180 MINUTES OF INCREDIBLE RADIO. ACTUALLY, NO I'M ON TODAY
-Welcome Deadspin Readers, your Erin Andrews post is here. Enjoy your stay.
-Perhaps the largest sports-related temper tantrum I've ever thrown took place last night. I would take the Reds bullpen right now over that bunch. If you live anywhere within the vicinity of Old Sharonville, I apologize.
-Nice win last night. Cueto was really good, and you have to give it up to the Reds bullpen, but Dusty's logic still drives me nuts...
Valentin is hitting 5-for-10 off San Diego starter Jake Peavy. Corey Patterson is 6-for-11 off Peavy. "I thought about starting Corey," Baker said. "But his last two starts would be against C.C. (Sabathia) and Peavy. That's not fair."
So after last night's win Dusty took the boys to the Whippy-Dip? Did everyone get their one at-bat and two innings in the field? Amazing.
-Are the Bengals all that much better on July 23rd than they were on December 30th? Here's my hard hitting definitive opinion....I don't know.
-In a league where your backup QB is one play from running the show, why are we so cavalier about who the Bengals backup quarterback is? Are we so set on the fact that this team is screwed no matter what if Carson goes down that we don't care who the second guy is? How would we feel if Ryan Fitzpatrick had to win a game? This is a bigger deal than people realize.
-The guy who invented the save died this week. Is that the most meaningless stat in sports? Is it the sack? Batting average? Is there a meaningless stat in hoops?
-The headline says "Brawl Marson End of Sparks' Victory." Can something no one cares about be marred?
-Sorry Buckeye fans, as long as USC keeps rolling out Song Girls like this, I'm gonna take Carson Palmer's side. Does Ohio State have an equivalent?
-Stephen A. Smith drives me nuts sometimes, but this is a good, and I think though-provoking column. Many chide today's athletes for not being very outspoken on political or social issues. Should they? We just spent two days talking about or local quarterback weighing in on a college football game. He had to apologize and retract. Imagine had he made a comment about something actually important.
