Archive for the ‘Hockey’ Category

What Sports Leagues Should Do

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

MLB
Drop the DH, expend the rosters by 1 spot for all teams to make up the difference.
Contract two non-attendance teams (I’m looking at you Florida – neither older than 20 years old and neither with a fan base).
Let Mark Cuban buy the Dodgers (he complains about the officiating but at least he thinks we should pay to have the best officiating)
Inter-league play doesn’t bother me – people say it’s an unbalance schedule, but to be fair does Baltimore’s schedule full of games against NYY, BOS and Tampa sound the same as the schedule for Central division teams? Either do it and do it a lot and fairly or don’t do it at all.
Stop giving home field in the World Series to the winner of an Exhibition game, Bud. Stupid, stupid idea, but an easy fix – put in your starters and leave them in the whole game. Just leave 10 guys on the bench – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMk5sMHj58I

NHL
Move more teams to Canada = Phoenix is a great choice to become a second Toronto team. (Toronto Molsons? East Toronto Historians),
Change the Florida Panthers to the Montreal Seniors.
Eliminate the head shots. The league says they are doing it – believe it when I see it.
Control salaries – you have NO TV DEAL. Save money, get a cap.

NBA
Just stop. I can’t stand the NBA. The cancellation of the upcoming season due to a labor dispute is a gift from Mt. Olympus.
Talk about a league that absolutely doesn’t care about 2/3 of the teams. This is a league that couldn’t sell the Nuggets with Carmelo.
This is a league that gets annoyed when San Antonio wins the title because they simply do their jobs and aren’t arrogant SOBs.
Retract a lot of teams – DC cares only about the Washington NFLers so nuke the Wizards, Kings, Raptors, Bobcats, Pacers & Memphis.
This is a league that would really benefit from only have 24 teams.

NFL
Stop ideas of expanding to LA – move teams or don’t – 32 is a perfect number. Who wants a league with 33 teams? Only Communists.
Jacksonville is a great choice – put them in the AFC West and swap with Kansas City. KC used to be the Houston Texans and Tennessee used to be the Houston Oilers and the Colts used to be in Baltimore so this is an all-relocated division change.
Keep the schedule at 16 games. I don’t care if you want more money. Cut pre-season to 2 games.
Stop playing the Super Bowl in February and only wait one week between the Semi-finals and the Super Bowl.
Share money with the players, but force them to put it into concussions treatment centers and into the former player’s medical bills.
Abolish the conferences. 8 division winners make the playoffs, next best four records, regardless of conference. Re-seed those 12 teams so the top four get a bye no matter how many wins, next four host the final four. No team should ever get to host a playoff game against a team with a winning record.

College Football
Merge the MWC with the Sun Belt and make a new conference. Divide into an upper and lower division just like the UK soccer leagues.
Top teams move up, worst teams sent down. And give the SMU death penalty to teams that cheat. Teams will cheat as long as you refuse to punish them. You think Auburn would pay money to a recruit if they knew doing so would mean losing their team for 3 years?

Winnipeg

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Please, go ahead and name them the Jets. It’s a cool name.

Hockey Night in Canada

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Cool link to a possible Winnipeg Jets logo.

http://www.winnipegjets.info/2011/06/probably-best-new-winnipeg-jets-logo.html

I don’t know if the new team in Winnipeg via Atlanta will be called the Jets or not but if so, good on them. We need more hockey teams in Canada anyway and nobody went to the Thrashers games anyway. While we’re at it, move the Panthers to Quebec and the Coyotes to Toronto.

NBA playoffs

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Happy to see the Lakers lose. I don’t know which would make me happier more – seeing the Lakers lose or seeing Miami lose. To be honest, I wonder why it took this long for NBA players to figure out how to just all go to the same team. You need 12 guys to agree to earn $3 mil each and all sign with Milwaukee to form a dream team, go 73-9 and blow the doors off everyone. Imagine what the Heat would be with a more legit rebounder than Bosh. Bosh is nice, but he ain’t gonna pull a 20-20. Most boards all year was 17 against the lowly Kings. Imagine that team with Rodman on it – a Rodman willing to score 3 points per game and box out the universe.

The NBA would hate for an Atlanta-Memphis title matchup so naturally I am rooting for it. The tv ratings would sink near NHL levels. The NHL is having a fantastic playoffs and still no ratings.

I’m glad the Knicks and Lakers are out – and the Bulls and Celtics are soon to join them.

Also, props to the NBA for not re-seeding in the playoffs. Nothing invalidates your excessive regular season more than having bad teams face each other in the playoffs while good teams are force to eliminate each other. High quality from the Angel of Stern.

NHL?

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Many hockey questions…

How does the NHL give Bettman a new contract as Commish? 7 million per year? Their entire tv deal isn’t that much.

The league has too many teams, too many concussions and too many morons. Ban the next guy for 50 games – word will get out.

Can the Devils become the first team ever to only win 10 games before the AS break and still make the playoffs?

Serious, 7 million per year for Bettman? He doesn’t deserve 10% of that. The league only has traction with purists, has no
meaningful tv ratings or contracts. The only cool new things they’ve done lately is to play hockey outside and even that they
screw up by only doing it twice per year. How about this – EVERY team hosts two games outdoors per season? Take a shot, man!