Does anyone really care anymore?  I know that I personally could give two shits about this guy.  “I just want to play football”, The Golfer says BULLSHIT!  You just want to cash a phat Faqin check.  If it were all about football, you would have signed long ago, but now you got your payday.  Apparently the deal could be worth as much as $42 Million.  Hey Andre, maybe you can spend a little of that signing scratch on a sports bra or two.

..or “girl”, I can’t be sure.

I was challenged in a poorly written email, on my inferred stance on Unions in this country. While its true, my original mention of it was Sports related. In reply to “Brad” (if that’s your real name), here’s the reasoning, or, my beef with unions.

Back in the day, mostly the 1800’s through the mid 1900’s, the Unions did some great things for the American workers. Sure!,..Back in those times if employers had their way, you would work 12 hours a day feeding stank-ass paper pulp into a printing press in some hot dangerous factory for starve-wages. Then at the end of your shift, to clean out the machinery, they would have you run your scrotum through the “gears” a few times in order to get all the extra ink out of there. You’d go home with “bells” that looked like a goo-wad of Silly Puddy, that had been “pressed” on to the classified section of your local Cincy Enquirer! Try and get “serviced” with your “yad-kuhs” looking like THAT! Yeah, those were not envious times to be an American factory worker, as The Man was always out to screw you and pinch himself a few more pennies.

So along came unions and changed all that. Because of the contributions of many courageous individuals, they were able to lower the work day from 14\12 hours to eight. They improved safety regulations and established workers’ compensation. In fact they fixed everything up all nice and dandy. So if everything got fixed, why are unions still around today? ….-and therein lies the problem with them. They have outlived their usefulness.

I will illustrate this point with an overly graphic analogy: Imagine you are a woman who has a little case of “feminine itch.” You go to the gynecologist and he does his thing and fixes your problem –YEA YOU!. AH!,..but even after the problem is fixed, he follows you home and keeps diddling with your crotch! In this illustration, you are “America” and the gynecologist is the “union”. It inspires this new work related slogan: For the love of God, you union bastards! Show some respect and get your fingers out of the “AEV”! …*(American Economic Vagina!)….Now again, this is just a hyped illustration, as the fem itch could come back, and yes, you need gyno’s in your World. The point - they just need to know when to stop, and stop costing you $$$ and jobs! We pay Firefighters even when they DO NOT do anything for us individually, but Unions are not Firefighters!

This also applies to the Football, Baseball, and all Sports-run Unions. Stop ruining the game for the people you all CLAIM to be playing it for!…The fans! Of course NO one is naïve enUFf to think any Pro Sports figure is playing the sport for ANYTHING except the money,…BUT!, still, since THEY use it, I will! Unions collect dues, and therefore HAVE to make it look like they are always “doing” something…even when there is little to nothing to do…So, they create issues and make it appear as if they’ve still got a lot more to do. They don’t! Unions now are costing Americans far more than they are contributing…..of course telling that to a Union Worker is akin to telling Oprah to put DOWN that 4th ham!

Brad, I encourage you to write me YOUR supportive views on Unions in America…just please make it easier to read than your hate e-mail was. Thanks!

The Cincinnati Bengals still dont have their #1 Draft Pick, Andre Smith (OL- Alabama), signed and in camp. To this date, The Bengals have played 2 pre-season games and had 25 days of camp without him. So, why bother? His agent is hell-bent on risking the year, and Katie and SOP don’t look to be bending much. Why should they?

First of all, I hate Agents and I hate the Unions in professional Sports. Neither makes the games better for me or ANY fan. All they do is tie the hands of small market teams, and reduce the level of play in every sport. They tie down teams with contracts that restrict moves and prohibit most teams for getting better, even in Sports with Salary Caps

Andre Smith, it is believed, “wants” at least as much ”G” money (guaranteed money) than the Raiders dealt out to their #1 pick,  Darius Heyward-Bey,..which many Football people said at the time he signed, was  TOO HIGH. Why does an unproven draft pick NEED all that “G” money ANYWAY?..Well, because they themselves know they aren’t worth it, but figure NFL teams are tied to the Union and will give it up. He’s just gonna be Rick Hunley all over again anyway!….send him to Denver now and just get it over with!

Smith, who comes in with issues, or baggage, wants right around $28 million guaranteed!….and at this point in the year, he’ll barely be worth a 10th of his projected annual salary. (even by the rediculous NFL Rookie standards). I say why take a first round pick? Look at the 2005 Draft, for example. The top ten picks…. (5 here:) Alex Smith, Ronnie Brown, Braylon Edwards, Cedric Benson,…any of these worth 28 mil guaranteed? There were some solid players in that Draft, for sure (Shawne Merriman for example), but you’re better off paying for proven talent. Skip the First round, and sink 24 million in a better bet! The Drafts EVERY year are full of bad players who are given BIG money that help sink YOUR favorite teams! And why?…Unions!…Unions and Shylock Lawyers (agents). If the players ARE going to benefit the teams, and play up to the deals, why do they need the ”G” money? You ever hear of anyone giving back bonus money they didn’t earn?

How long before Detroit realizes satisfaction on Stafford’s deal?….NEVER! That team will never make out on that guy. No way, no how. They should have just traded for Cutler and spent the saved money on the 20 or 30 other areas of need!

Sit out Andre Smith, we wont miss ya ANY damn way!….WE GOTS CHUD!!!!

Sure, you’ve heard of this, Profiling. Where a Cop approaches you and you push him, and WOW, low and behold there’s an altercation!….that’s profiling! TONY FEIN ARRESTED

Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of acting like a jackass, you just answered the Cops questions, and offered him or her the same respect initially that you wish to have in return?….Nah, “F” that, pass your cell phone to a friend,…cause,..cause,..well, whenever I see a Cop, I think “Hand off my phone to a friend” , sure, who doesn’t!?…Then when he questions that TOTALLY normal behavior, ! jump up and push him down!!…yeah, profiling so blows!

Let’s do a quick google search and see how many Baltimore area Police Officer’s have been killed in the line of duty, compared with Raven Football Players. OK, we’ll reserve the obvious comment on how at least ONE Raven gutted two men in a bar several years ago,…so, how many?….Baltimore Police officers killed in the line of duty: 120 Total. Total Ravens killed in the line of duty. ZERO! Total shady lawyers who’s days are spent making sure EVERYONE else in the World goes about their lives within unimaginable limits, and ZERO errors in their lives, killed in the line of duty?…hhhmm,…also ZERO. Yeah, let’s not try and understand the differences there,..no,…Yeah, let’s give Plaxico BurASS the benefit of the doubt, but when a Cop comes up to you and starts asking questions, let’s right away assume he’s a racist looking to put you down. Jesus Christ! Talk about a double-standard. Must be nice to be able to defer your negative actions as someone else’s fault. awesome! Then again, maybe Fein was made as a Raven, and WELL….

The Inner Harbor bar district had a shooting there recently, and the City is trying to shore up against violence in its biggest tourist attraction area. If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what’s the big deal? WHY IN THE WORLD would anyone want there to be less security?..less of a police presence? There was a shooting there, and if helps keep the peace why not just answer the questions and move on? Let’s not assume ever encounter with the Police is an opportunity to entice a lawsuit, maybe sh.t will get better.

There is a large number of Americans who blindly pledge respect and devotions to military persons, without regard, because of the very nature of their duties and risks they are exposed to while they serve this country. I cannot imagine that as a population we can’t extend a similar courtesy to the Police serving in our cities. Perhaps there was blame to share on both sides of this incident, but even if the authority figure is going over-board, is pushing him to the ground the answer?

Another uncompetitive loss to the flippn’ Pirates????…12-2??? TWELVE TO TWO!?!?!?….We lost to the GAWD damn Pirates!…12-2????? …Holy $12.00 Hot Dog Batman!!!.Have we REALLY slipped that far down the slope of mediocrity?…..Can it be that bad? I ran across an old newspaper today. One from July 4th, 2009. The Reds were 39-39, and limping towards the All-Star break, after flirting with competing for the division! One player from Cincinnati represented the team in that All-Star game, and he was (still is) the man we refer to as Coco Codero. The Reds have 49 million wrapped up in this guy, and despite his good work this year, he’s way over-paid by this team and a drag on our future. The Reds were unable to deal him, and now look like they’re gonna be limited in 2010 by his stupid ass FAT contract.

Meanwhile, the team will finish a ninth straight season under .500, and this year a horrible fall of near epically embarrassing proportion. By the end of June they were in the race, but since the All-Star break they are, like, 6-25? Six wins, and twenty-five losses! ?!?!? Me and 9 guys on this web site would have gone 6 and 25!! There is simply NO ACCOUNTABILITY in this town…Losing is just too easy! Its accepted as a birthright, and its freakin’ time to make it stop! Sell the team!…move the freakin’ team to a city that will demand they play ONE freakin’ season out of ten as a contender! SAVE the franchise! The current philosophy is NOT WORKING! SET the team free, and let them compete!

I’d take my kids to more Reds games but the last 10 we went to, they left thinking winning wasn’t a reachable goal. That’s all nice in those patsy-time leagues they play for “funzies” these days, but the ones we pay $191.92 a game to watch, NOT!! This town enjoys losing, its really the only way to explain the YEARS of sucking and the little change that follows. We take “it” like a New York Hooker takes to Linkin logs! The odd thing is you could HAVE the New York Hooker for the same price, if you ditch the beers at the game!…and, of course, YOU’D be “winning” with the hook!….OK, so maybe either way, its a loss!…still, losing is losing! At least here its close to disease free!

Still, can you name another town is such dire straights than this one, from a Sports perspective?…..Thank gawd for the cyclones, huh !?!?!? We make the Sacramento Kings look like Ohio State Football!….at least THEY get to the post-season! 

I’m not the one to infuse real hate or real violence into the sport,…or any sport for that matter, but what the hell is going on in Football these days? Mikey Vick, TO, Brent Favre ???(I know its Brett, but if “F-A-V-R-E” is pronounced with the “r” sound before the “v”, then Brent = Brett, OK?).

Terrell Owens was (is) kingpin “A”-Hole #1 whilst he’s with San Fran,…..then there’s a deal that’ll send his hated ass to Baltimore, only he don’t wanna GO to no Baltimore,…..so the cry-baby arse-hole is accommodated and sent to Philly instead! A HERO’S WELCOME!!!….”World Philly” opens the city to welcome the guy. Soon after he grows bored, so he spews his crap about the players and organization (just like he did in ‘frisco) and he seeks another move….and who takes him?….HATED cross-divisional-rival DALLAS!….AND, once again its a HERO’S WELCOME! -THE GUY SH.T ON YOUR STAR GUYS (then puzzy’d out of the resulting altercation, leaving his team mate to take care of business…puzzy ash!) and you welcome him in like he liberated forgotten POW’s from North Korea!??…… There isn’t something wrong with that picture?

Many believed that there was, at the time, only, really, one or two teams that could/would take the over-the-top a-hole, and well, Jerry Jones was one of them. Still, from a fan welcoming department?….I just don’t get that.  So TO goes to Dallas and, surprise-surprise he is, YET AGAIN, a bigger problem than asset. SO much of an a-hole, that even DALLAS decides to cut their losses…DALLAS, that is!…TO the free-agent is then picked up by, bUFfalo!…and quick too. The fans?…many of who hated the jerk-ass for many of the same reasons San Fran, Baltimore, Philly, and Dallas fans now do….GIVE HIM A HERO’S welcome, yes indeed!..How do you see clear, as a fan, to accept that player in your ranks? Football fans, in general, must be stupid! He’s good enUFf to want, but a big enUFf problem so that he’ll cancel out the projected good he brings. Still, though everyone knows this, they show him the love blindly! That has to be a quality of “stupid”, right!?

Mickey Vick?,…Philly fans?…..making up reasons why THEY need the guy? Its true, the guy paid his societal debt (in part, as he got early release AND avoid the State charges all together in Virginia, so) on the dog killings, but this ass was a piece of crap before that! Additionally, he’s still got his legal team’s hand in his back working his mouth to say all the right things…..this guy is only sorry he got caught, and nothing more. For the Vick’s, its a family affair. They just Making “football” reasons up why this was a good thing for the team, is like bringing Charles Manson into your home as a “Family” counselor. I generally don’t wish ill will, physically, on anyone, but if Vick ever gets hit by a (GREYHOUND) Bus, I’d consider it my duty to laugh about that….for a year!

And then there’s Brent (Brett),..A true Media-whores’ Whore! Played nearly his whole career in Green Bay, as a brutal rival of the Minnesota Vikings,….punishing them repeatedly while he won a couple Super Bowls for himself. He was the face of the rival you might of, as a Viking fan, associated with the devil himself (figuratively of course)then, he pulls the old “I’m-retired-…now-I’m-not-now-I-am-now-I’m-not-now-I-am-again-oh-wait-I’m-not-again” crap, and YOU Vikes fans treat him better than anyone else (already) on the team!?!?!?! What kind of fan does that make you???….Sh.t, you’re like a bunch of fickle freakin’ women there, Vike-o’s!

Hell, this pansy freakin crap has even wormed its way down into the College ranks….a game that was suppose to be (and is) FAR better than its pro counter-part!; – and absolutely more honorable. I refer to the panty-waste Michigan lineman who crossed state-lines to GO to Michigan, then walked back to become a Buckeye after a solid 2007 season? WHAT?…let’s hope his sprained knee was a bite of Karma,…not that I put any stock what-so-ever in Karma….its all just bullsh.t! I know decisions by 17 year olds are not always fully thought out, so you can cut them a bit of slack, still, you know the rivalry….take your medicine or go somewhere else! You think Miss Herbstreit would have transfered to Michigan? -Archie Griffin?….Good gawd NO!

Could you have EVER imagined a time where Terry Bradshaw would have left Pittsburgh and gone to Cleveland, Cincy or Houston? I understand if a man gets cut, then seeks out an employer because he needs work, but that’s not the case here.

All this just further exposes that the Pro Game needs Soap-Opera level “reality-show-like” subplots to compensate for the lack of product on the field. League brass know that if it weren’t for gamblingand the effeminate sub-plots (like Chud’s act, TO, Favre, et al) the NFL would fall hard! Thankfully for them they have a sponge-like fan base, who soak in anything ESPN and Fox Sports tells them they should. “Oh, look, bright lights and shiny spinny things,….me like!” (Dancing with the Stars?….what the FAHQ is that all about?…freakin’ women!)

Maybe there’s something to this, FUTBOL game, after all?……hey, I hear you can bet on THAT game too!

NCAA 2009 Season Kicks off in, T-minus 14 days….Early BIG Game: ND vs UMichy

Apparently THE IRISH Coach, Chunky Wide-Ash Weis is finally on the hot seat…..OK,…its a BIG ash Hot-seat! Yeah, sometime after Sweet Lispin’ Lou (Holtz) pulled the ‘88 Title out his ass,  Notre Dame fans started accepting losing like it was Gold-Dome ”gospel”! So much NOW, that they’ll make up excuses as to why they stay divoted to their current Head Coach, Chowder-Head cinch-pants!

The history of stank Chunky has bellowed from So-Bend is well-known, but needs to be mentioned again. Chunky is 29-21 overall at ND, and an amazing 15-16 (yes, one game UNDER .500) since he held the school for (fake) ransom and milked that incredible contract extension. 15-16 is acceptable in So-Bend these days??? WOW!…well, I can kinda see how that’s possible, actually,.. for two reasons primarily.

One: that afore mention silly-stupid contract the School pledged him, based on little more than a rumor HE started. They are stuck with a rediculous buyout amount, which is odd considering Chunky is so over-the-top full of himself. This is the guy who, after a loss to Michy State,  guaranteed that he would never lose to MSU again!….They are 1-4 against Michy State, under the Chunksters rule!….His promises, like his lawsuits, seem baseless! I guess the only thing WORSE than losing to Navy, is knowing you just handed an over-rated blowhard 10 million in waddlin’ away money….even with those deep pockets, that’s gonna sting.

The second reason?….They’re unsure if Urban Meyer will leave Florida to come in and replace Charlie! For that matter, there has to be a short list of qualified and INTERESTED Coaches out there who would come to SoBend right now (ND’ers will dispuke that, but c’mon!). Now, on the cusp of the 2009 season, ND fans pine away for the Glory Days, with Weis, and an uber-easy schedule. A schedule that would have Syracuse preparing BCS Bowl game ticket packages! Not a bad time to post the +7/8 win-loss record that will save your job, huh? (Again, only in Notre Dame is that good enUFf!) Heck, a Pop Warner level schedule, and 3 straight top 10 recruiting classes (and one top 15) SHOULD start paying off SOMETIME, right?!…Not if you’re a Domer, “this is all Ty’s mess still“!..Yeah, only in Chuckles will they trust!  (Good, now dismiss your Urban romance already!)

Notre Dame wins 9 games this year, if they are able to put down Dick Rod and his young Wolfies!

A compilation of the NFL Fantasy Football viral video campaign in 2008. I do think Crosby could hit that bell in real life though!

Fantasy Football Fever…..Catch It

He’s a douche, a Me(dia)-HO, &\or some other 3rd descriptive word…( “Media Who(4)re“..?)

Brett doesn’t like preseason, Brett LIKES cameras and ESPN’ers,…he doesn’t like to shave, and he does like Wrangler Jeans!,…he doesn’t like people who don’t like him, but he does like being called the interception-riddled moniker- “gun-slinger”!….He likes hot starts, he accepts later season failure!….Which is what will happen again to him, this time in Minnesota. Sage Rosenfels is taking stock in that notion, and if he’s a smart man he’ll stay put, ride this ESPN-promoted crap fest, and reap the benefits by mid-to-late October. PREDICTION: After an accolade filled first half, Brett will start to fall off (AGAIN) and fall victim to a media-whore type “injury”!….probably a fake one. Heck, who’d blame an old dude who skirted the extra training time of preseason camp, eh?…Sage will come in, they’ll stumble into the playoffs and then Brett will come back;- for the glory of course! They’ll lose playoff game one, one they’ll be favored to win, in a 1-4 TD to INT ratio game….Brett will (again) retire (again) before (again) February 15th……and (again) then?!?!?!?……yeah,…”again”, he’ll own the total focus of World ESPN,…. at least until next October (2010).  

The Queen Diva has decided to grace us with her presence at Vikings headquarters, it seems only appropriate that a list like this surfaces.And while there have been a number of people over time that have whored themselves out to the public (Rodman and Clemens just to name a few), this one’s a bit more “recent”.

10. Sean Avery: Does he make this list without the “sloppy seconds”  comments? Doubtful? Like his career, he’d probably be on the outside looking in.

9. Stephon Marbury: You remember the Summer of George on Seinfeld. Well, this has been the summer of Stephon…Filled with twitter updates and live webcams…And even some vaseline eating

8. Drew Rosenhaus: Stick a camera in that guy’s face and he’s already pimping his client, jostling for a new contract, or doing an ESPN commercial

7. Ozzie Guillen: About 4 or 5 times during the baseball season, Ozzie goes on one of his swearing tirades and his team plays good for a couple of weeks. When are they going to realize that they’re scripted?

6. TO: Although he’s been more tame the last year or so, this is like the calm before the storm. By the way TO, how’s that cable show doing. Last time I checked you lost to a re-run of the Facts of Life.

5. Marc Cuban: Running onto the court would be cool if it was like the Malice at the Palace…But when you’re owner, you look like a fool. And Kenyon Martin’s mamma called. She’s still pissed.

4. Manny: When you actually reference yourself in the third person, you have problems. And call me crazy but I’m pretty sure he was the one who made up “Manny being Manny”

3. Ocho Cinco: I remember when the artist formerly known as Chad Johnson was actually a good football player. Now he looks like a cartoon character.

2. Shaq: Should the Queen Diva die this year on the field after throwing his 6th interception in a quarter, the title belongs to the Big Aristotle…or is it Superman..or Shaq Fu…or Jabbawockeez. Either way, he’s due for a new scrabble word…

1. Brett Favre: Nothing needs to be said here. He will sit atop the polls as attention whore as long as his heart keeps beating. Which for Packers fan couldn’t stop soon enough

If Jay Glazer says its so, its SO!…and when you kick in the fact that its media whore triple-champion Brett Favre?,..well, consider it done! Favre will be the Opening Day QB for the Vikes! Damn, the NFL needs story lines and, apparently, douchebag characters like B-Favre and his drug-like media addiction. Remember when the focus was on the product?….yeah, me neither!  

Take it HERE

….I apologize if this double-homicide killer has YOU snowed, but this dude just gave me diabetes from watching that horse-shit piece he just did on ESPN today (08.16.09). The lone credit I give this killer, is the restraint he shows while preacher-talking like he does and not cracking up laughing! Props to YOU, Preacher man!…always the salesman, huh?!?!

Really, and I think we’ve drained the (sad) pool of attachable assets in regard to the Steve McNair death by now. But NO!…Ray-Ray has a deeper agenda and needs to show those last 3 people in America what a right-proper religious man he (fake) is. Ray-Ray has already cashed large checks on the heels of this tragic death, to a point where it makes you wonder if he’s not secretly happy the dude died!…After all, this is the guy who gaffed to death two dudes in an upscale bar outside Atlanta, then had the presence of mind to graphically illustrate to his posse proper “post-murder” protocol in the speeding get-away limo! Few things would surprise me, considering this hunk of human trash. Let’s cap it off now, and limit how much personal gain you can leech off of another man’s pain/death. Go home, on this issue, already Ray….some people miss this man and DON’T need to make a publicity gain OVER and OVER again! You’ve milked your peace, now drop it! ESPN should be liable to an extent I feel,….yeah, the insulin shot I had to take should be covered by their medical plan!

Sure, many “fans” point out his ‘on-the-field” contributions,…as if that means anything over a double-homicide case, or the self-promotion of oneself at the expense of a dead friend!….Hey, I understand Steve NcNair was a solid player, who won an(a split) MVP award and went to 3 Pro Bowls during his NFL career,….but let’s limit the love a little too. The man died on the couch of his (likely) secret love-nest, with what night have been one of a number of extra-marital Affairians! (oh,…its a word!). Certainly I am NOT a person who would beat up a man over having the “want-to’s”,…heck men just HAVE that, but dude also had 4 kids who don’t get to see and have their Dad around because he picked up a mentally weak pice of ass. Not exactly “Man-of-the-Year” shit there, Ray…- He did NOT deserve to die over it either, of course.

Ray Lewis MURDERED two guys in cold blood, over a “respect” issue at a bar…..and here he’s talking so lovingly about missing this man, who was also killed…..Why there isn’t SOME one picking up on this connection, baffles the mind! ESPN has such stringent “rule-of-engagement” anymore about what can and cannot be reported though, that I guess its not really all THAT surprising. Guest writers and hosts alike have to kiss the corp butt and pre-submit everything, its a small wonder we get any timely stories from that global network. Anyway, RAY!…I’m betting the families of those two you killed are looking on and wondering how the HAIL “your” Gawd hasn’t struck you down by now, going on and on like you do…Then again, they probably don’t mind the large settlement you gave them so they’d not seek further “justice”!…..I guess that was just you playing more defense, huh?

The ESPN crap-fest included (please note sarcasm) his GRUELING anguish over “almost” leaving Baltimore (his city, of course)….HEY! there was a story angle to be had!….and then the Mikey Vick support/love to finish. This is after all, the self-named “God’s Linebacker”!….as if God’s Linebacker wouldn’t be able to do a little “more” in a season?!

The final message to the masses?…Ray is “OK being who is is”….REALLY?…He’s “OK” being a double-homicide killer who paid off the dead men’s families, then turned “preacher man” to snow you supportive fans (who value football tackles over stabbing two men to death), and show the masses just what a righteous piece of shit he is!.

I just saw another 13 seconds of the Ray Lewis ESPN interview,…..and now I’m in diabetic shock! …thanks ESPN!

…and I thought they hit their high note when they bombed Pearl harbor!….DAMN!, they still got it!

A German company has invented a marvelous new bikini that disappears once a girl puts it on and takes a swim.

The sexy swimsuit disappears by dissolving in water, leaving a woman completely nude and embarrassed. The sexy black swimsuit looks like a real bikini, feels like a real bikini and fits like a real bikini. The only difference is it’s made from a material that completely melts away after a few seconds in water.

Named the “Get Naked Bikini,” the item is being marketed as the ultimate form of revenge for recently-dumped dudes. The bikini has upset women’s rights groups, with one campaigner, Rosmarie Zapfl, saying, “It is an absolute insult to women that this has been invented.”

It sounds like Ms. Zapfl needs a nice gift to calm her down. May we suggest a new bikini, BEOTCH?!?!….NNNOOOOOOO!, please GAWD, NO!!!

A formula for comedy!

Alex the over-priced-cant-hit-a-lick Gonzo is gone! The Reds sent him and his buy-out money to beantown for a 23 year old “ss” who’s still in Single A ball. Hairston Jr was sent to the best team in the Majors, for a low-ball prospect (too)….and Weathers = the infamous: “PTBNL” (player to be named later). Some good moves, some ???, some had to happen,..& some still might!

Then there’s the 34 year old Scott Rolen!…As much of a fan as I was of getting him, and getting RID of “EE”, there has to be some kinda of focus on turning this around quick. He counts a heavy price towards next year, particularly if we’re just gonna dial it in again. Kick in that the two arms given away in that Rolen\”EE” swap (deal) were considered STRONG prospects, and it makes you cringe a little — again if this wasn’t done with something “now‘er” in mind.

With Volq shelved until what will be 2011, the lingering effects of a poor economy and little wiggle room in getting rid of those 2 over-priced arms;  there might be sound reason for “buying” more time. That time being the 2010 season….of course, Harang and “Straight leg the guitar man” could both turn it around and have fantastic years in 2010,..but who’s gonna forecast that?

If that’s the case (another “prep” year in 2010), then Rolen was brought here for no other reason than 2 teams getting rid of bad deals; and, advantage Blue Jays!

 Toronto, who is markedly better than the Reds, is dumping big contracts (thanks in part to a stupid White Sox team) in what might be an attempt to reposition themselves for a run in the most competitive division in baseball….?? (They know Roy Halladay is not coming back)..maybe? What is it the Reds are doing?…sending mixed signals?

How long does this (Reds) team pay Yonder Alonso to piddle in the minors?….particularly considering his brash claims that he’s Pro ready, already?  (Mark Light Stadium is a lefty’s wet dream, btw….The Parking complex in right field creates a jet stream that often favors guys like Yonder..-and few schools still play more home games than the ‘Canes.)

The Reds had a shot this year!…Your buddy Baker might not have been THE only reason for the failure, but…there he is again, amidst another team that’s under-achieved. Considering his age, this is Baker’s last stop. He’s somehow been able to build a resume others in Baseball find attractive but, even with that, his days are numbered (here a Faber). They (The Reds brass) will keep him on for next year though, through another trying season; and then move on with a fresh approach in 2011 (We hope!)

That’s my take anyway…..jump in here: http://www.fatguysports.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6858#post6858 and give YOURS!