Oregon Unveils the Honorary Solomon Wilcots Jerseys

Seriously? Someone has to stop Nike, and if that means terrorism, so be it. Black-on-black jerseys? You people are fucking insane.

In a Fogg?

All I'm saying is, get your Louisville Bats season tickets soon.

If you believe the Belisle hype and they acquired Josh Fogg to stabilize the rotation that means there is only one spot left for Bailey, Affeldt, Volquez, Cueto or Matt Maloney. For those Bruce Miller haters out there, that's 5 guys trying to squeeze into one spot. Will any one score against the Bats this season with that kind of rotation in Triple A?

But, riddle me this ye great minds of the Norwood House...How are any of these young guys going to see enough big league action to mature into a regular starter?

Why were they so precious as trade incentives, but not good enough to plug in to the rotation?

Enlighten me...

It has arrived...

Yeah, okay. I realize this isn't sports related, but who cares...

This Made Me Happy in a Way Few Things Can...

A new study was released recently at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (still no cure for cancer) that ranked baseball players based on their fielding average and probability of making a play on a ball hit their way.

"[The] method involved looking at every ball put in play in major league baseball from 2002 through 2005 and recorded where the shots went. Researchers then developed a probability model for the average fielder in each position and compared that with the performance of individual players to see who was better or worse than average."

The best shortstop in MLB?

Alex Rodriguez.






And here's the stat that I love: Worst Shortstop in MLB?

Derek Jeter.






Shane Jensen, the Penn student/teacher/stat-nerd who led the study said, "[the information] suggests the Yankees have one of the best defensive shortstops playing out of position in deference to one of the worst defensive shortstops."

Sure this doesn't take into account intangibles like banging supermodels and Alyssa Milano and whatnot, but still.

And Tom Emmanski might want his endorsement money back. The worst first baseman?

Noooo! My childhood was a lie!




On a Reds note, we apparently got our money's worth with our newly locked-up second baseman Brandon Phillips, who ranked second overall at his position.

Also, on an semi-related topic, if you guys haven't read Jayson Stark's article on Dusty yet, I think it's pretty good. The video with Krivsky is boring and uninformative, but Dusty's got some things to say on videos at the Reds' official site.

In reference to something that was written in Stark's article, I also think this year's rallying cry should be "What's up, Big Daddy," which is way cooler and more indicative of the attitude of the team than the consummately queer "C you there" that currently dominates the web-page.

Children Wearing Shirts Made By Other Children.

From the NYPost:
Nicaraguan children from the community of San Gregorio, Diriamba, Nicaragua receive 2008 Super bowl apparel of the losing team, the New England Patriots, from World Vision organization.

The paper fails to mention that the shirts were likely sewn and stitched by Taiwanese children about a month ago.

Pants not only on fire, but bleeding, apparently.

Clemens testimony to Congrefs includes a series of questions about how, on a certain occasion, possibly more than once, people in his clubhouse noticed that his ass was bleeding through his uniform pants. To wit:

From the blog of the formerly mustachioed Jayson Stark:
11:41 a.m. ET
Curt Schilling had the bloody sock. Roger now has the bloody pants.

Rep. [Tom] Davis reported that McNamee had testified that Mike Stanton once noticed that Clemens was bleeding through his dress pants -- which caused him to start carrying band aids around, presumably for his bleeding butt. Yikes.

Prompting the following surreal exchange:

Davis: "Mr. Clemens, do you recall bleeding through your pants in 2001?"

Clemens: "I do not."
End Quote.

So the duly elected representative (Republican) of Virginia's 11th Congressional District —who will not be seeking re-election — spent this morning asking the Rocket if he remembered his ass bleeding seven years ago. At which point Clemens maintained that he didn't.

I have decided that Roger is the liar here. He has more to gain from lying than McNamee does, in my estimation, and more to lose if the truth is damning. Because at this point, if he falls on his sword, he only does it to try and reduce his perjury penalties, and really he's even gone past THAT point of no return.

Three points for discussion amongst the group:

1) After all this, and the possible fallout in which anything could happen to Clemens including jail time, will he still beat Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame? Will he get in there ever?

2) What tarnishes his legacy more, the fact that he took steroids, or the fact that he straight-up, bald-face, lied directly into a camera about it, then did so again under oath, AFTER he was caught?

3) Who benefits most from Clemens being hung out to dry?

My submissions:
1) I think at this point, he doesn't beat Pete in, cause he gets stuck on the outside with him for eternity.

2) I can forgive someone for cheating if they're at least somewhat remorseful once they get nailed, but I don't sense that from Rog (or from Pete Rose, frankly), and that just makes them seem like they think they're above the law. So to Hell with that.

3) I don't think anyone is as happy about these ridiculous proceedings as Barry Bonds. For the time being, at least.

Beta Club

I've said it before (in Mrs. Schmitz' 8th grade classroom after a Beta Club meeting).....

"Don't do Milford"

I just wish these boys would have had the same advice.

What a despicable act. I hope justice is served in this investigation.