Let Me Explain...

So with the Rockies making it to the World Series, and everyone in Colorado talking about how the Rox are going to destroy the Red Sox, let me explain something to you.

First, i'm totally a Rockies fan, i think i'm proved that, and i'm rooting for them. But that doesn't mean i'm naive to the facts.

The American League is vastly better than the National League.

"oh but its just a game, it's just baseball, anyone can win"

Not really, here's why;

In the major sports leagues today, there is a dominate conference, and a weaker conference. Its the same in baseball. The American League is much better. How do i know? well i've come up with a simple way to tell.

Take the top 3-5 teams in each conference, then compare them to see who you'd rather take with the game on the line. Lets start with NBA of this year.

Western Conference Team:
Phoenix
San Antonio
Dallas
Denver
Utah

Eastern Conference Teams:
Boston
Miami
Detroit
New Jersey
Washington

I'd take Phoenix, San Antonio and even Dallas before i took any Eastern teams, and even then it'd be a wash. The Eastern Conference is catching up after years of being terrible, but they haven't caught up all the way, and don't give me the Pistons crap, i've got reasons why they were able to win but thats a whole other theory.

NFL. This one is even easier than the NBA.

AFC:
New England
Indy
Pittsburgh
San Diego?

NFC:
Dallas
Philly
Green Bay
Seattle?

NE and Indy are tops in the league, maybe Pittsburgh and Dallas are a wash but all of the teams in the AFC group are better than 3/4 of the NFC group.

So back to MLB. I would have taken any of the American League playoff teams to win the World Series before i backed the National League

American:
Boston
Cleveland
New York

National:
Colorado
Arizona
Philly

No competition. Now consider these points:

-Both the NBA and MLB have seven game series, therefore, the better team is afforded a chance to make a mistake, and still win the series. Only the Superbowl really evens the playing field, no home-field, and its a do or die game, no mistakes are allowed.

-The reason teams like the Pistons or Heat, or weaker NFC teams or whatever win every once in awhile is the playoffs. think about it, the years that the Seahawks or Philly got to the superbowl, the path was somewhat easy, but in the AFC the Colts had to go through New England along with someone else like Pittsburgh or San Diego or Denver. Same in the NBA, if you win the western conference, you've gone through San Antonio, Phoenix, Dallas, Denver versus Orlando, New Jersey, Washington, Boston.

-When a conference has a dominate team, like the Spurs, the other teams will do everything to bring superstars to their teams to compete. This is why the dominate conference stays dominate. The Nuggets, Suns, Mavs, Jazz, Lakers and everyone else is doing everything they can do to be competitive. it shifts because the weaker conference gets the top draft choices, so after a few years, those picks become all-stars and slowly shifts the power, like Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Dwight Howard.

So hopefully this helps explain why the Rockies might be in trouble. sure they're good, but can they really compete against the Red Sox? they might win a game or two, but a 7 game series will allow the best team to win, and i think think the Red Sox are the better team. Go Rox!

A New Day is Upon Us!

For those who have known me for the last few years will know me as a formidable Madden opponent, aka, none of my friends can beat me. I take pride in this. I love playing Madden, and i've been successful on multiple platforms including Playstation 2, XBox, and Gamecube.

For the last few years i've gotten the new season of Madden the day it came out, celebrating the Maddenoliday by myself, by nonetheless celebrating.

This year is different however, with the addition of my wonderful daughter Addie, i've yet to get Madden '08. Not only that, i've failed to introduce John Madden to Addie and i haven't been playing, well, at all really.

A few weeks back my homie Alan invited me over to see if he could take advantage of me in my weakest time, but he failed as i demolished him, on NCAA '06 for that matter (my first time playing)

But that means nothing now. Last night i invited Alan to my house for some more Madden, on my turf, with my profiles, my controllers, my music....and i was destroyed, twice in a row. I didn't even make it to halftime in the second game.

boo

Alan, you have proven yourself my friend, i need help!

So much stuff!

so, man, the Rockies in the World Series!! the Browns are 3-3! The Nuggets are looking good in preseason! Its a good time to be a sports fan!

Anyway, i think i will start with this golden nugget! I can't remember the last time the Browns were ranked higher in the ESPN Power Rankings than all my friends' teams, or not 30th for that matter. Today the rankings came out with the Browns at 19th, ahead of:

Broncos at 21 (Thomas, Gary, and the rest of my homies out here)

Vikings at 22 (Kassie, Alan, Matt/Andrew and our homies in Minnesota)

Bears at 23 (Ross, Josh Reibock)

49ers at 24 (JoeyD and my friends in Cali)

Raiders at 25 (my little brother and Big Red)

and the

Rams at 31 (this ones' for Aaron Britton who, yes, once was a Rams fan, though i'm not sure who he roots for now since they suck)

The only team we need to jump ahead of now is the Lions, Chris Chase and Ralphie.

Anyway, sorry to gloat, this is just too cool having a read football team for once.

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The Rockies are Amazing! If you aren't watching these playoffs you're really missing out, i love it, they're such an exciting team. I think it has to do with how loose they play, they remind me of the Red Sox. It so much more fun to watch loose teams rather than rigid teams like the Yankees.

Oh, i know i emailed this to some people yesterday, but i though i'd post it here. Here's proof that i was a Rockies fan from the beginning, and that being the season of 1993. I was in 7th grade and i had an infatuation for the colors Black and Purple, therefore i was an instant Rockies fan.

Too bad those colors are pretty lame in this day and age, maybe the Sacramento Kings should get a clue and go back to the throwbacks!

Apparently i suck at Fantasy Football by the way. I'm 8-10 combined in my 3 leagues. I've been racked by injuries but who hasn't? I think i'll stop giving advice out on Fantasy Football, especially after i dropped Ronnie Brown in week 2.

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St Louis gets their first win this week when they go into Seattle and squeek one out against the lame Seahawks. you'll see.

Hilarious Soccer Player!

So i don't usually post soccer news, but i couldn't pass this one up.

Last week in the Champions League, the defending champions AC Milan from Italy played the Glasgow Celtic in a first round game. This game was in Glasgow. After the Celtic scored they were celebrating in the corner of the field. A fan jumped from the stands on the opposite side and ran up to the AC Milan goalie, Dida, and tapped him on the shoulder. Dida turned to chase the fan, then apparently after a few strides decided to fake an injury.

i have no idea why Dida did this but the whole incident is on film and its hilarious. Whats even better is that the Champions League Board got together to review the incident and ended up suspending Dida for 2 games for faking an injury. I mean Dida went the point that he was stretchered off the field with an ice pack on his face.

too good!

here's the video, it's only a minute long

NO!!!!!!!

Gollum....i mean Sam Cassell wants to play for George Karl and the Nuggets next season!

Please, don't do this to us. The Rockies are playing great baseball, the Avalanche look to make some noise this season, the Rapids are still in the playoff race, and the Broncos are...well... they'll be good again someday.

Leave Carmelo Alone!!

Don't ruin the Nuggets with Cassell, he's so terrible!

i guess i should take Yahoo! rumors with a grain of salt, they've been saying the Mike Bibby and Ron Artest would be traded for well over a year now, so how much truth can there be with this rumor?

Crown Their @sses

they are who i thought they were!

I told you the Packers were fakers. how do you lose at home to the lowly Bears with Griese at QB? i don't know, you tell me.

Anyway, i gotta give it to my Browns for putting up a decent fight against the consesus #1 team in the NFL on their home-grass. The Browns put up 17 on the Pats and forced Brady to have his worse completion percentage of the season, and while shutting down Randy Moss. Oh, and in the process, forgetting to cover Ben Watson, but hey, can't win em all.

I'm still on record as saying the Browns will challenge the Bronco's for a better record this season, and i'm feeling really good about that right now. Bronco's are in trouble. Thank goodness they have a bye this week.

I love seeing people freak out in fantasy football, this week i was able to either pick up or attempt to pick up these players because they were cut by their owners; Steven Jackson, Andre Johnson, Dwayne Bowe, and Alge Crumpler. i still think both Andre Johnson and Steven Jackson will have very good fantasy seasons so we'll check back on this one.

Speaking of fantasy football, 2 weeks ago i completed a trade where i sent McNabb to another owner for Donald Driver. Now i had a few reasons for this. First i think McNabb is going to struggle this season and i had Matt Schaub on my bench who's playing great. I was able to get good value for McNabb because i proposed the trade right after he went off for like 400 yards or whatever. Secondly, good recievers are really hard to come by, and Driver had been solid and mostly injury free for the last few years. Plus, with Farve playing so well he's bound to consistently put up good numbers. So take that you haters.

So lets look at this coming week's games and talk about some tough choices:

Philly at the Jets
Cinci at Kansas City
Tenn at Tampa Bay
Washington at Green Bay
New England at Dallas
Giants at Atlanta

You can't tell me these are easy picks. I'm not going to pick these games for sure until later in the week but my gut says Jets, Cinci, Tenn, Green Bay, New England and the Falcons. i guess we'll see.

Browns back to .500 this week after taking care of the Dolphins.

Even YOU can play QB for the Bears

How bad does Chicago have to feel right now?

Last year they make it to the Superbowl, only to lose to the Colts. Rex Grossman is either the worst qb in the league, or in the bottom 3, so what does that mean? Possibly that with a middle of the road qb, like Boller, Trent Green, Kurt Warner, Schaub, Harrington or even Derek Anderson, this team would be a lock for the Superbowl again this year.

These guys are one mediocre qb away from a championship.

did everyone really think Griese was the answer? please, this dude is so washed up. i loved him in Denver back in the 90's.

If you just glance at Greise's numbers they're not bad, 34/52 for 286 yards and 2 tds...but throw in 3 interceptions, 2 fumbles and 6 sacks and ouch, this isn't good.

how dumb does the front office feel? they didn't make one move this off season, one that saw Matt Schaub get away, John Joseph Harrington, and hell, they could have made a move for Charlie Frye....

In other news, the Browns stick it in your face again you doubters

As for my recap, i feel pretty good about that, considering i said that Pittsburgh would have it tough in Arizona. Also i touched on a bunch of people going back to a place where they either started or were let go, and how did they fare?

Jamal Lewis against the Ravens: J Lewis wins. even though his number weren't stellar, 65 yds 1td, he was a rock, though MacGahee isn't that bad!

Matt Schaub against the Falcons: This one's tough because Schaub put up good numbers against his old team, but they lost. Still i think the Falcons are really kicking themselves on this one

Ken Whisenhunt against the Steelers: ha, this one made me laugh, Steelers suck

Daunte Culpepper against the Dolphins: not only did the Raiders go into Miami and win, Daunte decided to show the Fins what they were missing by rushing for a td and then taunting them with a point to his knee and an okay sign. His number would have been better had Miami at least attempted to stop the run, i mean, Culpepper had no reason to even throw the ball.

hey, more later!