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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:48 pm
by Mace
I've heard that one before but it's always good to hear a Bobby Knight rant.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:57 pm
by Goober McTuber
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:08 pm
by smackaholic
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".
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:32 pm
by BSmack
Rack Luciano as well.
"You going to the Hall of Fame? For what? Fucking up World Series?"
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:57 pm
by Mace
I think the ump was Tim McClelland, not Ron Luciano.....but that was a great line.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:58 pm
by smackaholic
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:00 pm
by smackaholic
is earl even 5 ft tall? jeeebus.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:09 pm
by smackaholic
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:20 pm
by Mace
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:42 pm
by War Wagon
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:Rack meltdowns in sports.
My all-time favorite was George Brett going ballistic in the pinetar game.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:46 pm
by Mace
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:05 pm
by War Wagon
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:11 pm
by Mace
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:27 pm
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
smackaholic wrote:earl has more weapons in his bag than "fukkin".
According to Knight that's all you need.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:32 pm
by Mace
I've never seen that one.
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:36 pm
by War Wagon
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?
Re: The General
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:59 pm
by Mace
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:38 am
by Diego in Seattle
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:
smackaholic wrote:earl has more weapons in his bag than "fukkin".
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:33 am
by Y2K
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:46 am
by BSmack
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?
Re: The General
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:00 am
by poptart
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!
Re: The General
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:25 pm
by indyfrisco
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
Re: The General
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:59 pm
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:28 pm
by Screw_Michigan
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:41 pm
by hardcrow
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:57 am
by smackaholic
I guess it takes some bad crab legs to get you to appreciate a good double taper.
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:31 am
by Diego in Seattle
88 wrote:And this balst ain't bad either (Tommy Lasorda):
Nice pull!!
Sincerely,
9 posts earlier.
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:57 am
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
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?"
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:33 am
by Goober McTuber
Papa Willie wrote:[img]6ZD1vkzYmyI[/img]
Bobby's still the master.
Archive.
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:44 am
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
BTW...
"Now I am not here to get my ass beat on Monday!"
They got their ass beat on Monday.
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:59 pm
by Mace
The Knight golf video is classic. Nice find, 'Spray. That was hilarious.
Re: The General
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 7:16 pm
by Killian
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:51 pm
by Goober McTuber
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!
Re: The General
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:04 pm
by Mace
Age smack is not funny.
Re: The General
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:13 pm
by Goober McTuber
Mace wrote:Age smack is not funny.
Especially when you're only SEVEN years younger than the guy you're running it on.
Re: The General
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:36 pm
by Goober McTuber
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.
Re: The General
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:37 pm
by Goober McTuber
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?