Curt Schilling vs. Randy Moss

Up next a battle of two controversial athletes: Randy Moss and Curt Schilling. Lets see what makes each of these athletes "now."

Curt Schilling:
1993 National League Championship Series Most Valuable Player (MVP)
1996 Lou Gehrig award from Phi Delta Theta
1996 March of Dimes Phillie of the Year award
1997 Sets National League record for strikeouts by a right-handed pitcher with 319
1997-99, 2001-02 Named to National League All-Star Team
2000 Philadelphia Sports Writers Association Humanitarian Award
2001 Shares World Series MVP honors with teammate Randy Johnson
2001-02 Cy Young Award runner-up
Has an ALS Charity
2004- leads Red Sox to the World Series (with a bloody sock)
Believes Barry Bonds take steroids
has his own blog called 38 pitches

Randy Moss:
Patriots Newest Wide Reciever
Rookie record 17 TD catches
He is third only to Anquan Boldin and Bill Groman for most rookie receiving yards with 1,313.
Moss has caught 101 TD passes through 9 seasons, 5th most in NFL history. He trails Jerry Rice, Cris Carter, Marvin Harrison, Terrell Owens, all of whom have played more seasons than Moss.
Has caught 13 or more TDs in a season 4 times. He trails only Terrell Owens and Jerry Rice in such seasons.
Is the only player next to Jerry Rice to catch 17 or more TDs in a season twice (Moss accomplished the feat in 1998 and 2003).
Moss has had 3 seasons where he averaged at least one receiving TD a game. 1998 (17 TDs in 16 games), 2003 (17 TDs in 16 games), and 2004 (13 TDs in 13 games). By doing so, he is the only wide receiver in NFL history to accomplish this task.
He had back to back 100 catch seasons, first in 2002 and then in 2003. He joined Sterling Sharpe, Jerry Rice, Herman Moore, Cris Carter, Marvin Harrison, and Rod Smith as the only receivers to do so.
At the end of the 2006 season, Moss is averaging approximately 11.2 receiving TDs per season, which is an NFL record.
Holds the record for most 1,000 yard seasons in his first seasons of the league. In his first 6 seasons in the NFL, he had 1,000+ yards in each seasons, setting an NFL record.
Moss is the only player in NFL history to average 100 yards and 1 TD per game through a 16 NFL game season.
Has some attitude problems that will hopefully be taken care of by the New England Patriots organization
Gives a real deep threat for Tom Brady to throw to
Is a pretty good dancer
Fred Biletnikoff Award (1997)
NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1998)
Five time Pro Bowler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Moss

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The Truth has been Spoken: Pierce runs over Chara

17-2 was the final outcome of this round between The Truth and the Big Z. Luckly the Big Z got some love from his hockey homies and got two votes.

Up next: Curt Schilling vs. Randy Moss. Which controversial athlete will bring home the win?Voting Starts on Saturday so get ready!

Sox Seeing Double

Today was the doubleheader from hell for the Chicago White Sox. First off, the White Sox had to go out against Josh Beckett who is one of the best starting pitchers in the game. To add on to the White Sox's Misery, they are pretty much in last in every offensive category you can think of. so put one and one together, All-Star pitcher against one of the worst offensive teams in the league equals win. Beckett started off shakey, giving up a double, three walks, and eventually walking in a run, but the Sox ace stayed composed and got his league leading 16th win of the season.

The second game of the doubleheader was not nearly as straight forward. You had a 41 year old pitcher that has not been doing so great the past couple of starts. Luckly even Schilling can pitch well against a horrible offense. The Schilmeister only gave up one run in hist outing leading to his 8th win of the season. This win also gave me hope that the old Curt Schilling who could control his fastball is back.

Up Next: Wakefield vs. Buehrle. This should easily be the best pitching matchup of the series. Look for Wake to take advantage of the Chicago offense. Also look for the left specialist, Javy Lopez, to come in during the late innings and shut down the lefty hitters.

Thank you Mr. Anderson

There was an Angel in Anaheim looking over the Red Sox last night. His name is Garret Anderson and he had a 10 RBI game last night against the New York Yankees. Thus the Angels smoked the Yankees 18-9 which means that the Yankees are now 6 back to the Sox and 2 games back to the Mariners. It finally looks like the Yankees poor pitching is hurting them. Mussina got roughed up last night and eventually got his 9th loss of the season. Also the realization that Arod is the Yankees curse came about during the game last night. The curse of Arod is the fact that whenever Arod is hot the Yankees are horrible and when Arod is horrible the Yankees offense explodes and their pitching is decent. Such as last night, Arod hits 2 homeruns and the Yankees lose. Lets hope Arod remains hot for the rest of the season so the curse can be continued.

Things other than the sox to watch tonight:
1. Tonight Brandon Webb is trying to increase his 42 straight scoreless inningings streak against the Brewers at 9:40 P.M.
2. The Angels are going for the sweep of the Yankees. First Pitch at 10:05 P.M.
3. Last but not least, one of my favorite tv shows, Cash Cab is on at 10 on the Discovery Channel.

Zdeno Chara Vs. Paul Pierce

Captain vs. Captain, how could a battle get any better? Both of these athletes have amazing skills on and off the ice and the court so lets get into what makes each of these athletes "Now."

Zdeno Chara:
Nickname: The Big Z
Captain of the Bruins
At 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m), he is the tallest player ever to play in the Nation Hockey League
won the NHL's hardest shot competition at the 2007 Skills Competition, clocking a shot at 100.4 mph (161.6 km/h)
1999-2000:Finished second in NHL and first on team with 309 hits to help Islanders finish first in hits
Zdeno was named to the Eastern Conference roster in the 55th National Hockey League All-Star Game
signed a five-year, $37.5 million contract with the Boston Bruins
was the runner-up to Scott Niedermayer for the James Norris Memorial Trophy, which is awarded to the best defenceman of the season
has represented Slovakia in five World Championships as well as in one World Cup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdeno_Chara

Paul Pierce:
Nickname: The Truth
Captain of the Boston Celtics
earned MVP honors in the Big 12 Conference Tournament in both 1997 and 1998
10th overall pick in the first round of the NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics
Got Stabbed 11 times and almost died. Next Season he came back and had one of the best seasons of his career.
was a member of the United States National Basketball Team for 2002 and 2006
2-time All-NBA Third Team: 2002, 2003
6-time NBA All-Star: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
NBA All-Rookie First Team: 1999
NBA regular-season leader, total points: 2002 (2144)
NBA regular-season leader, free throws made: 2003 (604)
NBA records
Most free throws made without a miss, playoffs: 21 (Game 1, 2003 Eastern Conference First Round).
Boston Celtics franchise records
Scored 30 or more points in a franchise record 12 consecutive games
Most points scored in a game at TD Banknorth Garden: 50 (February 15, 2006 vs. Cleveland Cavaliers).
Most points scored in a half (including Overtime): 46 (December 1, 2001 2nd Half vs. New Jersey Nets).
Most points scored in an overtime period: 13 (December 1, 2001 vs. New Jersey Nets)
Most three-point field goals made, career: 989 (1998–present).
Most three-point field goals attempted, career: 2769 (1998–present).
Most free throws made in one game: 20 (November 2, 2002 vs. New York Knicks).
Most free throws attempted in one game: 24 (November 5, 2005 vs. New York Knicks).
Most free throws made in one half: 14 (March 2, 2001 vs. Utah Jazz).
Most free throws made in one season: 612 (2005-2006, breaking his own record of 604, set in 2002-2003).
Most free throws attempted in one season: 812 (2005-2006, breaking his own record of 753 in 2002-2003).
Most steals in one game: 9 (tied with Larry Bird; December 3, 1999 vs. Miami Heat).
Most free throws made without a miss, playoffs: 21 (Game 1, 2003 Eastern Conference First Round).
Most points scored in one half, playoffs: 32 (Game 4, 2003 Eastern Conference First Round vs. Indiana Pacers).
Highest scoring average through one month: 33.5 PPG (February 2006).
Only Celtics player in franchise history to lead the NBA in total points scored in a season, scoring 2,144 points in 2001-2002.
Playing with Celtics he accumulated 2,071 points in 2000-2001.
Career scoring average: 23.6 PPG, 2nd only to Larry Bird.
Second favorite sport is tennis
His nickname, The Truth, was coined by Shaquille O'Neal.
He was on the cover of the video game NBA Inside Drive 2003
endorsements include Nike, Spalding, Pepsi, and McDonalds.

My Vote: I am going with Pierce on this one. To me he looks like the all around "now" guy. Many players would not come back after a near death experience, but Pierce came back with more passion for the game then ever. Also the fact that he is on a video game cover and has many great endorsements helps him out.

Now its your turn to vote.
On the right hand side of this blog is the poll in which you vote. Also make sure that you comment on this post as to why you voted for the person you did.
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Ortiz Wins in a Landslide

Was I wrong about this battle or what. As the voters know, Ortiz won the first round by defeating the amazing Tedy Bruschi 7-3. Of course I wanted Tedy to win but the readers spoke up and made Papi go to the second round. The question is who will he face?

Willy Mo Pena traded for the Invisible Man

It was reported yesterday that Willy Mo Pena has been traded to the Nationals for the Invisible Man. I did not think it could be done, but the Nationals actually found a way in which they could become worse. Of course they did get money with the deal which will pay for the drinks they need everytime the see Big Willy step up to the plate. Now on to the player the Red Sox got: the Invisible Man. Who is he? What does he look like? is he a pitcher or a hitter? Does he like Fenway Franks? All these questions will be answered when the, "time is right" according to Theo Epstein.

Now comes the time in which I predict who the Sox got from the NATS. I believe the Sox will get power hitting Dmitri Young from the Nationals because he is older and the Nationals are a rebuilding team. Now this is completely an optomistic pick and hopefully it happens but the Sox will probably get a low end player because Willy Mo Pena is not amazing. On a more serious note, I kind of wanted to keep Willy Mo so I could have someone to blame everything on but right when Willy gets traded someone else steps into the blame game. So heres to you mr. can't save a game even if it was against Tampa Bay, Eric Gagne.

David Ortiz Vs. Tedy Bruschi

This is the first and possibly the toughest matchup in the Larry Bird Bracket.

First Lets List off some of the reasons why these athletes are considered now:

David Ortiz:
aka: Big Papi
2004 World Series Champion
2004 ALCS MVP
4-time All-Star (2004-2007)
Top 5 MVP vote-receiver four times (5th, 2003; 4th, 2004; 2nd, 2005; 3rd, 2006)
2005 Hank Aaron Award winner
3 time winner of the Silver Slugger Award
4 time winner of the Edgar Martinez Award (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
Led the American League in extra base hits (2004)
Was the MVP for the American League Championship Series (2004)
Led the American League in Home Runs (2006)
Led the American League in Runs Batted In (2005, 2006)
American League Player of the Month for September 2005 and July 2006.
Member of the 2004 Boston Red Sox team that won the World Series.
Red Sox single season home run leader (54; 2006)
Tied with Babe Ruth for AL single season home run record in road games (32; 2006)
First player ever to hit two walk-off home runs in the same postseason (against the Angels (ALDS) and Yankees (ALCS), 2004)
First player in Red Sox history to hit 40 or more home runs in three consecutive seasons (2004-2006)
Set new record for home runs by a DH in 2005 (47), then again in 2006 (54)
Is friends with Kevin Garnett
Has a Rap CD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ortiz

Tedy Bruschi:
Three time Superbowl Champ
2004 got voted to the Probowl
Comeback Player of the Year
Won the Ed Block Courage Award
As of 2006, he has 829 tackles, 27 sacks, and 11 interceptions, 4 of which have gone for touchdowns
suffered from a PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) which is a congenital heart defect and came back to play
Leader of the Patriots Defense
Speaks up for his teammates
Always gives 110%
accomplished saxophonist and has played with the Boston Pops
wrote a book about his experience with his stroke and his recovery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedy_Bruschi
My Vote: Tedy Bruschi because of his huge heart, 3 superbowl rings, leadership skills and love of the game.

Now its your turn to Vote. Make sure you include a reason why you voted for the person if you want to.

Let the Voting BEGIN!!!

Who's Now: Boston Sports Edition
All you Sportscenter fans out there know that Tiger Woods beat Lebron in the Finals of Who's Now. Now I think that Tom Brady or David Ortiz should have won and I found it ridiculous that ESPN put them against eachother in the first round, so i decided to create a Boston Edition of Who's Now. It is ging to work exactly the same way that ESPN's edition worked; there will be four brackets, the Larry Bird Bracket, the Bobby Orr Bracket, the Ted Williams Bracket and the John Hannah Bracket.
The Larry Bird Bracket Consists of the following matchups:
David Ortiz Vs. Tedy Bruschi
Zdeno Chara Vs. Paul Pierce
Curt Schilling vs. Randy Moss
Ellis Hobbs vs. Tony Allen

The Bobby Orr Bracket consits of the following matchups:
Kevin Garnett vs. Manny Ramirez
Richard Seymour vs. Daisuke Matsuzaka
Laurence Maroney vs. Hideki Okajima
Phil Kessel vs. Rajon Rondo

The Ted Williams Bracket consists of:
Tom Brady vs. Josh Beckett
Glen Murray vs. Jon Lester
Adalius Thomas vs. Ray Allen
Rosevelt Colvin vs. Asante Samuel

Last But not least the John Hannah Bracket consists of:
Jonathan Papelbon vs. Rodney Harrison
Patrice Bergeron vs. Tim Wakefield
Manny Fernandez vs. Matt Light
Kendrick Perkins vs. Vince Wilfork

Every couple of days voting will take place on these matchups so let the voting begin!

the Bronx Bombers to close for comfort

Two Words: Sox Bullpen. One name: Eric Gagne. One Month: August. When you combine these three things you get a slumping Sox team who is only four games infront of the Yankees who are on fire. Now who do I put the blame on? Eric Gagne who has a 15.75 ERA and is absolutely horrible? No im not gonna blame him because I actually think it still was a good trade and he will come around. Should I blame Terry Francona? I mean he keeps putting Gagne in game after game and he keeps blowing it. Mr. Francona you get 20% of the blame. The rest of the blame goes to 3 other people involved in the Red Sox organization and the month of August. These 3 people are Theo Epstein, Red Sox Nation and of course Willy Mo Pena. First off Theo, I love the trade for gagne because I think he will eventually come around and be a great setup man for number 58. I still would have liked to see Jermaine Dye in a Sox uniform because I believe he would be able to help a slumping offense. Next on my blame game is Red Sox Nation. I have read many blogs about this series of events over the past weekend and have seen little to no support for the sox on these sites. The Yankees fans are going crazy calling us out and the members of Red Sox Nation aren't showing up. Don't sit there all quite RSN, speak up and tell the world why we are better then them. I know we do not have a lot to be happy about right now but KEEP THE FAITH!!!!! Last but not least Willy Mo Pena. I just want to blame him because he is awful. I wanted him traded but of course not Theo, we have to keep him. He is like the Brian Scalabrine of the Sox, he sits on the bench and contributes once every 30 games.

As a closing statement let me just say this, Don't give up on the Sox. The Yankees cannot keep hitting the way they are and their starting pitching will eventually kill them. Gagne will come around and our bullpen will be awesome once again. This will be the same for our offense and Ortiz will be clutch once again. So Sox fans keep the faith and not only root for the Sox against Tampa Bay but root for the Orioles against the Yankees. And of course Boo Willy Mo.

Who do you think is to Blame for this Red Sox Collapse? Blog it up!

Pats Vs. Bucs

This is it folks. Football Season is here. Sure its pre-season but if your like me the more football the better. Plus who doesn't like watching players fight for a roster spot? Now I know that Tom Brady will propbably be in the game for only a few minutes, same with Maroney and the other staters, and Randy Moss might not even play but there are still a lot of good stories that can come out of this game. These stories range from what role is rookie Brandon Meriweather going to take on the defense to how is the newly signed Patriot tight end Marcellus Rivers going to look. There is also the umltimate question on offense, which wide reciever is going to get cut. My bet is Reche Caldwell because we brought in such talent in the wide reciever department and with jabar gaffney having a post season like he did last year you do not want to lose that talent.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers also have many questions that need to be answered before the regular season starts. Who will be the Bucs stating QB? My bet is it will be Jeff Garcia seeing that he had such a great season last year with the Eagles and he is a great veteran to have for future Bucs' quaterbacks Bruce Gradkowski and Chris Simms. Also another question will be how does newly acquired Cato June fit in with the Bucs defense. He was a great pick up by the Bucs and there should be no problem but with a new team there might be some chemistry problems between June and some of the other defensive players.

Prediction: the score of tonight's game will be Patriots 28 Bucs-13

Miller Time

For all you Celtics fans out there, Danny Ainge is up to his antics once again. Mr. Ainge recently talked to Reggie Miller about coming out of retirement and signing with the Celtics. Miller, who is turning 42 this month, retired two years ago from the Indiana Pacers and has been a broadcaster for TNT ever since. Now the question is, does Danny Ainge have any idea what he is doing? For once in my life I believe he does. Right now The Celtics have the big three KG, Ray Allen and the Truth and if you add a man who is very clutch, holds the career record for most 3-point field goals made (2,560) and is hungry for a championship it will be very hard to beat them. Sure he is turning 42 but he still is in great physical condition. This would be a win win situation for Reggie and the Celtics.

Now I know there are gonning to be some of you who disagree with me and think that he is to old so let me hear it! Start posting your opinions now!

Glavine's 300 more important than Bond's 755?

Yesterday, Met's pitcher Tom Glavine got his 300th win and also this past weekend Bary Bond's hit his 755th homerun to tie Hank Aaron as the alltime homerun leader. Now with these two events happening so close to eachother which one is more important? From my perspective, I believe Mr. Glavine's 300th win is more important than Mr. Bond's 755th homerun. 300 wins is a hard thing to achieve, especially in today's baseball world in which the bullpen collects a lot of wins and starting pitchers do not complete many games. Also when your a starting pitcher you only get the chance to win a game once every five days, while if your a hitter you will probably have at least 3 at bats every game to hit a homerun and an occasional day off. It will also be a while before we see another 300 game winner, the closest pitcher on the list is the Big Unit with 284 wins but he is out with back surgery and most of the other pitchers that are close are over 40 which means they will retire soon. This is the same with the homerun chase, no one will achieve Mr. Bonds' tarnished record for a while, most sports shows however, have already written AROD in the record book as the one to surpass Bonds which kinds of takes the fun out of it.

Now I know that many of you who read this will get angry and say that the homerun title is the greatest achievement in baseball but when you respond to this post think about this, good pitching and defense wins championships.

Schil is back on the hill

Tonight, August 6th, Curt Schilling takes the mound to try to improve his record to 7-4 against the Angels (64-46) who lead the AL west. This will be a very important series for the Red Sox for multiple reason; they need to keep the 7 game lead they have infront of the Yankees who are heating up, they need to see how Schilling is pitching when he comes back and this series could potentially be a matchup in the playoffs. Now the Red Sox swept the Angels at the beginning of the season in a 3 game series but this is a different Angels team. On the mound against Schilling is Angels starting pitcher Jered Weaver who is 7-5 with a 4.00 ERA. From the looks of this matchup and how Schilling keeps telling the media that this is the best he has ever felt it should be win number 7 for Schill.

Is AROD's 500th homerun a big deal?

As many of you sports fans out there know, Alex Rodriguez hit the big 500 today. But is 500 such a big number in today's world? There have already been 22 major league baseball players who have hit 500 home runs and by the end of this season the number will probably grow to 25. 500 homeruns use to be a set number for players to get into the hall of fame but with the steroid scandal and so many more players closing in on the big 500 will it still be the number to achieve in the future? From my perspective, I believe this number is still great but the new 500 will be 600. Only 5 players have hit more than six hundred homeruns, Slammin' Sammy Sosa being the most recent, and Ken Griffey Jr. is the only major league baseball player who is even close to achieving such greatness. With more and more power hitting players coming into MLB, there will be a lot more individuals achieving 500 making 600 that much better. So, as of right now, a-rod i am not impressed.

Now its your turn to state your opinion. Is 500 still hall of fame worthy? Is 600 the next step? Let the Discussion begin!