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How great are keyboard guitars?

And I Thought My Photoshop Skills Were Bad

(Photo From Ole Miss Sports.Com)

The University released it's first rendering of what the new jumbotron will look like. I can really get a feel for what the stadium's going to look like now. Sadly, I can also see my season tickets in the picture.

Homer At Bat

One of the greatest Simpson's episodes ever. And since the Braves suck its more fun to talk about.

The cast of major leaguers is truly phenomenal as well. Including what happened in real life.

Looking back you had:

Pitcher: Roger Clemens. Has some of the best stats a pitcher ever accomplished. Winning 354 games and seven Cy Young awards. Sadly steroid accusations coming from the Mitchell Report have tainted many of these numbers that would other wise ensure entrance into the Hall of Fame.




Catcher: Mike Scioscia. Good catcher who had a solid career coming up big in the World Series twice. More famous for managerial career in which he won the Angels first and so far only World Series title.





1st Base: Don Mattingly. Solid hitter who had a great career but is held in higher respects thanks to being a Yankee. Hit over .300 for his career but only 222 home runs. If Fred McGriff and his instructional videos can't make the Hall Mattingly can't either. On the episode he was kicked off Burn's team for refusing to trim his side burns. Life later imitated art and he was held out of the line up after the episode for refusing to get a hair cut. Good shot at the mustache hall of fame.

2nd Base: Steve Sax. Solid for a second baseman. Five time all star but no one would confuse him with Ryne Sandberg or Jeff Kent.







3rd Base: Wade Boggs. One of the greatest third basemen ever. Career .328 hitter with 3,000 hits. In the Hall of Fame.







Short Stop: Ozzie Smith. Considered one of the greatest defensive shortstops of all time. Known more for defense but could get the timely hits. Also in theHall of Fame and still lost in the Springfield Mystery Spot.





Left Field: Darryl Strawberry. Got off to one of the greatest starts of any hitter only to have substance abuse nearly ruin his promising career.






Center Field: Ken Griffey Jr. and his grotesquely swollen jaw. Capping of an incredible career in which he's still playing and hates to be heckled. Nor do Cincinnati fans like it when you heckle him. Has hit 600 home runs on his way to the sure Hall of Fame entrance despite his frequent trips the the trainers office.




Right Field: Jose Canseco. Huge power numbers that were later attributed to steroids. Now a reality TV whore.







They tried to get a lot of the best of the best players and pick what would become a Hall of Fame line up but still in the prime of their career. Where they failed was mostly because of steroids or substance abuse either ruined or tainted the career.

If they had to do it now? Here's my guess.

Pitcher: Johan Santana
Catcher: Ivan Rodriquez
First Base: Albert Pujols
Second Base: Chase Utley
Third Base: Chipper Jones
Short Stop: Derek Jeter
Left Field: Matt Holliday
Center Field: Grady Sizemore
Right Field: Ichiro Suzuki

Manager: Mike Scioscia (For old times sake if they can drag him away from the power plant.)

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Sports are boring right now. The Braves stink other than Chipper Jones's having such a hot season he has to wear a flame retardant suit. Ole Miss did there predictable choke job. Giants are still months away. Looking forward to seeing ZZ tonight.

Why Is The SEC Baseball Tourney in Birmingham

I hope this post doesn't lead to Mike Slive tracking me down or denying Powe's case to spite me. Question I have that's been bothering me since the SEC Baseball Tournament. Why is it at the Hoover Met, err excuse me, Regions Park every year?

The place is a dump by minor league standards. Trust me I've been to a Baron's game. Its horribly out dated. It looks like a large high school stadium. (Oh wait, Hoover high actually plays their football games there.) The number of nicer single A parks is astonishing.

Meanwhile as tons of nice minor league parks have opened around the south. But instead they keep the tournament in one of the worst parks in the South. It makes as much since as Ole Miss and Mississippi State continuing to play the Mayor's trophy game in Smith Wills instead of a governor's cup in Trustmark Park. Oh wait, they switched that one up two years ago. So SEC you're officially less progressive than the state of Mississippi. That's awesome.

Its not like this is some grand tradition. The game moved around like the basketball tournament every year before 1998. Its also not like they don't have other neutral site options. I understand in football the only other domed stadium in the area was the Superdome so it made since to just go ahead and lock one location up. Granted domed stadiums suck and are pointless in the South but that's another rant for the fall.

It's also not like they are that concerned with driving since Atlanta is on one of the far sides of the conference geographically. Birmingham is centralized, but not anymore than other parts of Alabama or even Tennessee and Mississippi. But you have double AA sized stadiums in Huntsville, AL; Jackson, TN; Pearl, MS; Chattanooga, TN; Montgomery, AL. You also have triple AAA stadiums that are nicer and hold as many people in New Orleans, LA; and Nashville, TN; and one that holds three thousand more people in Memphis, TN. Autozone park is actually one of the nicest ball parks in the country that's not a MLB park.

The logical choice is to move the game around to a number of parks or permanently host it at Autozone Park. But then acting logically is asking a lot of the SEC office and their rampant Bama homerism.

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Sorry the postings been light lately. Other than how amazing Chipper's seasons is going not much to talk about other than the one run curse of the Bravos. Been a little busy lately with the whole getting married this weekend thing.

This one goes out to the Lady Wookie.

Wookie On Sports 2008 Mock Draft

First a caveat. As anyone who ever made one of these its impossible to get one entirely right as one trade occurs and the complete draft is lost. Ten percent is amazing. Therefore somethings I've always done is to get the right player to the right team more than the right spot. I don't think MacPhadden last till 15. I just think when he gets to the 6th-7th range somebody's moving up to draft him. His need doesn't really fit the worst teams and the earlier in the draft the more teams usually draft for need. Same with Glenn Dorsey. This is overall a weak draft class. Strenghts seem to be offensive tackle and cornerback so that's what I'm predicting a big run on in the first. So anyway here we go:

With the first pick the Miami Dolphins select . . .



Michigan Offensive Tackle Jake Long








With the second pick the St. Louis Rams select . . .


Ohio State Defensive End/Linebacker Vhernon Gholsten







With the third pick the Atlanta Falcons select . . .




Boston College Quarterback Matt Ryan







With the fourth pick the Oakland Raider select . . .


Virginia Defensive End Chris Long





With the fifth pick the Kansas City Chiefs select . . .


Virginia Offensive Lineman Branden Albert








With the sixth pick the New York Jets select . . .

Cal Wide Receiver DeSean Jackson







With the seventh pick the 18-1 New England Patriots select . . .


South Florida Cornerback Mike Jenkins







With the eighth pick the Baltimore Ravens select . . .


Boise State Offensive Tackle Ryan Clady









With the ninth pick the Cincinnati Bengals select . . .

USC Defensive Tackle Sedrick Ellis







With the tenth pick the New Orleans Saints select . . .


LSU Defensive Tackle Glenn Dorsey









With the eleventh pick the Buffalo Bills select . . .


Troy Cornerback Leodis McKelvin




With the twelfth pick the Denver Broncos select . . .


USC Linebacker Keith Rivers






With the thirteenth pick the Carolina Panthers select . . .


Louisville Quarterback Brian Brohm









With the fourteenth pick the Chicago Bears select . . .


Michigan State Wide Receiver Devin Thomas







With the fifteenth pick the Detroit Lions select . . .


Arkansas Runningback Darren MacPhadden




With the sixteenth pick the Arizona Cardinals select . . .


Arizona Cornerback Antoine Cason










With the seventeenth pick the Kansas City Cheifs select . . .


Florida Defensive End Derrick Harvey










With the eighteenth pick the Houston Texans Select . . .



Illinois Runningback Rashard Mendenhall







With the nineteenth pick the Philadelphia Eagles select . . .



Pittsburgh Offensive Tackle Jeff Otah





With the twentieth pick the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select . . .


Indiana Wide Receiver James Hardy








With the twenty first pick the Washington Redskins select . . .


Tennessee State cornerback Dominque Rodgers Cromartie








With the twenty second pick the Dallas Cowboys select . . .




Kansas defensive back Aqib Talib




With the twenty third pick the Pittsburgh Steelers select . . .


Boston College Offensive tackle Gosder Cherilus




With the twenty fourth pick the Tennessee Titans select . . .


Texas Wide Receiver Limas Sweed










With the twenty fifth pick the Seattle Seahawks select . . .


North Carolina defensive lineman Kentwan Balmer








With the twenty sixth pick the Jacksonville Jaguars select . . .

Clemson defensive end Phillip Merling











With the twenty seventh pick the San Diego Super Chargers select . . .


USC Offensive Tackle Sam Backer







With the twenty eighth pick the Dallas Cowboys select . . .


Arkansas Running Back Felix Jones







With the twenty ninth pick the San Fransico 49'ers select . . .

Auburn defensive end/linebacker Quentin Groves








With the thirtieth pick the Green Bay Packers select . . .

Arkansas State Safety Tyrell Johnson








After the 18-1 New England Patriots must forfeit the thirty first pick the World Champion New York Football Giants select with the thirty second pick. . .


Tennessee Linebacker Jerod Mayo