Random Rants and Ramblings

What is going on people? Wait, don't answer that, in the world of sports we already know the answer -- not much. So as I sit here, watching the AL win another yet another All-Star game and trying to get the image of Poncho dancing out of my head, let's rant, ramble and create a post with no coherent theme.

- It's not a topic worth debating, but having the winner of the All-Star game get home field advantage for the playoffs is flat-out retarded. If you play games, keep score and record standings, the obvious answer should be the team with the better record gets home field advantage. If you are a fan of a good NL team did you really want to rely on a Met to help you try and break the AL's winning streak? I didn't think so.

- Orange Chuck, Sean and I got into a nice Twitter discussion last night over the absurdity of SU retiring the number 44. The question wasn't resolved, so let me toss this out - is retiring 44 worse than:

• Nazis
• Being forced to watch a talk show featuring Mike Lupica, Skip Bayless and Jay Marriotti
• Georgetown winning the national championship (in anything)
• All of the above

- Feel free to discuss that below, I am too lazy to actually create a poll.

- As someone that initially hated it, I really enjoy Twitter far too much. Now that I'm in my mid 30s, I'm wondering at what point I'll refuse to adopt any new technology and become an old stubborn idiot. Will I still be clinging to Twitter in 30 years like the NYPD is to typewriters? The answer - maybe.

- Prince Fielder won the home run derby and he's a vegetarian. He's also really fat. What people sometime fail to realize, donuts are vegetarian - well except these.

- Did you know Gary Bettman made $7 million last year? That's the equivalent of giving Governor Paterson a couple million a year. If those guys flipped jobs I don't think anyone would notice.

- The MLB All-Star game was shorter than the HR derby - you're not far behind Bud Selig.

- NFL training camps open in 10 days for some teams. This makes me extremely happy and violently pissed off at the same time, given the fact that its the middle of July and the summer in upstate NY has been worse than Michael Strahan's new sitcom is bound to be. I've turned my central air on three times all year. Thanks for nothing summer - go F yourself.

- It will be interesting to see who has a better rookie season in Syracuse, Doug Marrone or Brandon Triche. I have high hopes for both.

- In order to make sure players are rested and to prepare for a brutal out of conference schedule, Rutgers has built a "recruiting lounge" - it will undoubtedly be filled with Aquanet, Bon Jovi cassettes, and the keys to a used 1987 Camaro IROC.

- There are no sports on Wednesday, but the photo above is courtesy of manofest, enjoy the site.