Mrs. Clemens...on the juice???

Well what an interesting twist we have woken to this morning. Could this story be any more "As the World Turns" or what? One of these guys is proving to be quite the little story teller. I tell you one thing, I'm not sitting in on a card game with either one of these guys right now. Talk about a poker face. We have McNamee all in with nothing to gain if he's telling the truth, and Clemens all in with his legacy and reputation, not to mention possible jail time if he really takes it to the mat and lies under oath. If these guys would just do this while driving a white Bronco down the freeway we would have the story of the century unfolding before our very eyes! How exciting.

Is Schilling on the Way Out?

Well, it looks like the baseball world is really beginning to get interesting. Is it true? Did the Sox really try to drop Schilling? Does McNamee have needles with Roger's DNA on them? If so, were they stored with Monica Lewinsky's dress? Seriously, who saves trash for seven years? Should Schilling have used some of that lidocaine and B12 that helped Roger stay healthy? I guess he would have a different set of problems then but at least he'd be good to go come April.

Trivia Question....

Who is Barry Bonds' favorite MLB player?

I'm guessing Roger Clemens. Does anyone even care about Barry any more? He must just be sitting at home thinking "Thank God for Roger! This has been my most relaxing off season in years!"

Do you think that if Johnnie Cochran was still around that he would move over to the prosecutors side of things and have tried a "if the hat doesn't fit, you can't acquit" strategy against Roger?

And how about the news about the new Yankee Stadium? Will the extra $300 million dollars it looks like it is going to cost be passed along to the fans through the price of beer?

Fan: Uh, yeah, I'd like a beer please.

Beer Guy: Ok, that will be $16.00. What's that? A martini for your girlfriend? Ok, that will be $42.00

Fan: Dude?

Anyway, sad as it seems, these are the things that keep me up at night.

Now What Do I Do?

How many of you out there are like me in that, now that football season is over, you feel this void in the sporting world? Life just isn't the same between the end of the NFL season and the beginning of MLB. I guess we all just have to be patient and count the days until the first pitch is thrown and the passion of baseball begins again.

Here are some baseball related stories to get you in the spirit of things.....

Official: Jeter settles tax inquiry

Do the Red Sox have the makings of a Dynasty?

Casey To Help Sox At First

Nothin Says NFL- Tough Like...Ryan Seacrest??

While everyone else in the sports world is focusing on things like: Blame runs deep for Pats, and The Patriots still define the 2007 season, I'm going to focus on something a lot more important. That is....Why the f#!k did I have to sit there and watch Ryan Seacrest? Is this what the NFL thinks that we want to see before the biggest football game of the season? If I wanted to see someone like Ryan Seacrest before the game I would have been tuned into the Lifetime Channel or watched Will & Grace for 3 hours. Whoever thought that was a good idea should be fired, or better yet, forced to watch his favorite sporting event or television show with Seacrest edited into it, interrupting every 15 minutes. I think Frank Caliendo hit the nail on the head when he said...

"Boy, nothing says 'NFL-tough' like Ryan Seacrest. I guess Richard Simmons was booked."

Terry Bradshaw threw in his two cents as well by stating...

"Seacrest, the only time I thought I'd see you at the Super Bowl would be as a cheerleader."

For all true football fans I think that says it all. Not only do I believe that most fans were greatly annoyed every time Seacrest was put in front of them, (I personally paused my DVR to accumulate enough of a buffer to skip through the Seacrest BS) but I also believe that people don't want to be bombarded with these celebrities that are only at the game to steal some of the limelight and push their own personal agendas. If anything, it just reminds me that a ticket to the game costs $5,000 because all the corporations and celebrity A-Holes scoff them all up because it's an opportunity to be seen. Meanwhile, the true fans of the game, the people that buy the merchandise and tune into the games week in and week out get the shaft and are forced to accept the reality that, in all likelihood, they will never have the pleasure of cheering on their team at a Super Bowl game.

Time for Mercury Morris to Return to Obscurity

Well, the Super Bowl has come and gone. For New Yorkers, it was a GREAT one. For New Englanders, not so great. I will say this, however, I am proud to be a Patriots fan today. In my eyes, what happened yesterday does not take away from the amazing season that they put forth for us to be a part of and to experience. With that said, I would like to talk about the 1972 Dolphins. I know there's a lot of other stuff to get to like the crappy commercials, the boring Tom Petty performance, and the game itself, but I choose the '72 Dolphins today.

Being born in 1975, I didn't have the pleasure of seeing the '72 Dolphins in action so all I have to judge them on, outside of their record, is how they act today. Does anyone else think that the '72 Dolphins are a lot like the old guy at the bar trolling for younger women and desperately trying to hold on to his younger years because he knows his best years are behind him? Or maybe a better example would be to think of them as the 25 year old who still hangs out at high school parties wearing his Varsity jacket trying to remain relevant for something he may have done well years ago? Either way, it just seems sad to me. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be proud of their accomplishment, because they should. But do they really have to be so childish about it? Great athletes tend to let their accomplishments stand on their own, unlike Mercury Morris and his friends. If you have to tell people how great you were, could you have really been that great?

Did anyone see Troy Aikman, Terry Bradshaw or Joe Montana trying to prove that their teams were better than the Patriots this year? No, you didn't, because they let their achievements stand on their own. Will another team ever make a run at perfection like the Patriots did this year? I don't know. Thanks to the 72' Dolphins, though, I do know this: Apparently you can be perfect and still have no class.

On another sad note, it seems as if a lot of Dolphins fans are much more interested in the fact that they had a great team 36 years ago than they are with the fact that they have a terrible team today. Check out this article. It's enough to make you want to puke. I love the part about Don Shula never running up the score that comes immediately after the point he makes about the Dolphins beating the Patriots 52-0.

It's kind of funny, while the Dolphins were winless this year I kept hoping that they would find a way to win just one game to keep them from the embarrasment that would have been attached to that record. Right about now, after listening to some of the 72' Dolphins players and their current fans, I can't believe I rooted for them to win. In hind sight, if they had gone winless, I don't think there is any other franchise that would have been so deserving of that 0-16 season as the Dolphins. I wonder what Mercury Morris would have said about that?

Super Bowl XLII

Congratulations to the New York Giants. They are the new Super Bowl Champions. They deserved to win tonight.

That really hurt to say.