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NBA Playoffs Podcast

The NBA Playoffs have finally arrived and Dave, Anderson, and Gene came together to discuss what they thought of the first-round matchups. Due to some technical issues, however, we couldn’t post the podcast until today (it was recorded Thursday). Anyway, give it a listen and share your thoughts in the comments section. or Direct [...]

D-Will dominates OKC Thunder

Our First Podcast!

The time has finally come…for Writing the Pine’s very first podcast!  Yes, we are extremely lazy with our posting so we figured we’d give podcasting a shot.  It’s a new frontier we’re entering and hopefully you will be entertained by our thoughts.  For our first show, Rich (fivetool), Anderson, Gene (Final Word), and Dave talk [...]

New Nike Ad

D-Will Fast Break

Did Woodson or Revis Deserve the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award?

QuestionsView Results An interesting debate sparked today after it was announced that Charles Woodson won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award.  Some WtP guys thought that New York’s own Darrelle Revis should’ve won but a few guys actually came to Woodson’s defense.  Here’s how it went (it goes without saying that mature language is [...]

Bitter Mets Fans

Our Jason Bay e-mail thread from yesterday got a little testy when Dave (a Mets fan) brought up Joe Mauer going to the Yankees.  What happened?  Well we just find out that Met fans are just plain bitter.  See for yourselves (and as usual, there is some strong language). Dave: yes i think mauer is going [...]

E-Mail Thread of the Day: Jason Bay to the Mets

We're all friends here at Writing the Pine. We e-mail each other constantly about everything whether it be about sports, work, going to Vegas, girls, whatever. There's always a thread going on. From time to time we'll post some of the threads because if we were as active on our blog as we were on our e-mail threads, then there wouldn't be days (weeks) that go by without a post. (Sorry, that'll be improved on in 2010. A WtP resolution if you will.) The big news of the day was Jason Bay signing with the New York Mets so here's an unedited reproduction of what was said on that...

Ty Lawson Posterizes DJ Mbenga

Apparently Lawson was holding back a little bit in college.  Absolutely absurd.

Crazy Bitch

Elizabeth Lambert is one crazy bitch.  How did she not get thrown out of the game after any one of these incidents?  Awful job by the refs or whatever they are called in soccer.  Give her a damn red card.  Damn.  #7 on BYU is pretty hot though.  Definitely a boo.