Quick Spin 2

We'll go with a quick spin today, as time is short for me.  Let's just jump right into the issues and topics for this great November Friday. 

• Tim Lincecum was pulled over near his hometown for speeding (he was going 74 mph in a 60 mph zone) and although there are no reports, I'm sure he was smoking in his car, as the officer that pulled him over stated smelling a strong scent of marijuana.  Lincecum quickly handed it over along with his pipe.  Comments?  It's about time he got busted for smoking pot.  Seriously, if you thought, that he wasn't a pot head, even after looking at him, you're an Idiot.  Lincecum on the other hand?  A $622 fine and a slap on the wrist.  Who cares, it's not steroids and he didn't get in a conflict with his wife (see Miguel Cabrera.) 
• As much as it pains me to say, the Indianapolis Colts need to find a place for Safety Bob Sanders on a different team.  In his six year career, Sanders has played a total of 47 games out of a possibility of 96 games.  Forty-seven games is not even half of the total amount of games he could have played.  After playing two games this year, he is out indefinetly after needing surgery on his bicep/elbow.  He's played more than 6 games in a season twice, and that was the 2005 season, and the 2007 season when he was named AP Defensive Player of the Year.  My advice to the Colts?  Make a deal for the oft-injured Sanders and send him somewhere else.  Some team will want him, and that team would give up a player or two along with a few draft picks. 
• The Minnesota Twins made a deal for Milwaukee Brewer's Shortstop J.J. Hardy in exchange for Outfielder Carlos Gomez.  The Twins dealing for Hardy will probably mark the end for Shortstop Orlando Cabrera's stint with the club.  The deal won't make much of a difference, as Hardy hit .229 last year with 11 home runs and didn't seem to have it together at all.  
•  The Philadelphia Phillies picked up Cliff Lee's $9 million for the 2010 season today.  I don't know why it took the Phillies a whole two days to decide on whether or not to exercise the option for Lee's services, as he is one of the best pitchers in baseball. Someone will need to anchor that rotation now that last year's World Series MVP Cole Hamels is crying in the corner after having a bad year. 

As I said, time is short, and that's all for now, just a few of the headlines for today.  Will try for more later.  We have a great weekend for College Football and NFL action, and all I have to say,

Cincinnati Bengals forever, Baltimore Ravens NEVER!!!!

The Easy

All is Good in the World of Sports

With the New York Yankees winning their 27th World Series Championship last night over the Philadelphia Phillies, everyone in the world of sports is at ease and happy.  Unless you're a Boston Red Sox or New York Mets fan that is.  You see, in today's society, everybody loves to write about the controversy and the drama.  What city has that more than all?  New York.  What team displays these traits more than all?   Whether it be A-Rod on steroids and dating Madonna and Kate Hudson, Jeter getting old, or a new set of Joba rules, the New York Yankees are Kings of Controversy and Drama in Major League Baseball.  The Yankees fit the bill pretty well in the entire professional ranks, as no team in history of professional sports is under the scrutiny and microscope of the New York Media like the Yankees.  True, the Mets are in the same city, but they don't have the Steinbrenners steering the ship. 

We as fans and writers love to talk and blog about the best thing in sports, and that's the New York Yankees.  I'm a Cincinnati Reds fan, and not so much of a Yankee fan, but i still enjoy when the Yankees are winning, losing, or just flat out full of drama.  When the Bronx Bombers are winning, you can talk about the payroll of the Yankees has ascended this team to the best in baseball.  When the Yanks are losing, you can talk about how Girardi is going to get fired, how A-Rod is getting booed, and how the giant payroll of the Evil Empire doesn't help lift the team over the Kansas City Royals.  New York is the perfect background for controversy, and over the years there has been plenty of hostility and drama within the Yankees Organization.  Remember when Jeter was at a birthday party til 3 A.M. in the 2002 season, and George Steinbrenner criticized Jeter for it, and said he "wasn't totally focused" and that the incident "didn't sit well with him?"  Of course you do, you wrote about it.  As did every other guy in the country that follows sports.  You had those on the fence saying both were wrong, both were right, there were writers saying it's George's team, Jeter needs to listen, and then you even had people saying that it's Jeter's life, and at the time, he was 28 years old, and Steinbrenner needed to stay out of his business. 

Point?  The Yankees make for great stories.  When the Yankees are winning, it means the world of sports is doing great, because at that same time, the Lakers are winning and the Patriots are winning. 

When the odds on favorites and power houses are winning, everything is great in sports.  Fans are happy, the writers are happy because they have the chance to be the 5,000th person to write about the topic in a 2-day span, and the teams are happy because they're making money.  When the traditional powerhouses win, everyone wins.  The PTI guys have another topic to yell at each other about for 30 seconds, and we don't have to listen to ten different analysts on SportsCenter say the same thing over and over.  Although, having those ten analysts is probably better than Michael Wilbon or Tony Kornheiser holding up a picture on a stick trying to "Be Like (Insert Name Here)."

Yankees win, be happy, write your stories, copy and paste blogs as your own, and be happy.  Come to terms with who and what we are as a SportsNation and as fans.  I have, why haven't you?

The Easy