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Sep 04

Fantasy Football Roster

Posted in: Sports

Here they are:

QB: Matt Hasselbeck (Sea)
WR: Andre Johnson (Hou)
WR: Calvin Johnson (Det)
WR: DeSean Jackson (Phi)
RB: LaDainian Tomlinson (SD)
RB: Ryan Grant (GB)
TE: Jeremy Shockey (NO)
RB/WR: Darren McFadden (Oak)
RB/WR: LenDale White (Ten)
Bench: Brandon Marshall (Den)
Bench: Chester Taylor (Min)
Bench: Benjamin Watson (NE)
K: Nick Folk (Dal)
DEF: New York Giants
DEF Bench: Washington Redskins

Suggestions, comments, sleepers?

May 05

I’m Not A Gators Fan…

Posted in: Sports, Culture

But this story about Tim Tebow, the Heisman-winning QB from Florida, is inspiring. Check out the link here at ESPN.

Feb 03

My Worst Nightmare.

Posted in: Sports

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Go Eagles. There’s always 2009.

Dec 14

The Brown Report: My Thoughts On The Mitchell Report

Posted in: Sports

As a former high-school baseball player and current baseball fan (Go Nats!), the Mitchell Report is deeply saddening…but not for reasons you think. I think the Report is completely bogus, and it’s sad that the media has gotten a hold of it. Some of my thoughts on the report:

Here’s the logic behind the report: Steriods are bad because they make an unlevel playing field. And everyone has access to steroids, and every team has had players that use it. My question: so if everyone has access and every team has players that use, how does that make an unlevel playing field? I get that they (’roids, HGH) are illegal in the US. That’s one thing. But if they were legal to use, what’s the big deal? No one is even talking about the legality of the matter. Everyone refers to it as a sportsmanship issue. Even disregarding my point about fairness above, have these people behind the report ever played baseball? You could be the Samson of hitting, but you’ll still at best hit less than 4 out of 10 pitches thrown your way. At best. Most big hitters also have extreme amounts of strikeouts. Pitching is still not as much drug-based as mechanics based. If your foot swings too far one way or the other, your pitch is off. Period. Speed doesn’t make as much difference as people think it does. As a former pitcher, I can honestly say that high-level pitching is just like real estate: it’s all about location, location, location. And if you don’t have anything off-speed, your roid-driven fastball won’t matter. People will catch up to it. Mechanics limits how fast one can throw. It’s that simple. Another thing about the report is the ‘proof’. Roger Clemens, for instance, is old. And at the top of his game. Therefore, the report reasons, he must be using. Whether he is or not, I’m not sure. I hope not, just so the report writers look stupid eventually. But anyway, this logical is flawed. Player culture today is totally different than player culture of decades ago. Players are groomed to become major-league players today, from an early age. Training facilities are better. Conditioning programs are more intense… and better. The players play year round now (huge difference). They are continually being pushed beyond their limits. Combine all of this with the quality of health care and the average life expectancy (continually increasing) in the US, and who should be surprised that players are playing well at older ages? Steroids wouldn’t have as much an effect as people think: in fact, it may would have many adverse effects. The stamina of people like Andy Pettite and Roger Clemens is due to a number of contributing factors.

This is all dumb logic and rabble-rousing if you ask me. At the cost of the game, and of people’s reputations. Pathetic. And for the record, I’m not a big Pettite or Bonds fan. I do kind of like Roger Clemens, though…

Tags: baseball, mitchell report, mitchell, roger clemens, andy pettite, miguel tejada, steroids, hgh, human growth hormone, eric gagne, barry bonds

May 05

De La Hoya-Mayweather

Posted in: Sports, Culture

Mayweather in 10. I hope he clocks Oscar into oblivion. Oh well, just my humble pick.

Fantasy Football Roster

I’m Not A Gators Fan…

My Worst Nightmare.

The Brown Report: My Thoughts On The Mitchell Report

De La Hoya-Mayweather

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