While Major League Baseball has proven over the past few seasons that money doesn’t buy championships, the trade deadline still points to its almost total lack of equity. As has been discussed continuously on everything ESPN has to offer, the Yankees scored a major coup by obtaining Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle. This deal [...]
Entries from July 2006
July 28, 2006
The Exception Game (AKA: Laminated List)
Early on in my comedy career, I wrote a bit about a couple that were friends of mine playing something called the exception game. The concept was that you were able to pick 3 celebrities that you were able to sleep with that would not be considered cheating. This was back in 1995, [...]
July 26, 2006
Is this the Best AL Race since 1967?
Well, lookie here. We have a 3-way tie for the AL Wild Card, as the White Sox, Twins, and Yankees are in a dead heat. The Blue Jays are 3 games back and the Red Sox are 2 games ahead, so we have 5 teams within 5 games of each other, battling for [...]
July 24, 2006
Where’s Jay Mariotti?/ Lemond….Armstrong….Floyd?
Does anyone know what happened to Jay Mariotti? If you haven’t been following, American’s biggest sports writing Jack Ass, has been missing from the pages of the Chicago Sun-Times since June 26. Since this was not much after the whole Ozzie Guillen incident, it is very curious to understand why he has decided [...]
July 22, 2006
Paris Hilton in a Cage
I’ve never understood the Paris Hilton phenomenon. Without any discernible talent, except for a tabloid-friendly name and a long blonde mane, she has spent the last few years being covered breathlessly by the entertainment media. Personally, I don’t even think she’s that hot. Considering that Hilton craves public attention, I think it’s [...]
July 18, 2006
The 2006 Cubs: Suicide is painless. But we’re not.
I was working recently with a very funny comedian from Chicago named Ken Schultz. When we first met he said, “are you the Scott Long who writes thejuiceblog.com?” This either spoke well for my blog fandom or poorly for my comedy career, but after talking to Ken for a bit longer, I realized [...]
July 14, 2006
The Best Rock Album of 2006?
The English band, Muse, has been put in the Radiohead clone category since coming on the scene with their excellent “Showbiz” record. Their next release was the epic “Absolution”, which is one of the TEN best CD’s of this decade. “Absolution” was Radiohead, if they really wanted to be a killer rock band, [...]
July 13, 2006
Second Half Preview
I decided to go back and look at what my thoughts were in my pre-season preview, so I could give some perspective on my evolving state of mind.
AL East- I thought that the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, and yes, the Orioles would all finish within 10 games of each other. Oops on the [...]
