AL Awards Time

Its that time of the week again. Time to hand out the AL Awards. First up the team of the week is the Tampa Bay Rays. They are in 2nd place in AL East after getting off to a slow start. They are 7-3 in their last 10. They have cut the Yankees AL East lead to 1 game. They draw a tough matchup against Jered Weaver tomorrow. The postion player of the week is outfielder/infielder Ben Zobrist of the Rays he led the team with a .480 avg, 4 HR, and 18 RBI. In a double header against the Twins he had a total of 10 RBI's a clear lock for player of the week. Pitcher of the week for the 2nd straight week is Jered Weaver of the Angels. This week he made 1 start. He through a complete game gave up 7 hits no runs and struck out 10. He now is 6-0 with a 0.99 ERA and 49 K's. He will face the Rays tomorrow. Tomorrow I will give out the NL Awards. Quick question time. Sam the NBA draft occurs at the end of June, and the reason quarterbacks are a bad idea to draft is because quarterback is the toughest position to transition to in the NFL. Thanks for reading. Ask me questions. I'm Out!

Over View

Tonight I'm gonna give you a run down of the sports world. I got three main stories then we will talk games and I will give you picks. The NFL allowed players back into facilities today. The lockout is over for now. Players were allowed to workout, rehab, and get treatment. The owners and coaches can now meet with players to hand out playbooks and game film. This is the first sign of work stoppage ending. Early next weeks free agency and transactions will also be available. In baseball news Ozzie Guillen has been suspended by the MLB for tweeting following his ejection on Monday. He will serve a 2 game suspension. The rule says no use of social media 30 minutes prior to the game. Ozzie will more than likely appeal his suspension. Final story is quick. Heat coach Erik Spolestra says Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem will not play in the next series and will likely miss the whole playoffs. Now to tonight's action. I got two games for you. Yankees over Toronto with Garcia on the mound. Memphis over San Antonio tonight to clinch the series look for the Zach Randolph to come up big. Thanks for reading. I'm Out!!!

NFL Draft

Tomorrow the longest three days in football will begin, the NFL draft. Today I'm gonna give you all a sneak peak of my thoughts about the draft and the draftees. The first pick should be two players. Either Patrick Peterson the saftey or Marcell Dareus the D-lineman. With either of these picks the Panthers will not be scrutinized and will improve their team instantly. Best player in the draft is Patrick Peterson. He will be a top 5 pick. My biggest bust will be Ryan Mallet. To me this guy is a second rounder that is a good athlete but has some serious character issues. I see this guy ending up like Kyle Orton. A big name out of college but then a huge dissapointment in the NFL. My biggest risk has to be all quarterbacks. If a quarterback is taken in round 1 it is a mistake. There is one quarterback that could play in the NFL and he is still playing for Stanford this year. Finally my under the radar player is Mark Ingram the running back. He is a former Heisman winner that no one is even talking about. This guy can get it done and will get it done for a very lucky team that will get him. Tonight in the NBA I got Miami over Philly, Memphis over San Antonio, and Denver of Ok City. Let's see if I'm right. No blog tomorrow night but Friday I will discuss NBA, MLB, and the draft. Thanks for reading leave questions. I'm Out!

NBA Playoffs

So over the weekend we saw some crazy things. Derek Rose going cold and the Pacers win series at 3-1. We saw a unsung superstar in Brandon Roy go big and tie up the series 2-2 with the Mavs. We saw the Heat choke late like its their job. Atlanta continues to exploit the three-point game of Orlando to go up 3-1. Durant and Russell team up and go up 3-0 on Denver. New Orleans shocks the world by tying up with the Lakers. The Grizz go up 2-1 on the Spurs, and Boston advances behind Ray Allen's hot shooting. The only reason the Knicks lost was because of no Chauncey. If Chauncey plays this series is more competitive. With him out the ball handling was non existent at times. So how will the rest of these series finish. Rose and the Bulls win game 5 and move on. The Heat will go home and blow out the 76ers and move on. Roy needs to keep it going and win game 5 if they lose game 5 the Mavs will win the series. Atlanta will win in 5. Denver will win one becasue they are to good at home but will lose in 5. New Orleans needs to win game 5 in LA to pose a threat. Game 4 between the Grizz and the Spurs is also big. If the Grizz win game 4. then all they have to do is win game 6 at home to move on. That's how I think the playoffs will shake out. No blog tomorrow night but Wednesday I will give you my 1st round mock NFL draft. Thanks for reading leave me questions about the draft or the playoffs. Check out the Yankees tonight they are at home against the White Sox. My boy AJ Burnett is on the mound. I'm Out!

NL Awards

Tonight I will be handing out the NL Awards of the week. First up the best team this past week goes to the Florida Marlins. The Marlins have gone 8-2 in their last 10 cutting the NL East lead to a 1.5 games. This team will look to keep it going as they take on the Dodgers, before taveling to Cincy for a weekend series. The NL Position player of the week is Matt Kemp of the Dodgers. He is currently on a 22 game hit streak with a .402 avg with 5 HR and 18 RBI. He will play the Marlins this week as he looks to continue his streak. If this streak is still continuing he will be my player again next week. Final award is pitcher of the week. The pitcher of the week is Josh Johnson. He has been the most important part of the Marlins hot streak. This year he is 3-0 with a 1.06 ERA with 33 Ks and a 0.65 WHIP. That is the best in baseball. Tomorrow I will break down the NBA playoffs and tell you why the most important superstar for the Knicks only played game 1. Also I will tell you what the Grizzilies have to do to finish off the Spurs. Hope you check it out. Thanks for reading. I'm Out!

AL Awards

Hey everybody tonight we have a quick blog to hand out the AL awards. First up we have the Best Team of the AL Award. The best team in the AL this week is the Los Angeles Angels of Aneheim. They are cuurently 7-3 in their last 10 with the true strength of their team coming from pitching. The Angels have the second best ERA in the bigs at 2.88, and actually lead the bigs in batting average against .212 and quality starts with 16. This week they will finish a homestand with Boston and Oakland before going to Tampa next weekend. Next up we have the best postion player of the week. This award goes to the Texas Rangers Adrian Beltre. Over the past week Beltre has been the hottest and most productive player. He batted .375 with 3 homers and 9 RBIs. He will look to continue his hot streak this week. Now for the final award the best pitcher goes to the Angels Jered Weaver. Weaver threw nine innings this week with a 1.00 ERA and 8 K's. He is now 5-0 with a 1.23 ERA and 39 Ks. He looks to exploit poor batting as he will face the A's this week. Tomorrow I will hand out the NL awards, and on Monday I will do a wrap-up of the sports weekend. Thanks and leave me questions. I'm Out!

Friday night sports

Tonight is dedicated to the three NBA games. First up the Knicks and the Celtics. Anthony looks to give them a home win. Stoudemire will play and Billups is out. If the Knicks are gonna they need to get out and run and make the Celtics feel uncomfortable. If the Celtics are gonna win they must hold the Knicks under 100. In game 2 I got the Hawks over the Magic with Crawford and Johnson having big series. The only way the Magic win is if they can some how stop these two big scorers. In the final game Hornets will beat the Lakers at home with Chris Paul putting up Game 1 numbers and Kobe struggling from the field as he did in game 2. Tomorrow I will hand out AL player of the week awards and team awards. Sorry it wasn't long but I just wanted to get my picks in for the night. Oh yeah, the Yankees are rained out so lock in and watch some NBA tonight.

The World of sports.

Okay tonight is gonna be an informational night. NFL first, after a week straight of labor talks the judge has ordered that mediation will be halted until May 16. With this new ruling the Lockout will continue and the longest Lockout in NFL history will occur. Now to college hoops Brandon Knight, Liggins, and Terrence Jones will all go to the NBA draft. Knight and Jones are both freshman. A suprise from Chapel Hill as Harrison Barnes will return for his sophmore year. This decision puts the North Carolina in a good spot to be a great team. Tonight the NBA playoffs continue with three games. The Nuggets and Thunder at 8, I got Denver. Grizzilies and Spurs at 8:30, I got the Spurs. Last game are the Hornets and the Lakers at 10:30, I got the Lakers in this one. Not much else going on more NBA action tomorrow and some baseball action.

To Girardi and Gasol

Tonights blog is dedicated to Joe Girardi and Pau Gasol. Last night the Yankees won 5-4 to take two out of three from the Texas Rangers. Good win for the Yanks. The part of the game I'm gonna grill is the 7th inning. The Yankees were up 4-3 and Joba came into pitch. Joba went on to give up a few its and the game was tied. Costing another decision for CC. After the game CC was asked if he was mad at his manger for being taken out and being the good guy he is of course he said no. But if I was Joe I would've avoided the controversy and either left CC in or brought in the more reliable Dave Robertson. Instead now CC is struggling with his confidence after pitching to the tune of an ERA under 2 and not yet getting a win in his first four starts. Let's put the Joba is the man crap behind us and make sure the ace is treated like an ace. Now onto my second topic and person Pau Gasol. Yesterday the Lakers lost 100-109 in game 1 to the Hornets. A good competitive game that I'm only gonna mention two plays from. With about 4 minutes to go the Hornets held a two point lead. Chris Paul dribbled up, went off the Aaron Gray screen into a defensive nigthtmare by being guarded by big man Pau Gasol. Paul broke him down and nailed a jumper of the big guy. On the next posession the same thing happened again. Four points occured with the wrong defenders on men. If I was Pau I would've went back and guarded my man and left Paul open at least then I wouldn't be the joke of the league. I mean Pau it's simple roll off the screen, hedge and then get back to your man. I mean right when it happened I thought immediatley to the Big East Tourney when Kemba put Gary McGee in a straight jacket to win the game. Pau you can't guard him so next time get back on Gray then I will be grilling Dereck Fisher instead. Thanks for reading send me questions. I'm Out!

The other matchups

Today is a quick blog to break down the other matchups in the NBA tomorrow. First up tomorrow we have the #8 Memphis Grizzilies taking on the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs. I got the Spurs in 6 games if Manu Ginobli is healthy. If he is not healthy then the Grizz will win the series in 5. The Grizz are a good young team that matches up well with the Spurs. The second game is the Hornets taking on the Lakers. With the absence of David West the Hornets will struggle to match up well down low and will get killed on the boards. This will give the Lakers the series in 5. The third game is the last East matchup of the Knicks and the Celtics. If the Knicks are gonna win in 7 they need to play some defense for longer than 12 minutes and keep Rondo from getting into the paint. Either way this game will go to 7 and probably finish with the ball in Carmello's hands for the win. The final matchup will be the most exciting. I got the Thunder over the Nuggets in 6. The Nuggets might overall be the better team but when it comes down to the final minute the Thunder know who's taking the shots and the Nuggets don't. the lack of a clutch prescence for Denver will be their Achilles heal. For those of you who have twitter. Follow Doscinco132 today for in game updates throughout.

The Matchups for Saturday

Tomorrow the longest playoffs start and I am gonna start by giving you my winners for the NBA first round. The first series to start is between The #8 Indiana Pacers and the top-seeded Chicago Bulls. I got the Bulls in 5 games. The Pacers will struggle to find an adequate defender to stop Derrick Rose and the overall team defense of the Bulls will shut down Danny Granger and the other 4 nobodys on the Pacers. Next up is the # 7 Philadelphia 76ers taking on the Big three of the #2 Miami Heat. The Heat will win in 6. The young players of the 76ers will force this one to 6 through great intensity. But when it comes down to it skill will override intensity and Wade will lead this team the second round. The next matchup will bring us our first 7 game series with the #5 Hawks knocking off the #4 Magic. The way this will happen is through team leadership by Joe Johnson and the shutting down of the Orlando Magic three point shooting game. With this combo the Hawks will march on. The final matchup of the day is out West with the #6 Trailblazers taking on the #3 Mavericks. I got the Trailblazers winning in 5. Portland is just too deep for the Mavs. The only way the Mavs will win is if Dirk scores 60 each game. I will break down the rest of the matchups tomorrow. Quick shout out to Nick Swisher who had a walk-off Sac fly in the Yankees 10th inning win over the Orioles. The Yankees start a three game series with the Rangers at the Stadium tonight with Ivan Nova on the bump. Thanks for reading and I'm Out!

Yankees O's and Shout Outs

Tonight the Yankees and the Orioles will take the field. Starting for the Yankees will be AJ Burnett who has two wins in two starts. He looks to keep his hot start going against the Os and young pitcher Chris Tillman and the upstart young Orioles. A player to watch for the Yankees is Nick Swisher. Swisher has struggled some swinging the bat. Look for him to feast on the young pitchers and make them throw strikes. A player to watch on the Yankees is Nick Markakis. He has always swung well versus the Yankees and with a short right-field his defense will be easier giving more energy to put the ball in the seats. This should be a good two game series. Full wrap-up tomorrow of this game. Now it is time for some shout outs. 1. Shout Out to Maya Moore for being drafted number 1 to the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA with her skill set she should be a great success on the next level. 2. Shout Out to Matt Kenseth who won the Sprint Cup race at Texas ending a 70+ race winless streak. 3. Shout to ESPN Analyst, Merrill Hoge who had no quarterbacks drafted in the first round. I applaud this becasue none of these quarterbacks are truly ready to become the face of the franchise. The only one in college was Andrew Luck and he decided to stay. 4. Shout Out to Derrick Rose for holding down the #1 spot on sportscenters top plays after his break away double clutch reverse jam. Everyone repeat after me. MVP!MVP!MVP!MVP!MVP!........... 5. Shout out to Jimmer Fredette of BYU for bringing home the Wooden Award given out to the most outstanding player. He truly desreves this award. Check it out read it leave me comments. Tommorow I will begin to break down the NBA playoff matchups and the regular seaon finishes up tonight. Thanks. I'm Out!

NL Awards and What to watch for

Tonight I got the NL Awards and 5 statements about the week ahead and sports. The best team in the NL this week is the Philadelphia Phillies they are off to a 7-2 start behind power pitching and a potent offense. If this roster continues to perform as they are this team will be a favorite this year to go to the Fall Classic. The NL position player of the week is Left Fielder for the Brewers Ryan Braun. After the first week of ball he is batting .353 with an NL leading 4 homers and also 8 RBI's. A true front runner for the MVP award early with Pujols struggling. The next award for the best pitcher in NL goes to an unlikely player in Kevin Correia of the Pittsburgh Pirates. So far he is 2-0 in 3 starts with a 1.29 ERA allowing 2 ER and 12 hits. This great start has caused fantasy owners to scramble for this process. Those are my NL players of the week. I will now finish up with my 5 things to watch this week. 1. The Texas Rangers will continue their hot run as they have started off 8-1. 2. Pujols will begin to get out of his slump as the Cardinals face the D-Backs at the start of the week. 3. The Boston Celtics will rest starters to recharge them for the playoffs. 4. The NFL will begin mediation once again. 5. The NFL lockout and mediation will get more coverage than the NHL playoffs. Check out the blog tell me what you think. I'm Out!

Nice and Simple

Trying to still figure out the webcam so tonight is going to be a quick breakdown of the best and worst of the MLB. First up we go the best of the AL. Each Division I will give a best team, position player, and pitcher. The best team is the Baltimore Orioles. They are 5-1 in the Tough AL east. This weekend they take on 6-0 Texas and are currently up 5-0 in the 9th of game 1 of a double header. Since they are going to beat Texas I give them the edge. The best position player in the AL is Carlos Quentin the right-fielder for the Chicago White Sox. After the first week of play he has contributed to the White Sox offensive explosion with a .400 avg. 2 HR and 10 RBI. The pitcher of the week in the AL is Yankees CC Sabathia. Even though he has yet to record a decision, he has only given up 2 runs with 13 Ks over 13 innings this year. Look for him to be a front runner for the CY Young award come September. Those are my award winners for the AL I will hand out the NL awards tomorrow night along with 5 bold statements about the week ahead. Thanks for reading and leave me questions.

Basketball is over!

For those of us who watch real competitive sports I am sorry to inform you but your basketball season is over. Last night the NCAA tournament concluded with UCONN on top over Butler. But then again who couldn't of beaten Butler. Don't get me wrong they deserved to be there but who were the 5 stunt doubles on the court for the Bulldogs. Not their team. They looked like an over sized team of 6th graders. I mean in collegiate hoops you can't win shooting 18%. The only way Butler would've won is if Kemba was coaching and Jim Calhoun was taking his shots for him. I don't know I feel the tournament was good until that last game. The luster of the tourney was definitely tarnished by this joke of a "championship" game. Let's hope next year we get back to normal and have some 1's in the finals. As I said earlier basketball is over now. I know the NBA is still going on but I can't stand watching five games of 1 on 1 at once. Its entertaining but it is a joke. Now onto tonight's action. Notre Dame takes on Texas A&M for the women's basketball title. I got Notre Dame by 8. Finally the game I will be watching is Yankees vs Twins with CC on the mound. Look for Jeter to get out of his 2 for 14 slump. With a left starter for the Twins new Yankee Andruw Jones will make his debut. Hope you enjoy send me suggestions, comments and questions. Thanks I'm out.

The Blog is back at a great time

Hey guys the blog is back and it is fresh. Time to get to tonight's action. Of course it is college basketball championship night but there are two things I'm gonna discuss first. So the schedule for tonight is first a NASCAR update, second some Yankees baseball talk, and finally my thoughts about tonights game between Butler and UCONN. Yesterday, Kevin Harvick won the sprint cup race at Martinsville, Virginia. He struggled early before rallying late to pass Kyle Busch (3) and Dale Jr. (2) to win his second straight race. In these races he has led a total of 7 laps a NASCAR record. Now I will break down the first series of the Yankees season against the Detroit Tigers. In game one on Opening Day CC Sabathia took the mound against Justin Verlander. CC picked up the win 6-3 behind homers by Mark Texieria and Curtis Granderson. The player who really shined was new catcher Russell Martin. He had two hits and a stolen base. The Yankees went onto to win game 2 Saturday by a score of 9-4 behind a solid performance by AJ and another Tex homer. The winning streak ended when they lost yesterday in a 10-7 slug-fest with Phil Hughes struggling on the mound giving up two homers to Miguel Cabrera. The bright note for the Yankees was DH Jorge Posada hitting two homers. Tomorrow I will break down game 1 of the Twins and the Yankees that starts tonight at 7:05 with Scott Baker vs. Ivan Nova. My last topic for the night is the NCAA mens basketball championship game. Tonight at 9:23 8. Butler will take on 3. UCONN. There are a few keys to watch during the game. 1. If anyone can who will effectively defend Kemba Walker? I believe there are two possibilities of the first man to defend Walker. Either Ronald Nored or Vanzant. Some said maybe Mack will guard him but Brad Stevens is too smart to make that mistake. If Mack guards Walker Mack will run out of energy and his offense is necessary for Butlers success. Two more points. 2. Can enough players complement the leading scorers Mack and Walker? I think UCONN will have an easier job of this with the Lamb and Napier in the game. Both of these guys have scored more in the tournament than that of the Bulldogs role players. If Hann and Howard can get into double figures Butler will be in good shape. 3. Rebound and Freethrows. These two factors will decide the winners. I feel Oriaki will out rebound Howard so UCONN will win that stat, but Butler being a well determined and focused team that shoots well from the line will win if they have a lead late. I got Butler winning 70-64 behind a big game by Mack. Stevens is the man Howard will do something big late. Thanks for reading check me out tomorrow and leave me some questions. I'm Out!