The Kansas City Royals are on the verge of taking two consecutive games from the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. I’m not panicking yet. I am, however, happy that the Royals are doing well. I like young teams. I also love Joey Gathright. Matt, you can proceed to pick up the pieces of your brain that just exploded from your cranium at my last statement.

Also, in regards to Senor Minton, you can read his response to my Jack Cust diatribe yesterday. I have only one comment in regards to his comment (go read his now before you read my response…go ahead….do it….ready?):

STATING THAT THE REASON WHY JACK CUST’S PRODUCTION NUMBERS WERE NOT AS GOOD AS POLANCO’S (SPEAKING ONLY ABOUT RUNS SCORED) WAS BECAUSE OF HIS PLACEMENT IN A BAD LINEUP MAKES ME LAUGH. THE ATHLETICS LINEUP IS CONSTRUCTED USING THE PRINCIPLES OF SABERMETRICS! SO THEIR SABERMETRIC-CENTRIC PLAYERS ARE BAD, WHICH MEANS THEIR SABERMETRIC-CENTRIC OVERBLOWN BLOWHARD GENERAL MANAGER IS BAD. I HOPE BILL JAMES GETS HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A SNOW SHOVEL!

(Please do not read this as a criticism of Matthew M. Minton. I love Matthew dearly. I just don’t love Matthew’s baseball philosophies, because I find them to be wrong. He feels the same about my baseball philosophies).

I mentioned earlier in the week that I would have my own personal awards for the NCAA tournament. Here they are:

-Most Outstanding Player East Region: Danny Green (North Carolina). As much as I hate him, he’s such an X Factor
-Most Outstanding Player Midwest Region: Stephen Curry (Davidson). Quite simply, the greatest four round performance by a single player on a team that is really bad without him. Davidson isn’t a CBI team without Stephen Curry. I love him and can’t wait for next season when he continues to get the press he deserves.
-The “I Told You So Award (Version 1): For that time over a month ago when I said in a Game O’ The Day piece “…you will be hearing about him (Curry) a lot come March.
-Most Outstanding Player South Region: Derrick Rose (Memphis). If he isn’t the first pick in the NBA draft, the team with the first pick should be demoted to the NBDL in favor of some team from Austin, Texas. Remember folks, Michael Beasley < Derrick Rose.
-Most Outstanding Player West Region: Kevin Love (UCLA). He finishes second to Psycho T for Player of the Year. Remember folk, Michael Beasley < Kevin Love.
-The “I Told You So” Award (Version 2): For that time many months ago when I picked 3 of the Final Four teams correctly.
-The “I’m a Jackass Who Knows Nothing” Award: Jason Botelho (Mid-Atlantic Bias) for putting USC into my Final Four before Round 1, right next to Duke.
-The “I Won’t Be Here For Long” Award (Coach Edition): Darrin Horn (Western Kentucky). He may be a Western Kentucky alum, but success breeds money. And The University of South Carolina has more of that than Western Kentucky.
-The “I’m Going to Parlay My Success Into a Really Bad NBA Career” Award: DJ Augustin (Texas). He’ll go pro. Get drafted in the top 15. Not pan out. Play in Europe in 5 years.
-The “I’m Going to Parlay My Non-Success Into No NBA Career” Award: Chris Lofton (Tennessee). He struggled against Louisville. He struggled against Butler. He even struggled against American. As a general rule, if you can’t hit 3’s against guys who live in the same building as me, you’re not going to succeed in the NBA.
-The Greatest Commercial Ever Award: Nike’s spots featuring assorted athletes and children commenting on their quick and their fast. If the Big 10 can have it’s own network, these commercials should be able to as well.
-The “I Won’t Be Here For Long” Award (Player Edition): Joe Alexander (West Virginia). Don’t do it, Joe. If you do, you’ll take DJ Augustin’s award away from him (and he’ll need awards, because he’ll never win one in the pros).
-The “We Didn’t Really Feel Like Showing Up” Award: UConn. Really? You couldn’t be The San Diego Terreros? Hasheem Thabeet…we hardly knew ye’.

Tomorrow, I will ramble some more about sports.

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