Reporting Live From the Boondocks

One of the toughest things as a sports fan is when you're put in a situation removed from the sports world. When this happens, news that may seem new to you is in all reality days old. That's the situation I'm in right now and it leaves me with little to write about. Yet I will do my best to get what's on my mind down on "paper."


-It really bothers me that it's been almost a whole month since the World Series ended and I still haven't heard who the MVP is. I read yesterday that Brandon Webb won the NL Cy Young, which is great, but it comes after I've more or less forgotten about who really might have deserved the award. If MLB really wanted to encourage discussion, they would find a way of announcing the winners of the MVP and Cy Young awards during the World Series. Maybe annouce one a game so Joe Buck has something significant to talk about. By November, very few people really care about those awards because the season has been finished for so long.

-I read yesterday that the Red Sox paid over 50 million to negotiate with 27 year old Japanese pitcher Daisuke lastnameforgotten. That really bummed me out when I read about it because it just gives the people who hate baseball one more thing to gripe about. Baseball gets enough bad press about huge salaries already that this will only make it worse. Personally, I can see the importance of getting a, from what I've read, ready made ace for your rotation but even I have trouble with the amount paid just to negotiate with him. (Side note...resident Sports Chair Japanese expert Mike Reddick once told me that the way people have been pronouncing his name...DICE-kay...roughly translates to I love you in Japanese. If he is correct, that's pretty funny).

-Jamie Moyer signed a 2 year deal with the Phillies with a contract incentive that he can leave road trips in which he is not pitching the last game early. I can only guess that is so he can rush home, cash his social security check, and catch the early bird special at Denny's.

-I think I'd pay $25 a month to have some way of staying more informed on what is going on in basketball. After I spent much of last season really trying to keep up with the sport, I have had little chance to see anything this season. I mean, sure, there's probably no difference in the Sixers between this season and last, but that's just one of those things you want to see firsthand.


That's all I've got right now. Hopefully the next time I write I will have more up to date topics to discuss.