Ciao for now Gerard footage shot at the MDA Muscle Team Event held at Chelsea’s Pier 60 January 5 2010. P.B.G.’s Production’s the official photographers for the MDA.
We really need more Cheerleader footage on this site. It may not last very long but it’s a great break in the day. These ladies are very enjoyable to say the least.
It seems as though the Marlins have spent more money over the past week than they have over the last five years. It’s certainly close.
Uggla and the Marlins agreed to a one-year, $7.8 million contract, avoiding arbitration. The Marlins took Uggla to arbitration last winter and lost, the result being a $5.35 million contract.
The Marlins, trying to save money, attempted to trade Uggla at the winter meetings. He said Monday that he was happy to avoid arbitration — the deadline to do so is 1 p.m. Tuesday — and is optimistic that he will start the season with the Marlins.
The deal comes on the heels of signing Josh Johnson to a 4-year, $39 million dollar deal, and it’s both surprising and refreshing to see the Marlins as buyers for once going into the new season. Uggla still may get traded, but at least the Marlins don’t enter a situation where he’s unsigned going into Spring Training.
I’d say that Uggla is worth about $8 million a year, so this is a fine deal for both parties. Sure, he hits only .240, but if you look to batting average for a player’s value, you probably don’t know too much about baseball. He’s hit 30+ home runs the past three seasons (as a middle infielder) and managed to get on base at a respectable .354 clip last season. He’s not Craig Biggio, but he’s pretty awesome.
I expect this to be Uggla’s final season with the Marlins, and he still may be traded. Lots of teams have shown interest in him and the Marlins have Coughlan to play second base, his natural position.
Still, it looks like the Marlins are coming to play ball this year, and I see only Philly as a better team in that division.
The first few seconds of this video should tell you everything you need to know about Mark Titus. Some motherfuckers have been saying he can’t play ball, and this video is a visual shitburger served up to the eyes of the haters.
And yeah, Mark Titus is pretty good at basketball – being a walk-on at a Big Ten school means you can fucking play. It’s pretty obvious he’s got a great sense of humor about himself, too. And you’ve gotta love his sportsmanship.
You can read Titus’ blog at Club Trillion. It’s good. He’s not going to play in the NBA, but maybe Titus has a future career in blogging…
We’ve all been reading about Mark McGwire. Yes we know he’s done steroids. Yes, we know that the MLB needs to be stricter about all this stuff. Yawn. I’m honestly getting a little winded with all this talk. Can we just put it to bed by saying players will ALWAYS be using steroids and Major League Baseball has to do the best it can to get these players out of the league if they’re really serious? However, they can’t be serious because they’ve never banned anyone and never will. Is that fair? I don’t know, whatever, just shut up already.
What I don’t think has been discussed is how a guy like Mark McGwire is a batting coach now. How is this possible? Here, take a look at all the current MLB batting coaches and tell me that Mark McGwire should have this role.
Most if not all the guys on this list were “hitters.” They weren’t sluggers. Most of these guys were mechanics out there. They focused on their swing and making it to the base each time they were at the plate. McGwire wanted to send one into the seats virtually every time he was up there. And the only time he ever batted .300 or close to were seasons where he either played very few games or the seasons when he took more steroids than WWE Wrestlers.
I mean what’s this guy possibly have to offer? “Swing hard, really hard. If that doesn’t work, inject this needle and swing harder.” Seriously I just can’t see McGwire having anything remotely decent to say to Albert Pujols in helping this guy with his swing.
I can only assume that the Cardinals just want a bunch of home run guys now. I think I’m officially rooting for the Cardinals to have the worst batting average in all of baseball this season.
There is nothing sexier than college chicks, at a basketball game, wearing fake beards. Yesterday, Kansas State handed out 1,000 fake beards before the Texas game in homage of Jacob Pullen’s (above) scruffy chin strap. The movement was started by a couple kids who rocked faked beards and made T-shirts saying, “Fear the Beard”. Personally, I’m not afraid of the beard. K-State has been tremendous so far this season, but this is hmmm, what’s the word I’m looking for… dumb. I guess when you’re K-State, overshadowed by the likes of Texas and Kansas, and not really recognized around the country, you start to look for ways to get publicity. My advice; take a page out of Florida State’s book and have your hot chicks show their cleavage in the stands. Don’t give them facial hair.
This season’s NBA Slam Dunk Contest during the All-Star Break looks to be as forgettable and irrelevant as ever. Not surprisingly, Lebron James won’t be dunking this year.
A year ago, on All-Star Weekend, James said: “Right now I’m preliminarily putting my name in the 2010 contest Saturday night. LeBron James is saying in 2010, in Dallas Stadium, [preliminarily] he will compete.”
But his name was conspicuously missing when the list of participants (Robinson, Gerald Wallace, Shannon Brown and the winner of a dunk-in between Eric Gordon and DeMar DeRozan) was announced Monday.
I really hope that no one is surprised to see James’ name missing from the list of participants this season. Did anyone actually think he’d live up to his word? Chalk it up to yet another bitch move by Lebron; he’s starting to create quite a list. From storming off the court without shaking hands with anyone after losing to Orlando in the Eastern Conference Finals, to having Nike confiscate video of him being dunked on, to dancing on the court like a fool during play while his Cavs were blowing out the Bulls, to announcing he’d participate in the dunk contest only to back out, I think it’s safe to say we can continue to be disappointed by Lebron’s behavior in the future.
Great, great player, but a total bitch.
And I’ve said it before – if he doesn’t sign with Miami and play with Wade, he’s never winning a championship.
[ESPN.com]
My post yesterday about Jared Allen got me thinking; there are some f’in scary dudes that have been or are professional athletes. There are just some guys that would make me shit my pants if I ran into them in a dark alley alone at 2:00 am. Obviously, size and strength are a key component, but the clincher is these dudes do not have normal functioning brains. If there was a “beef” with one of these psychos, guaran”sheed” I’d be laying in the gutter, motionless, perhaps with my pants down….
Well at least Stephon Marbury has found a new home: China. I would have to admit that China is a good place for him to start over. Afterall it’s becoming a huge basketball country and he’ll probably be the biggest star there after Yao Ming.
Former NBA All Star Stephon Marbury has said he hopes to use his on-court skills to market his brand of low-cost basketball shoes when he laces up for China’s Shanxi Zhongyu in the coming weeks.
“I want to bring love to Chinese fans and I want to feel the love of the Chinese fans, so I’m going to play hard and work to help Shanxi win more games,” Marbury told Tuesday’s Titan Sports Weekly, a top Chinese sports paper.
See that last sentence there? I need to change it around a bit so it’s more accurate. Here’s what Marbury probably said. “I want to bring my cheap shoes and make some money with the Chinese fans so I’m going to bring a team from it’s current level to that of something they’d call “shit” here. I will then draw one of the biggest contracts in history for this franchise and not really care at all. Thanks.”
Here are my predictions for Marbury in China.
1. Shanxi Zhongyu gets 10 less wins while Marbury racks up 20 and 10 a game.
2. Shanxi becomes “Starbury Zhongyu Cheap Shoes”
3. Marbury gets another skull tattoo but it’s in Chinese and while it’s supposed to read “Starbury” they get it wrong and it reads “Child Labor Rules!”
4. He plays well enough to come back to the NBA and joins Allen Iverson in Philly.
5. He has relations with little Chinamen
[Via AP]
