In the News

How is that Michael Vick thing working out for everybody? Good good, glad to see he was worth all the millions the Falcons spent on him. I mean it’s not enough that he was only a .500 QB now he is a thugged out criminal. Hey, Falcons good job trading that Schaub guy for a bag of peanuts, I hope he takes the Texans to the playoffs.

Not much more one can say on the Michael Vick story. I know we haven’t been around really to blog about for awhile, but what can you say. At the end of the day he is guilty of an absolutely despicable and heinous crime and I hope he goes to jail for a few years. Then when he comes out of jail I don’t really see anyone giving him a shot again in pro football, well as long as Al Davis isn’t still around.



Okay we have to at least touch on this 30 run thing here by the Texas Rangers. First of all how terrible are the Orioles, they gave up 30 fucking runs, but the Yankees can’t beat them if their lives depended on it. The most amazing part of the entire game is that in a 27 run blowout (not even sure if that is an appropriate word) some dude for Texas actually got a save. Huh? How is this again? Well according to the save rule, if you pitch a scoreless final 3 innings you automatically receive a save. Really, even if your team is out to a 27 run lead? Clearly something has to be done about this rule.



I heard a really cool interesting story last night on the radio. In Detroit politicians are trying to destroy historic Tiger Stadium which has stood for about 10 years as a landmark even though the Tigers no longer play there. Well once politicians announced their plans to do so Ernie Harwell (legendary Tigers Broadcaster) stepped in and is trying to do something to prevent the demolition. He has put together a group of investors who want to keep the park open. They have proposed playing minor league and amateur baseball games there as well as holding gospel concerts. In addition they want to turn part of the stadium into various museums. One museum would be the Detroit Music Museum; known worldwide as the birthplace of Motown the city of Detroit has a rich musical tradition. The other museum would be one of baseball memorabilia of which Mr. Harwell himself has said he would put up his entire collection which is valued at over $4 million. Harwell’s feelings are that here in America we have no sense of tradition and history and that we are quick to tear down old buildings. Rather we should be more like the European brethren that most of us came from and keep alive the treasures that we have. Imagine if the Romans had just torn down the Coliseum or the Greeks the Parthenon, what kind of history would we have to celebrate?



In the midst of all the terrible news in athletics an actually tragedy happened just last week in Houston Texas. Former prep superstar turned NBA journeyman Eddie Griffin’s life ended tragically, suddenly and violently. It speaks to the culture we have raised especially in the sport of basketball where we may be pushing kids to far who aren’t ready to grow up and accept adult responsibility for various reasons. Here on ESPN.com JA Adande does a much better job of exploring this issue than I can: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=EddieGriffin&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos3



Lastly, on a much happier note, be prepared. That’s right folks, I gotst me bloggin shoes on. We will be doing some in depth NFL and college football previews over the next few weeks as well as highlighting our fantasy football league. So stay tuned and be amused.