the rose bowl

I realize that the rose bowl has already started but im going to write a little about the two twams and why i might like them to win.
wisconsin
They are playing better than almost every team out there right now. They have been missing their best runner for a few games but he is back for this game. while he was gone other guys have stepped up now and this is one of the best running games out there. Because they have such an established run their quarterback gets overlooked and gets good oppertunities with play action. They are going to be a tough team to beat.
tcu
They have a great quarterback who has done very well this year but last year in their bowl game against boise state he threw a lot of interceptions. This shows that maybe he cant handle tough situations. The rose bowl against a very good team isnt going to be am easy situation. I hate that im being a downer on this team because i want thrm to prove thrmselves. I just dont think this is their year and game.
my pick
wisc-35 tcu-30

The Legend of Hester

This past week Devin Hester set the record for most kickoff and punt returns. The greatest thing about it was that the kickoff before he almost ran it back and everyone was like wow he almost broke the record right there. Then the Vikings got the ball back and had to punt and then Hester broke the record. He had a great day. He only got kicked to twice and both of those runbacks were terrific. One of them was a touchdown and the other was almost a touchdown. That is just the ending of the story the beginning is much better.
Devin Hester came into the league during one of the best years the Bears have had since 1985. He actually was someone who helped the team achieve that greatness. During the "They are who we thought they were" game he was a major factor in the slick win. The whole year he was a great player and helped the team. He set the record for most returns by a rookie with no problem and then set the record for anyone in a single season. He ran back the opening kickoff of the super bowl, even though it didn't help the Bears a lot because they lost. Then he had his second year and he was slowed down because people realized they shouldn't kick to him. He still had a lot of returns, but not as many. The year after that he was taken off of the kickoff return and moved to receiver. He only returned punts after that, but he remained fantastic even though a lot of teams didn't kick to him. The year after that is this year. In a game against the Redskins Lovie threw in the surprise of him back at kickoff. He ran that one back a long way. Now Lovie has two players who return, making it almost impossible to anticipate what you are facing until the play actually starts. This probably helps Hester a little because it will catch everyone off guard. He is a factor again this year.
This year is looking a lot like the 2006 season. We are winning games and winning because of our defense and special teams. In 2006 a lot of our touchdowns and reasons why we were great was because of Hester and this year we are winning games thanks to him again. He is a major part of our team that we would be lost without. He is probably the greatest return man of all time. Usually a return man has a couple good years and then everyone figures him out and he is a goner. I don't think anyone has really figured Hester out. He just always returns well. I don't know why, but something about him makes it seem like he is superman and nobody can beat him. I don't think you can get any better than Hester. He is the Michael Jordan of returning. He came along, changed the game. He is huge for the team and is clutch. The greatest thing about Michael Jordan is that nobody will ever match what he done. The same goes for Devin Hester what he does and what he has done will never be matched. He should definitely be a Hall of Famer.

White Sox Offseason Pickups

The White Sox have made a few really good offseason additions and keeping of people. The first thing is that they kept A.J Pierzynski (no idea how to spell that). He has been a leader of this team for years. He is one reason why our pitching moves so fast. He knows how to call a game well. Sometimes we get mad at him and those are the times where we put in Ramon Castro. But, when we need him he will be there and he will play well.
The next is that we signed Adam Dunn. During the end of last years trade deadline we were looking at him seriously, but we never ended up getting him. The fans were upset because we needed a full time DH. Now we have one because we decided to just sign him this offseason. So I guess it is true that if Kenny really wants someone he will get him. I think he will be a great addition to the team. We need that power in our lineup. Our try to become like all speed last year was a fail and we will have to face the fact that we are a power team. Adam Dunn will help us get that power along with the next guy I am going to talk about.
Paul Konerko resigned with the White Sox this offseason. This is the thing that made me the happiest. He is my favorite player and he is a major leader on this team. If he left, our team would probably fall apart for at least one year. Without him we are lost. We have no leader. Paulie was not only a leader on the field but also in the clubhouse. He is a much needed player. With him still there I think we can still call it the White Sox. Without him they are just not the same team. He is their identity. Their Derek Jeter if you will. We need him and without him you lose fans and you end up losing some games.
The final thing is something that just came up. Jesse Crain one the of the top relievers in the Twins bullpen is reportedly going to sign with the WhiteSox having just lost Bobby Jenks and having a week bullpen last year, this will be a good addition. The best part is that it is us adding a good reliever and the Twins losing one. Hopefully him and Sale (if sale is still in the bullpen) will make this a really good bullpen.
So, overall the White Sox are major winners in this offseason. I'm glad that Kenny realized we needed to make a lot of changes so that this team is a winner next year and we make it back to the playoffs. The people in Chicago really need one good team for once. Just kidding because the Hawks, Bulls, and Bears are good. I meant to say that people in Chicago really need one good baseball team for once. I know the White Sox have done their part by winning the world series, but the other team isn't doing their part so we have to take theirs also. (sorry but I just had to do it cubs)

Bears

Another blog about the Bears is coming your way. I'm sure if you are one of the people who reads this blog and isn't a Chicago sports fan you are getting tired of me talk about the Bears or the Bulls or the Blackhawks, but frankly thats what I have the most knowledge on. As I am writing this I am thinking that I should probably be doing a White Sox offseason moves and stuff blog, but I have already started this so I will have to write twice today. I guess this bad day is going to get worse. I'm just kidding when I write it relaxes me so this is good. On to the Bears instead of my psychiatric needs.
This week they play the Vikings. The last time we played them it was at home in better weather than we will be facing. It was our statement game before our real statement game. We won and it was the first game where Jay Cutler started to play smart. Playing the Vikings last time was our engine starter and hopefully this time it will be the same. We need a comeback from that New England loss, if we win and the Packers hopefully lose the division will be almost put away. We need to win this game and have a strong finish to the season. We will make the playoffs, I have no doubt. We need to make the playoffs in a strong way and have momentum behind us so we can win the first game and then just continue to be on a playoff roll. I'm not asking for a Super Bowl win but winning at least one playoff game would be nice.
So, winning this game is important to both winning the division and when we do win the division hopefully it will help us win a game in the playoffs. No matter what team we face they are going to be good and it will be hard to beat them, but we are a good team with a good defense as long as they show up. We are a good team so lets show it and prove to people that we can win, but just like the Patriots losing to the Browns we had a bad week. All teams do.

Least Favorite players

First of all I'm going to sound like a girl when I say this one thing that I hate about both of them. That is they both look like hobos. If they didn't play pro sports and you saw them on the street you might feel the need to pull out some spare change and hand it to them. That's just ridiculous. Okay now that the stupid reason is off my chest, here are some good reasons.
I'm going to start with Brady. Since the day he won a super bowl everyone has thought that he is this great quarterback. Then he got hurt and Matt Kassel took the team to the playoffs. Didn't this strike us as odd that a guy who didn't even play in college did well with that team? Apparently we were too awestruck with his fantastic looks of which he has none. He isn't that great. The reason he is good is because he gets good protection and he throws the short pass well and works his way down the field. He also has good receivers. You put him with the guys starting for the Colts this past week and there is no way he would have done as well as Peyton Manning did. I frankly remember the Colts being in the super bowl last year and not the Patriots. Now that this year the Colts are down everyone is going back to worshiping the patriots? The professional anylists are bandwagon jumpers? Well, yes its true they will go with the guy who is winning games they pay no attention to anything else. Tom Brady SUCKS. Face it. You may hate me now and never read a blog post of mine again, but thats what I believe.
Now onto Pau Gasol at the moment I don't really hate him because I haven't watched him this whole year. I don't think I really have any good reason other than he looks gross and that just makes me want to hurl. I don't like hurling while I'm watching basketball games and maybe that's why I don't like him.

Thanksgiving and the Bears

First of all I want to say Happy Thanksgiving because I won't be posting a blog when it actually is thanksgiving, tomorrow, in case you are calendar deficient. I am also going to preview the Bears game this sunday. It will be a tough game and no doubt it will be very close. So lets get at it. (very interesting wording)
Lets start with the bad thing for the Bears, the offense. Cutler has been playing well recently. He is playing smart and making really good decisions. Yet, he might crack because they are playing a tough team. Cutler is a very unique player in that he needs confidence or he throws interceptions, but if he has too much confidence he will make a mistake. He needs to find that perfect balance in order to be good. And for parts of the game against the Vikings and Dolphins he found that balance and that is why he played really good at those times. Forte and Taylor have become a bit of a dynamic duo and together have built a pretty good running game. We have built a pretty good offense as long as everyone plays as well as they can. This doesn't have to be our weak-point but so far this year it has.
Now the good thing the Bears defense. They have been really good this year. They played really well on thursday against the Dolphins. Peppers was a beast with 3 sacks and the defense had 6 sacks overall. That may have been because the Dolphins offensive line isn't the best, but the Bears pressure is still very good. We have had many interceptions in the past two weeks also, I'm too lazy to look up the stats, but I know they are good. They will be playing a very explosive player in Vick, so lets get into that.
The eagles offense will be hard to face. Vick has had a great season so far after missing three of the games. He had a great game two weeks ago and there is a chance that he could have another game like that. Like I said before our defense is good, but no matter what you do with your defense he will attack it a different way. The thing that makes Vick really good is that if your defense tries to stop him from running he will throw really well and if you try to stop him from throwing he will run on you. He is a great player and he is back. The Bears can stop him if they don't try to necessarily stop one aspect but try to stop both.
The eagles defense is a defense that I don't really know anything about. I know they are a pretty good defense. I don't know if they are good enough to get Cutler off his really good track, but they will make it tough. They might make it tough for forte and taylor to run the ball well, I'm not sure. This is the thing that I will need to pay attention to the most when I watch the game and this could make or break the game.
After looking at all this I'm going to be a homer and say the Bears win. But, if they give up the game they will lose. They could easily lose this game. The eagles are a good team and if we don't take them seriously they will beat the pants off of us. With a win this week people might take the Bears seriously for the first time this year. Bear Down.

Price vs. Hernandez

The winner of the Cy Young was announced and it was Felix Hernandez who won. He had a great season with good stats in both strikeouts and ERA. He was unlucky that he was on a bad team and did not get a lot of wins. This is the second year in a row that a Cy Young winner has been chosen without even looking at wins. Last year it was Zack Greinke and his great ERA. Felix was just plain dominant this year. In years past the wins have counted almost more than anything else. Now there has been a sudden change. I'm going to compare the top two pitchers in this race. Price finished second and a lot thought that he should have been first.
David Price
David Price had a lot of wins this year, and that is what everyone paid attention to. But, there was more to his great season this year. Even with wins excluded David Price was dominant this year. He pitched a lot of good games, and had a good team behind him. Some people say that its harder to pitch when you know that your offense won't back you up anyway. To be a good pitcher you have to be able to stay focused on what you are doing and each pitch. Anything that distracts you is tough. David Price didn't have much distracting him this year. He had a good team and they liked him and the manager and pitching coach liked him. He had it all. He was in the media, he was the starting all-star game pitcher and everyone kept saying that he would win the cy young at this point in the year. He didn't win it and some Rays fans are upset. He just didn't lead in any of the major categories. He had a lot of wins and pitched well. To be the Cy young winner you have to pitch great and that brings us to the next subject of this blog.
Felix Hernandez
As I was writing this blog I received a couple tweets about which one they thought was better. Everyone kept saying that king felix deserved to win. I believe them, because like I said it is harder to pitch with a bad team. They expect you to be a leader. Every time you pitch they expect you to go a lot of innings. Hernandez had the most innings pitched this year and he had the best ERA. Even though the managers and players and everyone on the team were pressuring him he pulled through. He definitely deserved to win this Cy Young. He was the best pitcher this year. It is good to see that the people that vote on these things have the common sense to say that it was the best and most dominant pitcher that should win this award. Felix Hernandez was definitely the pitcher who was the best at those areas. That is why he won and I agree and I applaud the voters for choosing him.

The Bears Season at a glance

The Bears season has been very interesting. From week 1 there has been controversy and disappointment and yet a win. That first game sort of outlined the season. Really weird and sloppy and the Bears not playing good or playing a good team and yet getting a win. I have a lot to say about this team and the way they have been playing. We don't deserve to have a record even close to what we have right now.
First, the offense. I'm starting with this because I think this is what needs the most work. Our defense hasn't been playing as well as in years past, but its still the stronger part of our team along with our special teams. The offense has been just plain awful this year. The offensive line hasn't been able to block any outside blitzes the whole year. They have given up so many sacks that Jay Cutler can't go through a play without being afraid for his life. So now Cutler has no confidence and you think our offensive line sucks with the pass protection, do you really think that Matt Forte is going to survive? I don't think we should blame everything on the offensive line this year, because they aren't the only ones bringing down this offense. Cutler has made his own mistakes not due to the offensive line. He still throws too many interceptions and has held onto the ball too long. He has to have the awareness of knowing when he can or cannot hold the ball or when he just has to throw it away. He tries to make every play perfect and work out exactly like the play wants it to. He needs to know when the play just isn't going to work, and throw the ball out or scrap something, but don't throw an interception. I have nothing bad to say about the running game this year. When we can't throw the ball which is often against certain teams they have stepped it up. Forte has been having another good season, so we don't need to worry about him and when Chester Taylor goes in and gives it his best and gains some pretty good yardage. Our receivers have done very well this year when they actually get the ball because Cutler usually doesn't have time. They have done very well and if the offensive line gave a little more time they would be having historic seasons. The offense as a whole has to take the blow for this last comment, though. The third down conversions are just awful. They played like 26 third downs in row without getting one. Some games I just hope they actually convert one third down. Why is this that they just can't close on third down? I don't know honestly and if someone out there reading this knows please email or tweet me. That is a mystery to me.
Now the defense. I don't really have any beefs with them. Urlacher is back and is playing like he used to before he was out all of last year. Briggs got hurt, though and that has really hurt us. The way we stop the run is the great combination of Briggs and Urlacher they are both two of the league's best linebackers and they are on the Bears. The cornerbacks have done well as usual, and safeties mostly doing well. Between the defense and the special teams they have kept this team alive. They are the reason that we have the record we do. I remember in one game the special teams had more points than the offense. That should never happen. I want to applaud the defense and what Lovie Smith and the defensive coordinator have done with it. The tampa 2 has its mistakes and we see that, but we really know how to run it and that is what makes our defense special. I guess this answers my question of why do we have such an average schedule when we are a basically awful team. The answer is that our defense and special teams cause turnovers and score points. This is on wacky season for the Bears.

Daylights Savings

CLOCKS SHOULD NEVER BE CHANGED!!!!!!!! Sometimes you get more sleep sometimes less, and I can never figure out which is which. In the fall you are like yes. finally i get 1 extra hour of sleep without having to go into work late or anything like that. And then in the spring when you have been at work basically everyday since your Christmas vacation you find out that you get 1 hour less of sleep and you are like. WHAT THE HECK?? Why am I getting less sleep just because some president thought that was a fantastic idea. Well there should be no changing of the clocks because it offsets anyway in six months. If you don't like this topic at all you can thank @CubFanMom on twitter for the help. If you love the idea you should definitely follow her because well I'm pretty sure she might be a good person.

Scary Situations in the NFL

Since it is Halloween I thought that I would write about something related to that. I am going to do the scary situations for certain teams right now in the NFL. There are about 3 teams that are having a very scary year and I will go over each of them, so here we go.
Chargers
This is probably one of the most talked about blowups of the year. We knew the Bengals might not work out and the other team was unexpected, too. They have a great quarterback who is an awesome leader, but their offense needs those key receivers like Vincent Jackson who held out and now can't play until week 12. Gates can't carry the team and be the only receiver available and he is a tight end. Their defense has been lacking. I haven't heard anything of Shawn Merriman this year. This year just started bad with that loss to the Chiefs and just continued to go downhill they have comeback a little because they are now 3-5. Still a very scary situation in San Diego.
Bengals
This is the team that we kind of expected to win and kind of expected to lose. With T.O and Ochocinco on that team, we didn't think they would have much chemisty, which they actually do. The whole team except for Palmer and Shipley is a bunch of convicts that nobody else wanted. Did we really think they were going to have a successful season? I guess some people did, because they are surprised at how bad the Bengals are playing they are 2-5 and everybody thought they would be 5-2 or a little worse. This is quite the scary situation for anybody in Cincinnati that likes the Bengals.
Cowboys
This is the team a lot of people thought would do really good things this year. They thought they had a great offense and a defense that could keep them in games. Now we see them at 1-5 and just beating themselves every single game. They can't win because they commit too many penalties. I think they would be a great team if they had better coaching. Their one weakpoint? Wade Phillips I just hate him as a coach and think he sucks. They should fire him. I don't know why they haven't already. This is a team that could do great things. I think the one thing people forgot about when they ranked this team at the beginning of the year. They forgot that their coach is terrible and that penalties can lose games for teams. All these penalties put the Cowboys in a scary situation.