ScottJax takes on the Yankee haters, Ponder has a girl friend, NASCAR, PGA, and more in this weeks edition of…

So Christian Ponder is dating ESPN’s Samantha Steele. Is she worth it guys???

Does it come as any surprise that Ozzie Guillen was fired as the Marlins manager. He was even a worse choice to manage a team than Bobby Valentine.

The New York Islanders are moving to Brooklyn, and no, they are not changing their name to Brooklyn Islanders. The team will still be named their New York Islanders. The team will move to the Barclay Center after their lease expires after the 2014-2015 season and their new lease is iron-clad and will be for 25 years.

To All You Yankee Haters!!!

I finally figured you out. It took me many, many years and now I know the reason you hate the Yankees.

Yankee Haters - those people who's baseball teams can't come close to matching the great history of the Yankees, and are jealous of them.

27 World Series (16 more than the St. Louis Cardinals), 40 American League Pennants (No one comes close), Great Hitters, Great Pitchers and Great Managers.

No Team can come close to the greatness of the New York Yankees!!!

So while other teams just strive to make the playoffs, for the Yankees anything less than winning the World Series is a failure.

Now that Dwight Howard and Steve Nash are with the Lakers, are the Lakers the team to beat in the NBA? Can Miami give them a run for their money?

NASCAR has the Sprint Car Series that towards the end of the NASCAR season the top 12 points leaders have the chance to win the Championship. So how come 40 cars are still racing? I think only the 12 cars in the chance should be allowed to race. Look how wide open the track would be. No crashes, only pit stops. If these are the best of the best, that should be enough for me.

The 2012 PGA Tour had 98 golfers who won more than $1 million dollars. WOW. Peter Hanson won $1,511,221.30 in only 11 events ($137,383.76 an event). Rory McIlory won $8,047,952 in 16 events ($502,997 and event) was the leader.

Career money leader is Tiger Woods who went over the $100 million dollar mark. He is followed by Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh, both have earned over $67 million dollars.

Meanwhile only 10 ladies on the LPGA tour won $1 million dollars this year.

What ever happened to the PBA???

I do miss Wide World of Sports. “The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat.” That was a Sunday staple on TV. Cliff diving from Mexico, skiing in Norway, bull riding, hurling, rodep, curling, jai-alai, firefighter’s competitions, surfing, logger sports, and how about demolition derby, softball, badminton, track and field, gymnastics, figure skating plus odd sports that never made it big on TV found its way on this ionic show. Damn I do miss it.

Wide World of Sports was the first to broadcast Wimbledon, The Indy 500, NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, Daytona 500, U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Little League World Series, British Open Golf Tournament to name a few.

Is there College Football on the West Coast?

Congrats go out to the San Francisco Giants who will play the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. The Giants have won 6 World Series and the Tigers have won 4.

Til Next Time

Scott

ScottJax worried about getting fired?? Nice scenery at Florida‘s Orange and Blue Game?? Blake Griffin getting his way?? All this and more in this weeks edition of…

Random Thoughts

Did Stan have a bad case of Howard??

Okay Gabbers. Who really spilled the beans about Orlando’s coach Stan Van Gundy? Does anyone think that Dwight would go to management and ask for the coach to be fired? Oh yeah, I do. But then I think Howard is doing everything he can, on and off the court, to get the coach fire this season or Stan does not finish his contract which expires at the end of next season. Notice I have ON bigger and badder than the other words. Watch his actions on the court. Yes he has good games, but he can cause the team to lose too with lax play on the court.

This all could have been easily taken care of if the Magic would have traded Howard before the trading deadline. I don’t care who the coach is next year, Dwight will be gone. He will force Orlando to trade him before the trading deadline next year.

Let me just come out for the record and say if something is suppose to be confidential then it should remain that regardless whether a person popped positive on drugs/steroids or on a test score. The person who leaks this information should be suspended and fined.

Now that I got that off my chest…

Players get a free education. The least they can attempt and try to learn something. There is no excuse for any individual to not know how to do basic math and reading.

LSU should be ashamed and embarrassed that their star defensive back, Morris Claiborne, had a 4 on his Wonderlic test.

Is there are rivalry brewing between Kings forward DeMarcus Cousins and Clippers forward Blake Griffin? First the two shoved each other during a recent game, and it looked like Cousins was trying to elbow Griffin. According to Cousins Blake is an “actor.” DeMarcus believes Griffin was faking which caused Cousin a foul. "I guess the wind from my hand hit him in the eye and I guess he got fouled by the wind," Cousins said. "I'm not sure."

And the Academy Award for the best fake of a foul goes to…..drum rolls please…

I posted this before,

This past Saturday I went to the Florida Gator’s annual Orange and Blue game where the 2^nd team (Blue) plays against the 1^st team (Orange). There wasn’t anything spectacular on the field, all the action was in the stands. This is what I mean:

This is better than anything that could happen on the field, and is the only reason I go with my friends to the Orange and Blue game. I, as a dedicated Syracuse fan root for the Orange team (which, by-the-way, has lost for the past 5 years) while my friends are die-hard Gator fans and are just watching to see who will stand-out for next season.

Is this the price of fame?

Baylor University’s men and women’s basketball programs make receive NCAA sanctions from an investigation that revealed more than 1,200 phone calls and text messages during a 29-month period. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey and her assistants and Men’s coach Scott Drew and his assistants were involved with the calls and texts.

The men's and women's basketball programs at Baylor University are facing possible NCAA sanctions following an investigation that uncovered more than 1,200 impermissible phone calls and text messages during a 29-month span.

The University has already imposed a number of penalties on their own after the results of an NCAA enforcement staff’s probe which began in 2008 with the recruiting of Baylor mega-star Brittney Griner. They include, lost scholarships, and coaches visits to recruits.

It’s ironic that this all is coming out on the heels of Baylor University’s most successful season in college football and basketball, with their teams winning a combined 80 wins (football 10-3, men’s basketball 30 wins and women’s basketball 40-0), the most in NCAA history.

The NCAA has said Baylor's own penalties will be okay.

This pictures sums up they way Ozzie Guillen feels. Too bad it wasn’t in a Marlins uniform.

In the file this in the “Mouth is faster than the brain” category, Ozzie has the city in Miami in an uproar after his comments in which he expressed admiration for Fidel Castro.

He since has said he felt “guilty and embarrassed.”

“I don't want to make a statement, because I think when you make a statement it's a bunch of crap. I want people to look in my eyes, look in my face and see what's going on, tell them what the deal was.

”-- Ozzie Guillen

"I want to make everything clear what's going on. Then people can see me and know what I think, I think it's the proper thing so people can see my eyes and ask every question they want to ask. I want to get the thing over with. I told the Marlins I want to fly (back) as soon as I can, and tomorrow's a day off," Guillen said. "I don't want to (talk about it) in Philadelphia. I want to be in Miami and clear everything up. I want the people there. Whoever feels about it, ask me any questions," he said. "I want you to ask what you ask, because I feel bad? Yes. I feel embarrassed? Yes."

The hardest part, Guillen said, has been apologizing to Cuban-American members of the Marlins' organization. "The saddest part of this was to apologize to (the Marlins' Spanish-language broadcasters) Felo Ramirez and Yiki (Quintana). That was hard. And I did it, face to face. I just talked to (pitcher Jose) Contreras a couple of minutes ago. And Jose was laughing, kinda like, 'Don't worry about it.' But every Cuban-born and Cuban-born family that I know -- they know who I am."

Marlins have suspended the manager for 5 games.

Til Next Time

Scott

I love this image for some reason, because this innocent little strumpet has no idea what she gets to collect as soon as she passes go. And let's be honest, we all used to think we were bending over and taking it when you landed on Park Place. Talk about an eye opener. I wonder if you have to roll a pair to get out of that jail?

Anyway, I was thinking about discussing the trade deadline moves and such, but I I also wanted to make sure that you guys didn't fall asleep on Monday morning, so I'll spare you from that lecture...for now.

Still, on the tip of my tongue is something that has been eating at me a bit since I read about it, although it seemed to roll off of the tip of his tongue pretty easily. Needless to say, I'm referring to Ozzie Guillen, who made a comment this week about how much easier the Asian players have it in Major League Baseball than the Latin players.

It seems that Mr. Mouth of the Southside thought it was prudent to poke the embers of racial bias for no reason whatsoever other than to get the camera pointing at him again. Ozzie referred to the ability of Asian players to come to the United States and get assisted by the team with interpreters and personal masseuses while Latin ballplayers are left to wallow in the minor leagues, scraping by on their own accord and meager salaries. Apparently this was all based on the fact that his son's minor league team acquired a Korean ballplayer who came packaged with an interpreter, while his boy is saddled with the need to interpret for the Spanish speaking players on the team.

Well Mr. Guillen, you have a certain point in regards to equality, but you miss a few key points to the argument.

Firstly, most Asian players who have made their ways West are coming over as established professional players, who despite their inexperience at the Major League level, still possess some level of negotiation skills. On the flip side, most Latin players sign their contracts at extremely young ages, prior to having possessed any level of professional experience, and often have had their contract negotiated for them by a liason in their country who has swindled them out of the majority of their deal.

Secondly, Asian players make up the smallest percentage of foreign players in the Major Leagues and its subordinate minor league systems. They tend to have few teammates that can assist them in acclimating to our societies and therefore require at least someone that can help them to at least understand what Joe Coach is saying to him. Meanwhile,Latin ballplayers make up the largest growing population on Major League Baseball, let alone the United States. That said, it is more that easy to see why teams won't invest in translators for them when they generally already on the team or coaching staff.

So come over here for a second and sit down Ozzie, I have a piece of information that I'd like to pass along to you and your fellow crybabies; "No one in this country gets a free ride or a silver spoon."

Let's face facts, if you are lucky enough to have landed a job where you get to play a game for a living, your life isn't hard. Sure, there is a lot of work involved in keeping your position and earning promotions, but I have news for you, that's why they call it a job and that's why you're paid to do it. If for some reason it is too much work for your son to be a comrade to his teammates from another country and help them to acclimate, then just have him hand them the yellow pages and help them find someone else to teach them the language so that they don't require his services any more. Or at the very least, let him file a grievance with the union

Do you want to impress me Ozzie? Sit down and realize that your team is in first place and that they don't necessarily need you to shine the spotlight on yourself. Let their performance do the talking for you. You're the manager, not the face of the franchise. Your job is to put the line-up card together and flash signs, so if you don't want to speak more than one language to your players, then there is only one thing left for you to do:

Shut up!