It is one of the most anticipated days of the year. Opening day is finally here. It is time for our MLB predictions:
Opening day MLB picks: Division Winners: Red Sox Twins Rangers Braves Reds Giants. Wild cards: Rays, Mets. World Series: Red Sox over Giants
Teams that will be much better than people think: Rays, A's, Mets, Padres.
Teams that will much worse than people think: Yankees, Phillies
MVP: Adrian Gonzales, Albert Pujols.
Cy Young: Jon Lester, RA Dickey (just kidding) Tim Lincecum
Feel free to post your predictions in the comments
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
New Rules for Kickoffs
NFL owners voted today to move the kickoffs up 5 yards. While in the past the ball was kicked off from the 30 yard line, from now on it will be kicked from the 35 yard line. The idea is that there will be more touchbacks and less kickoff returns. The hope is that this will reduce injuries as there have been some serious injuries that have occurred on kickoffs.
Of course, this is a terrible idea. Football is a physical sport. People get hurt playing football. That should not cause the game to be changed (and basically eliminating kickoffs changes the game). We are not talking about eliminating dangerous hits and harmful types of tackles. We are talking about eliminating kickoff returns. We are talking about eliminating part of the game. We are all for player safety, but not the expense of the game we all love.
If player safety is more important than the game, we should just computerize the sport. Have accuscore or Madden do a random sim (or on Madden have a whole game played out by the computer that can be televised) instead of games. This way nobody will get hurt (and also we won't need a new CBA either). The only injury we will have to be concerned about is carpal tunnel syndrome. But if you are in the mood for some real football that we all love, we cannot sacrifice any part of the game even for something as important as player safety.
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Of course, this is a terrible idea. Football is a physical sport. People get hurt playing football. That should not cause the game to be changed (and basically eliminating kickoffs changes the game). We are not talking about eliminating dangerous hits and harmful types of tackles. We are talking about eliminating kickoff returns. We are talking about eliminating part of the game. We are all for player safety, but not the expense of the game we all love.
If player safety is more important than the game, we should just computerize the sport. Have accuscore or Madden do a random sim (or on Madden have a whole game played out by the computer that can be televised) instead of games. This way nobody will get hurt (and also we won't need a new CBA either). The only injury we will have to be concerned about is carpal tunnel syndrome. But if you are in the mood for some real football that we all love, we cannot sacrifice any part of the game even for something as important as player safety.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Stupidity out of Mets Camp
It is truly amazing how many bogus reports come out of Spring Training about the Mets. It seems like reporters are just bored (like there isn't enough action going on with the Wilpons).
Yesterday we had the Bergen Record's report on Johan Santana's rehab, stating the obvious (in the name of a Mets source) that if he has a setback he may have to be shut down (duh) and that there is a chance that he will miss the season (which we knew since the surgery). They wrote the article (which didn't have anything new in it) with a twist in typical low-class newspaper style (ie. The Post style), trying to scare Mets fans as if some new information came out or that he had a setback, and of course everyone fell for it. The actual story that Santana has been throwing and feeling good and that the 4.5-5 month recovery process until he returns to the Mets has begun of course went unreported even though it happened over a week ago. Then again, that wouldn't scare Mets fans (those like me who haven't given up yet) so who needs to report it?
Then we got 2 more "gems" today:
#1- There was a "report" this morning that the Mets decided Luis Hernandez will be starting 2B (yeah that's why he has only played 3 innings at 2B all ST and has 15 at bats). Later was refuted (duh). This report wasn't so far off. After all, he has the 6th best chance of winning the job.
#2- Jon Heyman says that Jason Isringhauson will be setup man if he keeps up what he has done (laugh out loud here). Yeah if he continues 1 k every 6 innings he should win the closer's job even! Hello! Omar doesn't run this team any more so Mr. Heyman is very unlikely to be able to guess what the Mets will decide to do. That is why Omar got canned and that is why nobody would think of having Heyman run their team. His guesses and predictions are always awful.
The moral of the story is not to pay too much attention to stories that come out of Spring Training. And just by my count, at least 5 guys reported to be "in the best shape of their lives and down 30 pounds" got hurt the next week. So enjoy the offseason and get ready for the season by doing something productive like reading the Amazin Avenue Annual (buy on Amazon; you won't regret it) instead of following what happens in Spring Training and the stories that come out of it.
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Yesterday we had the Bergen Record's report on Johan Santana's rehab, stating the obvious (in the name of a Mets source) that if he has a setback he may have to be shut down (duh) and that there is a chance that he will miss the season (which we knew since the surgery). They wrote the article (which didn't have anything new in it) with a twist in typical low-class newspaper style (ie. The Post style), trying to scare Mets fans as if some new information came out or that he had a setback, and of course everyone fell for it. The actual story that Santana has been throwing and feeling good and that the 4.5-5 month recovery process until he returns to the Mets has begun of course went unreported even though it happened over a week ago. Then again, that wouldn't scare Mets fans (those like me who haven't given up yet) so who needs to report it?
Then we got 2 more "gems" today:
#1- There was a "report" this morning that the Mets decided Luis Hernandez will be starting 2B (yeah that's why he has only played 3 innings at 2B all ST and has 15 at bats). Later was refuted (duh). This report wasn't so far off. After all, he has the 6th best chance of winning the job.
#2- Jon Heyman says that Jason Isringhauson will be setup man if he keeps up what he has done (laugh out loud here). Yeah if he continues 1 k every 6 innings he should win the closer's job even! Hello! Omar doesn't run this team any more so Mr. Heyman is very unlikely to be able to guess what the Mets will decide to do. That is why Omar got canned and that is why nobody would think of having Heyman run their team. His guesses and predictions are always awful.
The moral of the story is not to pay too much attention to stories that come out of Spring Training. And just by my count, at least 5 guys reported to be "in the best shape of their lives and down 30 pounds" got hurt the next week. So enjoy the offseason and get ready for the season by doing something productive like reading the Amazin Avenue Annual (buy on Amazon; you won't regret it) instead of following what happens in Spring Training and the stories that come out of it.
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