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MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:36 pm

I've been going through some classic Bob Knight melts on YouTube. Almost forgot how good this shit was. Here's a great one that I had never heard before:

Rack meltdowns in sports.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:48 pm

I've heard that one before but it's always good to hear a Bobby Knight rant.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:57 pm

He and Digger did an impromptu coaching thingy during College Game Day today with the Baylor players. Bobby's team on offense, Digger's on defense up a point with 5 seconds left. Bobby's guys ran his play (sort of) and got off the winning shot after the horn. Bobby claimed loudly and clearly that he got beat by "the chickenshit defense." Baylor players on both sides were LOLing.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:08 pm

I'll bet bobby hasn't gotten through a single fukkin' sentence without his favorite adverb since the second fukkin' grade.

Bobby may be the number one all time redass in college hoops, but, he can't touch earl weaver on his best day. earl has more weapons in his bag than "fukkin".

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:32 pm

Rack Luciano as well.

"You going to the Hall of Fame? For what? Fucking up World Series?"

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:57 pm

I think the ump was Tim McClelland, not Ron Luciano.....but that was a great line.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:58 pm

BSmack wrote:Rack Luciano as well.

"You going to the Hall of Fame? For what? Fucking up World Series?"

no shit. luciano or whoever it is plays earl like a stradivarius.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:00 pm

is earl even 5 ft tall? jeeebus.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:09 pm

According to wiki, the ump is bill haller who was wearing a mike for a documentary on umps. looks like they got their money's worth that day.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:20 pm

smackaholic wrote:According to wiki, the ump is bill haller who was wearing a mike for a documentary on umps. looks like they got their money's worth that day.

I stand corrected....it was Bill Haller, whose brother, Tom, was a catcher for the Giants.

Luciano died in 1995 from carbon monoxide poisoning....apparently a suicide. Weaver must have had a legitimate alibi.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:42 pm

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Rack meltdowns in sports.

My all-time favorite was George Brett going ballistic in the pinetar game.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:46 pm

War Wagon wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Rack meltdowns in sports.
My all-time favorite was George Brett going ballistic in the pinetar game.

That umpire was Tim McClelland.....and, by rule, he made the correct call.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:05 pm

Mace wrote: That umpire was Tim McClelland.....and, by rule, he made the correct call.

Then why did the commish (who I believe was Bowie Kuhn at the time) overturn it?

Yeah, that HR had given KC the lead. They resumed the game weeks later from that point in the 9th inning, where Dan Quisenberry went on to preserve, IIRC, a 2-1 Royals victory.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:11 pm

War Wagon wrote:
Mace wrote: That umpire was Tim McClelland.....and, by rule, he made the correct call.
Then why did the commish (who I believe was Bowie Kuhn at the time) overturn it?

Yeah, that HR had given KC the lead. They resumed the game weeks later from that point in the 9th inning, where Dan Quisenberry went on to preserve, IIRC, a 2-1 Royals victory.

The president of the A.L. is who overturned it....as I recall....and it was because he didn't have the balls to back the umpire who enforced the rule as written. The rule stated that you couldn't have a foreign substance more than 18" up from the knob on the bat and Brett's pine tar was clearly further up the barrel of the bat than 18". It had nothing to do with the home run and was a bad rule.....I'll give you that, but the ump enforced the rule as written. There is no argument to be made on that fact.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:27 pm

smackaholic wrote:earl has more weapons in his bag than "fukkin".

According to Knight that's all you need.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:32 pm

I've never seen that one.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:36 pm

Mace wrote: The president of the A.L. is who overturned it....as I recall....and it was because he didn't have the balls to back the umpire who enforced the rule as written.

I'd say that it took more balls to overturn that call than it would've to let it stand. Seriously, that was unprecedented, at least to my knowledge. Overturning a call on the field after the game was over? Whoever heard of such a thing? Was that Lee McPhail?

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:59 pm

Yes, it was McPhail. The whole story is that the 18" rule was intended to keep the bat from contacting pine tar and then having to throw the ball out of the game. The rule was to remove the bat from the game and there was no other penalty in the book for using the bat....which is how McPhail came up with his ruling to uphold the protest. Final score was 5-4 Royals.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:38 am

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
smackaholic wrote:earl has more weapons in his bag than "fukkin".
According to Knight that's all you need.

Knight's fucking right!

Sincerely,
Tommy Lasorda

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:50 am

Mace wrote:Final score was 5-4 Royals.

If you're not from KC and didn't live and die with the Royals in those days, you have no idea the passion that was for that team.

It still exists and I'm here to tell you that if it ever comes back, the chumps in Arrowhead will be an afterthought.

Y2K · Post by **Y2K** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:33 am

War Wagon wrote:
Mace wrote:Final score was 5-4 Royals.

If you're not from KC and didn't live and die with the Royals in those days, you have no idea the passion that was for that team.

It still exists and I'm here to tell you that if it ever comes back, the chumps in Arrowhead will be an afterthought.

Good Lord,
and I thought things were boring here.

Best of luck with that.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:46 am

War Wagon wrote:It still exists and I'm here to tell you that if it ever comes back...

How the fuck do you and your parallel self exist within the same part of time-space without tearing a hole in the fabric of time-space itself?

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:00 am

Wagon wrote:Royals

Must have watched this Hal McRae clip dozens of times, but it never fails
to give me a fresh chuckle.

Luv the reporter sauntering out of the room with his face freshly sliced open
- looking like some kind of zombie.

Classic melt.

Put that in your fucking pipe and smoke it!

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:25 pm

smackaholic wrote:earl has more weapons in his bag than "fukkin".

Haller: "You're a liar Earl."
Weaver: "No, YOU ARE!"

Rack Earl Weaver. He was ahead of his time.

Sin,
KC

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:59 pm

IndyFrisco wrote:Haller: "You're a liar Earl."
Weaver: "No, YOU ARE!"

Rack Earl Weaver. He was ahead of his time.

Sin,
KC

If that little old dude came at me like that I would start laughing my ass off. Knight? I'd sit down and shut the fuck up.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:28 pm

poptart wrote: Put that in your fucking pipe and smoke it!

It's moments like those that make the pathetic hours and slightly more pathetic pay of sports reporting worth it. He just casually gets up and starts throwing shit around the office. And even better, that was before the days of cell phone recorders and flip cams.

hardcrow · Post by **hardcrow** » Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:41 pm

A bit off topic but, I found this gem while searching for the Pine Tar melt. Holly shit I have never seen this before, LMAO.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:57 am

I guess it takes some bad crab legs to get you to appreciate a good double taper.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:31 am

88 wrote:And this balst ain't bad either (Tommy Lasorda):

Nice pull!!

Sincerely,
9 posts earlier.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:57 am

Screw_Michigan wrote:It's moments like those that make the pathetic hours and slightly more pathetic pay of sports reporting worth it. He just casually gets up and starts throwing shit around the office.

A great way to get a coach to go from total calm to insta-melt is to question his strategy or coaching iq.

"You think I'm a goddamn foo?"

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:33 am

Papa Willie wrote:[img]6ZD1vkzYmyI[/img]

Bobby's still the master.

Archive.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:44 am

BTW...

"Now I am not here to get my ass beat on Monday!"

They got their ass beat on Monday.

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:59 pm

The Knight golf video is classic. Nice find, 'Spray. That was hilarious.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:16 pm

hardcrow wrote:A bit off topic but, I found this gem while searching for the Pine Tar melt. Holly shit I have never seen this before, LMAO.

I can't listen at work, but is the George Brett shitting his pants story? If so, this is fucking hilarious.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:51 pm

Papa Willie wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:[img]6ZD1vkzYmyI[/img]

Bobby's still the master.
Archive.
Fuck dude - I made the change before you could hit submit. God damn you're old & slow. :D

And you're fat and stupid. Winning!

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:04 pm

Age smack is not funny.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:13 pm

Mace wrote:Age smack is not funny.

Especially when you're only SEVEN years younger than the guy you're running it on.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:36 pm

Papa Willie wrote:
Goober McTuber wrote:
And you're fat and stupid. Winning!
The fact that I could easily write a song about you and record it within an hour gives me extreme BODE over you in any application.

If you claim it, it will come. Right, tubby?

The only thing you'll ever have BODE over is a buffet.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:37 pm

Papa Willie wrote: I only used BODE because I knew you'd get your BP up. It worked.

What color is the sky in your little fantasy world?