The New York Yankees

No meta-commentary here, just a little rant about the New York Yankees, who in the wake of signing Tex have now spent around 345 billion dollars in the last 2 weeks on 3 players.

And I know, they were just replacing money that was coming off the books, but who gives a shit really.

They'll find a way to blow it again this year.

Nevermind, I just heard Evan Roberts say that signing Tex improves their "clubhouse presence."

No you red-headed idiot, signing Mark Texiera improves their HR, SLG and OBP. He also claims that this move now makes the Yankees "The Team to Beat" in the AL. I've always hated this expression when it is thrown around professional sports. In the last few years we have seen huge amounts of parity in baseball. There have been different WS winners every year for what seems like a decade now (BoSox excluded). And there have been countless feel-good stories about teams who have made the playoffs who don't have high payrolls.
(Bill Plaschke's note: "Said feel-good teams have all done this with hard work, bunting, and eating dinner together every night. Also sharing cabs after the game. And showering together alot.")
I'll use the 2008 Rays as an example because they are fresh in everyone's mind to make my point;which is EVERY team is the team to beat in baseball. The Yankees payroll has consistently been the highest in baseball every year, and they STILL find new and exciting ways to fuck up. I'm sure they will find a way this year. Their lineup, while stacked and nausea-inducing, is really not that much different than what they've been running out there for close to ten years now. So for Mr. Roberts to say emphatically, "NOW THE YANKEES ARE THE TEAM TO BEAT," reeks of nonsense.

So so stupid

On NFL live, they went to Suzy Kolber. She was all bundled up, freezing at Soldier Field in Chicago. She was talking about some stat where under Lovey Smith, the Bears have won 9 straight when the temperature is under 32 degrees F. Despite the fact that is such a non-stat, that's not what is so so stupid. After Suzy was done blabbing her mouth about things no one cares about, she segued into: "Lets go to Michelle Tafoya with a report on the Green Bay Packers." Here's the fucking stupid part. Michelle Tafoya is on the other side of the same freezing fucking cold Soldier Field!!!!! She's doing a report on the team that's playing the team Suzy Kolber was just reporting on, at the same place, 45 yards away!!! Why oh why? Someone enlighten me as to why that was necessary for ESPN to do, why?

It just goes to show...

Your take on Blagojevich-gate i saw this at cnn.com today. Just proving that in all forms of journalism, you just add '-gate' to something and it makes it important.

holy fuck

I swear

If I hear a sportscaster, or a journalist, say or write: "Lets see if he can get it done on the 'Big Stage'." I'm gonna fucking kill someone. There is no such thing. Its playing a sport; as a paid professional. Its not a fucking stage, to break down the literal meaning. Its a fucking sport, its players performing at a high level. No matter what state or stadium or part of the season they are fucking in. Enough!!!!!

Michael......Francesa.......

Today, listening to Mike, in what one of the most exciting days for a Mets fan in recent memory, I can't help but become furious at this guy's insistance that the Mets need to change their lineup.
He is throwing around the words "clutch", and "choke" and "hit in a big spot" around and blaming the Mets failure to get a "clutch hit" in the last week of the season as the reason they missed the playoffs.

He is saying "now you can't use the bullpen as an excuse, and if you bring back this same mess (meaning the Mets lineup) you will have the same thing happen as last year."

Mike, as usual, is wrong.

If J.J. Putz is setting up K-Rod last year the Mets win 100 games, Johan wins 23 games (and the Cy Young) and you can argue they would have hat a great shot at winning the World Series.

You're not going find a better NL lineup, top to bottom, than the one the New York Mets currently have. Maybe the Phillies, but that's about it. Everyone who wasn't a moron told Mike that the idea of trading David Wright was ludicrous, but Mike still thinks the Mets are "gaggers."

I am here to say that the Mets "collapse" as people like to put it, last year, was 100 percent due to the bullpen. 100 fucking percent. It had NOTHING to do with David Wright's dozen or so shitty ABs the last couple of days of the season. To put a microscope on that sample size and to basically question David Wright's "clutchness" as a result of wildly irresponsible and stupid. The ineptitude of the Mets bullpen last year was HISTORIC. If they were even half-competent, the Mets would have had that division locked up by the end of August.

Now Mike is about to bring on Darryl Strawberry from 2-5. That's 3 fucking hours with Strawberry? Why?

I think they forgot a bullet

After covering the breaking news of CC Sabathia signing with the NY Yankees. An awesome ESPN online poll showed on the screen, not the results, but to show the options. On the top of the poll, it said: The Pulse of the Fan. The question: How many games will CC Sabathia win with the Yankees next season?

- 20 or more
- 17 to 19
- 14 to 16
- 10 to 13
- fewer than 10

I don't know where to start with how annoying this all is. First thing I want to say is; wins don't fucking matter!!!! There should be another choice in the poll which states:

- Depends on run support.

Which reminds me of a radio interview on Ed Randall's Talking Baseball with Barry Zito. It was a couple years ago, when Zito was still on the A's. Like 2 seasons after he won the AL Cy Young Award. This is one of Ed's questions, pretty much word for word: "What's been different in the last 2 seasons compared to your Cy Young Award winning season?" Zito is a terrible interviewee, btw. But his answer sums up the question for all the people that think wins are the best metric to judge pitching. Answer: "Run support (laughter)."

And that's not all folks, its run support, its bullpen, there are so many factors that can lower a pitchers wins. This year, the Met's bullpen blew like 327 leads for Johan Santana. I think it was like 9, but I'm at work right now. Think about that?! 9 fucking games!!!! The BBWAA would been sucking Johan's dick into the Cy Young award this year if he had 9 more wins. Nine NDs doesn't affect any other metrics besides Wins. His other numbers aren't affected at all, but its all these fucking ESPN and BBWAA idiots care about.

I'm at work and now I'm furious. More to come...

Cheers

The Fox NFL Drinking Game!

I'm going to watch the NFL on Fox for as long as I can stand it. Everytime Darryl Johnston, Tony Siragusa, or anyone who is paid by Fox says something retarded I will take a hypothetical "shot of Jack Daniels." (Blogger's note: I would normally be happy to conduct this experiment with actual whiskey, but I would be dead within an hour and a half)

Something retarded will include any meaningless cliches' that cannot be proven or disproven, something stupidly obvious, or just something that generally gets on my nerves.

1.)Moose gets my drinking off to a good start with this piece of nonsensical crap:"The Giants are playing with confidence." That is something you will hear every single sports journalist or commentator say about a team that wins alot. I would like to see a professional athlete that doesn't "play with confidence."

2.)Tony Siragusa (Who absolutely fucking steals money from Fox on a week to week basis by the way) just wasted fifteen seconds of my life by babbling something about the Giants being out of sync and "wondering what's going on." I will not transcribe the exact words of Goose's rhetoric, but I will slam down my second "hypothetical shot."

3.)Tony Siragusa just said that the media attention the Giants have had to deal with as a result of being Super Bowl champions and Plax's situation is "coming into play" in today's game because the Eagles are currently winning. That is such a load of horseshit I don't even know where to begin. Plax being a moron and blowing a bullet through his leg has nothing to do with Hixon dropping an 80 yard TD pass that literally hit him in the stomach. He catches that ball, Giants are up 7-3, and Siragusa doesn't make this statement. Either way, Siragusa eats 56 baby back ribs at half time.

4) Goose is really on a fucking roll. Westbrook just ripped off a TD run, and Goose said the
"one thing" Westbrook does is "keep his legs moving." How does this guy continue to collect a paycheck? That's four shots, and I'm feeling real good at the moment.

5) Goose just said "Groundhog's Day." Shot number 5. The Giants just returned a blocked FG for a TD. Guess they are rising above the negative media attention brought on them by Plax.

Suplax

Get it?

Turned on PTI to hear Wilbon defend Plax and get aggravated, but instead there is no Plax at all on the topic boards, and instead of that idiot Wilbon, there is Dan Le Batard, who sucks and hates himself.
Don't know why ESPN is ignoring what is basically the biggest story of the last week, and really don't have a ton to say on the subject that wasn't already said by Juan. So...that's all I got for now.

Plexiglass Burress

I just have one question: How fucking stupid can you be?

I love this shit. Why would anyone ever think what he did was a good idea. "Yeah, my name is Plexiglass Burress, and I'm about to go to this shitty Manhattan night club. I'm gonna be the coolest guy in town if I bring my illegally owned and chamber-loaded automatic .40 caliber Glock." What the other good idea he had was carrying it in his shitty pants, and like I mentioned, it had a fucking bullet in the hole!!!! And the fucking safety was off!!!! So he's 'bumping' around the club, and security lets him in (because he is Plexipiece) gun or no gun. With his loaded handgun in his BVDs, having some cocktails in the VIP section. So I'm assuming he started stroking his Glock, and BLAM, a nice bullet straight through the thigh, GOOD ONE!!! At that point, the best idea is to leave immediately, go to the hospital, give them a fake name, coax them into breaking the law and not reporting a gun-shot wound to the police, and saying you got shot at Applebees. I forgot having one of your friend/teammate try to hide the gun. Fucking brilliant, it couldn't have been done more idiotically. Wanna know what my advice would have been to prevent this? Don't carry a fucking gun around! You don't need a fucking gun, I promise. Especially if you don't have a permit for the state you're located. Jail should be fun, way to blow it.

This just in!!!!

I am watching soccer while eating lunch at work, and almost lost my pasta when this flashed on; 'the bottomline'

"Lebron James and Microsoft terminate contract, shutting down www.lebronjames.com"

Here's what I think

Who would ever possibly ever in their wildest minds ever ever ever want or need or care to know that, ever?

Mizike Frizzancesa

One of our followers took the time the transcribe some inane babblings from the man who is the authority on sports, life, and having high cholesterol, Mike Francesa. I received this via email, and to the literally half dozens of people who read this blog, we are going to see about making reader comments available in the coming days.

But for now, here is Mike, who clearly didn't have a fucking clue what he was talking about, blessing his listeners with a succint, concise interpretation of an NFL rule. Bear in mind this is a direct quote.

Mike Francesa on 11/24 explaining the free kick that happened during the Giants-Cardinals game to his audience:"If you catch that ball and fair catch it, you have the right to free-kick it without a play. It's a play that's been on the books forever. If you catch the ball on the fair catch there, you have a right to try and kick that and if you get the free kick, it is a field goal. It does not happen because, you know, it doesn't happen very often. But if you can catch the fair catch there on the ball, on the return, catch the ball there, call for a fair catch you can then kick that ball for a field goal. It's on the books, it's called a free kick, it's legal, it doesn't happen very often. They have to be kicked a very long distance, but there's nobody in front of you. So, it's on the books; just look under free kick."

And THAT folks, is why they pay him the big bucks...

~Jean-Pierre

They unleashed him!

TO finally had a breakout game this year. His first big yardage game in like 78 games (I'm joking). But seriously, its been like 7 games I think (I'm at work now, so ill find out for sure the games when I get home). But my frustration is with ESPN of course. Its his first exceptional performance this season, and they wanna analyze every fucking catch. And put little sight line graphics of where the DB wasn't looking, and show that TO was looking in exactly the right spot. Then TO is in a press conference going "They unleashed me!" and all the reporters laugh like he hasn't stunk it up all year. You know what? They didn't fucking unleash you. You played the fucking 49ers, at home, and Romo is healthy. And on the long TD catch, it was fucking offensive pass interference. I'm sick of ESPN highlighting miniscule bullshit all day long. I don't wanna begin talking about a breaking news update every hour about Andy Reid saying "McNabb is our starter". I wouldn't care as much if they called it TO-Gate, or McNabb-Gate, or even just Watergate. That would make it really seem like something important. But now I've gotta get back to Work-Gate, cus its important.

-cheers

The Hall of Impact

That is what Jon Heyman wants to rename the Baseball Hall of Fame. Literally. In his weekly spot with Mike Francesa, Jon Heyman said that Mike Mussina shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame because Heyman (who gets to ultimately vote on this by the way) said that he votes on "impact" that a player has on baseball. Mike Mussina, doesn't quite rate so high on Heyman's "impact" meter.

Heyman claims "I watched Mike Mussina's career, and to me he's not a Hall of Famer." Far be it from me to criticize a man who actually is in the BBWAA, but I'm going to do it anyway. This is an unfair stupid, narrow-minded way to vote. Why in God's name would you not look at his numbers, process them, and come up with a rational reason for or against? You can't possibly quantify "impact." It is a made-up bullshit word that is wildly subjective. There's not a chance in fuck that Jon Heyman watched every single one of Mike Mussina's starts. No chance he saw how many leads his bullpen may have coughed up for him, or how many times his team's offense went quiet. You can't just determine whether or not someone should go to the HOF based on whether or not they "feel" like a Hall of Famer.

Check this out :
http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mussimi01.shtml

There's Mike's career numbers provided to you by the BEST statistics website on the internet. Now I despise the Yankees and everything about them, but I would say that the dude deserves to get in. He was steadily awesome for what seems like an eternity. He pitched in the AL East smack dab in the middle of the juicehead era, and consistently put up solid year after solid year. His strikeout totals hover around 200 year in and year out, and his career WHIP (probably the best stat to measure a pitcher's effectiveness) is a shade over 1.1. That is really, really good. Scroll to the bottom of the page to check out the pitchers in history who Mike is most similar to, and you'll see 5 out of the 10 are Hall of Famers, and the other 5 are just nasty as hell.

And by the way, the fact that men actually use that 300-win thing for pitchers as a good indicator of getting into the Hall or not is borderline criminal. So, rather than going by 'imapct" or "feel", I invite Jon Heyman to make a logical, statistical argument against Mike for the Hall of Fame. Maybe he could! I'm not saying Mike should be a lock, but it would sound better to have a professional baseball writer back his words up with evidence rather than hokey, subjective crap.

Oh and Jon, Bert Blyleven deserves to be in too you dickhead.

~Jean Pierre

A quickie...

Mike Francesa, on the FAN speaking to Jon Heyman regarding Dustin Pedroia:
"He may be smaller than A-Rod, but he has a bigger heart."

Can this be proven?

it's a sad day

Just like my usual Saturday morning, I wake up, have breakfast and a cup of coffee, then put on soccer. And while i watch soccer, I browse around the inter-web and go to all the sites that I frequent. The main one being FJM, and after I catch the bad news about them shutting it down for good, I come to this blog to see Jean-Pierre has already extended our sincerest thanks and gratitude to the guys of FJM. Like Jean said about his experiences, they've also changed the way I watch and think about baseball. And like we've said previously, they were a major part of our inspiration to start this Blog. So again, I/We would like to thank you guys for all the great enlightenment and laughs over the years. Thanks FJM.

-cheers

Sad to say...

Apologies to the 3 people who read this blog for a lack of posts recently, as I know you wait with bated breath to hear what Juan and I have to say. Just been really busy with work blah blah blah noone really cares.

Moving on, no dumb shit here. Just a quick sad note that FJM, the blog that inspired Juan and I to begin this little slice of internet heaven, has decided to call it quits. Actually, that was awful grammar, the guys who write for FJM have decided to call it quits. My heart sank a little when I saw their farewell post, as they are a blog that I literally would have paid to read. If you haven't already, I absolutely recommend going to firejoemorgan.com, and starting waaaayyyy back to the very beginning of the site's archives,(which I believe started in April of '05) and read some of the wittiest, most spot-on bad sports journalism commentary one could ever hope to come across. These guys were professional writers (literally) in every sense of the word, and gave me belly laugh after belly laugh, and completely changed the way I watch baseball today. So as they would say on FJM, I "tip my hat" to Ken Tremendous, Dak, and Junior, and hope for one day to read new stuff from them. Thanks guys.

Favre-Gate

So I was watching the Giants v. Philly last night, which turned out to be a great game. But my favorite part was a commercial from the NFL Network, advertising this Thursday's Jets v. Patriots game. I don't remember it word for word, but will try to get a youtube video of it to add to this post at a later time. Basically, the commercial calls Brett Favre a 'Hero', and since he's a hero, he has to face 'Villains' (the Patriots). Rather than saying its Favre's 6,327 consecutive start, they say something along the lines of 'His 6,327 time leading his army to war'. Its fucking brilliant

-cheers

Derek Jeter: Defensive Butcher

Bill James and nine of his statistically inclined buddies conducted a study in which they watched every ball hit this year by MLB batters. They then examined the defensive result (or lack thereof) that occurred after the ball was hit. They used this study to determine overall defensive effectiveness.

The most interesting result?

Derek Jeter came out as the worst defensive SS in baseball.

Now this isn't the first time Jeter came out on the short end of these defensive studies. Granted, they are FAR from infallible, but over and over this guy ends up at the bottom! There HAS to be something to that, despite the fact that meat-headed Yankee fans will swear he's Ozzie Smith only better looking.

However, this is neither here nor there for the purposes of this blog. I've sworn Derek Jeter was an overrated player for years, a sentiment echoed by MLB players when they named himthe most overrated player in baseball in a fairly recent SI poll.

Cutting to the chase, Boomer and Carton were talking about this study this morning, and it was truly great radio. Carton mentioned the results of the study, and Boomer replied with, "Yeah but that study doesn't measure the intangibles."

You're right Boom. The study doesn't measure the "intangibles" because, get this: THEY DON'T FUCKING EXIST!!!!!!111!!!!111!!! For the love of God, why is this such a difficult idea to accept? You can't just make shit up and pass it off as truth. Prove to me that Derek Jeter provides "intangibles." Please, just show me some factual evidence. You won't be able to do it, so it makes it an unwinnable argument for someone who disagrees with you. It's hokey, cliche'd crap. For YEARS statisticians have been saying Derek Jeter sucks defensively, what's more they have been BACKING IT UP with statistical proof that he does, in fact, suck at defense. And these stubborn idiots flat out refuse to even acknowledge the possibility that these studies just might have a little bit of merit. They'll even go further, and attack the men who conduct such studies, calling them "stat geeks" and "nerds" and "pussies who never played the game."

So then Boomer got on his soapbox about "clubhouse leadership" and garbage like that. Carton responded with "I am convinced that all of you guys who actually played the game make this crap up. Show me a team that's winning and I'll show you 9 leaders on that team."

Truer words have never been spoken.

"Clubhouse leadership," "chemistry", "intangibles" and all of that other shit is just BS that helps people like Bill Plaschke and Jon Heyman collect paychecks. On this blog, we have a simple mantra: Prove it to be true, and we'll believe you.

Starters suck in the 1st inning..

Or at least that is what Mike Francesa would have you believe. Here is the first post on our blog about this man, and I GUARANTEE you it won't be the last. He is truly the icon of misinformed stubborn arrogance in sports talk radio, and he threw out a gem today on my way home from work. It's important to note that I heard this within 2 minutes of turning on the radio.



Topic: Speculation as to who will pitch for the Rays in tonight's abbreviated Game 5. I gather from the tone of the conversation that David Price has either been annointed by Francesa as the best choice or that there is some reason to believe that he will be taking the ball.

Bear in mind that this whole transcript is paraphrased, but you'll get the idea:

Caller: "Why don't the Rays start Garza instead?"

Francesa: "2 reasons. One, starters can sometimes be prone to being wild early. It may take them an inning or two to settle down, and the Rays can't afford that because this will be a 3 inning game. Garza is a starter, so this could happen to him. The second reason is that Price is a lefty with electric stuff."

Where to begin...

Well, Mike is half right here. Price is a lefty and his "stuff" as people like to put it is "electric." I prefer "nasty" but whatever. Mike could've easily said, "Price is nasty," and hung up the phone on this dude, and he would've been fine. But of course, he gets on his proverbial sopabox and blathers on about how starters have a tendency to suck early and settle down as the game goes on.

First of all, this is basically going to be a normal game, only a lot shorter. The score is tied, and most of the pitching staff on either team are available to pitch. Mike is treating this like we never had the two day break due to the inclement weather, and Price STARTING this game is the equivalent of bringing him in from the pen in the sixth inning of a normal game. It's clearly not.

Secondly, Mike is also saying that starters suck in the first inning of work or whatever. So the flip side of that is that relievers don't need that first inning of work to settle in, they can just come in and be right on from the get go. Mike must not watch much baseball, because as we all know, a reliever is just as likely to get his fucking tits lit in his first inning of work as a starter. Probably more likely in fact, because I have a pretty strong conviction in me that says all middle relief pitchers suck at baseball. More on that some other time.

Last of all, and this is probably the best part. DAVID PRICE IS A FUCKING STARTER!!!!! Yes, I know he's come out of the pen for the last part of the regular season and the playoffs. In fact he has only started one game in the big leagues against nine total appearances. However, the bulk of his career has been in the minors, in which he has appeared in 19 games. He started......wait for it........19 games. So Francesa's stupid ass would have you believe he's basically a relief pitcher now, despite the fact that next year there is not a chance in hell that this kid isn't dead smack in the middle of the Rays rotation.

So there you go, Francesa trying to make something out of nothing, instead of just saying "Price is a lefty," or "Price is better than Garza," or "Price is better looking than Garza" or fucking anything of the sort he chose to talk about how starters (meaning Garza) would have a tendency to suck in the first inning of a game. Then he suggests a different starter would be a better choice. Then he swigged some of his lukewarm Diet Coke and ate Veal Parm and took a shit on the air.

Are you serious?

Carlos Pena just tried to bunt for a basehit.

He bats cleanup.

He hit 31 HRs this year.

He should be benched for the rest of the World Series and fined $75,000.

BTW: We reserve the right to comment on things like this as well.

The Hank Aaron award for being a decent player in a huge market with alot of drunk, brain-dead fans goes to...

ARAMIS RAMIREZ!!!!!!! Actually, he won the Hank Aaron Award for "The best offensive player as voted on by the fans." I can't even begin to describe how ridiculous this is. I will often try to back up certain arguments with cold hard numbers, but for something this ludicrous its not even neccessary. There were so many more productive players than A-Ram this year in the NL listing them here would take me over a week if I worked straight with no breaks. Ok, that's a bit much I suppose, but if anyone can honestly say that Aramis Ramirez was more productive than Albert Pujols this year, I would...I don't know what I would do honestly. Probably just say "Dude, are you serious?" For the record, the AL winner was Kevin Youkilis, which....whatever isn't awful I suppose. But the bottom line is you need to play in a big market to win this stupid award, and have a lot of fiercely loyal and fiercely retarded fans who vote for you 8000 times each while eating brats. Doubt you'll ever see a KC Royal win this pile of shit.

This is my first 'BIG' blog post

As I sit and wait for game 4 of Tampa v. Philly, I'm writing this, my first post of a blog my friend and i have started. The main reason for this blog is just getting some of our frustrations out for others to see (possibly).

I also want to allow you to know that we are both Mets fans, and feel very passionate about our team. Now thats not to say we are going to be pro-Met in everything we say. We are gonna be as unbiased as possible, about every team or athlete. I also want to say that this won't be strictly about baseball. I'm guessing the majority will be, but as I'm sure you all well know. People say stupid things about many other sports, but we will mainly focus on baseball.

When/if this inevitably comes up - WE KNOW, this looks like a total bite off of one of our major influences. That being the amazing guys over at Fire Joe Morgan. We only hope to one day be on their level. They have inspired us with some of our baseball belief structure, but this blog will be as original and as unique as we can possibly make it.

Let me now let everyone in a little more closely as to what we will be writing about. As you can tell, this blog is clutch. That being said, we plan on pointing out the pointless. We want to try our best to exploit some of the dumbest things we hear on a regular basis. Based on our location in the states, sports talk radio station 660 WFAN will be one of our biggest targets. Every analyst on ESPN is always a great threat to say something completely ridiculous. And we'll dabble in some newspaper/online articles. And this goes for any sport, not just baseball.

I could go on with this forever, but we both separately wanted to reach out with our own introductions. We hope we can get together a nice following and maybe reach out to some people that might enjoy our views. We look forward to some good, sometimes unclean fun

Cheers

Hello...

So, here I am writing my first ever entry on my first ever blog. I have been reading blogs for a few years now, and was always interested in the process. I also wanted to become a blogger, but could never think of a topic to write about that was interesting. I mean, lets be serious, no one cares about my personal life or the countless lame details that go along with that topic.

My buddy and I decided to start this blog to speak about our interests. We basically started this thing for our own selfish reasons, mainly to have a place to vent our opinions on certain subjects (more on those in a bit) and laugh about them. However we would certainly welcome anyone who agreed with the little things we have to say, and welcome even more people who disagreed with the things we had to say and felt the need to email us and tell us how stupid we are for having such opinions.

Now that we have taken care of why this blog exists, lets get down to what we will be writing about. My buddy and I are pretty passionate sports fans, passionate meaning our moods will change depending on the finish of a professional athletic contest. I don't equate "passion" to how many games you attend live or how much lame crap you have with your favorite team's logo on it. I believe a passionate fan becomes happy when his team wins, and pissed off when his team loses, plain and simple. The majority of the posts on this blog will probably center around baseball, as it is my buddy and I's favorite sport, with the other 3 "major" sports all a good distance behind. For whatever it is worth, we are both Mets fans, and root for them "passionately."

That being said, since we follow the Mets closely, we also read alot about them in the newspapers, and hear alot about them on sports talk radio, and watch alot about them on ESPN and all of it's ripoffs. Now this is not a Mets blog by any means, we don't discriminate when talking sports. We are here to examine all of the stupid, ridiculous things that people say about sports. The amount of subjective, misinformed dreck that comes from people's mouths and word processors about sports in general is truly mind-blowing. Newspaper writers submit "articles" that somehow make it past editors which contain no facts, just lines and lines about old-timey mystic crap that can never be proven or verified. Words like "clutch", "swagger" and "gamer" are considered four-letter words by my buddy and I; and will always drive us crazy.

Real quick, we just want to take the time here to say that this blog would never exist if it wasn't for another blog. That blog is firejoemorgan.com. Gentlemen who write for that blog are far more witty than I could ever hope to be, and if our blog at all emulates their style, that is only because we admire them as writers and sports fans and human beings who are not idiots.

So, while FJM focuses (but doesn't limit itself to) written articles, my buddy and I will probably focus more on radio/television with a smattering of journalism. We will point out how retarded these "professionals" are, and also take the time our to ridicule callers to our local, beloved sports talk radio station WFAN 660 in New York. It should be good fun for all. I don't know how much we'll post, but trust me, we have alot to say, and hopefully you'll laugh along with us; or at the very least read us.

Those who have ever read Bill Plashcke from the LA Times, or Kevin Kernan or Steve Serby from the NY Post, or Dan Shughnessey from the Boston Something can certainly agree that these morons will oftentimes try to create something out of nothing. They may do this to sell papers, or they may do this because they are stubborn, brain damaged idiots. We will certainly give them their due, as well as Tim McCarver, Mike Francesa, Joe Beningno, TJ Simers, Michael Smith, Mike Wilbon, and anyone else who is paid to bring informed opinions to you the public, but instead go about fulfilling their own agenda through retarded double speak or just out and out thick headedness. (People who aren't paid professionals, well, we'll make fun of them too.)

So that's it in a nutshell. Game 4 of the series is on now so I'll be off to not only watch the game, but laugh at what a moron Tim McCarver is, and get aggravated at what a douchebag Joe Buck can be. Cheers to all, and hope you enjoy what we have to say.

~Jean-Pierre