SB Nation User Blog: 6th street

John Mayberry & the Phillies

6th street — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:22:33 -0000

Searched the site and didnt see this posted anywhere yet. So if it has been, and I just missed it, let me know and Ill delete.

There was an article posted on the SportingNews.com over the weekend about JMJ's outstanding spring training with the Phillies and his chances of making the opening day roster. see link below

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=527006

I briefly caught the Hardline discussing the article yesterday evening. Their discussion focused heavily on whether this would be a significant black mark on JD if JMJ makes the Phillies roster and has a productive year for them.

I found this to be silly for a number of reasons. But thought it was interesting nonetheless.

Best Christmas Present. Ever.

6th street — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:52:57 -0000

My girlfriend of 2 years got me the greatest Christmas present ever, and I feel obligated to share.

As a disclaimer, I must state that she is a Baylor grad. She was a kinesiology major, and during her senior year she did an internship with a speed & agility called Championship Speed & Strength. And it just so happens that one of the athletes she was assigned to work with back then was Quan Cosby. This was back when Quan was playing in the Angels minor league system and prior to his committment to play football at UT. Since then, they have maintained their friendship. In fact, after every game this season she would pull out her phone and send him a quick text to congratulate him (something I found to be enormously cool).

Being a Baylor grad, she doesnt really understand my obsession with UT sports. But she never complains and actually has embraced watching games with me. She actually surprised me and scored tickets from a friend for us for the Missouri game back in October, which I thought was absolutely pure awesomness. DKR was unreal that night. Its something Ill never forget, and didnt think it could soon be topped. I was wrong.

A few weeks back, she had the thought that she would ask Quan for a big favor. She had gone online and ordered a Texas collectors football, with the three sides covered in the white leather embroidered with the the Longhorn symbol on one side and "Longhorns" on the other. She asked if Quan might be able to get a few players to sign it if she shipped it to him and then came down to pick it up. He readily agreed, saying it was no problem at all. Over the past couple weeks, he would frequently text her asking her who all she wanted him to get to sign it. She, not really knowing the names of many of the players and not wanting to trouble him, would just tell him it didnt really matter and whoever he could get. She felt bad about asking and would thank him profusely, even though he would insist it was not a big deal.

She had been stressing about it not arriving in time, but hadnt wanted to pressure Quan about it, knowing he was likely busy with his family and with his obligations to the team and school. But he got in touch with her last weekend and apologized for not getting it shipped earlier and let her know it would be getting in this week. It arrived Tuesday. And when I opened the box earlier today, i was floored.

Quan had gotten signatures from Mack and Coach Muschamp, as well as Colt, Orakpo, Shipley, Dan Buckner, and himself. It was one of the coolest things Ive ever received from anyone. The fact that its not like a collectors item bought from an autograph shop and that I know the story behind how it got signed makes it that much cooler. It will be going in a case to be displayed on the mantle above the fire place at the house, which will be sure to rile up my Red Raider roommates.

Not to be lost in all of this is the fact that Quan did something amazingly generous for someone he didnt even know. Lord knows he has enough on his plate, raising two kids and spending time with his wife in addition to taking class and training in preparation for the Fiesta Bowl. That he would go out of his way to help give me the coolest Christmas present ever, and to act like its not a big deal, just amazes me.

I hope everyone here has had an awesome Christmas. I just wanted to take a second to share what I found to be a really cool story and something that has me so pumped up that I doubt Ill fall asleep anytime soon.

Hook 'em

Texas with a .08 lead in the computers...

6th street — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:00:06 -0000

http://www.tellshowbcs.com/CP.html

Link

Looks like Florida will need a 80-85 total lead over us in the Harris to jump. They will likely get this, but the computer average was much higher than anyone was projecting. The highest I saw was .06, but most were projecting .05 or .04.

Unbelievable. With a computer edge that big, I dont think anyone in their right mind would have expected Florida to jump us.....

BCS Standing 11.16.08 - Texas stays at #3

6th street — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:30:22 -0000

just announced on Fox.

Texas stays at #3 with rating of .891

Florida #4.

OU at #5 with a rating of .838

Link to follow.

This is good news. Our margin is pretty narrow, but holding strong. Florida will most assuredly jump us with a win in the SEC championship game, but not before then. Which means they continue to serve as a buffer between us and OU. Only the human voters will be able to vault OU ahead of us it appears at this point.

new Sagarin ratings

6th street — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:46:37 -0000

Texas holds at 2.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbt08.htm

it will be interesting to see how much our computer lead over OU will decrease and how much our human poll gap will decrease as the next 3 weeks play out. its going to be very very close.

i dont understand why it takes them so long to publish the damn rankings. i feel like ive been refreshing over and over all morning.

OT: BaD Radio & Three 6 Mafia

6th street — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:01:22 -0000

For those of you that dont enjoy the greatness that is the Ticket, disregard this post. Also, those of you with no sense of humor, you may want to disregard as well.

For all the rest of you who may be in dire need of a break or some entertainment today, I encourage you to listen to BaD radio on the Ticket this afternoon. They have Computer, the assistant to Three 6 Mafia on their reality series Adventures in Hollyhood, guest hosting with them out in Oxnard at Cowboys training camp.

He's a big Cowboys fan and a P1. And he's full of radio gold. Ive been laughing nonstop for the past hour.

http://www.theticket.com/listen.htm

Dodgers' offseason & rebuilding

6th street — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:59:50 -0000

Is it not conceivable that the Dodgers could let Manny Ramirez, Brad Penny, and Derek Lowe all leave via free agency this offseason and receive 6 top picks for doing so? I really wish, as previously discussed, that we had a real-time calculation of who would be type A/type B free agents.

But talk about being able to make a run at it this year and at the same time insuring yourself of reloading your farm system in the offseason. I dont know, outside of the outfield situation, how you dont like the Dodgers move today. Especially since it only cost them 2 luke-warm prospects.

Hicks & Ryan have meeting per Rosenthal?

6th street — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:54:26 -0000

I was listening to the Ticket yesterday afternoon and Rhyner was just railing on the Rangers and how bad theyve been this past week. They were talking about Washington's job security and the possibility that he would be the first MLB manager fired this year.

Then somebody mentioned that there was a report out there by Ken Rosenthal that Hicks had a meeting over the weekend with Nolan, JD, and Ron Washington and told them that things needed to improve drastically or changes would be made. Ive looked online and been unable to find any hard reference to this from Rosenthal. Did anyone else hear this?

Quin Snyder - Austin Toros

6th street — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:34:43 -0000

good read by Jeff Pearlman on where Quin Snyder is now

Despite what he says in the interview, I dont think it will be very long before we see him back coaching as an assistant somewhere.

Rush & Arthur Declare for draft

6th street — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:49:13 -0000

Rush gone, Arthur maybe

Rush declared and pulled out last year so he's gone for sure. Arthur isnt signing with an agent yet, so he could still pull out before the deadline. Chalmers is the only other maybe left for KU.