The past few days I have been seeing a lot of stories in the paper and segments on t.v. showing the best sport moments in the past year. So I thought I would share my favorite sport memory. I thought long and hard about the baseball season and the Cubs, but couldn’t think of many great memories. When I thought about the Cubs things that came to my mind were:
1. The Milton Bradley Saga
2. Kevin Gregg blowing save after save. One specific night comes into mind when I was at Champs with TBO and Sexy Rexy and the Cubs game was on. Gregg came in against his former team for the save and before I could blink the game was over and we lost.
3. Carlos Marmol getting himself in trouble by not being able to find the plate. He would walk batter after batter. I hope this whole off-season he is somewhere just pitching trying to get the ball with his movement over the plate.
4. Kerry Wood coming to Chicago and helping the Cubbies out by blowing some saves.
5. Soriano looking like age is catching up with him and his timing being a mess at the plate.
Hopefully the 2010 baseball season will bring me more positive memories for the cubs. I would have thought my best sports memory would be from the Cubs, but this was a bad and ugly season at times, so I had to think elsewhere. After the cubs I thought about the Bulls and Bears. The Bears had an uglier season than the Cubs, but the Bulls had some bright spots.
In 2009 the Chicago Bulls got lucky and had the number one draft pick in the NBA lottery. Instead of drafting Michael Beasley they choose Chicago native Derrick Rose. Even though I don’t know if he will ever be as good as Rajon Rondo or Chris Paul like some thought/think, he was the better choice. The Bulls were able to trade Larry Hughs and bring in John Salmons and Brad Miller that sparked the bulls. Even though it is still 2009 and they both look terrible, last season they were the spark plug that jumped the Bulls to make the playoffs and have an incredible run in the playoffs. So if you’re still reading this and a Bulls fan, then you may agree with me that the Bulls/Celtics series was incredible. That was some of the best basketball I have seen since the Jordan era and that was one incredibly fun series. Even though if they did have Kevin Garnet we probably wouldn’t of had a chance, but they didn’t, and that was some fun basketball with almost every game going down to the wire. So that series is my favorite sports memory in 2009.
Here is a clip of that Bulls Celtics series:
Watching it again makes me remember how much fun I had watching each game and where I was for most of those games.
What was your favorite sports memory for 2009?
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Chicago Cubs Free Agents
Now that the World Series is over and baseball season is officially over it is time to think about next season. Players have until 15 days after the season (World Series) ends to file for free agency. During those 15 days the clubs can exclusively talk to their free agents to be. The Cubs free agents are Reed Johnson, John Grabow, Rich Harden, Kevin Gregg, and the often injured Chad Fox.
Out of the Cubs five free agents Reed Johnson, Rich Harden, and Kevin Gregg seem to be gone. The Cubs don’t have any interest in Reed Johnson because of his bad back and even though he seems to be healthy now, they just don’t seem to like him. Even when he was healthy, Lou seemed to not play him much. Rich Harden was injured way too much and bad towards the end of the season. The Cubs have many other options internally and want to move on from an injury prone pitcher who barley can go 5 innings in every start. They want to find a more durable pitcher who can go deeper into games. Kevin Gregg was terrible and they have better internal options at closer.
That leaves John Grabow and Chad Fox. John Grabow they seem to like even though he walks a lot of batters. Even though many left handed pitchers walks a lot of batters, so it is hard to find someone who doesn’t. They need a dependable left handed pitcher and Grabow was that guy while he was in Chicago since being traded from the Pirates before the trade deadline. I am not a big John Grabow fan and would like them see go after other players for the money they would have to sign him for. Chad Fox they keep singing to minor league deals. So even though his career seems to be done, they have signed him to minor league deals after I said that before so who knows. I like Reed Johnson and he is the only free agent the Cubs have I would like to see them re-sing.
Out of the Cubs five free agents Reed Johnson, Rich Harden, and Kevin Gregg seem to be gone. The Cubs don’t have any interest in Reed Johnson because of his bad back and even though he seems to be healthy now, they just don’t seem to like him. Even when he was healthy, Lou seemed to not play him much. Rich Harden was injured way too much and bad towards the end of the season. The Cubs have many other options internally and want to move on from an injury prone pitcher who barley can go 5 innings in every start. They want to find a more durable pitcher who can go deeper into games. Kevin Gregg was terrible and they have better internal options at closer.
That leaves John Grabow and Chad Fox. John Grabow they seem to like even though he walks a lot of batters. Even though many left handed pitchers walks a lot of batters, so it is hard to find someone who doesn’t. They need a dependable left handed pitcher and Grabow was that guy while he was in Chicago since being traded from the Pirates before the trade deadline. I am not a big John Grabow fan and would like them see go after other players for the money they would have to sign him for. Chad Fox they keep singing to minor league deals. So even though his career seems to be done, they have signed him to minor league deals after I said that before so who knows. I like Reed Johnson and he is the only free agent the Cubs have I would like to see them re-sing.
The New Style
There seems to be a new trend growing in major league baseball, or at least in the Chicago Cubs bullpen. That is the new style of wearing glasses while pitching. Angel Guzman came off the DL the other day and now he has glasses instead of contacts. He said that he went to the eye doctor and he sees the catcher signaling the sings a lot better while wearing glasses over contacts. Most people believe the opposite and say you have better eye sight with contacts over glasses. Now the Cubs relievers have two/three players who wear glasses. They are Kevin Gregg, Angel Guzman, and Jose Ascanio who is currently in the minors even though he was effective in the majors. I know there are a few other relief pitchers who wear glasses like K-Rod. I wonder if this trend will keep on growing. I would think glasses would just get in the way. It would be interesting to know the exact number of players who wear glasses. To my knowledge there is only one position player who wear glasses and that is Brian McCann because he had a severe eye problem at the start of the season. You would think a catcher wearing glasses would just get in the way.
