Rant: Number 1,523,874 of why I hate Favre and those who run the NFL

Last year, the Patriots were absolutely ripped the fuck off of a playoff spot thanks to the dumbasses that run the television time slots for the NFL. Here's how it went down: Patriots and Bills were supposed to play at 1, the same time as the Jets-Dolphins game. But, some asshole rescheduled the Phins game to 4:15, so it could be a prime-time game and nationally broadcast. And the playoffs, broke down as so, Patriots had to win and the Dolphins had to lose in order for the Pats to clinch. Fast-forward, Patriots win. Eric Mangini sees this and being the bitter dick he is, barley even tries at the end of the game. Favre, on the potentially winning drive lofts a ball in the air, loses, so he can back to dicking around with the media in the off season as he loves to do. An 11-5 team doesn't clinch, while the Chargers go on to play in the post season with an 8-8 record... awesome.

Back to the point of this post, well I was extremely excited to watch the Patriots-Dolphins game this weekend (being a displaced fan I only get some many games I can watch in the comfort of my own home). SO MUCH FOR THAT LUXURY! The game has been moved to 1 from the Sunday Night game for fucking Favre and the Cardinals. The goddamned battle of the corpse QB's replaces a game with divisional importance and a significantly higher fan base. The reasoning, "[to] ensure quality matchups in all NFL Sunday time slots." Fuck that.

Bud Adams is a bitch

If you missed it last weekend, Tennessee Titians owner flipped the double bird to Buffualo Bills fans as the Titians trounced the Bills 41-17 (video after the jump). Commissioner Goodell issued a fine of $250,000 for the obscene act. Now in better spirits, due to the Titians winning streak of 4 and probably lots of encouragement from his PR department, apologized to the bitter Bills fans with this ad:Personally I hate the act of flipping people off, it's spineless and petty. It really angers me. I mean did you really have to hang over the railing just to say "Fuck you" to all of those fans who are already struggling through a terrible season and haven't won the Superbowl since the merger. Come on man, grow a pair.

I am not a machine, I am Albert

I don't want to sound redundant, but this decision is equally if not more obvious than the Mauer pick for MVP. If you haven't already heard Albert Pujols has been crowned NL MVP in a unanimous decision, blowing Hanley Ramirez and Ryan Howard out of the water who came in second and third respectively. This season Pujols topped almost every batting category in the league, homers (47), runs (124), slugging percentage (.658) and intentional walks (44), and topped the NL in on-base percentage (.443). And third in BA (.327) and RBIs (135). At what point do we tear the skin off of Pujols and find some type of titanium alloy. The man played with FIVE, count 'em FIVE, bone spurs in his right elbow, nutty. I was listening to some sports radio and they were comparing him to great hitters such as Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn, which is kind of scary but is true. In the eight out of the nine seasons he's been in the league, he has placed in the top 4 for MVP voting, winning it 3 times. He's incredible, who can forget when he knocked the "I" out of "Big Mac Land" this year. Unreal.

AL MVP Crowned

If you didn't see this coming, I'll let you borrow my glasses (that sounded a lot more creative in my head and now just seems dumb). Joe Mauer won AL MVP in a landslide today, receiving 27 out of a possible 28 1st-place votes. Mauer, beat out teammates and World Series Champs, Mark Texieria and Derek Jeter, in that respective order. His numbers this season were staggering, .365 BA (winning yet another batting title, #3) only 65 strikeouts with over 600 plate appearances, oh and he had a career best 28 HR and 96 RBI. Not to mention he piggybacked the Twins to the playoffs, stealing the AL Central from the White Sox by batting .378 after Morneau's season was cut short with a back injury. Pretty sure this guy is going to start turning water into wine and dating supermodels, wait he already does.

FYI: The only other player to receive a 1st-place vote was Miguel Cabrera, whatever this writer was smoking I want some. Unless it's PCP, I already kicked that habit.

Kobe's pretty good...

As much as I hate to make this comparison, but you see any similarites between the two here? Actually, one is better than the other I'm just too ashamed to admit it. You be the judge:

Kobe, November 22nd vs. Thunder


Larry Bird, 1986 vs. the Rockets


Yeah, Kobe's nice, sucks to say.

Thanks to Boston Barstool for the videos.

It's finally over

I doubted this happening within the first decade of the Girardi era, but lo and behold I am wrong yet again. The Yankees pulled it out, with dazzling pitching and clutch offense. Looks like Macy's has a lot of t-shirts to donate to a third-world country and hopefully Phillies fans won't be burning down any of the downtown stores, with this blunder. As much as it pains me to say, it was a great season for the Yankees a hell of a way to kick off the inaugural season for the new stadium. If I were to guess I had to give the World Series MVP to Hideki Matsui, who was a beast in this series and especially in this game with 6 RBIs. The thing is nobody stood out like they did on the Phillies I and the rest of the baseball watching world can easily say if the Phillies won the series then Chase Utley would be the MVP hands down. But for now, it's just an educated guess.

You may wondering why did I not make a prediction for this game? Honestly, it was painful enough for me to watch this series let alone put in my input. So, for the greater good of my adoring fans and the rest of the world I kept my thoughts to myself. Let's hope Jon Sterling passed out after making the final call of the Yankees season.

*UPDATE: Hideki Matsui did win MVP...booyah*