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Peter King in his preamble to introducing a story about the Astros signal stealing controversy, PK told a story about his time as a softball coach. He and wife coached a girls 10 and under travel softball team in Montclair, NJ. King taught the team signals for stealing, pickoffs, taking extra bases and so on. In King’s mind, the girls loved it. Maybe they did. A couple years ago, I experienced the same level of softball as a parent/spectator. I believe our coaches tried setting up signals early in the season, but realized it was a waste of time. Their solution was just to have the first and third base coaches tell the kids to steal when the ball got past the catcher or to take an extra base if the ball was hit to the outfield. Nothing to remember, nothing to change. If your coach yelled “Go!” you took off for second, or third or home. We played a team once where their third base coach was MLB signals, like touching his hat, nose, and ear in addition to standing on one foot at times. It seemed like a lot of unnecessary effort because nobody ever stole on a pitch the catcher caught cleanly.
Maybe the level of play for 10 year olds in Montclair was high enough to justify all the signal work. Or maybe, like Bedard teaching kids to score a baseball game, it was more for PK’s enjoyment than the kids.
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Belichick’s long-awaited Top 100 NFL Players of All Time show debuts at 8 p.m. EST tonight on NFL Network.
Of course, he has to share the stage with Cris Collinsworth.
Don’t sleep on the walking pud that is Rich Eisen on that NFLN show.
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Eisen’s a pathetic Jets fan like many in his profession, but on the plus side he rides Brady’s jock because they both went to Michigan. Mileage may vary.
Collinsworth however, sucks in all aspects and situations.
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Scary scene in Denver as Boston star Kemba Walker being carried out on a stretcher with an apparent neck injury after running head first into a teammate.
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) November 23, 2019
This would be the beset possible news.
Early indications are that Boston’s Kemba Walker did not suffer a significant injury in collision tonight, league source tells ESPN. Team has diagnosed him with concussion-like symptoms. https://t.co/Qu2LMTDwaW
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 23, 2019
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Can already see that people out there think that Belichick, Collinsworth and Eisen picked the All-Time 100 Players (plus All-Time Ten Coaches) themselves.
Belichick was part of a 26-member committee that selected the winners, and that committee includes humps like Shula, Dan Fouts, and (of course) Fatty. (What, no Zombie Doctor Z?) But Bill will be blamed for oversights and slights, I’m sure.
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The usual suspects got picked: Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders (who were all in-studio; Sanders said to Bill, “If I’d been traded to a place like New England I would’ve played ten more years”), Eric Dickerson, Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, Earl Campbell, O. J. Simpson (they acknowledged his “fall from grace” but didn’t mention his “cutting” ability). From the 1950s they picked Lenny Moore, the 1940s Marion Motley and Steve Van Buren, and the 1930s Dutch Clark. In a nice touch, though, Curtis Martin was left off the Top 12. (As was LT.) I like Martin, but I love pissing off Jets’ fans.
They also revealed two of the Top 10 coaches — Paul Brown and BB himself.
Can already see that people out there think that Belichick, Collinsworth and Eisen picked the All-Time 100 Players (plus All-Time Ten Coaches) themselves.
Belichick was part of a 26-member committee that selected the winners, and that committee includes humps like Shula, Dan Fouts, and (of course) Fatty. (What, no Zombie Doctor Z?) But Bill will be blamed for oversights and slights, I’m sure.
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The usual suspects got picked: Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders (who were all in-studio; Sanders said to Bill, “If I’d been traded to a place like New England I would’ve played ten more years”), Eric Dickerson, Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, Earl Campbell, O. J. Simpson (they acknowledged his “fall from grace” but didn’t mention his “cutting” ability). From the 1950s they picked Lenny Moore, the 1940s Marion Motley and Steve Van Buren, and the 1930s Dutch Clark. In a nice touch, though, Curtis Martin was left off the Top 12. (As was LT.) I like Martin, but I love pissing off Jets’ fans.
They also revealed two of the Top 10 coaches — Paul Brown and BB himself.
I don’t know enough about the old timers (Marion Motley, etc) but how anyone anywhere could even for a split second think Tomlinson belongs in there ahead of any of the modern players is beyond me.
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Or Terrell Davis or Curtis Martin, fwiw, and I loved Curtis.
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So, of the other eight “top coaches” … the consensus picks will undoubtedly be Lombardi, Halas, Lambeau, Shula, Landry, Walsh, Gibbs and Noll.
Leaving out Parcells. And Coughlin. That would be a shame.
EDIT: Just saw Mittens’ Sunday NFL notes column. Coughlin didn’t even make the finals. But Dungy did.
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O. J. Simpson (they acknowledged his “fall from grace” but didn’t mention his “cutting” ability).
Guess we know which segment PK didn’t write.
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Seattle sports media all over the team for needing a flea flicker?
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