Bored

MLB Network has a bunch of random classic games this weekend. SATURDAY 4/9/85 St. Louis @ NY Mets - Gary Carter Game-Winning Home Run, 11:00/8:00 AM 5/6/82 NY Yankees @ Seattle - very attractive in a way that I can't explainlord Perry (CHEATER!!!!) Records his 300th Victory, 2:30 PM/11:30 AM SUNDAY 5/01/91 Toronto @ Texas - Nolan Ryan Tosses His 7th No-Hitter, 11:30/8:30 AM 6/28/76 NY Yankees @ Detroit - Mark The Bird Fidrych Tosses a Complete Game, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM 6/23/84 St. Louis @ Chicago Cubs - Ryne Sandberg Delivers Game-Tying and Game-Winning HR, 4:00/1:00 PM 4/10/81 Chicago White Sox @ Boston - Carlton Fisk Hits Game-Winning Home Run in Fenway Return, 9:00/6:00 PM EDIT: OMG word filter

Yes I'm disappointed by this turn of events as well. And really...fuck the children.

Chase Headley, OF/3B

Bracket Matrix Update Last Four In Cincinnati Miami UNLV San Diego State Last Four Out USC Creighton Kansas State Georgetown

Someone made Aybar their first round pick in the fantasy baseball draft and it went from there. And Willy Aybar has a bit of a history here at TSM. I don't think we ever actually figured out where he was.

Tomorrow's headline: Doctors Tell Hampton He's Been Clinically Dead For Five Years In other news...Operation Shutdown 2009: Odalis Perez Edition

It's Bracket Buster Week with the feature match-up being Butler/Davidson although Stephen Curry's status is up in the air after spraining his ankle the other day. Here's a link to the full schedule. Full TV Schedule for Week of 2/16 - 2/22 The Games Most of You Can See MONDAY #4 Pittsburgh at #1 Connecticut, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Texas at Texas A&M, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN TUESDAY #6 Michigan State at #19 Purdue, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Maryland at #13 Clemson, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2 Kentucky at Vanderbilt, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN WEDNESDAY Providence at #7 Louisville, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2 Oklahoma State at Texas Tech, 9:30/6:30 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY #9 Duke at St. John's, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #16 Xavier at Charlotte, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Wisconsin at Indiana, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN Rutgers at #12 Villanova, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 Hawaii at Fresno State, 11:00/8:00 PM, ESPN2 #22 Washington at #20 UCLA, 11:00/8:00 PM, FSN FRIDAY Illinois State at Niagara, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 SATURDAY Northeastern at Wright State, 11:00/8:00 AM, ESPN2 #21 Butler at Davidson, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN Tennessee at Kentucky, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS* Army at Navy, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS* Buffalo at Vermont, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, ESPN2 #10 Marquette at Georgetown, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN Northern Iowa at Siena, 3:00 PM/Noon, ESPN2 Washington State at #20 UCLA, 3:00 PM/Noon, FSN San Diego State at New Mexico, 3:00 PM/Noon, Versus #3 North Carolina at Maryland, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC #5 Memphis at UTEP, 4:00/1:00 PM, ESPN Utah State at St. Mary's, 5:00/2:00 PM, ESPN2 #2 Oklahoma at Texas, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN SUNDAY #12 Villanova at #24 Syracuse, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS* #18 Illinois at Ohio State, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS* Wisconsin at #6 Michigan State, 3:00 PM/Noon, ESPN #8 Wake Forest at #9 Duke, 7:30/4:30 PM, FSN Arizona at #14 Arizona State, 10:00/7:00 PM, FSN

Matt Capps, RP

Ted Lilly, SP

Given the choice of sponsoring a college football thread on a wrestling message board or sponsoring a bowl game of 6-6 Big East and Conference USA teams, I believe MagicJack has made a wise choice.

Roy Oswalt is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore! Okay first off this is just silly. You're an active player and a very good one at that. A-Rod hasn't cost you a spot in the Majors, hell he's not even a pitcher! So why did God let these heathens have their performance enhancing drugs? Jesus didn't need steroids to hit a curveball! Hmm, interesting considering they've never even played in the same league together but they have faced off in three games in interleague play so let's go to the video tape! Or let's go to baseball-reference. June 8, 2001 Oswalt failed to retire Rodriguez in three plate appearances as he doubled, walked, and doubled. Obviously those doubles would have been infield pop outs without steroids. Oswalt also gave up home runs to Ivan Rodriguez and Rusty Greer and I now demand both have their records removed the books as obviously Oswalt's God given gifts would not surrender home runs to clean players. Oswalt got a no decision but the Astros won, but who cares because A-ROD COULD HAVE COST HIM MONEY!!! June 28, 2002 In this game Oswalt did get the better of Rodriguez in two of his at bats but in the 4th inning A-Fraud hit a home run off our hero and if I were Roy I would demand that MLB lower his ERA for the 2002 season immediately! But our hero did win the game but hey he could have also lost it which means A-ROD COULD HAVE COST HIM MONEY!!! June 15, 2008 Rodriguez reached base only once against Oswalt on a walk. But with these new fangled PEDs they keep coming up with who knows they might actually give players telekinesis. I think A-Fraud may have caused Roy's pitches to land out of the strikezone with his mind! Oswalt lost this game and this certainly means that A-ROD COST HIM MONEY!!! For those scoring at home Roy Oswalt has made $46,950,000 in his career and his current contract will guarantee him another $45 million over the next three seasons. And you know what he deserves it, he's a fantastic pitcher and I'm just having some fun here. He has a right to be pissed that there will be a cloud over all players who played in the last 15 years. But he really comes off like a sanctimonious crybaby in this and does anyone really want to hear a millionaire whine about possibly being cost money? Also if Roger Clemens is ever "proven" to have used PEDs in his career, I hope Roy has the same conviction that he has with A-Rod and demand the Astros be stripped of their 2005 National League Championship.

Hey you know what we need...more bowl games! Aww I was hoping for the Cancer Bowl. The sponsorship possibilities would have been endless!

Da Meat Hook is a non-roster invite so he might not even make the team. Guessing Kearns and Harris go to the bench and who knows what you can really expect out of Nick Johnson. I suppose they put Dunn at first or maybe Willingham could move there. A lot of GMs will be calling Bowden for trade possibilities.

The dominos are finally starting to fall: Adam Dunn signs two year deal with Nationals

My thoughts exactly. Kelly Johnson, 2B

Just so everyone is clear that it's not because he lied about his own usage, it's because he lied about other player's usage. Seriously, WHO...THE...FUCK...CARES?????????? Jesus fucking Christ it's steroids, not murder! A total fucking waste of tax payer dollars. And once again this proves Mark McGwire was a lot smarter than people gave him credit for, PR nightmare be damned.

Ryan Doumit, Catcher

Edit: wrong thread

Bracket Matrix Update (most projections thru Sunday's games) Last Four In Arizona Cincinnati Miami UNLV Last Four Out Georgetown Wisconsin Michigan St. Mary's

One thing to add to the "why did he wait until he got caught?" nonsense, is there still hasn't been a single active player to confess to using steroids prior to either testing positive or having evidence/accusations of steroid use being brought against them. Until that first active player confesses before being caught, it's rather silly to get self-righteous about A-Rod waiting to confess until today.

Here's a "shock".....Selena Roberts has a book on A-Rod coming out in May.

Full TV Schedule for Week 2/9 - 2/15 The Games Most of You Can See MONDAY West Virginia at #4 Pittsburgh, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #16 Kansas at #17 Missouri, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN TUESDAY #9 Michigan State at Michigan, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #10 Marquette at #13 Villanova, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2 Florida at Kentucky, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN WEDNESDAY #23 Syracuse at #1 Connecticut, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #3 North Carolina at #6 Duke, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN #2 Oklahoma at Baylor, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY #5 Louisville at Notre Dame, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Temple at St. Joseph's, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 #11 UCLA at #18 Arizona State, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN #22 Illinois at Northwestern, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 USC at Arizona, 10:30/7:30 PM, FSN FRIDAY #13 Villanova at West Virginia, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN SATURDAY Georgetown at #23 Syracuse, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN #11 UCLA at Arizona, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS* Kentucky at Arkansas, 1:00/10:00 AM, CBS* Texas at Colorado, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN Oregon at Washington, 3:00 PM/Noon, FSN #16 Kansas at Kansas State, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Florida at Georgia, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Cincinnati at #4 Pittsburgh, 4:00/1:00 PM, ESPN Creighton at Southern Illinois, 5:00/2:00 PM, ESPN2 Stanford at California, 5:00/2:00 PM, FSN Tennessee State at Austin Peay, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 #24 Ohio State at Wisconsin, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN Niagara at Fairfield, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 SUNDAY #22 Illinois at Indiana, 1:00 PM/10:00 AM, CBS #6 Duke at Boston College, 5:30/2:30 PM, FSN #3 North Carolina at Miami, 7:45/4:45 PM, FSN USC at #18 Arizona State, 10:00/7:00 PM, FSN

And how exactly do we know that Griffey isn't on the list? Because he doesn't look like he takes steroids? This is the exact same thing people said about A-Rod. That is not to say that I suspect Griffey used but right now we still have no idea who did and didn't over the last few decades. And I say decades because it is naive to believe that steroids suddenly became popular in the late 90's and early 2000's. Tom House who was a pitcher during the 70's admitted a few years back that he used steroids during the decade. I'd say it highly plausible that there are players already inducted in the HOF who used steroids at some point in their career.

Cheech is a New York Post headline writer! Personally I do hope all 104 names come out so we can see all the fringe players on the list who steroids didn't do shit for.

Another day, another OMG BASEBALL IS DEAD story. But I'm here to help the healing begin with a distraction. It's time to decide who was the worst team of my lifetime! In a desperate need for content for this blog I've decided to run a simulation using Strat-O-Matic to crown the worst team of last 30 years. Each MLB franchise will be represented with their worst team from the last 30 seasons. I'll be using the 2008 MLB schedule as a guideline for the league as no way I'm going to take the time to create my own schedule and Strat's computer generated schedules aren't particularly good. It will be a couple of weeks before I actually begin the simulation as the 2008 rosters won't be shipping for another week and the '08 Nationals are the Montreal/Washington rep. Now to truly decide who is the worst team of the last 30 years, the standings will be turned upside down. Last place teams in the six divisions and the worst next to last teams in each league will qualify for the playoffs. The playoffs will be just like the current playoff format but loser of each series will be the one who advances. Start making your predictions now! AL East 1979 Toronto Blue Jays (53-109) 1988 Baltimore Orioles (54-107) 1990 New York Yankees (67-95) 1992 Boston Red Sox (73-89) 2002 Tampa Bay Devil Rays (55-106) AL Central 1982 Minnesota Twins (60-102) 1989 Chicago White Sox (69-92) 1991 Cleveland Indians (57-105) 2003 Detroit Tigers (43-119) 2005 Kansas City Royals (56-106) AL West 1979 Oakland Athletics (54-108) 1980 California Angles (65-95) 1980 Seattle Mariners (59-103) 1985 Texas Rangers (62-99) NL East 1988 Atlanta Braves (54-106) 1993 New York Mets (59-103) 1998 Florida Marlins (54-108) 2000 Philadelphia Phillies (65-97) 2008 Washington Nationals (59-102) NL Central 1981 Chicago Cubs (38-65) 1982 Cincinnati Reds (61-101) 1985 Pittsburgh Pirates (57-104) 1991 Houston Astros (65-97) 1995 St. Louis Cardinals (62-81) 2002 Milwaukee Brewers (56-106) NL West 1981 San Diego Padres (41-69) 1985 San Francisco Giants (62-100) 1992 Los Angeles Dodgers (63-99) 1993 Colorado Rockies (67-95) 1998 Arizona Diamondbacks (65-97)