Welcome back to The Grind. The single best sports podcasting show Creative Loafing has ever posted in the last week of May beginning with the letter "G." Now, who can argue with that? Flip Satchel and Bill Freitas barricade themselves into CL Studio once again to serve up a heaping helping of Tampa Bay sports and a side order of pop culture with just a dash of juvenile sarcasm.
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Close your eyes. Picture yourself in New Jersey. Can you smell it? Good. Now imagine it's February. Getting pretty cold, huh? Now you're outside and the sun is going down. Lips purple and chapped? Losing feeling in your toes? Snot freezing up? Perfect. Now imagine your bank account is a few thousand dollars lighter for the experience. That may be you if you attend the 2014 Super Bowl, officially awarded to the Meadowlands this week. Thanks, Roger Goodell.
Big Poppi shows up Rays by "running" the bases like a pregnant yak.
It took Fat Sloppy, aka David Ortiz, over 30 seconds to trot around the bases after a solo home run Monday night off Wade Davis. What's worse is Davis didn't answer with a fastball between the numbers on Ortiz' next at bat. If Sloppy has a problem with that, charge the mound and lets dance, thickness. Next time he just might pick up the pace. The Rays lame explanations sounded like a bunch of testicley-challenged kids accustomed to being bullied, reasoning with themselves on why they were just embarrassed in front of their friends and giving excuses for the bully. How we long for the days of Johnny Gomes.
Joe Madden and Carl Crawford ejected for being right
Merlot Joe went whiskey on an ump for calling a strike on a pitch that hit the mascot…practically. Both he and Carl Crawford beat the traffic out of the Trop before things got really ugly. The team was so fired up, they answered with a sweep. On the bristley side. That'll teach those bastards to mess with us in our own backyard. By the way, when's the next road trip?
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This article appears in May 27 – Jun 2, 2010.