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The Philadelphia Union: New MLS team.

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Sports with Bob McFlurry

The official name of the Philadelphia Sports Franchise was revealed in a ceremony at City Hall today, the “Philadelphia Union“.  I’m with that.  Philadelphia is where the United States of America was born.

The team name alludes to the Union of the Original 13 colonies, Philadelphia being it’s capital (yea that’s right dude at the bar Thursday night, Philadelphia was the Original Capital, not Washington DC).  The team’s colors are Navy Blue and Gold, the primary colors of the Continental Army uniform.

Benjamin Franklin first suggested a “Plan For Colonial Union” in 1754.  Letters sent by Franklin to then Governor of Massachusetts William Shirley laid out an early plan for a national government that was to be supported by British Parliament.  The plan was ultimately not ratified by the colonies but the rattlesnake on the Union Logo pays homage to Ben Franklin’s 1754 political cartoon in the Pennsylvania Gazette. It became a national symbol of the American Revolution conveying the apparent dangers of disunity.  Not surprisingly, the group lobbying the hardest to get the MLS team here is the “Sons of Ben”.

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The Stadium is not in the City of Philadelphia though.  It’s located about 20 minutes down I-95 in lovely Chester, Pa.  Chester, classified in 1980 as a third class city has gone through a sort of resurgence lately.  Harrah’s Casino and Horse Track opened within the last two years.  A series of riverfront plans have failed until Governor Rendell stepped in with State Funds to build the Stadium and riverfront commerce center.

Overall, I guess you’ve got to be happy with the stadium and new MLS team.  I’m not a huge soccer fan but if the Union get into the playoffs I have no problem jumping on the bandwagon.

BeerSlugger.com is rallying support to be the official tailgate sponsor of the team.  If you are a bar owner, brewer or beer distributor owner and want to sponsor an event, please contact info@beerslugger.com.

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Rihanna and Prince?

By: Billy BeerSluggerriprince

I’m not trying to pick on Rihanna, I know she just got her face busted by Nick Cannon or whatever that rapper dude’s name is, but did you ever notice the eerie similarity of her and Prince.  Just about the only things that distinguish them from one another are breasts and a very faint mustache.  Same haircut, same light colored skin, same body type and build.  You would think they were at least brother and sister.

Now yea I guess I would bang Rihanna, if only to say “I banged Rihanna“.  But now I made this connection to Prince, I don’t know if I could go through with it.  I could be balls deep in Rihanna and probably the only thing I would be able to think about is Prince wearing those pants with the ass cut out so you could see his butt cheeks. Kinda giving myself the heeby jeebies just thinking about it.

Just in case you wanted to know, there are possibly some racy photos of the Rihanna circulating on the web.  Allegedly these photos were leaked by the same practical jokester that beat her ass a couple weeks back.  Whether the pics are real or not remains to be seen.

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Popped Collars… JUST STOP IT!

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By: Billy BeerSlugger

I know I get worked up about some issues that in the grand scheme of things really don’t matter.  I can’t help it and I’m using this website as sort of a therapy session.  If I write down the things that are bothering me I feel a whole bunch better inside.  Anywhoodle, I’m at the bar last night, wasted, and i just can’t get over the 3 or 4 dudes in the bar that have their collars popped.   I was pretty sure that this fad had died out around 2005 or maybe thats just when I exited the college scene.

I never really got the whole poppin’ of collars. What are you really trying to accomplish?  Are you trying to imitate Count Chocula or something, cause that cereal spokesperson got soooo much cartoon ass right?  I’ve read that rappers have done this as well and as we all know, anything that is deemed cool in black culture will without a doubt be copied by white people trying to look “fresh”.

A bunch of my hip fraternity brothers did this back in the day, some wearing two or more polo’s and popping them all. Wearing a pink  or pastel polo with the collar popped somehow was supposed to convey to freshman girls that they were comfortable with their sexuality or something.  However, every sixth word out of their mouths was faggot so I’m sure that was a little contradictory.

So here’s what I’m trying to tell you cool guy, just don’t do it.  I’ll be the first one to commend you on expressing your individuality but you can’t do so by rocking a misguided fashion faux pas from 5 years ago. You just look like a retard.  Put your collar down and really “bro”…. pink is not a good color for you.

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The 5 Worst College Social Scenes in the Philadelphia area: #4

By: F.X. Galvin

#4 Haverford College – Who goes there?

I know I promised I would have the complete list done by Friday. Sorry, I lied. No, I actually got busy with grownup lawyer tasks and was unable to bash four more schools until now.

Well anyway, Haverford College is lame. It is one of those weirdo liberal arts colleges that takes on all the smart wackos who would rather attend a small college than an Ivy League school. They would rather get killer grades at Haverford than risk getting a C from Princeton. They are the intellectuals too scared to really compete.

It was difficult to come up with ideas for this post because unlike every other of the 19 schools I have chronicled, I have never met anyone that has gone to Haverford College. (except for one guy I worked with for about two months that was strange, that I avoided like any other wacko from Haverford). I have never partied up at Haverford and after calling many people I know, no one who has ever drank at this school. I have been on this campus several times to play soccer. I was there once in high school, than three times in college. (I think). Well anyway in my limited time visiting this school and soliciting rumor mill info in trying to write this article this is what I was able to establish.

I have never seen a good looking girl on this campus. I know my experience there is limited, but seriously, I should have jerked my head sustaining third degree whiplash at one point while present on the campus. Furthermore, after researching and polling people, this exact sentiment was echoed. This is one ugly ass place. Also, the time I was there, I did not see one beer can, empty beer case, or any evidence of alcoholic beverages being consumed on the campus. Also, this school is located on the Main Line and has the exact social scene as #5 Villanova. You got Brownies and a bunch of corner bars you have to drive to and risk a D.U.I.

Research has given my some more info on this place. This school boasts that it has 1,169 students from 45 states. It has the one of the oldest Honor Codes in the nation. Essentially they have been booting people for cheating since 1833. Nobody cares that you Quaker freaks have had an Honor Code since 1833. The Quaker thing does raise one issue. Penn, the original Quaker university in Philadelphia, started in 1740. In 1833, did the Quaker rejects who could not get into Penn build Haverford College? These people started as natural losers.

Well anyway, if you go on Haverford’s website one of the things it brags about is that it has a 3.5 acre duck pond. Quack, Quack Mr. Ducksworth or Haverford College, which ever you prefer. When a school advertises its duck pond on its home page, the place is useless. If anyone has something positive to say about this place I would appreciate more incite on this Main Line bubble. I will attempt to contact a couple of law school friends that I have not been able to get a hold of, who attended private Fascist high schools like Malvern Prep and Episcopal Academy to try to find what goes on at this place.

In closing, for all of you Nova alumni who have contacted me bitching that their school is #5… Blow me. Obviously you are not the reason the school was #5 or you wouldn’t have my phone number. Really, it is not my fault you went to a weak ass school. At least you turned out ok.

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The Kentucky Grilled Chicken Conundrum

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You Go Girlfriend! Get your Chicken On!

By: Billy BeerSlugger

I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter lately about this Kentucky Grilled Chicken promo they’ve been running and subsequently reneged on.  I remember a couple of weeks ago KFC rolled out a commercial stating that it would give away 2 pieces of the new Grilled Chicken if you went to their website and downloaded a coupon.

At this point I’m thinking, “Sounds good, two free pieces of chicken.  Can’t beat that”.  Ultimately I never went to KFC because I don’t really eat KFC.  To me eating KFC is like banging a chick on her period, I’ll do it once in a blue moon but man does it make a mess.

I digress.  Shit really started to hit the fan when the announced this promo on Oprah.  The response was so overwhelming that a store manager in New York refused to honor the coupons.  This sparked a 60’s style civil rights sit in protest at the restaurant.  People refused to leave the KFC until they got their free chicken.  As if free chicken was a right protected by the constitution.

I can only imagine how many freeloaders used these coupons multiple times.  I know times are tight right now but if you are a mom or dad that was trying to feed your family with free chicken from KFC you have got to seriously rethink what you are doing in life.

Unbeknownst to him, F.X. Galvin was quite curious about the long lines at the KFC in the Gallery over the last week or two.  As we just watched the Phils lose to Atlanta, the CEO of KFC made his second commercial appearance, this time suspending the free chicken offer.

You may, however, go into a KFC and fill out a Rain Check form and they will send you coupon for the chicken pieces and a free pepsi as well.  As always it’s a few (thousand) bad apples screwing a good thing up for everyone else.

What I find hilarious is the sense of entitlement of some people in this country.  Guess what, KFC doesn’t owe you anything.  If a KFC location doesn’t want to honor the coupon I’m pretty sure they can do that.  It’s not infringing on your rights.  Pay for your greasy chicken just like everyone else or go home and cry about it.  Don’t throw a temper tantrum like a 2 year old in the middle of KFC, your kids are watching you and you’re setting a bad example.

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Mainstream Media on MLB Steroids/HGH… Double Standard?

Sports with Bob McFlurry

So yea, one of my first picks in my Fantasy Baseball draft, Manny Ramirez,  is now suspended for the next 50 games as a result of a positive “Performance Enhancing Drug” test result.  Now before you get all, “You’re writing this article because you’re pissed that your Fantasy Baseball Team is going to hit the shitter.”, please read the rest of the article.

So what’s up with the Espn’s and other Major News outlets coverage of MLB players failing drug test as opposed to the NFL, NBA and NHL?  When is the last time you heard of an extremely visible NHL player or NBA player failing a drug test (Besides Weed in the NBA)?  Are you really going to tell me it’s because it doesn’t happen in those sports?  Please give me a break because you’re living in the same denial of those sports now just as you did in the late 90’s and early 2000’s of Major League Baseball.

Now I understand that the NHL is not as popular as the other of the 4 major sports, but when was the last time you have even heard of a player getting suspended in the NHL for anything other than roughing someone up more than a 5 minute major? Ever? Might have happened but it’s not running across the bottom line of ESPN as breaking news while you’re trying to hit on underage girls at Finnigans Wake.

And then you’ve got the NBA.  I’m not about to accuse the newly crowned NBA MVP, but when he came into the league as an 18 year old rookie he looked a whole lot older and bigger than anyone I have known when they graduated high school.  Freak of Nature, completely possible.  More shocking is that I haven’t heard of any problems in the NBA in terms of Performance Enhancing Drugs.

Now a brief ,and a little suspect, Google Search of “Steroids NHL” and “Steroids NBA” returned the following results on the NBA Steroid Problem and the NHL Steroid Problem.  Both commisioners claim not to have a problem with Steroids.  Again, possible yes, there’s a great chance that there’s not as much rampant use of PED’s in the NHL and NBA as there is in the Home Run obsessed MLB.  However, it’s certainly plausible that someone of high regard in either of these leagues has used  and tested positive for PED’s.

Don’t even get me started about the NFL.  I’m not saying that the NFL does a completely terrible job of policing their players intake of PED’s (because apparently people do get suspended), I’m just saying why does the American Mainstream Media make Rodney Harrison getting busted for HGH in 2007 not as big a deal as say Manny Ramirez or Alex Rodriguez?  Or what about the whole Carolina Panthers Offesnsive Line being on PED’s (allegedly) in 2003 as they steamrolled our Philadelphia Eagles on the way to losing the Super Bowl.  Where’s the outcry in that? Seriously?

The MLB has Senate hearings and calls an obscene amount of people/players to the witness stand and wastes Millions of taxpayer dollars to fix a problem that they have no business fixing. Yes the federal government should be going after  Steroids and HGH, however they should go after it the same way they do other drugs, get the distributors and manufacturers.  I’m not saying that taking down a major pubic figure who uses PED’s won’t help discourage their usage.  I’m just saying don’t kill my Fantasy baseball Season in the Process.

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BeerSlugger Babe of The Month – May

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Age: 19

Height: 5’4”

Eyes: Blue

Favorite Drink: Irish CarBomb

Music: Punk Rock

Amanda is a very nice young lady who currently resides in South Philly.  She is currently a Photography Student in the Philadelphia area and will head north for a month or two to do an internship under a renowned photo-journalist who covered CBGS’s in New York City.  She actually helped our amateur photographer find the on button to our outdated digital camera.

You can find Amanda hanging on South Street in a bar we won’t mention for legal reasons.  Besides her interests in Photography Amanda Lynn has been modeling for a couple of years now.

You can find some of her work on the links below and you can contact her through them for modeling or photography jobs:

Model Mayhem

Amanda Lynn’s MySpace Page

You may see more of Amanda Lynn in front of and behind the camera on BeerSlugger.com.  Here’s some more pictures from the photo shoot.

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We promise that for the next photo shoot we will use a camera that has megapixels instead of superpixels.  Also, we did want to do an outside photoshoot as well but it has not stopped raining since Sunday.  Well get on that too!

Sincerely,

W.J. BeerSlugger

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Throwback Pepsi, Mountain Dew?

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Ok so apparently Pepsi is rolling out a version called Throwback, which will replace High Fructose Corn Syrup with actual real sugar.  Both Pepsi and Pepsi owned Mountain Dew have introduced a throwback version.

While I have not yet tried either of these throwback versions I can already surmise that I will like it 10 to 15 times better than than their counterparts.

Going back to one of my earlier posts when i ripped into artificial sweeteners I guess I failed to realize that Coke, Pepsi and probably 99 percent of other main stream soda pop’s are made with High Fructose Corn Syrup.  While High Fructose Corn Syrup is obviously not sugar as I had seemed to convey in the article, I going to stick with my guns and tell you that High Fructose Corn Syrup is still better for you than these other artificial sweeteners in diet soda.  Yes I am a doctor and a scientist so I know about these things.

I have heard it’s kind of hard to find these Throwback sodas, i don’t think they are available in your works soda machine.  A friend tells me that Philadelphia Based Mitchell & Ness (of throwback sports jersey fame) does carry the designer soda in the store to go along with the Throwback motif.

One cool thing I have seen is that Snapple Iced Teas and Juices are moving to all sugar.  They are ditching the high Fructose Corn Syrup entirely.  That’s very different from what Pepsi Co. is offering as a limited release and sticking with the HFCS. I think you really have to commend Snapple on what they’re doing.

I have read that switching to real sugar as opposed to using High Fructose can be slightly more costly to produce and therefore a higher cost to the consumer.  While most things are going up these days i think that raising the price of soda and making it healthier (i.e. real sugar) is a win-win for the consumer.  People drink less soda and the soda they do drink is better for them.  Though in contrast, less soda sold is bad for Coke and Pepsi Co and jobs may be lost.  As always action and reaction.

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BeerSlugger.com Babe of the Month

By: Billy BeerSlugger

So last week while outfitting the new domicile I had the greatest idea since the inception of this website.  I was in the bathroom whilst hanging a clock, I slipped, hit my head on the sink and then it came to me.  The BeerSlugger.com Babe of the Month.

Obviously nothing nude since most of our readers peruse the BeerSlugger.com from work, but we’ll try to get as scantily clad as possible without getting the dreaded Not Safe For Work (NS4W) tag applied to it.

There’s a lot of ideas floating around right now in terms where to go forward with this but we went full speed ahead and had a quasi professional photoshoot in the new diggs.

Look for the Innagural BeerSlugger Babe of the Month Post Thurday, May 7th.

Thanks for all your support,

W.J. BeerSlugger