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Tim "The Tool" Thomas
Tim Thomas, as if Buffalo Sabre fans, at least the rational ones don't have enough reasons to hate the Boston Bruins, you have yet another one to add to the man between the pipes. Tim Thomas proved what a "tool" he is by dissing the traditional meeting with the President.
Tim Thomas tried to play it that he disagrees with all of our government but lets face it, he doesn't like the politics of one man. President Obama. The guy is a self proclaimed fan of nutbag Glenn Beck which says all you need to know about what he means by saying he disagrees with all government.
Okay, disagree with President Obama on politics, don't like the way our government is going, thats fine, but save it for a day when that's the issue. Save it for a side conversation with the President either before or after the photo-ops, but to not show up because you disagree with the politics is just insane.
Presidents for years have gone out of their way from doing much more important things to invite championship teams to the White House and to turn that opportunity down over a disagreement on politics is just plain disrespectful. Don't like the politics fine, but have a mutual respect for the man who invited you and show up, smile and take your picture with your team.
There used to be a day where you could disagree on politics and still have a mutual respect for one another and for the most part, that is still there, except for dickheads like Tim Thomas who have to voice up to prove what kind of a man they are, He is a tool, plain and simple. Stick to playing hockey, thats what you get paid millions to do. What a poor example he sets too for the youth of this country who look up to him. Tim Thomas is one big tool.
Just Get It Over With
There was no other excuse for this blown call other than the fact that this umpire probably wanted to go home. Its a terrible excuse and a shitty ending to a great game that I did stay awake to watch. If you didn't see it, he was out by a mile and thus the need for instant replay in MLB, for umpires who are as bad as this call was:
Category: Sports
Help Us Knock The Habs Out of 6th
Category: Buffalo Sabres Hockey | Hockey | Sports | Toronto Maple Leafs
I Love an Honest Quote
As much as I hate the New York Yankees, I loved Mark Teixeira's quote after the Yankees home opener today:
“I’ve been petitioning the league to start in March for years. “Finally they let us start in March because everybody knows my Aprils,” Teixeira said. “It’s great to start this way. … Last year was awful, it was embarrassing.”
The Yankees opened their season in March for the first time ever and Teixeira was referring to his notoriously slow starts.
Lets hope he gets back to his usual Aprils starting tomorrow.
Category: Sports
Congratulations James Starks!!!!
Congratulations to James Starks and the Green Bay Packers. I have to say, after this season with the Bills and the Browns my two favorite teams stinking up the joint, I got to watching the Green Bay Packers, I had Aaron Rodgers as my quarterback in my fantasy league and loved watching him and then Niagara Falls native and UB graduate James Starks was brought in.
After Starks started playing I started watching them every week down the stretch and he was one of the top running backs in the NFC over the last several weeks of the regular season and led all running backs in rushing yards for the postseason. I don't know if he will be the starter in Green Bay next fall but hes worth giving the ball to as a change up kind of guy and could make a difference.
Yesterday he had 50 yards, not a huge day, but he did have a couple of runs that extended drives that would have been dead had he not gotten those runs in and he ran with a purpose when he got the ball. He definitely plays bigger than his size and runs with some aggressiveness. It was nice to see and lets face it, when you have a quarterback throwing the ball like Rodgers does, 50 yards on the ground sometimes isn't such a bad day.
I actually started to like Green Bay this year, They deserve full marks and Starks deserves a lot of the attention he is getting, its nice to have a local kid have that kind of success especially since it was unexpected.
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Over The Top Patriotism
Did anyone else find the reading of the Declaration of Independence before the start of the game a little over the top? Or at least wierd?Sing the National Anthem...correctly mind you, and play friggin ball. Besides Baseball is still America's true pastime
Category: Sports | Television
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Those words should be ringing loud and clear to the New York Yankees, it was too quiet on the Cliff Lee front and this morning we woke up to Cliff Lee having signed with the Philadelphia Phillies. If not for the cold December winds howling through the streets of New York City this morning you could probably hear crickets chriping as NY Mets fans sit in shock shitting their pants at the pitching staff them and the rest of the NL East have to deal with and Yankee fans at the fact that Lee turned down more money and years to go back to the Phillies and the realization that the Evil Empire and its money tree......
Can't always get what it wants.....thats right Yankee fans, hows that for a punch to the gut, some players, money just can't buy.
So sing along with Mic and the boys this morning, you know the song.......
Category: Sports
Stevie Johnson's Conversation With God
After that catch Stevie twittered to God, but he must have had a chat at some point before or after he tweeted or twittered about it, I wonder how that conversation went?........ Stevie needs to shut up and play football. He nor the Bills are good enough to wear shirts with writing on them for celebrations, you are a 2-9 football team and Stevie, you are an average receiver who had a really good week against another team with two wins.Category: Buffalo Bills | News | Sports
Yankees Will Lose In Four in First Round
Don't get your hopes up if you are a Yankee fan. The signs are there for a collapse in the first round. Today, I am the biggest Tampa Bay Rays fan on the planet. I hope not only the Rays win but the Yankees go into the postseason as the wildcard with another L in the loss column.
The Yankees are not the team they were last year, they will go into the playoffs as the wildcard, no home field advantage throughout the playoffs and lets face it, their pitching beyond CC Sabathia is questionable at best.
Their greediness has caught up to them. AJ Burnett, they had to have the guy, has turned out to be a massive bust and a contract they are stuck with. He won't be a post season starter and if he is chalk him up as a loss every time out, his record is miserable since the All Star Break.
Same goes for Javy Vasquez, Blue Jays just handed him a loss and took him deep early and often in the win last week. So he may not be starter material either.
That leaves the Yankees with three legit starters for the post-season, Sabathia, Hughes and Andy Pettitte who lets face it, Pettitte is not the same starter he was say 5 years ago.
Bottom line is the Yankees will go down in the first round regardless of who they end up playing. Texas will light their pitching up and Minnesota will probably do the same and is one of the teams that could probably out pitch the Yankees bullpen.
The Yankees are 3-7 in their last 10 games, crawling to the playoffs is not the way they want to do it. You can't just turn it on and off, I don't care if you are the so called greatest team in baseball, they certainly didn't show it this year against the Jays who beat them 11 out of 19.
So, warning to Yankee fans, don't get too comfortable, the Yankees will be sitting right where the Jays are come the World Series, in their homes in front of the TV watching the Braves beat the Twins.
Yankees are goin down in the first round in 4 games.
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The Worst Is Yet To Come
Whatever happens this season, keep one thing in mind...remember those 2-14 seasons back in the 1980's? This may be one of them.
The fans of the Bills are as band wagony as any fans in the NFL, almost to a fault. When the Bills win a game we instantly think playoffs, when they lose a game, they stink like no one else's crap. Maybe that is because this team has flirted with winning but never gotten there and when they have lost they have lost bad. They have been 7-9 to 8-8 seemingly since their last playoff game during the Clinton Administration, When you have a team flirting with .500 you go through those extreme highs and extreme lows more so than when you outright suck or when you are great.
They aren't even my favorite team and I get that way about them too. I watch them every week because they are my second favorite team behind the Cleveland Browns who I don't follow as closely as I do the Bills because quite frankly I don't see every Browns game. Last year was the last year though until this team plays itself back to respectibility that I will get that way.
I refuse to feel as if a loss is the end of the world and win has them playoff bound. This year may be the 2-14 season anyway. The writing is on the wall.
Say what you want about Trent Edwards but hes no closer to being a better quarterback this year than he was last year, Gailey or no Gailey. Edwards just doesn't have it and Jauron may have ruined what ever Edwards did have. He plays like hes afraid to screw up, not like hes willing to take the risk to make the big play. There is a difference.
The defense while the secondary may have some standouts, the front seven is a mess. They don't have a true nose tackle and the defensive ends? Marcus Stroud is going to be a coverted defensive end, thats the best we can say. Other than Aaron Maybin and Chris Kelsay they don't have another defensive end worth mentioning and both of them have been converted to linebackers....Yikes. Is anyone playing their true position on the front seven of this defense?
The offensive line is not much better but at least they can say the middle of the line is somewhat healthy and able to play together. But they too are learning a new system from the coaching staff and we all know what the learning curve is in the NFL under new coaches.
Special teams through the first two pre-season games have looked awful. I know, preseason doesn't mean jack and thats fair enough but I haven't seen much to suggest they are good or even decent.
So, here it comes, get ready, 2-14. We have seen over a decade of losing football, but no season has seen rock bottom really. They have been a 7-9 to 8-8 team every year. So, its coming. rock bottom is coming, every team has to hit it to eventually get the talent to get back to respectibility. Im going to watch it though, because I think at the very least, the coach may be the man for the job, as long as everyone, fans included realize that this may be that rock bottom year.
The good news? If this coach is the right man for the job, he has started the process of weeding out the junk and mapping out the players or type of players he wants to fill his team with. Its gonna take a draft or two and a few free agency signings to turn it around but in the NFL that turn around doesn't have to take longl. We have seen bad teams become playoff teams in as little as one year.
The bad news is, we have to suck really bad before we get that turn around.
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