Archive for January, 2006

Media Day Madness
January 31, 2006

Unofficially, Super Bowl week cannot start until the first questionable question is asked at Media Day. And it never takes long for some Wallace wanna-be to lob out a softball that inevitebly rolls the eyes of the interviewee into the back of his head.
Hey, Big Ben, if you could be a topping on a Roethlis-burger, [...]

Shapiro to Fans: "Trust Me"
January 30, 2006

Mark Shapiro says Coco Crisp will star in centerfield for the Red Sox. It takes one confident general manager to talk up the player he just dealt away, and to a rival team, no less. If Coco is such a sure-thing then why, in the name of Rocky Colavito, would you trade him?For starters, as [...]

Indians’ Arms Race
January 17, 2006

Would you trade Kevin Millwood and Scott Elarton for Paul Byrd and Jason Johnson?
Of course not.
Indians general manager Mark Shapiro does not shy away from that fact; he’s smarter than that. Which is precisely why it might make a little sense to hear him out, instead of writing off the 2006 season as a disaster-in-the-making.It [...]

Hooked on the ‘Horns
January 5, 2006

Texas just won the greatest college football game ever. Period.
Back here in Buckeye Nation, fans of hometown Ohio State will debate that fact until they turn scarlet in the face. And they should. It was only a few years back that a fantastic Fiesta Bowl finish (OSU 31 Miami 24) left us all saying that [...]

Brownstown Breakup
January 3, 2006

On Friday, Phil Savage was essentially fired, and then rehired. Tuesday, he watched the gun turn on the man who initially tried to pull the trigger.
I guess John Collins found out who, ultimately, was in charge of the Browns. It sure wasn’t him.
Collins was shown the door (with resignation in hand, of course) as part [...]