Derwood
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I've adopted the same mentality my parents had: don't care what you're doing or how good you are, but you have to do SOMETHING. As a kid, I tried baseball, tennis, bowling, swimming, soccer, etc. I wasn't very good at any of them, but I always had to be involved in an activity. Same with my daughters. They both swam, but they wanted to stop, so it was just "fine, you can stop swimming, but what will you be doing in its place?" One is still in sports (softball) while the other has taken up acting
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He's awful. His show is just one hot take after another, and they are all wrong. All of them. Jim Rome is just as bad, though. Can they be tied for worst person on earth?
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I listen to music all day at work. I don't mind 20 minutes of sports talk in the morning
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Morning drive has very little music and mostly Morning Zoo shows. It's not a long enough commute to bother plugging in the phone for
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I really like most of our local sports radio programming (they're pretty anti-meatball) but am stuck with either Mike and Mike or ESPN Overnight on my way to work
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I'll never understand this. its awful tv. there's a million other things to kill your time, why punish yourself. Dear god, I don't WATCH the show. I'm talking sports radio here even easier to avoid I mostly do, as I work during that time, but now and then I catch the last few minutes before the noon show and it's awful
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I'll never understand this. its awful tv. there's a million other things to kill your time, why punish yourself. Dear god, I don't WATCH the show. I'm talking sports radio here
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Our local shows don't start until noon.
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Le Batard is pretty smart by sportswriter standards Yeah, I think he's pretty good, relatively speaking. Easily one of the most entertaining/listenable talking heads on ESPN these days. He's nowhere near being as bad as Cowherd. It might be ok if they didn't think Stu Gotts was so funny (when he isn't).
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I was so happy when Colin Cowherd got canned from ESPN, but somehow I think the Dan Lebetard show is even worse
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Cueto to Giants
Derwood replied to Cubswin11's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
peavy and cain, i believe. does lincecum even have a team yet? Didn't realize he was a FA -
Cueto to Giants
Derwood replied to Cubswin11's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
So Lincecum and Cain are their worst starters now? -
Let's All Freak Out About Jorge Soler, You Guys
Derwood replied to ctcf's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
He could've reached higher on the wife, too -
So Carolina is going to blow that spread by 30, but still be "under"
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I'll always have the Tommy Kleinschmidt years :bye:
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And ESPN is treating it like a funeral
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The "everybody gets a trophy" complainers are annoying. It's pretty simple to differentiate a trophy that has been given for winning and for participation. It's not ruining anyone's life and at most it goes into a memory book or something. They act like its new or that it's unique to this generation. We got participation trophies in soccer in the early 80's...this isn't a new thing
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I hope he starts giving out gift baskets
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you should have spoilered this just in case derwood came across it. this post is going to enrage him You guys are [expletive] weird
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Cubs sign Fife
Derwood replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
You sat on this bombshell for a WEEK????? -
I find the semantic argument of "gambling" vs. "sports entertainment" to be absurd. Don't know how people twist themselves into pretzels trying to argue that those aren't gambling sites
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It's not a career, but it's a path to an athletic scholarship (and getting a full ride at D-1 for swimming is exceptionally difficult) But I agree that it's too much, especially at that age. If the kid doesn't end up hating swimming it'll be a miracle For what it's worth, the kid is Asian, and the situation felt like a stereotypical "Asian parents expect kid to be #1 in everything" deal
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There's an interesting gray area when it comes to pushing your child to be the best vs letting him or her be a kid. When my daughter swam competitively, there was an 8 year old boy who was an amazing swimmer. He competed against 9 and 10 year olds and won. He set local YMCA records in nearly every event he swam. It wasn't just natural talent, though. This kids father made him come to the YMCA every day before school to swim laps for an hour (in addition to another 90 minutes of practice each night). To me, that seemed like a lot for an 8 year old. Now I never saw any verbal abuse or "from the stands" coaching from the father, nor did I see any outward disappointment in second place finishes, so, as I said, it's a sort of fuzzy territory
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I wouldn't call that vendetta "terrible"
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I rooted for Laundry before you heard of it
