For the absolute sports fan, not just baseball fan, but sports fan this is definitely the worst three days in sports, right now. From three days starting today, there is nothing to watch. This is true every year, but with this being a World Cup year, ended yesterday, and with Lance effectively done, it is so much worse.
Want to know how much worse? ESPN has found almost nothing to write about, and that is saying something. I am sure they are sitting back in their offices in Connecticut hoping that another University of Tennessee football or basketball player will do something else that defies all logic and intelligent thought of any kind, but if not there is just nothing going on. Maybe they should have paid Lebron a little more for his hour to move it to this week.
Hockey finished up a while ago, basketball just a couple of weeks ago, football, well aside from a very brief and uneventful Brett Favre sighting, nothing to report there, and baseball had a few guys swing for the fences tonight, which entertained the beer drinking, own fart smelling baseball fan, and tomorrow night is the All-Star game, the best young pitcher in baseball won't be there, that would have made me watch, and no matter what the managers do, this game still ultimately means very little.
Thursday the New York Yankees and Tampa play, and The Red Sox welcome Texas and their newly acquired Cy Young candidate, and The Open Championship begins, please Tiger, please!!
Thank you ESPN for spurring today's sports thought!! or lack thereof!!
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
CC - See What
I have had this debate many times over the past couple of years, and now that ESPN has listed CC Sabathia as one of their possible starters in their "who should start the all-star game" poll I guess it is time to have the debate again.
Not much of a debate here really, CC Sabathia is constantly considered as an all-star, or worse, as a Cy-Young contender when the facts are pretty simple, if he didn't play for the Yankees, and that amazing offensive line-up they put out there every day he would not even get noticed.
At the end of last season he was thought to be a "finalist" for the Cy-young, and the question here is why?? At the end of last year CC had an ERA that was no less than a full run higher than everyone else being considered. At this point in the season this year the same is true. CC has one ten games, but it has taken him 17 starts to get that done while it has taken Clay Bucholz 15, and the whole world knows that the Red Sox offense was for shit in the month of April.
If you look at ESPN's own stat page for MLB and compare AL pitchers you will see that CC does not even rank in the top ten in ERA. He is always going to be there in wins as long as he is in the 3s with ERA and playing for the Yankees. Put CC on one of the anemic offensive teams, or even the Red Sox, a now decent offensive team, and he has maybe six wins, maybe.
The Yankees are a great team, with the emphasis on team, and they play in a big ballpark with an amazing offense and gold glove defense, especially up the middle. CC should buy all of those guys cars for allowing him to be so average and win so much!!
Thank you ESPN for spurring today's sports thought!!
Not much of a debate here really, CC Sabathia is constantly considered as an all-star, or worse, as a Cy-Young contender when the facts are pretty simple, if he didn't play for the Yankees, and that amazing offensive line-up they put out there every day he would not even get noticed.
At the end of last season he was thought to be a "finalist" for the Cy-young, and the question here is why?? At the end of last year CC had an ERA that was no less than a full run higher than everyone else being considered. At this point in the season this year the same is true. CC has one ten games, but it has taken him 17 starts to get that done while it has taken Clay Bucholz 15, and the whole world knows that the Red Sox offense was for shit in the month of April.
If you look at ESPN's own stat page for MLB and compare AL pitchers you will see that CC does not even rank in the top ten in ERA. He is always going to be there in wins as long as he is in the 3s with ERA and playing for the Yankees. Put CC on one of the anemic offensive teams, or even the Red Sox, a now decent offensive team, and he has maybe six wins, maybe.
The Yankees are a great team, with the emphasis on team, and they play in a big ballpark with an amazing offense and gold glove defense, especially up the middle. CC should buy all of those guys cars for allowing him to be so average and win so much!!
Thank you ESPN for spurring today's sports thought!!
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