Necessary? No. Cool? Yes.

Clearly it’s all about wasting our time at work and our friends at The Onion are always available to help out with the wasting.  Seriously, they are like the black hole of time.  This little gem of an article on Derek Jeter got John B, G Slim and myself emailing back and forth about our favorite and non-favorite sports maneuvers.  The following is a smattering of our emails back and forth over the course of my morning at work.

G Slim:
Jeter–Best SS of our generation?

John B:
“….with that jump-throw thing that he doesn’t need to do.”  That’s solid.
Is A-Rod considered a  SS?
Candidates:
Jeter
Arod
Ripken?

G Slim:
The  jump throw is one of my 5 favorite sports moves.
Jeter’s jump  throw
Federer flicking the one hander cross court with a ridiculous  angle
The Nash step into a three on the run
Any Asian that hits a homer  and then does the bat flip (Matsui’s last night was vintage)
Youk at the  plate

BG:
This is a good  list.  How about worst sports moves?  I vote:
Chuck Hayes at the FT line

No imagination required, a link to Hayes video is below.

C Barkley on the  tee
Nomar’s bullshit with the  batting gloves
David Eckstein’s shot put  throw across the diamond  to first
Shawn Marrion 3  pointer

John B:
Sorry to say I don’t think I know Charlie Hayes and his FTs.
Darius Miles and Q-Rich with the fist pound
Shaq doing anything
Ricky Vaughn’s fist pump
Furcal’s lasers from short his rookie year
Ozzie Smith’s flip
George Brett applying pine tar
Bash Brothers forearm bash
Younger Vlad throwing from right field
Griffey/Hunter/anyone that jumps into or over a wall
Carlos Zambrano freaking out after Ks
And the lamest?

The Human Rain Delay

Nomar’s batting gloves
Jeff Hornacek brushing his face before free throws
J. Kidd blowing a kiss before free throws
Magic and Isiah kissing
Shaq doing anything
Barry Bonds spin move
Red Sox growing beards
Jose Lima doing the exact same thing as Zambrano
Nash sitting on the  floor icing?
Sharapova’s grunt?
Randy Johnson’s  swing?

GS:
Shame on you for not  knowing about Hayes

Furyk’s swing is horrible.

JC:
I am now much more educated than before.  Wow.  I’m at a loss.  Shaq is safe.  It looks like it hurts.
Furyk’s swing stays because he’s a pro at that sport.  Different category.

BG:
We agreed on Nomar’s gloves.  How did something that was awesome at first go so so so so wrong?
Young Vlad was a monster in RF.  No way were you running on that guy ever.  If there was a throw-off between early Vlad and Ichiro and Raul Mondesi I would watch that over another HR derby any day.  Griffey Jr’s swing too.

GS:
that is an all time list, you have to put Tom  Watson’s putt on 18 on that list. Jim Furyk’s swing belongs there,  hate that thing.

Picture Perfect

Worst of all time is a tie and can never be  broken between Hayes  and Barkley, no one can do worse.
I  actually like when Nomar goes crazy  with the glvoves.
I also  loves Halladay’s arm action on the cutter, its  like his body is out in  front of him and then he slows it down and lets the  arm catch up and  its kind of awkward and devasatating at the same time

JC:
If  it’s 1-time things, Watson’s putt is up there, but I thought we were going  with regularly occurring BS, which is so much worse since they can change  it if they would just put some more work in.

This went on and on for a while.  You know, until I went home for lunch and came back and we started emailing about something else.  Because that’s the way we roll.