Sports Time

It's been a while since I have done a Sports Rant, so here we go:

• If you didn't hate the NBA enough, the 3 trades that have occured the last two days will show you why it is horrible. All three trades featured an All-Star player being traded for bench0-warmers who are either going to be cut in the next week or are going to retire. All 3 trades only took place for money. Teams can't rebuild any more, they have to trade players so they can save money.
  
• The Bucks sucked next year, and will be worse next year without Jefferson or Villeneuva, and possibly without Sessions. Keep in mind I watched 2 games all year, so I actually have no idea who those players are. And they just selected some point guard from Italy. Fail.
• The Brewers are fu**ed big time. They have 3 starting pitchers, and one of those is Suppan. They are luckily still in second because everyone else in our division is losing too, but they have now lost the wild card to the Giants. (The same Giants who probably have the best starting pitching in the league, coincidence.....). I honestly don't know what they should do. They have no pitching in their farm system and there aren't any teams willing to part with any starters. The Brewers also don't want to trade away their future again this year. My personal choice to move Hardy and bring up Escobar or even trade Cameron now instead of losing him at the end of the season for nothing.
• Gamel and MCgehee should start everyday, no mater the pitching situations or matchup bull-s**t.
• I was watching Sports Center this moring and ended up watching it for an hour. The sad thing was that they covered 2 baseball games that entire hour; the Yankees game and the Mets game. The BRewers won a thirller, and there was nothing about it for the entire hour. They spend probably 20 minutes do some sh**ty mock draft for the NBA, spent 20 minutes on the Shaw trade (they actually had a piece on who was a bigger joker in the locker room, Shaq or LeBron), and then they spent 15 minutes on the USA beating Spain in soccer.............who gives a shit. 5 minutes of baseball..... this is America right?

Here is a funny bit from the COlbert Report, he has a funny joke about soccer and another one about Brett Favre.

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This is not a sports story.

Now here is a sports story. I am a little skeptical of the trade, everyone I have heard from says LaPorta is our best minor leaguer and was either going to be Fielder's replacement or left field once Hart moves to center next year. I am not a fan of trading for someone who will get 12 starts the rest of the season and then walk away and be signed by the Yankees or Mets. But after watching various sports debate shows I am a little more of a fan of it all.

The positives: its managements way of saying to the players and the fans that they want to win and are willing to spend money to win. Now there is more pressure on management to sign the likes of Hardy, Hart, and Fielder this off season because there is less talent in the minors. The Brewers will get 2 picks at the end of the 1st round when Sabathia walks (and 2 for Sheets). I guess Sabathia is a powerful dug house guy and can be a positive influence on the young pitchers. Sabathia can challenge Fielder in an eating contest. And finally, the Brewers do have a shot at this; they are tied for the Wild Card and 3 1/2 back from the division.

Now here is NOT a sports story. Who cares about A-rod divorcing his wife. All over the Internets are stories of A-rod going with Madonna and his wife going with Lenny Kravitz. Then reports of them getting divorced, and now reports of Madonna getting a divorce, then she isn't, then she is. Who cares. In now way is this a sports story and should not be on ESPN.

This story is also NOT a sports story. Any one who watched Sports Center on Sunday saw them replaying over and over again about the Bradley student who was killed when a fireworks prank went bad and how they rallied and won some soccer games in honor of him. How is this a sports story? Its a tragic story of real life consequences of some students acting stupid. Its just as tragic if the kid was not on the soccer team or if they hadn't won a bunch of games in honor of him. Why is it that sports center is making the world care about such a story because it does involve sports, shouldn't we care about stories like this even if he hadn't played sports? Maybe we should get homeless people to start playing sports then people will start caring about the homeless and unemployment rate in this country.

This is not a sports story....

I was watching Sports Center on Wednesday night and on the bottom ticker they mentioned about the bridge collapsing in Minnesota and how the production of the Twins new stadium was going to be delayed now. No mention of the travesty that just occurred or those dead or injured.

Then last night I was sitting at a bar watching Sports Center once again and there was a whole segment about how this was related to sports. How the Twins games was cancelled and how Pistons coach Flip Saunders was almost on that bridge. I really get tired how Sports Center and sports writers in general try to connect everything to sports. Some things are bigger than sports and should be left separate from sports.