Will Leitch is a commie!!

Wonderboy Will Leitch wrote another column for the Times today and as usual it was a violation not only of the geneva conventions and maritime law but also of human dignity itself

I tried to voice my opinion on the column in the "comments" section but the following were denied by Times censors:

"Reading the term "rhythms of the game" makes me want to projectile vomit."

"I will never visit the town of Matoon, Illinois. - Yadier Molina"

"Will if you're upset about the end of the baseball season wait until you check out the Amazon sales ranking of your last novel." (#301,827)

"We think baseball is boring but we're not boring. - The Muppet Babies" (in response to previous comment that people who think baseball is boring are boring)

"Editors, you could have used this space to run a Beetle Bailey. What is wrong with you?"

"Gone Baby Gone" is supposed to be really good though

this article contains a quote that is the worst thing Ben Affleck has ever done - and as we know that's quite a horrorshow

Red Sox Nation: A Perecentage Breakdown

who is Red Sox nation well let's break it down by percentage:

Skanks: 63%
Bandwagon jumping child molester types who didn't know the Red Sox existed until 2003 playoffs: 15%
Insufferable literary types who convince themselves this team didn't just buy a world series ala' the 1999 Yankees: 5%
Fratty date rape types (admittedly a much larger segment amongst Cubs fans): 7%
Fat guy and wife who ate in the same restaurant I did on Saturday and wore matching Nomar jerseys: 10%

the lesson: this baseball season and the Red Sox in general are totally insufferable

Thursday night in sports

just another fantastic college football game

just another excruciatingly boring world series game

W.S. preview

no matter how many games they have won in a row at the end of the day the Rockies are and will always be a joke

NCLS/ALCS Preview

has been outsourced to Thomas Boswell

Cubs Playoff Recap

Preview of the TV death of baseball

A Rockies - D'Backs NLCS on TBS will have ratings lower than that of the XFL

(note: if you fully understand the above comment it's likely you didn't get laid very often in high school)

one reason the St. Louis Rams are 0-4

Marc Bulger has been dropped by 9734 teams in Yahoo! Fantasy leagues

ALERT ALERT

for many years it has been assumed that the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates had the ugliest uniforms of any World Series Winner



but recent research indicates that the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks have surpassed them in terms of pure horror

Scott Boras is Insane

This man is coming, and no rich person is safe.

It's official, Andruw Jones will hit the free agent market. Bad news for those of you who picked "Atlanta" in the "Where Will Andruw Go?" office pool. Sure the payout would have been great at 1,000 to 1, but any time you hear Scott Boras and John Schuerholtz in the same sentence, it's time to walk away.

Jones, for those keeping score at home, put up a .311/.413/.222 this year, with 26 home runs and 94 RBI. Don't get me wrong, these are good numbers (not the AVG, but everything else), and the dude plays one hell of a center field. But when you consider that in 2006, Jones put up a much better line: .363/.531/.262 with 41 home runs and 129 RBI, and that he did a better than that in '05, clearly the man has been trending down.

Which is not to say that he won't pick it up and have a monster year in '08, but Scott Boras, agent of the stars, says the bidding for Jones will start at $20 million dollars a year.

Whubuhwha?

This shit never ceases to amaze me. Here's Alfonso Soriano in 2006: .331/.560/.277, 46 HR, 95 RBI, and those numbers after two years of trending upward. He got almost $18 million a year for eight years.

So, in Boras World, two comparable players hitting free agency a year apart, and a guy who plays progressively worse gets more money after a bad year than a guy who played progressively better after a good year.

What's next? What is Alex Rodriguez going to get if Andruw Jones is getting that kind of money? Let's say he lands with the Angels, as is speculated. Will the team change its name to "A-Rod and Friends"? When is enough enough?

How much money do you think Scott Boras has in his pocket right now?

I once slid into home just like Matt Holliday did last night, and the look on my face was similar

from the Denver Post, as spoken by a man emerging from victorious Coors Field:

"He said it," the man, Brian Withers, said, pointing up to his son, Bodhi. "He said the Rockies were going to win. He said it!"

Bodhi?


50-Year Storm!