Thought #1

Yet another Major League baseball player was busted today for using performance enhancing drugs. Cincinnati pitcher Edinson Volquez will be suspended 50 games following his positive test but probably will not miss any game time since he is already on the DL.

Now Edinson does not deny taking the drug and apparently won't fight the suspension, what performance exactly he was attempting to enhance is up for debate. According to him, he was merely trying to start a family with his wife by taking a prescription he received while in his native Dominican Republic, which curiously enough, came on the heals of his rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.

Now while it's hard to knock a guy for trying to become a father, Edinson you have to be smarter than that. You a pro ball player in an the must riods sensitive era to date, you have to be smarter than to go down south and start popping a Dominican version of Extenze. No telling what's in that thing and I don't care what A-Rod's cousin told you, there is rarely such a thing as a fail proof drug from down there.

Listen, if you are going to start a family, you're going to need this gig. Diapers ain't cheap. If I were you I would double, maybe triple check next time before I started popping Dominican Viagras.

Thought #2

It looks like the Big 10 is set to roll through some neighboring conferences, picking up whatever they so desire, kind of like Hilter did Poland. While it's no secret they have been coveting Notre Dame for years now, it appears they are also targeting at least three Big East schools; Pittisburgh, Rutgers, and Syracuse. The effect this would have on the Big East isn't hard to image, there would basically be a corps left for a few vultures the size of perhaps the MAC to ravage.

Could you blame these schools though? I mean this is essentially a situation of a big bully, with plenty of cash handy, going around and building up a gang. Sure no body likes the idea of having to join the bully's gang. No body really enjoys having to sit at that certain lunch table everyday, looking hard, while wearing bandannas and various denim outfits. But it's better to be apart of that gang and sit there in your stone washeds than to be the sap taking the stack of trays to the dump line or the kid struggling to get someone to help him out of his locker.

Yeah, plenty of teams don't like this idea, but these days it's all about the bucks and teams would rather make them by joining the bully than be left broke and on the sideline.

Thought #3

Ok you can officially start planning your events for the fall. The 2010 NFL schedule has been released which means you have to get busy. Weddings, field trips, church picnics, and family fall gathers can now all be planned without the fear of missing McNabb's return to Philly, 10-3,  or the Fins taking on Sexy Rexy and the Jets, 12-12.

The biggest change to this year of course will be the fact that all week 17 games will be against divisional opponents. This is to help combat the idea that teams might sit players in order to rest them for the playoffs.

Now obviously you can't completely stop teams from doing what they want with their employees, the NFL is doing what it can, and treating teams as if a parent would treat a kid who won't eat vegetables. You can go about this two ways. You can tempt them with the promise of a post veggie dessert, ala making them play divisional games, in which teams always have a little more to play for. Or go the negative route and show them the results of not eating vegetable by showing them a picture of a kid with no arms and saying, "see, he didn't eat his carrots." Guess the NFL could just depict this by a few shots of Peyton walking off the sideline post Super Bowl this year.

Either way, this is a move in the right direction for the fans, no body wants to watch Charlie Batch play on a cold December afternoon.

Thought #4

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