- 01:28 AM
- 12/02/08
| Name: | Michael Carey |
|---|---|
| Homepage URL: | www.newblindnation.com |
| Member since: | February 09, 2002 |
| Last visit: | July 08, 2008 |
drezdn has posted no links and 25 comments to SportsFilter and hasn’t posted any threads or comments
Brewers make trade for pitcher C.C. Sabathia Minor-league prospect Matt LaPorta is included in the deal In a bold move designed to end the club’s 26-year playoff drought, the Milwaukee Brewers agreed in principle Sunday night to acquire Cleveland left-handed pitcher C.C. Sabathia in exchange for top prospect Matt LaPorta and three others.Neither side would officially confirm the deal because paperwork still was being completed and medical records exchanged. But a source familiar with the discussions said minor-league pitchers Zach Jackson and Rob Bryson also were in the deal. The fourth player could turn out to be third baseman Taylor Green, the Brewers' minor-league player of the year in 2007.
posted by tommytrump at 11:30 AM on July 07
Brewers make trade for pitcher C.C. Sabathia Minor-league prospect Matt LaPorta is included in the deal In a bold move designed to end the club’s 26-year playoff drought, the Milwaukee Brewers agreed in principle Sunday night to acquire Cleveland left-handed pitcher C.C. Sabathia in exchange for top prospect Matt LaPorta and three others.Neither side would officially confirm the deal because paperwork still was being completed and medical records exchanged. But a source familiar with the discussions said minor-league pitchers Zach Jackson and Rob Bryson also were in the deal. The fourth player could turn out to be third baseman Taylor Green, the Brewers' minor-league player of the year in 2007.
posted by tommytrump at 11:30 AM on July 07
As of yesterday evening, Green's Agent* wasn't sure if he was included. LaPorta is probably going to be a monster offensively, but unless if he moved back to first, he wouldn't fit with Brewers for a few years.
posted at 12:38 PM on July 07
Least Likely Super Bowl XLIII: Miami vs. Atlanta According to oddsmakers Keith Glantz and Russell Culver, the Dolphins are a 250-to-1 longshot to reach the next Super Bowl in Tampa, while the Falcons join the Oakland Raiders at 200-to-1. Winning XLII hasn't done much for the New York Giants, who at 12-to-1 are behind five teams. The early favorite: The New England Patriots at 2-to-1.
posted by rcade at 10:03 AM on February 06
When someone gives you odds like that you've got to take them. That's why if John Melloncamp ever becomes president, I'll be a millionaire.
posted at 10:27 AM on February 06
1988, Year of the Card "We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of the great classic baseball card sets, 1988 Topps. We're going through all 792 cards one by one, posting bits about what makes the card awesome and cool stats about the player or team featured on the card."
posted by yerfatma at 07:42 AM on January 16
This is really cool. For me though, The baseball card set was the Topps set from (I think) '87. The one with the "wooden" background.
posted at 09:41 AM on January 16
Journalist: The NFL's No Game for a Family Dick Meyer in today's Washington Post: "My son and I braved frigid, remote FedEx Field to see our beloved Chicago Bears, the fallen Super Bowl champions, humiliated 24-16 by the struggling Washington Redskins. It wasn't the depth of our despair that will keep us away from football stadiums for good but the depravity of the fans. I suppose depravity is a strong word. But what better describes drunken adult men, egged on by other grown beer-swillers, belly-shouting the most spectacular obscenities imaginable as they stand next to a 13-year-old boy? Every play was a competition to produce a more vile insult or a different suggestion about which Bear body part might be stuffed up which orifice. ... Within 10 minutes of kickoff, I knew I had made a terrible mistake taking my son to the game."
posted by rcade at 10:46 AM on December 22
Most of the baseball games I went to last year (Miller Park) were fine, but sometimes (especially in the bleachers) you'd get a group of drunks together who decided it was a crime to not do the wave or hilarious to start swearing at the mom with her kids. Fortunately, there are sections of the stadium that don't allow drinking.
posted at 09:49 PM on December 22
Patriots Caught Taping Jets Defensive Signals, May Lose Draft Picks ESPN is reporting with some confidence that the Patriots have been found guilty of videotaping the Jets' defensive signals during Sunday's game. Commissioner Goodell, who never misses an opportunity to make an example of a transgressor, is said to be ready to strip the Patriots of draft picks as punishment, although the team will first be allowed to present a defense at a closed hearing. What repercussions might this cheating incident have on the Patriots and the league as a whole?
posted by Venicemenace at 07:19 AM on September 12
The punishment seems weak compared to the offense.
posted at 08:47 AM on September 12
Tulowitzki CLEARLY Best Choice for NL ROY A little home cookin' for Troy.
posted by BlueCarp at 09:42 AM on September 12
Braun is now up to 82 RBIs. He definitely isn't a very good third baseman (yet), but on the other hand, he's helped the Brewers win far more games than he's lost them. Apparently, part of the problem was that he was moved to third from short (which currently has an entrenched player). I love Braun, but if Pence hadn't been injured he probably would have been my first choice.
posted at 08:44 AM on September 12
posted by justgary at 12:14 PM on August 08
Fingers was robbed!
posted at 04:11 PM on August 08
Suspected NBA Referee's Games Hit the Over More Often Over the last two NBA seasons, games refereed by Tim Donaghy scored more points than Las Vegas expected 57 percent of the time (79 of 138 games), according to R.J. Bell of the sports betting site PreGame.Com. In the two years prior, his games hit the over 44 percent of the time. "There is an absolute correlation between the number of fouls a referee calls in an NBA game and the number of points scored by the teams," he writes. "An NBA ref who intended to illicitly influence a game would do so by calling more fouls, and thus his games would be higher scoring than average." A source told the Denver Post Sunday that the league has known about the FBI's investigation of the referee since January, rather than after the NBA Finals as reported elsewhere.
posted by rcade at 09:12 AM on July 25
Maybe Ray Allen was right.
posted at 10:38 AM on July 25
Mark Cuban Applies to Buy Chicago Cubs Add internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to the list of potential Chicago Cubs buyers.
posted by commander cody at 01:18 PM on July 14
Holden: For me, right now it's Cappy, followed closely by Vargas.
posted at 02:38 PM on July 14
The Dirtiest Man in Football - Conrad Dobler and his part in the battle between the retired players and the Players Union.
posted by apoch at 06:06 AM on July 03
Athletes today may make huge sums of money, but many of the players from "back in the day" didn't.
posted at 10:25 AM on July 03
MLB Demands Toothpaste Be Put Back in Tubes, Andy Griffith Re-runs* in the ongoing internal battle of "Do we get it or do we not", MLB declares using a Slingbox to watch out-of-market baseball games is a crime. Even if you like the team and y'know, pay for the channel and stuff.
But only at home, and only on the lower-tier channels. If God meant for us to watch TV on 3 digit channels, he'd have given us all a mythical device like, say, a CableCard that worked.
posted by yerfatma at 01:32 PM on May 31
See, this is why I always get express written consent.
posted at 07:16 PM on May 31
Cuban Plots Friday-Night United Football League Mark Cuban and investment banker William Hambrecht are planning a pro league to compete with the NFL. "We think there is more demand for pro football than supply," said Cuban, who believes the salary cap makes it easier for a rival to poach players drafted after rounds 1 and 2.
posted by rcade at 05:51 PM on May 31
There's the chance it could work. There are plenty of people who enjoy football that might not mind getting behind another team. As far as the level of talent, but between arena football, the USFL and xfl, haven't there been players from each that have went on to fame in the NFL? There's a good chance that with some careful scouting, they could find the players who've been overlooked by the NFL. The main thing to making it work will be sticking it out for years as a laughing stock, until it builds up a bit of history. Part of the reason fans may have not committed to the new leagues in the past is that they figured they would be gone in a year or two. There is inertia that any new sport needs to work against though, fans tend to have grown up as fans of their favorite MLB, NFL, or NBA team. Until you have a history of heartbreak with a team, it's hard to be really committed to them. Than again, I'm secretly waiting for the Milwaukee Beers.
posted at 11:13 AM on May 31
The legend of Bo. Bo Jackson didn’t believe the hype, saying he was just another guy. But really, he was superhuman. The Kansas City Star's Joe Posnanski waxes nostalgic about Bo Jackson twenty years after his rookie season with the Royals.
posted by Ufez Jones at 12:59 AM on May 31
After watching holden's link I am envious of anyone who's NES is still working and has Tecmo Superbowl. It's a shame that Tecmo superbowl couldn't let you build your team, because the QB Eagles/Bo Jackson combo would be unstoppable. And I always just thought my brother was better than me at video games.
posted at 09:53 AM on May 31
Why Cyclists Really Shave Their Legs The cycling columnist for The Guardian has something to get off his chest today about his silky-smooth shaven legs: Cyclists don't do it for aerodynamic reasons. "Experts may try to tell you instead that smooth legs are worth a couple of seconds a kilometre, so this male depilation can mean the margin between victory and defeat," Matt Seaton writes. "But if this were true, we would all be shaving our forearms. And perhaps our eyebrows, too. ... we shave our legs because we think it looks good."
posted by rcade at 10:22 AM on May 18
If they were really serious about it, they would have it removed with lasers or something.
posted at 01:53 PM on May 18
Also, from a fan's perspective, this trade is a huge sea change for the Brewers, who were on the seller end for nearly 25 years. (Hopefully this will work out better than the Linebrink trade though).