Recent content by Ugly_Duckling

You are certainly right. The attitude in my post was driven by my frustration with Kyle Farnsworth, so I made rather hasty claims. Regardless, I am extremely familiar with the stats. The three starters are combined averaging over 6 innings a start, 7 strikeouts per start, and have a <3.00...

The Royals' first three starters (Meche, Greinke, and Davies) are the best three in the AL, if not the majors right now, and they will be better than your beloved Angels' rotation. Seriously, you make all these excuses for why the Angels aren't doing great, but none of that matters. The...

Not to be brutally honest to the point of sounding like a jerk, but how did some of you guys get in to those schools? One of my best friends has a 4.7 GPA, got a 2280 on his SAT, 34 on the ACT, and is in the top-10 of our class (we go to one of the most competitive high schools in the country)...

I see, sorry for the misunderstanding. I still don't agree, however, considering their incredible talent, but to each his own. Agreed. :-) Some would argue that Memphis and KU had the most talented teams in the tournament, but then again, talent means nothing in an all-or-nothing...

Except that it wasn't. No one ever could have predicted the Giants to win that game against the Patriots, but from the predictions I read and heard, it sounded like pretty much an even-stevens split, if not overall slightly favoring Kansas. And why does it "suck equally"? That was one of the...

Gil Meche was easily a top-3 candidate for the Cy Young through the first 2 months of last season and would have won at least 18 games without his abysmal run support. I don't expect anything less from him this year. I couldn't agree more. Yay bias! In all seriousness though, the White Sox...

I don't mean to offend, but the Packers did just win two road games against Denver and Kansas City, two very strong home-playing teams. In other words, I don't think that constitutes "shitty teams." I'm incredibly surprised about the Lions though. The Browns are a real shocker, too...

I've met with Mike Sweeney (Royals player) a bunch of times as we go to the same church and he is an active member in that community. Mike Macfarlane (Ex-Royal) goes to my church too. Marty Schottenheimer (Ex-Chiefs coach; now coaching for San Diego) used to live in my neighborhood. Kevin...

What surprised me most about the 30-run spectacle was that the score was 5-3 going in to the 6th inning.

Sizemore also has the whole "young guns" aura around him, because by and far, the Indians are a young team, which ESPN loves. Rios also has to compete with other superstars on his team, such as Halladay, Troy Glaus (sort of...), Lyle Overbay, Frank Thomas, and Vernon Wells. But yes, I do agree...

Senior year in high school looks like this: 1st hour - Marching Band 2nd hour - Physics 3rd hour - AP Calculus AB 4th hour - AP English IV 5th hour - AP Government 6th hour - AP Spanish V 7th hour - AP Biology And then second semester looks like this: 1st hour - Symphonic Band 2nd hour -...

The fact remains that the Red Sox still have a 4 game lead with which to work as well as, you are mistaken, a very easy schedule. 11 games left against the Devil Rays 7 games left against the Orioles 4 games against the White Sox 6 games left against the Yankees (3 at home, 3 away) 6 games...

I'm a bit surprised one of these hasn't been started yet, so I'll do the honors! I'll offer a brief overview of each team's season up to this point: American League: East- Boston Red Sox: (1st place; 71-47; -- GB) They've been struggling a bit of late, but thanks to the 14.5 game lead...

I'm 17.

Quite frankly, who's to say that Aaron wouldn't have taken steroids had they been prevalent in professional sports during his era? People can gripe about it all they want, but I don't care if Bonds has used steroids; it's become part of the game now. One last thing: Alex Rodriguez is on pace...