Rob Q. Ink - A Philly Sports Blog

Despite multiple posts this week, I still have a few quick shots left: • World Series pick: Reports are swirling that the New York Yankees are about acquire Cliff Lee. I love the Phillies, but I’m jumping on this pick right now. The Bronx Bombers were +250 to win the World Series as of this morning. I’m making it my official pick for 100 points. UPDATE: The reports proved erroneous, but I'll stand by the pick. • No problem with Werth: I have zero problem with Jason Werth apparently dropping the F-bomb on a fan who interfered with a foul ball last night. Philadelphia fans love to claim how intelligent and passionate we are, yet we’ll give up an out in a tight game when the Phillies are struggling to keep the run of the last few years going because our kid wants a foul ball. • Love Dan Gilbert’s response: I absolutely love that the Cleveland Cavaliers owner ripped Lebron James. In an open letter he spoke for millions when he said , “As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in

Ripping Lebron James for the disgusting display that has been taking place on ESPN for the last two days is almost too easy. I’ve been telling people for a while now that he’s overrated, and he is. Now he has the unmitigated gall of calling the ever-growing sports programming monopoly and asking for an hour of prime time to announce where he is going as a free agent. It’s disgusting, sickening, horrifying, asinine, and on and on and on. It’s also ESPN’s fault. No, I’m not letting James off the hook. He is now the poster child for what is wrong with professional sports. He’s never won a damn thing, including not a single game in the NBA Finals. But because the media, mostly ESPN, has arbitrarily decided he’s the best player in basketball – he’s not, by the way – he thinks he deserves an hour-long special just to sign a free agent contract. Fine. He’s an egotistical jackass the likes of which will . . . I’d like to say “never be seen again,” but we all know better. Odds are the biggest f

In case you missed it, and I certainly did, Stephen A. Smith is no longer disgracing the pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Teasing his appearance this afternoon, 97.5 The Fanatic personalities mentioned the fact that Philadelphia readers no longer will have to tolerate Smith’s ridiculous columns. The power of Rob Q. Ink? Ok, maybe not. I called for the New York wannabee to be bounced from the newspaper back in May. Sadly, it seems Smith’s departure wasn’t the firing he worked so hard to earn, or maybe it was the firing he earned by doing anything but working. Kissing the ass of every athlete in his vicinity or mindlessly ripping the city doesn’t equate to journalism. Unbelievably, fanhouse.com is reporting that he may actually be looking to return to late night television. Apparently, if you recall his laughable show on ESPN, one train wreck wasn’t enough. This is a man that just called Lebron James’ planned ESPN special announcing where he will be signing as a NBA free agent “bril

This time you can thank the mayor’s office for perpetuating the stereotype of Philadelphians. Mayor Michael Nutter was booed at a Fourth of July event over the weekend, prompting his spokesman to say , “It’s Philadelphia. Santa Claus got booed, and it’s a tough home crowd.” Kudos go to a guy named Doug Oliver, according to the Inquirer, for this stroke of genius. Mayor Nutter gets a bad rap in my opinion. When he dares to close down a library that’s two blocks from another library to save the city some money in the worst economic times most of us have ever known, people want him thrown out of office. There’s finally a mayor in Philadelphia that seems want to do the right thing for the city, and people can’t wait to do the easy thing – whine about closing libraries as if he’s ripping books out of poor little children’s hands, calling him a one-term mayor, or running outside to hold up signs to protest much needed cutbacks and chanting slogans that rhyme and do little else. But, c’mon,