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Sam's-a-fan
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Today's shrunken New York Times' Sports Section brings us a story of the first ever Joe Lapchick awards for character. The awards were given to University of Tennessee's Pat Summit, the great Dean Smith, and New Yawk's very own Lou "Looie" Carnesecca. The article mentioned a business card Lapchick once gave to Carnesecca and which Looie still carries around to this day. The card simply read, "A peaknob today, a featherduster tomorrow." And in those six words of warning aptly summed up the nature of character which the three award honorees so greatly display.
This got me thinking, to whom in our Sports and MTM universe can we give a few Lapchick awards and to whom can we give (sticking with the basketball theme) a few James Dolans?
My first Lapchick is shared by two of our favorite MTMers, and may come as a bit of a surprise to you all, this one goes to Yankee Joe and the Philly Phanatic. Each of them while suffering the slings and arrows and barbs and taunts of MTMs Nation stays true to his ideals and never wavers in his confidence that he is right.
My first Dolan goes to Omar Minaya. I don't think I even need to explain this one, but I'll simply say it starts with a "c," a very little "c."
In the world of sports and on our very own favorite team, a Dolan must be given to Aaron "Get out of town" Heilman, for once again proving that the individual is greater than the team and announcing start me or trade me!
Sharing the locker room with Dolan-boy I give a Lapchick to Carlos Delgado for sticking to his guns and staying true to his political principals by refusing to stand for "God Bless America" when he was excoriated by many teammates and pundits in this jock culture of thoughtless conformity.
A big Lapchick award goes to Tom Coughlin. This man survived to take the Jints to the promised land only one year after having his head on the chopping block with the ax poised to come down, and he did it his way. And he continues to do it his way and in so doing has won the team over. Just ask Plaxico Burress.
If Coughlin gets a Lapchick, you know that Tiki Barber must get a Dolan life time achievement award for consistently throwing coaches and teammates under a large multi-wheeled conveyance designed to alleviate congestion in metropolitan areas all over the world. I think it rhymes with cuss?
There are many more awards to give out, and I ask my fellow Mattheads to help out and come up with a few yourselves. And even though it is not yet Christmas, my wish this holiday season is to see our friend The Manny undergo a conversion, to wake up one morning and to say, "Dios mio, I've got to prove these people wrong!" and to re-sign with the Dodgers (WCC deserves it) for less money, and to play his heart out with a joy for the game he's only read about, and to finish his career on a high note and to go into the hall not as a featherduster, but as the most unlikely recipient of a Lapchick award you've ever heard of.
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Sam's-a-fan
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| Gosh darn it I do hate the Matt's smut filter! KNOBS!!!!! |
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jgclancy
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I wonder what happens if I say they should have been
knobatoo instead of peaknobs? Either way I can pour some amaretto into my coffee and raise a knobtail to honor (well honor isn't quite right) but at least acknowledge those two recipients. |
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TheMatts
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| How's that Sam? We do stand by our credo that the filter makes for good laughs. |
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Grote2DMax
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| I love the idea of Lapchick and Dolan awards. It is like Mr. Blackwell is alive and well. Clancy I couldn't be happier that you posted that link about the McCrary twins - though I'm sad to see they rode those hondas through the pearly gates. My favorite part is as follows: In Japan, they switched from being the McCrary Twins to the McGuire Twins. "The announcers would have trouble with it. They would pronounce it Queary and we'd say, 'We ain't no queers.' We changed it to the McGuires. |
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ANGRYWARD
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| Call me unpatriotic but I'm with Delgado on the "God Bless America" stuff during the 7th inning stretch at some parks. Enough already! I say bring back the Curly Shuffle or, better yet, Rappin' Rodney. |
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Plaxico Burress is no longer spokesman for Thigh Master. Chad Pennington is NOT a Brett Favre fan... Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
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