is this even news?

ok, this is all the brett favre you will get from me. Favre has signed a deal with the Minnesota Vikings worth $25million over 2 years. shocker. Favre annoys the living crap out of me with his retired/unretired/im-done-with-football/id-like-to-come-back nonsense. Favre, shown below being a bitch and crying because he was once "retired", is back and ESPN has now turned from sports news, to Favre news, just adding to my hatred and annoyance of this man. Hey Shawn Merriman and Brian Urlacher, (and i know they read this blog..), would u mind breaking his hip for me this season?

the sad thing is, since its a two year contract we will enjoy this drama series i like to call Operation: Favrewatch, AGAIN NEXT YEAR! YAY FOR FLIP FLOPPING OVERRATED AND TOO OLD QB's!!

The Detroit Red Wings have signed free agent forward Todd Bertuzzi to a one year deal today. im glad that someone picked him up because he is one of my favorite players. i know he cheapshotted Steve Moore and permanently paralyzed the man, but still, hes one of the games better players. as bad as paralyzing someone is, its not as bad as Dany Heatley driving at crazy high speeds in his Ferrari 360 Modena with alcohol in his system and killing his teammate Dan Snyder. I know both of those circumstances are extremely different, but look at all of the professional sports leagues and you will find scumbags that do things even worse. From being drunk and killing a man with your Bentley, to dog fighting (which really, who cares? its dogs.) to shooting a man at a strip club, to many many many drug related arrests, pro sports are full of morons that if they didnt have their athletic ability would be in jail or flipping burgers for a living.
Bertuzzi, who is pictured here as being a total badass, will get a chance to win the cup this year with the Wings.


Josh Beckett of the Boston Red Sox is the league's leader in wins with 14, and is going for 15 tonight against the Toronto Blue Jays. While the Jays are almost mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, the Red Sox are still fighting for their spot and Beckett seems to be the anchor that the Sox are banking on every time he starts. Kevin Youkilis is back in action tonite after serving his 5 game suspension for his altercation with Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello, and will hopefully spark the dismal offense that the Red Sox call their own. Beckett is the game's dominant pitcher so far this year, and needs to stay on his A-game for the Sox to have a chance.

The Sox come in to tonight 1/2 a game back in the Wild Card race.

Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez has been traded from the Houston Astros to the Texas Rangers today for two minor leaguers. Pudge was the catcher for the Rangers the last time they made it to the playoffs in 1999. The Rangers currently have a half-game lead over the Red Sox for the Wild Card, and unless they win that they will not make the playoffs because the LA Angels of Anaheim have the division on lock. Pudge is the record holder for most games caught, which he broke this season when he passed Carlton Fisk as he caught his 2226th game.



The Washington Nationals barely got it in, but they managed to sign their franchise draft pick Stephen Strasburg to a deal just 77 seconds before the midnight deadline last night. Strasburg (steered by his agent Scott Boras) was able to ink a deal worth $15 million dollars, making Strasburg the highest paid draft pick pitcher ever, passing Kerry Wood from the Cubs. for the Nats' sake, i hope this kid can take his dominant college career and transform it to success for Washington in the MLB. if he doesnt, which i have a tremendous fear that he won't, that will just add to the Nationals' bad luck. Hopefully the Nats catch the Mets this year though!


what im about to get in to right is 100% a rant, but i think this needs to be expressed.

Matt Holliday, shown above getting fondled by a LA Dodger, has been on an absolute tear lately. He is one of the hottest players in baseball as of late, just like he was when he led the Colorado Rockies to the World Series in 2007. He was then traded to the Oakland Athletics, where he started out great. Once he realized that the A's weren't going anywhere in the post season, he began to decline in his stats. While fully capable of being the awesome player he still is, he tanked it in Oakland. The A's got rid of Holliday, sending him to the St. Louis Cardinals where he picked up right where he left off in Colorado, absolutely raping the ball and playing great all around. Basically, Holliday pulled a page out of Manny Ramirez' book and tanked it til he got to go where he wanted to go, but has gotten no flack for it because hes white. If he was of color, i believe all the baseball reporters and writers would be tearing him apart, but instead he is white and is now being raved about for his stellar second half of the season with the Cards. Cmon America, stop being so blind and realize that whats wrong is wrong, no matter what color you are. And Matt Holliday, shame on you for taking a dive. You get paid millions of dollars to PLAY BASEBALL. how hard is it that you cant put up with a losing season and just PLAY YOUR GAME?!

/rant.

thats all i got today, the hate poured out in the last one. peace!