The State of the Union Address for The Sportstown......

Welcome to Sportstown.

This is a blog that will discuss the topics of past, present, and future, of all the sports this country has to offer, in a unique way. We will toss in a bit of pop culture, movies, a bit of the degenerate bug of betting, and yes, I am able to talk sports in both the fans point of view, and I can dabble with all the numbers as well. So, first, let me tell you an idea on how some of my philosophies go:

National League baseball is the pure form of baseball. It offers the Chess-like matchup that the game really is. Find me the politican that would ban the DH through legal ways, hes got my vote.

Hockey is by far, the best sport to watch live. If you are a closed minded nitwit, and have been stubborn to go see a hockey game at an arena, take my advice. The next two weeks of your life will be learning the sport, and wondering why ESPN hasnt picked it back up.

Paul Newman is an American Hero. Not only did he live a practically selfless life and was as money as you can possibly be on the screen, he gave us the best sports movie ever. Think about it, this legend in his 50's outta nowhere did this crude, slapstick comedy about hockey of all sports. Slapshot is the best sports movie ever. I dare anyone to debate me on this one!



All fantasy sports drafts are this generations equivalance to Dungeons and Dragons from the 1980's, except now there is a possibility that you will get laid. Dont you love being a nerd in this day and age?


ESPN is the best, and worst things to happen to sports fans ever. They gave us access to the sports we love, but nowadays, they shove stupid, non-important crap down our throats at an Ussain Bolt sprinting speed. I got it that Pedro Martinez is a Phillie...... after the 45th time in 4 minutes I saw it on the ticker on the bottom of my TV as BREAKING NEWS!!!


I want to see a Dream Matchup. I would bet any amount of money that the '92 Dream Team would wax the floor with the Redeem Team by 20 points. Moral of the story is, present athletes might be more athletic, but they have no idea how to play the game. Want to see how defense was played, the mid-range jump shot, and how the low post should be played, go on Youtube, and catch all the old footage.

The next Writer that has a vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame that decides not to vote for a first ballot guy because Babe Ruth was not put in the Hall unamiously, should be shot on Pay Per View. If that is the only reasoning you have for not voting for Ricky Henderson into Cooperstown, you are a moron. Plain and simple.

The terms Parlay, Reverse, and Teaser, are the reasons why your bookie just got that brand new Mercedes, and Las Vegas still puts up new Hotels.


I do not dislike the Yankees, Red Sox, Lakers, Red Wings, Cowboys, Steelers, just about any national bandwagon team there is. I just dislike their fans.



I DO hate anything Philadelphia. Im sorry, how can you like a city that needed a judge and jail cell, inside their own football stadium?



Brett Favre shouldnt retire, he should just die. I am praying for the game this season where someone on the Packers deliver one of those Madden-like Late Hits on him, and get handed one of the video games injuries. If I see Brett Favre out forever (Broken Head) on that little ESPN ticker. I will need a diaper.

Baseball might be this country's national pastime, the NFL might make the most money, but this country's heart is College Football .


I really want to get into Soccer. Whenever the US National Team is playing, I do watch. I just feel that nothing short of winning the World Cup one year, or the United States producing the next Pele, will get the general public involved.

Is it sad that the past decade's best comedian has been a rubber dog puppet, or was it just that funny?

I still find it almost unbelieveable that in The Karate Kid, that Johnny, the blonde haired, blue eyed pretty boy, would be the leader of a karate gang, when Dutch was the complete tough guy/bad ass, that kinda resembles who Sensei Kreese was 20 years earlier.


The 1970's were the Golden Age of movies. The 1980's gave us the cheesy, enojoyable movies we can watch 350,000 times. The 1990's gave us a smaller, mixture of both. I still dunno what the 00's have offered us.


I believe that theres alot more Tim Donaghy's in professional sports than the public would like to believe. Seriously, what guy in this world wouldnt take a large sum of money just to make sure that a team wins by 7 instead of 4?

I really do believe that David Stern sent Gary Bettman into the NHL to sabotage the rising sport. People forget, in the early 1990's, the NHL was the IT sport. ESPN gave it coverage, and it exploded. Then Gary Betmann came to become the Commissioner, and he, and the Trap, KILLED this sport for the next fifteen years.

The best football player I have ever seen in his prime was Barry Sanders, with Lawrence Taylor and Jerry Rice being close seconds.


The best baseball player I have ever seen overall is Barry Bonds, steroids or not, hes one of the best 10 players to ever go on a diamond. But, the best player to watch out on a field in my lifetime, was Ken Griffey Jr. before his hamstrings left him for a different time zone. The guy was a kid playing in a playground, and to this day, baseball has not had a player they could market like Griffey. Apologies to Derek Jeter.

The best hockey player I ever seen was Mario Lemiuex, not Wayne Gretzky. But, if I were a GM, and could pick anyone ever to start a franchise, I would take Mark Messier.

The best basketball player ever in my lifetime is so obvious, lets not waste space here.......


Im gonna anger some people here, but NASCAR or any form of Car Racing is not a sport. Making 2000 left turns in one day, does not qualify you to be an athlete. It is an event, it is a skill, but it is not a sport. If Car Racing is a sport, so is playing Playstation 3.

The same thing applies to Poker. Now, I love poker as much as the next guy, but when we see Topps make up World Series of Poker trading cards, and we see Phil Hellmuth's annual stats on the back of the card, and it smells like that old piece of gum they use to give in card packs, THEN it is a sport.

I am still wondering how Barry Zito got that contract from the Giants....... same thing with Vernon Wells with the Blue Jays.

If you share similar views and sense of humor as I do, feel free to stay tuned to The Sports Town......

If you already hate my views...... you should really stay tuned.....


If you are a NASCAR fan, dont worry. I will probaly never bring it up again. (I might be lying. Too easy of a punching bag.)


Sincerely,


Steve Townsend, The Mayor of Sportstown