On Tuesday I taped “My Boys” on TBS because it airs at 10 PM/est which is way past my bed time. Anyway, I watched it last night because, well there’s nothing on Wednesday nights. I completely fell in love with it. It’s like “Sex in the City” except P.J. (the lead) is a writer for the Sun Times. She covers the Chicago Cubs (my dream except obviously I’d cover the Braves) and has a weekly poker game with her older brother and three guy friends. She’s just one of the guys, but her friend Stephanie makes sure that she doesn’t literally become one of the guys. It’s totally surpassed my expectations and I can’t wait for next week’s all new episode!
Braves Update:
So not much on the Braves front besides the whole Glavine thing. He apparently told the Mets he’d have a decision by Sunday, when the winter meetings begin. So here are a few quotes given by his agent Greg Clifton:
The Good:
"He can't even evaluate that they really want him if he doesn't have an offer…The bottom line is, we're waiting to see if Atlanta wants to make a proposal to us. We've had really nice dialogue on a few occasions and we've kind of left it: We're open. We're waiting for John to give us a call if he would like to."
The Bad:
"As time has gone on, I think it's actually been the potential pull and the desire to go back to New York and be a Met that has delayed this process and further complicated his decision-making.”
The Ugly:
"[The Mets are] showing an incredible amount of class…because at the end of the day they have allowed him to do everything he asked to, which was to go home, to get back into the normal family mode and give him an opportunity to really think this thing through. I think it's working to their advantage, to be honest with you."
(All quotes courtesy of the AP)
NASCAR Update:
The top ten cars roared through the streets of New York City on Wednesday. Foxsports.com has a running set of pictures from Championship week including yesterday’s traffic halting jaunt around the big apple.
RADIO ALERT: Tony Stewart’s new radio show will debut tonight (11/30/06) at 6 PM on Sirius Satellite Radio’s channel 128. Tony’s guests include newly single Kid Rock, Busch Series Champion Kevin Harvick and health guru Richard Simmons.
Jimmie Johnson was announced as the official spokesman of Elizabeth Arden’s Daytona 500 cologne. Still not as good as Drakkar Noir, Jimmie.
Giants Update:
There’s some good news for the ailing Giants. All pro linebacker, Osi Umenyiora practiced on Wednesday. Umenyiora hasn’t played since he injured his hip during a game against Dallas five weeks ago. Sam Madison who has missed two straight weeks and Brandon Short also practiced. Michael Straham who took time out from his busy schedule of eating Krispy Cream doughnuts and yelling at female reporters ran some drills for the first time since November 5th. All are getting ready for the Giants next game against the red hot Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
Around Sports:
Baseball
Albert Pujols, the 2005 NL MVP, said in a news conference that the a MLB MVP should come from a playoff bound team taking an obvious knock at 2006 NL MVP, Ryan Howard. P to the S Albert, the Phillies won two more games than your Cardinals did in the regular season. If the Phillies were in the NL Central, you would not have made the playoffs!
Basketball
The NJ Nets ended their skid at six games by beating the Boston Celtics, 106-103 on Wednesday.
Football
Steelers head coach, Bill Cowher has no interest in the vacant NC State head coaching position. But the real question is if he has any interest in coaching the Steelers in 2007.
Around the World:
38,000 Ford Motor Company employees accepted buyouts and early retirement packages Ford announced. This is an effort to cut cost for one of the US’ big three car companies. Ford had expected between 20,000 and 30,000 employees to take the package which ranges from $35,000-$140,000 and could include partial college tuition depending on age and length of employment.
Popo in my crib News:
7 million American adults are in jail, on probation or parole according to a new study. Watch out perps, because the popo are on your tail! (abcnews.com)
Celebrity Tid Bits:
The Billboard Music Awards nominations were released on Wednesday. Congratulations to Rascal Flatts who picked up five nods including overall artist of the year. The awards will be handed out on December 4th and will air on live on Fox. I don’t know, but isn’t it a little late to announce nominations, you know less than a week before the show?
Congratulations to George Strait. His latest album, It Just Comes Natural has gone platinum with sales of 1 million copies. This is George’s 32nd platinum album!
Nicole Kidman was named the highest paid actress in Hollywood beating out Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts. The Oscar winner has an asking price of $16-$17 million per picture.
NBC unveiled its midseason schedule. As of January 10th, "Friday Night Lights" will be moving to Wednesdays at 8 PM/est. (Thank goodness, no more Gilmore conflict!) Dateline will take over the Tuesdays at 8 PM time slot that became vacant with "Lights" move.
Happy Birthday shout outs to Clay Aiken (28), Mindy McCreedy (31), Ben Stiller (41) and Billy Idol (51).
It’s been fun blogging with you,
Kate
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