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Happy Memorial Day Weekend: Here's Your 4-Day Phils' Schedule (With Beach Music!) After last night's 10-9 win, the Phils remain in St. Louis through Sunday, before making their way to Flushing Meadows to kick off a three-gamer with the Mets on Monday afternoon. Your probable pitching matchups for those contests are as follows: For you out-of-towners, the Memorial Day game will also be broadcast on MLB Network. Should you be caught in traffic on your way down the shore this afternoon/evening and ready to pull your eyes out, here are links to some of our goods from earlier this week to keep you occupied (but, not if you're driving!): |
History Lesson: The Sixers and Celtics Play a Game 7 at the Garden Tomorrow The Boston Strangler, AP When you think classic Sixers rivalries there's no doubt you think Sixers-Celtics, but like all but two of the Sixers' current players, most of my generation can't remember a Game 7 between Boston and Philadelphia. Only Elton Brand and Tony Battie were even alive for a Sixers-Celtics Game 7. So it's safe to say that despite the storied history, a lot of us aren't real familiar with the details of it.
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Jimmy Kimmel's 'This Week in Unnecessary Censorship' Features Doug CollinsBut yeah, hopefully they don't get pounded on Saturday. Via Jimmy Traina's Hot Clicks |
I'd Watch 'The Life Aquatic With Scott Hartnell' Hartsy just threw up a couple of a clips from a show called "Scott Hartnell's World of Wildlife: In Wild Goose Chase." It's riveting stuff and features Matt Carle as a traffic cone in a pond. Zing. Stellar work by my colleague Tom.
Part I Part II, the highly anticipated conclusion, and the movie poster:
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The Best Photo of a Naked Guy at a Phillies Game You've Ever Seen I mean, what else can you do but give kudos to Associated Press photographer Jeff Roberson for framing this photo in just about the only acceptable way to make a naked guy on a baseball field seem like a total badass.
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Remember the Squirrel: Phillies, Blanton Kick Off Four-Game Set in St. Louis That bastard! The beasts of last year's awful, horrendous, totally lame, and disappointing NL Division Series, Chris Carpenter and Lance Berkman, are both on the DL. So we won't have them to remind us of the ugly end to the 2011 season. But there are plenty of other familiar faces to do just that anyway.
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James Thrash Named the Most Average Player Ever, Slew of Other Eagles Make List And now, a simultaneously amusing and "Holy Hell, the Eagles make up 10 percent of the list?" kind of walk down memory lane. Kissing Suzy Kolber has put together a ranking of the "100 Most Average (Football) Players Ever," and former Eagles wide receiver James Thrash is No. 1 on the list. But, he's not alone; at least 10 other Birds (our bad if we missed any) made the cut, including Donovan McNabb's nearly entire complement of receivers from the early stages of his career. Click for the list of Eagles below and for a picture of two positively sweet looking gentlemen in Starter-esque jackets and big sunglasses...
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LouWill On Allen Iverson: 'He's Probably Looking for a Gym' After Game 6 Following the game, Lou Williams joked that A.I. was probably "looking for a gym" after watching the exciting action. Either that or a blackjack table in Atlantic City. [video below]
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You'll Taste It In Time: Sixers Go to Seven on Backs of Holiday, Odd Celtics Performance It was a battle of which weird trend from this series would prevail—the trend of every team that wins the first quarter losing the game, or every team that won the game before losing the game. The Sixers won the first quarter but lost the night before, and it was the latter that ended up being the more relevant random signifier as they held on for another strange, low-scoring victory in this game to force a Game Seven. Yes, this Sixers team—the one that many of us hoped would fall out of the playoffs entirely to earn a couple-spots-higher draft pick—is now one victory short of the Eastern Conference Finals. WHATTA PLAYOFFS. The Sixers played a lot better in this one, and we'll talk about some of the good Sixer performances, but really, Philly was able to win this game because of three things, all Boston-related: Brandon Bass couldn't make a shot, Ray Allen is off his game, and Rajon Rondo is a weird dude. The first two are easily explained—Bass had probably the best game he's ever going to have in the playoffs in Game Five, scoring 18 points in the third quarter, and was probably due for a clunker like this. Meanwhile, Allen has been dealing with injury the entire playoffs, and while his 4-11 line isn't awful, he missed a couple key good looks (including a three with a minute to go) that you feel like Ray Allen at 100% hits at least 90% of the time.
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Win! Sixers to Play Decisive Game 7 in Boston On Saturday They ain't dead yet! The Sixers smothered the Celtics in Game 6 to win 82-75 on Wednesday night in South Philadelphia to force what should be a wild and decisive Game 7 at the Garden in Boston on Saturday night. It was a very characteristic Sixers win with impressive defense, awful foul shooting, and offensive contributions from across the board. Lou Williams provided a big spark off the bench and Jrue Holiday outplayed Rajon Rondo all game long. Much more on the game in a bit, but I think this Andre Iguodala dunk summed up the night nicely.
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Video: Allen Iverson at the Wells Fargo Center for Game 6 He was in the building and wasn't even late. [VIDEOS BELOW]
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What Does It All Mean? Sixers-Celtics, Game Six
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