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Fantasy Baseball: Hot Streak Report (May 12th)

Fantasy Baseball: Major Slump Report (May 12th) Bleacher Report

Fantasy Baseball Pitchers: Top Guns Report (May 12th) Bleacher ...

The Ultimate Fighter Season 11: Episode Seven Recap‎

Dallas Braden's Perfect Game: Longoria's Code Violation Bleacher ...

2010 Fantasy Football Outlook: San Francisco 49ers Bleacher Report

Fantasy Baseball: Major Slump Report (May 12th)

These guys gave fantasy owners headaches all week. Regardless of their name recognition, some these headliners will be riding the pine on fantasy teams if they can’t turn in some better production. Week Five of the baseball season was simply not a good one for the following ballplayers.

1. Carlos Pena, 1B, TB The Tampa Bay first baseman was only 1-for-27 for a .037 batting average last week …

Read more on Bleacher Report

Reel Sports: Hoosiers

Reel Sports: Hoosiers

Cast: Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, and Barbara Hershey

The Los Angeles Times considered this flick "The best sports movie ever made" at the time of it's release. It was also nominated for two Oscars.

The movie starts out with Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) at the school and eventually meeting a not so sweet female teacher.

Dale makes it out to the court and puts the acting coach in his place, which is off the team. This scene I think the writer intended to let us know that Dale doesn't take any flack and means business.

Of course the players don't accept Dale and rebel at first. This causes the team to perform poorly and turning the fans against the coach.

Dale's checkered past about his suspension due to behavioral issues comes to light. The checkered past turns out to be petty stuff.

The drunk made assistant coach was a nice sub-plot.

The small town residents apparently breaths high school basketball. I started thinking Friday Night Lights and We Are Marshall when the town meeting scene took place. This must be a formula to get the audience behind the main character.

The prodigy player eventually joins the team and well most of you know how it ends. They win the championship in dramatic fashion of course.

The movie was pretty good. It was harder for me to get really into it since I'm not the biggest basketball fan.

Fantasy Baseball: Yawkey Way Wicked Awesome

Yesterday I was shopping Dallas Braden and a slumping Wandy Rodriguez to trade for Jacoby Ellsbury or Rollins who are on the DL.

Today is a totally different story. As I was watching the Red Sox take on the Yankees they started talking about Dallas Braden. I then learned that he pitched a perfect game today against the Tampa Bay Rays. Looks like I might be holding on to him awhile longer. I would consider selling him high and play off his perfect game.

Thank You Dallas Braden for helping me win my match-up this week.

Red Sox vs Yankees

I watched the last two slaughter games in horror. I started to think that the Red Sox's spark from 2004 had finally run it's course.

For the third game, the Red Sox thankfully took it to AJ Burnett. Ortiz actually put the ball in play and even better it ended up in the stands. Okay it ended up in the stands after a bounce.

UFC Machida-Shogun 2

I am very happy with the outcome of the main event. Shogun deserves the championship and exposed some of Machida's weaknesses. I never thought Machida was a very entertaining fighter.

The Paul Daley incident where he sucker punched Josh Koscheck was completely uncalled for. Dana White announced today that Daley would never be back in the UFC regardless of his status in the sport. For the record, I don't like Josh Koscheck as the person he appears to be on television.

Kimbo Slice's run with the UFC is likely over after his disappointing lost to Mitrione.

Combatsoup.com

Look for my weekly Ultimate Fighter Season 11 Episode Six Recap article.

NFL Soup.com

Check out my article on the fantasy outlook for the San Francisco 49ers.

Yawkey Way's Wicked Awesome No.1

Fantasy Baseball: Yawkey Way’s Wicked Awesome


The 2010 baseball season is under way and I am as excited as opening day. My fantasy baseball team, Yawkey Way’s Wicked Awesome, is currently tied for first place.

I am going with power on the batting side and a huge pitching staff that includes the nine allotted hurlers with the addition of four bench pitchers. Looks like my strategy is paying off thus far, but it’s still early in the season.

MLB Soup.com


I sent in my weekly articles focusing on the stellar performances from hitters and pitchers for the past week titled Hot Streak Report and Top Guns. There is also a piece spotlighting those who aren’t contributing to their teams appropriately named Major Slump Report.

I am preparing for my first monthly installment of MLB Rock Stars of April article. Keeping with the others I’ve written, this series will focus on the top producers for each position each month.

Combatsoup.com


I haven’t written my The Ultimate Fighter Season 11 recap. I’ve done this recap since the season started but I’ve been crazy busy this week with my mother-in-law’s wedding this Saturday.

Wedding


I have been tasked by my mother-in-law to provide the music for her ceremony and photography. The photos will be a piece of wedding cake but the music may be tougher.

I received the list of the songs she wants me to play about a week ago not giving me a lot of time to prepare.

I don’t believe I’ve mentioned that I am going to be playing the six-string and singing at this wedding. That’s the way I prefer to address it rather than simply being the “Wedding Singer”. Being a kid who played in a pop-punk band when I was younger, the term “Wedding Singer” has a negative connotation. The Wedding Singer was good movie though.

That leads me to my mission for the next few weeks.


Reel Sports

I plan on watching all of the best sports movies and comprise an all-time list for an article.

The first movie will be The Natural starring Robert Redford.