After a couple weeks of hearing that Roger Clemens was on Steroids and that he lied to the grand jury, it is now being reports that he had an on going affair with a country singer. The girl in question was 15 years old when they met and guess what he is denying this too. Roger how much more denying can you do? You say you didn't do roids, you say that were not at a party at Jose Canseco's house. Roger your a liar and a cheater and frankly you are a disgrace to the Yankee pinstripes. I hope you wear the Red Sox's Cap proud when you go into the Hall of Fame. You do not deserve your World Series Ring or the Car that gave back and I wish that Mike Piazza would of knocked you out when you threw the bat at him in your Roid Rage!
Roger in my book you are a disgrace to baseball and to your family. You Cheated and lied about it. Pete Rose may have bet while he was a manager and is ban for life you need to be banned too, but since your not a real man and will not stand up and say sorry I made a mistake forgive me you are a piece of crap.
In closing go have your fun with the young girl by your side cause I hope yoru wife leaves you and takes all the money.
The David Ortiz Jersey that was buried in the new yankee stadium, is up for auction on Ebay. They Starting price for the Jersey was $500 dollars. It is now up to $33,100.00 and is rising. Who in there right mind would pay that much for a jeresy? If I had the money I would, Then I would take it and bury it at Fenway Park. and sprinkle the Curse all over the field so they start another drought of not winning games.
The 2008 Major League Baseball season could be a really interesting one. The are many questions flying around about many different things in the league. Will this be the year that he Chicago Cubs end the curse? What team will Barry Bonds end up on? Can the New York Yankees win with A Rod? How will Joe Torre do in Los Angeles? That is just to name a few that I will be giving you answers to in the next week. I myself think that the Yankees are going to win it all again. They have retooled there pitching staff with young arms, but still have veteran leadership to take them to the promise land.
My World Series predication is going to be the Chicago Cubs vs. the New York Yankees. With the Yankees winning in 6 and closing the door of Yankee Stadium in style.
My Vote to the Baseball Hall of Fame go to: Pete Rose!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Peter Edward Rose Sr aka Charlie Hustle broke into Major League Baseball on April 8, 1963. He started the season hitless going 0 for a 11. He got his first hit on April 13, 1963 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the rest is history, as they say in Hollywood. But, this is not Hollywood, this is real world. Charlie Hustle received his nick name, because he played the game at the highest level, he would do what ever it takes to win, except cheat. In the 1970 all star game, Rose was involved in one of the greatest scoring plays of all time. With the game on the line, Rose came around third determine to score. Pete lowered his shoulder and barreled catcher Ray Fosse to score the game winning running. Rose also is the only player in his era to come close to the 56 game hitting streak, by hitting safely in 44 games. Rose went on to break Ty Cobb's record of 4192 on September 11, 1985. He went on to end his career with 4,256 hits, a record that still stands today. He retired from the game unofficially on November 11, 1986. He went on to manage the Cincinnati Reds. He was banned from the game of baseball for gambling in 1989. He has since admitted to gambling on his team to win, but never threw any games. This is keeping him out of the baseball hall of fame.
I feel he should be inducted into the baseball hall of fame based on his stats on the field. Not from the mistakes as a manager. If they let the players that did Steroids and HGH into the Hall why not Rose? What is fair about a player that cheats to beef his stats? I would love to here all your thoughts and opinions!
George Mitchell to announce Results of Steroid Probe!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Former Senate majority leader, George Mitchell, has called a press conference Thursday at 1 pm central time. He plans to announce how big of a problem steroids is. I feel that if they punish anybody for using roids before they were illegal in baseball is wrong. I can see if they punish those that are on them now is good. I feel that it was good for the game of baseball. I feel that the home run records would not of been broken. I am really interested in seeing what players are going to be named. At least Jason Giambi was man enough to admit he did it. Where as Mark McGwire pleaded the 5Th amendment, which keeps you from saying your guilt or innocent. I am really looking forward to reading the results. Is any one else? Does any one feel that now baseball with be tainted forever?
The American League MVP winner is: Alex Rodriguez. This is a man that plays well in the regular season and cannot do anything in the post season. If rumors are true he will end his career in the Bronx. He will be the all time home run leader and maybe he can have the most home runs in a season. He will also help bring another title to Yankee town. If A Rod does not sign his deal what team do you see him playing for? why?
Playing Not to Lose, “Can I get a definition please?”
Monday, November 12, 2007
As I watched football I heard the commentator’s use the term playing not to lose. This made me wonder, what are they talking about? I have seen team that look like they are playing against the clock, but never are playing to lose the game. I did a search on it on google.com and found that it means to play conservatively when you have a lead in a game. I feel there could be more meaning to that term. I think that the meaning could be you know that you have a good team, but you as a coach are holding them out of playing up to the teams full capability.
I feel that if you are as competitive as I am you play the game to win all of the time. I feel that teams that play not to lose, could face a greater team and they are going to get run off the field. Playing to lose is not a good way to teach a team. If you tell a team ok we are going to play not to lose, I feel that your telling them we are not very good so we are going to go out here and prove that we are not and if we win good, if we lose that is ok too. No I hope my son is never taught that we are playing not to lose, instead I would like him to be taught that you go and give it your all and lose it is ok.
So there are my thoughts on playing not to lose. What do you think?
Joe Torre was introduced as the Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. I would like to congratulate him on moving from one powered franchise on the East coast to the Yankee like team in the National, on the west coast. I believe he will bring a World Series ring to LA.He is bring along Mr Yankee, Don Mattingly as his hitting coach and Larry Bowa will either become his bench coach or third base coach. Can Joe win world series with the Dodgers as he has in New York? Will he get the same payroll and talent? What is everyone expectation on how well he will do?
Since I was way off in the teams I felt would make it and win the world series I am going to release another guess on who I feel is going to win. Boston is a team that came back to win there series and Colorado cruised through theres. So It is a wild card versus a division winner. Boston has great pitching staff and Colorado comes out of no where to make it to the world series. So I think this is going to be a series for the ages. I feel that Boston is going to be a tough team to beat. So that said I am going with the Under dog. Colorado Rockies 4 games to 2.
After making the playoff for the past 12 season and going 4 and 2 in the world series, New Yankees Manager has turned down a deal that would make him the coach next season. He turned down a 5 million dollar deal that was 2.5 million less than his old deal, plus he was not guaranteed the 2009 season unless the team made the world series. To me this is bad. Joe Torre is everything the Yankees every want in a manger. He is calm Cool and collective. He has the New York/Gangster mystique. I would like to thank Joe for being able to see him manage the greatest team in baseball and let him know that he will be missed.
So where does this leave the Yankees? Who would you like to see them get to replace Torre?Also do they start the rebuilding process?
When I made my playoff predication a couple of weeks ago I really felt the cubs and Yankees were the team to beat. Boy was I wrong. I feel that since the Colorado Rockies are the hottest team in baseball. Any team that has won 20 of there last 21 games is a hot team. They have tied for the best record after 2 rounds with going 7 and 0. The question I have is how do they over come the 8 day lay off? I think they will they were not picked to win everything and they are close to winning it all. What ever American league team they play, I think they can beat them. So I am going to restate my claim. Rockies over Indians in 6. Man my brother is going to kill me LOL.
I am sitting here looking for things to read I have come across the top Pennant Race Collapses of all time. I have broke it down to the top five. I thought I would Share it with all of you out ere in sports land cause I really enjoined it.
5. In 1962 the Los Angeles Dodgers lost 10 of there final 13 games to blow a 4 game lead over the San Francisco Giants in the final week of the season.
4. The San Francisco Giants Half a 10 game lead on the Atlanta Braves on July 22 1993. The San Francisco Giants blew the lead despite, Barry Bonds winning the MVP, to the Braves.
3. The Boston Red Sox the the New York Yankees by 14 games on July 19 1978. The Yankees went 52 and 21 down the stretch to tie for the AL East title. New York won a one-game divisional playoff game. Thanks to a Go ahead Home Run by Reggie Jackson. OK this is the same scenario that is happening this year.
2. The Chicago Cubs held a 9 1/2 game lead on the New York Mets on Aug 14 1969. The Cubs went 8 and 17 in September and finished 8 games behind the Mets.
1.California Angels held a 11 game lead on the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners on August 11, 1995. They blew the led and the right to go to the playoff by losing a one game play off to the Seattle Mariners.
I went through the top 12 and picked my top 5. I would love to hear all of your thoughts an opinions. What do you think the all time biggest collapses is in MLB?
Major League Baseball has about 2 weeks left in the season and there is alot of interesting story lines that are playing out. The first that has caught my attention is the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox Race for first place in the division. At one point the Yankees were 9 games out going into labor day weekend. They ended up sweeping them and picking up ground. As of last night the Yankees are now 2 games behind the Red Sox's and up four and a half in the wild card. I would like to keep the streak of 10 division titles alive and win the division.
The other race that has also caught my eye is the national league east. The Milwaukee Brewers had a nice 6 game lead at the all start break. But the Chicago Cubs, who have been playing really good baseball are tied with the brewers for first. Is this the year the Cubs get over the hump? Being from Illinois I would love to see them go to the world series. It is time for them to break there 99 year drought.
I know I have said in early post that cubs would have a hard time beating the Yankees but if the Yankees give it there all to win the division they may have nothing left for the playoff to even make it to the world series.What is something that has caught your attention this last month of September? Who would you like to see win the World series?
Jim Thome hit his 500th Homerun Yesterday. In the era of baseball that has been contamenated by steriod use, Here is a guy that goes out and plays his heart out for the love of the game. I would like to congradulate Jim on this accomplishment. He is from my home town of Peoria, IL and I am glad to see someone from around here make it to the big time. It was really nice to see him get it on a gaming winning home run in front of his friends and Family. It is also Nice to see Jim give back to the community that he grew up in. He does alot for the Childrens Hospital in peoria and alot for the community. Once again Congrads Jimmy, You deserve everything you worked hard to acheive. Could he be considered a hall of Famer? I know in this day and age in baseball 500 home runs is coming more and more easy. I feel he does deserve it because he has always been a team player and goes out and give 100 percent when he plays. What does everybody else thing?
Being the sports nut that I am I thought that this would be a really good topic. I have heard of all kinds. In Basketball Micheal Jordan always puts his right shoe on before his left cause it is bad luck for him to put the left one on first. He also always wears his North Carolina Shorts under his game shorts. Did this him play better? It is hard to say. Another one would be Moses Alou Peed on his hands before every game cause he thought it helped him hit better. Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers did not shave until after they won Superbowl 40. He thought since they kept winning that it would be bad luck and they would lose. Another one I found was Wade Boggs would only eat chicken before every game. Nomar Garciaparra gets dressed the same way everyday and Steps on each dugout step with both feet and tugs his batting gloves and taps his toes during each at- bat.
I went and did some search to find some other here is what I found.
Baseball 1. Spitting into your hand before picking up the bat is said to bring good luck. 2. A wad of gum stuck on a player's hat brings good luck. 3. It is bad luck if a dog walks across the diamond before the first pitch. 3. Some players believe it is good luck to step on one of the bases before running off the field at the end of an inning. 4. It is bad luck to touch the baselines while running off and onto the field between innings. 5. Lending a bat to a fellow player is a serious jinx. 6. Some players actually sleep with their bat to break out of a hitting slump or stay in a groove. 7. If a pitcher is throwing a perfect game or a no-hitter, never speak of it while it's going on.
Basketball
1. The last person to shoot a basket during the warm-up will have a good game. 2. Wipe the soles of your sneakers for good luck. 3. Bounce the ball before taking a foul shot for good luck.
Football
1. Double numbers on a player's uniform brings good luck. 2. It's bad luck for a professional football player to take a new number when he traded traded to another team. 3. A mascot is an important good luck symbol
Does anyone out there in Sports land know of any other superstitions that they can contribute? Please Feel free to post.
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