Well it appears that Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins World Series prediction wasn't even close.
Mr. Rollins instead should have done what most other athletes would have done.
When asked during the "Ten @ Ten" on the Jay Leno Show a week ago about his prediction he should have said, "I don't want to jinx anything, all I know is that we're going to play hard to defend our title" or just throw in about "player superstitions."
Instead, Rollins says on national television for all to hear and see, "Well, of course we're going to win...I'm thinking five to close it out at home."
The irony in that is that the New York Yankees have a chance to close it out tonight at the Phillies home at Citizens Bank Park in Game 5. The Yankees are up 3-1 in the series and have Game 2 starter and winner A.J. Burnett on the mound to face Game 1 winner Cliff Lee who was absolutely brilliant.
This should be the game of the series tonight.
Rollins already got the games wrong, but he still has a shot at the other half of his prediction.
The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees never had any kind of rivalry, but watching this 2009 World Series is almost second guessing it.
After every game it's more like watching a Red Sox/Yankees match-up and the sign are obvious and a bit haunted.
Yankees fans
"Who's your Daddy?" directed at former Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez who started Game 2 for the Phillies.
Phillies fans
"You do steroids" chants at A-Rod and Andy Pettitte.
"Yankees Suck" chants.
"CC sucks" chants (well I'm not sure if Sox fans ever did that one, but maybe).
Events
A-Rod getting beaned three times.
Both benches warned.
How more obvious can it get? Who knows, maybe Phillies fans will grow and learn to hate the Yankees as Red Sox fans and others around baseball. It's contagious for some reason and why not start while defending your World Series title?
Discovered this evening, the boston.com sports page has a new fresh look.
The page is full of color and graphic logos of all of the main Boston sports teams in the top navigation bar, which gives easier access to your favorite sports team pages.
To find your favorite blog, click on the "More" button and a drop down menu will come up listing all of them along with the Globe columnists, and other sports and categories.
Another cool feature is quick access to all of the pro sports scores for MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL. Also an added tool is the GlobeSportsWire, which gives up-to-date news from the Globe newsroom.
Towards the bottom right hand side there are the multiple categories including Facebook, Twitter, Mobile, and Widgets.
For some reason, the MLB.com Shop is already advertising American League Championship gear for both the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Editor's Note: Conveniently the original link to the Yankees Championship gear doesn't work anymore....figures.
Of course I found out first that Yankees apparel was already being posted before realizing it was for both clubs.
To MLB.com, yes we all know that either the Yankees or Angels will be the AL Champs, but why do you need to start doing pre-orders during Game 6 of the ALCS?
The Yankees could end it tonight, but nothing is definite.
Is it just all about greed? Or how about stupidity.
Why can't they just wait until there is a clear cut winner and throw it right up at the end of the series?
"I'm hearing now that Dupont is staying at the Globe. As I mentioned in an earlier post, leaving the Globe, where he had been since the 1970's would've been a huge leap for Dupont. I'm not surprised he's staying put."
For all of the diehard Red Sox fans that feel they need to have everything imaginable on their ride sporting their favorite team this is for you.
Introducing the Boston Red Sox Tire Tattoo.
These tattoos come in packs of four so that every tire will get it's own special Red Sox logo decal. They fit on the sidewall of your tire, are easy to apply, and are officially licensed team logos.
I recently stumbled upon this on Facebook and being a journalist I definitely appreciate it.
Overheard in the Newsroom is a website that simply posts up quotes or conversations that are literally overheard in a newsroom, whether it's at a newspaper or a broadcasting station.
Here is a sample of some noteworthy ones:
#1980 Editor to page designers: "Lets throw some crap on a page and get the hell out of here."
#1979 "You want sensitivity training? Don't hang out in a newsroom, that's your sensitivity training."
#1983 "I'm a newspaper editor. My job is to replace your reality with mine."
#1968 Editor: "(With candy bar in hand) Do you like coconut?" Reporter: "No...wait is it free? I'm a journalist, I'll eat it."
The last sentence wasn't really necessary, definitely could have stopped at 'free?' only because that's me written all over. Free food is amazing, probably the most amazing thing ever.
But if you're any kind of journalist I encourage you to check out the site and if you have a Twitter account, you can follow them there too.
Over the last three years, The Currier Times, Curry College's bi-weekly student-run newspaper has forgone some format changes.
My senior year as Editor-in-Chief we talked about upgrading from QuarkXPress to Adobe In-Design and to make a long story short it was accomplished and new software (along with new computers) was purchased for the 2008-09 academic year.
A lot of newspapers have been jumping from Quark to In-Design so it was a smart move. There was also talk about printing in color. It appears that this was finally accomplished as well.
Here are the front pages from the last three years:
From top: 2009-10 (In-Design), 2008-09 (In-Design) 2007-08 (QuarkXPress, senior year).
This is a great move and the design can only become better in the future.
With the changing newspaper industry, it's crucial to keep up with the times.
Glad to see that The Currier Times is continuing to move forward since my graduation.
The reason behind this is that the "paper's financial performance has 'significantly improved' in recent months."
So maybe those desperate one minute and 30 second commercials that aired during every Boston Red Sox telecast on NESN worked? I hardly doubt that, but either that or the cuts and increase in prices worked.
But here is a very interesting sentence written by Beth Healy of the Globe staff:
"Times Co. executives had said they may not sell the Globe -- and the swift decision to take the paper off the market less than a week after bids were due -- may reflect that the offers were too low."
What? Really?
Honestly, now is not the best time to buy a newspaper and that's just the way it is and it'd be interesting to find out exactly what those bids were.
It's almost kind of hard to believe that a massive turnaround in just six months can occur though. The troubles started in April when the Times threatened that they'd shutdown the newspaper. To make an extremely long story short, after two union votes it was decided all employees would receive benefit cuts and a 5.9 percent pay cut.
Pedro Martinez poster that still hangs on my wall that I bought when I was in 8th grade in 1999-2000.
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