In the world of Baseball, the big news coming today outside of the AL Gold Glove awards was definitely ESPN’s announcement that John Miller and Joe Morgan are out as Sunday Night Baseball announcers.
I’m not surprised by the decision. The past few years, John Miller and Joe Morgan have been pretty bland as announcers. Perhaps ESPN got tired of these guys mispronouncing Carlos Beltran’s name (Carlos Bel-TRON, anyone?).
The NY Mets have made another big hire to their front office. Paul DePodesta joins Sandy Alderson and JP Ricciardi, as the new Sabermetrics/Moneyball team over in Flushing. There’s no doubt it’s good to see Wilpon allow Alderson clean house and restructure the team as needed, but how will this help the Mets this season?
The Mets are “capped” out in theory. They won’t be big players in the free agent market, which means they will really need the Moneyball strategy to squeeze out maximum value out of their limited resources. It’s a shame the suits don’t play the game, or I’d be real excited for the Mets right now.
The first two weeks of the NY Knicks season, and I’m really liking what I’m seeing from Landry Fields. See? The Knicks can draft without well without Isiah Thomas.
Speaking of Lord Isiah, I’m hoping he keeps his mouth shut for the entire College Basketball season. Someone needs to just slap the man back to reality. For someone who crashed and burned as bad as he did in NY, only an owner like James Dolan would want him back. Unfortunately, Dolan has the power to bring him back.
For every great surprise like Landry Fields and even Toney Douglas, there’s an early disappointment, and that is easily Danilo Gallinari. Early on, Gallo has been really disappointing. Yeah he’s injured, but for what he’s projected to be, he’s gotta find other ways to contribute when he’s not scoring. The great players always do.
And the Knicks could’ve had Brandon Jennings…
The Knicks are actually playing defense! Lets see if the defense holds up past the first two weeks of the season.
Did you know you can lose weight eating Twinkies? When I read about it, I felt I was in that episode of Family Guy where the only thing left standing after a nuclear fallout was the Twinkie Factory.
Here is how the Twinkie diet worked – http://www.slashfood.com/2010/11/09/eat-twinkies-lose-weight-one-mans-wacky-diet-that-worked/
Have you tried out the Dunkin’ Donuts Sausage Pancake Bites? They sound as bad as the KFC double chicken double bacon sandwich. Slashfood gave these mini breakfast treats a “B” which is not too shabby.
I’m going to have to try them out, then jog around Baltimore for a couple of hours.
I wanted to get the Kinect for Xbox 360, then saw that it’s about 1/2 the price of the 360 and it has gotten some reviews from both extremes. People either loved it or hated it. I’m going to hold off and wait for a consensus to build up.
