I'm not all that interested in college hoop, although my brother in law and a couple of his friends attend the east regionals every year, but there is one thing I can predict:
mwerrell will not pick Duke.
You can bet on it!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Welcome to The Sauce
Despite the fact that I never cared about college basketball and that my sister attends Duke, it is impossible not to hang around with Mikey (W, not O) and not fall in love with Carolina basketball. That and we run the Carolina Secondary Break up here in Maine all the time. Anyway, I've got to go with UNC because I'm a homer and they are now my team.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
MARCH MADNESS IS HERE!!!
Yes,
Thanks to Mikey O, the Sauceman is finally in the blog! My first question is who is going to win the NCAA Tourney. 6 Grueling games that takes skill, determination, and as any championship team needs, a little luck along the way. Clearly North Carolina has to be the favorite with Hansborough in the middle, Ellington shooting the three, and Lawson running the point. However, teams like Memphis (even though they play in C-USA), UCLA, and my sleeper Texas all have a shot to take home the trophy!!
Thanks to Mikey O, the Sauceman is finally in the blog! My first question is who is going to win the NCAA Tourney. 6 Grueling games that takes skill, determination, and as any championship team needs, a little luck along the way. Clearly North Carolina has to be the favorite with Hansborough in the middle, Ellington shooting the three, and Lawson running the point. However, teams like Memphis (even though they play in C-USA), UCLA, and my sleeper Texas all have a shot to take home the trophy!!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
I'm working right now!
I love that the Devil Rays (they will always be the Devil Rays to me) are pushing around the Yankees in spring training games. And I love hearing the new Joe complain that the D-Rays are playing too hard.
In other news I wish Josh Beckett had done some off-season conditioning and I wish the regular season would start already...and not in Japan. Remember how negatively that travel affected NY a few years ago?
In other news I wish Josh Beckett had done some off-season conditioning and I wish the regular season would start already...and not in Japan. Remember how negatively that travel affected NY a few years ago?
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Cassel and Brown Pass the Test
Both of these picks are for the playoffs, so they will get the minutes they need to get (Brown) or stay (Cassel) in shape. Sleepy Sam is the key here for me. Rondo is doing great, but House has been inconsistent as his back-up (although he has tried like hell to get the job done—I like the kid). Sammy C is a quality back-up who can, for a short time, deliver the ball to the Big 3, shoot and put up some defense. If anyone loses minutes, it will be House first, then Davis and Powe.
Brown didn't seem to have much last year, so I don't expect to see him for extended periods of time. Maybe a bit for KG, to keep him fresh. Pierce is a horse and doesn't need a lot more rest, and Ray Allen looks like his is getting stronger.
I am estatic for the Celts. I remember listening to them on radio with my father and brothers back in the fifties. Then they dominated, in spite of the fact that every official was against them and made horrible calls just so they would lose. Or, at least, that is what Johnny Most said, and he wouldn't lie to us!
Brown didn't seem to have much last year, so I don't expect to see him for extended periods of time. Maybe a bit for KG, to keep him fresh. Pierce is a horse and doesn't need a lot more rest, and Ray Allen looks like his is getting stronger.
I am estatic for the Celts. I remember listening to them on radio with my father and brothers back in the fifties. Then they dominated, in spite of the fact that every official was against them and made horrible calls just so they would lose. Or, at least, that is what Johnny Most said, and he wouldn't lie to us!
JMazz is right about Clemens
I can still remember going to Fenway and watching Clemens play his last few games for the Sox. He had taken time off for a pulled leg muscle somewhere, and after a long rehab, had resumed pitching. No one said it, but he was getting rocked before the time off, and he got rocked after he returned.
His fastball was, at best, mid-80's, and I mean it looked slower than that. He was finessing hitters, throwing anemic curves and even a change-up or too, but was still getting rocked. I remember this so well because we left the game in the fifth inning with Clemens and the Sox down 12 to 3, all twelve off the Roger! It is burned into my memory because on the way home we listened to the game and the Sox came back to win it 14 to 13.
At the end of the season, with Clemens irate that people were dissing him, everyone thought he was washed up as a pitcher. There wasn't even much of a clamor when the Sox didn't resign him and he went to Toronto. Mind you, the Yankees didn't want him either!!
Clemens has the personality and super-ego to cheat and then, when presented with pretty good evidence, deny it to hell. He probably has convinced himself that he never did take steroids by now.
JMazz is correct here; Clemens is a cheater.
His fastball was, at best, mid-80's, and I mean it looked slower than that. He was finessing hitters, throwing anemic curves and even a change-up or too, but was still getting rocked. I remember this so well because we left the game in the fifth inning with Clemens and the Sox down 12 to 3, all twelve off the Roger! It is burned into my memory because on the way home we listened to the game and the Sox came back to win it 14 to 13.
At the end of the season, with Clemens irate that people were dissing him, everyone thought he was washed up as a pitcher. There wasn't even much of a clamor when the Sox didn't resign him and he went to Toronto. Mind you, the Yankees didn't want him either!!
Clemens has the personality and super-ego to cheat and then, when presented with pretty good evidence, deny it to hell. He probably has convinced himself that he never did take steroids by now.
JMazz is correct here; Clemens is a cheater.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Steve I Am
P.J. Brown and Sam I Am...what are your thoughts? I like it, but I hope they don't take too many minutes away from Big Baby and Rondo. My concern is this: can the Celtics hold on the #1 seed and get adequate rest for the Big Three prior to the playoffs? Is Doc capable of doing this?
And let me just say: I'm so excited that the Celtics are relevant again. I love them. I've always loved them, but it's so much more fun now.
As for the Pats...losing Asante was painful, and now Moss might be out the door. Fuuuuuuuudge. It just seems like such a long road back, as the only hope of redemption I can see is to win it all next year (when we are under intense scrutiny every second of every game for cheating) and just send a nice fuck you to the league. I can live with 18-1 if we win the Super Bowl again. If we don't...it's not a pleasant end to the Tom Brady era. God that hurt just to type that.
Tom Brady is my shepherd; I shall not want.
And let me just say: I'm so excited that the Celtics are relevant again. I love them. I've always loved them, but it's so much more fun now.
As for the Pats...losing Asante was painful, and now Moss might be out the door. Fuuuuuuuudge. It just seems like such a long road back, as the only hope of redemption I can see is to win it all next year (when we are under intense scrutiny every second of every game for cheating) and just send a nice fuck you to the league. I can live with 18-1 if we win the Super Bowl again. If we don't...it's not a pleasant end to the Tom Brady era. God that hurt just to type that.
Tom Brady is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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