Saturday, January 12, 2013

RGIII, Junior Seau, the Baseball Fall of Fame and Vegas picks

A whole lotta people owe Jay Cutler an apology
In no way, shape or form, do I think Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan would jeopardize his franchise rookie QB RGIII's health to win a game. That being said he did. RGIII should have been cleared to play the game. In the beginning he looked to be somewhat close to his old self, but once he got rocked and was hobbling... You gotta pull the hook and get him out of there. What makes RGIII so special is his elite running ability, once that's taken from him, it made no sense to keep him in the game. Now his career could possibly never be the same, which takes me back to 2 years ago, when the Bears prevented Jay Cutler from returning to the NfC Championship game against the Packers. That was absolutely the right call. You never risk your franchise players health over a game, that's the rule, end of story.

Lets not let another Seau moment happen again
So Junior Seau killed himself after being depressed from too many shots to the head. This for some reason makes me think of the movie Looper, in which once they kill their future self, they get a nice severance package and live it up for 30 years. There need to be guidelines set, where after a certain amount of time, be it games played, age, injury history or whatever. The NFL needs to start doing mandatory brain scans, if any damage has been done to your brain, you get a nice severance package and retire immediately. I also think that while they're in the waiting room, songs like 'Protect yo self before you wreck yo self' and 'Killing me Softly' should be playing in the background, for a subliminal affect.

5 thoughts on the Baseball Hall of Fame
Fuck those crusty old hall of famers who say that they're glad that players like Clemons and Bonds aren't in the HOF because they cheated. This is a classic case of not knowing who you are as a person. I'm not saying all, but if steroids were readily available back in the day, players would have used them, no ifs, ands or buts about it. 

There was a writer who gave up his right to vote for the HOF because he said he wasn't qualified to vote during the steroid era and to that I say  COWARD!!! Writers need to take their fair share of the blame for the steroids era, weren't you guys covering the game? Didn't you see the massive transformation of Bonds, Sosa and McGwire? Didn't you write how 1998 saved the game of baseball? Now you want to wash your hands of it. COWARDS!!!

You say Bonds and Clemons shouldn't be HOF's because they used steroids, and I say weren't they HOF's before they used? You say that's why they shouldn't have used it because they were already in and ego was the driving force behind their decisions. I say ego is the driving force behind everything that has a driving force and I also say the game of Baseball knowingly celebrated cheaters, gave them bigger contracts and iconic status, now these same players are treated like outcasts... HYPOCRITES!!!!

The Hall of Fame vote should be an honor and if you're bestowed with an honor you should consider everything, not just that they cheated and it becomes the entire base for your argument. For the ones that support cheaters, saying that players like Ty Cobb and Gaylord Perry were known cheaters and of bad character, they're in, so let's put the rest in. To that I say, just because mistakes were made in the past doesn't mean that they have to continue to be made. Every year is a chance to start having players in the HOF for the right reasons.

For my vote (which is imaginary), yes I vote Bonds and Clemons in, but no they shouldn't be 1st ballot. No I don't vote Sosa and McGwire in, they weren't gonna make it to the Hall without the help of steroids. Players like Jeff Bagwell and Mike Piazza, I wait for awhile. I cannot say definitively if they used steroids. They have 15 years on the ballot so I use some of that time to see if more information comes out shedding light on them, if it doesn't, I vote them in. Sure voting is not just looking at numbers anymore, you gotta do a little homework, but you get to vote for the Hall of Fame, so get it in yo!!!

Vegas Picks
Baltimore +10 over Denver
Before we all hop on the Broncos bandwagon, consider that most of their wins came against the the Chiefs, Chargers and Raiders, easily the worse division in football and yeah they'll beat Baltimore but no way Ray Lewis loses his last game by more than 10 points
Broncos 23 - Ravens 20

San Franciso -2.5 over Green Bay
I made this prediction last week and I'm sticking to it. San Fran is too physical for the Pack, but if the Pack win and the 49ers offense sputters. Head coach Jim Harbaugh will have to answer to why he went with a rookie QB mid-season on a championship caliber team.
49ers 26 - Packers 17

Atlanta-1 over Seattle
Whoever wins this game will play in the Super Bowl, I picked Atlanta in the beginning and I still reluctantly pick them against Russell 'I may never lose a big game ever' Wilson
Atlanta 30 - Seattle 27

Patriots-9.5 over Houston
I don't believe in Houston at all, if the Bengals had made just a play or 2, Houston would be done. Matt Shaub needs to have a monster game and so does J.J Watts. New England's running game will be the difference. So take the Pats and the points and take Brady throwing under 3.5 touchdowns
Pats 31 - Texans 17

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