Friday, January 29, 2010

WELL, THERE'S ONE BASEBALL ITEM

***...AND YOU HAVE TO PAY TO WATCH IT?***
The New Jersey Nets (4-40) play the Washington Wizards (14-30) tonight. The odds on the game are only 3-2 that one of the teams will win.

***YOU'D THINK WITH THIS NAME, THEY'D BE SMARTER***
BASEBALL PROSPECTUS has come out with an early prediction on the pennant races.
AL West: Oakland (with the Angels last!), AL Central: Minnesota, AL East: Tampa, Boston, New York. Even though they predict the Yanks to have the 2nd highest B.A., highest # of runs, and the highest OBP & Slugging Pct, they still pick them 3rd.

***AT LEAST WE KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THIS GUY***
Bob Matthews now says that since the Yanks have signed Randy Winn, the Damon deal is dead. Yeah, you knew it all along, huh Bob?

***WE'RE #2, WE'RE #2...***
ESPN came out with their new power rankings today. Kansas, Syracuse, Villanova & Kentucky. Not a good 7 days for teams ranked #1.

***WHY I WATCH, PART II***
#16 Wisconsin vs #12 Purdue. Purdue pulls it out with 9 seconds left, even tho' Wisc had TWO shots at it before the buzzer. 6'8" Badger forward, Keaton Nankivil, hit 7 of 8 three-pointers in a losing effort.

***DAVID THOMAS, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM***
"Miguel Tejada was 31 years old when he left the Orioles in 2007. Two years later, he returns to the Orioles at age 35. Explain, please."

***LEFT COAST SPORTS BABE***
The media is reporting that Tiger Woods is in a sex rehab camp. A camp? Do they go around chanting “Two, four, six, eight, we don’t need to fornicate?

***GOTTA HAVE AT LEAST ONE RANT***
I'm rapidly getting annoyed with ESPN. Do they have to start EVERY 1/2 hour segment with two minutes of clanging, explosions and CGI garbage that has nothing to do with sports? Why all the explosions? I've never seen a Wide World of Sports segment titled "Grenade tossing." The announcers are also getting irritating: Getting cutesy, tossing little jabs back & forth and making up new words and phrases to describe the Top Ten plays ("Bartender, serve it up" - what the hell does that mean?). Today, they had "Trombone Shorty" (Oh, come on! Trombone Shorty?) playing some New Orleans jazz in the background while they talked about the upcoming Superbowl. Then there was a guy playing the trumpet while one of the announcers sat on a life-size plastic horse. Who thinks this crap up? It seems the only ones who are trying seriously to report sports news, are the women. Hey guys, how about entertaining US instead of each other. Oh, and a little more sports news and replays. I don't care about what's in your wardrobe.
CP-

BTW, have you all noticed the ever-changing "Dweeb of Sports" Vod pays tribute to under the last picture to the right of the blog?

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