Last Christmas break Robbie and Segal walked into Glory Days Grill and sat down at the bar. The bar manager yells over to them, "Segal, you ran up a 50 dollar bill last night. You gonna pay your tab anytime soon?"
Segal is dumbfounded and tells the manager that he just got back from school today. In fact, he took a final last night. The manager tells Segal that he's full of crap. By then his bartender over hears the argument and she backs up Segal saying, "No that was definitely not the Segal from the other night. That guy must have given you a fake name." Dumbfounded the male bartender just stands thinking for a second.
Then Robbie suggests a solution to the bar mystery saying, "Next time that fella comes in here claiming to be Segal take him out back in the parking lot and hit him three fly balls. If he catches any of them then you'll definitely know that it ain't Segal."
So back in his freshman year of college at St. Mary's College of Maryland Chris Segal was hitting .400 but still only starting about every third game on the baseball team. After the first two weeks of the season Segal went into Manager Lew Jenkins' office to find out why he was not receiving anymore playing time.
"Coach I just don't understand why I'm not playing; I'm hitting .400," Segal explained. "Hell you might be a .400 hitter, but you're a .399 fielder," Jenkins countered.
Reebok has stopped selling Michael Vick jerseys. Nike has suspended its contract with Vick. NFLShop.com has stopped selling everything from jerseys to Vick bobble heads. Still you can find as many Michael Vick jerseys that you want in Blacksburg, Virginia.
In this article from the Roanoke times the author is arguing that the dog fighting and Va Tech should not be linked which is absolutely ridiculous. The athletic department is not addressing the topic but they were more than happy to address the topic of Vick on the cover of Madden in the past. This is really absurd. If Peyton Manning, the player everyone associates the University of Tennessee with, did something bad in the eyes of the public you can be sure that Phillip Fulmer would not be cowardly enough as to not address the issue. If Matt Leinart or Carson Palmer got into trouble while riding in a car with Chris Henry and it became public knowledge it would be guaranteed that Pete Carroll would speak to the media about it. This is another example of the Va Tech Athletic Department, and more to the point - Frank Beamer, not living in reality. There is a reason that you team is ranked the number one thug program all time per S. Judge and the title is well deserved.
Here are a couple of sites you can also buy Vick items:
A year ago tomorrow morning I got a text message while settling into my cube in Atlanta. My friend Ernie was trying to alert me that my main nemeses in life, Harold Reynolds, had been dismissed from his job. I refused to believe it. Then another text came in came from minor league personality Segal and I decided to check it out, still not believing that Reynolds had reached his day of reckoning. But sure enough, the blogs were reporting that H.R. was out of work. Victory was mine.
The two time Gold Glove winner has now been off of ESPN broadcasts for a year as he was indeed fired year ago today, July 25, 2006. Reynolds is currently suing the television network over the dismissal which he claims was without merit. It was reported that Harold was fired over an 'inappropriate hug' that occurred at an Outback Steakhouse just prior to his termination. This hug is in dispute.
But looking back on it I have realized that I lost. I lost big time. I will be the first to say I miss the bumbling H.R. and yes, I entered the 'Spend a Day With Harold Reynolds Contest' in 2005. I have an Orioles personalized throwback jersey with 'Reynolds 6' on the back of it. I also know that in his only year with the O's in 1993 Harold wore two numbers, 6 and 25. I now will admit I was a fan.
Reynolds was a lightening rod for controversy (at least in my circles) with his commentary often being controversial (in my circles) and difficult to understand (in my circles) on Baseball Tonight which he teamed with John Kruk as the two most dynamic personalities of the show. ESPN has tried many talking heads in an attempt to replace Harold on Baseball Tonight since then, but no one has been able to have the on air chemistry that he possessed with the Krukster. Harold also was a manager on the ESPN hyped celebrity all-star softball game and gave kid friendly broadcasts of the Little League World Series in addition to his duties on Baseball Tonight.
Good luck to Harold on his new job with MLB.com, selling his coaching videos and his 5 million dollar lawsuit against ESPN. We just hope that if he testifies in his trial that someone will give the jury a copy of what he said because Lord knows there is no way they will understand what he's saying.
On that card pictured above Harold notes the following verse from the book of Jeremiah 29:11 "I alone have the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future full of hope."
I am in the processing of moving, something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy, so I'll make this short.
Pacman's lawyer has complained to the media that the deputy that cited Pacman Jones for a residency violation and not having registered his vehicle in Tennessee was "out to get him." Personally I don't think that it should be against policy of the any police department to turn away when Pacman is around.
Four Florida State football commitments were kicked off of Walt Disney property over the weekend in Orlando, Florida. Five future players were at Downtown Disney when they were asked to move on and stop loitering late Saturday evening. All but one chose not to listen to security and stayed where they were. Later on in the night security came back by and escorted the four remaining teens off the property after banning them officially as well as finger printing each future Seminole.
All four individuals involved were black and one of the future Noles' father is a civil rights lawyer so Mickey Mouse better get his own lawyer because there is a good chance Jesse Jackson is coming to throw down in O-Town soon. To add fuel to the fire the future Noles' claim that 45 of the 46 people banned from Disney property this weekend were either black or Puerto Rican. For the purposes of full disclosure it should be noted that Puerto Rico is not good enough to be a state or a country, the U.S. owns it like Doug Brown owns his dog Peyton.
So far the news that has come out has been pretty one sided for the players but we are interested to see what Disney says these diabolical loiterers were doing. Rivals' FSU affiliate WarChant.com spent much of the day Wednesday trying to cover up the incident by monitoring their message boards to make sure little to nothing was posted on the subject. I don't think they need to worry about a clean image, FSU hasn't had that since the seventies anyway.
That headline could lead to some crazy scenarios in our minds but its not too wild right now for Shaun Rogers who seems to have been tamed by the po po. A stripper at a club in Detroit claims she was 'inappropriately' touched' by the former Texas Longhorn late Thursday night and filed a report with the police. Charges have yet to be filed by the prosecutor so Rogers might yet escape Roger Goodells' great vengeance and furious anger. Its getting pretty bad for the Lions when they can't even score at a strip club in their hometown.
Rogers who had was expected to be a major contributor on the defensive line after a big 2005 season was a disappointment last year only playing in six games due to injury. Last Chance Gentleman's Club isn't the best place to rehab those injuries, ask any big time star in the NFL, well not Pacman, but anyone else. We do applaud Rogers on not going up to the strip clubs in the UP. According to Prime Minister Ed Davis its hard to tell the difference between the bears and girls up there.
It could be worse though, he could be that other Rogers, Charlie, that used to play in the league and now is running 4.8 40's at tryout camps.
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Last Christmas break Robbie and Segal walked into Glory Days Grill and sat down at the bar. The bar manager yells over to them, "Segal, you ran up a 50 dollar bill last night. You gonna pay your tab anytime soon?"
