NFL Draft

Who would you pick first? We all know Everette Brown should be the first DE taken even if he won't be. I like Sanchez more than Stafford, but neither of them are all that impressive. Sure they're good, for college ball, but I don't think they should've entered the draft just yet. If they waited til after next year I think they would be better off, but that's just me. I'm definitely not watching the draft though, way too boring for me.

Kinda Cool But...

A 12 year old girl through a perfect game against an all boys little league team in New Jersey. That's pretty cool and all but now she's going to throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Mets game. The day after she pitched she was all over TV and on morning shows and what not. Good for her. But, does anyone see anything wrong with this? I once through a perfect game in little league, and all i got was a pat on the back and a "good job." Although it is harder for a girl to achieve the same feat in athletics as a man, this whole thing is a little bit sexist. Females always say they wanted to be treated equally, but whenever a girl does something that a man should be better at, they get so much attention. There are probably thousands of little boys who have thrown a perfect game within a couple weeks of when this girl did, but none of them are on the national news. It's on the home page of Yahoo.com as soon as my internet comes on. That's a little ridiculous. Congrats to the girl but I think the amount of recognition she is getting is outrageous.

The NFL is Making a Huge Mistake

The NFL is talking about having the Superbowl in London within the next few years. This pisses me off. One, football is an American sport, in Europe and all over the world they play soccer (which they call football over there). Why would you want to play America's biggest sporting event, in a place not in America? Hardly any Americans would get to go to the game and it's not like a bunch of English folk are gonna be watching an American football game that they care nothing about. Some people are going so far as to saying they will never watch football again if it comes to this.

"If the Super Bowl is ever played outside this country, i’ll never watch
the NFL again." - FireAndyReid21

"While we’re at it, how about we move the
Washington Monument to someplace in France or Germany?" - Ulysses

"That’s our game…and yeah, I am selfish. Go kick a soccer ball." - killwithme

"Maybe the following November they can elect our next president for us too." - I Aint No Tatum Bell

"I will boycot the NFL if they do something this stupid. I can’t believe we evenwaste one game out there. Keep it where it belongs. What a freakin joke. USA!! USA!!
USA!! USA!! USA!!" - stallan54

These people are very angry about this. I'm not going so far as to say I will boycott football myself, but I will be very angry if this goes through. I hope that they decide it is a stupid idea and they won't do it, it would be a bad move for them. They won't make money from the super bowl in England, and then people here will resent them for doing it and then won't buy tickets. I'm not hating on England or other countries, I just believe that football is an American sport and it should stay here, other countries don't like football anyway.

Albert Pujols is "The Machine"

ESPN has a commercial depicting Albert Pujols as a machine. They weren't very far off. This "man" is incredible at hitting. When he's healthy he makes his team so much better and is with out a doubt the best hitter in baseball. In his last game he hit 2 home runs and scored 4 runs and he stole a base. Sounds like a good game, but what's the big deal? Well in the last 50 years, there's only been 5 first basemen to do that. First basemen don't steal bases and score runs, they sit back and just smash the ball. But, that's where Pujols is different. He'll hit in the mid 300's for average with over 30 (even over 40) HR's and 130 RBI and around 100 runs. That's just ridiculous. He won't steal very many bases, if any, for the rest of the season. But, his game was amazing and actually a very big feat for a man like Pujols.

Who the Hell Cares?

Brian Cashman of ESPN.com seems to think that home runs are traveling further than they did last year, by 8 whole feet. Who cares? What does that have to do with anything? Were only 3 weeks into the season and if the home runs are going a little bit further than last years first 3 weeks that doesn't mean that now all of a sudden the ball is different or bats or different or that everyone has just started taking steriods in the last 6 months.

But Cashman also said home runs are traveling about eight feet farther so far
this year compared to last season. "It's possible that the ballpark is a home
run-type park," Cashman said in an interview before his talk. "We'll see. The
ball is going farther in every park, not just ours."

I think some of these professional bloggers are just stupid. They get paid to talk about nonsense all day every day. I bet most of them have never even played baseball except for maybe some tee ball when they were 5. It's rediculous; start talking about stuff that matters, not the fact that you THINK that home runs are going a couple feet further than last year. But, since we are talking about it, one blogger did his research on the subject to try and combat Cashman's stupid statement. He found that there has been quite a bit more home runs hit this year than last year, but that the homeruns have been on average ONE foot further. Wow!!! So that means absolutely nothing. The average last year was 396 feet and this year is 397 feet. So the difference between the two is only about .25%. That's so miniscule that you can't possibly creat a correlation to state that the balls are going really any further than last year. Until I see around a 2-3% increase I might actually care, but probably I still wouldn't. I don't understand these people who have nothing better to do than to disect the game, and still get it wrong. I say we watch and appreciate the game and stop caring about the stupid little things that don't change any games. The fact that there have actually been a decent amount more home runs hit this season is kind of interesting to me. There have been about 50 more HR's this year in about 20 less games than last year, now that's a big difference.

Rays Getting It Together Finally

Last night against the Mariners, the Rays actually looked like the AL Championship team of a year ago. The Rays have been struggling to get their offense in a rhythm. Last night they got 15 hits and 9 runs. All nine runs were scored without a home run, which is pretty good. They Rays had exactly 50% of their runs scored prior to last night come from the long ball, that's the most in the majors. It sounds like a good thing, because home runs are cool right? But, it's not good to only have runs scored from home runs, that means that you're not manufacturing runs. When you're hitting as many home runs as the Rays were hitting you should be scoring a lot more runs. They're not scoring more runs than other teams really, they've just been hitting a lot of solo shots that give you only one run. When a team is doing well offensively, it's when they can get guys on base and hit them in. The Rays have a lot of speed, so what their offense should look like is this: Lead off hitter gets on with first, he steals second and then the second batter gets a hit and drives him in. That's Rays baseball. What they did last night was exactly that, they played Rays ball. They got hits and moved the runners around the bases with "small ball." I like home runs just as much as the next guy, but I understand that if you want to make it through the whole season you have to manufacture runs with good base running and getting hits when you need them most. The pitching for the Rays also looked pretty good. Nieman pitched 5 and 2/3 and pitched very well, he had a perfect game going into the 5th. When they took him out the bullpen combined to let up only one hit and one walk, while striking out four. This is the Rays team that I know and love.

Scary Scary

He got a boo boo.