Showing posts with label ESPN Outside The Lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ESPN Outside The Lines. Show all posts

Peace and Media Wars...

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Friday, October 23, 2009 14 Of Your Sparks

Time is counting down...If you are thinking about participating in the 3rd Annual BlogBlast For Peace, but can not design something...just drop me a note with an idea and let me help you have a globe!

I have my quote this year...something I heard recently as my iTouch shuffled and shuffled...I smiled when I heard the words because I knew they were perfect...

Peace Globes and information on BlogBlast For Peace can be found on Facebook and Twitter and Bloggers Unite and iPeace

At least Steve Phillips, former NY Met GM and ‘current’ ESPN baseball analyst, did not have to deal with his kids pet rabbit boiling in a big old pot on the stove of his kitchen.

He did and is having to deal with a ‘Fatal Attraction’ affair though and it very well could cost him his high profile job
on the 4-letter network.

Seems Phillips had a little affair with a production assistant named Brooke Hundley and when he ended it, well this young lady did not take it so well.

The 22-year old hired someone on Craigslist to make calls to the Phillips' home to harass his wife – no really…you could have made $50.00 to call and read a script she wrote, which included stage direction!

Hi Marni, I work with your husband, sorry to be calling so late, but I have some pretty important information I feel you need to know. As you can probably tell Steve hasn't been himself lately...(pause and act like this is really hard for you to tell her)...It's because he's cheating on you with a young woman at our work.

You can read about the whole escapade of the waitress that took the $50, HERE.

She delivered a letter to Phillips’ wife (found HERE) and even contacted and flirted with one of Phillips’ sons on Facebook! They began sending text messages back and forth where she asked questions about his family. All the while, he believed he was in contact with a classmate from his high school.

She did this partially from computers at the corporate offices of ESPN

Ummm can you say wacky chick?

In my opinion, Phillips is slime. Always has been. This is not the first time he has had to come out in public and apologize for cheating on his wife. In 1998 he took a leave of absence after it was revealed he had an affair with an employee of the Mets while he was GM.

He was probably the worst GM in baseball and that crappy performance eventually earned him a huge payday at ESPN when no other team would touch him.

Reports say that, just before this news broke, he deeded his wife their five-bedroom, multimillion-dollar home in Wilton, Conn. – “Here honey take the house, just don’t Lorena Bobbitt me, OK?”

Steve, you obviously can not keep it in your pants…Brooke, you are a scary human being who needs to seek help. Stalking the family of a married man will not win you his affections. Sleeping with someone does not mean they love you.

ESPN has not fired Hundley, probably because they are afraid she will sue them for millions for sexual harassment…when, in fact, it appears the harassing was done by Hundley against Phillips.

The humorous part of this whole story is that this story is truly being kept alive by one media outlet...the NY Post!

Why would the NY Post want to put this story on THE FRONT PAGE today? And include a full spread of stories about this affair on the inside pages?

Well, you see...the folks at ESPN did not like it when ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was illegally photographed through the peep hole of her hotel room door and the NY Post splashed grainy pictures from the video on their front page.

OOOO Boy oh boy...ESPN was very upset with the NY Post and immediately issued a statement that no reporters from the NY Post would be used on any of the programs airing on the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.

So, now something happens over at the 4-letter (The name Fox Sports Radio gave to ESPN) and the NY Post is all over ESPN like white on rice.

On a Friday, I ask you...do you just not LOVE the media in this country?




Rainbows & Love & Cocktails

Sparks Of Insanity By Vinny "Bond" Marini Monday, June 18, 2007 20 Of Your Sparks

morning, afternoon, evening...
have a seat...

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OK, one of our TOOSP group sent us Paul Potts, the Opera singing mobile phone salesperson.

This next young lady, Connie we stole from my friend Gail's site Doing This For Myself. Well, as Travis says, you do not steal from friends....you borrow their ideas, and thank them for it. So, thank you Gail.

This is once again from "Britain's Got Talent"...just fantastic

Ladies and gentlemen...girls and boys....
CONNIE...



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There will be children with robins and flowers;
Sunshine caresses each new waking hour.

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THE COUCH NOTE: This is NOT a Baseball story...it is a story of love framed in a theme of baseball...BEE...you read (and watch) it now!...hehehe

Yesterday on ESPN's "Outside The Lines" show they had a Father's Day Story that we truly enjoyed. It is not a new story, in fact the story begins back in the late 1950's when Joe O'Donnell would play baseball with his son Pat and the neighborhood kids.

Joe also played baseball for semi-pro teams in the upstate New York area. Dad and son talked about going to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown one day but that day never happened when Joe passed in 1966 when Pat was 18 and about to have his first son.

Pat did not have a close relationship with his son as he got divorced and his ex and son moved a few hours away. Pat did get to visit the Hall Of Fame in 1989 and while there he left the picture you see above with this note on the back. "You were never too tired to play catch. On your days off you helped build the Little League Field. You always came to watch me play. You were a Hall Of Fame Dad. I wish I could share this moment with you. Your son Pat"

He hid it between two cases honoring WWII and it stayed there until a renovation in 1994 when the photo floated to the floor as the displays were moved and a maintenance employee gave it to Mr. Ted Spencer, who is now vice president and chief curator for the Hall.

Spencer was able to identify the uniform as one from the late 1930s or early 1940s, and the dinosaur logo helped tab Sinclair Oil as the man’s team. Realizing it wasn’t a Hall of Famer touched Spencer, who believed the story a perfect response to any baseball naysayers.

“I was overwhelmed emotionally,” Spencer said. “It didn’t take a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist to figure out what somebody had done. It was very difficult for me to read it to people because I would become emotional. I’d say, ‘You have to read this, I can’t read it.’ And then they would react the same way.”

An article authored by Steve Wulf was published in Sports Illustrated on April 4, 1994, before anyone knew anything about the picture. The article helped identify Pat O'Donnell.

There is so much more to this story and it is not about baseball...it is about a love...and the outcome for Pat O'Donnell, the son who just wanted to do something special for his dad.

Go HERE and watch the segment. It is a wonderful 10 minutes. You will not regret it.

Oh, and grab some tissues first...

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We saw this on the news on Saturday evening and then our good friend Dana sent us a link to the story on Sunday.

ANTIOCH, Calif. - Kim Mayorga was confused when her 2-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's.
The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec. The restaurant staff accidentally gave Julian Mayorga a margarita Monday. He grew drowsy and started vomiting a few hours later and was rushed to the hospital.
"I wasn't going to make a big deal about it," the mother told the Contra Costa Times on Thursday, "but then he got sick."
The apple juice and margarita mix were stored in identical plastic bottles, and the manager mistakenly grabbed the margarita container to pour the boy's drink, said Randy Tei, vice president for Apple Bay East Inc., which owns the franchise restaurant and nine other Applebee's in the San Francisco Bay area.
The Mayorgas will be reimbursed for their medical bills, and Tei said the franchise group's restaurants will no longer serve apple juice and margaritas in similar containers.
"We absolutely believe it was an honest mistake," Tei said.The serving appeared to have been accidental, Antioch police Lt. Pat Welch said.
Mayorga said her son is now doing fine.She said the company has been very apologetic and offered free meals, but she added, "If they think I'm going back there, they're ridiculous."

OK KIDDIES, didn't mom notice the ring of salt around the edge of the sippy cup?

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Tiger Woods is walking to the practice green 2 behind in the U.S. Open on the TV before me.

An hour before he tees off...

wings are made...

all the fixin's for nachos are ready...

well OF COURSE they are...we did it yesterday and it was soooo good we are going to do some more of it today...


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Enough about me, how was your weekend?
Let us know in the comments...first prize to the person with the coolest story...

ummmm there will be no real prizes...

but we'll put your name in lights tomorrow here on THE COUCH....

wooo and big hoooooo ... LOL ...

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So, Angel Cabrera wins the US Open...first time someone from Argentina has won the championship. Tiger was around all day, but never had the birdie he needed...Contrats to Mr. Cabrera on the win...there were a number of players in contention down to the last few holes...just as we had hoped...


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OK, back to me...bwahahahahahahaha....

tan is coming along nicely...feeling better...started stretching today...starting off slowly...it's been a while and pulling a muscle will only set us back...

OK KIDDIES...time to raise you hand if you thought this was going to be a post about some enchanting date because of the title??

Come on...you, over in the corner...we see you hiding...you thought so...didn't you?

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CREDITS:

"IT'S A BEAUTIFUL MORNING"
The Rascals
Eddie Brigati - vocals, percussion
Felix Cavaliere - vocals, keyboards
Gene Cornish - guitar
Dino Danelli - drums


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JOE O'DONNELL STORY
Pictures: Baseball Hall Of Fame

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Antioch/Applebies News story:
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