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MLB General

MLB Power Rankings Roundup for Apr 13 2007

Well, after almost two weeks of ball, no one can agree on who the best team in the land is. While two sites in our survey say it’s the Mets, two others say it’s the Yankees and then we have one vote each for the Indians and the Red Sox.

The Braves, Angels and Diamondbacks are getting a lot of love this week, moving up significantly in a few of the Power Rankings, while the Phillies and Cubs were the big losers.

Here are the major Power Rankings this week:

Rank Sportscolumn ESPN FoxSports Sportsline USA Today TSN.ca
1 Yankees Mets Indians Red Sox Mets Yankees
2 Red Sox Yankees Yankees Yankees Yankees Mets
3 Tigers Tigers Twins Mets Angels Dodgers
4 Phillies Indians D’backs Tigers Red Sox Indians
5 Mets Dodgers Mets Indians Twins Padres
6 White Sox Braves Red Sox Blue Jays Blue Jays Red Sox
7 Cubs Angels Angels Twins Dodgers Blue Jays
8 Angels Blue Jays Tigers Angels Braves Twins
9 Dodgers Red Sox Padres Marlins Padres Astros
10 Padres Padres Braves Braves Tigers Braves
11-30 more more more more more more

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General Sports

Michael Waltrip car wreck pics


There have been a lot of questions about the Michael Waltrip crash this week — why did he leave the scene of the accident? Why didn’t he call the police right away? Who was the witness who didn’t want to be identified? Was it a fine young thing he was with? Inquiry minds want to know!

What we do know is that he’s lucky to be alive judging from the photos of the car after the accident. It’s a miracle he walked away with only a few scratches.

More photos of Michael Waltrip’s wreck after the jump.

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General Sports

The 30 sluttiest athletes of all time


We found this truly excellent list via Fark of the 30 sluttiest athletes of all time as ranked by Nerve. Wow. The things you learn on this list. By the way, the list itself is PNSFW.

Here are some highlights:

  • Arnold Schwarzeneggar teaches English by trying to make a woman blow a carrot (around the 4:30 mark)
  • David Cone once jerked off in front of a groupie in the bullpen
  • Chipper Jones is the baby daddy of a Hooter’s waitress
  • The British term for “running a train” is “roasting”
  • Some soccer goalie got “pegged” by his girlfriend
  • Joe DiMaggio was a frequenter of whorehouses

The usual suspects (Shawn Kemp, Derek Jeter, Wilt) are on the list too but it’s the random stuff that’s insane. Kudos to Nerve for including the Dikembe “Who Wants to Sex” Mutombo at #18.

And finally, watching this next clip will make you about 1.3% gayer but it is hilarious. We’ve never even heard about this before but it’s like what would happen if Will Ferrell was a figure skater…. wait a minute… that would be a great movie!

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MLB General

The Full Count: Devil Rays do their best Bad News Bears

Crawford tagged out

1. This is Tampa Bay baseball: If you ever wanted to see an example of why the Devil Rays have always sucked, go back to their game last night. They get a good start from Casey Fossum of all people, they have a rally going and are tied 2-2 with the Twins, and then some stupid mistake occurs. This one was actually by their best player, Carl Crawford, who hit it to the outfield and motored toward third. However, his teammate got held up at third, and was then tagged out. But Crawford compounded his mistake by then heading back to second base, where he was tagged out for a double play. Tampa’s rally was killed, and then they lost in the ninth on a Justin Morneau solo homer. Is anyone actually surprised by this? But tune in Friday anyway for a fantastic pitching matchup: Santana vs. Kazmir.

2. Hammerin’ Hafner: The Indians’ Travis Hafner had a slow start to the season. However, it took him one game to regain his 2006 form. The Tribe was down 2-1 in the eighth inning when Hafner launched a deep three-run homerun, his first of the year. The homer came off the usually reliable Scot Shields of the Angels, who gave up his first runs of the year. 24-year-old starter Jeremy Sowers for the Indians had his second straight quality start, and Joe Borowski came on for his third save. Cleveland won their “home” series in Milwaukee and are 4-2 this season.

3. Three-way tie: I’ve already covered two wins by teams at the top of the AL Central. Why not go for a third? The Tigers won their third straight game yesterday in a pretty even contest with the Blue Jays. Detroit won with their usual formula: solid starting pitching (Mike Maroth had a quality start), overachieving hitting (Brandon Inge had 3 RBIs), and a great bullpen (Joel Zumaya had two shutout innings to close the game). The Tigers are now 6-3, tied with Minnesota and Cleveland for the AL Central lead. This team will be even better once Gary Sheffield actually does something. He snapped an 0-16 hitless streak yesterday and is just .125 on the year.

Player of the Day: Jason Bergmann, Nationals: 6 innings, one hit, no runs, 8 strikeouts in a surprising 2-0 win over Atlanta.

Stat of the Day: The starting pitchers in the Phillies-Mets game, Jamie Moyer (44) and Tom Glavine (41), are a combined 85 years of age. They are the oldest combined lefthanders ever to have faced each other and the second-oldest overall.

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Vancouver Canucks

Odds and Ends: Watch out for the crackers!



Endorsement deal coming up

Vancouver Canuck Brent Sopel enters the stupid injury hall of fame after he got a back spasm while bending down to pick up a cracker. He missed the morning practice and the epic 4 OT game last night between the Canucks and the Stars. That’s gotta be the weakest injury since Marty Cordova missed a game because he spent too much time under a tanning bed.

What? Were you expecting a Chris Rock joke?

In other news…

[AOL Sports]: Jason Whitlock: “I’m calling for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the president and vice president of Black America, to step down.”

[Sports by Brooks]: So that’s what Elizabeth Shue has been up to

[Flash Warner]: Would it really make a difference if the Raiders had an easy schedule?

[AOL Fanhouse]: Super-Gangsta Stu Scott says calling a woman a Ho is “affectionate”. And when we call Stu a douchebag, it’s a term of endearment.

[Egotastic]: Will Ferrell + Jenna Fischer in a corset = awesome. (via Mr. Irrelevant)

And finally, two different takes on Drew Bledsoe’s retirement. This one is nice. This one is just mean.

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College Basketball

It’s time we stopped talking about Imus



BORRRRRRRING!

Now that MSNBC has pulled the plug on the Don Imus show (but you better believe they’ll continue to mine the issue for ratings on their cable network), are we halfway to ending this ridiculous media story already? A board member at CBS Radio has also expressed hope that Imus would be fired from his radio show as well. So when that happens, is it over? Can it please be over?

Well, of course not. Someone is going to hire Imus because his name is more recognizable now than it has been in years, if not actually reaching the highest brand awareness it’s ever been. So all this wasted outrage is just going to be more eventual ratings and more money for a washed up shock jock who has no redeeming features. Shouldn’t we just let useless people fade away? We are sick of seeing his shriveled mug already. So that’s it folks, we promise no more Imus on this blog. Unless he kills himself.

But before we go, feel free to email the idiot who thinks that redirecting nappyho.com to the Rutgers womens basketball team site is hilarious. He can be reached at [email protected]. We don’t know anything about Form.tv but this isn’t clever. It’s just lame.

Links:
[Washington Post]: MSNBC Drops Imus’s Show
[Duece of Davenport]: NappyHo.com Redirect

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NFL General

Goodell’s conduct policy already having an effect



Joey Porter is listening

Joey Porter may be a blowhard and a tool but he’s no fool. A day after Roger Goodell announced his new conduct policy and dropped the hammer on Pacman Jones and Chris Henry, Joey decided he better make nice to Levi Jones for (according to Levi) ambushing him out in Las Vegas.


I wish it never would have happened. I don’t know how Levi feels, but the faster we can get this behind us, (the better).

I don’t mind calling him. If he truly believes, if he feels like I was wrong, I’m sorry. I can apologize. I am reaching out now.
…
At the end of the day, none of us is going to get anything good out of this.

You see Joey working here? By “none of us” he means himself. Having your posse ambush another football player and being charged with misdemeanor battery falls within the personal conduct policy. It’s amazing how a threat of losing paychecks immediately puts everyone in line. Goodell got exactly the reaction he was looking for.

Links:
[Cincinnati Enquirer]: Porter sort of says sorry to Bengals tackle Jones

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All Other Sports

Prosecutor: On second thought, nevermind about that Duke rape case



“Rogue prosecutor” Mike Nifong

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dismissed all criminal charges against the three Duke lacrosse players who were accused of raping a stripper from nearby North Carolina Central University. Cooper took over for former District Attorney / overzealous idiot Mike Nifong after Nifong was charged with ethics violations in his handling of the case. Finding nothing to collaborate the stripper’s case, Cooper concluded no attack occurred.

The three lax players accused are breathing a huge sigh of relief but they must also feel a lot of anger at a “rogue prosecutor” that used their case as a means to further his own agenda. They have every right to be angry, and we would be too in their shoes. (It is estimated that one family spent $3M on legal fees.) But in the end, justice was served. They were not convicted and sent to jail. Whether they were unfairly tried in the papers shouldn’t change the fact that the legal system worked. This isn’t the first time that someone has been unfairly accused and it won’t be the last. Let Bob Dylan tell you the story of the Hurricane.

This is an ugly ugly story. So much so that the Attorney General isn’t going to charge the accuser of any crime because she “may actually believe” the stories she told. He wants to just put this in the rear view mirror, and who can blame him? Everyone is a loser in this case.

Finally, an article in the Baltimore Sun said that some news outlets leapt to conclusions. Some? We would guess more like ‘all’. Everyone loved this story. It had sex, race, and class. Throw in some drugs and it would have hit for the cycle. Plus, it was Duke of all places, the southern bastion of white privilege. And on top of that, it was a lacrosse team, a sport aligned closely with prep school wealth. It was a story we all ran with, not quite presuming guilt but highly skeptical of innocence nonetheless. Well, in the end, we were all wrong — journalists, reporters, and bloggers alike. So David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty, we (at least here on SC) apologize.

Links:
[AOL]: Prosecutors Drop All Charges in Duke Case
[CNN]: Duke lacrosse players: Case closed

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MLB General

The Full Count: Not so fast on the Cy Young Award


1. Can’t beat the King: Dice-K Matsuzaka got all the attention in his Fenway debut start against the Mariners, particularly for the matchup with Ichiro. However, he got overshadowed by the other starting pitcher, ace Felix Hernandez. Through 7 innings, Matsuzaka had allowed 8 hits and 3 runs, while King Felix had a no-hitter going. While the no-no bid was broken up by JD Drew in the eighth, Hernandez still finished with a complete-game shutout and allowed just one hit. Hernandez’s first two starts have been as good as humanly possible: he’s 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA, .47 WHIP, and .075 opponent’s average. As for Dice-K, at least he won the matchup with Ichiro (0-3).

2. Back down to earth: The Mets’ makeshift starting pitching had been quite effective this season. Until last night, that is. Oliver Perez, who had a great first start of the season, couldn’t make it out of the third inning against the Phillies. He allowed 3 runs and issued 7 walks. He threw more balls than strikes, and issued the majority of 11 walks by the Mets’ pitching. The Phillies scored three runs off bases-loaded walks and got some good pitching from Adam Eaton in a 5-2 win. The victory was just the second of the season for the Phillies, while the Mets lost another game to the division-leading Braves.

3. State of the Central: Before the season, it seemed as though the AL Central would be the MLB’s toughest division, with four playoff-caliber teams. Right now none of those teams have separated themselves, but they’ve all looked pretty good. The Tigers are 5-3 and are once again relying on their pitching. Justin Verlander and Nate Robertson have combined allowed only 3 runs this season in four starts. They are tied with the division lead with the Twins, who swept the Orioles to open the season but have gone 2-3 since then. The White Sox, a team likely to confound all year, sit at 4-4 after a series win over the A’s. The 3-2 Indians are also in the mix, but they’ve been snowed out so much that it’s hard to tell what they have.

Player of the Day: Felix Hernandez, Mariners: 9 IP, 0 runs, 1 hit, 6 K’s in a 3-0 win

Walk Off: Toronto leads the AL East right now by a game, and they’re actually a pretty solid team. However, their last two series have been against Tampa Bay and Kansas City, the two worst teams in the AL. Now they begin a stretch against Detroit and Boston, which should tell us more about this team. MY prediction right now for the AL East is the Red Sox will win it, the Yanks in second, and the Jays back to third.

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General Sports

April 11 2007 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

Welcome to another episode of Poor Man’s PTI.  

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This week’s topics include:

  • Don Imus
  • Zach Johnson, the Masters, and religion in sports
  • Roger Goodell’s new personal conduct policy, Pacman Jones and Chris Henry
  • Luke Walton banging Britney Spears
  • the NFL schedule
  • the NHL playoffs
  • The Duke lacrosse case
  • baseball talk

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