BOSMA’S BREAKDOWN
Selection Sunday is just days away. Opening day for the MLB is weeks away. The NFL draft is about a month away. The NBA and NFL playoffs are within sight as well.
Unfortunately, all that means is the sports world is in limbo. Here and there some good stories have been popping up, and to keep the sanity, let’s talk about them…
Major League Baseball division realignment
To put this simply, Bud Selig developed a 14-member committee for “special on-field issues,” and these members are brainstorming ways to improve the game. Well, there first suggestion is a complete failure. The committee announced an idea to bring parity to baseball that makes the old statement “no idea is dumb” a complete lie. Their suggestion is to create a floating realignment of divisions in which teams are not stuck in one division, but can float around year-to-year based on geography, payroll and whether or not they plan to contend that year.
Yes, this was actually suggested. And it is absolutely ludicrous. First of all, if this were to happen, you’d eliminate division rivalries completely because very few teams with lasting rivalries actually contend every single year (think Indians/White Sox, Cubs/Cardinals).
Most importantly, if this suggestion actually went into effect, how would you explain to your fans, who pay top dollar for tickets, that the team isn’t going to contend this year? Will there also be floating ticket prices? Or perhaps an eBay auction for all tickets with a cap that reflects a very small percentage of what the team intends to spend in payroll?
If the committee is looking to improve the game, they must be dropping acid before meetings with suggestions like these. All it does is give small market teams a reason to stick it to their fans, be cheap and allow the juggernauts of Major League Baseball to continue to shine.
Derek Anderson lets the door hit Browns fans on the way out
Anderson was released by the Browns Tuesday and promptly fired an e-mail to News-Herald writer Jeff Schudel expressing his distaste for the Dog Pound. In the e-mail Anderson said Browns fans are “ruthless and don’t deserve a winner.”
Well, looks like Anderson gave Browns fans exactly what he thinks they do deserve. A loser… and he was that loser. He couldn’t win games and the one year, 2007, the Browns had a chance to make the playoffs, he kindly threw passes to the opposition.
I understand Anderson’s frustration, especially after Browns fans cheered when he got injured and had to leave the game a few years ago, but show a little class. Maybe Browns fans don’t often show much class, but what do you expect?… and what NFL fan base is actually classy?
I say none. Fans ARE ruthless and feel entitled. Even though we all would go insane if we had fans at our workplace heckling us, telling us we sucked, and screaming obscenities about our families, we do it at games anyway. It’s easy to see why Anderson would say these things, but it doesn’t mean he should. Especially when he stole all that money from the Browns over the years.
Milton Bradley thinks Cubs fans are racist
Bradley said he thinks some of the unfair treatment from Cubs fans was race related and told ESPN’s Colleen Dominguez he was a prisoner in his own home in Chicago.
Wow. Let that soak in for a second. Okay… Bradley knows a lot of African-American players have played at Wrigley Field and never pulled the race card right? He knows an African-American man is known as Mr. Cub… right? He knows one of the most beloved current Cubs players, Derek Lee, is African American…. right??…right???
Give me a break. There’s a reason nearly every (or all) MLB fan hates Milton Bradley and he’s bounced around teams more than Drew Gooden in the NBA.
Unless Bradley was living in the roughest neighborhood in Chicago, there’s no way he could have felt like a prisoner in his own home. I wish he would be put on house arrest for the rest of his life after those comments so he could feel what it’s really like. How about this… you go sit in my cubicle, and I’ll go play baseball at Wrigley and let every fan yell anything at me all day long. I bet I’d still walk out with a smile on my face.
Ben Roethlisberger accused again
This is going to be short and sweet here. 1) The Steelers aren’t going to put up with this for very long, no matter what the final verdict is. They’re the Steelers, a classy, model organization and my guess is the Rooney family intends to keep it that way. 2) Ben, you’re a multimillionaire, you have no place in college bars anymore, sorry. Not if absolutely nothing good is coming out of it. What good actually happens after midnight with these athletes that we ever hear about? Nothing.
Time to rethink things a little, Big Ben, innocent or not.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:16 am
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