Be Nasty Update

By GM Be Nasty
Special to Bleeding Sports

I would also like to report that Be Nasty made it home safe and sound last night after walking home from the bar where he witnessed the UConn debacle. His 40-minute journey on the mean streets of Boston involved various expletive laden phone calls and probably woke up every person on Beacon Street. Be Nasty says Fenway Park is lucky that it didn't experience his wrath of destruction or that cesspool would have seen a very similar fate as this stadium.

Down Goes Philly! Down goes Philly!

Great job Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb. Once again you showed your ineptitude in the playoffs. You proved that "You are what we thought you were".

Long live the Junior Varsity Bills!

1-4 in the NFC Championship game and 0-1 in the Super Bowl.

Keep puking in the huddle Donovan.

Boston College Wins College Hockey Championship

We like to apologize for our lack of post-game coverage because Be Nasty decided to watch the game on campus while enjoying Sam Summer's, highlight parties, John Oates, and watching others play individual games of slap the bag.

Moving on:

After two straight years of disappointing performances in the National Championship game, BC proved that the Third Tynes a charm (thank you Lawrence Tynes) after they defeated Notre Dame 4-1 to reach the summit of NCAA hockey. Nathan Gerbe was a man on a mission against Notre Dame, scoring BC's first two goals and tallying assists on the other two. He took the team on his back during its National Championship run with an incredible 7-goal and 11-point performance.

Gerbe Records Hat Trick in 6-1 Win

We here at Bleeding Sports pride ourselves on our analysis and full coverage of every top flight sporting event. Our very own correspondent Be Nasty took time off from his 18-hour a day Investment Banking gig to travel out to Denver and cover the NCAA hockey Frozen Four. Be Nasty even snapped a few photos to chronicle the shellacking that Nathan Gerbe and the boys from Boston College laid on those lumberjacks from North Dakota.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

A Message from the Bleeding Sports GM to his beloved New York Yankees:

It is time to grow up, show some guts, play like men and not little leaguers. If you are satisfied with being the laughing stock of Major League Baseball then get off this team. If you sit there in the dugout laugh and tell jokes when losing in the 9th GO HOME. It is time to sack up and stop playing like pathetic bums who drop their heads when they go down one run. Show some fire, get that glare in your eye that says "I am not afraid of you, you can't stop me BRING IT ON". Stop crying like Bobby Abreu after he gets a strike show everyone that you care and win some games. You dug yourself a huge hole in the AL East and today is the day to start the comeback if you still want to salvage the season. If not everyone will be forced to start thinking about the Eli Manning face and that gives me nightmares. So lets go and end this garbage before it is too late. MAN UP NOW!!

Cano's Strike Zone

The Bleeding Sports GM is a rapid Yankee fan and an avid reader of Nomaas.org, which is where he found this little nugget...

This is a regulation strike zone:

This is Robinson Cano's strike zone:

.250 BA / .296 OBP / .339 SLG / .635 OPS

Yankees Still the Team to Beat in AL East

Special by The Bleeding Sports resident GM

I am sick and tired of these baseball idiots year after year saying the Yankees will miss the playoffs then switch over to the National League and pick the Braves every year because "You can't pick against them until they don't make it". The Yankees haven't missed the playoffs since 1993 (1994 was a strike year and they would have won the World Series) but every year since 2001 was supposed to be the year the Yankees miss the playoffs and the Red Sox win the division. Well that hasn't happened my friends because every year those idiots in Boston choke around the All-Star game and the Yankees over take them en route to another AL East Division title.

This year is no different with everyone picking the Red Sox on the basis of a pitcher from Japan who hasn't thrown a pitch in the major leagues let alone in the toughest division. I agree, however, that this could be the year the Red Sox win the division because of their starting pitching but don't even try to explain to me that their overall staff is so much better than the Yankees. Yes the Yankees have question marks in Mussina and Pettitte regarding their age and durability especially since Pettitte already has a stiff back and had elbow surgery in the past, but the Red Sox have these problems as well. Schilling and Wakefield, for example, are both 40 years old and have missed time the last few seasons due to injury. Wakefield was put on the DL last season and missed a month and a half because of back and rib cage injuries. Schilling is FAT and out of shape so who says this can't be the year he starts to show his age and hurts his ankle again due to his obesity.

The quality of each team's starting rotation becomes more apparent when you look at the other members of the staff:

Beckett vs. Wang - Red Sox have a very slight edge here for now because Wang will miss the first three weeks of the season because of a grade 1 hamstring strain and even though Beckett had a 5.00+ ERA last year he should be better than that his second time around. Wang, however, has a devastating 94 mph sinker that is un-hittable when he has his good stuff, he just needs to stay healthy.

Dice-K vs. Michael Kay Igawa - Dice-K has the edge here in the unknown of Japanese pitchers (reference Hideki Irabu, Hideo Nomo). All the scouts say that he is a front end of the rotation guy while Igawa is kind of a soft tossing lefty who might struggle to get his fastball by major league hitters.

Pavano (Clemens) vs. Tavarez or Lester - This is a toss up, Tavarez is an ace at punching walls and Lester is coming off chemotherapy so he wont make his '07 debut until the end of April or early May. I will not even address Pavano and his fake injuries and his crybaby attitude that the media created his problems in the clubhouse, but you better pitch well opening day or you will be utterly HATED by all Yankee fans.