NFC
The National Football Conference (NFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL). The NFC was created after the league merged with the American Football League (AFL) in early 1970. The NFC had 13 teams that year, all of which played in the NFL before the merger. Meanwhile, all of the former AFL teams along with the NFL's Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Baltimore Colts formed the American Football Conference (AFC). Full Article on Wikipedia
The trade changed
It's not Kontos and Coke, but Karstens and McCutchen going to Pittsburgh. This definitely makes it look better from Pitt's side, as McCutchen is a fairly high ceiling pitcher, and Karstens already has shown he can be an effective ML pitcher. Both should do better in the NL Central as well.
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Yanks trade Tabata and others for Marte and Nady
The full deal is Jose Tabata, Ross Ohlendorf, George Kontos and Phil Coke. Damaso Marte is an excellent lefty specialist, while Nady is a decent rightfielder. At first glance, I'm not happy.
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The Final Five
Crain's Chicago Business has identified the Final Five bidders for the Cubs. They are:Mark Cuban Tom Ricketts Hersch Klaff Leo HinderyMichael Tokarz/Fred MalekThe final two on the list are combining their previously individual bids. Unless something outlandish occurs, the Cubs new owner is likely on the above list.It's just too bad none of them look like Tricia Helfer.
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Fight! Fight! Fight!
Last night's fight between the Peoria Cheifs and the Dayton Dragons. Some audio NSFW.Can't imagine how this would have gone down had Ryne Sandberg been there.
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Thoughts on Shock, Barry and football rules
I'm very conflicted when it comes to Barry Bonds. I hated him for tarnishing the game's history with his PED-enhanced record-breaking homeruns. But if I hated him, shouldn't I also hate Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte, who have admitted and apologized for PED usage?
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Pony Up
Just a few weeks ago, we kicked around the idea that the Cubs would be sold to the highest bidder and not who Bud Selig wanted. With billions of dollars in debt to pay off with Cubs sale proceeds, there's no way that Sam Zell could accept a substantial discount to the highest offer he receives for the team.Certainly, that seems to be true:
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And Then There Were Three
Big News on the Cubs' sale front. The initial ten bids have been weeded down to three. That was expected. What was not expected (but was guessed as to be a good possibility by this writer) is who got knocked out:
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Oh Good, Oh No
Sometime around 8:40 PM this evening, Alfonso Soriano will step into the batters box at Not-Yet-FDIC-Run-Bank Ballpark in Arizona. He'll likely flail away at the first pitch and a sigh of relief will likely be heard from several sources. The biggest sighs will come from the direction of Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez. Just maybe having Soriano in the lineup will take some pressure off these guys and get them back to producing.
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Moose wins no. 13
Has you noticed how rarely Moose has been throwing his changeup recently? He threw just three today - all for strikeouts, and didn't unleash the first until the last pitch of the 7th inning. He's a lot of fun to watch.
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After The Movie - The Dark Knight
There's so much talk about "The Dark Knight" re-defining the comic book movie genre. It did not re-define it so much as it charted a completely new path.
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It ain't all great memories
(This was written specifically for River Ave. Blues, so now that it's been posted there, I'll do the same here.)Remember when you used to love going to Yankee games? For me, although I certainly did, it’s hard to even recall why.
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Sexson and ratings
To address their .732 OPS against southpaws, the Yanks signed former Mariner slugger (and I use that word loosely) Richie Sexson to a league minimum contract. At this point, he can't be worse than Wilson Betemit and will only play against lefties, so it's a low risk move.
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Watching The Unwatchable
You just couldn’t take your eyes off of it. After the ninth inning of the 2008 All Star Game, the only thing left to hope for was a tie. Why? Well first and foremost, to shove Bud Selig’s non-Fox inspired “decision” to make the All Star Game count up his rectum and out his ear holes. The second reason was to watch another 2 hours of some of the most awful broadcast announcing ever seen.
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Wow
I didn't think hitting a home run out of the Stadium was possible, but Josh Hamilton came as close as I've ever seen, and made me actually believe it was possible. The most impressive was the shot that hit half-way up the wall behind the right-field bleachers.
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Halladay was just too good
But Joba was nearly as good. If not for Posada, Cano and Betemit errors, he walks off with a line of 7 ip, 5 h, 1 r, 0 bb, 9 k. He allowed just one extra-base hit (I'm not counting the double that was lost against the ceiling of the dome). The most encouraging part is that Joba's control is improving: he threw a ridiculous 73% strikes, walked none, and got nine groundouts and just two flyouts.
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