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      You can now show pride in your team…even when you’re dead

      December 2, 2008 /

      Lifelong Boston Red Sox fan? Why not be incased in a BoSox logo when you’re sleeping six-feet under, too?

      Yes, the officially licensed Red Sox casket has arrived. The team logo is embroidered on the soft velvet of the lining and pillow, each of which is as white as a home uniform on Opening Day. The logo also appears on the exterior of the casket, which is made of high-gloss 18-gauge steel accented with baseball bat-style wood, tassels, and polished chrome – more Cadillac than bullpen car, headed for the hereafter.

      “It’s really a beautiful thing,” said Dan Biggins, 28, co-director of Magoun-Biggins Funeral Home in Rockland, which recently took delivery of the first Sox casket, serial number 0001. “It’s really neat.”

      “That’s very respectable, especially up against the Vatican,” said Clint Mytych, 27, founder and president of Eternal Image. Through the end of the company’s fiscal second quarter in 2008, about 330 Yankees urns had been sold, and about 325 for the Sox, Mytych said.

      It’s a really beautiful thing? There are some sick people in this world.

      I come from a family that has both Yankee and Red Sox supporters in it. Knowing some of my family members, they would probably try to bury the Red Sox fans in a Yankee casket just to piss them off in the afterlife.

      General Sports, MLB

      What happened to the Jaguars?

      December 2, 2008 /

      Jacksonville JaguarsMany football fans have been asking this question since Week 2 when they fell to 0-2, but what in the hell happened to the Jacksonville Jaguars this season? This was a team that not only was supposed to push the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC South once again, but possibly compete for a Super Bowl, too.

      For three quarters Monday night in Houston (a 30-17 Texans’ victory), they were absolutely unbearable to watch. They couldn’t run the ball (their staple over the years), their defense couldn’t stop Sage Rosenfels and rookie Steve Slaton, and David Garrard couldn’t even drop back to pass without having his center step on his feet and falling down.

      The Jags are a perfect example of what happens when a good team (or any team for that matter) doesn’t have an offensive line. Their line has been riddled with injuries this season and everything has fallen apart. Last year the o-line was opening up MAC-truck-sized holes for Maurice Jones-Drew and Fred Taylor. This year you couldn’t fit mail between those slots.

      Another piece of the puzzle missing this year is Mike Smith – the Jags’ former defensive coordinator who is now the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. Many people noted that Smith essentially just ran Jack Del Rio’s defense over the years, but maybe “Smitty” had a bigger impact than people think because Jacksonville’s defense just isn’t the same nasty unit this year as they were in year’s past.

      With all that, it’s still amazing how far they’ve fallen. Again, they were rough to watch last night and that was easily the worst Monday Night Football Game of the year. (Although Slaton was fun to watch and I think the Texans’ found a solid running back in last April’s draft.)

      Fantasy Football, NFL

      Kimbo Slice to fight heavyweight kickboxing champion?

      December 2, 2008 /

      Kimbo Slice isn’t very bright.

      Kimbo SliceThis comes from Japanese MMA Blog Omasuki Fight, which was translated over at Bloody Elbow.

      Japanese tabloid Tokyo Sports reported that Kimbo Slice will be making appearance at Dec 6 K-1 show in Yokohama Japan to say hi to Japanese fans, K-1 Event Producer Tanigawa confirmed. His K-1 debut match will be in March, vs. current K-1 heavyweight champ, Badr Hari.

      K-1 is basically kickboxing without elbow and muay thai clinch. Good for Kimbo not have to worry about ground game.

      OK let me get this straight, Kimbo will be signed by K-1 to fight in March and be subsequently destroyed by one of the greatest kickboxers walking the planet. If this is true, maybe Kimbo hasn’t done any research on Hari, because he stands ZERO chance of beating Hari in a kickboxing bout. Of course we would even get to see this massacre on HDNET now, more power to him, but if I were his manager I would try to put him in a match where he would at least stand a chance. Bob Sapp, anyone?

      Anyone see that commercial where a basketball agent takes his client “Meelosh” around the country in efforts to get a team to sign him? That’s what I picture Kimbo Slice’s people doing.

      “Our client, Kimbo, only wants to get his ass beat by your kickboxing champion.”

      Mixed Martial Arts

      Yankees decline arbitration to Bobby Abreu

      December 2, 2008 /

      The New York Yankees declined to offer outfielder Bobby Abreu arbitration.

      The Yankees have declined to offer arbitration to Bobby Abreu, Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, Ivan Rodriguez, Sidney Ponson, Carl Pavano and Chad Moeller.

      We imagine the Red Sox and Rays are plenty pleased to see that the Yankees won’t be getting any extra draft picks next year. Having Abreu back for about $16 million wouldn’t have been such a bad thing for the Yankees, and odds are that he would have left and brought back two picks. Now the Yankees are facing the possibility of not having their regular first-round pick or any supplemental first-round picks. They will have the 29th pick in the draft after not signing their first-round pick from 2008.

      The Yankees could do way worse than Abreu for $16 million a year. Maybe the Cubs will take a look at him to protect Derrek Lee in the lineup.

      Fantasy Baseball, MLB

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