Jones & Keefe Break Out John & Suzyn

It was Derek Jeter's final game at Yankee Stadium, so what better time for Adam Jones and Rich Keefe to reenact John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman calling his first at-bat.

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Keefe Talks Lester on Sports Tonight

Rich Keefe was a guest on Comcast SportsNet's Sports Tonight on Friday. He joined hosts Greg Dickerson and Lou Merloni to discuss Jon Lester and Yoenis Cespedes. The clip below they breakdown where the left hander may end up next season.

John & Suzyn As Performed By Jones & Keefe

CC Sabathia, Looking Good?

Usually when people lose weight it's a good thing.  I don't feel good about this one.  Just doesn't look right. 

30 for 30 Short: Alex Rodriguez to the Red Sox

One of the great "What Ifs" of all-time.  This is well done, if you have 20 minutes, give this a watch.  You may remember most of it, but there are a couple of gems in there. 

Twins Give Mariano Rivera A Chair Made From Broken Bats

What do you get a guy who has everything?  And that same guy made a career out of throwing cutters and breaking bats?  This.

2011 MLB Predictions

It's Opening Day for Major League Baseball with 6 games on the schedule. Now is the time to get on the record with my team and awards picks for the season. Side note, did you notice that ESPN had their "experts" make predictions this year for playoff teams, World Series winner, MVPs, CY Youngs, and ROY... they had 45 people make picks. They have 45 baseball experts? I thought they had Tim Kurkjian. Well 33 out of 45 said the Sox would win the World Series, so you got to figure they have no chance. Here are our official picks for 2011...

AMERICAN LEAGUE:
KEEFE:
MVP: Adrian Gonzalez, Red Sox
Cy Young: Felix Hernandez, Mariners
Rookie of the Year: Jake McGee, Rays
Manager: John Farrell, Blue Jays

BESSE:
MVP: Miguel Cabrera, Tigers
Cy Young: Justin Verlander, Tigers
Rookie of the Year: Jeremy Hellickson, Rays

NATIONAL LEAGUE:
KEEFE:
MVP: Hanley Ramirez, Marlins
Cy Young: Cliff Lee, Phillies
Rookie of the Year: Craig Kimbrel, Braves
Manager: Fredi Gonzalez, Braves

BESSE:
MVP: Jason Heyward, Braves
Cy Young: Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers
Rookie of the Year: Brandon Belt, Giants

POST SEASON:
KEEFE:
AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: White Sox
AL West: Athletics
AL Wild Card: Yankees

BESSE:
AL East: Red Sox
AL Central: Tigers
AL West: Athletics
AL Wild Card: Yankees

KEEFE:
NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Brewers
NL West: Dodgers
NL Wild Card: Braves

BESSE:
NL East: Phillies
NL Central: Cardinals
NL West: Giants
Wild Card: Braves

KEEFE:
ALCS: White Sox over Red Sox
NLCS: Phillies over Braves

World Series: Phillies over White Sox

BESSE:
ALCS: Athletics over Red Sox
NLCS: Giants over Phillies

World Series: Giants over A's in 7

It's always fun to check back on these in September to see just how off we were. Enjoy the picks and feel free to let us know who you got. By the way, you think Bess developed a West Coast basis? San Fran and Oakland WS? Gotta love it.

-Keefe & Besse

BJal's Lock du Jour - Saturday, October 10

Welp, I guess sometimes people just get lucky. That's my only reaction after seeing Nevada paste Louisiana Tech 37-14. I honestly started to wonder if BJal would get a lock of the day right, and by god he's done it. To quote the immortal Joe Castiglione, "Can you believe it?!?!"

So today he looks to make it two in a row, and he's going with Virginia Tech (-13.5) hosting Boston College. Last night I told him I thought this game had upset written all over it, I was half in the bag and now I've had a chance to sleep it off, gather my sober thoughts and clearly assess what I think will happen. This game is probably going to be an absolute blowout. B.C. lost to a pedestrian Clemson team 25-7 on the road a few weeks ago, and they struggled at home against very mediocre ACC teams in Wake Forest and Florida State. I don't even know if B.C. will manage to score. This could be a shutout.

In other news, the Red Sox suck and the Yankees will win the World Series. My buddy Kevin put it best last night while we were watching the game...if A-Rod is going to go and do stuff like he did last night - hitting a 700ft moonshot off Joe Nathan in the 9th inning to tie a playoff game - there's no way the Yankees don't win the World Series. In fact, it wouldn't shock me if they just rolled through the rest of the postseason undefeated. This team is scary good, and when one of the best hitters in baseball, with a track record of failing in the postseason, decides to heat up...wow.

Jimmy the Greek will have his Week 5 NFL picks for you by tomorrow morning, so call you bookie and let him know to be on call. Also, I'll be posting postseason awards in the next few days. We had a healthy arguement last night about who should win the AL MVP. I completely disagree with the rest of the world, who thinks Joe Mauer is the easy, sexy pick. So for my awards, I'll break it down by who will win and who I think should win.

-Bess

Obama's first pitch at the 2009 All-Star Game

Alright, normally this wouldn't be a hot topic with me. But I made a few observations during Obama's first pitch at the All-Star game last night.

First and foremost, it wasn't a freakin strike. He left it in front of the plate and let's be honest, the thing looked like a middle school breaking ball. Slow, flat and a lot of depth to it but zero firm break. Thankfully Pujols had the mental acuity to leap out of his pseudo squat and pick the ball before it scraped the dirt. Needless to say, as bad as GW may have been as President, the guy knew how to throw a baseball. Did we make the right decision as voters?

Well, in comparison to Obama's adversary, I'd say there's no question we did. Take a second and picture John Mccain throwing out the first pitch with arms like this...

I know it's wrong to poke fun at a guy that served our country and ended up looking like a T-rex because of it, but seriously, do you think HE could reach the friggin plate? They wouldn't even send him to the mound. MLB would leave the batting practice mound 15 feet in front of the rubber and have him roll it in from there with the catcher squatting down 5 feet in front of home plate. He's lucky he can wipe his own ass (can he?), nevermind throw a baseball like a man.

But my most astute observation came when Obama went to greet Stan Musial. Watch the interaction again and tell me that Musial's driver is not a friggin Republican. Have you ever seem someone so disinterested in the fact that the President of the United States is standing 2 feet away? He looked like he truly could not care. For all I know, he's been there, done that. If that's the case, excuse me Billy Big League, no need to show us all up like that. But let's be honest, that's the first time he's ever come within a zip code of the President. By his reaction, or lack thereof, he clearly didn't vote for Obama. In fact, I started to wonder if the guy might have a baretta taped down underneath his seat. Obama almost had to hit the guy to get his attention and shake his hand. Check it out for yourself around the :20 second mark...

And here's GW at Opening Day in Arlington, TX this season...

He threw a dart and filled up the zone. Gotta love the quick windmill stretch before the pitch. Solid stuff. But perhaps his best, and most significant work came on October 30, 2001 at Yankee Stadium. Bush tossed the first pitch before Game 3 of the World Series against Arizona. And not only did he toss a pea in there, but the crowd chanting "USA! USA! USA!" at the end was pretty cool stuff. Regardless of how he was as President, you almost had to love the guy. He's a man's man.

-Bess

George Brett classics

Anyone and everyone has most likely seen the George Brett video where he went psychotic on a home plate umpire over a pine tar incident. While playing the Yankees, Brett hit a homerun to give the Royals a 5-4 lead in the ninth. Yankees manager Billy Martin challenged that pine tar on Brett's bat went too high up the barrel and violated MLB rules; the homerun was reversed and that led to a classic moment in MLB history. If you haven't seen it, a) you've been living under a rock and b) check it out below:



As good as that is, I saw a video a longtime back and my buddy Kevin reminded me of it a few days ago. He called me practically in tears, and for good reason. Enjoy the following video in which Brett discusses shitting himself:



You gotta love him at the end. "Who's the pitchers in this game?"

Absolute classic. Also reminded me of the video from Cky3 of Raab himself taking a dump while running. And yes, it was on YouTube:



Which also brought me to an on-air blooper for a weatherman during his portion of the newscast. He doesn't actually soil himself during the forecast, but just watch the guy as he tries to battle through it. You can tell he's pinching his cheeks to the fullest and the fact that he didn't make it on camera for the first half of it tells you he was really trying to work up the courage to even walk. Gotta love when he actually reaches down to his stomach; at that point it was only a matter of time before he threw in the towel...



Happy Memorial Day.

-Bess