A name for the 2011 Braves manager? How about Sam Perlozzo. Good baseball guy, been around the game a while and is well respected, and could bring best-bud Leo Mazzone with him. Perlozzo never approached .500 with the Orioles, but who would have with the team he had in that division. I think the guy deserves another shot with a better team - why not Atlanta?
I know the pre-season polls will never go away because of dollars, but the thought process voters have really bothers me. How is unbeaten Houston ranked behind Oklahoma State? Or Florida State 5 spots behind BYU? Just watch the games and then rank the teams each week. Voters get too caught up in their pre-season poll and are scared to move teams too drastically up or down their poll. How is Miami only 13th in the USA today poll? Have they not been as impressive as anyone? I don't think that just because you beat someone you should be ranked ahead of them (Washington), but if you are unbeated (Houston) or bitch-slap another team at their field (FSU), you should be ranked ahead of them.
Most intriguing game of the day is easily Miami-Virginia Tech. Winner will be the clear favorite in the ACC Coastal division, especially if Miami wins. Virginia Tech is an underdog at home in a conference game, quite the rarity...
Least intriguing game of the day is Purdue-Notre Dame. I would rather watch a Sun Belt game than this one...
Big baseball news this week as Aroldis Chapman was declared a free agent. I am sure the Yanks/Red Sox/Mets will have quite the bidding was for the flame throwing Cuban. However, the more I read about him from has me thinking he is a head-case just like Jose Contreras. Hopefully the Yanks will ink him to a 40 million dollar deal and make him the highest paid middle reliever in the game...
Very pumped for Birds-Pats tomorrow. A win would firmly place the Birds back on the national scene as a respected contender. Then, we will have 2 weeks to enjoy the 3-0 start with a Bye in week 4.
Tough luck for Matt Grothe of South Florida. He helped bring USF on the national scene in 2007 and has been the QB for the Bulls and led them to a bowl victory and ever since. One of the goals of the USF program when they went to Division 1 was to play the Big 3 Florida teams and eventually be on par with them. This year is Grothe's senior year, and USF finally gets FSU on the schedule. However, Grothe tore his ACL last week and is now done for the year...
Top 25 teams to lose today...Washington, UNC, Houston, TCU, and VT.
Dawgs win 31-24...
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