Thursday, April 3, 2008

Also, Snoop Dogg Wrote A Song About It...

For the first time in, I believe, the history of the network, three of the 10 top stories on ESPN.com this morning were about Cincinnati sports. Obviously, Web sites do not have Nielson ratings.


Bengals' Henry surrenders to face assault charge


Agitated Ocho Cinco not the Bengals' problem



Encarnacion HR gives Baker first Reds victory


Also, are we 100 percent certain that Chris Henry knows anyone old enough to drink? Because every time he gets arrested he's like, rolling blunts for 8-year-olds or humping kittens or something.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Competitive Imbalance

Let's categorize this one under depressing for most small and mid market baseball teams.

A-Rod is paid more than the entire Florida Marlins roster.

This is unbelievable. A-Rod will make $28M this season, the 33 player Florida Marlins? $21.8M. The average salary in the bigs just passed $3M, yet the Marlins do not have a single player that makes the AVERAGE.

Revenue sharing and a hard cap is what has made the NFL the dominant American sports league. Greater revenue sharing and a minimum salary floor is what's necessary to fix MLB.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

6 months of heartache

Gentlemen,

The season is upon us. Let me hear your predictions for the 2008 MLB season. I'll go first...guess who wins it all??

NL:
East: Mets (Santana wins 20, Wright and Reyes lead the way)
Central: Cubs (Zambrano wins 20, Wood is a dominant closer and Fukudome becomes my new favorite player)
West: Dodgers (Pitching and Torre)
Wild Card: D-Backs (Haren and Webb)

**Redlegs: 86-76 good for a 2nd place finish 3 games behind the Cubs and 1 game behind the D-Backs (Bruce and Votto lead the way, Dunn hits 45 bombs and is almost traded midseason and Johnny Cueto finishes 2nd in ROY voting going 14-7 with sub 4 ERA)

Cy Young: Santana
Hitting Title: Holliday
HR: Howard
MVP: David Wright
ROY: Kosuke Fukudome

AL:
East: Red Sox (spit on the gloves, slap the hands)
Central: Tigers (Miggy does it all)
West: Seattle (Best pitching in weak division)
Wild Card: Indians (finally the Yanks don't make the postseason)

Cy Young: CC Sabathia
Hitting Title: Miguel Cabrera
HR Title: David Ortiz
MVP: Miguel Cabrera
ROY: Jacob Ellsbury

NL: Cubs over Dodgers, Mets over D-Backs, Cubs over Mets in 7
AL: Red Sox over Indians, Tigers over Seattle, Tigers over Red Sox in 6

World Series: THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY! Cubbies win it all over the Tigers in 7. World Series MVP: Kerry Wood with 3 saves and a win.

Thoughts? Go Cubs.