tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54161862012-01-11T14:09:53.795-05:00Don't Call It A ComebackDavenoreply@blogger.comBlogger2521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1163952594540900852006-11-19T10:57:00.000-05:002006-11-19T11:09:56.623-05:00

Gone are Rutgers and LSU. Only 10 teams left! And with the defeat of Rutgers, West Virginia now has to hope for a Top 10 opponent in a bowl game for a chance at a share of the ECF. Wisconsin and Boise State are in the same boat, and BYU has virtually no chance. Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams (1) - Ohio StateOther Eligible Teams with Wins Over Top 10 Teams (3) - Florida (One

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Goodbye to Tennessee and Boston College. They have great teams, and could still be spoilers in the ECF championship come bowl season.Only 13 teams left!Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams (3) - Louisville, Michigan, Ohio StateOther Eligible Teams with Wins Over Top 10 Teams (2) - Florida (One Acceptable Loss) - LSU (Two Acceptable Losses)Other Perfect Teams (2) - Rutgers, Boise St Teams

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1162126442217777842006-10-29T07:50:00.000-05:002006-10-29T07:54:06.780-05:00

15 teams left!Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams (2) - Michigan, Ohio StateOther Eligible Teams with Wins Over Top 10 Teams (3) - Tennessee (Unacceptable Loss, protected by 3 Weeks Rule) - Florida (Acceptable Loss) - BC (Two Acceptable Losses)Other Perfect Teams (4) - West Virginia, Rutgers, Louisville, Boise St Teams with 1 Acceptable Loss (2) - USC, Wisconsin Teams with 1.5 Acceptable

Davenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1161648240852000332006-10-23T19:51:00.000-04:002006-10-23T20:04:01.046-04:00

With Clemson's appearance in the 10th spot of this week's AP poll, BC has shot up the ranks, now qualifying as a team with a victory over a Top 10 opponent. Here's this week's standings:Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams (2) - Michigan, Ohio StateOther Eligible Teams with Wins Over Top 10 Teams (3) - Tennessee (Unacceptable Loss, protected by 3 Weeks Rule) - Florida (Acceptable Loss) -

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1161488943394065542006-10-21T23:21:00.000-04:002006-10-21T23:49:04.463-04:00

With only 17 teams left in ECF contention and only about another month to go in the season, it is getting easier to see possible ECF scenarios. Below is a breakdown by conference of where everyone stands, and their main obstacles towards winning a piece of the ECF title.Big Ten - Ohio State, Michigan, WisconsinOhio State needs to win at home and will then have to play the # 2 team in the country

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1160287163235574662006-10-08T01:55:00.000-04:002006-10-17T21:16:03.053-04:00

Here's this week's standings:Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams (2) - Michigan, Ohio StateOther Eligible Teams with Wins Over Top 10 Teams (2) - Georgia Tech and Tennessee (both Unacceptable Loss, protected by 3 Weeks Rule) - Florida (Acceptable Loss)Other Perfect Teams (5) - West Virginia, Rutgers, Louisville, USC, Boise St Teams with 0.5 Acceptable Losses (1) - Clemson Teams with 1

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1159745879715304822006-10-01T17:55:00.000-04:002006-10-01T20:14:12.083-04:00

There will not be a single journalist in print or television that will tell you that the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have a chance to be this year's National Champion. They've already lost a game, and even if they run the table there's no way they are going to climb from around 18th and 20th in the polls into the top 2 slots in the nation. But why not? Let's take a closer look at it.Here's the

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Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams (2) - Michigan, Ohio StatePerfect Teams (16) - Wake Forest, Va Tech, West Virginia, Rutgers, Louisville, Iowa, Texas A&M, Missouri, Houston, Oregon, USC, Florida, Georgia, Auburn, TCU, Boise St Teams with 0.5 Acceptable Losses (4) - Bama, Clemson, Kansas, Purdue Teams with 1 Acceptable Loss (11) - UConn, Pitt, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, LSU, Air Force, San

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1158711283671929382006-09-19T20:04:00.000-04:002006-09-19T20:40:57.700-04:00

Perfect Teams with Wins against Top 10 Teams - Michigan, Ohio StatePerfect Teams - Wake Forest, Va Tech, West Virginia, USF, Rutgers, Louisville, Wisconsin, Iowa, Mich St, Texas A&M, Ok St, KSU, Missouri, Houston, ASU, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Florida, Georgia, Bama, Auburn, TCU, Boise St, NavyTeams with 0.5 Acceptable Losses - Clemson, Kansas, PurdueTeams with 1 Acceptable Loss - BC, UConn, Pitt,

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1158105505003101332006-09-12T19:47:00.000-04:002006-09-12T19:58:25.013-04:00

Best 1-AA matchup this week: UC Davis at Montana State Potential Giant Killers: Youngstown St at Penn State Portland St at Cal Furman at UNC S Illinois at Indiana

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Lots of teams have already been eliminated from the ECF Championship. If you have no idea what I'm talking about (and only a handful do, and that's being generous), read this:ECF Championship RulesHere are the teams eliminated.Colorado, Duke, UNC, Syracuse, Temple, SMU, rice, Miami (OH), Kent St, Central Mich, East Mich, Toledo, N Illinois, Stanford, Miss St, Vandy, Florida Atlantic, Louisiana -

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1157863729037495872006-09-10T00:38:00.000-04:002006-09-10T00:48:49.050-04:00

Man, revive my blog for one day, and nail an amazing prediction. Stars of the game were Ricky Santos, who completed 18 of 24 passes, and the soon-to-be immortal David Ball, who caught two touchdown passes. Ball now needs only three touchdown catches to tie the 1-AA record set by Jerry Rice. JERRY RICE! David, we'll get your picture in when you break that record. I'll wrap up more of the 1-AA

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1157772427165360382006-09-08T23:17:00.000-04:002006-09-08T23:27:07.176-04:00

The best games this weekend that no one will talk about: Best Matchup - James Madison at Appalachian State. A matchup of the last two Champions. JMU is ranked 12, ASU 1. Monumental Task - # 19 UC-Davis goes to TCU. Shocking Upset - # 2 New Hampshire beats Northwestern. PSU (# 21, with 1 first place vote!) will tear apart new conference opponent Northern Colorado. Can't wait. Screw Ohio State

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Carlos Quentin has begun his major league career, much to my happiness. See, I traded a soon-to-be free agent Jason Giambi for Quentin and Billy Butler only two weeks ago (fantasy world), and it is alreay paying dividends. Quentin has been to bat 9 times, and has two doubles and two homers.Welcome Carlos!

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I never liked those Twins teams, and always felt you were overrated. But you were fun to watch, and that's good enough for me.Rest in peace.

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A touchdown pass negated by a penalty. Steve Young at halftime - "That was a touchdown".A touchdown granted after Big Ben slides the ball over the goal line - while on his belly.A first and goal at the two eliminated by a phantom holding call. John Madden watching a replay - "I don't see any penalty".The Steelers are the least deserving Super Bowl Champion of all time, a far cry from the Steel

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1137544784301357932006-01-17T19:36:00.000-05:002006-01-17T19:41:43.553-05:00

So much for that plan. I compound my Pats losses by going heavy on the Colts, even though I know Peyton Manning is the next Drew Bledsoe and Tony Dungy is a year away from being canned.Not that my opinion is worth anything, but I'm now saying the Panthers beat Denver in the Super Bowl.

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I'm disgusted. Two crucial calls that could have gone either way went against us, combined with a ridiculous number of turnovers, spoiled what should have been a terrific victory fot the Patriots. The better team did not win, and I can't wait until Monday so I can bet the money line on the Colts, who now not only get to play every team indoors, they get to play teams with no more recent playoff

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1136942548954622732006-01-10T20:10:00.000-05:002006-01-10T20:26:04.953-05:00

Jim Rice was so feared as a hitter that there were times when teams would take their second baseman and put him in the outfield, giving them a better chance to track down the ball that would soon be shooting into the gaps.Don't worry Jim. All real baseball fans know the Hall is a joke.

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Can you say Lawrence Phillips?That's right, Marcus. Take that helmet off. You've got bigger problems now, and a career that is quickly disintegrating.Hey, I know. Let's send him to Larry Miller's house.

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1136771233207313852006-01-08T20:26:00.000-05:002006-01-08T20:47:13.223-05:00

Larry Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, and apparently at least one movie theater, has decided that Brokeback Mountain can not be shown in his theatre. He's the same man who is able to consistently lead the NBA in number of white players on his roster, something the mainstream press chooses to ignore. I'm not normally one for economic boycotts except for the most extreme circumstances, but Miller

Davenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1136499059374332642006-01-05T16:58:00.000-05:002006-01-05T17:10:59.386-05:00

Texas and TCU are the ECF Champions for this year. Texas is obvious, so how about TCU? Here's the case for them.They beat a Top Ten team, Oklahoma.They won every home game.They lost only one road game, and that by an "acceptable" number of points.They won their bowl game, without needing overtime.If that doesn't seem like much, well, its more than anyone else can say. And remember, the goal of

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1136343899339387462006-01-03T22:00:00.000-05:002006-01-03T22:04:59.350-05:00

Nick Markakis is the rumored centerfielder of interest for the Red Sox in the Manny-Miggy deal. He started last year in Single A Frederick, with a .379 OBP and .480 SLG, then was promoted to AA Bowie, where in 33 games he went .420 and .573.Works for me.

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Congratulations to the Horned Frogs, first ECF Champion of the year!

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1,2,3Could it be?Don't call it a comeback

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Jose Canseco has been taking a beating in the press for his soon-to-be-published book. They have attacked his character,honesty,intentions,memory, you name it. I have heard people say "What kind of a person would name other players like that?", but my question is, with all of the internal pressures in baseball to remain silent, wouldn't it take EXACTLY the kind of person that Canseco is accused

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Finally found a sandwich in South Florida that could be a worthy competitor of those back in Boston. The place is Jersey Mike's, which I guess is a pretty big chain, but it feeds you just like a ma-and-pa place up north. I got a chicken parm sub that was at least a foot long, and for once I had ordered a sandwich in this town that didn't leave me hungry. And to top it all off, I won a cookie!

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Eisenberg Sports would now like to announce this year's College Football Champions. There are three winners this year, three teams that fulfilled all of the requirements of the ECF(Eisenberg's College Football) rules. We'll announce our winners alphabetically. Here we go! The first ECF Champion for 2004 - 2005 is the University of Auburn! The Auburn Tigers finished the season with thirteen

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I'm sure you'll find a million web sites that will give you all sorts of statistical analysis relating to the skills of new baseball Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg. Allow me to skip all of that, as I throw out completely unsubstantiated opinions of the two players. Let's start with Mr. Boggs. I always hated him, and I'm a Red Sox fan. Some of that is my own fault, for in the

Davenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1104871958234995612005-01-04T15:48:00.000-05:002005-01-04T15:53:56.156-05:00

Randomly came across this site today, The South-East Asia Earthquake And Tsunami Blog, and I thought I'd share it with the few lucky stragglers that might stop by. Information is everything. Dave's Email

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Money, money changes everything we think we know what we're doin' that don't mean a thing it's all in the past now money changes everything The Brains Here I am, minding my own business, writing a wildly popular Miami Heat blog, when not one but two - TWO! - advertisers approach me about advertising on this site. For Money. So I'd like to announce the revival of Eisenberg Sports, with all of

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People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight I'm out of range I used to care but Things Have Changed - Bob Dylan I may not be quitting this site, but they're sending me a check over at my other gig, Crazy From The Heat. So if you don't see me here for awhile, go over there, because I'm writing like a madman, including the ECF stuff. And hey, email me and say hello.

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What a difference a week makes! After saying last week that Michigan and BC were on the outside looking in, both had huge reversals of fortune. But before we get to that, here's the current standings: Unscathed Teams Who Have Beaten a Top Ten Team (3) Auburn**, Oklahoma*, USC* All Other Unscathed Teams (1) Utah Teams With Half-Acceptable Losses (1) Boise St Teams With 1 Acceptable Loss (2)

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Only Miami is eliminated this week, and there is no change in status for everyone else. Here's the current standings: Unscathed Teams That Have Beaten a Top Ten Team (4) Auburn*, Oklahoma*, USC*, Wisconsin* All Other Unscathed Teams (2) Boise St, Utah Teams With Half-Acceptable Losses (0) Teams With 1 Acceptable Loss (2) Cal, Louisville Teams That Have To Be Perfect The Rest Of The Way (4)

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Here's the deal. All of the Miami Heat stuff I'm writing is at Crazy From The Heat, and I've agreed not to print that stuff on here, unless its something that I feel really strongly about. So go over there, if you've made it this far. College Football news will be here shortly.

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Staying away from politics (although long time readers of ES probably know where I stand), a horse race is still a horse race. I got 3-2 odds on Kerry a couple of months ago, and I think he looks real good tonight. Here's my rational,which surprisingly, I haven't seen come up on any of the endless stupid talk shows that I occasionally watch. When the incumbent is well-thought of, they win in

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First, we'll do the standings, then we'll show just how weird the standings are. Unscathed Teams Who Have Beaten a Top Ten Team (4) Auburn*, Oklahoma*, USC*, Wisconsin* All Other Unscathed Teams (2) Boise St, Utah Teams With Half-Acceptable Losses (0) Teams With 1 Acceptable Loss (2) Cal, Louisville Teams That Have To Be Perfect The Rest Of The Way (5) BC, FSU, Miami*, Michigan, WV So

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Suddenly, all my friends and i We heard a sound It was loud Music all around us seemed to make us free Life is just a passing paradise Life is just a passing paradise - Carlos Santana

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From everyone who has ever Broke a wishbone Blown out candles Tossed a coin in a fountain Saw a shooting star And wished for nothing except a Red Sox World Series Victory (I've done all of these) We say THANK YOU 2004 RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's too late to provide pictures, links, or summaries. Following the passion of a Sons of Sam Horn thread, here are my dedications. Win it for Bill Buckner and Johnny Pesky, so those horrible film clips will never be shown with the same feeling of tragedy again. Win it for Dan Duquette, who traded for Pedro, D-Lowe, and Varitek, and signed Manny, the core of this soon-to-be Championship team.

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I hadn't seen it anywhere, so I decided to look it up myself. The question? Have there been other teams to win four straight in the LCS, and then the first two in the World Series? And if so, how have they done? The first thing I learned is that you can't go back very far, as the LCS did not become best-of-seven until 1985. But since then, there have been two such occurrences. Here they are.

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It's Mark Bellhorn! And man, when he starts swinging that bat, you sure hear a lot of noise. Reprising Todd Walker's 2003 role of Powerhouse Second Baseman, Bellhorn overcomes the Curse of Manny's Flaws. It wasn't pretty, and I'd feel better if Foulke didn't have to throw 36 pitches, but I'll take it. And you know what? Red Sox Nation should be as thrilled with this win as any, because I

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Watching the post-game discussion of game 7 on ESPN, you couldn't help but overhear the few hundred or so Red Sox fans chanting "Who's Your Daddy?" in an otherwise empty Yankee Stadium. Sweet relief! For the first time, Red Sox Nation had become a Conquering Nation. Yankee Stadium was ours, even if just for a few moments. It's hard to imagine anything as a sports fan being more satisifying.

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If it wasn't against Jewish tradition to name your children after living people, I'm sure my wife and I would be naming ours after David Ortiz. And if I had the opportunity, I would ask him if there was anyone he would like to honor with the naming of our child, and I expect that we would grant him that as well. For Big Papi has stepped into his own spotlight, standing alone and apart from all

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For some reason, this site is getting hits. Not a lot mind you, but a fair amount seeing that I haven't been writing here at all. Now there's a scary thought - is this site more popular when I'm NOT writing? Here are the current ECF (Yes! The ECF Returns!) standings, a perfect distraction from the pre-ALCS mania about to overtake all of us. Unscathed Teams Who Have Beaten a Top Ten Team (3)

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Irony of the day: The success of The Captain and Shaquille may be leading to it's own demise, or at least it's own morphing. Subsequently, Eisenberg Sports may be back in business soon, as someone is interested in my Miami Heat postings, but nothing else. And Cap and Shaq without Shaq is, well, kind of pointless. So without further ado, I am welcoming myself back. Maybe. In the meantime, GO

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If by some chance you've stumbled across this link, or actually came here on purpose, let me share with you my newest blog, The Captain and Shaquille, subtitled "A Celtics Fan and the Big Diesel Return To Florida". It's mostly about me,the Miami Heat, and life in Florida. Probably a little less stat oriented, and a little more anecdotal, but who knows? If you're an old-time reader coming back,

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Ten years ago, after I had moved to Tampa, I used to spend a fair amount of time on my back patio. Sometimes by myself, sometimes with others (usually my friend Doug, who used a large amount of drinking to ignore the fact that he worked as a night shift custodian at McDonald's and hadn't had a date in five years), I would have some beers while sitting on my plastic white patio furniture, soaking

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Or PDMOH, was an award I started giving out last year to any player who was successful in some way during every plate appearance, and didn't create any outs on the bases. On Opening Day we had our first two winners of the season, old and new Yankees, Gary Sheffield and Tino Martinez. Sheffield had a single, double, two walks, and went from second to third on a grounder to second, all in four

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Every once in a while I have this conversation with my wife about how we live like kings. We eat foods from all over the world, we listen to the best musicians, we watch the greatest athletes. We have great theatre unfold over our TV screens each night. You get the picture. Anyway, this morning I experienced all this at higher level, a whole new plain of modern convenience. I woke up, took a

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I musta got lost I musta got lost I musta got lost Somewhere down the line - J Geils Band "We're dealing with a lot of shit here." - Crash Davis, on the mound in Bull Durham. When I first hooked up Baseball Interactive.com, I figured it would all flow together seamlessly. I would stick with baseball through the spring and summer, post my entries here and there, and everything would work out

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Recently, I checked to see how the great young players of baseball (specifically, those 24 and under, who have played something near a full season) compared to those players of years gone by. I did this by going directly to baseballreference.com, which can give you comparable players for every player at every age for all of time. This was the list I came up with, and the players they could be

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Buying a house and sick as a dog Too crazy busy and too crazy sick Trying to come up With something that sticks Other than vomit all over my shoes Got a good case Of the Spring Training Blues Dave's Email

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If you're just coming here from Baseball Interactive.com,welcome! I'm very excited to be a part of all that, except for one thing - it's not baseball season yet! Of course, it's real close, with the first ESPN game being Wednesday, but lately I've been writing about a wider variety of stuff. It is the off-season, after all. So let me make some suggestions to you. First, check out anything I

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There are two things that you see on virtually every baseball site at this time of year - useless predictions that all look the same, and rookie lists that pretty much look the same. I've got an allergy against writing about things that everyone else is writing about (as well as better ways to use my time), so you won't be seeing either of those things here. But it occurs to me that there's a

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I'm not sure if I've ever written an article that had absolutely nothing to do with sports or competition before, but I had something I wanted to share, and this is my only venue. James Carroll is my favorite editorial writer, a man with deeply-held Catholic convictions who is maybe the only public person in Greater Boston willing to talk openly and sensitively about race, religion, war, and

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Things I was thinking about in Florida when not shopping for houses: Count me among the Sox fans who aren't scared by the ARod signing. Soriano is no ARod, but he's a serious offensive threat, and when you consider that ARod will be played out of position, and that Enrique Wilson is in the everyday lineup instead of Aaron Boone, I don't know, it just doesn't seem like the Yankees are THAT much

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See you in a week.

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Pandemonium broke lose on the Fenway Park field as the Gators won tonight by the score of 4-3, clinching their first World Series Championship. Bobby Abreu won it with a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, his first RBIs of the series. "It's an amazing feeling, just amazing!" shouted Abreu, as champagne was poured over his head in the jubilant Gator locker room. "We've

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My fantasy baseball team, the Gators, won the opening game of the World Series last night. Playing on the road at Coors Field, we beat the team owned by the Commissioner (really!) that has swept it's first two playoff series. Here's the boxscore: Gators 4 Bridegrooms 3 Gators ab r h bi bb so avg Abreu RF 4 1 2 0 0 1 .500 Bradley CF 4 0 1 1 0 1 .250 Rolen 3B 4 0 1 0 0 2

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Things that crossed my mind nursing a sore back injured while cleaning sewage out of my basement. Trust me, you need diversions. Here's the Webster's online definition of dynasty: 1 : a succession of rulers of the same line of descent 2 : a powerful group or family that maintains its position for a considerable time The Patriots don't fit this description yet, but with one good Super Bowl

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Now the race is on and here comes pride up the back stretch, heartaches a goin' to the inside, my tears are holding back, tryin' not to fall. My heart's out of the running, true love scratched for another's sake, the race is on and it looks like heartaches, and the winner loses all. - The Grateful Dead, although I think it might be a Bill Monroe cover Has there ever been a moment in American

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I don't write much about pro football, but it's not because I'm not a fan. It's odd how blogging can make you an "expert" on something, when really your whole life you've switched from sport to sport, team to team, depending on how much any one team is entertaining you. I generally start watching the NFL these days around Thanksgiving, once the regular season of college football ends. This

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Got an email last week from a very nice person named John Strubel who runs a website called Baseball Interactive.com. John asked me if I wanted to write for them, as often as I want, whenever I want, about whatever I want, and so of course I had some questions. He answered a whole bunch of them in great detail, except for one about how many hits the site gets (well, he didn't answer the one

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Lazy way to get that giant winter picture off of my current screen.

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I did not believe the information Just had to trust imagination My heart going boom boom boom Son, he said, grab your things I've come to take you home - Peter Gabriel and Genesis, Salisbury Hill Just out of pure curiosity, I'm very disappointed that tonight's coldspell is not coming on Sunday, when the home-dome Colts travel to Foxboro. Can players really go out there if you can get frostbite

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Finally, like a dehydrated marathoner reaching from his knees for the finish line, Eisenberg Sports has reached 5,000 hits. I'm sure I would have made it much sooner, had I been writing anything on a regular basis. A few quick observations while I'm here. Mike Martz is the Grady Little of football. Rams fans don't seem to be going after him with similar fervor, so they deserve what they get.

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Still smells dirty. "For the last 14 years I've consistently heard the statement: 'If Pete Rose came clean, all would be forgiven.' Well, I've done what you've asked. The rest is up to the commissioner and the big umpire in the sky." - Pete Rose Pete bares (mmmm beers) his soul in his soon to-be-released autobiography. You tell me. Is this "coming clean"? "Mr. Selig looked at me and said, 'I

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1073265810363261752004-01-04T20:23:00.000-05:002004-01-04T20:24:40.793-05:00

Been spending a lot of time investigating South Florida, or to be more specific Southeast Florida, due to my impending free agency. Signed to a series of one-year contracts, I may very well exercise my right to the open market come July, and leave Boston for opportunities in the Sunshine State. Obviously, the level of sports entertainment within any community is of great importance to me, so I

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1073072447408227052004-01-02T14:40:00.000-05:002004-01-02T14:41:55.403-05:00

With their defeat of the Michigan Wolverines yesterday, the USC Trojans became the 2003 Eisenberg's College Football Champions, otherwise known as the ECF Championship, the greatest system for determining the champion of a playoff-less college football season that no one has ever heard of. In only it's second year of existence, Pete Carroll has gained a share of the title for a second time.

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Quick Message To those BAP Believers - You're gonna love this. Bases Advanced Percentage was originally designed to measure all of the things that happen in a ball game that don't end up in either On-Base Percentage (OBP) or Slugging Percentage (SLG). It seemed to me that things like going from first to third on a single, or sacrificing successfully with runners on first and second, were game

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This is what the town I work in looked like yesterday. Because of this, there's no school tomorrow (!), just like today and Monday. It's difficult to send busloads of kids down Main Street when you have the National Guard out. This gives me a chance to finish report cards in an abnormally calm fashion, and to write a couple of blog entries. I was planning to write something about Charles

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The other title was going to be Wasted Trojans, but I decided that might not be appropriate. Eisenberg's College Football Championship (the ECF) was rolling along just fine going into this weekend. Only two teams still qualified for the ECF Championship, Oklahoma and USC, and they were the two teams that most people wanted to see playing for the National Championship, LSU or no LSU. Then the

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Boylston Street, Saturday morning, before nearly all of the snow. Snowed in for the weekend, so it would be a shame if I didn't take a little time to write. It's much better than shoveling, or filling out report cards, and I've got all this extra time because I gave up my seat to Pats-Dolphins tomorrow, which is a good hour-and-a-half from my house on a clear day. On top of all that, there were

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Now that the Yankees have retaliated, it seems to make sense to compare the two moves, the Sox getting Curt Schilling, and the Yanks getting Javier Vazquez. Schilling more or less takes the place of John Burkett, while Vazquez does the same for Roger Clemens. That obviously leans towards the Sox's advantage, but how much? I went over to Baseball Prospectus, where they have some unique stats,

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So finally, I have reached the end of the BAP World Series. The journey has been long, cost me family and friends, even dropped me from Hall of Fame to All-Star on Aaron's Baseball Blog (the best of all baseball blogs) list. Yet I soldier forth, through changes of seasons and flurries of trade rumors, in search of a kernal of truth. Just to review, what I did was to see how some of the major

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I am now reduced to this. Using my emails to pass for an entry. Got an email from Joe, a BAP believer, and I thought I'd share it with you here. Not because I say anything particularly interesting in response, because I don't, but I realize that part of what I say to Joe I could say to all of you. Besides, Joe leaves a couple of good links that I'm going to bash first chance I get. So thanks

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The timing is perfect. Just as the Eisenberg Sports College Football Championship (The ECF) knocks Ohio State out, The BCS pulls them back in. One of the founding principles of the ECF is that there is just no way an overtime win at home should count as much as winning at home in regulation. It is the feeling here that any team that is of national championship caliber should be able to protect

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Been trying to keep up with work, union business (in the middle of a big contract fight), babysitting, leave raking, yadda, yadda, yadda, and so I just haven't found time to write. Meanwhile, in my head I've written about the following items: College Football Weekend Wrapup The conclusion to the BAP World Series The next great BAP project (It's way cool. That is, if you think any of the BAP

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Here's games 1 through 4: Florida 3 NY 2 OBP - FL .297, NY .368 SLG - FL .226, NY .364 OPS - FL .523, NY .732 BAP - FL .500, NY .526 EBs - FL 7, NY 3 BA - FL .226, NY .273 SecA - FL .226, NY .273 BA+SecA - FL .452, NY .546 A rarity. Every stat analyzes the game stats incorrectly. Imagine how the Series changes if the Yankees had won this game, as they clearly could have. Florida 1 NY 6 OBP

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Slowly but surely, I'm catching up with the BAP numbers, the 2003 Playoffs being my own personal blog triathalon. I've got the last two Marlins-Cubs game today, and one of the two I want to talk about a bit. That game is Game 6, the one loser Cub fans blamed on one of their own, instead of their team. First, here are the stats: Florida 8 Cubs 3 OBP - FL .341, Chi .343 SLG - FL .333, Chi .333

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We'll give you a little of both today, The College Football Weekend Wrapup, and BAP scores for the last two Cubs-Marlins games. Because the football stuff is very current, and the baseball numbers are extremely late, we'll start with the football, and come back with the baseball this evening. This weekend's college football games shook out some of the pretenders for the oblivious, as Miami,

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Oklahoma is ahead of Texas A&M 49-0, at the half. As good as time as any to update some BAP scores. Here is the unfinished portion of the Sox-Yankees series. Boston 3 New York 2 OBP - Bos .300, NY .297 SLG - Bos .481, NY .313 OPS - Bos .781, NY .610 BAP - Bos .433, NY .432 EBs - Bos (-3), NY 1 BA - Bos .222, NY .188 SecA - Bos .296, NY .313 BA+SecA - Bos .518, NY .501 Every stat but

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Last week, when the Red Sox put Manny Ramirez on waivers, the reasons for doing so seemed singular, and clear: it was an attempt to clear salary space. But in the following days, stories broke about Manny asking to be dealt, and teammates of Manny's relayed private conversations in which Manny expressed his unhappiness with the Boston Experience. It became a complete media assault on all things

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Last year, when Eisenberg's College Football Championship Rules (the ECF) were being run and tested for the first time, it ended with six potential Champions entering the bowl games. Actually, it was five, because TCU had no chance of being declared a Champion because they had violated the Top Ten Rule (see rules for explanation), but even this number seemed normal. The ECF, after all, was

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With all of the Red Sox news this week, I didn't get to do my College Football Weekend Wrapup on Monday, or the Weekend Preview on Wednesday. Saturday morning is late, I know, so this won't be a full WP. But there's some points that need to be covered, so I'll do a quick rundown here. The very best part of Eisenberg's College Football Championship (the ECF) is that it recognizes that all wins

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Nobody anywhere will argue that Manny Ramirez is not a great baseball player. Clearly, he is one of the best hitters of his generation, a slugger that can add substantial pop to any lineup in the game. There is only one reason why any team would choose not to have Manny, and that reason is money. Most Radio Bostonians are thrilled to have the possibility of unloading Manny's contract, with

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Didn't get to sit down with my blog last night because I was watching, of all things, a NOVA special on quantum mechanics and string theory. Totally trippy stuff. Apparently, the trick of quantum mechanics is that every possible outcome to any situation does in fact occur, if not in our universe, than in a parallel one. Taken to it's logical conclusion, not only did the Red Sox win this World

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I still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse Of how the others must see the faker I'm much too fast to take that test Changes - David Bowie Grady Little was put out of his misery today, as the Red Sox finally

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Welcome to my nightmare I think you're gonna like it, I think you're gonna feel Like you belong, A nocturnal vacation, Unnecessary sedation, You want to feel at home Cause you belong, Welcome to my nightmare. -Alice Cooper As a teacher of children, I know that kids do not instinctively appreciate anything about the past, even the recent past. Sure, it can be taught to them, I mean, I've got a

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You know, I'm kind of liking this new Yankee trend of finishing just short every year. Kind of sounds like, like... THE RED SOX! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! Eisenberg Sports will return to it's normal, relatively unbiased reporting soon. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Congratulations to the 2003 World Series Champion Florida Marlins! Dave's Email

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Maybe this will be a new column. I've had worse ideas. 6-point tease Utah minus 2 at home against New Mexico TCU, even at Houston Going with Urban Meyer and the new MWC dynasty that could be the Utes, if only they could convince him to stay. Famous last words - Doesn't TCU always win? 6.5-point tease Bowling Green +3 at home against Northern Illinois Auburn +10 at LSU Yesterday I picked

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Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Florida Marlins. The Red Sox season ended last week, but for this fan the misery was going to continue into the World Series. And it's no anti-Yankee thing. I've got my eyes on the big prize, not beating the team from New York, and I couldn't care less if the Yankees won every single World Series until the Red Sox win there's. No, I lived in fear of the

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Hey Frankie, you can't strike the student-athletes in the 21st Century! Think that's the image the ACC wants to portray? It will be interesting to see how much fallout there is from this. And man, I wish I got my preview off in time to pick West Virginia. It's still the fourth quarter, but I feel safe in saying it: Congratulations to the Mountaineers on another big win in Morgantown.

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The Northern Illinois Huskies are the big news in college football this week, as they became the first MAC team ever to appear in the Top Ten in the BCS standings. This achievement only served to heighten the excitement about Saturday's Northern Illinois at Bowling Green matchup, the only game this weekend between two ECF(Eisenberg's College Football)-eligible teams. This game would appear to

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Got caught up watching JFK on HBO tonight, so there's no real blog entry. It's a great movie for filling you with anger and paranoia. If you ask me, the CIA did it, but I must admit that so far I've been able to resist reading the entire Warren Report. But hey, the good news is I'm mentioned on Aaron's Baseball Blog again, this time as contributor "Dave", for coming up with the "My Brain Is

Davenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5416186.post-1066609447942938612003-10-19T20:24:00.000-04:002003-10-19T20:24:07.766-04:00

What kind of cruel, sick, twisted individual at blogspot would put a banner on top of a helpless Red Sox fan's blog that read, "Red Sox Playoff Tickets"? And the Cubs, too!

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For those of you wondering what happened to the BAP scores, don't worry (or, be afraid, be very afraid), they'll be back. While I did want to be up to date for the World Series, the devastating nature of the Red Sox's demise resulted in, among other things, me needing a break from studying game logs. I'll probably have some more of them tomorrow. Not an especially surprising weekend in college

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Less than twelve hours after My Brain Is Little sells out Red Sox Nation for a future job as minor league scout with the Yankees, I find myself with sixteen 10-year-olds at the Ringling Brothers Circus in the Fleet Center. Talk about surreal. The kids, they don't know. I mean they know the Sox lost, but they don't understand how, and so they're over it. Me, I'm sitting there devastated,

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