Sportsaholics Fantasy Baseball League

Sportsaholics.net is running a fantasy baseball league (or 4). The scoring system will be like football where you get certain amounts of points for hits, doubles, wins, etc. If you want to join, shoot me your email at smalik06@vt.edu or comment on this post with your email and I'll send you an invitation.

If anything doesn't make sense or you have beef with the scoring or positions, let me know and I'll consider a change.

Players' Union Says "No" to Needles

NFL executives have proposed a plan to the NFL Players Association for HGH testing and the Players' Association isn't O.K. with the athletes being blood tested. HGH is merely a rule violating substance that would enhance players' ability to perform their job. I can't see why the league would be so against it. And, blood testing? OMG! Needles are inhumane! How dare the employers of million dollar athletes want to make sure that their employees are playing by the rules!

I am a server at a "fine dining" establishment. My job is to serve our guests and make them happy. Now, I could better perform this major task of my job by giving the guests free food. I could slip the 15 year-olds some shots of Jager and maybe dribble some Viagra in Grandpa Ricky's coffee; get them all riled up. They'd be a happy bunch and they'd certainly come back again. (especially Grandma Jean) Hell, I'd be happier during work if I downed a few Rum-and Cokes before clocking in.

And, if my manager asks if I'd been drinking, I'll tell him that the Servers' Union would prefer him to email me any questions he has about my substance abuse. Face-to-face questioning is not desired.

Unions were created to protect employees from their employers' unethical practices, protect mothers from losing their jobs while they're squeezing out future generations of unneeded younglings, and to ensure that 9 year olds aren't getting paid 25 cents an hour to perform manual labor. (even though the lack of manual labor in preteens is what's wrong with today's generation)

Unions shouldn't be created to protect multi-million dollar athletes from following the rules set forth by their employer who's paying them millions of dollars.

Put the NFL on the Bench

Take a deep sigh, everyone, because football is over for the time being. All we have left to hold onto are the annual story lines of "Favre-Watch," "Who will be stupid enough to sign T.O. this year," and "Which quarterback will get a ridiculously overpriced contract in the 2010 NFL Draft."

But, don't fret my friends. Because, if we're lucky;

• The Redskins might sign an overrated free agent to a historically high contract

• Kurt Warner will finally retire and we'll get to officially watch Matt Leinart fail on center stage

• Favre will fake an injury to excuse his final interception of the season and future return to the Vikings after training camp

• We'll get to watch everlasting coverage of college grads running routes and blocking dummies and Mel Kiper's 20th mock draft of the week. Why don't we let football go? Just for a couple months. It won't hurt that bad.

Yes, you may cry yourself to sleep every night, but it's better than watching 24 hours of ESPN analysts analyzing each other's analyzations of the back-up left guard from West-Central Louisiana Tech University.

The Washington Capitals lost their first game in 14 contests. Syracuse has been dominating the basketball world since being shunned from the NCAA Tournament 2 out of the last 3 years. North Carolina Basketball is in turmoil. The Olympic National basketball team roster has been announced. These are all more intriguing things to think about than Mel Kiper's projected 5th round selection by the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL Draft.

Come on, coach, take NFL out of the game and put him on the bench for a while.