SHUT UP TRENT, YOU BIG BABY! “Oh poor me, life is tough, I get to stay at home and enjoy my kids growing up.” Most of us shlubs under 40 put in a hard 40-50 work week, don’t get paid millions to play a game and can’t retire or even see retirement in the future.

The average Joe works a 8 - 10 hours day before he gets to come home and suffer the problems Trent has. Some of us have had to be away from home for years (me, 2 tours in the Gulf since 2003)and miss it all, birthdays, anniversary’s, Christmas, etc. Trent always seems like a good guy, but everyone’s right about his tough day. Maybe he’s bragging rather than whining. I think most of us would love to have his problems.

Wow…what a bunch of whiny d-bags today. Trent Green wasn’t complaining about regular life, he was just saying that for all those people who think retired athletes are partying it up and being waited on hand and foot all day, their lives are a lot like most people’s, just without having to worry about any money problems if they managed their money right. So take those 800 pound chips off your shoulders and remove the large sticks from your rear-ends…

…I’m not going to say I told you so about Derosa until we’re a month or so in (especially when one of the games is against Lincecum), but he sure seems to have settled in with the lineup instead of providing an instant spark as some who screamed for his acquisition seemed to think he would. I really hope it works out, but again, in my opinion he’s just a guy. a good, but far from great 34-year-old player…

…by the way, did anybody catch the lowlights of Perez’s Indian’s debut last night? He hit the first two guys and wild pitched in a run. I wish the guy well but that was comically brutal!

The Giants will sweep the Cardinals this week. Until Ankiel, Ludwick, and Duncan start hitting the Cardinals will be toast….Good Trade for DeRosa but until others start hitting nothing will happen….

Hey Drunken Sailor that was the funniest comment I’ve read in a while regarding the pop up ad on the main page. I have to ask WTF, don’t they test anything before posting it, especially those annoying ads.

As far as the Trent Green comments, I didn’t think he was whining,, he’s just letting people know that he has the same issues as everyone else and retirement for an athlete is not all peaches and cream–I appreciated the article and it cracked me up because I have totally been there and done that.

I love seeing some activity with the Blues, I trust JD and co. to add/suntract some pieces to get us closer to the goal.

I only have one question. When did Eastern European girls lose the square chin, massive pecs (no breasts), Hulk Hogan biceps, and hairy backs? Damn, they look good! Almost makes me want to watch women’s tennis again.

Bite me bitches!

06.30.2009 7:06 am
Trent Green Plays Sportswriter For Day
By Jeff Gordon
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Former Rams quarterback Trent Green took Peter King’s place this weekover at SI.com, offering an assortment of opinions in the “Monday Morning Quarterback” column.

Green offered up lots of football insight, including a prediction that at least 10 NFL quarterbacks would pass for more than 4,000 yards this year. (Oddly, Marc Bulger was not one of them.)

Also, he offered a harrowing glimpse into the life of a retired athlete:

For those of you that think retired athletes sleep in, work out, play a little golf, maybe get a massage, I’ve got news for you: The Greens would make for a great reality show to destroy all those Hollywood stereotypes about retirement. Because youth baseball practices and games consume a lot of our evenings, we rarely have time for the five of us to sit down for dinner. We found a rare opportunity last week and about five minutes into the meal, Janelle, 3, says she’s not hungry anymore and refuses to sit in her seat. Just then, Derek, 9, reaches for a bowl of fruit and one of his elbows knocks over his glass of milk. TJ, 11, goes into big brother mode and begins the verbal jabs. As my wife, Julie, hurried for some towels, the boys continue jawing and Janelle starts running around the table singing some song, REALLY LOUD. As Julie returns with the towels, she sees me sitting there, mouth open, watching all of this unfold. She gets my attention and I just begin to laugh. I look at her and say, :If people only knew.” Welcome to retirement, Trent!

This explains why some guys never want to retire.

WIMBLEDON SHOCKER: SEX SELLS!

So which women get to play at Centre Court at Wimbledon? Seeding is a factor, of course, but so are their looks.

Marketing is marketing. The Daily Mail picks up the story:

While a succession of easy-on-the-eye unknowns have appeared in Wimbledon’s prime arena, the top women’s seeds have been relegated to lesser courts.

And last night, the All England Club admitted that physical attractiveness is taken into consideration. Spokesman Johnny Perkins said: ‘Good looks are a factor.’

In the men’s tournament, five-times winner Roger Federer and British hope Andy Murray invariably play on Centre. But on Friday, after Federer left the court, the next match was Victoria Azarenka of Belarus against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea.

While both 19-year-olds have top form in the glamour department, Miss Cirstea was seeded 28 while Miss Azarenka, who won, is ranked and seeded eighth. That same day, second seed Serena Williams was relegated to the new No 2 Court for her win over Italian Roberta Vinci.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

Questions to ponder while wondering if new Cardinal Mark DeRosa will disappear into the black hole that is the Cards’ clean-up spot:

Did you get the idea that Clayton Mortensen isn’t quite ready to push Todd Wellemeyer for his spot in the rotation?
Who was a bigger free-agent bust for the Blues, Joe Murphy or Jay McKee?
Will U.S. soccer fans ever recover from that loss to Brazil?
Is it time for America to really around the Williams and Mary mascot search?
Will America ever be safe from “student-athletes” roaming the streets of our college towns, menacing the citizens?
How can we get through our late nights without Billy Mays on the TV?
GOOD CLEAN MMA FUN

Life isn’t easy in the UFC. It’s a tough way to make a buck, getting kicked in the head and/or choked out by a rival maniac.

But there are occasional perks.

ANOTHER MINOR LEAGUE MANAGER BLOWS UP

Just feel this guy’s blood pressure rise.

QUIPS ‘R US

Here is what some of America’s leading sports pundits have been writing:

Dan Daly, Washington Times: “Vijay Singh offered to help post bail for Allen Stanford, the moneyman charged with bilking investors out of $7 billion. I realize Vijay has an endorsement deal with Stanford’s company, but - yikes - could the guy be any more tone deaf? On second thought, I suppose he could. He could have a logo on his bag advertising Bad Newz Kennels.”

Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle: “With Shaq O’Neal going to Cleveland, the NBA will save a lot of money by not hiring refs to work Cavs games. Shaq and LeBron will call the fouls.”

Greg Cote, Miami Herald: “Jets coach Rex Ryan revealed he has battled dyslexia. Cannot confirm that, in his honor, henceforth, the famous ‘J-E-T-S!’ chant will become ‘J-T-S-E!’”

Bill Simmons, ESPN.com: “Fresh off exchanging their best player (Vince Carter) for Orlando’s sixth-best player (Courtney Lee), the Nets make amends with their 470 fans by grabbing quirky Louisville swingman Terrence Williams (in my opinion, the last 2009 prospect with a chance to be a top-four guy on a title team). Given that T-Will routinely walked around the Louisville campus wearing SpongeBob pants and a Barbie backpack, it’s as if they drafted a best friend for Brook Lopez. They can go to comic book conventions and dress like ‘Star Wars’ characters together.”

MEGAPHONE

“He’s somewhere between Charles Barkley’s explosiveness and ability to rebound . . , (and) Tim Duncan’s size and ballhandling skills out on the floor.”

Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy, talking up top pick Blake Griffin.

Tags: Billy Mays, Blake Griffin, Serena Williams, Shaquille O’Neal, Trent Green

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Hey Trent Green,

Great guy, always a calss act, but… Quit whining! Welcome to real life. If you were not an athelete, like 99.9% of us, your at least 20 years away from retirement. So enjoy being under 40 with millions in the bank and having to spend time with your children. Waaaaaa.

Go Cardinals
— HOF
8:29 am June 30th, 2009

And with my spealling I will never retire…

Gordo, get your peeps to update the sports front page so we dont have to search for TODAYS tipsheet.

HOF
— HOF
8:35 am June 30th, 2009

Hey, Trent Green could spell, or at least use spellcheck. That puts him light years ahead of Tipsheet, doesn’t it?

HOF is right about Green though. That dinner description is something all of us have done who knows how many dozens of times. He acts like he discovered a new medicine or something…

I don’t know what S.W. would say about last night’s ballgame, but I bet I would agree with it…
— Tim
9:59 am June 30th, 2009

Bigger free agent bust - Murphy or McKee? That’s easy. Murphy, hands down. After all, that signing coined a new phrase in the NHL - “Joe Murphy money”.

As for Trent Green, waaaah! That’s my life every night when I come home from work. The difference is, I have to go to work and you don’t. Why don’t you take some of the millions you made and invest in a nanny if it’s that terrible to hang out with your own freaking kids.
— cross-czech
10:46 am June 30th, 2009

The Rams should hire that Mary Poppins ad on the front page for their defense, I couldn’t get past it.

I hope DeRosa fires up the Cards, they look like zombies. They are 22nd in the major leagues in hitting and fielding. They only reason they can even smell the division lead is they are 4th in pitching. If Ank, Luddy and Rasmus don’t start hitting, Duncan will soon be our best hitting outfielder. Yikes! Why is Joe Thurston on the roster?
— Drunken Sailor
10:58 am June 30th, 2009

No kidding between Mary Poppins and the doofus from Charter forcing commercials on all of us the newspaper the site gets ridiculous. BTW Charter do us a favor and quit raising our rates. High Speed internet? What lane are you in. Cant even get the sports page to load quickly
— ImaManIm40
11:02 am June 30th, 2009

Keep your chin up Cardinals fans, drown your sorrows in beverages with Drinkability, and I’ll be the designated driver. Oh, never mind.
— Josh “I’m Sloshed” Hancock
11:21 am June 30th, 2009

Is it me, or did Mike Parisi get his name legally changed to Clayton Mortenson? If Juan Uribe can blast one to Big Mac Land, either you are far from ready for the majors, or you need to find more velocity in the minors. 85-87 MPH fastballs will get devoured by major league hitters.
— Daffy Duck
11:29 am June 30th, 2009

What I find most telling about Trent’s little reality snippet is, he who is retired sits there at the table, saying and doing nothing, while his wife - who has no doubt been dealing with the kids and keeping the house running single-handedly all day — runs around cleaning up the mess and restoring order. Care to venture a guess who will clean up the kitchen and get the kids bathed and in bed and drop in a chair exhaused at 10:00 while Trent catches up on his Sports Illustrated reading? Anybody else get a “What’s wrong with this picture?” moment out of this little domestic vignette?

Yeah, Trent, you poor, poor guy….got it really tough…..

Yeah.
— Boyd
12:03 pm June 30th, 2009

Oh — sorry, but I can’t resist the umpteenth of these in a row, going back no telling how many days. And I quote:

“Is it time for America to really around the Williams and Mary mascot search?”

I rally don’t know how to really around anything — I rally don’t.

It there a PROOFREADER in the house?
— Boyd
12:10 pm June 30th, 2009

SHUT UP TRENT, YOU BIG BABY! “Oh poor me, life is tough, I get to stay at home and enjoy my kids growing up.” Most of us shlubs under 40 put in a hard 40-50 work week, don’t get paid millions to play a game and can’t retire or even see retirement in the future.
— Steve
12:30 pm June 30th, 2009

The average Joe works a 8 - 10 hours day before he gets to come home and suffer the problems Trent has. Some of us have had to be away from home for years (me, 2 tours in the Gulf since 2003)and miss it all, birthdays, anniversary’s, Christmas, etc. Trent always seems like a good guy, but everyone’s right about his tough day. Maybe he’s bragging rather than whining. I think most of us would love to have his problems.
— chopman
12:54 pm June 30th, 2009

Wow…what a bunch of whiny d-bags today. Trent Green wasn’t complaining about regular life, he was just saying that for all those people who think retired athletes are partying it up and being waited on hand and foot all day, their lives are a lot like most people’s, just without having to worry about any money problems if they managed their money right. So take those 800 pound chips off your shoulders and remove the large sticks from your rear-ends…

…I’m not going to say I told you so about Derosa until we’re a month or so in (especially when one of the games is against Lincecum), but he sure seems to have settled in with the lineup instead of providing an instant spark as some who screamed for his acquisition seemed to think he would. I really hope it works out, but again, in my opinion he’s just a guy. a good, but far from great 34-year-old player…

…by the way, did anybody catch the lowlights of Perez’s Indian’s debut last night? He hit the first two guys and wild pitched in a run. I wish the guy well but that was comically brutal!
— 2020vision
1:00 pm June 30th, 2009

The Giants will sweep the Cardinals this week. Until Ankiel, Ludwick, and Duncan start hitting the Cardinals will be toast….Good Trade for DeRosa but until others start hitting nothing will happen….
— Hank Aaron
1:34 pm June 30th, 2009

Hey Drunken Sailor that was the funniest comment I’ve read in a while regarding the pop up ad on the main page. I have to ask WTF, don’t they test anything before posting it, especially those annoying ads.

As far as the Trent Green comments, I didn’t think he was whining,, he’s just letting people know that he has the same issues as everyone else and retirement for an athlete is not all peaches and cream–I appreciated the article and it cracked me up because I have totally been there and done that.

I love seeing some activity with the Blues, I trust JD and co. to add/suntract some pieces to get us closer to the goal.
— Dan
1:47 pm June 30th, 2009

I only have one question. When did Eastern European girls lose the square chin, massive pecs (no breasts), Hulk Hogan biceps, and hairy backs? Damn, they look good! Almost makes me want to watch women’s tennis again.
— Greg
2:40 pm June 30th, 2009

Is it just me or did that one guy from UFC look like Yadier Molina? Is Yadi moonlighting again to get the chicks?

Big Baby? You people are calling Trent Green a baby for writing something that you can relate to and you want to call him a big baby?

Why don’t you re-read his article then re-read what you wrote…who looks like the whiny babies?

What I got out of it is that even with all the money and fame he still lives a pretty down to earth life…what I got out of most of your responses is that you think you have it so bad because you have the same situation and he has more money than you…well wah wah.