A few things...

Where do you guys get your sports info from? I would assume most would say ESPN, but that's not really the case for me. I'd say I get about 80 percent of my sports news from AOL Fanhouse, 10 percent from ESPN News, and the other 10 percent from everywhere else. I love Fanhouse (it's the first place I go every morning), which is why I was so dismayed when I logged on Sunday and saw this across the banner:


a) AOL Sports and Fanhouse are two different sites. If Mariotti writes on AOL, fine, whatever, no one reads that site anyways. But if he's at Fanhouse....yuck. That would be the worst. I guess by the time most people read this post, we'll have our answer since his first column will appear today. 

b) Jay's first column will supposedly address his Sun-Times departure, so that should be fun. I can say with absolute certainty that everyone at the paper hates his guts - not only are his sports opinions wack but he was also an insufferable douche to everyone there that had to deal with him. (Olsen, do you still have those old emails saved? I would love to post those here).

c) Kevin raised a good question on SportsProse:

I wonder if he'll accept comments on his Fanhouse article. He would never let the Sun-Times attach reader comments to his articles.

I would think that if he's writing on Fanhouse, comments are inevitable. I guess that would be the one saving grace. While I was at work yesterday, one of the copy editors was talking about how he couldn't wait to rip him apart in the comments section. So yeah: we neeeeeed comments on these columns. That would just be too much fun.

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Simmons is done but Stompy is still alive

Congrats on the 4-0 start there, brah. I was a crumby 1-3, but I made those picks in the midst of a four day bender, so I think they come with an asterisk on them or something. There are some sweet games next week (Giants-Eagles is the one I'd stay away from if I were actually gambling. That game is a fucking coin flip, in my opinion), and I guarantee I'll bounce back strong. I'm actually usually pretty good picking games against the spread - I don't gamble on sports anymore at all, but I've won a shitload of money in my life doing it - so I'm pinning that 1-3 record solely on substance abuse.

(By the way, we need to come up with a name for what happened to me Sunday. I woke up at my buddy's apartment around noon, still absolutely hammered from the night before. There was no way I could have been able to drive a car at that point, I was completely, 100 percent still fucked up. I got dropped off at my apartment and proceeded to sleep until 3 when a phone call from my mother woke me up.  And yeah: still drunk, somehow. So then I spent the rest of my Sunday going from drunk to hung over, which may actually be the worst thing in the entire world.

What do you call it when you feel that transformation? It needs a name. You would have thought John Daly would have thought of one years ago.

Also: should I be ashamed or proud of that story? I'm either an animal or a huge puss, but I can't decide which.)

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White Sox things

1. At this point, I can usually decide right away if a baseball rumor is b.s. or not immediately. And, thankfully, it appears this Gavin Floyd-for-Brian Roberts deal is just that, as I originally suspected. Sox Machine has a good breakdown of why it didn't make any sense anyways.

2. TradeRumors reported that the Giants are interested in reuniting Joe Crede with Aaron Rowand, which would certainly make SanFran my new favorite N.L. team. But if the Giants are only offering one-year, well, why wouldn't the Sox make a push to resign Crede? It has long been assumed that Crede's White Sox days are over, but if he's willing to take a one-year deal, hell, bring him back! 

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It's over already: this post by my boy (and former TTCS hero of the underground) Freddy is the best of 2009. Case closed. Fucking hysterical, Fred. 

One more thing: I haven't spent too much time with it yet, but I think I'm feeling the new ESPN dot com.