By Dalton Del Don – Senior Writer
Joe Borowski has a 5.50 ERA this season. He also has 40 saves. Again, the saves category is the silliest statistic in all of sports.
Dontrelle Winless – Since May 30, Dontrelle Willis has one win. One. He’s 1-11 over that span.
Joba Chamberlain gives the Yankees a dominant setup man they’ve been missing for years. Dude has an 18/4 K/BB ratio over 14.1 scoreless innings since getting called up to the big leagues. That’s pretty good.
If the Giants really do let Barry Bonds walk, and all signs point to this being the case, I will be more disappointed in Brian Sabean than ever before – something I didn’t think possible. The team calls Bonds, who leads his league in OPS, a “fallback option” and will be looking to address it’s offensive inefficiencies elsewhere. We could be looking at historical lows in offense in the Bay Area next year if that’s the case. Forget from a baseball standpoint, he puts butts in the seats and with a 3,000-hits mark on the horizon, it also makes zero sense from a marketing view to let the world’s greatest hitter leave. I digress.
Pat Burrell has 214 career homes runs. 41 of them have come against the Mets. In other words, nearly 20 percent of his long balls have been mashed against one franchise.
This is one of the crazier box scores I’ve seen in a while.
Peter King’s recent article ranking the NFL’s top-500 players was an excellent read – if you were looking for a good laugh. I understand he didn’t want to overemphasize the skill positions, but come on, you are trying to tell me there are 102 better players in the NFL than Terrell Owens? Ed Reed ranked 12th overall? In between SportsCenter highlights, he’s the worst safety in help coverage in the league quite possibly – extremely overrated. And what about Ben Roethlisberger coming in at No. 85? If there were a draft held today but NFL GMs, I promise you Roethlisberger would be a top-five pick.
Fun Fact: Did you know that Jay Cutler was born in a town called “Santa Claus?”
Sean Payton’s decision to punt on 4th and inches from his own 30 down 17 to Indy with 13 minutes left Thursday was an early candidate for dumbest move of the year. Will someone please tell these coaches the ultimate goal is to give your team the best chance to win and not to decrease your probability of losing by more.
Raiders starting quarterback Josh McCown caught twice as many passes last season for the Lions as Raiders wide receiver Jerry Porter did. McCown recorded two receptions for 15 yards. Porter totaled one catch for 19 yards. Also, McCown was listed ahead of current Raiders receiver Mike Williams on the Lions depth chart at one point.
Random Prediction: J.T. O’Sullivan and/or Kellen Clemens will have significant fantasy value at some point this season. You heard it here first and you can thank me later.
Bashing the “Sports Guy” has become so cliché, I find myself defending the guy more often than not. But his recent NFL Power Poll in which he places the Seattle Seahawks as the No. 2 team in the NFL is beyond head scratching – that’s right, ahead of both the Chargers and the Colts. Geez, I picked them to finish third in a terrible division.
I cannot believe we are going to be subjected to that awful John Cougar Mellencamp song once again.
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