Is Someone Choking on an Angel?
This is going to run the gauntlet of topics from the last few days.
Alex Rodriguez is going to get blasted for his ALDS (lack of) performance by every media out around. Is it warranted? Indeed. The guy made $26 million this season. He should win the MVP in a season in which he arguably had his greatest all-round season. But then the playoffs came. He hit .133 (2-15) with 0 RBIs, 1 run scored, and 1 SB. And to cap it off he pretty much killed any chance at a 9th inning rally in game 5 by bouncing into a 5-4-3 double play after Jeter led off with a single. Up until that series he was pretty solid in the postseason with a .330 average, but New York’s tough. They’ll ask him “What have you done for me lately Slappy McBluelips?” (I can’t take credit for that nickname, a guy bought the sponsorship for A-Rods page on baseball-reference.com and posted that name. Awesome)
As a Virginia resident I’ve seen quite a bit of ACC football this as it is usually the regional game on ABC. So I’ve seen quite a bit of Virginia Tech. They’re a really good team. Their defense is better than Texas and USC’s, they play Beamer ball special teams, and their offense is on the rise. A Texas-VT Rose Bowl would be a sweet game. I just think that VT’s defense could contain USC. Vince Young is an X-Factor against any team.
Bowling Green beat Ohio this weekend. It wasn’t nearly as close as I thought, 38-14.
Luckily I was in the bag for most of the Ohio State-Penn State game. From what I remember it was ugly. I don’t understand how an offense that has Ted Ginn, Santonio Holmes, Ryan Hamby, and Antonio Pittman can only score 10 points. At some point in that game Justin Zwick should have been given a chance. He may not have the legs of Smith, but he seems to read defenses a little better.
The Browns are 2-2. Their offense was crap for 3 and a half quarters Sunday but the defense kept them in the game. Dilfer hit two big scores to Antonio Bryant in the last 5 minutes. This team just has a different feel to it this year. Since they’ve come back in 1999 they just haven’t won games like that. It’s a nice change.
Do you think the combination of Jose Contreras getting out of New York, reuniting with his wife and kid, and playing with fellow defector El Duque have helped him? I think so.
The new Tampa Bay Devil Rays owner came in and fired pretty much everyone on the player personnel side of the operation. Including Chuck LaMar. Shouldn’t this have happened a long time ago? Here are two examples of why Chuck LaMar was the worst GM in baseball; Jorge Sosa to the Braves for Nick Green, a utility infielder at best. Result, Sosa goes 13-3 with a 2.55 ERA for a playoff team. Green hits .239 with 5 homers. Example #2; Brandon Backe to the Astros for Geoff Blum. What is Chuck LaMar’s obsession with utility infielders. Especially at the price of young arms. It’s moves like this that caused Piniella to stick a gun in his mouth after every game.
Amare Stoudemire is going to miss four months because he just had knee surgery. He says that the knee has been bothering him all summer. Then why the hell did he and the team wait to have surgery until right before the preseason? Is everyone retarded out there? This is the franchise player and now he’s out four months. I know that they have Nash and Marion, but that’s a big load to carry without Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson.
I read that Emeka Okafor has packed on about 20 pounds of muscle this off-season and was working on post moves with Hakeem Olajuwon. This should scare any team in the Southeast Division (except Miami). If Sean May and Raymond Felton pan out at all this could be a playoff caliber team by the 2006-07 season. Well maybe not, but it could happen. Okafor is the kind of player that can carry a franchise.
While I was looking at A-Rod’s page on baseball-reference.com I noticed that he didn’t win the Silver Slugger for AL 3rd basemen in 2004. Melvin Mora did. That seemed crazy to me, but he had a really good season.
I was thinking about how great it would be to have that Sports Almanac from Back to the Future 2. Not only would I be filthy rich, but I could also change the fortunes of my favorite teams by telling them who to draft/recruit. Now getting into a position to make my opinion count would be a problem, but just bear with me. I’m going to cover the Browns first round picks since 1999.
1999 Took Tim Couch. Almanac says Donovan McNabb
2000 Took Courtney Brown. Almanac says Chris Samuels (you could argue Jamal Lewis,
but I won’t)
2001 Took Gerard Warren. Almanac says LaDanianian Tomlinson (or even Richard
Seymour if they were that hard up for a DL)
2002 Took William Green. Almanac says Ed Reed
2003 Took Jeff Faine. Almanac says…screw the almanac, I’ve always felt that this is the
one pick they got right.
2004 Took Kellen Winslow II. Almanac says DeAngelo Hall (you can’t underestimate the
value of a true lockdown corner)
I’m happy with Braylon Edwards so far. As long as he stops getting staff infections on his elbow.
Alex Rodriguez is going to get blasted for his ALDS (lack of) performance by every media out around. Is it warranted? Indeed. The guy made $26 million this season. He should win the MVP in a season in which he arguably had his greatest all-round season. But then the playoffs came. He hit .133 (2-15) with 0 RBIs, 1 run scored, and 1 SB. And to cap it off he pretty much killed any chance at a 9th inning rally in game 5 by bouncing into a 5-4-3 double play after Jeter led off with a single. Up until that series he was pretty solid in the postseason with a .330 average, but New York’s tough. They’ll ask him “What have you done for me lately Slappy McBluelips?” (I can’t take credit for that nickname, a guy bought the sponsorship for A-Rods page on baseball-reference.com and posted that name. Awesome)
As a Virginia resident I’ve seen quite a bit of ACC football this as it is usually the regional game on ABC. So I’ve seen quite a bit of Virginia Tech. They’re a really good team. Their defense is better than Texas and USC’s, they play Beamer ball special teams, and their offense is on the rise. A Texas-VT Rose Bowl would be a sweet game. I just think that VT’s defense could contain USC. Vince Young is an X-Factor against any team.
Bowling Green beat Ohio this weekend. It wasn’t nearly as close as I thought, 38-14.
Luckily I was in the bag for most of the Ohio State-Penn State game. From what I remember it was ugly. I don’t understand how an offense that has Ted Ginn, Santonio Holmes, Ryan Hamby, and Antonio Pittman can only score 10 points. At some point in that game Justin Zwick should have been given a chance. He may not have the legs of Smith, but he seems to read defenses a little better.
The Browns are 2-2. Their offense was crap for 3 and a half quarters Sunday but the defense kept them in the game. Dilfer hit two big scores to Antonio Bryant in the last 5 minutes. This team just has a different feel to it this year. Since they’ve come back in 1999 they just haven’t won games like that. It’s a nice change.
Do you think the combination of Jose Contreras getting out of New York, reuniting with his wife and kid, and playing with fellow defector El Duque have helped him? I think so.
The new Tampa Bay Devil Rays owner came in and fired pretty much everyone on the player personnel side of the operation. Including Chuck LaMar. Shouldn’t this have happened a long time ago? Here are two examples of why Chuck LaMar was the worst GM in baseball; Jorge Sosa to the Braves for Nick Green, a utility infielder at best. Result, Sosa goes 13-3 with a 2.55 ERA for a playoff team. Green hits .239 with 5 homers. Example #2; Brandon Backe to the Astros for Geoff Blum. What is Chuck LaMar’s obsession with utility infielders. Especially at the price of young arms. It’s moves like this that caused Piniella to stick a gun in his mouth after every game.
Amare Stoudemire is going to miss four months because he just had knee surgery. He says that the knee has been bothering him all summer. Then why the hell did he and the team wait to have surgery until right before the preseason? Is everyone retarded out there? This is the franchise player and now he’s out four months. I know that they have Nash and Marion, but that’s a big load to carry without Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson.
I read that Emeka Okafor has packed on about 20 pounds of muscle this off-season and was working on post moves with Hakeem Olajuwon. This should scare any team in the Southeast Division (except Miami). If Sean May and Raymond Felton pan out at all this could be a playoff caliber team by the 2006-07 season. Well maybe not, but it could happen. Okafor is the kind of player that can carry a franchise.
While I was looking at A-Rod’s page on baseball-reference.com I noticed that he didn’t win the Silver Slugger for AL 3rd basemen in 2004. Melvin Mora did. That seemed crazy to me, but he had a really good season.
I was thinking about how great it would be to have that Sports Almanac from Back to the Future 2. Not only would I be filthy rich, but I could also change the fortunes of my favorite teams by telling them who to draft/recruit. Now getting into a position to make my opinion count would be a problem, but just bear with me. I’m going to cover the Browns first round picks since 1999.
1999 Took Tim Couch. Almanac says Donovan McNabb
2000 Took Courtney Brown. Almanac says Chris Samuels (you could argue Jamal Lewis,
but I won’t)
2001 Took Gerard Warren. Almanac says LaDanianian Tomlinson (or even Richard
Seymour if they were that hard up for a DL)
2002 Took William Green. Almanac says Ed Reed
2003 Took Jeff Faine. Almanac says…screw the almanac, I’ve always felt that this is the
one pick they got right.
2004 Took Kellen Winslow II. Almanac says DeAngelo Hall (you can’t underestimate the
value of a true lockdown corner)
I’m happy with Braylon Edwards so far. As long as he stops getting staff infections on his elbow.
posted by CFunk28 at 2:02 PM
2 Comments:
I believe the staff infection was "in" Braylon's elbow, not "on" it. I'm just here to annoy you and correct your grammar...somethign the Ohio Public School System never did.
You can get an infection on your arm. I just didn't have my facts straight. I'm retarded.
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