The Sports Bizzo

(Editor's Note: Don't feel bad for the Cubs...) By Christian... Buster Olney seems like a pretty good dude.  But he looks retarded dressed up in a suit and slung behind one of those all-glass, laser-show desks ESPN jury rigs.  Keith Law looks like a bona fide dweeb.  Rob Neyer doesn’t know his ball sack from a rosin bag.  Jayson Stark is self-aggrandizing, unfunny goober.  And Peter Gammons, bless his heart, has long been one of the best baseball writers around.  But the dude had ... Read More

By Christian... The Braves aren't dominating this year.  Hell, they're barely hanging onto .500.  And, yet, there's a lot of room for hope. Consider this:  their offense sucks.  At 152, they've scored the sixth fewest runs in the National League.  But we knew that would happen.  You don't put together a lineup without any speed at the top, that kind of sucks at fundamentals (bunting, situational hitting, etc.), that has a rookie center fielder, an aging (though still quite nasty) third baseman as its ... Read More

By Christian... The Dodgers have a tough task ahead of them in the League Championship Series.  They have to beat the odd mixture of sexy youth and perplexing age that is the Philadelphia Phillies. Since I'm a Braves fan, I of course want a team from the NL East to win because it makes my team look better (except for the Mets, of course...those bastards ought to be painfully turned into quadriplegics for all I care).  I'm also, as has been discussed, an enormous ... Read More

By Christian... Even on your worse day, take heart.  The Mets still suck worse than you do. The New York Mets collapsed again on Sunday, waiting until the last day of the season for the second year in a row to rip their fans hearts out and spit dip on them. Though one might be tempted to blame their collapse on someone in particular (Omar Minaya and his feeble attempts at acquiring relief help, Luis Ayala being that feeble attempt at relief help, one of ... Read More

By Christian... By now, you brilliant and attentive Bizzo enthusiasts have likely read a nauseating amount of mostly-inane, sometimes credible commentary on the baseball trade deadline that has just passed. You know that everyone from Jason Stark to the weird guy with the Brewers hat from the early 80s that lives across the street and walks around naked a lot (and also happens to host a pretty good upstart sports blog) thinks that Manny could be a disaster or win the NL West for ... Read More

By Christian… Hold the presses. Mike Hampton is eyeing a return next week for the Atlanta Braves. This is big news, people. It’s not like this happens just every day. It happens only once every two weeks or so, an occurrence only slightly lower on the rarity scale than, say, a blue moon, or hell freezing over, or Screech making sex tapes. Yes, my friends, Mike Hampton is eyeing a return. Prepare yourselves for the onslaught of people warming up the ... Read More

By Christian... Shakespeare asks us “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Sure, Bill. But not just any name is going to look good on the front of a jersey, or plastered all over the walls of your mancave (or womancave, as the case may be). Plus, you sure as hell hope that when your team is headed into the Super Bowl or Game 7 of the World Series, they ... Read More

By Christian.. First and foremost, I’d like to thank Toph and Jon for inviting me to participate in the riveting, moving sports Mecca that is The Sports Bizzo. It is truly an honor to be a part of the site and movement that is sure to supplant ESPN at the top of the sports world in three months, tops. Secondly, I’d like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Christian. There. Glad that’s over. Now, let’s move on to more important things. ... Read More