There’s an episode of Family Guy where the first leaf turns color and the residents of Quahog start scrambling to prepare for the ambush of New York “Leafers”. It was just like this in San Francisco over the weekend except the Red Sox were in town and the “massholes” were doing the ambushing. Just like in Family Guy, SF residents were happy as hell when they finally left.
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Fantasy Sports Weekly (Vol. 4)
I had one of those fantasy weeks. Kevin Brown went on the Disabled List. All my starting pitchers had pitched on the final Sunday of the previous week so I had very little points on the SP side of things. The Philadelphia BURRELL’s 8 game lead in my league is now down to 1 game over the 2nd place team.
Here are the standings… (If you care)
As he approached career home run number 500, the coverage surrounding Ken Griffey Jr. intensified. Since arriving in Cincinnati he has been plagued with a well-documented injury bug that put his career into a deep freeze and kept him off the baseball fan’s radar. Maybe there was the occasional “What if?” and “What ever happened to?”, but as far as the prettiest swing in the game, the brightest smile with the swagger to match, and the impossible running, jumping, gravity defying centerfield show stopping, Junior was a forgotten man. So far, in 2004 he has shaken the curse of the injury, rediscovered his power stroke, and is the heart of one of the most surprising teams in all of baseball. Then he did it. Number 500.
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Let’s Make A Deal
With the trade deadline roughly a month-and-a-half away, the rumor floodgates will soon open up. As contenders scramble for starting pitchers, left-handed relievers, and another bat, basement-dwellers become sellers, pawning off their more expensive talent to the highest bidder. It’s a fun time of year.
As a lifelong Red Sox fan, I’ve been fortunate enough to see them in contention most years and July 31st is an important day. Jeff Suppan, Scott Sauerbeck (or “Sauer-suck” as he was known as in these parts), Byung-hyun Kim, Cliff Floyd, Ed Sprague, and Larry Anderson have all donned the Sox uniform through mid-season deals. Boy, we have a lot to show for it too.
So, with the deadline fast approaching, here are five deals that I would love to see happen over the next month-and-a-half…
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Fantasy Sports Weekly (Vol 3)
Welcome back to Fantasy Sports Weekly. I have now surpassed Quentin Tarantino with my Volume 3 Installment of the weekly column, of which point I am extremely proud.
Let’s start things off the way we always do, with this week’s installment of…
Salute to Sports Video Games that Changed our Lives
I had a special request this week from a dear old friend. A close friend of mine who mentioned that BASEBALL STARS didn’t really change his life as much as the following game did…
RBI BASEBALL – TENGEN
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What’s there to complain about?
Tuning into sports talk radio and hearing all of the complaints, you would think that the Sox are a 2nd rate team owned by Bud Selig’s daughter. The 11 or 12 fans in Milwaukee or Montreal would give up their first born to watch a team like the Sox night-in and night-out. Believe me, it’s true. Nobody there cares. I have a friend who’s a Brewers’ “fan” and I asked him the other day how his team looks this year. He answered with, “I like the Packers chances in the NFC North.”
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My Ode to Junior
With Ken Griffey, Jr. having hit his 499th career home run on Sunday, I have no choice but to remember the Junior I knew. As a thirteen-year-old Yankees fan I was beginning my obsession for the game at the same time that Griffey was at the pinnacle of his career. He was dominant, fan-friendly, and most of all Yankees fans hated him. That wasn’t just caused by his aptitude for breaking the Yankees (or in that case any team’s) back, but a childhood incident when he was asked to leave the field by the Boss George Steinbrenner himself during his father’s tenure with the club. Despite all this, however, I today found myself being as much a supporter of Griffey as one of the players on my favorite club.
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Fantasy Sports Weekly (Volume 2)
This week’s fantasy column is going to delve deeper into some players that might not be known and can help fantasy teams dramatically. Last week was primarily pitchers – I’m looking for a few good men at the position spots…
Welcome loyal readers. Well since this is the first column that I will be writing of many I guess there cannot be too many loyal readers at this point BUT THERE WILL BE!!
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Give Bonds a Break
Plop! A fish floats up sideways to the top of the water. Barry Bonds has just swatted his 661st homerun passing Willie Mays for third all time. He also took the life away from one unlucky fish all in one swing.
With rumors swirling about Bonds’ probable steroid use, he continues to play above anything conceivable. He nearly had a 9 game home run streak. Forget about DiMaggio’s 56 game hit streak, a 9 game home run streak defines unbreakable! Most aspire to hit .300, while he is hitting close to .500.