A big fat thanks to the Seattle Seahawks for single handedly deciding the fate of the AFC. On Sat they decided that their team youth movement is in full effect and that they don’t care how bad they will be (and if even one of these young WR falls flat, which is likely, they will be BAD) and paid TJ Houshmandzdeh in the avenue of 7 mil to cut him. It’s amazing how little sports teams, especially NFL teams, care about MILLIONS. So by doing so this means that TJ has his money for this year and basically won’t care about what he makes at all. So after reportedly being recruited by Ray Lewis, TJ landed in Baltimore. This makes Balt an early favorite to win the AFC even with some of the other good teams out there. Balt already has one of the top 3 Defenses in the AFC, and now they have a STACKED offense. Flacco now has plenty of weapons at his disposal as a QB (And thus raising his Fantasy value by 10X right now). He has, Ray Rice (RB), A. Boldin (WR), TJ Housh (WR), Derek Mason (WR), Todd Heap (TE) and W. McGahee (RB) all ready to put up some huge yards and score just enough to win 21-10 every week. Thanks Seahawks for letting TJ go you have damned the AFC to deal with him.

Also this weekend in NFL, the Greediest asshole of the week, Darrelel Revis finally signed his 4 year deal (reportedly for 46 mil) to stay as a NY JET.Two things that happened to make it so were; 1. Reavis wanted to be the highest paid player at his position (He must have been hanging out with Kovalchuk) and 2. Rex Ryan took a trip to see Revis personally to get the job done.  Now, I am happy big Rex did this to get the job done b/c it shows he wants to win and win badly. But if that’s all it took was a trip to see him personally, well shit why didn’t Rex just invite Darrelle to a 4th of July party and ink him right on the spot?  Just more piss poor contract stuff that has to be a distraction in some way with more players wanting to line their pockets with more cash, and management more then happy to do so. I have no problem with a FA doing so, but I have big problems with guys UNDER CONTRACT being spoiled brats and not doing their job and holding out. I am damn good at what I do for a living, but if I told management I wasn’t reporting for work w/o a raise I would be replaced by the end of the week!  I would rather have seen Revis come to camp put on a good smile and tell Rex he wanted a new deal by X day or else then he would not play. Even that is a bit much but at least he tells the man, I want to play , I want to be prepared to play in games, but I want the deal done. Instead, he now is behind on workouts and the season starts Sunday against the afore-mentioned stacked Ravens team. I expect to see him beat on a few occasions by Boldin or they just don’t throw his way b/c of reputation.

In other cut moves, the Cardinals cut ties with Matt Leinart this weekend as well. I don’t have as much of a problem with this b/c it just seems it was time to part ways. Leinart just wasn’t panning out in Arizona and they just grew tired of waiting. He never really took off like they wanted to and possibly the pressure for him to perform could have just been a bit too much at this stage of his career. Now, he can go to Houston and be a backup and relax a bit and see what happens. If Schaub goes down he could see some time, or possibly see some garbage time in big wins, or losses, but I would think this is more just biding time till the next off season. I would think he will possibly get a multi year deal next year (prob 2 year) from someone to be a backup, and the only way this story has a happy ending is if somehow the starter gets hurt and all of a sudden a mature Leinart emerges and does some things nicely and wins some games. Think a lesser version of the heart warming Kurt Warner story.

Next up, is the fight that happened in the stands at the US OPEN on Friday. During the Novak Djokovic-Philipp Petzschner match a heated argument between a probably hammered young guy and a too big for her britches woman, boiled over so much that it kinda came to some blows and delayed the match a bit. I have a few varying opinions on the altercation. First, as usual it gives a wonderful black eye to the reputation of us NY area fans, that even tho I have lived in NC for years, I still consider myself a NYer. Secondly, I still cannot figure out whom I think is more at fault here. Every time I tell the story of the altercation it seems the idiot kid is still more in the right here. See, first he didn’t throw any 1st punches. He gets hit by the woman and just holds himself back from hitting her (which even I wanted him to do after watching her in his face), and then he gets hit again by the old (idiot) guy, and ony then as he defended himself did the old guy fall over the seats. Was the kid a moron who wouldn’t shut the hell up? Sure. It’s common tennis etiquette to shut the hell up during the match, no matter how much money you claim to have on the match. BUT, and a big BUT here, the HUGE lesson is, if a fan ANYWHERE at ANY event is being an Ass-Hat, keep your mout shut and get security. They will handle it. NOT YOU. The kid wasn’t in anyone’s face before the woman, he wasn’t physical to anyone in the area, so no threat is imminent, so go get someone in charge. It would have saved everyone a lot of hastle. Don’t be a hero. Also I want to say HEY US OPEN what the hell took so long to get there. People on the other side of the stadium saw this shit happening and it took you 10 mins to get there? Shame on you! I won’t post any video on this b/c I don’t want to give any of these 3 morons (all who have been barred from the OPEN for an indefinite period of time) any more press then they already got.

And from the world of the NHL…. It seems the remaining free agents (and there are some to be had) are starting to take whatever is being offered to them. Mike Comrie this weekend took a league minimum 500K to play for the Penguins. Is it b/c he wants to play with Sid the Kid, and will do so at any price? Or does he just need a job and they were the only ones calling. Either way it’s a good signing for them and no matter what he puts up it will be worth the money. Also signing a small contract was vet Freddy Modinwith the Atlanta Thrashers. Modin (35) hasn’t been too productive in the recent years only netting 11 points in 44 games last year for the Blue Jackets and Kings. Official numbers on the deal are not yet out but rumors flying around have it in the 1.1 mil range but the official word should be out this week. This isn’t a great deal by any means, but Atlanta has done this same thing most every year  (see Kozlov in the past) and it usually works out well for them. They tend to get good production out of old guys, while using them to help the youth in the locker room.

In Baseball news, and honestly at this point of the year with football starting most of us just don’t care, some of the races are all but sewn up and maybeone other will come down to the wire. The only real race right now is the NL east, where the Phillies trail the Braves by a game and a half and the loser will more then likely beat out the Giants for the Wild Card. The AL wild card is pretty much in the bag for the Rays, who have a 6 game lead on both the Sox’s and barring a collapse should be able to hold onto that lead with only 25 games left in the season. Which all this, well no one cares. B/c once again I will say baseball is getting to be a joke with the salaries and the have’s being able to get anyone they want. People are going to start tuning out till the MLB gets their ass in gear. Bring on football!!!!

Oh and lastly…The god-damn Mets still suck.

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