Friday, July 31, 2009

Peavy, Pussies and Grabow

White Sox acquire Jake "the Snake" Peavy. Okay, I made that nickname up, but Jake Peavy is now a member of the White Sox. They gave the Padres Clayton Richard, Aaron Poreda, Dexter Carter, and AdamRussell.

Cubs added two lhp's as the Pirates continue to decide that they don't want their good players anymore. John Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny are now new Cubs. They sent Kevin Hart, Jose Ascanio, and Josh Harrison to Pittsburgh.

Bobby Wade says "It is what it is" in regards to the Urlacher-Cutler situation, then he called Percy Harvin a part of the female anatomy.

Buncha people got traded today in baseball - check it
out here.

Another Blackhawks f*** up? Are the fans allowed to 'boo' John McDonough yet?

Tyler Hans-don't-taze-me-brough is injured, which is funny 'cause he's bad.

And last but not least --


HAPPY TRAINGING CAMP DAY!!!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Wayne and Janet Gretzky

I don't really have anything to say about this, but when I showed it to Bellwether, he demanded that I share this picture with all of you. So enjoy --

Buehrle, Fonzy, Pussies and other things

Vikings receiver (and former Bear) Bobby Wade says Brian Urlacher thinks Jay Cutler is a "Pussy." In response to this, Jay Cutler has officially uninvited Bobby Wade to his birthday party and Brian Urlacher is no longer allowed to sit at his lunch table.

Mark Buehrle is really good, but the Sox are still bad.

You can't see Alfonso Soriano when he hits walk off grand slams. He loves John Cena.

Bartolo Colon is bad at baseball and is now on the DL. Brought up a left-hander and I'm assuming they put Clayton Richard back in the rotation.

First Brian Anderson wanted out, and he was given a trade. Now Josh Fields has been beating down Kenny Williams door telling him that he wants out.

The Mariners throw a bunch of players at the Pirates for Ian Snell and Jack Wilson.

Tim Kurkjian talks about the pitch count.

EA released the playlists for Madden 10, NBA 10 and NHL 10.

Cliff Lee is a Phillie now.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson dead at 68

One of the most influential coordinators in NFL history. Johnson mentored future NFL coaches and coodrinators Steve Spagnola, John Harbaugh, Ron Rivera, and Leslie Frazier. You can read his obit here and another here

Monday, July 27, 2009

This week in Chicago Sports...

The Cubs open up a four game series vs Houston in Wrigley starting with two decent pitching match-ups. Today is Zambrano vs Wandy Rodriguez and tomorrow the Cubs welcome back Ryan Dempster vs Roy Oswalt.

The White Sox are up in the Metrodome for a three game series vs the Twins. Carlos Quentin will test his foot on the artificial turf and will be in the starting line-up tonight.

Trade deadline is this Friday, still a lot of rumors flying around both teams.

Another thing that happens Friday is.... BEAR-BONAIS. Training camp is here, and so is Jay Cutler. Its about damn time.


Also:

Jay Mariotti adores Mark Buehrle's charm.

Rumors and Rants' Phillips thinks Alphonso Soriano is one of the top three "immovable players" in Major League Baseball.

The Sun Times' Brad Briggs does some Jay Cutler math.

Lisa Olson of AOL Fanhouse thinks Curtis Granderson is a good person, and drops the word 'altruistic' on us.

Here is Fox Sports' really bad NFL Power Rankings.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Baseball and stuff

Ted Lilly on the DL + Matt Holliday is a Cardinal now + rumors of Milton Bradley going to the Tigers = one effed up week for the Cubs. It will be interesting to see if the Cubs add or subtract anything from this team to bulk up for their run at the NL Central. Rumors surrounding the addition of George Sherrill and/or Adam Dunn have been making the rounds. Of those two I would put more money on the Sherrill acquisition, but I doubt either of them happen.

The White Sox have been pretty bad lately. Leaving crap loads of guys on base. Bobby Jenks has blown two big saves in a row. Scott Linebrink is either injured and sucks or is just bad and sucks. Rumors are flying around that team as well. Ozzie has said that he thinks nothing will happen, but I don't think you can ever count out the Sox making a splash while Kenny Williams is GM. Names that have been floating around have been Roy Halladay, Dan Haren, Zack Duke, and Justin Duchscherer, but for some reason I doubt the Sox add anything of substance before the deadline.


With all that being said and with the MLB trade deadline getting ever so closer, I thought I would share these two gems with you guys:

Jerry Crasnick grades nine blockbuster trades in response to the "Roy Halladay Sweepstakes."

Sports Illustrated gives us 25 of the best deadline deals.



Bears training camp is less than six days away...

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Perfection!


"Never thought I'd throw a no-hitter, never thought I'd throw a perfect game, never thought I'd hit a home run. Never say never in this game because crazy stuff can happen." - Mark Buehrle


Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Top 100 players in MLB

The other day I posted an article from Sporting News on who, in their opinion, are the top 50 players in MLB. Well here is another one of those, except this one is the top 100 players in MLB according to Joe Posnanski from Sports Illustrated. His top ten:
1. Albert Pujols, 1B, Cardinals

2. Joe Mauer, C, Twins

3. Hanley Ramirez, SS, Marlins

4. Zack Greinke, SP, Royals

5. Chase Utley, 2B, Phillies

6. Alex Rodriguez, 3B, Yankees

7. Tim Lincecum, SP, Giants

8. Dan Haren, SP, Diamondbacks

9. Johan Santana, SP, Mets

10. Roy Halladay, SP, Blue Jays
The rest of the list includes two Sox players and two Cubs players: Mark Buehrle at #49, Jermaine Dye at #59, Aramis Ramirez at #80 and Carlos Zambrano at #92.

It was the best of times...

It was the worst of times... News has come out that newly acquired Blackhawk Marian Hossa has been battling a shoulder injury since last season's Stanley Cup Playoffs. Surgery has not been ruled out.

The best offensive lineman on the Bears is?

Roberto Garza apparently. According to KC Joyner of ESPN Roberto Garza scored the highest in his run-blocking metric system.
"The numbers showed that right guard Roberto Garza not only was the Bears' most efficient run-blocker last season, he was one of the best guards in the game, ranking ahead of the three Pro Bowlers whom Joyner has final numbers for: Chris Snee, Leonard Davis and Alan Faneca."
Last year's starting offensive line scored as such:

LT John St. Clair: 79.5
LG Josh Beekman: 85.7
C Olin Kreutz: 81.5
RG Roberto Garza: 88.3
RT John Tait: 84.6

New LT Orlando Pace scored 83.5 with St. Louis last season.

Check out the rest of the article here.

Also - apparently David Haugh knows 10 things about the Bears.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Top 50 Major League Baseball Players

According to Sporting News has only two Chicago ball-players, both named Carlos: Carlos Quentin at #40 and Carlos Zambrano at #48.

The top ten is as follows:

1. Albert Pujols, 1B, Cardinals

2. Alex Rodriguez, 3B, Yankees

3. Johan Santana, SP, Mets

4. Manny Ramirez, LF, Dodgers

5. Hanley Ramirez, SS, Marlins

6. Chase Utley, 2B, Phillies

7. Roy Halladay, SP, Blue Jays

8. Derek Jeter, SS, Yankees

9. Mariano Rivera, RP, Yankees

10. Chipper Jones, 3B, Braves


Not sure how much of this I agree with. The rest of the list is interesting, it can be found here.

EDIT: Alfonso Soriano is at 27th on this list. I read it eight times and I missed it every single time. Kinda Like Fonzy and curveballs ... HEY-O.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Holy Awesome Meltdown Batman!

In the wake of the Bellwether's comments about Terrell Owens' asperations of becoming an A-list movie star, I thought I would bring this to everyone's attention: SHAQ VS

I will watch this TV show. Mark it.

With any luck, it will be as awesome as this


Sunday, July 19, 2009

This could be the start of something awesome...

or terrible, probably terrible, but I can't read this

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/19/tos-post-football-career-officially-begins-monday-sort-of/


"If I'm going to really consider doing acting after football, this a great start to let me get my feet wet," [Terrell] Owens said last year in connection with a cameo appearance on a little-known sitcom starting Flavor Flav. "For an actor trying to become an A-lister, I think I'm on the bottom of the pile. I'm a D-lister."

And not think of this: