When a team has started over 13 pitchers going into August, you know that the wheels aren’t turning smoothly. And when a team signs three big-name pitchers in the off-season, with two of them on the disabled list, and the third having back spasms, it’s easy to deduce that the team is in a bit of a rough spot.
No sport ever completely recovers from a strike or lockout. Some fans will still hold a little bit of resentment about the way that adults acted like children when it comes to sports. Work stoppages hurt everyone, not just those playing the games or owning the teams. The sad reality is that the hockey lockout could have been avoided. After having to cancel a season, the players took a deal that was worse than what they were originally offered. No matter how much money you have made there are still bills to be paid, child support and alimony to dish out.
Ignorance, as defined by Webster, is the condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed. George Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman combined, are the epitome of ignorance.
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Thoughts on "Mannygate"
By Ryan McGowan
It’s the first week of August, and there is so much to talk about here in the Hub. We have the first place Red Sox, fresh off a recent eight-game winning streak and, we hope, soon to start to creep away from the Yankees and claim the AL East for the first time since the Otis Nixon-Jose Canseco era of 1995. We have the Patriots, coming off three of the last four Super Bowl titles, set to defend their crown with a laundry list of fresh challenges, not the least of which are the absences of Tedy Bruschi, Ted Johnson, Romeo Crennel, Ty Law, Charlie Weis, and Bill Belichick’s wife. We have the revelation that Rafael Palmeiro’s body has been somehow trying to process the effects of both Viagra and designer steroids, leading one to believe that Raffy’s organs will eventually cry “SYSTEM OVERLOAD” and blow up like the Fembots in the original “Austin Powers.” We have a governor that is convinced that he is going to be your 44th President of the United States and I have heard rumors that the NHL is returning to the ice in the fall.
Even though the Green Bay Packers have won the NFC North division the past three years, there are three vastly improved teams nipping at their heels in 2005.
The Packers have been one of the most consistent teams in the NFL since 1993. Since that year, the Packers have only missed the playoffs twice. That trend will be tough to continue this year because of some crucial off-season moves by the Packers and the other teams in the division.
On Saturday, amidst a raucous crowd in Tokyo, Japan, the Atlanta Falcons seemed to do everything that they possibly could to lose their game against the Indianapolis Colts.
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The Greatest Atrocity
I’ve been livid over countless boneheaded decisions of the monopoly called the NCAA, but none has been more absurd and ill founded than the NCAA’s decision to ban “hostile” and “abusive” Indian nicknames.
Yes, some nicknames should go. Redskins is “hostile” and maybe even “abusive,” but Seminoles most certainly is not.
Detroit Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman signed a one year contract worth $1.5 to $2 million yesterday. And as the pen hit the table, Hockeytown let out a collective sigh of relief. This was more than just signing a good player in the new era of the NHL. This was more than just shoring up a team decimated by a payroll sliced in half by the salary cap. Derian Hatcher, from the shores of the Detroit River, signed with Philadelphia. Curtis Joseph, who came to Detroit for the chance to win a Stanley Cup, is gone. And the most prominent is Darren McCarty. McCarty grew up over the river in Windsor, has spent his entire 11 year career playing for his childhood team, and is now in Calgary. This signing was a bridge for the Red Wings from the spend free to fill wants era to the spend thrifty to fill needs era.
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Fantasy Football Top Tens
By Adam Nelson
There are a lot of must-have players if you want to succeed in your fantasy football league. Everybody has a different list of players that they want. Here’s my top-ten lists at a few key positions:
Danny Ainge, the Director of Basketball Operations for the Boston Celtics, is doing a tango. And it’s not looking pretty. After trading Antoine Walker to the Miami Heat on August 2nd, part of a 5-team mega deal involving 13 players, Ainge sent a message to his program: we’re getting younger. Except, the same message was delivered last year and the year before, and so far the only real big name to have moved is Walker–twice.