Mid-July usually means the doldrums of summer lift with the anticipation of the coming new football season. For hardcore fans, this comes in the form of training camp and the various news it brings with your respective teams. The first look at that blue chip rookie prospect drafted last April, the return of the team veterans, the arrival of the newly minted free agent signing, Hard Knocks on HBO, and the next episode of the T.O. Show (highly recommended by the way) all compromise the rituals associated with training camp season. Rabid fans could even take this a step further and use training camp as a launching pad to scout potential fantasy football players for their leagues. More on that special, uniquely obsessive hobby for guys at a later juncture.
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At the risk of annoying and offending the higher ups who run the NFL, it’s a good thing Sportsboner.com registers as nothing more than a tiny particle in the vast opinionated expanses of the blogosphere. By now, news of Michael Vick’s reinstatement to the NFL with the subsequent suspension of up to 6 games under strict conditional stipulations have as a result bred numerous differing opinions on the matter.
Such is the conflicting nature of professional sports. On one hand, it’s just a game. However on the other platinum-adorned-blinged-out hand, it’s a multibillion dollar business. Such is the stake exposed when you also throw in federal and state charges of gambling and bankrolling a heinous “hobby” of dog-fighting.
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Mark Buehrle’s perfect game yesterday exemplifies not only a tremendous individual athletic effort (with an equally tremendous defensive team effort behind him), but a statistical rarity. In context, with only 18 official perfect games thrown throughout major league baseball’s 132 years of existence; more people have orbited the moon, more people have won the lottery, more people have been President of the United States, more people have actual credible copies of Erin Andrew’s video, and more people have frequented this website (although just barely). A perfect game occurs about once in every 11,000 major league games. No hits, no walks, no hit batsmen, no opposing player can reach base safely for any reason, basically you’re talking “27 up, 27 down.”
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The confetti had barely touched the ground after celebrations commenced for crowning the Los Angeles Lakers the 2009 NBA Champions, when potential usurpers sprung into action and started making moves to keep up with the “Kobes”. If this offseason is any indication, we are in for a very top-heavy action-packed season come October.
Several factors come into play that contribute to the hectic arms race thus seen this summer. The obvious economic recession that has also affected the NBA monetarily has also in turn caused smaller market teams to unload contracts and keep their salary under the luxury tax threshold. Some may simply be clearing space for the infamous summer of 2010 when a smorgasbord of elite free agents are to be had. However some indications and my “expert” opinion all point to the former, that a bad economy ultimately induces teams who are not as financially sound to trim the proverbial fat.
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The summer of 2010 as highly touted and as highly anticipated in regard to the NBA offseason free agent extravaganza was supposed to bring about a renaissance the league had never seen before. Off the top of my head the potential that Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, Josh Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady, Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire, Manu Ginobili, and heck even Shaquille O’Neal could all be wearing different uniforms is truly enticing. Read more…
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