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05/12/2021 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Is this the schedule? Credit: @LeaksNFL

More days in first place.

If you’ve ever suffered a torn scapholunate ligament, let us know in the comments.  

Chuck Finley can finally relax.

One more thing, Dale loves his mom more than you.

Where are the UDFA’s?

You can’t send your squad out on to the pitch with a false nine! Cor! Blimey!

I noticed in collegiate wrestling no one ever uses the Polish Hammer.

Cakes are cooking for Stacy Wilson, Tony Hawk, Jim Furyk, Steve Smith and Emily VanCamp.

Belichick talks to Baffort, Baffort horse gets busted for doping. Hmmm.

Don’t open your college commitment announcement like you’re getting divorced, ahkay?

Blehhhh! Play in game! Blehhhh!!

Gosh darn it Aiden, you should have reached out. People would have helped you.

That Chinese rocket could have really gotten people mad at the Orientals.

Hey gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “Take it easy, AIDS feet.’

Bottom line: Warren Sapp is an asshole. Always was, always will be.

It’s a very difficult decision to choose between UMass Dartmouth and Johnson & Wales. Like deciding between Texas and Georgia.

Tim Tebow is In Sport.

Bill Barnwell seems like someone who takes sex vacations in the Far East.

Why exactly is doping a race horse a bad thing?

Best Roast Beef in the Commonweath? Not North Shore, not South Shore. Merrimack Valley.

News Item: Leonardo DiCaprio unrecognizable in first photos of new Scorsese film.

DK Metcalf came in last, fact; not opinion.

Purple is great. They also give you the option to pay it off with Affirm so you don’t have to drop four digits.

She got whatever it is, it blows me away
She’s everything I want to say to a woman
But I couldn’t find the words to say
She got whatever it is.

The Taylor Swift Education Center opened today in Nashville. That is beyond awesome. Such a power move! @taylorswift13 is my girl!

Honk if you remember Skylab.

I can’t remember it being this consistently windy! Probably the Russians.

Woo Sox! Woo!

The Washington Football has its left tackle: The WFT is signing former #Bears LT Charles Leno to a 1-year deal worth $5M, per @SlavinRon.

Bedard is in the same shape as Babe Ruth in his Boston Braves days. See, it all comes back to baseball.

Lynnette can now drink all the passion fruit iced tea she wants.

Thank you, warrior98, whoever you are.

Best bet for the weekend: cheapies from the Capitals.

Don’t you love Opening Ceremonies, Craig? I do; I really do.

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Let’s remember Ms. Kitaen as she was. RIP.

Put Up Or Shut Up, Big Boy : Bedard’s Dishonest Descent

This is what humiliation and abasement looks like.

Normally we here at The15net.com wouldn’t sour any bandwidth space on “websites “and “webmasters” that are failing worse than Magic Johnson’s talk show. However the events of the past week have left us with no recourse. Greg Bedard, he of the widely unpopular, subscription-hemmoraging website Boston Sports Journal, has now taken it upon himself to lead a crusade to tarnish the name of a Patriots second round draft pick named Christian Barmore.

To backtrack a bit, Barmore has been seen by “several teams” , as reported by Bob McGinnis of the Athletic, “who expressed concerns about what they say is his resistance to coaching and structure at Alabama.” Nick Saban, who just so happened to be his head coach when Alabama won the national championship over Ohio State, disagrees with that totally.

In addition, Saban added that Barmore is “a very emotional, competitive player who plays his tail off.’’ Seems pretty good for a defensive player, no? Plus, if anyone would know who is and isn’t doing what they should on and off the field, conventional wisdom would lead you to believe it would be Nick Saban.

And it isn’t like Saban doesn’t out the guys who aren’t doing what they should.

He had no problem calling out Reuben Foster when he started hanging around the wrong folks and got into a domestic violence issue around draft time. There is a 0.0% chance he wouldn’t call out one of his athletes who didn’t listen and balked at his process. And there is also zero chance that he would lead his pal Belichick astray, and that Belichick would ignore Saban’s advice. Especially when guys like Dont’a Hightower and Damien Harris have adapted nicely to the Patriot culture.

Now back to Big Boy. According to him, the real issue in Barmore seems to be tied to non-football issues. What are they? Well..

The dog whistle is now a full-blown yelp at this point. Think about the connotations here. A middle aged white man from MA nonchalantly suggesting that a young black athlete he knows nothing about and has never met in his life is uncivilized and inferior intellectually. The fact that he does this out of thin air with no evidence is reckless at worst and passively racist at its absolute best. But, as the 3AM infomercials say, BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!

On his weekly “Big Boy Tuesday” appearance on Fecky & Motts on 98.5 The SportzKlan, he goes one step further and compares Barmore to…Aaron Hernandez.

And not to be outdone, QB1 for now Cam Newton isn’t immune from the venom he spews. Here, he believes The Coach is giving Cam a reason to “hang himself”.

In the year of our Sun God 2021, for those words to come out of the mouth of a white man in media, during the precipice of an awakening in this country in regards to police brutality against blacks and racial injustice against people of color, speaks volumes about the bubble he lives in.

Finally, on his “Greg Bedard Podcast” with Nick Cattles that 3 people listen to, he doubles down and questions Barmore’s intelligence again, and hints at something bigger that would tarnish his career, but because “sources”, he cannot reveal those things.

I recommend clicking on that entire thread by @police_at and seeing countless examples of how That Station and its hosts and guests have become synonymous with both casual and meticulous racism.

But as far as Big Boy, I would suggest to the Patriots that you pull this guy’s credentials yesterday. They were not useful to you before, and they certainly won’t be now. I would also offer another suggestion. Come out and refute this piece of crap story now. Even though it already has been by Nick Saban, the Patriots fans, especially those of color, would appreciate you having the back of one of your newest players even before he takes a snap.

Lastly, to those who might be reading this and saying, “why is The15net.com going so hard with this story? Why give him any attention?” For a long time, the Boston media has been an ass-grabbing, wagon-circling jerkoff fest of Caucasian dudes who have never had to experience any type of criticism or adversity. They have never had the mirror or the finger pointed in their direction. Just take a look at how Bedard treats potential customers when they asked him about this story.

Spineless sheep? Snowflake? “Color” athlete? Take off the white sheet and stop hiding your true feelings, Big Boy. Next thing you know he might be storming the Capitol with Viking antlers.

But it is about time for a change in Boston media, both diversity wise and editorial. It’s about time new voices rose up and spoke out about the underrepresented Boston sport fan, especially the ones of color who are just as diehard and passionate as the white ones. And it is definitely past time for some diversity in radio and TV in Boston, the #10 market in the United States. And in conculsion, Big Boy, I have some advice for you.

We cannot take you seriously on this issue until YOU start telling the truth on this. You are taking the weak, easy way out assisnating the character of a Patriots player. Either come out and say what the issue is, apologize and say you made a mistake (like a normal human being) or shut up and go away, like you did as LVRJ.

05/05/2021 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

‘BUST’ is implied.

Ernie made the good picks, caller.

MLB The Show 21 is a great game. I highly recommend buying it if you haven’t yet.

There’s a reason Greg Bedard lasted 3 days at the LVRJ.

Using “green teamer” and begging for Madam Jones to notice him is a squid parlay.

Eating ice cream out of the container again. I got got.

It makes sense that it’s legal to impersonate a Boston Globe reporter considering all the fabulists and plagiarists who have worked there.

How it started: ‘You aren’t getting Mac Jones, caller.’

How it’s going: ‘You’re stuck with Mac Jones, caller.’

Cakes are cooking for Charles Nagy, Danielle Fishel, Randall Gay, Henry Cavill, and Eve Torres.

Packers best be careful, Aaron Rodgers has outside interests now, like hosting Jeopardy!, and heterosexuality.

In retrospect, of course the Baffert horse won the Derby.

Dragging Dondero was a great college indy band back in the 90s.

The NHL needs more violent goons, not fewer.

The #Raiders are releasing safety Jeff Heath on Wednesday, per source. He was the AFC Defensive Player of the Week in Week 10 last season. Now, set to be a free agent.

They should call it Section 8 podcast, because it’s so poor.

FYI, it’s still against the law to impersonate an employee of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune.

Ned Martin didn’t have opinions, he’d just smoke a butt and do a shot to keep the ghosts of Iwo away.

Heyyyy brunch gang, this week’s Phrase that pays is “Your brain don’t work.”

I workout at an office park as well. It’s actually quite descript!

McCorkle. It’s funnier than a regular middle name.

Aloha means goodbye, Ibuprofen. Aloha.

C’mon, sunscribe to The Athletic! Steve Buckley needs more scratchy, scratchy flannel.

“Revenge of the Fifth!” Get it? Get it??

Did whoever Bedard allegedly spoke to about Barmore “just quote a rap lyric”?

Orange Line Update: Trains are returning to regularly scheduled service.

If I add five more pounds to my deadlift PR it’s going to get into Miss Porter’s and Wellesley.

Nice outing, Pivetta. You too, Barnes.

All this rain best mean that the Fake Drought gets cancelled.

I probably wouldn’t have qualified for the Marathon even at the previous time.

Bruins. Playoff bound. Owning. Fluke loss.

Life with gUNT: my brain and body shut down every day from approximately 3- 4:30 PM.

I sneak in my own house
It’s four the morning
I’ve had too much to drink
Said I was out with the boys
I creep in my bedroom
I slip into bed
I know if I wake her
I’ll wake up dead.

He had me at the multicolor pen.

Honk 1488 times if you remember when Greg Bedard’s Loyko investigation was supposed to wrap up.

WooSox!

You aren’t Amy and you aren’t with Medical Services, phone spammer.

I find the Celtics to be quite likable, thank you very much.

Well Schill has certainly earned the benefit of the doubt. Wait, what?

Feliz cumpleaños México! Probablemente.

Best bet for the weekend: Orioles playing hard against the Red Sox.

Not a squash instructor, but nevertheless…

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BdlG. Not Mexican. But nevertheless..

04/28/2021 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Draft Day approaches for New England. And you know what that means!

Going to be so good when the Red Sox are once again claiming Fenway sellouts post August 1st. So good, so good, so good! A return to normal, indeed.

As a rule, supermarket employees don’t have NFL sources.

My grandpappy’s dying words were “Never trust a sports media columnist named Chad”. Sage advice, Pops.

Dale Arnold would make a great guest host on Jeopardy. “Sorry, the correct answer is WARRIOR Ice Arena, not Warner.”

I’m ever so sorry about the “Entitled Town’ audio issues on my end. That’s on me, gotta pod better. The bad news is, Coach Tomlin complained and NE has been docked a seventh round pick in 2022. The good news is is that Ironhead unknowingly agreed to wear the puffy shirt next podcast.

Bootleg
Summer in the city
His Barnicles can swim
Getting naked and gritty.

When you have 2 garbage bags full of weed maybe don’t start beating up restaurant employees.

New theory: John Dennis has been in a gout critical care facility for nearly a year.

Cakes are cooking for Jay Leno, Kim Gordon, Ron Zook, Bridget Moynahan and Ryan Saunders.

Have flatter feet.

It’s a ductless AC and it keeps out prowlers.

Larry Luccino should release a sing-along album. Let’s go Red Sox!

I’m at the point where I’d rather see your vaccination card than your mock draft.

Today in “life with gUNT,” I injured my back putting on my pants.

Hearing reports that Chris Sale’s rehab is coming along great, but with no firm timetable in place. And also that he nodded in apparent recognition when shown a baseball.

News Item: Keno sales finally rebound, Massachusetts Lottery says.

I hope Dana Hersey still has that great leather jacket.

My work has a nice gym but it’s been closed since COVID started.

It’s good to have a network of whores in different cities and towns in this great land where you can pop in, do drugs and get your dick sucked.

Nice job coach. How’s the liver?

I know George Floyd is looking down at Fenway and smiling.

The Bills have re-signed RFA G Ike Boettger.

Hey, gang of NFL Draftniks, This weeks Phrase that Pays is “Remember that chair?”

Some day Tanya will be able to claim a loss of Twitter clout on her tax return. Good God.

I think the clothes dryer ate the belt to my bathrobe. Less than ideal.

Red Auerbach retired as head coach of the Boston Celtics fifty-five years ago today after leading the team to eleven championships in sixteen years.

Stupid girl.
She was dressed like
she deserved everything that she got.
Bloody pumps.
Dead girl.
Hey, world;
Thanks a lot,
Thanks a lot

In retrospect, it makes sense that Brady was tweaking Coach Harbro rather than actually caring about the positional uniform number rule alteration.

Honk if you remember mimeographs.

“Y’all Qaeda” was a top 5 funny thing I heard during the pandy.

Let’s don’t be limping into the Playoffs, Celtics.

Orange Line Update: Regularly scheduled service has resumed.

It’s an accent wall, but the accent is Welsh.

Man, those squash instructors, they get all the puss. It’s just like the old saying goes: “Squash instructors, they get all the puss.”

Best bet for the weekend: Draft report cards.

Quick Slants can be viewed from 3:00-5:00 and then 7:00-9:00.

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And now we say goodbye to April, in the person of actress April Bowlby. Aloha, April.

04/21/2021 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Which item in the Sports Junk Drawer merits the picture of Carnac the Magnificent? Read on to find out.
Kept his stick on the ice.

Johnny Pierson: gone to that big furniture convention in the sky. Hopefully Johnny drew up his last will & testament as well as he did plays during intermission. RIP.

Congrats to the 45 million UMass alumni, all of whom never realized before last week they had a hockey team.

I swear, these alternate jerseys by Nike seems like just a way for them to get us to spend more money!

Any Super League that didn’t include Wolverhampton was doomed from the start.

Tell us in the comments what you think of the Bengals’ new ‘fits.

Next week on ‘The Case‘: Brockton is full of scumbags and Steve did a Google search.

I was also never offered the job coaching Indiana basketball. The rumors mean a lot to me but they are untrue!

You don’t need to post everything you do. You really don’t.

A whole lotta punks, squids, Haskell’s, and just plain cvnts on that Caps squad.

I guess we’ll only be able to catch Cash Cab on reruns now.

Cakes are cooking for Ed Belfour, Rob Riggle, Audra Cohen, Max Chilton, Princess Isabella of Denmark, and Josh Marion.

Every time I see a picture of Tom Werner, I feel like $20 has been withdrawn from my bank account.

I heard a lot of people telling us the celtics were back in business and look out…boy very quiet I am hearing from them after this gong show vs bulls

Came this close to pulling the trigger on purchasing a box of factory seconds biscotti at the Ocean State Job Lot.

Red Sox still have fewer wins than Mookie’s Dodgers, caller.

LAPD cancelled that Gold & Purple Alert for that missing imaginary Lakers fan lady, I suppose.

News Item: High school sophomore Matthew Vital shoots an 8-under-par 62, breaks Reading (PA) Country Club course record set by Sam Snead in 1949.

I could go for a nice scallop roll right now.

Is big pharma working on a vaccine to counter the effects of the Hellenic Flu?

Get another tattoo and do some arm curls; that will fill the emptiness this time I bet.

I like when Pete Abe tweets something that gets pushback and hides one reply when there are 12 more saying the same thing.

What, are you waiting for a streetcar?

Approximately 90% of my Premier League soccer knowledge is gleaned from Monty Python episodes.

It’s funny because that one fan threw a pizza slice at that other fan.

Glad to hear the Cape League plans to return. Go Pants Factory!

Hey bud, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Marv is Suave.”

It’s okay to admit this Celtics team has talent.

The Euro Super League, the Fenway Park Press Conference Room, and Linda Pizzuti…What are 3 things John Henry has spent very little time in?

Who Can Think About Low-Rise Jeans When We Have Vanessa Hudgens’s Jaw-Dropping Hip Cutouts?

Former Pro Bowl TE Jordan Reed is retiring, sources say. A 2013 3rd-round pick by the Washington Football Team, Reed emerged as one of the game’s best receiving TEs before battling injuries. His improbable comeback with #49ers last season allowed him to walk away with no regrets.

Red: Republican Blue: Democrat Red & Blue make Purple: One World Government Numbers, symbols & colors, are used in pagan Magic for predictive programming.

Women. Women and their knick-knacks! Amirite?

Rest In Peace, Walt Mondale.

Bitch! Kitchen!

Congratulations to the Pope Francis Prepatory H.S. Hockey team out of Springfield, MA, USA Hockey Division 1 National Champions.

Honk if you remember that Robert ‘Love’ Klemko was supposed to have a follow-up report on Antonio Brown.

You can’t be losing to a team in your division, Tone.

Now I’m not a highly metaphysical man
But I know when the stars are aligned you can
Bump into a person in the middle of the road
Look into their eyes and you suddenly know.

Actually, the worst person to sit next to at a baseball game would be ‘the relentlessly negative sports radio “celebrity caller”.’

Best bet for the weekend: a clash of the titans as the Mariners visit the lyric little bandbox on Jersey Street.

Central Florida. Late Mid April.

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Medford Maria Menounos.

04/14/2021 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer

Happy for the team.

R.I.P. HRH Prince Philip and DMX. So often linked in life, so they will be in death.

Julian Edelman. I was in denial as to the severety of his knee ailment. Thanks for the memories, and the 100+ playoff catches. Way to compete. Really.

UMass Men’s Ice Hockey, National Champions. Suck it, Gilligan!

Fake ailments don’t get you on the vaccine list? Maybe try sleep apnea.

Half-price Easter candy as a gift? Sheesh.

I like Little Jonathan, epidemiologist better than Big Jonathan, draftnik.

Break up the 2021 Red Sox!

The universe has to keep expanding in order to contain all the cat gifs.

Taylor Hall. Why do I know that name? Is he in sports?

An Oriental wins The Masters post-Covid? Even more obvious than letting a team named ‘the Patriots’ win the post 9/11 Super Bowl.

Cakes are cooking for Stan Humphries, David Archibald, Da Brat, Rebecca DiPietro, and Win Butler.

Jennifer Grey is Joel Grey’s daughter? Did I just find that out, or did I forget that I knew that fact?

Hirohito had a big lead early on, too.

Putting your personal logo over an already bastardized American flag seems disrespectful to the troops.

@jumbogart

Good win, Celtics. A self-motivated win, even.

Carrabis has no family and one interest in life and he can’t please his bosses. That’s a dedication to mediocrity.

See, FIRST you snipe, THEN you celly!

Bernie Madoff. It’s like he was living on borrowed time. Aloha means ‘goodbye’, Bernie. Aloha.

Dear White People: defrost your refrigerators.

Rachel Corrie wasn’t as much of a human shield as Jules Edelman was for Robert Kraft on their trip to Israel.

Hey there gang, this week’s Phrase that Pays is “Blast it with Sweet onion sauce.”

Poor Tanya Ray Treadwell. Who could have seen that happening?

The Gardner Museum Heist will be solved before the Loyko investigation is concluded.

Of course Edelman caught this. He caught everything.

It’s not the Hall of Regular Season Counting Stats. Just sayin’.

I could see Dale Arnold pulling a ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ stunt and audition for the vacated Danielle Murr chair.

Some Rhode Islanders will tell you this is the worst 5-6 Yankees team ever.

You’re not the girl you think you are, yeah
Someone’s standing in your place.

The bathroom mirror makes you look tall
But it’s all in your head, in your head.

He won’t deceive you or tell you the truth
Woman, he’ll be no trouble.
He won’t write you letters,
Full of excuses
Come on, believe you have one, in a million.

Red Sox announce top prospect Bryan Mata underwent Tommy John surgery.

Does draft expert Bob Kraft still have his stopwatch?

Don’t give new guy Reilly the 6 jersey, Bruins! Bad number for a B’s defenseman.

A. 1982 NCAA Womans Lacrosse Champs.

Great day for baseball! Let’s play two!

Isn’t it usually the ladies get a massive headache before getting an injection from the ol’ Johnson (& Johnson)? What?

Honk if you remember the Quizno’s Spongmonkey ads.

Los Angeles law enforcement gave Tiger a mulligan on the speeding.

Is it too late to insert Wally the Green Monster into Space Jam 2? Probably.

Nice scheduled four a.m. tweet, Superfly.

My Fire Stick 4K does not upgrade my TV into having 4K picture quality. Sad.

Best bet for the long holiday weekend: Jerry Remy not practicing his Spanish diction.

X gon give it to ya. ‘It’ in this case is not camera presence.

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Locally-born Birthday Girl Rebecca DiPietro.

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