Some Quick Thoughts...
I can’t wait for my new favorite college basketball team, Marquette, to match up with my long-time enemy, sparty. Even though Marquette was obviously f’ed in the seedings, Crean and the playas deserved at least a 5 seed. I would be more excited if 2nd team All Big East* Jerel McNeal wasn’t out with a wrist injury. Dominic James needs to play within himself and the Warriors should match–up nicely with the Spartans.
* 2nd team is pretty impressive until I realized there are 11 guys on the 1st team. I guess the Big East interprets “team” as the entire roster as opposed to a starting five. As a matter of fact all of the post-season Big East “teams” have an odd number of players (1st = 11, 2nd = 10, 7 honorable mentions, 11 All-Rookie). It seems like recognizing 39 players in the league kind of waters down the award(s) (there are 16 teams in the Big East). 2+ players/team seems like a pretty big pool of “exceptional” players.
· The Lions have totally screwed up the off-season and they are well on their way to making another colossal mistake in the draft. Since my last update they have allowed their starting DE, S, and G walk away with no compensation, and the guys they’ve signed are not as good as the ones they let walk away for nothing. Millen also traded away Dre’ Bly for the next washed up ex-Denver RB, Tatum Bell. Great. It looks like the Lions future backfield will be a combo of Tatum (I couldn’t beat out Mike) Bell, TJ (I play best when spartan Bob messes with the clock) Duckett and Kevin (I sucked before my injury, now what?) Jones, rather than Adrian Peterson, one of the 2 can’t miss impact prospects on the offensive side of the ball in this years draft*. The Lions seemed primed to take Joe Thomas, T, Wisconsin. An offensive lineman from a Badger program that has produced such dominant NFL road graders as Aaron Gibson and Chris McIntosh, that’s just what the Lions need. Brady Quinn, QB, notre dame, is also in the hunt to wear the Honolulu Blue. Although a QB that has a history of male modeling and losing big games might be a step up from the current assembly of turds (kitna, orlovsky, and that guy that plays wr), there is no way Brady Quinn turns the Lions around, hell, I’d rather have his brother-in-law. Uggh, the Gridiron Heroes are down right now, I’ve never seen it worse.
* The other one is WR Calvin Johnson, and if the Lions take him in the first round, for reasons obvious to any Lions fan, I’m done. My fandom will be officially up for grabs.
· Attention Cubs Fans: There is no way Ron Santo if a Hall of Famer strictly based on the fact that the Cubs already have 3 guys in the hall from his era* and that team didn’t win anything, no penants, no world series. It is my contention that if the hall is going to recognize 3 everyday players and a pitcher from a team, that team had better have won something, otherwise those players could not have been hall of famers. Meanwhile my hometown team, the Tigers, won a world series in 1984 and played for the pennant in 1987, and has yet to be recognized by Cooperstown. Shortstop Alan Trammell and his double play partner Sweet Lou Whitaker (check out the pic from their days in the minors), and the Tigers ace Jack Morris (winningest pitcher of the 80’s) need to be inducted before they let Santo get near the place.
* Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins, Ernie Banks, and Santo played together from 1966 – 1971.
* 2nd team is pretty impressive until I realized there are 11 guys on the 1st team. I guess the Big East interprets “team” as the entire roster as opposed to a starting five. As a matter of fact all of the post-season Big East “teams” have an odd number of players (1st = 11, 2nd = 10, 7 honorable mentions, 11 All-Rookie). It seems like recognizing 39 players in the league kind of waters down the award(s) (there are 16 teams in the Big East). 2+ players/team seems like a pretty big pool of “exceptional” players.
· The Lions have totally screwed up the off-season and they are well on their way to making another colossal mistake in the draft. Since my last update they have allowed their starting DE, S, and G walk away with no compensation, and the guys they’ve signed are not as good as the ones they let walk away for nothing. Millen also traded away Dre’ Bly for the next washed up ex-Denver RB, Tatum Bell. Great. It looks like the Lions future backfield will be a combo of Tatum (I couldn’t beat out Mike) Bell, TJ (I play best when spartan Bob messes with the clock) Duckett and Kevin (I sucked before my injury, now what?) Jones, rather than Adrian Peterson, one of the 2 can’t miss impact prospects on the offensive side of the ball in this years draft*. The Lions seemed primed to take Joe Thomas, T, Wisconsin. An offensive lineman from a Badger program that has produced such dominant NFL road graders as Aaron Gibson and Chris McIntosh, that’s just what the Lions need. Brady Quinn, QB, notre dame, is also in the hunt to wear the Honolulu Blue. Although a QB that has a history of male modeling and losing big games might be a step up from the current assembly of turds (kitna, orlovsky, and that guy that plays wr), there is no way Brady Quinn turns the Lions around, hell, I’d rather have his brother-in-law. Uggh, the Gridiron Heroes are down right now, I’ve never seen it worse.
* The other one is WR Calvin Johnson, and if the Lions take him in the first round, for reasons obvious to any Lions fan, I’m done. My fandom will be officially up for grabs.
· Attention Cubs Fans: There is no way Ron Santo if a Hall of Famer strictly based on the fact that the Cubs already have 3 guys in the hall from his era* and that team didn’t win anything, no penants, no world series. It is my contention that if the hall is going to recognize 3 everyday players and a pitcher from a team, that team had better have won something, otherwise those players could not have been hall of famers. Meanwhile my hometown team, the Tigers, won a world series in 1984 and played for the pennant in 1987, and has yet to be recognized by Cooperstown. Shortstop Alan Trammell and his double play partner Sweet Lou Whitaker (check out the pic from their days in the minors), and the Tigers ace Jack Morris (winningest pitcher of the 80’s) need to be inducted before they let Santo get near the place.
* Billy Williams, Fergie Jenkins, Ernie Banks, and Santo played together from 1966 – 1971.
posted by QDogg at 11:20 AM
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