Brian St. Pierre hasn't taken a snap in six years...

and this is only two years more than Matt Leinart.

Leinart sinking? (Yahoo!)

A baseball lover's lament.

Dialogue from Tony Scott's film, the fan:
Gil Renard: Don't get greedy, son. Don't get greedy. What we need now is a sacrifice. A winning team has to know how to manufacture runs. Coop taught me that. He used to say the most beautiful play in the game is a sacrifice fly, and you know why?
Richie Renard: 'Cause you give yourself up for the team?
Gil Renard: And it doesn't even count against your average. That's why baseball's better than life - it's fair.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Football is the most widely watched sport in the nation. Driving down any American street, you will find nearly each and every driveway equipped with a basketball goal of some kind. Each weekend hundreds of thousands of fans flock to the the NASCAR race, whether it be in North Carolina, California or Delaware.

But no sport better embodies the history (and present) of this country better than baseball. Baseball has developed along with the country. Football and basketball didn't gain notoriety until pretty much after America had established itself as the true world power in the forties and fifties. Baseball's rise to popularity began during Reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War. Since then, it has changed with the times and reflected the state of American society.

Shoeless Joe and the White Sox scandal of 1919 came as the country was propelled into the capitalistic prosperity of the 1920s. During WWII, baseball went on a hiatus as the players, along with the rest of the country, refocused their efforts on war. And then, most recently, as all of the nation (and the world) deals with the issues of steroids and PEDs in sports, baseball is at the forefront.
Whereas most sports are representative of a story: an epic give and take that contains an introduction, a rising action, a climax and a resolution, baseball is more of a poem. Each pitch, each play, each inning has it's own separate and significant meaning. Don't believe me? Read this.

Football fanatics will say it is the strategy and war-like mentality of football that makes it the most popular sport in America. Now, a football game is definitely deep in strategy and makes for a very compelling battle, no sport mirrors the ebb and flow of war like baseball. Baseball is a 162-game season. That is a war consisting of 162 battles. A team will not win them all. Actually, they will undoubtedly lose many of them. Some will be one sided, some will not. Some will cost key players due to injuries. Sometimes players must sit in order to survive to fight another day. Managers are much more like Generals than their football counterparts. There aren't specific plays, just nine players that must be counted on to know their part and where to be when the ball is play. There is no speaker in the pitchers hat, only cryptic hand signals that can advise the soldiers on the field.
For the past ten years it has seemed to many that baseball has sunk to a new low. A new, dark time has emerged for the sport. Every few days a new star is found to have taken steroids or HGH. Let's not beat around the bush here, these players are cheaters. Many (maybe even most) have done so, but that doesn't make it right. All baseball fans out there only can hope that years from now things will be straight again and we can look back on this time and be glad that the game emerged better and more pure.

This will NEVER happen again... had to post it!

Wow, this is amazing.... not to mention the guy won a BMW for this.





** Side note... why do people video tape their TV? Kind of creepy if you ask me...

What Will We Talk About in the Summer of 2010? Favre Remains Retired.

Thanks Favre, now we all have nothing to look forward to next summer since you (finally) decided to remain retired.

In case you missed it.... FAVRE HAS DECIDED TO REMAIN RETIRED, at least we think so. After months and months of self indulgence, Favre has informed the Vikings' head coach Brad Childress that he has decided against a return to the NFL. Number four claims that this was one of the hardest decisions of his life. Surprisingly enough, it turns out the throwing shoulder is not the likely suspect to blame in the *shocking* decision. He blames it on the fact that he's, old, sore, banged up from sacks and well, just not that good anymore.

Now what do we do? Is this really the end of the Brett Favre that we all grew to know and love/hate? What happens next summer when teams realize that their quarterback is worse than Charles Barkely playing golf. Does Brett Favre spark our curiosities one more time, for ole times sake?! I sure hope he............. DOES NOT. It's time to move on guys. I think most of us can agree that we loved Brett when he was the famous gunslinger not afraid to make the tough pass even if it got picked off. How could you not love a guy who is in Levi's commercials and hops off of his tractor is Hattisburg, MS just to tell people he doesn't know if he's going to play again? Oh, and he's got one gorgeous wife! In the end, Brett will go down as arguably the greatest QB to play the game but please, please, no more drama. DON'T COME BACK.

He can't come back at this point right? The Vikings have to do some serious damage control right? However, this bit of information should come as no surprise... Favre's agent left a tiny crack open in the door saying that Brett could consider a comeback if midseason someone's quarterback gets hurt, or arrested for dogfighting, or gets banned for steroids, or decides to go to Africa to smoke pot for a while, or has anxiety attacks that keep him off the field, or they just suck. So for now, Favre is done. FINALLY.

Right?!?!

NOTICE TO NFL TEAMS: SIGN MICHAEL VICK, NOW!!!

Controversy creates cash. The biggest risk in life is not taking one (that one is for you Baum).

Ok so maybe the previous statements were full of cliches, but the point being is that NFL GM's should wake up and take a chance on the quarterback formally known as Ron Mexico. Now, I am not going to sit here and try to convince you that Michael Vick is a good human being or that he has honestly turned his life around after his 23 (ish) months in federal confinement. What I am going to try to do is explain from a football standpoint why someone NEEDS to take a risk and sign him to a year long contract, in the NFL.

Let's face it people, Michael Vick is arguably the most athletic human being alive. Yes, I know he was in prison and wasn't able to workout like he would if was in an NFL training camp somewhere but c'mon, that kind of athletic ability doesn't just disappear. Give him a contract, put him through training camp, let him continue to workout with a high profile trainer Tom Shaw, give him a fews weeks into the season to get back into game shape and you've got yourself one hell of a talented player. I think we all can agree that there are numerous teams out there in dire need of a talented athlete that averages 7.4 yards a carry for his career. The wildcat formation is spreading as fast as the swine flu in the NFL and the ability to add a guy like Michael Vick into a formation like that could be a game changer for many teams.

Let's not completely rule out the idea that this guy could play quarterback again as well, somewhere. In the NFL, the talent of quarterbacks is very top heavy. Many teams have average at best QBs. Vick is just that, an average quarterback. The biggest difference, Michael Vick has superhuman abilities (man I love watching those videos). In 2006, he did average 12.1 yards per completion, above the league average.

At the end of the day, I just think the potential reward of a guy as talented as Michael Vick is worth the risk to me. A team like the St. Louis Rams could use the boost, not only in talent, but in terms of excitement as well. As for the whole PETA thing, they will have to call off the dogs eventually and just let the man show the world that he can still fight, I mean play(as Ballhawk would say, that is a pun on words).

If all else fails, I'll being the first one to order a UFL Orlando hat as soon as he signs his contract.. woof woof!!

--The Truth