Cornholing For A Cause!
If you are looking for something fun for the whole family and just might want to support a great cause while you are doing it, then check out Matt Light’s first annual Cornhole Commotion. Watch Matt explain more in the video here. It’s Saturday June 1st at Gillette Stadium. It’s going to be a great time and you’ll be helping Matt and his team change the lives of some young people for the better. Cornholing baby. Check out Cornhole Commotion. I’ll see you there!
MATT LIGHT IS THE BEST!
The Matt Light Celebrity Shoot out is like no other charity event you have ever seen! And the money raised helps change the lives of young people. Matt is an amazing person. His foundation is the real deal. I encourage you to check out more about all of this and how you can help.
If you are one of those Red Sox fans crying over the new 2 year $26 million deal the Sox gave to David Ortiz, stop it. You know better. For an organization that is used to taking financial gambles, this one is definetly worth the risk.
Yes, there are risks. Ortiz will be 37 years old on November 18th (we think?… gotta love those credible dominican birth records. Btw is his name really David Ortiz or Fausto Carmona?). Rarely do MLB sluggers get progressively better after the age of 35 as ESPN’s Gordon Edes does such a good job of documenting.
But as Gordon also points out, take a closer look at Ortiz power slugging numbers over the last few years. They all put him in the top ten sluggers in all of MLB during that time. And the last time I checked the 2013 Red Sox are in desperate need of sluggers. For a lineup that just yesterday was wondering “Where do we hit Carl Crawford?” they have also been stripped of Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Youkilis and they face the impending departure of Jacoby Ellsbury too.
While the Red Sox historic salary dump to the Los Angeles Dodgers gives them tremendous payroll flexibility, it also gives them an opportunity to give this organization some new faces. But while we consider who those new faces may be (Will Middlebrooks, Ruby De LaRosa, Jackie Bradley) consider that having David Ortiz around to help this organization make the transition back to contender is not a bad thing. Anyone who has ever met Ortiz , even just once, can attest to the fact that he is a WE guy as opposed to a ME guy despite the handful of times he whines about his contract in public.
The main reason Ortiz is worth a $26 million gamble lies in both the past and the future. In the past the Red Sox have used their wealth of resources to invest in much riskier contracts than Ortiz:
And for the future, with new payroll flexibility, the Red Sox have now given themselves the opportunity to invest wisely. Investing 2 years and $26 million in David Ortiz is a wise move and one worth taking.
Now watch them go give $175 million to Josh Hamilton?
Week 7 Fantasy Football Waiver Wire pickups.
FFChamps.com’s Billy Enright and I discuss waiver wire pickups for week 7 in fantasy football. Time to get creative and play GM with multiple bye weeks.
The NFC Rules in the NFL in 2012.
The numbers back it up, the NFC is where the power lies in 2012 in the NFL. We have seen decades where different conferences have dominated the power when it comes to the NFL. And because of the strength of those conferences during those times the champions of those conferences have often been battle tested by the time they get to the Super Bowl.
Right now, the balance of power clearly rests in the NFC. There are several AFC teams that you could argue are at or near the top of the list as potential SuperBowl champions to be crowned in New Orleans next February (Patriots, Texans, Ravens…maybe even the Steelers. Don’t count out Pittsburgh..I never do). Despite those power teams the NFC is much stronger top to bottom than the AFC. And the bottom is where this debate ends. Listen to Kerry Byrne talk about the 8 worst teams in the NFL right now. And listen when he backs it up with quality stats to support his argument.
None of us know for sure who is going to win or be in the SuperBowl next February but the bottom 8 worst teams in football all come from the AFC right now.
