The Sports Idiot

When NC State travels to Chapel Hill on Saturday to lay the smack down on the gridiron, more than a win or a loss is at stake.  Braggin’ rights, my friends, braggin’ rights!  The real matchup is after the jump. Continue reading ‘NC State/UNC-CH Friday Content Rivalry’

It looks like the Jake Peavy era in Atlanta may have to wait, yet again.  It appears that Padres GM Kevin Towers does not like the progress made in talks with the Braves, or the Cubs for that matter.  This is getting ridiculous.  Almost as ridiculous as Padres Fan, who thinks the Braves offer of Yunel Escobar, Gorks Hernandez, Charlie Morton and Blaine Boyer/Jeff Locke is a lowball offer.  Towers sounds like he is going to open the bidding back up across the board.

According to CBS Sportsline’s Scott Miller, the Braves and Padres are about to finalize a deal that will send the 2007 NL Cy Young winner to Atlanta.  It looks like the holdup was getting a fourth player added to the deal, and hammering out the Hernandez/Flowers issue that arose the last day or so (the Pads turned their eyes to Flowers, who responded by cranking three homeruns yesterday and actually hired a skywriter to ask the Braves “Please don’t send me to Petco!” during the third inning).  See how the deal will look after the jump. Continue reading ‘Is Today The Day It Finaly Ends?’

It is looking more and more like Jake Peavy will be traded to the Braves at any moment. According to MLB.com, the Braves feel good about their offer for Peavy, but are getting increasingly frustrated with the Padres and GM Kevin Towers.  When it is all said and done, it looks like Atlanta will be sending SS Yunel Escobar, OF Gorkys Hernandez or OF Jordan Schafer, and either SP Charlie Morton or SP JoJo Reyes.  My thoughts after the jump. Continue reading ‘Obligatory Jake Peavy Update’

The Cub’s rookie catcher Geovany Soto fell one vote short of being a unanimous selection like our boy Longo.  Cincy’s Joey Votto came in second, and Atlanta’s Jair Jurrjens came in third.

Our friends at Rotoworld point out an interesting caveat in the voting.  Edinson Volquez received three second place votes?  Um, he was not a rookie this year?

No big surprise here, as anyone who follows this crappy blog knows that we are big fans of Evan Longoria.  The White Sox’ Alexei Ramirez came in second place, with Boston’s Jacoby Ellsbury coming in third.

Sort of.  It looks like Hugh Hefner has lost another one of his “girls”, as the obnoxious and overly annoying Kendra Wilkinson has announced that she is engaged to Eagles wideout Hank Baskett.  More after the jump. Continue reading ‘The Philadelphia Eagles Make a Roster Move?’

According to The Journal News’ Peter Abraham, Jake Peavy has already been told that he will be traded.  San Diego Padres GM Kevin Towers was quoted as saying “that train has left the station” to a small group of writers earlier today.  He revealed that there are three teams in the mix, all in the National League (see the Braves, Cardinals, and Cubs), and that a multi-team deal could be a possibility.

The National League limitations have officially pushed the Yankees out of the running, although some do not agree. Either way, this is about to get really interesting.

Who knew?  Well, I did not hear that he had passed, so I guess I did.  Anyway, it looks like Mr. Leaf is continuing to drop Palins on his career, only now it is as a college QB coach for West Texas A&M.  Yes, WEST Texas A&M.  Not the real Texas A&M, but WEST…

It looks like dude asked a player for some pain killers, said player appears to have narced on him, and now Mr. QB himself is suspended indefinitely.  I have to give Yahoo Sports’ Chris Chase major credit for the following line:

“If the incident is true, it’s not too surprising. After all, Ryan Leaf never was very good at trying to score.”

According to Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the Cubs may be the new leaders in the Jake Peavy sweepstakes.  As we told you yesterday, Cubs GM Jim Hendry has been palling around with Pads GM Kevin Towers.  Now it looks like pieces of the puzzle are being put together, and that when it is complete Peavy will be pitching in Wrigley.

Rotoworld is saying that Felix Pie would have to be in the deal, and that Rich Hill, Sean Marshall, Ronny Cedeno, Mike Fontenot and Donald Veal could all be in play as well.  The other news is that the Cubs are going to go after free agent Ryan Dempster as well, who has been a Cub since 2004.

What you will read is that signing Dempster would make it less likely that the Cubs can bring Kerry Wood back.  Wood, also a free agent, would seemingly cost too much in addition to Dempster.  All that means is that it will finally be Carlos Marmol time, and Marmol was arguably the best pitcher in the bully for the Cubs this year.