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Have I gone horribly awry?

By | August 22, 2006 | Women's Sports | Comments Off

a.k.a. your chance to let the madness begin

Backstory: 2 years ago my office fantasy league began as a way for the boys — yes boys, no girls — really, my husband, not me — to do an early practice draft. Last year, after much bitching, the league expanded from 12 to 14 with two women owners, including me. My husband beat me on the last week of the season to keep me out of the playoffs.

For this year, owners remain the same, so we pick our draft positions in reverse finish order. I finished 10. Pete 9. In the first nine picks, 1 through 9 are taken. I didn’t want to pick right after Peter, so I took 13.

Am I dumb for not taking 14 to get the two picks in a row?

More importantly, last year 3 QBs and one WR went in the 1st round. Am I looking for 2 RBs or not?

What’s Clinton Portis worth? Do I have a shot at LeMont Jordan?

More importantly, when’s the “draft day suit” draft?

Go Cocks…go home

By | June 12, 2006 | Baseball | Comments Off

Once again, the College World Series is upon us. The Series is cool because it’s double elimination. You stink one day, you get a chance to beat everyone and still win. Pretty nice.

So, if you’re the Georgia Bulldogs, you wake up after giving up 8 dingers, 5 in a row to SEC rival South Carolina, and you think: “we’ll just beat ‘em twice in a row.” If you’re the Cocks, you forget that you play baseball, and you completely fold.

For what it’s worth, I encourage you to watch the Series. Root for the bulldogs even (anyone but Clemson). And I hope you caught some of the Super Regional. You’ll forgive me if I didn’t agree that it was “super.”

6 – 6 – 6

By | June 6, 2006 | Baseball | 3 Comments

Today, June 6, 2006, I was watching the Braves-Nats game on MASN.

In idle banter — maybe in the 6th inning — I was treated to this tidbit. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are considering dropping the “devil” part. So instead of a beautiful aquatic creature, they’d be the “Rays.” Because I think that the biggest problem for the Devil Rays, and perhaps Major League Baseball itself, has been the whole association with Satan.

Do the Nationals not have direct deposit?

By | May 8, 2006 | Talking Trash | 4 Comments

Nats outfielder Jose Guillen’s girlfriend was robbed of over $12,000 in cash and a $2,000 purse upon exiting a check cashing place in Northeast DC on Wednesday. When you are paid $4 million a year, shouldn’t you get a bank account rather than pay a check cashier?

Also noted

Have you seen Jose Lima’s blonde hair? I can’t find a link to it, but really, if that’s what you’re bringing, no wonder John Smoltz can beat you on three days rest.

Finally

I have nearly given up on SportsCenter. ESPNews is the new SportsCenter. More highlights and scores in less time…and without the fluff. Don’t get me wrong, I love Kenny Mayne, but do I need “inside the lines” of some random high school volleyball program? And what happened to ESPN2? Tonight, my husband went to bed and left me on the U.S. Paintball Championships. Luckily, he gave me back the remote before “Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith.”

Hall of Famer?

By | May 2, 2006 | Soccer | 2 Comments

Tonight, U.S. Soccer head coach Bruce Arena is set to announce his selections for the U.S. national team World Cup roster for Germany live on SportsCenter. I have some opinions about this. (Ben Olsen needs to be there; I’d take Albright over Hedjuk, but doubt Bruce will.)

You don’t have to listen to me, you can listen to the first man to reach 100 caps* for the United States, defender Marcelo Balboa. He has been hired by ESPN as a commentator.

Balboa has entered the U.S. Soccer hall of fame.

This makes me think that I don’t get soccer. Sure, I was an inaugural season ticket holder for D.C. United. I’ve seen World Cups, Olympics, qualifiers, and a home MLS Cup win. See, I thought that as a world-class, hall-of-fame defender, it was important not to be slow. So slow you get beat by an 80-yard run.

I thought that your most famous International achievement should not be a spectacular missed goal. Yes, he’s famous for a missed bicycle kick against Columbia in World Cup 1994.

Then again, who wouldn’t love to watch this face on TV. Forget the hall of fame. Marcelo, you could be America’s Next Top Model.

Noted
John Daly has lost $50 to 60 million gambling. He says it “could” ruin him.

*cap: In soccer, a cap is an international appearance which is funny since soccer players don’t wear caps.

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