Kahran Ramsus

Yes, the media has had a lot to do with the problems in baseball. No matter how much ESPN talks about the Colts & Patriots, it is nothing compared to the outright favourtism shown towards the Yankees and Red Sox by the media. FOX's MLB coverage is horrid. No other sport save hockey gets it nearly as bad. I find it rather shameful when Canada, a nation where baseball is the #4 sport at best and containing only one major league team gets significantly more balanced coverage of the sport than Americans do.

They still have that, it's just that the brand split gets in the way. They still had that 4 months ago (at least on Smackdown). Then Eddy died, Batista got hurt, Taker got pissed at Johnny Ace and took time off, Benoit got stuck in an endless feud with Booker and JBL was buried.

One problem that I have is that the season is one month too long, especially in the north. Baseball is primarily a summer sport, and when the season starts in April and fans have to drive through a blizzard to get to a game, it loses some of the magic. The NHL has the same problem in reverse. The Stanley Cup finals are in late June, when many fans have already migrated to their cottages. These aren't new problems and they can be overcome by winning, but they are there.

In terms of match quality, I'm sure that this Wrestlemania will be far from the worst, but the build-up to the event and the actual feuds are horrendous from top to bottom. Wrestlemania XIII had little heat going in too, but Taker/Sid, Bret/Austin & Ahmed&LOD/NOD was still more than we seem to be getting this time. We have discussed Cena/HHH & Angle/Orton/Rey, but the next two matches Vince/Shawn & Foley/Edge are horrible as well. I don't know who Undertaker pissed off to get stuck with Mark Henry, when he's been campaigning for years to have a real classic at Mania. MITB is just thrown together with no real purpose. There is just nothing here generating interest.

Yeah, I'm not seeing much here. Wrestlemania I gets a bit of a pass, plus the two top matches were pretty big at the time. Wrestlemania II had a couple of good tag matches, and the Battle Royal & Boxing Match were fun. The Savage story at Wrestlemania IV makes up for the match quality somewhat. XIII had Bret/Austin. XV had Rock/Austin, although it was probably their worst match together as main eventers, the angle was huge. Even Wrestlemania XI had more interest with Shawn/Diesel & LT/Bam Bam. Only Wrestlemania IX compares with what this show looks like going in.

I've suggested HHH/Cena/Shawn in the past too (Edge is only good in that match if he's going to win, which I deem about as likely as Bret wrestling Vince at Summerslam). And there is no question that Smackdown should be Angle vs. Rey. At least Cena has heat, even if its the wrong kind, so the crowd should be into the RAW match. Orton has no heat, possibly from months on end of getting his ass kicked and looking like a chump.

The problem with HHH as champ is that he sucks all drama out of the title matches. We know when he's going to win and when he's going to lose almost all of the time. I have no interest in ordering a show that I know the outcome of weeks in advance. With Cena, given his less than stellar reactions there is always the chance that common sense prevails and they job him. Cena might be a shitty champion (and he is), but HHH is a boring one. They should just have left the belt on Edge and things would be looking a lot better.

If 'could care less' now means 'couldn't care less', what do we do when we really do mean we could care less? I use it for things I've got merely a passing interest in, as opposed to no interest at all.

First time I saw Randy Orton live, he jobbed clean to Tommy Dreamer in two minutes.

Officially aren't they still a part of the Netherlands?

I'm just hoping Canada beats South Africa. I'd be ecstatic if we could find a way to beat Mexico.

Take away Snowboarding which is a garbage sport to begin with, and America fails to beat even Russia. And what happened to crushing Germany, like the American media was predicting before the Games? We at least were on track with our predictions, third place and 25 medals. We got third place and 24 medals.

Yep.

Our 24 medals were enough for third place, which was what I wanted all along. Austria picked up one this morning, but it wasn't enough. Best performance ever at the Games. Germany won, of course. Nobody should have expected anything different.

Bode Miller couldn't even finish half his events. Who would want to wear the shoes of a loser? If they were interested in marketing skiing, they could have at least used Herminator shoes or something.

Cindy Klassen gets medal #5 of the Olympics, accomplishing what Hed-dick could not. Hughes wins Gold and Canada is up to 22 in the medal count.

I agree. Crisp is a fine player, but the Damon loss is a big one and Boston took major hits at SS & 3B. I have no faith in Foulke either, so the bullpen probably still struggles. Boston could finish above Toronto depending on what happens with regards to injuries and underperformance and so forth, but I fail to see how Boston didn't get worse, at least on paper.

The Yankees have the best lineup in the division, and adding Damon only improves it. Their bullpen has also been improved, although Farnsworth is a bit of a risk. Their biggest concerns are on the pitching staff with Johnson & Mussina getting up in age, Mussina being an injury-risk and a bunch of one-year wonders (many of whom are also injury-prone) after that. But Boston's rotation isn't much better, with Schilling & Beckett being injury concerns, Clement being pretty reliable, and a weak end of the rotation. Damon's loss hurts too. Toronto has the best pitching and defense in the division, and an offense that isn't as good as either the Yankees or Boston but is much improved over the offensively challenged Jays that still managed to win 80 games a year ago. Assuming Halladay stays healthy, and last year's freak injury shouldn't be a lingering problem, they look better than Boston does. Boston finished second last year and got worse during the off-season, while Toronto potentially improved more than any team in the majors.

Red Sox are the more likely. I legitimately only see them as the third best team in the division at this point. There are a lot of question marks with that team.

Canada wins Gold in Curling after a 6th End that saw them collect 6 points, and it could have easily been 7.

7 for 8 for playoff teams isn't bad. I admit that I screwed up that Dodgers pick, but it was just the Wildcard so cut me some slack.

AL East: New York Yankees AL Central: Chicago White Sox AL West: Oakland As AL Wild Card: Toronto Blue Jays NL East: Atlanta Braves NL Central: St. Louis Cardinals NL West: San Diego Padres NL Wild Card: Philadelphia Phillies AL Champions: Oakland Athletics NL Champions: St. Louis Cardinals World Series Champions: St. Louis Cardinals AL Cy Young: Roy Halladay AL MVP: Vladimir Guerrero NL Cy Young: Roy Oswalt NL MVP: Albert Pujols

Triple H is giving them all (including such untalented meatbags as Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle) a lecture on how to work again.

And Bode Miller. He's the biggest Olympic bust since Jeremy Wotherspoon.

Shani Davis performed how he was expected to. And of course the snowboarders, but that's a joke sport so a lot of people don't really count it.