How very.

Disgracing Griffey’s good name!

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PEOPLE GO STREAKING!

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Dear Rapture,

I’m too young to be swallowed into hell.

I still need to sit Centre Court at Wimbledon and see the crushed red brick at Chatrier. I still need to see my ginger haired hero in Los Angeles because New York wasn’t enough! I still need to explore Germany with my father and climb the hillside in Austria and sing out, “THE HILLS ARE ALIVE!!” I still need to see a Seattle franchise or the Vancouver Canucks win the ‘ship in my lifetime!!!

I’ve got so much life to live, don’t take it from me now.

Pleading,
Jono

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It seems as though these fierce men won the Stanley Cup in 1917, the first American team to do so. That’s right, those guys are the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. And guess what, Seattle has never ever had an NHL team.

Bwahahah.

…for the media to remind us Seattleites how miserable of a sports city we inhabit; as if we didn’t already know that. I’m still trying to forget 2008.

For the second year in a row, my lovely city of Seattle has been given the top spot on Forbes’ list of “The Most Miserable Sports Cities.” Although, I’m pretty sure the list was just copy and pasted from last year’s, just gussied up with new pictures and reiterating the fact that the Seahawks won their division with a losing record. Forbes still cruelly lists the Sonics as a Seattle team, and while the team history will remain here forever (including Kevin Durant’s R.O.Y. as a Sonic), um, the physical team clearly exists elsewhere…

Of course, there will be some arguments against the claim. Our MLS side, the Seattle Sounders FC, are two-time Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Champions, and the city’s WNBA team, the Storm, have won the championship twice, most recently in 2010. But, the criteria clearly insists that only the four major sports are considered in factoring which city suffers the most (MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL).

However, I would suggest that Forbes reconsiders next year and just names the entire Northwest region (Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver) as “The Most Tortured Sports Region To Ever Exist.”

You know why it rains here all the time? Those are the tears of Northwest sports fans crying from heaven. Maybe Charlie Sheen should come up here and teach us all how to win.

P.S. Those are real headlines. I save the front page pdfs every time a major Seattle sports story occurs.

…about me is that I like love sports. I saw this list in the tumblrverse via dearkate and had to CTRL + C and CTRL + V to show my movie watching prowess. The list is compiled from a book entitled “The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies,” which in reality, I feel as if I should own… Hm…

1. Rocky (1976)
2. Hoosiers (1986)
3. Raging Bull (1980)
4. The Natural (1984)
5. Bull Durham (1988)
6. Slap Shot (1977)
7. The Longest Yard (1974)
8. The Hustler (1961)
9. Caddyshack (1980)
10. North Dallas Forty (1979)
11. Field Of Dreams (1989)
12. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
13. The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)
14. Hoop Dreams (1994)
15. Brian’s Song (1971)
16. Miracle (2004)
17. Chariots Of Fire (1981)
18. Body And Soul (1947)
19. Remember The Titans (2000)
20. Breaking Away (1979)
21. When We were Kings (1996)
22. A League Of Their Own (1992)
23. Friday Night Lights (2004)
24. The Wrestler (2008)
25. The Set-Up (1949)
26. Major League (1989)
27. Knute Rockne All-American (1940)
28. Bang The Drum Slowly (1973)
29. Jerry Maguire (1996)
30. Downhill Racer (1969)
31. He Got Game (1998) JESUS SHUTTLESWORTH!
32. Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
33. Phar Lap (1983)
34. The Rookie (2002)
35. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
36. Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
37. Jim Thorpe - All-American (1951)
38. Hard Times (1975)
39. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
40. The Rocket: The Legend of Maurice Richard (2005)
41. Eight Men Out (1988)
42. The Freshman (1925)
43. Murderball (2005)
44. The Bad News Bears (1976)
45. Seabiscut (2003)
46. This Sporting Life (1963)
47. Cinderella Man (2005)
48. Rounders (1998)
49. Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
50. Long Gone (1987)
51. The Karate Kid (1984)
52. It Happens Every Spring (1949)
53. Without Limits (1998)
54. The Harder They Fall (1956)
55. Sugar (2008)
56. Mystery, Alaska (1999)
57. Rudy (1993)
58. Kingpin (1996)
59. All The Right Moves (1983)
60. Fat City (1972)
61. 61* (2001)
62. Invincible (2006)
63. Rollerball (1975)
64. The Program (1993)
65. The Boxer (1997)
66. White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
67. Junior Bonner (1972)
68. Blue Chips (1994)
69. Horse Feathers (1932)
70. We Are Marshall (2006)
71. Damn Yankees (1958)
72. The Jericho Mile (1979)
73. Champion (1949)
74. Let It Ride (1989) [This movie is referenced quite a bit in my family]
75. The Express (2008)
76. The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
77. Happy Gilmore (1996)
78. Everybody’s All-American (1988)
79. The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
80. Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993) [I know I have seen this, but can’t recall a single detail, so I won’t count it]
81. Rebound: The Legend Of Earl “The Goat” Manigault (1996)
82. The Sandlot (1993) [One of my all-time favorites!!]
83. The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg (1999)
84. Tin Cup (1996)
85. Any Given Sunday (1999)
86. Best In Show (2000)
87. Glory Road (2006)
88. The Stratton Story (1949)
89. Varsity Blues (1999)
90. Diggstown (1992)
91. The Club (1980)
92. Coach Carter (2005)
93. Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (2001)
94. Grand Prix (1966)
95. Wind (1992)
96. Vision Quest (1985)
97. Cool Runnings (1993)
98. Youngblood (1986)
99. Victory (1981)
100. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)

I hope that when the new edition of this book is republished, it will include the stellar ‘The Fighter,’ from this past year.

Upset at the lack of ‘The Cutting Edge’ and ‘Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby’ Anyone? Also, no ‘Goal! The Dream Begins’ or ‘The Damned United’ or am I the only one that enjoyed those movies?

My personal additions to this list would include: ‘The Big Green,’ ‘Ladybugs,’ ‘The Little Giants’, ‘Little Big League,’ and ‘Rookie of the Year’ for sentimental reasons, obviously.

There’s a handful of other movies that are escaping me at this moment. I’ll have to revisit this list soon.