This Is Our Concern Dude

I saw the talking heads on ESPN chatting about this practically all day yesterday and I just wanted to get a quick post in to tell you why it's a ridiculously stupid idea. First off, don't baseball teams, at least somewhat, build their roster around stadiums? If you play at a park with a short field, for instance Fenway , you get guys who can hit home runs. If you happen to play at a pitcher's park, well you tailor your roster to that. If baseball were to actually do this, and they probably won't, it would be just their luck that next season it'd be Cubs and Yankees in the Series, only they'd be playing 7 games in Houston. How does that make any sense? A far better solution is to simply eliminate some of the travel days, or perhaps you could even knock a few games off the schedule so that the playoffs wouldn't be ending in November next year. Of course, the latter will never happen as owners wouldn't think of giving up a couple of their 162 paychecks. Ju...

For 41 games this baseball season I had a privilege that most baseball fans have never had. I got to watch the sweetest swing in baseball every time I turned on the TV to watch my White Sox. I remember waking up on the morning of the trade deadline and learning that Ken Griffey Jr. had been traded to the Sox. I was thrilled. I didn't care that the Sox didn't have a place for him. I didn't care that he really hasnt been the same since all the injuries. Junior has been one of my favorite players since I was 10. I'm a lefty, I used to play centerfield... Junior was the best player alive...he was perfect to model your game after. Today though, ESPN is reporting that the White Sox aren't going to try to re-sign Junior, who is going to become a free agent. I'm not going to lie, my heart kind of sunk. I loved having him for the 41 games we did. He got a few timely hits, made a few nice plays in the field, but most of the was a shadow of his former self with a few flash...

So I'm fairly certain that once you enter my house, you also enter some alternate dimension where the inside of my house doubles as the ice planet Hoth. I'm wearing a stocking cap, thermal, and a fleece hoodie as I type this. My headlights are constantly on, and I'm about to cut open a tauntuan (pictured, no not Luke Sywalker) to stay warm. Either way, I've just got a couple of random thoughts that needed a place to hang out for a while. 1. Why does the NFL feel the need to play games in London? Hasn't it been made abundantly clear that Europe wants nothing to do with American Football for the most part? We all know how much of a booming success NFL Europe was over there. I mean, why wouldn't they ditch their beloved soccer to see a bunch of second-tier football players? Seriously, they love Soccer, we love football, and we should just leave it alone. I also don't want to hear the BS about starting a European division or conference or whatever. Are you tell...