White Sox are Number 1 on....

Sports Illustrated's list of worst teams to root for. Can't wait for the collapse this year, unfortunately no one will be watching. Here it is in all its glory.

This is what TEAM is ALL ABOUT!

These Baby Bulls, just plain fun to watch. One night it's Nocioni and Ben Gordon, the next night its AD and Captain Kirk. Although Nocionia, Gordon, Harrington, Adrian Griffin, and pretty much everyone on the Bulls roster chipped in, in their latest playoff victory. The story last night was Hinrich, every time Washington made a move and you felt the game was going to get close, Hinrich had an answer. This is what a team is, a different guy stepping up every night. I forgot to mention Duhon's defense last night, although the defensive play of the night, was Nocioni plain old stuffing Larry Hughes. I have gained a lot of respect for Mr. Hughes, he is one tough player. Sorry for the rambling post, but that was fun last night, and we shall see if it continues, still it shows what a team you are when you can win two games in the playoffs without your leading scorer in Eddy Curry, and as long as he stays healthy the future star of the organization Luol Deng. This should be fun on Saturday.

NOCIONI, NOCIONI

Not going to comment too much on the Bulls playoff run, being as superstitious as I am. But they played a great game, and even without the 25 points and 18 rebounds, Nocioni played some inspiring and tough basketball. You gotta love the guy. One other thing you have to love about him is his quote after being called dirty by the Wizards,"I don't know why Washington talks," Nocioni said. "This is the playoffs. This is my game." You gotta love him and the rest of the Baby Bulls.

Sorry for the lack of posting

If anyone is actually reading this that is. I've actually had to do some things at work so have not been able to post much. Anyways, I was on the crapper this morning and was thinking about ways to identify which Major League pitchers will have staying power, i.e. Greg Maddux, Roger Clemens, Nolan Ryan, and Randy Johnson, etc. and which will be flops like Todd Van Poppel, Mike Harkey, and Jon Garland. Out of all the guys there Maddux's stats are amazing to look at as the years progress. Just look at his walk totals throughout his career. His last year with the Cubs in 1992 he walked 70 batters while striking out 199. Then under Mazzone in his next year he walks 52 and strikes out 197, pretty frickin amazing. Then comes the amazing year, 19-2 record. in 209.2 innings pitched he walked 23 batters, struck out 181, and had an e.r.a of 1.63. Although he won the cy young in this year and the previous year and the year before that, 1995 was arguably one of the best pitching years anybody who has worn a major league uniform has ever had. Sorry for the digression, Maddux's career amazes me, but I will be back to post more about the simlarities of the pitching greats early years and what sets them apart from the flops. To keep you busy these stat lines are from the second year of Maddux and Dempster: Tell me which one is Maddux and which one is dempster? G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB SO W L SV HLD ERA 25 25 0 0 147.0 146 77 77 21 93 126 7 8 0 0 4.71 30 27 1 0 155.2 181 111 97 17 74 101 6 14 0 0 5.61

T.O. is a moron

Not that most people didn't already know this, but seriously this whole contract issue tops all his stupid shenanigans. Here is the article. He blames his current deal on the fact that he was put in a poor bargaining position because of his refusal to play for Baltimore. The problem with his logic is he created his poor position by refusing to play for Baltimore. Another thing that irked me about is comments, was a quote where he was talking about how the Eagles can cut him anytime they want no matter if he is playing well or poorly, so he reasoned that he should be able to re-negotiate at any point he wants. Well Terrell, that's not how it works, you sign the agreement you stick to it, and if they decide to cut you then the market will determine your value, otherwise just shut up and take your millions of dollars and go play a game. My advice to you TO, is if you are smart, you will shut up and not piss off these philadelphia fans, because in my short time here in Philly, I have noticed that they can turn on the best of them in an instant.

I'll take bets,

that the final CNNSI Power Rankings don't end up like this! I mean the Dodgers at #1, and of course the White Sox at #2, all I have to say is if it ends up like that MLB is in a lot of trouble.

The Chicagosports.com Bloggers Suck

Enough said. These guys are morons, and obviously have no business commenting on the world of sports. My main issue with them is their hatred of Dusty Baker. The guy has done nothing but win in his career, and he is doing the same with the Cubs over the past few years period, end of story. Stop your whining and just enjoy the season, which I might add is still very young. Dusty's teams are not known for the first half performance, but mainly for how they do after the All-Star break. If the pitching staff is healthy, which it looks like it may be, knocking on Wood, we should have a great season of baseball ahead of us.

Opening Day at Citizens Bank Park

Went to opening day at Citizen's Bank Park yesterday, a beautiful park and the first regular season game of the Washington Nationals. The interesting thing that I saw was the new Motrin Ibuprofen ad campaign. Coming out of the orange motrin bottle are two very big arms, and the slogan reads,"Medicine with Muscle." Is it just me or does this seem like an ad campaign that was probably written over a year ago? I hope no one loses their job over it, although you never know, Motrin could be trying to replace steroids as the performance enhancement drug of today's players. On another note, how about those Cubbies.