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Nice look dude.

Listen it’s never easy to win a road playoff game in the NBA.  BUT the Celtics are the best team in the league and Atlanta is a below .500 team that has no business even being in the playoffs.    The Celts got a major wake up call on Saturday and as if that wasn’t enough Al Horford was talking all sorts of junk as the game wound down.  The bottom line is that you don't tug on Superman's cape. You don't spit into the wind.  You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and if you’re Al Horford you don't mess around with the greatest franchise in the history the NBA.  Even Doris Burke knows that. Celts by 47 tonight.   Book it!

Mortal Lock - Celts

I feel like I'm ass picky as it gets when it comes to videos like this. Lots of people send me improv clips and spoofs and shit like that. I rarely and I mean rarely think this type of shit is funny. But this is the exception to the rule. I thought this was pretty freaking good. I gave it an 8 on a scale of 1-10.

When are the refs going to learn that you got to let these guys settle it in the ring? Clearly this guy wanted to go another couple rounds. He just got the wind knocked out of him.

PS - Yes I know the guy who gets assisinated is Jaidon Codrington from the Contender and this clip is from 2005. But I'd never seen it before so I decided to post it.

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Just before the Pats took Jerod Mayo, Mike Mayock, the NFL Net's draft guru... picture Mel Kiper Jr. if he wasn't full of shit... declared that the Patriots had to grab Mayo, "the most under valued player in this draft." He then proceeded to run a video highlight pointing out Mayo's ability to read a screen, check for a cut back block, then when one wasn't coming, use his speed to accelerate to the ball carrier and bring him down for no gain. At least three times, Mayock said "Does that look like a Patriot type player to you?"

If that doesn't excite you, try this video of his combine work out.

Or this one showing how he'll do at the Super Bowl media day next year.

Within a couple of days, Barstool will begin printing "The Patriots 12th Man of the Year: Scott McCloughan" t-shirts.

Dude, Miley Cyrus needs to stop slutting it up. The bottom two pictures of her have been burning up the web the last couple weeks. I purposely ignored them because the chick is 15 years old. FIFTEEN! But now she is naked on the cover of Vanity Fair. Seriously what the fuck is going on around here? Nobody except Roger Clemens wants to look at pictures of a 15 year old chick unless she is like crazy, crazy hot and looks to be at least 16. Unfortunately Miley Cyrus doesn't fit into either category. So what gives? Is Disney subliminally trying to send the message to little girls across America that it's cool to get naked and give head? If so I say Bravo. Unless of course if I ever have a little girl in which case I'm home schooling her and locking her in a closet until she's 28.

Everybody who says I don't work hard can kiss my ass. A reader texted me this video on my cell phone. Yeah, I give out my cell phone number to our readers. Find another CEO of a major metropolitan newspaper who does that. Anyway, in order to get this on our site I had to download all this crap and buy Quicktime Pro for 30 bucks. The whole process took me like 2 hours. All for what? So the Stoolies could see this chick giving a handjob in the Sox game yesterday. I just couldn't let this clip fade into Bolivian so I put on my techie hat and went to work. Bottom line is that nobody gets away with giving a handjob at a Sox game without having it end up on the Stool. At least not on my watch.

PS - How did Orsillo and Remy not mention this? Anytime a fan gets caught getting their dick fondled at a baseball game you need to at least mention it right?

"Hey looks like this couple is a little too excited about the Drays sweep."

That's all we're looking for. Is that too much to ask?

I guess this is what happens when you have 3 points in 29 minutes and your team is about to go down 3-1 in the series. Hey Jason Kidd, you didn't "think it was the ball", did you? C'mon dude. Only one man can say that.

And yes Tommy, they called it a hard foul.

Mindy McCready Pre Roger Clemens

Mindy McCready Post Roger Clemens

NYDailyNews.com - Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy McCready, a romance that began when McCready was a 15-year-old aspiring singer performing in a karaoke bar and Clemens was a 28-year-old Red Sox ace and married father of two, several sources have told the Daily News.   During another Big Apple excursion, the two holed up in the trendy SoHo Grand and later partied with Monica Lewinsky and Michael Jordan.

Suddenly the steroid thing doesn’t seem so bad anymore huh?   Poor Debbie Clemens. It’s been a tough couple months for her.  First she gets busted for doing steroids and now she finds out that not only is her husband a pedophile, but he has two wives.   Because let’s call a spade a spade.  If you’re banging a chick for 10 years that’s not an affair.  That’s a spouse.   Not to mention the fact that the Rocket was putting the screws to Mindy McCready when she was only 15.  Isn’t that rape?   Where is Law and Order SUV when you need them?        

PS – Who hasn’t Monica Lewinsky partied with?    I totally got to get her to a Stool event.

This is QB Sam Keller out of Nebraska and his girlfriend, Casey Connelly. Her photos have been floating around on the internet in the days leading up to the draft in the hopes that someone would pick him, thus guaranteeing their fan base... not to mention the entire blogosphere... a chance to turn this chick into a superstar. Memo to Matt Ryan: as lovely and pure hearted a girl as Sarah Marshall undoubtedly is, this is the kind of girl a pro QB should be running with. Check out her MySpace if you need any more convincing. Especially since Casey is probably looking to upgrade. I'm guessing that as soon as the 252nd pick was announced, and Keller hadn't been taken, that her eyes turned to Ryan like Harriet Byrd looking towards Roy Hobbs when he struck out The Whammer. I appreciate that the Pats aren't interested in a guy who got benched at Arizona St., then was bust for the Cornhuskers. I also understand the Pats took SD St. Kevin O'Connell yesterday, and that between him, Matt Cassel and Matt Guttierez, they're facemask deep in QB projects, but I say they've got to find a spot on the roster for Keller. If for no other reason than to give themselves the greatest 1-2 QB girlfriend tandem in NFL history.

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(Busted Coverage)

Boston.com - The 2007 Red Sox season was just underway when a group of professional ticket brokers held an unusual meeting in a private room at the Baseball Tavern, the storied bar in the shadows of Fenway Park. The main item on their agenda: How to persuade Massachusetts officials to keep ticket-resale profits rolling. One man was there with an offer of help. He was not a broker, had no known experience as a political strategist, and has never registered as a State House lobbyist. But Richard Vitale had something that the two dozen brokers came to believe was even more important to their cause - a close personal and professional relationship with Salvatore F. DiMasi, the speaker of the Massachusetts House. Vitale told the group that he could "do things a registered lobbyist couldn't do - behind the scenes," according to one ticket seller in attendance who asked that his name not be used. Others present also told the Globe they left the meeting with a clear understanding that Vitale was close to DiMasi. What they did not know when they decided to retain him through his firm, WN Advisors, was just how close. Vitale is the speaker's personal accountant and former campaign treasurer. And he had given DiMasi a $250,000 third mortgage on his North End condominium, according to public records. It was an unorthodox line of credit, apparently at below-market interest rates for such a loan, that DiMasi in an interview ac knowledged he had used. At the urging of the group's leader, James Holzman, the president of Ace Ticket Worldwide, the brokers paid Vitale what two members in attendance at the meeting that day described as many thousands of dollars to help their cause. Months later, legislation to lift regulations on the ticket resale business glided through the House of Representatives with DiMasi's support. After passing the House, the bill got bottled up in the Senate, where it remains today. If Vitale was paid more than $5,000 to influence lawmakers - and several brokers briefed on his fee arrangements said he most certainly was - he would have had to register as a lobbyist. And if he was working as a lobbyist, his ongoing financial relationship with DiMasi - namely, the loan -would have run afoul of state conflict of interest laws that prohibit lobbyists from granting anything of value to a public official. Under current law, ticket resellers may charge no more than $2 above a ticket's face value, plus a service charge, though the law is rarely enforced, observers say. Consumer advocates had been pressing for tighter price controls after receiving complaints that tickets to sporting events and concerts were being sold for many times their original price. By late September 2007, months after the brokers hired Vitale, the measures sought by consumer advocates were dead in the House. And in their place, a broker-friendly bill lifting all pricing restrictions had emerged with a favorable recommendation from the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. A week later, that bill passed the full House.

Let’s call a spade a spade.    Clearly DiMasi, the ticket guys, and Richard Vitale broke the law.   That’s pretty freaking obvious.    I mean nothing screams guilty like when you start having Regan Communication speak for your ass in the press.   But what amazes me about this story is how the Globe found about this secret meeting in the first place.   My only guess is that some of the smaller ticket agencies in Boston must fucking hate Ace Tickets so they ratted him out.  Why else would you spill the beans?   Regardless, this story brings up a bigger issue.   Should it be illegal for these ticket brokers to exist?    Personally I think it’s a legit business.   Listen nobody wants to pay 200 bucks for a Red Sox ticket, but I’m not sure getting rid of these guys will change that.  It’s just the law of supply and demand.    If these ticket brokers didn’t exist you’d just be buying them from somebody else.    The bottom line is that when something is as hot as Red Sox tickets it’s virtually impossible to regulate prices.   And personally I’d rather buy tickets from a reputable place like Higs Tickets rather than risk getting screwed on Ebay or by some shady dude outside Fenway.    

Now having said I do think there should be more Day of Game tickets made available to people who are willing to wait in line.   The easy way to do this would be for the Red Sox to buy back all the tickets from fans who can’t use them for whatever reason at face value and then put those tickets on sale the morning of a game.  But instead of doing this the Red Sox decided to form a partnership/monopoly with Ace Tickets and let them resell all those unused tickets for 500 times the face value on them.  In return Ace bought a huge ad deal with the Sox.  In other words it’s a win, win for the Sox and Ace Tickets while the fans get fucked in the ass.   Granted I don’t blame Ace Tickets for doing this deal, but it’s as greedy as greedy gets for the Red Sox.  They are basically helping make their tickets harder to get and more expensive.   If the State wants to regulate anything this is where they should get involved.    But as far as trying to regulate ticket brokers I just don’t see what this will accomplish.  It won’t help keep prices down.  It will just make it easier to get scammed.

Vin Scully is the only guy on the planet who can make getting knocked out by a 96 mph fastball sound beautiful. Granted he's borderline senile now, but does it really matter? Best baseball announcer in the history of the game. Period. Oh yeah, it sucks to be the ump who got demolished.

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