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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Tuesday Countdown
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
10.Amy Winehouse passed out and was hospitalized Monday. See, that’s what happens when you win a Grammy. Amy Winehouse used to pass out three times a week, but nobody considered it newsworthy before.
9.Three hours after the first game of a West Coast road trip, and after a win, the New York Mets announced the firing of manager Willie Randolph with a press release at 12:15 a.m. in Anaheim - 3:15 a.m. Eastern time. I have seen cowardly, low-class and spineless moves by teams before. But this sets a new standard.
8.This is how big a mess the Mets made of this: Had they fired Randolph before the trip, or last week, or last month, nobody would’ve had an issue. Instead, they’ve cast themselves as clowns and turned their fired manager into a sympathetic figure.
7.Three days until Don Waddell’s 10th draft. Never thought I would run out of fingers.
6.Just got off the elliptical machine at the Y. Flipped channels. Saw Billy Ray Cyrus on the Today Show rip “Vanity Fair” magazine for running photos of his 15-year-old daughter, wrapped in a bedsheet. Does Billy Ray Cyrus work for the Mets?
5.Excuse me. Who signed the deal with the magazine? Who let his daughter pose? Who approved the photos? Daddy had nothing do with this? If you want to judge for yourself, Cyrus’s interview will re-air at 3:15 a.m.
4.I’m not saying there wasn’t an argument to keep Mike Woodson. I’m just saying there seemed far more reasons to make a change. Regardless of whether this was entirely Rick Sund’s decision - and odds are against it - he just hitched his future to Woodson. Consequently, Sund’s honeymoon period didn’t make it to game one.
3.They teach you how to accentuate the positive in PR school, which explains why the press release announcing Woodson’s re-signing references the Hawks’ seven-game playoff series against the Celtics but not Woodson’s career coaching record (106-222).
2.The U.S. Open playoff round was great theater Monday - for the 17 people who didn’t have to go back to work. The USGA’s tiebreaker rule is lame. Imagine a World Series game being tied after nine innings and Bud Selig deciding to play nine more the next day.
1.Come to think of it, don’t say anything to Bud Selig.
