*THAT CALL WAS A LOAD OF CRAP!!!!. The home plate umpire blew that call in the ChiSox-Angels game. Period. I don't know how more clearly I can say it. To have a call like that decide Game 2 of the ALCS is absurd!!! And yeah, the catcher shouldn't have rolled it back out to the mound. And yeah, if this or that went different, LAAofA would've won anyway. Who cares. The ump blew the call, then had to have a news conference to explain it. A load of crap.
*NCAA TOP 12 RANKINGS.
1-Texas. Yeah...I am the only idiot who has them #1. Well, they are playing like a #1 team right now.
2-USC. Their drop is due to their defense's recent poor showings.
3-Virginia Tech. The Hokies are the best team this side of the Mississippi
4-Georgia. The Dawgs blasted Tennessee in Knoxville. If they win the cocktail party, the SEC is theirs.
5-Florida State. May not lose until ACC title game.
6-Penn State. I think they are overrated...but they did take out Ohio State, just like Texas did.
7-Notre Dame. The defense is still sketchy...but this team is legit.
8-Alabama. Not sold on them completely. Yet.
9-LSU. Team that will knock down Bama. If not for collapse vs Vols...they'd be #4.
10-Miami. This team doesn't look too good at all. Yet, a win in VT puts them in ACC title tilt.
11-UCLA. Impressive win over Cal.
12-Ohio State. Yeah, they've lost to my #1 and #6 team. They still are dangerous.
*VIKINGS SEX CRUISE. Congrats to the Vikings for holding a big floating orgy during theirbye week. God forbid they actually do something to improve their 1-3 record. And the ring leader was former Redskin and current Viking burner Fred Smoot. Glad he's gone. Oh, and if Mike Tice somehow keeps his job after the season....it will be a miracle. The team is in disarray; he got pinched for scalping his Super Bowl tix; they dealt Randy Moss 'cause he couldn't reel him in; and now this.
*NFL TOP 10
1-Colts. The only undefeated team is winning with defense while their offense rests
2-Steelers. A big win in a tough environment.
3-Broncos. The sad thing is that they laid such an egg in Miami.
4-Bengals. A late turnover cost them a shot against the Jags.
5-Patriots. Just when you think they are out, they just pull you back in.
6-Falcons. Win with Vick.
7-Eagles. You have to at least attempt to run the football, guys.
8-Buccaneers. Just go ahead and give Caddy the Rookie trophy
9-Giants. The defense is allowing too many points...but that offense is clicking.
10-Redskins. Yeah! So!?! They get more respect in one loss than in any of their 3 wins.
*THERE IS NO "K" IN "U.S.A." Coach K will be the new coach for the US Olympic hoops team. I just hope his bench full of yes men don't accompany him to China. I don't need to see whiny Chris Collins or stubby Wojo on that sideline. I know that Coach K may need to surgically remove them from his butt....but so be it. If anything, I hope this focus distracts him from his Dookie program which, I'll admit, will be the class of the ACC this year. But, take it for just a year....as it takes Carolina losing it's top 7 scorers for you to get back there. Carolina will be strong again next season.
*THE BOSS STRIKES BACK. The Yankees are done...thank God...but they keep sticking in the news. Mel Stottlemyer, the pitching coach, resigned after he was tired of The Boss' crap. A couple of things here. One, the Yankees need to get off my ESPN just like the Padres, Braves and even the Red Sox have. Two, to Mel, this crap is what made you a name anyway. If you weren't the Yankees pitching coach...no one would give a dump about you. Do you think if the pitching coach in Pittsburgh quit, it would even make the "bottom line" on ESPN?? Mel, Randy Johnson looked like an average pitcher under your tuteledge. So did everyone else not named Rivera. The fact that the Yankees must buy these kinds of pitchers just shows your lack of ability to develop the guys you got. I know, I know...I am being a bit to hard. Mel isn't a bad coach at all. I'm just saying that his staff, with injuries, underperformed this year. But don't try to make me think you are a God by winning rings with Cy Young winners and Cuban defectors.
*THE SUNS ARE SETTING. The Phoenix Suns are flaming already. The team that was arrogant enough to deal Quentin Richardson and Joe Johnson from the team that had the 2004-2005 best record....now loses Amare Stoudemire for at least 4 months. Hopefully one of those big free agent replacements......uh, Raja Bell.....can pick up the slack.
*MY LAKERS MAY SURPRISE. I'm not myopic at all here. Heck, read my preview and you will see that I have the Lakers 4th in the Pacific Division. But now the Suns are falling back to the pack....the Kings have no defense [plus, they are the Kings]....the Warriors are another Baron Davis injury away from staying the Warriors....and the Clippers are still the Clippers. Hey, the Lakers could surprise...that's all I am saying!
*I LOVE TWO LINE PASSES!!! The best rule thus far [aside from the overtime shootout] in the New NHL is the two line passes. Why? Fast breaks. The biggest cliche on the ice is that the penalty shot is "the most exciting moment in hockey". Well, these new fast breaks bring a few more of those exciting shots to your eyes. It is cool to watch a steal then a long pass to a streaking forward who has nothing by ice and the goalie in front of him. Great action!! You guys are getting it right!!! Too bad the games are stuck on OLN.
*STICK WITH VICK. I read Mr. Irrelevant's take on Michael Vick staying the starter. I fully agree. Sure, you can pick apart his numbers - I have. But dude just wins games. Schaub hasn't.
*BIG SATURDAY OF PIGSKIN. Some big matchups. I think USC will expose Notre Dame's defense. Texas will roll over Colorado in a preview of the Big XII title game. Michigan will upset Penn State in the Big House. LSU's defensive speed will shut down Florida. Louisville will shut down West Virginia in the unofficial Big East championship game. Ohio State's defense will be enough to beat Michigan State.
*REST IN PEACE. Kyle Ambrogi, a tailback for the Penn Quakers, committed suicide this week...just days after scoring two TDs against Bucknell. He had been battling depression.
6 comments:
Sportz,
Schaub gave the Falcons 28 points last week. Not his fault the defense gave up 30.
Lew
"Schaub gave the Falcons 28 points last week. Not his fault the defense gave up 30. Lew"
Yeah...but only ONCE did Shaub hold an offensive drive longer than 2:44....and only FOUR drives went for more than 2 1/2 minutes. Only three drives were longer than 5 plays. By comparison...the Pats had SIX drives longer than 2:44.
In the game in Buffalo...Vick had drives of 10, 10, 9, 9 and 9 plays.....with four drives lasting at least 4 1/2 minutes.
Sure, the defense gave up 28 pts....but it was the offense's lack of sustaining drives that help attribute to that.
-Sportz
For what it's worth Sportz,
I don't think you are an idiot for having Texas as #1.
Lew
Sportz, you know I love this blog, but I could not disagree with you more on Mel Stottlemyre. George Steinbrenner is completely in the wrong here. Stottlemyre was fed up, and he should be after all the backdoor shenanigans George has pulled on this coaching staff through the years. The Yankees won nothing after 1978 before Stottlemyre took over.
You rip the job he has done with the team, calling the pitchers other than Rivera average. First of all, it's not his fault that Randy Johnson's fastball dropped significantly in velocity for much of this past season. It's also not his fault that Kevin Brown's back, to borrow a phrase from Chris Mottram, is more suspect than Ryan Seacrest's sexuality. It's not his fault that Mike Mussina is getting older and declining.
You go on to talk about how he was lucky to have a team full of Cy Young winners and Cuban defectors and that other than Rivera the pitching has been average. Well, does he get no credit for the job he did with Rivera. The season before Stottlemyre came, Rivera posted an ERA in excess of 5. The season Mel came aboard, Rivera emerged as the top setup man in the game. I doubt that Stottlemyre played no role in his development. Same goes for the way he developed Andy Pettitte. Shawn Chacon posted a 7-3 record with a 2.85 ERA with the Yankees this past season. That's no big name Cy Young Award winner. Aaron Small was 10-0 with a 3.20 ERA. Tanyon Sturtze, who had no previous success in the bigs developed into a solid reliever under Mel. Chien-Ming Wang was not considered a big time prospect by any means, but he came up and was in many regards the team's most consistent starter when he was healthy this season.
Part 2:.
Stottlemyre also did not come to prominence because of all the talent he had with the Yankees. He cemented his reputation as an excellent pitching coach long before across town with the Mets. He was the pitching coach on the 1986 World Series winner.
Does Mel get credit for any of this from George, though? No, but you can bet he gets all kinds of ridicule when things go wrong. Steinbrenner drives people out by making their lives a living hell. He did it to Don Zimmer. He's trying to do it to Joe Torre. He's about to do it to Brian Cashman, and he has done it to Mel. Nice reward for the people who have made you look so good and totally resurrected your image over this past decade by making your franchise into a winner.
Mel Stottlemyre has given a good portion of his life to the New York Yankee franchise. In the 1964 World Series, he started three games as a rookie. The rest of his career, he was one of the few bright spots on some putrid teams. As pitching coach, he helped the team to four championships. However, he has received only ridicule for the stuff he hasn't done. Can you really blame the guy?
RE: Viking Sex Cruise
Ok, Lemme see....ok...the team dumps its' bad apple, Randy Moss....yet keeps it's underachieving, ticket scalping coach, Mike Tice.
This was supposed to somehow improve the team, both, on and off the field. So far the team is 1-3 and on the verge of complete chaos. I guess it proves the coach has lost control and the respect of the inmates in his asylum. It also proves that illiteracy and a lack of moral integrity go hand in hand.
Yeah, yeah, I know these are just guys doing rich athlete stuff. It doesn't make it right. If the owner is sincere about cleaning this matter up, he needs to take responsibility and declare that his trust that was placed in Coach Tice was breached, and as such, he is terminated immediately. Fred Smoot and his X-rated co-horts should be suspended without pay and the Player Union leadership needs to support that decision.
The NFL should fine the Vikings and all who sailed the Good Ship "Back That Ass Up". The message fropm Tagliubue should be clear. "Count yourself lucky to get paid for being an illiterate with extraordinary athletic skills. However, your tenure in our league will be brief, indeeed. Please make my day, there's nothing I'd rather do than open up a newspaper 10 years from now to hear how, one time star corner, Fred Smoot, now homeless, got arrested for possession of crack."
-John
"Not all men are idiots. It just seems that way"
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