Bored

I'm back to suck some more.

Let go to make room for Guillermo Mota? Ouch.

Agent Kinetic

Really? He's a shoo-in in my mind. Do you think the spitting incident will keep him out next year? Seems kind of silly in light of all the guys not getting in because of PEDs. With the arbitrary nature of why a writer does or does not vote for a guy makes me think without a doubt that some will not vote for him, at least on the first ballot, due to the spitting incident. It won't matter them about him becoming friends with the umpire later, baseball writers never let facts get in the way of their own perceptions or opinions. Also I don't think Alomar will be looked at as an "inner circle" candidate like RICKEY~ was or Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn were in 2007. For a recent example of a second baseman and how they faired, Ryne Sandberg didn't get in on the first ballot (barely got in on the second) and he was a former MVP with a squeaky clean image. Now I wouldn't be surprised if Alomar does it get in on the first ballot but it will be close. In fact there's an outside chance the writers will fail to elect someone next year. Dawson is the only other player who has a shot but the 40+ votes he needs is a lot to make up in one year.

In case anyone was wondering the biggest names to join next year's ballot are Roberto Alomar, Barry Larkin, Edgar Martinez, and Fred McGriff. Out of the four I think only Alomar has a shot next year but I don't think he'll get in on the first ballot. Larkin should get in at some point but the lack of support of Alan Trammell over the years makes me doubt that will happen. Really? I mean, why bother? Pedro Gomez was one of them. Some writers do always vote ten players and if they want to throw in someone who was a favorite of there's that is fine. Gomez though had three open spots on his ballot yet elected to pick Bell over the likes Blyleven, Raines, and McGwire.

28 voters ended up leaving RICKEY~ off the ballot. No other first ballot players received enough votes to stay on the ballot. Both McGwire and Raines lost ten votes this year. Player Total Votes Percentage Rickey Henderson 511 94.8% Jim Rice 412 76.4% Andre Dawson 361 67.0% Bert Blyleven 338 62.7% Lee Smith 240 44.5% Jack Morris 237 44.0% Tommy John 171 31.7% Tim Raines 122 22.6% Mark McGwire 118 21.9% Alan Trammell 94 17.4% Dave Parker 81 15.0% Don Mattingly 64 11.9% Dale Murphy 62 11.5% Harold Baines 32 5.9% Mark Grace 22 4.1% David Cone 21 3.9% Matt Williams 7 1.3% Mo Vaughn 6 1.1% Jay Bell 2 0.4% Jesse Orosco 1 0.2% Ron Gant 0 0% Dan Plesac 0 0% Greg Vaughn 0 0%

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With Saturday now football free, it means there will be an ass load of televised games on Saturday. CBS will have a big doubleheader of Georgetown/Duke and ASU/UCLA and there will also be the first ESABCPN telecast of the year with a regional game. Hey there's even Horizon and Missouri Valley league action as well. Full TV Schedule for Week of 1/12 - 1/18 Network/Basic Cable Schedule MONDAY #12 Notre Dame at #20 Louisville, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #11 Texas at #6 Oklahoma, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN TUESDAY Indiana at Ohio State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN Memphis at Tulsa, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2 Kentucky at #24 Tennessee, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN WEDNESDAY #3 Duke at Georgia Tech, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #8 Syracuse at #13 Georgetown, 7:30/4:30 PM, ESPN2 #21 Baylor at Texas A&M, 9:30/6:30 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY #4 Connecticut at St. John's, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #19 Purdue at Northwestern, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 #5 North Carolina at Virginia, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN Washington State at Oregon State, 9:00/6:00 PM, FSN Arizona at #9 UCLA, 11:00/8:00 PM, FSN SATURDAY #12 Notre Dame at #8 Syracuse, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN Northern Iowa at Drake, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN2 #13 Georgetown at #3 Duke, 1:30 PM/10:30 AM, CBS #6 Oklahoma at Texas A&M, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN #17 Butler at Illinois-Chicago, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN2 Washington State at Oregon, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, FSN #2 Wake Forest at #10 Clemson, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* Kansas at Colorado, 3:30/12:30 PM, ABC* #16 Arizona State at #9 UCLA, 3:45/12:45 PM, CBS Illinois at #7 Michigan State, 4:00/1:00 PM, ESPN BYU at New Mexico, 4:00/1:00 PM, Versus #1 Pittsburgh at #20 Louisville, 6:00/3:00 PM, ESPN Temple at Massachusetts, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Miami at #5 North Carolina, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN #14 Marquette at Providence, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 Pacific at Cal State Fullerton, 11:00/9:00 PM, ESPN2

Posting the offseason thread for college football now so I don't forget until May like I did last year. Here's a list of non-traditional, non-conference games between I-A schools for next season (games between 2008 bowl teams are bolded), although I probably missed a few. Here's a link for a list of schools who still have open spots on their 2009 schedule. Kent State at Boston College Middle Tennessee at Clemson Florida State at BYU South Florida at Florida State Maryland at California Rutgers at Maryland Pittsburgh at N.C. State Baylor at Wake Forest Stanford at Wake Forest Wake Forest at Navy Duke at Army Duke at Kansas Georgia Tech at Mississippi State Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt Oklahoma at Miami Miami at UCF Miami at South Florida North Carolina at Connecticut East Carolina at North Carolina TCU at Virginia Virginia at Southern Miss Virginia Tech vs. Alabama (in Atlanta) Marshall at Virginia Tech Nebraska at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech at East Carolina Cincinnati at Oregon State Fresno State at Cincinnati Cincinnati at Miami of Ohio Illinois at Cincinnati Connecticut at Ohio Connecticut at Baylor Connecticut at Notre Dame Louisville at Utah Southern Miss at Louisville Pittsburgh at Buffalo Navy at Pittsburgh Rutgers at Army South Florida at Western Kentucky FIU at South Florida Minnesota at Syracuse Syracuse at Penn State Akron at Syracuse Northwestern at Syracuse West Virginia at Auburn Colorado at West Virginia East Carolina at West Virginia Indiana at Akron Western Michigan at Indiana Fresno State at Illinois Arizona at Iowa Arkansas State at Iowa Western Michigan at Michigan Eastern Michigan at Michigan Central Michigan at Michigan State Michigan State vs. Western Michigan (in Detroit) Air Force at Minnesota California at Minnesota Miami of Ohio at Northwestern Eastern Michigan at Northwestern Navy at Ohio State USC at Ohio State Ohio State vs. Toledo (in Cleveland) New Mexico State at Ohio State Akron at Penn State Temple at Penn State Toledo at Purdue Purdue at Oregon Northern Illinois at Purdue Northern Illinois at Wisconsin Fresno State at Wisconsin Wisconsin at Hawaii Colorado at Miami of Ohio Wyoming at Colorado Iowa State at Kent State Army at Iowa State Kansas at UTEP Southern Miss at Kansas Kansas State at UCLA Bowling Green at Missouri Missouri at Nevada Florida Atlantic at Nebraska Arkansas State at Nebraska Louisiana-Lafayette at Nebraska Kent State at Baylor Oklahoma vs. BYU (in Arlington) Tulsa at Oklahoma Georgia at Oklahoma State Rice at Oklahoma State Houston at Oklahoma State Louisiana-Monroe at Texas Texas at Wyoming UCF at Texas UTEP at Texas New Mexico at Texas A&M Utah State at Texas A&M UAB at Texas A&M Arkansas vs. Texas A&M (in Arlington) Rice at Texas Tech Texas Tech at Houston New Mexico at Texas Tech Bowling Green at Marshall Memphis at Tennessee Memphis at Middle Tennessee Florida Atlantic at UAB UAB at Troy UAB at Mississippi Buffalo at UCF Houston at Mississippi State Vanderbilt at Rice Navy at Rice SMU at Washington State SMU at TCU Navy at SMU BYU at Tulane Tulane at Army Tulsa at New Mexico Boise State at Tulsa Buffalo at UTEP UTEP at New Mexico State Troy at Bowling Green Wyoming at Bowling Green Miami of Ohio at Boise State Ohio at Tennessee Army at Temple Temple at Navy North Texas at Ball State Ball State at Army Ball State at Auburn Central Michigan at Arizona Army at Eastern Michigan Eastern Michigan at Arkansas Idaho at Northern Illinois Boise State at Toledo Toledo at FIU Nevada at Colorado State Colorado State at Idaho San Diego State at UCLA San Diego State at Idaho New Mexico State at San Diego State Oregon State at UNLV Hawaii at UNLV UNLV at Nevada Utah at San Jose State Utah at Oregon Louisiana-Monroe at Arizona State Arizona State at Georgia Oregon at Boise State San Jose State at USC UCLA at Tennessee LSU at Washington Idaho at Washington Hawaii at Washington State Washington State vs. Notre Dame (in San Antonio) Troy at Florida FIU at Florida Louisiana-Monroe at Kentucky Florida Atlantic at South Carolina Western Kentucky at Tennessee Vanderbilt at Army FIU at Alabama North Texas at Alabama Troy at Arkansas Louisiana Tech at Auburn Louisiana-Lafayette at LSU Louisiana Tech at LSU Mississippi State at Middle Tennessee Army at North Texas Western Kentucky at Navy

Aww I lost by the smallest margin in the 2nd Round. MORAL VICTORY~! Incadenza Slayer CC Edwin Smues Agent treble VX

Congratulations to UZI Suicide as he has won the Bored Bowl and is the 2008 Bored Championship Series Champion! Again thank you to everyone for participating this year, definitely was the most successful season to date. See you next year! Bowl Results Bored Bowl #2 Arizona (UZI Suicide) 21, #1 N.C. State (AboveAverage484) 21; UZI wins by tiebreak Covers.com Degenerate Bowl #6 Georgia Tech (iggmcfly) 23, #4 Miami of Ohio (Hawk 34) 21 Sugar Cereal Bowl presented by Count Chocula #5 Ball State (Vampiro69) 18, #8 Syracuse (CanadianChris) 18; Vampiro wins by tiebreak I Used To Fuck Guys Like You In Prison Football Classic #9 Alabama (AlwaysPissedOff) 22, #10 Virginia (Edwin MacPhisto) 17 Don't Taze Me Bowl! #3 Nebraska (Mecca) 20, Kentucky (Danville Wrestling) 19 Gamestop.com Early Reservation Bowl #7 Tennessee (Canadian Brandon) 21, Ohio State (Gert T) 18 KFC PETA Bowl Notre Dame (KingPK) 19, LSU (tek184) 19; PK wins by tiebreak K-Mart Blue Light Special Bowl Fresno State (Agent Bond34) 22, South Carolina (Cuban Linx) 20 Main Loon Restaurant China Bowl Arizona State (still fly) 19, Minnesota (Vern Gagne) 18 AIG Bailout Bowl Indiana (Tzar Lysergic) 16, Boston College (HarleyQuinn) 11

Fixed.

"That was the first wrong thing he's done in his life."

Stanford beat Oregon St who beat UCLA who beat Tennessee who beat Vanderbilt who beat Mississippi who beat Florida STANFORD~ is #1!!!!!

Bang up job by Brenneman and Davis keeping up on what down it was on the goal to go situation.

AIM Chat: TSMNCChat And my prediction for tonight's game is at least seventeen mentions of Tim Tebow circumcising filipino boys and that Sam Bradford's face will continue to scare the shit out of me.

I'll always remember Smoltz as a Tiger.

I'm the furthest thing from a fratboy so you can always feel confident in giving me your support. I'm not very familiar with mellow and he's probably not very familiar with me either, but it does seem just based on the seeding I'm in trouble this round. So I'll go ahead and point out possibly the most important contribution I've ever made to this board was this past September when I introduced you all to this: Now credit goes to Agent of Oblivion for making it the symbol of joy that posters want to show when their particular favorite sports team has accomplished something of grandeur. Even if it is not enough to sway your vote, I am proud to have given you all the Excited Dotel meme. Dandy Incadenza Cheech Slayer Kinetic CC Me Edwin SP Smues Kamala Agent SJK treble 909 VX

As expected, Jeff Jagodzinski has been fired by Boston College AD Gene DiFilippo due to him interviewing for the Jets' head coach position. How dare any coach think of leaving an elite college football institution like Boston College for an NFL job? He should be grateful to even step foot on their campus let alone coach the team. With anything there's always more to the story than the general public knows and I don't follow BC closely enough to know if Jagodzinski was a good coach or not but this whole situation seems rather silly.

For the first time ever the Bored Bowl will go down to a tiebreak as AboveAverage484 and UZI Suicide are dead locked at 20-20. AA484 guessed 72 points and UZI guessed 70 points for the BCS Championship.

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Hell hasn't quite frozen over but it is getting colder as Jason Giambi is returning to Oakland. Contract is reportedly just one-year, $4 million and an option for 2010 at $6.25 million with a $1.25 million buyout. I really wasn't thrilled when the rumors started about him possibly coming back especially since he wanted a three-year contract but this is a fantastic deal at those numbers. This means after a disastrous rookie season, Daric Barton will begin the year in Triple-A.

The Ibanez signing looks ever worse for the Phillies now. Improve offense? No. Improve defense? No, which was really hard to not do when replacing Burrell. Get younger? No. Get cheaper? No.

Just in case anyone thinks this will just be your typical mediocre NBA on ESPN telecast, Dick Vitale will be calling the game. You've been warned.

Full TV Schedule for Week of 1/5 - 1/11 Network/Basic Cable Schedule MONDAY #9 Georgetown at #13 Notre Dame, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN TUESDAY Ohio State at #8 Michigan State, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 #7 Texas at Arkansas, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 WEDNESDAY Davidson at #2 Duke, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN #23 Louisville at South Florida, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Gonzaga at #15 Tennessee, 9:00/6:00 PM, ESPN2 THURSDAY #22 Minnesota at Iowa, 7:00/4:00 PM, ESPN2 Oregon State at #20 Arizona State, 10:30/7:30 PM, FSN SATURDAY #23 Louisville at #18 Villanova, Noon/9:00 AM, ESPN Kansas at #8 Michigan State, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, CBS #2 Duke at Florida State, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN Missouri at Nebraska, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, ESPN2 Oregon at #20 Arizona State, 2:00 PM/11:00 AM, FSN Utah at San Diego State, 4:00/1:00 PM, Versus SUNDAY Wisconsin at #14 Purdue, 1:30 PM/10:30 AM, CBS #3 North Carolina at #4 Wake Forest, 8:00/5:00 PM, FSN #10 UCLA at USC, 10:30/7:30 PM, FSN