahoma City businessmen, led by Clay Bennett. Bennett maintains that his intentions are not to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City, but rather to keep them in Seattle. Although reports say that if the team cannot get a new arena built, they are out of there.

Football
The NFL approved the move of two regular season games to an international site for the 2007 season.

Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator, Maurice Carthon resigned Monday. The Browns currently are 1-6 and rank 32nd in the League in total offense.

Tennis
In embarrassing news…Kim Clijsters injured herself by tripping over her dog while playing soccer. The tennis star missed two days of practice but is not expected to miss the Gaz de France Stars.

Random Quote: "I come from a Christian household and we didn't celebrate Halloween. At church we had something called the Hallelujah Hoedown. It was like Halloween for the good kids. We'd go home afterward, close the windows and turn out the lights. We'd get our house egged every year because we didn't give out candy." - Clippers center Chris Kaman (via si.com)

Around the World:
Poor Lindsay Lohan will no longer be able to get her cocaine at 7-11. No, she’ll still be able to get her drugs, but it’s the energy drink, she’ll have to get somewhere else. 7-11 told all of its stores to remove the energy drink, Cocaine from it’s shelves because of its name.

3 year old, Robert Moore got stuck in a vending machine on Saturday in an attempt to get a Sponge Bob toy. Unfortunately for the toddler, the store employees were unable to find the key to open the machine, so Robert had to wait until the local fire department arrived. The firefighters broke a lock on the outside of the machine only to realize that there were screws on the inside that needed to be released before the boy could get out. Firefighters passed a screwdriver to the boy who was able to unlock the vending machine and get out. Next time kid, when your grandmother offers to get you the Sponge Bob toy, let her!

Popo in my Crib News:
Foxy Brown was sentenced to three years probation in conjunction with anger management classes. Now she’ll have something to talk about with Kenny Rogers and Tony Stewart, it they’re ever in the same room. The sentence stems from an August 2006 assault case, which Foxy plead guilty to. She had injured two manicurists at a New York City nail salon. Watch out Foxy, because the popo are on your tail!

Celebrity Tid Bits:
Isaiah Washington has apologized for his actions and his words stemming from an on-set incident this month. Maybe the Grey’s Anatomy star heard the rumor that ABC was looking to recast his roll as Preston Burke on the show?

Separated at Birth:

It’s been fun blogging with you,

Kate