Bored

Standings thru 3 of 28 bowl games. Points possible to this point: 28 Points possible remaining: 378 1. MarvinisaLunatic 28 2GOLD 28 cartman 28 Cuban Linx 28 Kotzenjunge 28 bps "The Truth" 21 28 JHawk 28 Bored 28 Landon Griffin 28 Choken One 28 11. The Mighty Damaramu 24 HarleyQuinn 24 13. Agent Bond34 22 Rob E Dangerously 22 teke184 22 the pinjockey 22 phoenixrising 22 Gatornibs 22 bravesfan 22 Edwin MacPhitso 22 Vern Gagne 22 22. razazteca 18 23. CanadianChris 4

Today's Game Tangerine Bowl: N.C. State vs. Kansas, worth 4 points Pick Breakdown N.C. State (20) - MarvinisaLunatic, 2GOLD, cartman, Cuban Linx, Kotzenjunge, bps "The Truth" 21, JHawk, Bored, Landon Griffin, Choken One, Agent Bond34, Rob E Dangerously, teke184, the pinjockey, phoenixrising, Gatornibs, bravesfan, Edwin MacPhitso, Vern Gagne, CanadianChris Kansas (3) - The Mighty Damaramu, razazteca, HarleyQuinn On paper this might be the most lopsided bowl match-up but you knever know. Only worth 4 points so I guess there isn't a huge risk in going with Kansas.

There was no Velocity taping, I don't think. APA vs. World's Greatest Tag Team Rikishi vs. Rhyno Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero John Cena vs. Big Show

Well after a very bizarre week in A's transactions has finally come to an end with everyone they expected to get. Michael Barrett did agree to a contract with the Cubs today thus allowing them to send Damian Miller to the A's as the PTBNL plus $800k in cash. Also after trading for the guy early in the week and then non-tendering him yesterday, the A's signed Mark Redman to a three-year deal worth reportedly $4 million/year, this according to espn.com.

Tennessee scores in the final seconds to give me the tiebreak win and to maybe keep my incredibly slim playoff hopes alive.

Hmmm surprised no mention of the Heyman lead stable of Benoit, Cena, Rhyno, WGTT that never happened. Although I guess that was only a rumor.

Nitro December 25, 1995 Lex Luger def. Scotty Riggs Sting def. Big Bubba Dean Malenko def. Mr. JL Randy Savage def. Ric Flair by DQ; WCW Title Match December 23, 1996 Eddy Guerrero def. Chris Benoit Lex Luger def. Tombstone Rey Mysterio Jr. def. Mr. JL Glacier def. Buddy Lee Parker The Amazing French Canadians def. The Public Enemy by DQ Big Bubba def. Konnan by DQ Dean Malenko NC Steven Regal, time-limit draw; TV Title Match Jeff Jarrett NC Rick Steiner December 22, 1997 Fit Finlay def. Eddy Guerrero by count out Steve McMichael def. Meng Rey Mysterio Jr., Juventud Guerrera, & Hector Garza def. Psychosis, La Parka, & Silver King Chris Benoit def. Hammer by DQ Rick Steiner def. Scott Norton by DQ Curt Hennig def. Disco Inferno Harlem Heat def. Lodi & Scotty Riggs Buff Bagwell def. Chris Jericho Randy Savage def. Lex Luger December 21, 1998 Fit Finlay def. Scott Putski Chavo Guerrero Jr. def. Kaz Hayashi Wrath def. Lizmark Jr. Eddy Guerrero def. Rey Mysterio Jr. Norman Smiley def. Prince Iaukea Barry Windham NC Van Hammer Booker T def. Jerry Flynn Lex Luger def. Kenny Kaos Konnan def. Alex Wright; TV Title Match The Giant def. Disco Inferno Goldberg NC Scott Hall December 27, 1999 Brian Knobs def. Bam Bam Bigelow in a hardcore match Mike Rotunda & Buzzkill def. Dean Malenko & Konnan Tank Abbott def. Shane Lash LeRoux & Midnight def. Harlem Heat Bret Hart def. Jerry Flynn; WCW Title Match PG-13 def. Rick Steiner & Berlyn by DQ Norman Smiley & Asya def. Saturn & Jim Duggan Jeff Jarrett def. Kidman; U.S. Title Match The Harris Boys def. Fit Finlay & Meng by count out David Flair & Crowbar def. Vampiro & Evan Karagias Chris Kanyon & Buff Bagwell def. Big Vito & Disco Inferno Kevin Nash def. Sid Vicious & The Wall in a handicap match 2000 – no show Thunder 1998 – no show December 23, 1999 Rick Steiner & Mike Rotunda NC PG-13 Tank Abbott NC La Parka Norman Smiley def. Fit Finlay; HC Title Match The Harris Boys def. Curt Hennig in a handicap match The Maestro def. Bam Bam Bigelow Konnan, Kidman, & Jim Duggan def. Saturn, Dean Malenko, & Asya The Wall def. Kevin Nash by DQ Chris Benoit def. Bret Hart by DQ; WCW Title Match 2000 – no show Raw December 27, 1993 Lex Luger def. Barry Horowitz Johnny Polo def. Marty Jannetty Crush def. Mike Moraldo Razor Ramon def. Derek Domino December 26, 1994 Tatanka NC The British Bulldog Henry Godwinn def. Mike Khoury Kwang def. Rich Myers The Undertaker def. The Brooklyn Brawler 1995 – no show December 23, 1996 Hunter Hearst Helmlsley def. Marc Mero Rocky Maivia def. Salvatore Sincere Pierroth & Cibernetico def. The New Rockers Bret Hart def. Fake Razor Ramon December 22, 1997 The Headbangers def. The Godwinns by DQ The Undertaker def. Rocky Maivia by DQ; IC Title Match Marc Mero def. Scotty Taylor Kurrgan def. Eight Ball Ken Shamrock def. D’Lo Brown Hunter Hearst Helmsley def. Shawn Michaels to win the European Title December 21, 1998 Al Snow def. Gangrel Billy Gunn def. Ken Shamrock Steve Blackman def. The Blue Blazer by DQ Road Dog def. The Big Bossman to win the Hardcore Title J.O.B. Squad def. The Acolytes by DQ Mankind def. Shane McMahon by DQ The Headbangers def. D’Lo Brown in a handicap match Triple H & X-Pac def. The Rock & Test by DQ December 27, 1999 Chyna def. Crash Holly The Dudley Boyz def. The Godfather & D’Lo Brown, Edge & Christian, and The Acolytes (pinned) in a Four Corners Tag Match; Special Referee, Joey Abs Kurt Angle def. The Headbangers in a handicap match Al Snow def. Chris Jericho by DQ; IC Title Match The Rock def. Mankind in a Pink Slip on a Pole Match Prince Albert & Ivory def. Viscera & Jacqueline, Gangrel & Luna, and Val Venis & The Kat (pinned) in a Four Corners Tag Match X-Pac def. Jeff Hardy Test def. Kane by DQ The New Age Outlaws def. Too Cool; Tag Title Match The Big Show def. Triple H; WWF Title Match December 25, 2000 The Hardy Boyz def. Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko Hardcore Crap Segment: Raven wins the Hardcore Title after pinning Steve Blackman; Blackman def. Raven and Hardcore Holly (pinned) in the original Triple Threat Match Steve Austin def Kane by DQ Too Cool def. T&A Kurt Angle, Edge, & Christian def. Chris Jericho & The Dudley Boyz Bull Buchanan & The Goodfather def. A.P.A. The Rock def. The Undertaker by DQ December 24, 2001 Rikishi def. Test by DQ Billy Gunn & Chuck Palumbo def. A.P.A. Rob Van Dam def. Lance Storm Torrie Wilson def. Stacy Keibler in an Egg Nog Match Christian def. The Hurricane; Euro Title Match Booker T def. Maven Tajiri def. Bubba Ray Dudley in a Santa Claus Match Chris Jericho def. Kurt Angle and The Rock (pinned) in a Triple Threat Match for the Undisputed Title December 23, 2002 Kane & Rob Van Dam def. Three Minute Warning Test def. D’Lo Brown by DQ The Hurricane def. Christopher Nowinski Batista def. Spike Dudley Trish Stratus, Jacqueline, & Stacy Keibler def. Victoria, Molly Holly, & Ivory in a Santa’s Little Helper Match Booker T & Goldust def. Chris Jericho & Christian; Tag Title Match Jerry Lawler & Jim Ross def. William Regal & Lance Storm Smackdown December 23, 1999 Chris Jericho def. Hardcore Holly by DQ; IC Title Match Rikishi Phatu def. Viscera Test def. Road Dogg Kurt Angle def. Edge The Rock def. Al Snow in a Cage Match The Kat def. Ivory; Women’s Title Match Jeff Hardy & Christian def. Kaientai Kane def. Mr. Ass Mark Henry def. Buh Buh Ray Dudley The Big Show NC Mankind; WWF Title Match December 21, 2000 The Dudley Boyz def. Lo Down Ivory def. Jacqueline; Women’s Title Match Chris Jericho & The Hardy Boyz def. Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, & Perry Saturn William Regal NC Hardcore Holly; Euro Title Match Crash & Molly Holly def. Kaientai Steve Blackman def. Raven; HC Title Match Billy Gunn def. Steven Richards Edge & Christian def. The Rock & The Undertaker to win the Tag Team Titles; Special Referee, Kurt Angle December 27, 2001 Tazz & Spike Dudley def. The Dudley Boyz Christian def. Rikishi by count out; Euro Title Match The Rock & Rob Van Dam def. Kurt Angle & Lance Storm Trish Stratus def. Mighty Molly; Women’s Title Match The Undertaker def. Tajiri; HC Title Match Edge def. Kane; IC Title Match Booker T & The Big Bossman def. Steve Austin in a handicap match December 26, 2002 Bill DeMott def. Crash Los Guerreros def. Edge & Billy Kidman; Tag Title Match Rikishi def. B-2 Chris Benoit def. The Big Show

The Marlins signed Armando Benitez to a one-year, $3.5 million deal and because of that non-tendered Braden Looper making him a free agent. I know Looper wasn't the greatest closer but that is a pretty big risk to be taking when they probably could have kept him for cheaper.

They got Derek Lee so they don't need Simon and he'd cost too much to just be a back-up. Only thing though is they did do the Lee trade like six weeks ago so I'm wondering in that time if they tried to trade Simon at least for a prospect. Other Cubs related news, according to their website it is expected that they did agree to a contract with Michael Barrett which would mean Damian Miller will go to the A's to complete the trade from earlier this week. Nothing is official at the moment though. Other A's related news, they signed Erubiel Durazo to a one-year deal worth $2.1 million. I think Durazo is no longer Billy Beane's "Holy Grail" to only get a one-year deal. Now watch him hit 35 homeruns and leave for a big contract as a free agent next offseason.

Count me as someone who can't stand Dick Vitale. I remember a little while back seeing a game on ESPN Classic from like 1986 or 1987 between I think Boston College and Providence. Vitale was doing the game and he was excellent. He was much more understated but not to the point where he was boring and when an exciting play, only then would he go into his shtick. Now he's just a parody of his ownself getting overly excited about every other play during a game. Oh and Vern is right about the never critcizing coaches thing. In Vitale's world no coach in college basketball can do anything wrong. I remember just the other day when Mike Jarvis was fired there was immediately a column up on espn.com by Vitale ripping St. John's a new one for firing him. Now right or wrong Vitale does this ALL THE TIME when a coach is fired to the point where I think he just writes the same exact thing every time and just cuts and pastes the latest coach to be fired. One other thing that bothers me about Vitale is the guy is incredibly biased towards the ACC especially Duke and North Carolina to the point where its just sickening. The guy lost any credibility the first time he ever uttered the word "Dukies". I personally can't watch any game Vitale does anymore.

Thank god that little shit Menechino is gone. Yes he can draw a walk but could do absolutley nothing else except give Jason Giambi blow jobs. You'll have to be a diehard A's fan to get that. I'm kinda surprised Fikac wasn't tendered but with the recent bullpen additions there probably wasn't going to be a spot for him. Redman actually isn't a surprise at all because he didn't fit under Steve Schott's salary cap. The A's payroll with Redman (who would have gotten probably $4 million in arbitration) would have pushed to about $58 million and Schott probably won't go any higher than $55 million this year. Yes $3 million means a lot to this asshole. I'm wondering why Beane bothered with the deal when he must have known there was no chance he would get permission to add more payroll. Oh well all they gave up to get him was mop-up reliever but it still sucks they have nothing to show for it.

It's the A's...they won't sign any of them. Speaking of the A's they have until tonight to agree on a contract with Mark Redman or already say bye to him without getting anything for him. It doesn't seem likely that they will offer him arbitration. Aw the wonders of a cheap ass owner team.

God damn I wish I or someone else had had the foresight to create an OAO A-Rod topic a couple of weeks ago. A little late now.

Could have posted in the original college football topic since it has nothing to do with the bowls. Anyways...to keep on topic here's a little useless bowl fact. The Tangerine Bowl is on Monday and the game is only 13 years old but it has under gone four name changes. First it was the Blockbuster Bowl (as in Blockbuster Video), then the Carquest Bowl, then the Micron PC Bowl, and finally settling on the non-corporate Tangerine name. Blockbuster Bowl (1990-1993) 12/28/90 Florida State 24, Penn State 17 12/28/91 Alabama 30, Colorado 25 1/1/93 Stanford 24, Penn State 3 Carquest Bowl (1994-1997) 1/1/94 Boston College 31, Virginia 13 1/2/95 South Carolina 24, West Virginia 21 12/30/95 North Carolina 20, Arkansas 10 12/27/96 Miami 31, Virginia 21 12/29/97 Georgia Tech 35, West Virginia 30 Micron PC Bowl (1998-2000) 12/29/98 Miami 46, N.C. State 23 12/30/99 Illinois 62, Virginia 21 12/28/00 N.C. State 38, Minnesota 30 Tangerine Bowl (2001-present) 12/20/01 Pittsburgh 34, N.C. State 19 12/23/02 Texas Tech 55, Clemson 15 And there is your Tangerine Bowl history lesson...not that anyone cares.

Al I sometimes wonder if your trying to get a job as A-Rod's publicist. He might have not gone into Tom Hick's office and said "TRADE ME!" but the fact that he and Scott Boras openly campaigned for the trade seems to indicate to me that he wants to be traded. But oh well he gets to rot in Texas like he chose too in the first place.

Houston - 20 pts. Tampa Bay Minnesota New England Baltimore St. Louis Carolina Buffalo Jacksonville Dallas Tennessee Chicago Pittsburgh Seattle Philadelphia Indianapolis Green Bay

Ben Roethlisberger referred to his college career in past tense after the game so I'd assume he's going to the NFL as expected.

Standings thru 2 of 28 bowl games. Points possible to this point: 24 Points possible remaining: 382 1. MarvinisaLunatic 24 2GOLD 24 cartman 24 The Mighty Damaramu 24 Cuban Linx 24 Kotzenjunge 24 bps "The Truth" 21 24 JHawk 24 Bored 24 Landon Griffin 24 HarleyQuinn 24 Choken One 24 13. Agent Bond34 18 razazteca 18 Rob E Dangerously 18 teke184 18 the pinjockey 18 phoenixrising 18 Gatornibs 18 bravesfan 18 Edwin MacPhitso 18 Vern Gagne 18 23. CanadianChris 0 (died for the greater good)

Aww but there lies the big question...is MLB better off with the Red Sox winning a championship? That's a tough one, but... Do as many people tune into the playoffs last year if the Red Sox didn't have this mythical "Curse" story? Do as many people give a shit about the Red Sox getting Curt Schilling, Keith Foulke, and trying to trade for Alex Rodriguez? Do the Red Sox even go to these lengths if they had a few championships in the last 80+ years? I'd say a resounding "no" to everyone of those. Oh and I think you'd get many people to argue the Red Sox had a great chance of going to the World Series and winning without every trying for A-Rod.

I know your a big A-Rod fan but you can't defend him on this. He is openly campaigning to steal a man's job and forcing his way there. Its not like he's a free agent and no one forced him to sign with the Rangers. Ya I believe for two seconds he signed with the Rangers to win...sure he did. Maybe he didn't think they'd be this bad but winning was secondary to the money. Hey most people wouldn't reject an offer like that but now he has to reap consequences of his decision instead of trying to turn himself into some sort of victim.

In the opening weekend of the 1987 baseball season I'm at an A's/Angels game. I'm eight years old and I look in the program for the A's roster. I look at the player's birthdays listed to find mine, October 1st. I find a player on the A's that has that birthday and he would become my favorite player from that day on. His name was Mark McGwire.

Hey good for them but how does it benefit baseball? Ooo wow the Red Sox get A-Rod and continue compare dick size with the Yankees and trying to make baseball a two team sport. Yup that really is good for baseball. I think it is still debatable how much the trades would have helped the Red Sox. Like I said they got greedy, they had other things they could have traded for like a 2nd baseman or hell how about another starting pitcher just in case Pedro and/or Schilling breakdown. Oh and its about money because of the Red Sox trying to buy a championship (hey that sounds like another team) and because poor lil' A-Rod. Awww you signed $252 million but you want to be a winner. Awww that's too bad, I'm so sorry.

How is it a blackeye for MLB? The Red Sox tried to skirt around the rules to get this deal done so they have no one to blame but themselves. Shame on them for trying to replace their best player and address a problem they don't have, which is shortstop and hitting. The Red Sox got greedy and blinded by their overwhelming need to overtake the Yankees. Also shame on A-Rod for openly campaigning to steal Nomar's job. No one put a gun to your head to play for that shitty organization in Texas and I hope you stay the rest of your career and hopefully the fans completely turn on you this year. You ain't the MVP, your the Most Valuable Whiner.

Tonight's Game GMAC Bowl: Miami of Ohio vs. Louisville, worth 18 pts. Pick Breakdown Miami of Ohio (22) - MarvinisaLunatic, 2GOLD, cartman, The Mighty Damaramu, Cuban Linx, Kotzenjunge, bps "The Truth" 21, JHawk, Bored, Landon Griffin, HarleyQuinn, Choken One, Agent Bond34, razazteca, Rob E Dangerously, teke184, the pinjockey, phoenixrising, Gatornibs, bravesfan, Edwin MacPhitso, Vern Gagne Louisville (1) - CanadianChris Once again many thanks to CanadianChris for changing their pick to Louisville for the good of the contest so this game would mean something.

They better get the deal done or Nomar is going to have them over the barrel when it comes to contract negotiations or might just say "fuck you" and not report to the Spring Training and demand to be traded anyways. Kevin "Cowboy Up" Millar is going to have egg on his face after throwing Nomar under the bus on national t.v. a couple of days ago.