Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Vault
The Vault is full and it is going to blow.
1. Okay, the sports bars were full and I had to listen to Brad Sham and Charlie Waters radio broadcast of the game. Hey Brad and Charlie are great, and I often listen to them and turn down the sound on the TV to hear them talk but I have a game to watch when I listen to them.
My beef now is with the NFL. I have heard some reports that the NFL wants cable companies to pay around the $40 million range to broadcast the NFL Network on its basic cable. If the cable company offers to pick it up on its digital package, the games will be blocked if they still don't pay. Okay if you are ESPN, I can see why you have a beef. But the NFL Network is getting in over its head. Think about it, if it were not for the games, the Network is not worth watching unless the only sport you care about is the NFL. I heard that its headline show, Total Access, kind of like the Sportscenter for the Network led off its broadcast with the Packers acquistion of a backup QB for Brett Favre. That was the lead story? The NFL better back down its deals because I am not supporting the NFL on this. I can't see the NFL happy with the 4 people in my city who watched the game. I thought it was all about ratings but let's see where this goes. The NFL figured that the cable companies would cave in once the games started but no it did not. $40 million for 8 games? Fox sports net is not worth that much.
2. The defense of the Cowboys is going to be the Achilles heel of this team. We will not win giving up the big plays that we did on Saturday. Roy Williams continues to show he is a little overrated at safety. Still a hard run stopper but awful at pass coverage. Yet he was voted into the Pro Bowl based on who he is and not what he does. Terance NEwman I feel was snubbed and should have gone to the game. But the point is now the opposing teams will attack deep and not try to run the ball on the Cowboys. We cannot win the Super Bowl this way.
3. TO spitting on a player is disgraceful. TO, no matter what they say, you cannot spit on the player, I don't care what they say. I am so sorry that they insulted your manhood and you feel you have to get even and prove you are a man by spitting, hey you are a jerk but hey you are still a man. They say this will ruin his rep but man how do you ruin something that is already bad as it is?
4. Wow. Michael Irvin actually criticized TO for the spitting incident. I guess he would have really taken some heat if he had defended TO. He has often come to the defense for most of TO's antics and criticized Bill PArcells, Drew Bledsoe and Donovon McNabb. I guess the spitting incident would have been hard to defend.
5. Cowboys play the Eagles on Christmas Day but man the Eagles concern me. It is not the feeling I had against the Giants but still it is an uneasy feeling. It will be a close game. Jeff Garcia is playing great and would love to stick it to TO.
6. I love Christmas and it is still my favorite holiday. But it is a bad sports holiday. The usual lineup for a number of years was a college football game in the Blue-Gray bowl and a NBA doubleheader. At least with two NFL matchups, this Christmas is a little better. Thanksgiving and New Years are still the best sports holidays.
7. I can't believe this. The Giants are 1-5 in their last 6 and if the season still ened today, the Giants would still be the sixth seed in the playoffs. How bad is the NFC?
8. On the other hand with 4 teams at 8-6, the AFC faces the possibility of 23 10-6 teams missing the playoffs.
9. Is there not a more disappointing team than the 6-8 Carolina Panthers?
10. It seems the same thing that plagued the Cowboys against the Saints now plagues the Saints. A team that ripped the Cowboys defense could not score more than 10 points against the lowly Redskins? MAybe the Saints have peaked already.
11. The Brawl between the Nuggets and the Knicks was another ugly example of the macho attitude that plagues the teams in todays sports. So Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas is mad that the Nuggets starters are still in the game late so warns the players not to go near the basket? If I am a coach, and I am going to be blown out or am in the process of being blown out, I am going all out and trhying to make the other team play hard, and in return, I want the other team to play hard as well. And if that means leaving the starters in, then do it. It is a 4 quarter game. Not a 3 1/2 quarter game. Play me full out and try to win and play your butt off. Don't show me the mercy rule. Maybe that is why your team Isaiah is a bunch of losers. Of course being in the Eastern Conference, I can't tell the difference.
12. Someone has suggested to me that the NBA brawls, as few as they are are highlighted more than other brawls around the league. Some say race is a factor. I have to kind of agree to a point but only to a point. I tried to remember any brawls that happened in the NFL recently and I cannot remember any. The college football brawl I remember is Miami and Florida International and I remember a big deal being made out by this. I also remember a baseball incident involving my Rangers where pitcher Frank Francisco threw a chair into the stands and was made a big deal but not as much as this one was. So maybe becasue the NBA is traditionally been know as a dominately a black players league, maybe it is a factor. The white media does not like to see this behavior and gives the league a black eye about this. When Nolan Ryan punched out Robin Ventura back in 1993, he was a hero. But if Carmelo Anthony did that now, he is a thug. Don't get me wrong. What Anthony did was wrong. He should not have punched and was given an appropriate suspension for his actions. But I feel there is a double standard with the NBA. David Stern knows his league has had an image problem the last few years and it reached the ultimate sin with the brawl at the Palace two years ago. And now he is trying to clean up the league. I also feel the Brawl 2 years ago has made the media on high alert when these kind of things have happened and they will be put under the microscope.
13. I do not know if Nuggets coach George Karl was running the score on the Knicks to get back on what they did to Larry Brown. But again, I see nothing wrong on what he did. You play a ame for 4 quarters, not three or 3 1/2. That again is why the Knicks are soft and mentally weak.
14. Jim Mora Jr. calling for his alma mater's job. Again much ado about nothing. One the job is not open. That is why he commented like this. It his alma mater. If you look at what your dream job is or doing your current job at your dream workplace, would you not say that you would love to work there. I hear people at my workplace saying, that they would love to work at such and such place or so and so place. It happens everywhere. Mora got excited about maybe coaching his old school. Had the job been open, I think maybe you might have a reason to get mad. I thing what ticked off fans and Falcons owner Arthur Blank, was what Mroa said that if his team was in a playoff run, it would not matter, he would apply. Problem is that the Falcons are in a playoff run. If he gets fired over this, it would be sad. If he gets fired over not making the playoffs, a little more justified.
15. Nothing new on the Barry Zito front. Don't know if he is coming. I mean if we have a rotation with Zito, Kevin Millwood, and Vicente Padilla in the 1-2-3 spots on the rotation, I think we could be contenders if is all about pitching. And Eric Gagne passed his physical and is our closer. I just wish we had another strong bat in the lineup.
16. Bob Knight is one win away from tying Dean Smith and two away from passing him. i have tickets to both the next two games and if he wins, will witness history in person. But if this is important, how caome there are still tickets available to a once in a lifetime moment? I had always imagined a significant college basketball record being broken at the likes of Indiana, Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Louisville, Syracuse or even UCLA. But not Texas Tech and in Lubbock, TX.
17. Allen iverson was traded to the Nuggets. Makes the Nuggets more favroable but I wonder if there are enough balls for both AI and Carmelo? I mean, AI and Webber could not get along, I wonder when we will here the first signs of friction with these two.
18. I hear people say that AI will get along with George Karl because he is like AIs' former coach Larry Brown. Excuse me, I don't think AI and Brown were exactly holding hands and skipping through the fields together during therir frosty relationship in Philadelphia. Expect some tension between Karl and AI.
19. Just when we bury the Colts for good and sing the Bengals flying high moments, The Colts put a big beatdown on the Bengals.
20. Lebron James is suffering fatigue and he is not 22 yet?
21. Remember when the Alabama was the premier college head coaching job? Now they still don't have a guy and probably will have to beg people to interview. Try a fellow SEC rival, Sylvester Croom at Miss. State.
22. Miss USA going into rehab. Just strip her crown. If you came name me one Miss USA from the last 25r years not named Vanessa Williams, then you can realize how overrated this award is, much like the Heisman.
23. Prince is doing the Super Bowl halftime show. Okay Prince, sing WHen Doves Cry, 1999, Let's go Crazy and end it with Purple Rain.
Vault is cleaned out finally, Merry Chrismas!
1. Okay, the sports bars were full and I had to listen to Brad Sham and Charlie Waters radio broadcast of the game. Hey Brad and Charlie are great, and I often listen to them and turn down the sound on the TV to hear them talk but I have a game to watch when I listen to them.
My beef now is with the NFL. I have heard some reports that the NFL wants cable companies to pay around the $40 million range to broadcast the NFL Network on its basic cable. If the cable company offers to pick it up on its digital package, the games will be blocked if they still don't pay. Okay if you are ESPN, I can see why you have a beef. But the NFL Network is getting in over its head. Think about it, if it were not for the games, the Network is not worth watching unless the only sport you care about is the NFL. I heard that its headline show, Total Access, kind of like the Sportscenter for the Network led off its broadcast with the Packers acquistion of a backup QB for Brett Favre. That was the lead story? The NFL better back down its deals because I am not supporting the NFL on this. I can't see the NFL happy with the 4 people in my city who watched the game. I thought it was all about ratings but let's see where this goes. The NFL figured that the cable companies would cave in once the games started but no it did not. $40 million for 8 games? Fox sports net is not worth that much.
2. The defense of the Cowboys is going to be the Achilles heel of this team. We will not win giving up the big plays that we did on Saturday. Roy Williams continues to show he is a little overrated at safety. Still a hard run stopper but awful at pass coverage. Yet he was voted into the Pro Bowl based on who he is and not what he does. Terance NEwman I feel was snubbed and should have gone to the game. But the point is now the opposing teams will attack deep and not try to run the ball on the Cowboys. We cannot win the Super Bowl this way.
3. TO spitting on a player is disgraceful. TO, no matter what they say, you cannot spit on the player, I don't care what they say. I am so sorry that they insulted your manhood and you feel you have to get even and prove you are a man by spitting, hey you are a jerk but hey you are still a man. They say this will ruin his rep but man how do you ruin something that is already bad as it is?
4. Wow. Michael Irvin actually criticized TO for the spitting incident. I guess he would have really taken some heat if he had defended TO. He has often come to the defense for most of TO's antics and criticized Bill PArcells, Drew Bledsoe and Donovon McNabb. I guess the spitting incident would have been hard to defend.
5. Cowboys play the Eagles on Christmas Day but man the Eagles concern me. It is not the feeling I had against the Giants but still it is an uneasy feeling. It will be a close game. Jeff Garcia is playing great and would love to stick it to TO.
6. I love Christmas and it is still my favorite holiday. But it is a bad sports holiday. The usual lineup for a number of years was a college football game in the Blue-Gray bowl and a NBA doubleheader. At least with two NFL matchups, this Christmas is a little better. Thanksgiving and New Years are still the best sports holidays.
7. I can't believe this. The Giants are 1-5 in their last 6 and if the season still ened today, the Giants would still be the sixth seed in the playoffs. How bad is the NFC?
8. On the other hand with 4 teams at 8-6, the AFC faces the possibility of 23 10-6 teams missing the playoffs.
9. Is there not a more disappointing team than the 6-8 Carolina Panthers?
10. It seems the same thing that plagued the Cowboys against the Saints now plagues the Saints. A team that ripped the Cowboys defense could not score more than 10 points against the lowly Redskins? MAybe the Saints have peaked already.
11. The Brawl between the Nuggets and the Knicks was another ugly example of the macho attitude that plagues the teams in todays sports. So Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas is mad that the Nuggets starters are still in the game late so warns the players not to go near the basket? If I am a coach, and I am going to be blown out or am in the process of being blown out, I am going all out and trhying to make the other team play hard, and in return, I want the other team to play hard as well. And if that means leaving the starters in, then do it. It is a 4 quarter game. Not a 3 1/2 quarter game. Play me full out and try to win and play your butt off. Don't show me the mercy rule. Maybe that is why your team Isaiah is a bunch of losers. Of course being in the Eastern Conference, I can't tell the difference.
12. Someone has suggested to me that the NBA brawls, as few as they are are highlighted more than other brawls around the league. Some say race is a factor. I have to kind of agree to a point but only to a point. I tried to remember any brawls that happened in the NFL recently and I cannot remember any. The college football brawl I remember is Miami and Florida International and I remember a big deal being made out by this. I also remember a baseball incident involving my Rangers where pitcher Frank Francisco threw a chair into the stands and was made a big deal but not as much as this one was. So maybe becasue the NBA is traditionally been know as a dominately a black players league, maybe it is a factor. The white media does not like to see this behavior and gives the league a black eye about this. When Nolan Ryan punched out Robin Ventura back in 1993, he was a hero. But if Carmelo Anthony did that now, he is a thug. Don't get me wrong. What Anthony did was wrong. He should not have punched and was given an appropriate suspension for his actions. But I feel there is a double standard with the NBA. David Stern knows his league has had an image problem the last few years and it reached the ultimate sin with the brawl at the Palace two years ago. And now he is trying to clean up the league. I also feel the Brawl 2 years ago has made the media on high alert when these kind of things have happened and they will be put under the microscope.
13. I do not know if Nuggets coach George Karl was running the score on the Knicks to get back on what they did to Larry Brown. But again, I see nothing wrong on what he did. You play a ame for 4 quarters, not three or 3 1/2. That again is why the Knicks are soft and mentally weak.
14. Jim Mora Jr. calling for his alma mater's job. Again much ado about nothing. One the job is not open. That is why he commented like this. It his alma mater. If you look at what your dream job is or doing your current job at your dream workplace, would you not say that you would love to work there. I hear people at my workplace saying, that they would love to work at such and such place or so and so place. It happens everywhere. Mora got excited about maybe coaching his old school. Had the job been open, I think maybe you might have a reason to get mad. I thing what ticked off fans and Falcons owner Arthur Blank, was what Mroa said that if his team was in a playoff run, it would not matter, he would apply. Problem is that the Falcons are in a playoff run. If he gets fired over this, it would be sad. If he gets fired over not making the playoffs, a little more justified.
15. Nothing new on the Barry Zito front. Don't know if he is coming. I mean if we have a rotation with Zito, Kevin Millwood, and Vicente Padilla in the 1-2-3 spots on the rotation, I think we could be contenders if is all about pitching. And Eric Gagne passed his physical and is our closer. I just wish we had another strong bat in the lineup.
16. Bob Knight is one win away from tying Dean Smith and two away from passing him. i have tickets to both the next two games and if he wins, will witness history in person. But if this is important, how caome there are still tickets available to a once in a lifetime moment? I had always imagined a significant college basketball record being broken at the likes of Indiana, Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina, Louisville, Syracuse or even UCLA. But not Texas Tech and in Lubbock, TX.
17. Allen iverson was traded to the Nuggets. Makes the Nuggets more favroable but I wonder if there are enough balls for both AI and Carmelo? I mean, AI and Webber could not get along, I wonder when we will here the first signs of friction with these two.
18. I hear people say that AI will get along with George Karl because he is like AIs' former coach Larry Brown. Excuse me, I don't think AI and Brown were exactly holding hands and skipping through the fields together during therir frosty relationship in Philadelphia. Expect some tension between Karl and AI.
19. Just when we bury the Colts for good and sing the Bengals flying high moments, The Colts put a big beatdown on the Bengals.
20. Lebron James is suffering fatigue and he is not 22 yet?
21. Remember when the Alabama was the premier college head coaching job? Now they still don't have a guy and probably will have to beg people to interview. Try a fellow SEC rival, Sylvester Croom at Miss. State.
22. Miss USA going into rehab. Just strip her crown. If you came name me one Miss USA from the last 25r years not named Vanessa Williams, then you can realize how overrated this award is, much like the Heisman.
23. Prince is doing the Super Bowl halftime show. Okay Prince, sing WHen Doves Cry, 1999, Let's go Crazy and end it with Purple Rain.
Vault is cleaned out finally, Merry Chrismas!
# posted by ttheman @ 5:33 PM 
