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      More leagues busting media outlets’ balls

      July 6, 2007 /

      First the NFL wanted to limit websites unassociated from the league from using more than 45 seconds worth of video coverage a day, now MLB is shutting out ESPN from doing live coverage at the All-Star Game on Tuesday night.

      Baseball executives told ESPN that it must pare its broadcast efforts from AT&T Park in San Francisco, where the All-Star Game is being held. So, most coverage will be done out of ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Conn., rather than having “Baseball Tonight” and a portion of “SportsCenter” originate from California as planned.

      Basically, MLB is pissed at ESPN for broadcasting what players made each All-Star team on its selection show a week ago, before TBS (who owned the rights) had the chance to.

      I get why the league is upset with the ESPN, seeing as how TBS probably paid a ton of money to be the first network to announce who made each team. However, doesn’t MLB understand that the All-Star Game is supposed to be about the players and the fans? It’s not about who gave the league the most money to break the news first or who should have the prime position to do broadcasts. ESPN is highly regarded – for better or worst – as the “worldwide leader in sports”, and now you’re going to tell them that they can’t even broadcast live from the park? How fair is it to fans that you’re limiting the coverage to just one station?

      These leagues that are trying to crack down on media coverage because they’re selling to the highest bidder or forcing us as fans to only go to league-sponsored websites is total crap.

      General Sports, MLB

      You know you’re in trouble when…

      July 6, 2007 /

      …you sign a 5-10, 179 pound wide receiver from Japan, as is the case with the Atlanta Falcons inking Noriaki Kinoshita, a native of Osaka and a player who spent the last three seasons with the Amsterdam Admirals of NFL Europa.

      At the receiver position, Kinoshita finished the year with 21 receptions for 308 yards and two touchdowns, which was second-best on the Admirals. In 2006, Kinoshita earned All-NFLEL honors as he led the league with 19 kickoff returns for 530 yards (27.9).

      I’m sure there’s a karate joke in there somewhere, but I’m going to go ahead and leave this one be for now. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this is hardly the best move in efforts to replace the injured Brian Finneran (out for the second season in a row with a torn ACL), so I highly doubt Adam Jennings and Fred Gibson have anything to worry about at this point.

      NFL

      Baroid at it again, won’t do HR derby

      July 5, 2007 /

      SI.com is reporting that Barry Bonds will not participate in the home run derby.

      “Nope,” Bonds said Thursday when asked about the Derby. “Especially when you’re 42. It’s not that you don’t want to, it’s that you just can’t anymore. You can’t. It’s too long. Too much waiting. Too much sitting around. You can’t do that.”

      The article also reports Bonds will throw a party on Monday night along with hip-hop artist Jay Z.

      Not that I’m one bit surprised by Bonds’ decision, but how the hell could his 42 year old ass be tired after participating in the home run derby – in his own park by the way – but not after throwing a freaking hip-hop party with Jay Z? Once again, not that this is a surprise and he can do whatever he wants to do, but come on Barry, if you can bust a move with Jay Z, you can swing a bat a couple times in front of your fans (your only fans) for a couple of hours.

      MLB

      KC Joyner is hitting the sauce

      July 5, 2007 /

      Over the past few weeks, ESPN.com columnist KC Joyner has been conducting position-by-position lists of the most overrated/underrated NFL players in the league. His latest installment was on safeties and at the very top of the overrated list was Ed Reed of the Baltimore Ravens.

      Reed’s metrics were terrible last year. His 14.9 combined YPA was the fifth-worst in the league among coverage safeties. He gave up the third-highest number of total yards. He had the fourth-most bomb passes thrown his way and the third-worst YPA at that depth level.

      Joyner also writes how Carson Palmer has figured out some of Reed’s tendencies and has exploited them in the past.

      In the intro to his piece of crap, Joyner comments on how he doesn’t take run support into account when determining these rankings – just coverage skills. Well KC, safeties are about defending both the run and pass or else they’d call the position “cornerback”. And actually, he goes on to mention how he splits safeties into the “run” and “coverage” categories, yet never elaborates throughout the rest of the column.

      I’m so sick of these columnist and their overrated/underrated lists. All they do is trot out a bunch of overrated stats and don’t account for if the guy actually makes the freaking play or not. After all, isn’t that what sports is all about – making plays? I don’t need a mathematician telling me how who’s overrated or not. Who the frick cares that Reed has some flaws, doesn’t everybody? Maybe if he didn’t have to make up for Samari Rolle’s mistakes all the time, he wouldn’t give up so many yards himself. Ask Peyton Manning if he thinks Reed (who picked off Manning twice in the AFC Divisional playoffs last season) is overrated.

      In my opinion, you can’t get any more overrated than Roy Williams of the Cowboys, considering he has no coverage skills whatsoever, yet still gets credit as one of the best at his position.

      NFL

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