Thursday, November 5, 2009
Buying the Trophy
So the Yankees are the 2009 World Series Champions Whoop-de-doo Winning the World Series is meaningless when you can simply buy all the best players The Yankees may as well have just bought the trophy
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
No NFL for LA?
Los Angelas has been without an NFL team for what at least ten years now. Unbelievable
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Friday, August 14, 2009
One to Nothing
I don't know why they continue soccer games after the first goal is scored. Every game ends up 1-0
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Firing out of Frustration
My Nats fired Manny Acta. It's not a surprize, but it is a mistake. Firing a manager/coach rarely does anything but take away stability. Firing Clint Hurdle in Colorado this year did seem to help but far more typical is the situation in Arizona, where firing former Manager of the Year Bob Melvin...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Play for the Yankees? No thanks.
I'd hate to be a member of the Yankees. If they don't win the World Series, their season is a failure. If they do win the World Series so what? They ought to win the World Series with all that money and all those great players. The Yankees can't win
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Bad Form to Win?
I was watching Sunday night baseball a few weeks ago and they were talking about not stealing when you're ahead Joe Morgan said that he wouldn't steal if his team was four or more runs ahead because it would take a grand slam to tie the game. Okay so let's play this out. Say we're back in the 70s...
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Monday, May 11, 2009
From Loser to Winner
Note to sports fans who root for certain teams because they win a lot: It's a lot more fun to root for a winning team if you rooted for it when it was losing
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Saturday, May 9, 2009
That Dumb, That Fast?
Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin was manager of the year in 2007, fired in 2009. Did he really get that dumb that fast.?
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Making it even greater
Baseball is the greatest game there is but it's not perfect. So on the eve of the 2009 season let's talk about how baseball can be improved. 1) Modify or eliminate the luxury tax. It's not working. Yes Tampa Bay won the American League pennant with a low payroll. But they did it largely with young...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Temperature or Shortstop?
It got down to six degrees here in Merryland last night. Six isn't a temperature, six is a shortstop. (You have to be a pretty big baseball fan to get the joke)
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