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