Gaines Adams passed away yesterday.  Of course it’s always sad when someone dies but it starts to affect you more when it’s guys who are around your age.  I always looked up to professional athletes as heroes because they were so much older than me but now these guys are my age and even younger.  No one deserves to die at such an early age.  There’s nothing else to say really except our condolences here go out to the Adams family and all his friends and loved ones.

Jersey Shore Power Rankings

After being treated to a night of back-to-back episodes of Jersey Shore, we’ve had a major shakeup in the Jersey Shore Power Rankings. Will the Situation drop after a dreadful performance? Do we have a surprise leader of the pack?

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It’s all about the GTL. Gym. Tanning. Laundry. This will be my 2010 New Year’s Resolution.
On that note, there will BACK to BACK Jersey Shore episodes tonight. Clear your schedules. Immediately.

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An interesting debate sparked today after it was announced that Charles Woodson won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award.  Some WtP guys thought that New York’s own Darrelle Revis should’ve won but a few guys actually came to Woodson’s defense.  Here’s how it went (it goes without saying that mature language is used):

David Im: Charles woodson wins defensive player of the year. Revis snubbed?

Young: hell no. charles woodson deserved that award hands down.

Anderson: Revis def. got snubbed.

Eden: woodson had the numbers to back it up

Young: how is this even being debated??

Woodson

Tackles – 74
Solo – 66
Forced Fumbles – 4
Interceptions – 9 for 179 yds with 3 tds
Sacks – 2.0
Stuffs – 9 for a loss of 13 yds

Revis
Tackles – 54
Solo – 47
No sacks, no stuffs,
Forced Fumbles = 0
Interceptions – 6 for 121 yds with 1 td

Woodson’s meant just as much to that packer defense as Revis has meant to the Jets. And what he did vs the Cowboys was shut em down like they aint pay their bills.

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Quick thoughts since I’m on a time budget here:

• Ronnie should try out for the UFC/The Ultimate Fighter. Sure, he’s 5′4″, but did you see him destroy that guy last night on the boardwalk? Did a swim move on the guy’s girlfriend, threw a great strike, landed a knee, and was immediately in a full mount on the guy. After that it was all ground-n-pound for the TKO.

Brock Lesner, watch your back!

• Pauly D might be the funniest guy there.

• It’s almost too perfect that “g-word” on the prowl is referred to as “creeping.” When Ronnie was (temporarily)done with Sammi and wanted to hook up with another girl, they were commenting on his “creep look.” Not that girls might find that same look to be “creepy.”

• Does it seem like the only people getting “smushed” in the house is “Rammi”? Snooki struck out again (and then later struck in the face again). Situation was attacked by hippos.

• I thought Vinny’s (Immediate? Extended?) family were perfect guests. They cleaned and cooked a feast and were promptly out of the way without any drama. And his mom was a sweet woman.

Pauly D put it best: “They can come every week.”

I’m sorry to all of the 397 baseball writers that did vote for Roberto Alomar’s induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.  For the others that didn’t vote him in, HOW DARE YOU!!   Were you even watching the same game throughout the 90’s as me?

Because the only reason he’s not in is because of a certain incident with John Hirschbeck.  He asked for the news and Alomar gave him the weather. I’m not condoning spitting on people, but Alomar was already punished for that incident (suspension), crucified by the media, and has made up with Mr. Hirschbeck.  If the guy was spit on has forgiven him and moved on, why don’t you as well?

Because there’s no other reason he wasn’t inducted.  Based purely on his creditionals, statistics, and accomplishments, Alomar was a shoo-in.  The only reason he’s not in is because of this ugly incident.  There are no allegations of PED’s like with McGuire and soon to be Bonds and Clemens.  He didn’t bet on games (Rose).  And he wasn’t a closer.  So why isn’t he in?

Sure, he’ll be a H.O.F.-er soon.  If not next year, then maybe the year after that.  But your subjective, morally-ambiguous criterion in which baseball players are chosen is antiquated and misguided at best.  I’m very disappointed in you all over this incident and it’s only going to get worse with the PED witchhunts coming up in the near future.

Good job, assholes.

I’m sorry Omar Minaya, but you’re willing to spend $66M on a 31 year old outfielder who plays sub-par defense in the black hole known as the Citi Field outfield but you’re seriously not interested my man Chien-Ming Wang?

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Our Jason Bay e-mail thread from yesterday got a little testy when Dave (a Mets fan) brought up Joe Mauer going to the Yankees.  What happened?  Well we just find out that Met fans are just plain bitter.  See for yourselves (and as usual, there is some strong language).

Dave: yes i think mauer is going to leave minnesota. i liken his situation to lebron’s situation. joe mauer is an absolute stud (hopefully he stays health) if mlb had a salary cap everybody would be clearing space to make room to sign mauer. but unlike the knicks with lebron the yankees by far give mauer the best shot at winning multiple world series and with the future core of the yanks looking to be cc, teix, arod, and granderson, i think mauer completes that quintuplet. i believe mauer will be the next “true” yankee and will be the next captain of the new york yankees after jeter retires.

Eden: that just gave me goosebumps.

Young: concur

Illinois Dave: Damn that’s so sad that a met fan just wrote that. How we aren’t even in the DISCUSSION when we don’t even have a servicable catcher. We have omir fucking santos. I’d take cervelli over him. How much u wanna bet we are gonna end up giving benji a 4 year deal

Young: HAHHAH DAVE. Immy, please post that exchange. lol

Illinois Dave: Yo fuck u

Eden: hahahahaha!!!

Dave: hahaha.

well. my thinking is we’re only offering molina a 1 year deal so we can get in on the mauer sweepstakes next year but #1 if the yanks and mets got in a bidding war the yanks would win #2 if you could pick between the mets and the yankees why the fuck would you pick the mets. would you rather ride a float down the canyon of heroes with jay z or get made fun of on conan obrien along with mr. met. and what have the mets done in the past 10 years to show we should be taken seriously. we made it to the world series in 2000 but it was pretty clear the yankees would destroy us. we only lose in spectacular fashion. i’m beginning to think we should just run our franchise like the twins, a’s, marlins, etc. and maybe resign a young star player to a lucrative contract when he becomes a free agent.

We’re all friends here at Writing the Pine. We e-mail each other constantly about everything whether it be about sports, work, going to Vegas, girls, whatever. There’s always a thread going on. From time to time we’ll post some of the threads because if we were as active on our blog as we were on our e-mail threads, then there wouldn’t be days (weeks) that go by without a post. (Sorry, that’ll be improved on in 2010. A WtP resolution if you will.) The big news of the day was Jason Bay signing with the New York Mets so here’s an unedited reproduction of what was said on that…

CAUTION: STRONG LANGUAGE IS USED AT TIMES

Rich (aka fivetoolplayer): JASON BAY
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/sports/baseball/30mets.html?ref=sports

Eden (aka Pinesol): congrats mets fans yall made a move!

Young (aka Young): the contract is stilll undisclosed i believe.

any takers on the contract the mets gave him? 9 years 180 million? when he was only asking for 5?

lol.

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