A quick baseball note then down to business: the Carlos Lee deal makes no sense to me from a Rangers perspective. Now Rangers and sense have never really been two things uttered in the same sentence... ala Arod billions of dollars. I heard tonight while watching the braves their offer for Arod (back when he signed with Texas) was apparently the next best offer but about half of what texas threw at him. I think the deal was great for the Brewers as they got stuff they can use and Carlos in my mind is a little over rated and frankly if a dude turns down your 4 year 48 million dollar offer and doesn't counter, that's a guy you don't want. I think Lee will also suffer going back to the AL, i think his average will dip a bit and his value will shrink in the talent filled AL. Granted it makes Texas better, but not that better. I'd find it hard to be Texas and think they have a championship team, they got a few good pieces but they need more. Granted I heard a rumor they're making a push for Tejada, now that might make them the team to beat in the west, but I think its just an empty rumor.
On to cycling: this whole Landis thing has got me mad and frusterated. I think its part Europeans trying to get americans out of their sport... that we dominate in. I think its also over policing. I mean his epistrome was too low in relation to his testorone, that's why he failed... does anyone know what epistrome is or does? Maybe he's naturally manly. I think in sports right now we have varying degrees of steroid policing. You have the cycling world which is a witch hunt and throwing every person to the curb that has given that sport some spectators. You have baseball which polices but its all closed doors and you don't hear about it till 2 months later. Plus you have a union trying to fight policing and the union has probably more power than it should. Then there's football which lets face has no real steroid police.
I talked to scott about all this today and frankly I think football needs steroids and human growth hormones. 300 pound men playing football week after week can't do it without a little help from the pharmacy. We like the big hits, amazing plays, and down right humogous beasts going up against each other. The old timey football wasn't anything to its modern counterpart. I'm not saying "kids take steroids if you wanna play football." but i think if they were to take a lot of the drugs out of football we'd be left with a lot of injured people and a lot of little players. Which in the end maybe then we'd have the CFL. Which lets face it isn't the CFL a better game anyway... i mean only 3 downs!!! I'm obviously kidding the CFL is lame.
Posted by holtonian at July 28, 2006 10:22 PM | TrackBack