Armadillo: Monday's six-pack
-- Miami Dolphins are keeping both coordinators on field level, unusual for an NFL team- they say it gets play calls into the QB ten seconds faster.
-- 0-7 week at home for the Red Sox, who also spent $72M for a Cuban outfielder after they low-balled Jon Lester, then traded him. Interesting decision.
-- Arizona backup QB Drew Stanton has been active for every game the last three seasons, but hasn't gotten into any; pretty good job.
-- How much different would the NFL be if punters/kickers had to play another position, the way Danny White or Steve Spurrier used to?
-- Sam Bradford is out for the year, Cam Newton has a broken rib, the first couple teams Tampa Bay plays this season, so thats a plus for them.
-- Mixed bag weekend for me as a fan; A's won two of three against the Angels, but took on some injuries. Bradford's injury is a blow to the Rams, who now turn to 34-year old Shaun Hill; he is 13-13 as an NFL starter.
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Armadillo: Monday's List of 13: Some of my favorite quotes........
13) "You're the one who put me here!!!!"
June 1998. A 12-year old third baseman had just made three errors against my Little League team, his coach was giving him more than a little grief and finally the kid had enough. I was standing 20 feet away; was laughing so hard I had to walk further away-- one of the great lines ever.
12) "If you have no destination, you'll never get there." Harvey Mackay
11) "There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people." Thomas Jefferson
10) "When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book." LSU football coach Les Miles
9) "You're only given one little spark of madness. You musn't lose it." Robin Williams
8) “My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.” college basketball coach, the late Al McGuire
7) "I love money. I love everything about it. I've bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks, got a fur sink. Let's see, bought an electric dog polisher, a gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater, and, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too." Steve Martin
6) "Listen, Lupus, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? Now get your ass out there and do the best you can." Coach Buttermaker from the Bad News Bears
5) “We will rally around Kurt Warner, and we will play good football.” Dick Vermeil, August 1999
4) “America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.” David Letterman
3) "Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.” Bob Uecker, who hit 14 HRs in his major league career, with three of them against Hall of Fame pitchers. Really.
2) “What the world needs is less mental hospitals and more minor league baseball.” Bill Murray in Rolling Stone magazine, 1982
1) "There's no such thing as a sure thing. Thats why they call it gambling." Oscar Madison, from the Odd Couple
-- Miami Dolphins are keeping both coordinators on field level, unusual for an NFL team- they say it gets play calls into the QB ten seconds faster.
-- 0-7 week at home for the Red Sox, who also spent $72M for a Cuban outfielder after they low-balled Jon Lester, then traded him. Interesting decision.
-- Arizona backup QB Drew Stanton has been active for every game the last three seasons, but hasn't gotten into any; pretty good job.
-- How much different would the NFL be if punters/kickers had to play another position, the way Danny White or Steve Spurrier used to?
-- Sam Bradford is out for the year, Cam Newton has a broken rib, the first couple teams Tampa Bay plays this season, so thats a plus for them.
-- Mixed bag weekend for me as a fan; A's won two of three against the Angels, but took on some injuries. Bradford's injury is a blow to the Rams, who now turn to 34-year old Shaun Hill; he is 13-13 as an NFL starter.
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Armadillo: Monday's List of 13: Some of my favorite quotes........
13) "You're the one who put me here!!!!"
June 1998. A 12-year old third baseman had just made three errors against my Little League team, his coach was giving him more than a little grief and finally the kid had enough. I was standing 20 feet away; was laughing so hard I had to walk further away-- one of the great lines ever.
12) "If you have no destination, you'll never get there." Harvey Mackay
11) "There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people." Thomas Jefferson
10) "When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book." LSU football coach Les Miles
9) "You're only given one little spark of madness. You musn't lose it." Robin Williams
8) “My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.” college basketball coach, the late Al McGuire
7) "I love money. I love everything about it. I've bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks, got a fur sink. Let's see, bought an electric dog polisher, a gasoline-powered turtleneck sweater, and, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too." Steve Martin
6) "Listen, Lupus, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? Now get your ass out there and do the best you can." Coach Buttermaker from the Bad News Bears
5) “We will rally around Kurt Warner, and we will play good football.” Dick Vermeil, August 1999
4) “America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.” David Letterman
3) "Career highlights? I had two. I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.” Bob Uecker, who hit 14 HRs in his major league career, with three of them against Hall of Fame pitchers. Really.
2) “What the world needs is less mental hospitals and more minor league baseball.” Bill Murray in Rolling Stone magazine, 1982
1) "There's no such thing as a sure thing. Thats why they call it gambling." Oscar Madison, from the Odd Couple
