Dr. Tom

Courage? COURAGE? There's no courage in Pete Rose's admissions. Anyone with more than three brain cells to rub together has known for 15 years that Rose bet on baseball and his own team, and consistently lied about it. He spents YEARS building up sympathy from the public, always playing the poor-persecuted-old-me card, despite the fact that his situation was his own fault. Now, when he has a lucrative book deal in place and the book, with its 500,000-copy first printing, is about to be released, he finally admits to doing what we knew he did all along. And you call it courage? Rose wants to earn his fucking advance and get his ugly mug on as many TV shows and magazines as possible. This is all about Pete Rose marketing and looking out for Pete Rose, like he always has since he got bounced from the game. Courage indeed. Your standards for bravery are appallingly low.

Yet Ugueth Urbina, who's far more proven, still lacks a job.

^ OMG UNREAZONABLE DEMANDS~!!!11!!!1!

Ravens have a much better offensive line though, even though Orlando Brown is a dumbass he and John Ogdan make it absolutely impossible for anybody to penetrate from the outside and the Guards and Center are big too Brown didn't start the whole year. Ethan Brooks, who sucks, started before Brown took over the job. Yes, the Ravens have a big offensive line, and overall it's good, but that's because the talent of Ogden and Brown pulls up average players like Flynn and Bennie Anderson. Uh, PRIEST~! played against the Browns, too. Just once, because it's a non-division game, but he did play against them. The Chiefs won big, and PRIEST~! had 92 yards on 19 carries, with 2 TD. A good game, certainly, but JAMAL~! absolutely abused the Browns, whose rushing defense wasn't as bad as he made it look. Because the Chiefs' offense uses the running back in a more versatile role. JAMAL~! is good at catching passes out of the backfield, but he's not asked to do it very often in the Ravens' offense. That has no bearing on someone being an MVP or not.

Did you hear Stuart Scott yesterday? He hyped up McNair's play as the co-MVP, then said he had an "efficient" game. Yeah, because throwing thrice as many interceptions as TDs, and getting outplayed by Anthony Fucking Wright, is the model of efficiency... Yes, he's good. Yes, he's tough. Now get off his cock.

That's because he played for a shitty team. They still would have been shitty without him. For what it's worth, though, I did pick LT~! as my Offensive Player of the Year (didn't you know that my football column is back, under a different name?). He had a tremendous year, made even moreso when you consider that he played for a horrible team and ran behind a miserable offensive line. No one did more with less.

Yup, there you go, Mike. The owners and players, with their bickering, have given the game something of a PR black eye. Rose and his gambling, though, brings the legitimacy of the sport into question. Even with millionaires and billionaires fighting over money, no one could say baseball was not a fair and legit athletic contest. When the manager of one team has money riding on the outcome, though, that's no longer certain. Look at boxing for an example of a sport whose reputation has been damaged beyond repair by fixes, dives taken, etc. Baseball doesn't need that, and certainly can't afford it.

Do you really need to ask that? I can give you 6-11 million reasons why, depending on which historical account you believe.

Really. It should be the Palestinian Car Bomb...

Maybe because of threads like this?

The interesting thing is this: it's impossible to say that Johnson isn't established. He may not be established in a good way, but everyone knows who he is. I'd say more people know who Johnson is than some of the folks already accepted into the establishment fold. And that, boys and girls, is why posting cliques are ghey.

Heh, I remember that. IIRC, it was because a few losers who didn't get in took the whole thing too seriously and whined that not enough strangers on the internet liked them. So this time, let's shoot for no whiny losers desperately seeking the validation of strangers online.

easy on the peyton fellatio buddy THe thing is, he deserves it. For my money, JAMAL~! was the league MVP. But if you force me to pick between Manning and McNair, then it's Manning anyday. He was 2-0 against McNair and the Titans, which should count for something when an award like this is being considered, but obviously doesn't. Also, Tennessee was 3-0 without McNair, and while they wouldn't have done that well all season without him, he didn't have to play every game for the Titans to be winners. This is not to say that McNair didn't have a great season, because he certainly did. I just don't think he had an MVP season, even if the only two candidates are him and Peyton. And since I was one of the people who harped on Manning's lack of success in big games, I'll gladly take my hat off to him here. He played an incredible game, and the Colts easily dismantled a team that came into their house and humiliated them on national TV a few short weeks ago. Obviously, Tony Dungy and his staff did a good job, too.

How could it be bad? If Gonzalez plays 145-150 games, we know the kind of numbers he'll produce. He's a bargain at $6m if he does that. If he misses significant time due to injury, then he'll produce while he's in the lineup, and the Royals didn't invest much, so they don't really take a loss on it. Every contract is something of a gamble, but the positive expectation here is very high. Excellent deal for the Royals, IMO.

He is. He always has been. I used to think it should be written into his contracts that every line he said in a movie had to end in "... dude!" Anyway, I thought he was decent in the first Matrix because his usual wide-eyed retard expression was actually wuite appropriate for most of the film. In the sequels, when he's supposed to know what he's doing, he comes across as a goober, as I expected. Paul Walker is the worst actor in America today, IMO, but I guess the right role and the right director could make him seem semi-human.

My picks would be Molotor, Eckersley, Gossage, Dawson, and Blyleven.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I can't think of anything that would make me stop saying it: FUCK Pete Rose. He's a liar, a swindler, a shameless self-promoter, and a man who remorselessly did as much damage as he could to baseball while concerning himself only with Pete Rose. If he ever gets into the Hall of Fame, however it happens, I really hope he's died first. The thought of him tainting Cooperstown is sickening to me. My sincere hope is that he never gets reinstated for what he did, and I don't feel he ever should.

Looks like I'm rather late to the party. Oh well. Happy belated anniversary of your birth, Hoff.

Not only did I lose, but I lost to someone who picked the final score exactly. Mad props to AoO.

Matt Cavanaugh calls the offensive plays, not Billick. They needed to establish the pass to get the Tennessee defense to cheat against it. You can't run the ball when you're looking at 8-9 men in the box all the time. Coming out throwing forces the Titans to respect the pass, which means the safeties play back off the line farther, which gives JAMAL~! more room to run. Of course, the Ravens didn't call too many running plays in the second half, when it was clear that establishing the pass was starting to work. As someone who's watched every Ravens game, I'm used to non-calls. Todd Heap gets held or interfered with on almost every play, and it's rarely called. That was a horrible non-call against him on that pass play over the middle. And then Tennesse false starts, and the Ravens' D gets flagged for delay of game? WTF? Billick needs to rant on the officials again.

Fuck that noise. Wright made the plays he needed to make. Brown's penalty was 15 fucking yards on the goddamn game-winning drive. Instead of starting at the 22, the Titans started at the 37. They only needed to "drive" about 30 yards at that point, and you don't need to be the recipient of many Sean Salisbury blowjobs to lead a team 30 yards in a minute of play. Wright played the game he needed to play, but Brown's absolutely fucking stupid, bush-league penalty late in the game is what lost it for the Ravens. Fuck, ONE more yard backwards and Anderson's raggedy-ass kick doesn't clear the crossbar, never mind fifteen. In short: fuck you, Orlando Brown. He is now the Jeff Weaver to my Anglesault.

Four words of comment on that first game: Fuck You Orlando Brown I hope Ray Lewis gouges his fucking eyes out in the locker room. Stupid piece of short-tempered shit. Do that playground bullshit in the preseason, not with the season on the line, you fuckhead. It's a shame he wears that visor... I was hoping the first flag would hit him in his other goddamn eye.

I don't need anymore friends.

Done x5

I guess I'm late by now, but I hope it was a good one.