Archive for July, 2010
The insanity that has infected the blogs and various rumor mills regarding speculated Leaf roster moves has reached epidemic levels. The inmates are loose and conjecture is their weapon of choice.
The following slide show is a sobering wake up call to members of my beloved Leaf Nation.
Tomas Kaberle is a not as valuable as you think and Mikhail Grabovski is not a mere "throw in."
Furthermore, some of ...
White Sox Don’t Need Cliff Lee: Replacement For Peavy Is in House
Posted: 9th July 2010 by Cregen McMinn in MLB
Flash back to July 31st 2009. The trading deadline. Jake Peavy agrees to come to the White Sox.
The pretty girl at the dance who had already snubbed the White Sox, has now changed her mind and has agreed to leave sunny San Diego and come north to the south side of Chicago.
White Sox fans, myself included, have never been happier to trade for an injured pitcher. Sure he won't ...
The Baltimore Ravens enter their third year under head coach John Harbaugh, and it looks as though this team is primed to make a big-time run at the Super Bowl.
The Ravens earned a wild-card spot for the second straight season after going 9-7, but after shocking the Patriots in the first round, the Ravens were no match for Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts, losing 20-3 in the divisional round.
The ...
Players to Watch at 2010 Buccaneers Training Camp: RB Kareem Huggins
Posted: 9th July 2010 by JC De La Torre in NFL
As the pundits make their previews of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the 2010 season, the common thought among them is the Buccaneers are in trouble with their running game.
With Carnell Williams' rebuilt knees, Derrick Ward's decline, Clifton Smith's fumblitis, and Earnest Graham moonlighting as a fullback, Tampa Bay lacks a true playmaker at the halfback position.
Enter Kareem Huggins.
Who, you ask? Kareem was handpicked by coach Raheem Morris from his ...
The Buffalo Bills have a lot of work to do to get back to being a playoff contender. The organization seems to again, be in the stages of rebuilding. The Bills spent a long time trying to find a new head coach this offseason and wound up with Chan Gailey.
Gailey has two years of head coaching experience with Dallas, but the majority of his work has been as an ...
MLB Trade Rumors: Cliff Lee is Now a Member of the Texas Rangers
Posted: 9th July 2010 by Todd Kaufmann in MLB
Update: (2:28pm CDT) The player to be named later, according to MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan, is minor leaguer Blake Beaven.
Update: (2:25pm CDT) The players involved in the deal to Seattle are Justin Smoak and minor leaguers Josh Lueke, Matt Lawson and one other player to be named later. The player to be named later, and this is just speculation, could be pitcher Derek Holland or possibly minor league pitcher Tanner Scheppers.
Update: (4:15pm ...
Washington Redskins-Ten Impact Players for the 2010 Season
Posted: 9th July 2010 by Jack Anderson in NFL
Coming off of a 4-12 season in 2009, the Washington Redskins are eager to put the Jim Zorn era behind them as they start afresh with a new front office, coaching staff, and roster.
There's plenty of new faces in our Nation's Capital and that is probably a good thing, considering last year's roster lacked playmakers.
If you looked across the Redskins' roster in 2009, you couldn't point to many players who ...
The Mets have given us a great first half. They've risen to every challenge they've faced this year and have shown us some serious chemistry, character, and toughness.
David Wright shook off his strikeout problem and emerged an MLB leader in RBI.
The team adjusted to power-killing Citi Field by becoming a lineup of solid contact hitters who are willing and able to drive run-scoring singles and doubles into the gaps to ...
The Miami Dolphins were unable to defend their AFC East title in 2009, as they went just 7-9 and finished third in the division after going 11-5 in 2008. That down year has put head coach Tony Sparano on the hot seat, just a season after everyone was praising him for the work he did to get this team back on track.
The Dolphins made two big moves this offseason by ...
New York Yankees: Discussed Cliff Lee Trade a Sign of a Great Farm System
Posted: 9th July 2010 by Joseph DelGrippo in MLB
UPDATE (July 9, 2010, 4:10 PM) : It appears via several sources that the Lee to the Yankees deal is OFF. The reason has been given that the Mariners did not feel comfortable with the ankle injury of second base prospect David Adams.
While I view that excuse as a made up one, it seems to me that the Mariners were using the Yankees as leverage to maybe get a better deal from another ...