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Maurice Clarett is planning on attempting a comeback to the NFL once hes released from jail in 2010, New York Newsday reports.

This is absurd.  Don’t you have to make it to the NFL to make a comeback?  This fat thug was cut in training camp after being taken WAY too early by Denver.  Then he robs somebody in an alley.  He hasn’t played a game of football since 2002! (But he did win me a nice sum of money in his last game!)

I was a fan, but all the BS suing the league and all the trouble he got into just because he thought he was above everyone else.  All because he can carry a football.  It’s sad.

I believe everyone deserves a second chance, although I think Maurice is way beyond second chances.  I just don’t see a team in the NFL willing to give him a shot.  Maybe I’m wrong?

Oh and he blogs, read it here

Well lock them up because Mike Vick is out of prison and ready to make a comeback!!!

Vick is on house arrest in his home state of VA, allowed to leave only to go to his $10/hr job as a construction laborer.  Supposedly he is working out with a trainer with an eye on playing in the NFL this coming season.

Now that leaves open a couple of questions.  One, what kind of punishment/suspension will Roger Goodell dish out to Vick?  Also, what team will take the chance on him and the surefire media circus that he will bring?

Vick, I believe, is already suspended indefinitely.  Will Goodell reinstate him before the season?  After 4 games?  Maybe 8?  I’m guessing he misses no more than 4, just a guess.  But that leads us to the next question, the million dollar question.  WHERE DOES HE LAND? Read the rest of this entry »

The Miami Herald is reporting that former NY Giants gun-toting WR Plaxico Burress is interested in joining the Miami Dolphins.  That is , IF he can avoid the 3.5 year jail sentence staring him in the face.

The last place this guy needs to play is Miami.  Plaxico loose on South Beach?  That sounds like a worse idea then that time Peter bought Chris a bullfrog

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Hello friends.

I want to be the first to apoloize for being a sporadic blogger.  It’s not like I have too much on my plate that I cant sit down and BS for a few minutes on what I feel.  I know our 6 readers need to know how i feel about Big Papi’s struggles (Ill get to that later).

So without further ado, here’s some quick thoughts I had while spreading bark mulch today (before the hot, hot sun forced me inside to my computer)

- Sad news about NESN commentator/Red Sox color guy Jerry Remy.  I feel bad saying this but I don’t think we will see him back in the booth.  Lung cancer is a bitch, much like ANY cancer, and word is that he was having a lung removed.  If it is in fact that far advanced, I just don’t see him returning.  Not this year, not ever.  Thanks Jerry, for the years of service. 

- Staying on the same topic, how did Dave Roberts get the away game color gig?  Didn’t this guy just retire from playing?  Where did he get experience?  I was listening to him read the Seattle Mariners lineup last week and it was awful.  He sounded like one of those inner city 7 year olds they get to read the lineup cards during Fox national broadcasts.  It was just painful.

Also, I don’t like Eck in the booth at home.  I like Eck pre-game, I like Eck post-game.  I dont like Eck during the game.  I hope NESN figures this out.

- Brian Daubach, what happened to you?  I was watching the pre-game show on NESN the other day and you look old.  Like really old.  I just googled you and realized that your 37 years old.  WOW.  I guess the minor league life is rough on people.  (FYI I am still your biggest fan, ask any of my college buddies)

- Jon Gruden will do a great job on Monday Night Football.  I think getting a coach back in the booth was a smart move, and Gruden will bring a bit of intensity and insight to the broadcast.  I really think ( if he wants to be) he can become a broadcast legend.  That’s right I said legend.

- David Ortiz.  Big Papi.  The guys in a huge slump.  Boston fans are screaming hes a bum, hes lost it.  Sit him for Rocco.  All I have to say to these “fans” is……

SLOW DOWN.  Realx.  Your team is 25-16.  They just swept first place Blue Jays.  They have done this with Youklis missing 2 weeks, and with their “Big 3″ starting pitching performing well below what was expected of them.

So lay off Papi.  If hes got 3 homers and 22 RBI’s at the All-Star break then Ill hop on your wagon (keep a seat open), but for now I’m giving the most clutch Sox hitter Ive ever seen the benefit of the doubt.

- Last but not least, Happy 30th birthday goes out to contributors Ken Goyette, and me, Ken Nutter.  We are here to make sure that the 30’s really are the new 20’s!

The posts come to long apart, and I am just not happy with things are going here. So for now I am closing it down, no new posts will be posted for a while until I sort out what I want to do. I am sure about 3 people will read this, and not really be shocked.

A lot happened over night, I figured I would comment on some of it.

First, I don’t give a crap about Tom Brady and Gisele getting married. Really who would waste their time, oh wait…

Albert Haynesworth has appeared to have gotten paid. 7 year deal worth at least 100 million dollars from the Redskins. I like this deal for Haynesworth, but you know this is going to blow up in Daniel Snyder’s face. The Redskins also gave 54 million to DeAngelo Hall, this team throws around money like it’s … well something not very valuable.

Manny keeps proving to everyone that he has no interest in playing this season, WAY TO GO MANNY.

Finally lock up your dogs Mike Vick is being released to house arrest, hopefully he has learned his lesson. What NFL team is going to give Vick a chance, I am certain he isn’t going to be a Falcon

WOW!

For the first time in 33 years, my alma mater, the Providence College Friars, defeated a top-ranked team as they took down Pitt 81-73. That’s right, the little unranked Friars from the wimpy, miniscule little state of Rhode Island, with fragile, senile little priests as the mascot took down the tops in the land. The Keno Davis era has certainly arrived in Providence (I still miss Rick Barnes big time). This greatly enhances PC’s odds of a berth in March Madness, especially since 87% of the conference and pretty much every D-I college gets in…what is this, the NHL?

Now, if Providence could only string this together with some other wins against even-lowlier teams, instead of leveling the scales by getting romped by a team who didn’t think they were going to beat the MIGHTY Providence. Ahh…so goes the plight of the poor, poor Providence College Friars.

In any case, celebrate, ye students of Providence (or scream, in the case of those under the pile at center court - the Red Cross will be with you shortly.) Your team just took down the mightiest in the land!

So Steroids in Baseball are a big problem, oh really they are? If you didn’t realize that, when Big Mac was swatting 71 dingers, you should end it all now because you are an idiot.

This isn’t new folks, and everyone stop talking about how you should ban everyone and all records should be stripped. You are uneducated because the mess that is your idea is too big. For baseball to fix this, they need to get stricter on punishing players that fail now. They need to adopt the strictest rules, for a 1st offense you are done for an entire season, 162 game, plus playoffs. If they want to get real about it, second offense needs to end their career. The player’s association needs to agree, because they look just as big of assholes, and they have a PR nightmare on the horizon.

That all being said, does anyone think the NFL has an issue too? I am sure most people will be like no way, a 6′4″ 325lbs lineman is suppose to be able to run a 5.2 40 yard dash, that’s normal. Are you people kidding me, I think the NFL players just got really good at hiding their dirty piss.

So the question then becomes, why is baseball so heavily scrutinized. Why does the NFL get a pass when MLB just gets destroyed? I have theories, but they involved a wave of invading aliens, so I won’t go into that here. Is it because the NFL is truly more beloved than Baseball, I am no so sure about that. I think what it is, is the historic value of it. Baseball, although not as popular, is still our national pastime, and a lot of us are hurt. We have known baseball as our game forever; it is the game that we all knew growing up. Joining a team, watching your favorite team, taking your first trip to Fenway, or Yankee Stadium. Then at some point baseball stopped loving us back, with the exploding salaries, the strikes and now steroids. This is the final straw we are pissed and baseball maybe its time we see other people.

So, the other night I made the regrettable mistake of saying to myself “Self…I wonder what’s on NESN on a weekday night with no Red Sox game, no spring training (this was right before they left Boston for Fort Myers), and no Bruins game on?”  Boy, I wish I could have lobotomized myself there on the spot.

Enter NESN’s best, if you don’t count Eric Frede, Jerry Remy’s moustache and the mad fisherman Charlie Moore.  Dirty Water TV is a half-assed attempt at a meaningful television program, and you’d be better off finding a wall to smash your face into for a half an hour instead of suffering through Christian Fauria (that’s right, this guy just won’t go away.  I actually drafted him in the second to last round of Fantasy Football 4 or 5 years ago when he at least played opposite Benjamin Watson, and even that late into the draft, I still questioned whether I had lost my mind.)  At first glance, you may think you’re watching a Girls Gone Wild infomercial, minus the wildness and the…girl-ness.  It  has that awful ‘film-like-you’re-part-of-the-action feel, also known as strapping the camera to an elk and allowing it to roam aimlessly. 

Sister Christian apparently feels his supreme physical conditioning is adequate enough to avoid the training time to convert him into something other than an awful tight end (if the Chiefs haven’t cut him yet, which would be the most obvious conclusion), and at the same time seeking out local Boston hotspots to look awkard within, while of course interviewing people who you could tell were not interested in this tall, goofy guy who they couldn’t have picked as a former Patriot if you lined him up among the Celtics dancers.
 
Not only is the show terribly filmed and produced, which made me feel like I was on the back of a pickup, or inside a dryer, take your pick, but the creators/producers/jerks find the need to have their interviewee repeatedly plug “Dirty Water TV”.  “You’re watching Dirty Water TV”, “Dirty Water TV”, and “I love that Dirty Water…TV” was repeatedly, again awkwardly, at least 133 times during the 30-minute broadcast…thanks for reminding me that I’m watching one of the worst pieces of television EVER.  This was even worse than the show with Bob Goldthwaite as the voice of a fuzzy-yet-arrogant as shit bunny…the name thankfully escapes me at this moment and I’d rather write about not knowing the name than actually using perhaps even less time to look up the name…I won’t give it that kind of respect.

So, I beg of you, if you happen to be tuning to NESN on a weekday (it was a Thursday as I can remember), or perhaps have left it tuned after a Bruins or Red Sox game (God willing, the show will be cancelled by then), please immediately fastball something heavy towards your screen and put an end to the horror that is the Upper Decker of the sports/reality/interview/news/penile discharge show that is Dirty Water TV.

There is no filter for what that is allowed on television today and it pisses me off.

I got your Dirty Water right here…I said it.

Last night was the Dunk contest, and can I say, JESUS this contest is back. Between Robinson and Howard the excitement is back in this contest. This is the year that Nate deserved to win, dude jumped over Dwight Howard. Someone tall doing that is impressive, but Nate is 5′8″. Dwight Howard did dunk on a 12′ hoop though, which was pretty awesome, and he is a showman. I hope Lebron keeps his word and competes next year, that will definitely raise the bar even higher on this contest. Come on Kobe you can do it too!