The Redskins Are Still Trying To Claim They Have A Season Ticket Waiting List

Taylor Adkins

imrs

I love a good sales pitch, and the Washington Redskins do too. 

Since the days of RFK Stadium, when there truly was high demand to get season tickets for the 56,000 seat relic on East Capitol Street, the Redskins have marketed their bogus season ticket waiting list incessantly. Who knows, maybe it was an honest mistake since their marketing team doesn’t understand the difference between a page view and an impression.

However, a move to Landover, a change in ownership, a terrible product on the field and a stadium that swelled to 91,000 seats at its peak led to loads of cheap tickets (including season plan packages), empty seats and hollow claims from the Redskins front office.  Read more...

Ryan Zimmerman Bobblehead Giveaway Final Vote

Taylor Adkins

The moment of truth has arrived as the first ever FSB giveaway reaches it’s final vote. Big ups to everyone who submitted entries for the contest, very much appreciated.

I had a tough time picking finalists, so I went with four instead of three. Voting ends Friday at 5pm, so get those votes in now! Voting form is at the bottom of this post.

Without further ado, the finalists:

David from Ohio, Original blueprints from 1992 of Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field), the home of the Cleveland Indians. Because when’s the last time you saw original blueprints of a Major League Baseball stadium in someones living room.  Read more...

Ryan Zimmerman Bobblehead Giveaway

Taylor Adkins

Ryan Zimmerman Bobblehead

 

Ryan Zimmerman (the pride of Virginia Beach, my hometown) returned to the Nationals lineup tonight in Miami, so I figured what better time to giveaway my spare Ryan Zimmerman Bobblehead I picked up at the Cubs game in June. This sucker is still in the box (the one out of the box above is my other one) and ready to be claimed by one of my tens of readers.  Read more...

Reviewing The Athlete Cameos In “Trainwreck”

Taylor Adkins
IMG_4560
The Avalon Theater in DC. Photo: Taylor Adkins/FakeSportsBar.com

Jim Brown is one of the best (if not the best) football players of all time. At the peak of his career, he did the unthinkable and walked away from football to pursue a career in Hollywood. He went on to have a very solid movie career, and doesn’t seem to have any regrets as evidenced from a 2008 interview with Esquire Magazine.

The best quote here:  Read more...

Seven Available (And Awesome) Entrance Songs For MLB Closers

Taylor Adkins
photo
Mets reliever warms up at Nats Park. Photo: Taylor Adkins/FakeSportsBar.com

Being a Major League closer comes with many perks. The pay is awesome.  You appearances in actual games equates to about 4% of the season, so there’s plenty of down time to relax and watch baseball. When you do your job correctly, you are in essence the grand finale of the show and therefore get one of the loudest ovations of any given game.

Sure, there’s the paper thin job security and all the pressure of getting the three toughest outs of the game, but still, as far as major professional sports go being an MLB closer is pretty choice.  Read more...

There Are Still Games To Bet On During The Slowest Night Of The Sports Calendar

Taylor Adkins

 

Shock-Storm-Basketball.JPEG
Photo: AP/Elaine Thompson

How slow is “the slowest sports night on the sports calendar” you ask? Last night was more lively because The ESPYs were on. However, tonight doesn’t have to be the sports version of rehab. If you’ve got the itch, you can scratch it with some of these highly entertaining gambling options, of course if you feel like you have addiction with gambling or alcoholism you can find a treatment for alcohol addiction to help you with this.

   Read more...

The Nationals and Orioles; Rivals Everywhere Except On The Schedule

Taylor Adkins
IMG_4514
Photo: Taylor Adkins/FakeSportsBar.com

Rivalries in sports are usually cut and dry. They consist of two franchises, from their fan bases all the way to the front offices, that flat out don’t like each other. When the two teams get together, it’s always a different feel from a game versus any other opponent, even if both teams are having down years.

The recipe for a good rivalry should include most of the following:  Read more...

  • Consistently on the schedule, particularly in the final 1/4 of a season. Obviously helps if teams are in the same division
  • Geographic proximity

Top Ten Things Said By Coaches On NBA Draft Night Phone Calls

Taylor Adkins
justise-winslow-adam-silver-nba-nba-draft-2015
The Miami Heat may have gotten a steal at #10 with the Justise Winslow pick. Photo: Brad Penner – USA Today Sports

 

The 2015 NBA Draft came and went last week. Karl-Anthony Towns went #1 to Minnesota, Luka Mitrovic went #60 to Philadelphia and in between Rece Davis and the crew yammered on about wingspans and basketball IQ. For more NBA-related stories just like this, you can check out blogs such as how much does shaq make on tnt.  Read more...

The First Sports Bar, Or: How I Learned To Stop Caring And Love Baseball Cards

Taylor Adkins

IMG_4184

I’m 33 years old and I should be retired by now. As an impressionable and extremely lazy 11 year old, The Guy Behind The Case (official title) at the baseball card shop assured me this would be the case.

If everything had gone according to plan, I would have paid this months cable bill with a handful of Donruss ’89’s from that one factory set I still had laying around.

Instead? I’m pecking at keys, with boxes of Bobby Bonilla rookie cards in the darkest corner of my most unfrequented closet.  Read more...