Current Mood: Chill

Well the draft has come and gone and I’m pretty happy with how things went down. Chiefs really scored with their first 4 picks. Would’ve liked to have seen them take at least one offensive lineman with one of their third round picks. But can’t complain when we get possibly the best player in the draft in Glenn Dorsey and an offensive lineman who may be the steal of the draft in Branden Albert. Follow that up with the hard hitting Brandon Flowers out of VT, and the fast as all hell Jamaal Charles and I actually look forward to next year…unfortunately Herm will almost guaranteed ruin all chances at a respectable season. Fuckin’ Herm.

Roger Clemens keeps digging himself deeper and deeper. Apparently he had a 10 year affair with Oxycontin spokeswoman, convict, and part-time country singer Mindy McCready. Which apparently began when she was only 15. I guess he never heard the saying “15 will get you 20″. He went by the motto, “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed”. Of course he “flatly denied” all accusations through his lawyer. Which of course comes on the heels of him “flatly denying” his use of performance enhancing drugs. Unfortunately for him Mindy McCready today denied nothing, and all but confirmed the affair. Clemens, grade A douche bag.

The Orlando Magic won their first playoff series since 1996, and it’s about time. After Shaq and Penny left the Magic way back when, I quit the sport for about 10 years, so I missed all of their struggles and just came back to Basketball this year. Them winning…Coincidence?…I think not! Side note: Dwight Howard is the Bomb Diggity yo! Averaging 21pts and 18 boards in the series.

My other team, the Braves, not fairing as well. Tom Glavine on the DL for the first time in his long career(he is back today however), Mike Hampton’s 20 million a year fragile ass, Smoltzies shoulder acting up, Mike Gonzalez still out, our most consistent reliever Peter Moylan on the 15 day DL, and our Closer also on the 15 day DL makes for a bad patchwork pitching staff.

Then you got Chipper Jones and Yunel Escobar playing hurt. Only bright spot thus far is Jurrjens is pitching really well. Hopefully things get turned around but I’m not optimistic. Side note: Braves need more TV time…fuckin’ TBS!

Current Mood: Alarmed

Johan Santana is set to invade the National League. That in itself is not so bad. What’s bad is he’s set to join the N.Y. Mets. This doesn’t look good for my beloved Braves as they traditionally struggle vs power pitchers. Plus he has that KILLER change up to go along with his blazing fastball. I’m sad. We get fucking Kotsay and the Mets get Santana. So unfair. I hate our GM and cheap ass Time Warner/AOL.

Current Mood: Indifferent

Today in the infinite wisdom of Frank Wren(new general manager). The Braves traded away a potential top closer/set-up man in RP Joey Devine for a guy who’s coming off the worst season of his incredibly average career in CF Mark Kotsay. I knew they were desperate for a CF but Kotsay? Bad, bad move. I hope he fails his physical, thus killing the trade dead.

Current Mood: Happy

…5th highest paid player in baseball!? I love me some Andruw Jones, but damn! He hit .222 last year, and his HR total dropped drastically 2 years in a row. A five-time All-Star, Jones will receive a $12.2 million signing bonus, of which $5.1 million is payable next year, $2.1 million in 2009 and $5 million in 2010. He will get salaries of $9 million next year and $15 million in 2009, and also will receive a no-trade clause.

I hope he bounces back, I truly do, but….damn.

In other news, the Royals newest signee Jose Guillen started things on the wrong foot by being suspended for the first 15 days of next season by Major League Baseball on Thursday for violating the sport’s drug program. Royals management is beyond repair.

Current Mood: Bored

The cloud of suspicion hovering over Barry Bonds has darkened considerably.

Bonds, baseball’s home run king, faces prison time after being indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice that stem from his denials under oath that he used anabolic steroids and that his personal trainer injected him with performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment alleges that Bonds lied to a federal grand jury 19 times. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Dec. 7.

The indictment was unsealed Thursday, more than five years after a federal agent started digging through trash outside the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) near San Francisco and collected evidence that would lead to the biggest steroids scandal in the history of sport and, ultimately, lead to the charges against Bonds. The indictment includes a reference to Bonds testing positive for steroids in November 2000 – and that could prove to be the most controversial piece of the government’s impending case against the controversial slugger.

Major League Baseball did not begin drug testing until 2003, meaning the results of the drug test referenced in the indictment probably were seized during the government’s raid of BALCO, which happened to be that same year.

Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to steroid-related charges, said the drug test likely took place when Bonds joined an assortment of world-class athletes working with Conte. But Conte said the case against Bonds could crumble if the positive drug test is the government’s “smoking gun.”

Conte said the protocol used to assure the integrity of a drug test – typically known as the chain of custody because it tracks the sample of urine or blood from the point of collection to the lab where it’s tested – was not in place. Second, Conte pointed out that the indictment does not say what the positive drug test showed. But if a high level of testosterone was detected, according to Conte, the positive test could have resulted from a contaminated nutritional supplement or pro-hormones that were sold legally until 2005.

It also is possible the positive drug test belongs to Bonds and could have resulted from Bonds’ taking anabolic steroids, according to Conte.

“But is it beyond a reasonable doubt? I don’t think it is,” Conte said. “That’s why I didn’t think they would bring the indictment. But they did, so now it’s war.”
…Read the entire article at yahoo.com

Current Mood: Sad

It figures, I’m finally gonna go to a Braves game and I won’t get to see my favorite player patrol the outfield. Braves made it official a few days ago that they wasn’t going to re-sign Andruw. I expected it, but doesn’t make it suck any less. Yeah, he had an abysmal year at the plate but still hit 26 homerun’s and nearly 100 R.B.I.’s and nobody does it better in CF imo. I have a feeling he’s gonna seriously step it up for whatever team gets him next year.

Luckily the Mets and Phillies are set at CF. Looks like the Marlin’s could use a CF though…lucky for the Braves the Marlins are cheap and won’t be able to afford Andruw. How odd would that be though? Andruw Jones a Marlin?

So who’s on deck to play CF for the Braves now? Willie Harris? That’s not a comforting thought. He stepped it up big this year but I have a feeling it was a fluke season. He’s a career .247 hitter. Gonna be strange not seeing Andruw in a Braves uniform next year.