Great news out of the Buffalo Bills camp. "Kevin Everett is walking on his own at a Houston rehab center, the latest significant progress by the Buffalo Bills tight end in his remarkable recovery from a serious spinal cord injury."
Originally the belief from doctors was that Everett would never walk again. In the Bills season opener versus Denver, Everett was paralyzed from the neck down after making a tackle. A few days later he started moving his arms and legs, and thing shave only improved from there.
Regardless of how many losses the Bills finish with , the news of Everett's miraculous recovery is a win for that team, and that city.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Tigers caught some Marlins
How in God's name did this happen? The Angels were offering more than this for Miguel Cabrera alone, now the Tigers get him and Dontrelle Willis for two really good prospects and some throw in's? First of all, this trade makes Detroit ridiculous. Their lineup is being compared to that of a fantasy baseball lineup;
- Granderson
- Palanco
- Cabrera
- Ordonez
- Sheffield
- Rodriguez
- Guillen
- Jones
- Renteria
That unreal. The only thing that lineup was really missing was a young home-run hitter, and now they got it...with Willis as icing on the cake to be their third starter.
The bigger issue at hand is that the Marlins will likely go into the next season with a payroll of roughly 10 million dollars. That means that they will receive more money than anybody else from major league baseball due to the luxury tax for the second straight year. Their payroll is going to be less than Gil Meche's contract; granted he was over paid, but Barry Zito is making 14.5 million, so the market for pitchers is too high in general. Is it fair to the Marlins fans to pay money to watch them put out a team of 20 year old's who likely will be out of the playoff race by the end of the first month? No. Is it fair to season ticket holders to essentially give up on the team before spring training? No. Is it fair to the rest of the MLB that they refuse to pay anyone besides Olivo over a million dollars (he gets two million) so that every team will be giving them luxury tax money for simply showing up for the season? No.
I've had this gripe before because of their fire sales in the past and nothing has changed. The Marlins are bad for baseball and the longer it takes for the MLB figure out a way to stop this, the worse it could get. Baseball is often criticized for their enormous salaries, but why is no one mad that the Marlins are robbing their fans? At least teams like Boston and New York give their fans a show for their money.
-Sean
Monday, December 3, 2007
No Miracle Tonight
Wow. I couldn’t wait until tomorrow. I’ve been slipping in and out of consciousness for the past hour, so let’s see how incoherent this post can be. I’m sure tomorrow we’ll hear on every sports show, “Did the Pats win it, or did the Ravens lose it?” Normally the Pats ALWAYS win it, but tonight the Ravens gave it away. They had the ball twice in the last 5 minutes and had two three and outs, no pun intended. Then they call time out on 4th and one, when they had Brady stopped. The Ravens committed way too many penalties, especially on the final drive. As Mike Tirico pointed out, on such a windy night, kick returns have been crucial to field position. The returners had been lining up at the 15 on most of the kicks. With those unnecessary personal foul calls Gostkowski was able to kick off from Baltimore’s 35. And it ended up costing the Ravens a shot at history, as we saw they got stuffed at the one yard line to end the game.
The pats didn’t play a terribly great game, but they’ve shown us over the years, they do what they need to, to win games. The only concern I have going into the Steelers game next week (4:15 on CBS) is the run defense. The pats let Willis McGahee run wild, on a night when they new Baltimore’s only chance to win would be on the ground. And as I mentioned at the half, Kyle Boller is who we thought he was. He threw a horribel interception that would have put the Ravens up by two scores. I don’t know what he was thinking, there was not a single Purple uniform near the ball.
You gotta give props…
Brady just said in his press conference that he would have gotten that first down if the Ravens hadn’t called timeout because “he heard the whistle blow”. And he’s funny.
anyways, DAP to the Ravens D; they sacked Brady three times, the most of anyone this year. Not counting the first drive of the game, Baltimore was able to confuse and contain the big three receivers. The Ravens seem to be stuck in a rut. Their offense is finally starting to come around, but the defense continues to get older. They’ve got some major decisions to make in the offseason.
–J.J. Mad
The pats didn’t play a terribly great game, but they’ve shown us over the years, they do what they need to, to win games. The only concern I have going into the Steelers game next week (4:15 on CBS) is the run defense. The pats let Willis McGahee run wild, on a night when they new Baltimore’s only chance to win would be on the ground. And as I mentioned at the half, Kyle Boller is who we thought he was. He threw a horribel interception that would have put the Ravens up by two scores. I don’t know what he was thinking, there was not a single Purple uniform near the ball.
You gotta give props…
Brady just said in his press conference that he would have gotten that first down if the Ravens hadn’t called timeout because “he heard the whistle blow”. And he’s funny.
anyways, DAP to the Ravens D; they sacked Brady three times, the most of anyone this year. Not counting the first drive of the game, Baltimore was able to confuse and contain the big three receivers. The Ravens seem to be stuck in a rut. Their offense is finally starting to come around, but the defense continues to get older. They’ve got some major decisions to make in the offseason.
–J.J. Mad
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