I love fantasy sports especially football I sometimes find myself cheering for players to do well even if its going against my own team. I spend about 3 hours a week looking up players stats or reading experts opinions, but with the amount of free time I have I feel like I'm justified. Really three hours isn't a lot of time to spend on fantasy football and I'm not bad at fantasy football but I'm not great. The amount of time spent by other people though is astonishing and is costing business productive time.
Now I love fantasy sports, but some hard core players spend nine hours a week reading and mixing and matching the roster before Sunday. Now this might be hypocritical to say, but good lord that is way to much time spent on fantasy football. A good gauge of this is if you win fantasy football you lose at life. Now that companies have potential slowed down that happening in the work at all.
So I guess the basic thing with this post is there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. People look constantly to hobbies to occupy there time but most of the time a hobby cant be a job.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Scorcese
Scorsese arguably one of the best directors ever to come out of Hollywood. His ability to make great movies consistently is absolute stunning. If you go through the list of movies he's done its amazing how few award he's won for them. In fact until the departed came out he had never won a best picture and best director. He's been nominated plenty for movies but never won the big one. Now he has a mini series on HBO called the Boardwalk Empire which is really good from what Ive seen and read about. I think this is going to be he's next masterpiece and who would of thought that it would be a TV show that would be his next greatest hit. His ability to recognize talent and guide actors and actress careers in the right direction is paramount.
For a while it looked like his directing career would end up like Kubrick career were he would created great movies, but never win the award that they deserved more than anything.
For a while it looked like his directing career would end up like Kubrick career were he would created great movies, but never win the award that they deserved more than anything.
Friday, September 17, 2010
A smart Move for baseball
Like most Americans I always look forward to football season the most out of any other sports season. With football season starting it takes away a lot of viewers away from other things and especially baseball. If you look at the ratings for Sunday night baseball game of the Yankees and Red Soxs vs a random players of the Cowboys vs Bengals point being preseason football blew baseball out of the water in ratings it wasn't even close and it was baseball rivalry. People in America find football more entertaining than just about anything else on television.
Ratings in the World Series basically hinge if the Yankees and Phillies play this year because all the other teams don't have big enough markets to make the world series profitable especially during football season being in the thick of things. They Yankees basically carry ratings in the post season as well as the Red Soxs.
Mike Scioscia the Angels Manager offered some very good ideas to shorten the regular season have the playoffs in august and September when football is still getting the feet wet and wont be cutting into there ratings terribly much espicially if you have the games on Tuesday through Friday. With a shorter season also means better weather for baseball as well it will improve the quality of the games played. Also it makes the regular season a little more important with less games to win. We really didnt need 162 games to find out the Yankees will be on top.
The main thing though with this whole thing is to try and get baseball rating respectable again when it matters and not in April and June.
Ratings in the World Series basically hinge if the Yankees and Phillies play this year because all the other teams don't have big enough markets to make the world series profitable especially during football season being in the thick of things. They Yankees basically carry ratings in the post season as well as the Red Soxs.
Mike Scioscia the Angels Manager offered some very good ideas to shorten the regular season have the playoffs in august and September when football is still getting the feet wet and wont be cutting into there ratings terribly much espicially if you have the games on Tuesday through Friday. With a shorter season also means better weather for baseball as well it will improve the quality of the games played. Also it makes the regular season a little more important with less games to win. We really didnt need 162 games to find out the Yankees will be on top.
The main thing though with this whole thing is to try and get baseball rating respectable again when it matters and not in April and June.
Tampa bay rays baseball
The season is finally concluding in the MLB and that means the post season in October. My team is the Tampa Bay Rays now maybe five years ago I might have been hesitant to release this information to the public especially with Yankee and Red Sox's fans all around the country. They back then know Devil rays were so unbelievably bad that watching the game was like watching Water World multiple times. The organization just handled everything very badly in the beginning and some other things that were out of the control went badly. There main problem was the inability to allow prospects to grow in the minors especially pitchers they were the death of some pitchers careers.
Now though the Rays have a great chance to not just go to the post season, but to win the World Series against my pick in the NL the Giants. The reasons being the rays pitching can match up and beat any team in the leagues starting pitching and that includes the bullpen. Behind David Price the rays ace there is gonna be some god like performances by the Rays staff. Everyone knows pitching wins in the post season if you don't have at least two legitimate pitchers in the playoffs you will eliminated painfully and quickly. The other thing you have to have is clutch hitting which behind my favorite player Evan Longoria the rays for sure have.
With all these elements in a team that could very well get to one hundred wins this season I have great exceptions for the Rays to be doing some Yankee killing this October.
Now though the Rays have a great chance to not just go to the post season, but to win the World Series against my pick in the NL the Giants. The reasons being the rays pitching can match up and beat any team in the leagues starting pitching and that includes the bullpen. Behind David Price the rays ace there is gonna be some god like performances by the Rays staff. Everyone knows pitching wins in the post season if you don't have at least two legitimate pitchers in the playoffs you will eliminated painfully and quickly. The other thing you have to have is clutch hitting which behind my favorite player Evan Longoria the rays for sure have.
With all these elements in a team that could very well get to one hundred wins this season I have great exceptions for the Rays to be doing some Yankee killing this October.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Commercials during games
Last night I was watching the season opener of the NFL season and I was pumped up ready for a great game which was kind of sloppy and messy instead. The game was still and enjoyable and although I wish that Brett Farve would go to training camp and practice with his receivers so I don't get one point of fantasy for my starting receiver. Anyway I came across an old foe that I despise so much and its so annoying is the commercials during the games.
The game of football has always had a soft spot for me, but last night I remembered that they sandwich two five minute commercial breaks in between ten seconds of a kick return. This is with out a doubt the worse commercial spot in the entire sports world. Robert Seidman wrote on his site that Commecials have almost made watching the NCAA tournament unbearable when they actually call TV timeouts when the coaches aren't calling for stops its absurd. I know when I'm watching a football game at the stadium the players are just standing around waiting for the commercials to get done its ridiculous.
Although there is still a lot of commercials in aspect of the Television world and I understand that they pay good money to advertise in between shows or timeouts in a game, but its come to the point where its getting ridiculous. Especially during big season or series finales of shows like LOST. They say basically the same thing we understand the need to make revenue, but there has got to be another way to market your products either with product placement or just do most of your commercials before and after or even during halftime of games or shows.
There is also another solution with marketing in the NFL, NBA and some other sports and that's too do what soccer does in the EPL. They have company's and business names on there jerseys and no commercials while they are on the field. Ads on jerseys are what I think is the next logical step in sports especially in the NFL and NBA. This should shrink commercials down dramatically and still keep the owners and stock holders happy with the money still coming in.
The game of football has always had a soft spot for me, but last night I remembered that they sandwich two five minute commercial breaks in between ten seconds of a kick return. This is with out a doubt the worse commercial spot in the entire sports world. Robert Seidman wrote on his site that Commecials have almost made watching the NCAA tournament unbearable when they actually call TV timeouts when the coaches aren't calling for stops its absurd. I know when I'm watching a football game at the stadium the players are just standing around waiting for the commercials to get done its ridiculous.
Although there is still a lot of commercials in aspect of the Television world and I understand that they pay good money to advertise in between shows or timeouts in a game, but its come to the point where its getting ridiculous. Especially during big season or series finales of shows like LOST. They say basically the same thing we understand the need to make revenue, but there has got to be another way to market your products either with product placement or just do most of your commercials before and after or even during halftime of games or shows.
There is also another solution with marketing in the NFL, NBA and some other sports and that's too do what soccer does in the EPL. They have company's and business names on there jerseys and no commercials while they are on the field. Ads on jerseys are what I think is the next logical step in sports especially in the NFL and NBA. This should shrink commercials down dramatically and still keep the owners and stock holders happy with the money still coming in.
Football season
This is is a great time of year in sports right now the FIBA basketball championships are going on, baseball has some excellent division and wild card races climaxing towards October. The US open is on if your in to tennis, and for the select few people Nascar starting to wind down as well. With all these great sporting events winding down the most popular sport in America is just about to start.
Football season no other sport in America gets more people juiced and ready to get drunk and scream till there lungs get sore. I prefer the NFL myself over college football but this weekend has some great college games that I will be watching "The U" or Miami University of Florida will be going against Ohio State and I have that game circled like twenty times.
My favorite part of the pro football start is fantasy football. I love fantasy football, odds are im going to be talking about it a couple more times over the course of semester so if you don't like it then that's tough. We had are fantasy football draft at my house with eleven other owners and we all dressed the mandatory dress shirt, slacks and tie. We had our draft I like my team chances Ive got a couple of nice players, I took a few high upside players and maybe it was a bit risky to take a chance on Malcolm Floyd and Louis Murphey neither one have proved to be anything but I have a good feeling.
This time of year represents all that is good and sacred in America. As you can tell im ecstatic for Sunday afternoon.
Football season no other sport in America gets more people juiced and ready to get drunk and scream till there lungs get sore. I prefer the NFL myself over college football but this weekend has some great college games that I will be watching "The U" or Miami University of Florida will be going against Ohio State and I have that game circled like twenty times.
My favorite part of the pro football start is fantasy football. I love fantasy football, odds are im going to be talking about it a couple more times over the course of semester so if you don't like it then that's tough. We had are fantasy football draft at my house with eleven other owners and we all dressed the mandatory dress shirt, slacks and tie. We had our draft I like my team chances Ive got a couple of nice players, I took a few high upside players and maybe it was a bit risky to take a chance on Malcolm Floyd and Louis Murphey neither one have proved to be anything but I have a good feeling.
This time of year represents all that is good and sacred in America. As you can tell im ecstatic for Sunday afternoon.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Should College athletes receive finiacial benefits.
Since the time of agents and multimillion dollar professional paid athletes there has always been the debate and the constant battle against agents paying student athletes under the table. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-08-31-top-ten-number-7_x.htm Kelly Whiteside presents an argument that really illustrates the problem and the attempt to try and make it better.
The argument I would use is that the whole system would be simplified if you pay each sport according to profit made. For instance Football makes the most money out of all the other sports so each in player should get paid an equal wages. This would eliminate agents ruining players careers because they cant afford to be living on there own. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=shanoff/lipsyte/050316 this link talks about how March Madness made a ridiculous amount of money during March Madness and now they are expanding the tournament to attract more sponsors. The players deserve a piece of the action because there the ones attracting fans and paying them enough to live away from home isnt going to kill any of there profit margin.
The other side of this argument is illustrated through http://www.imprintmagazine.org/sports_and_recreation/other_side_college_athletes_shouldnt_be_paid if anything this should prove that college kids should get some sort of cash incentive. Scholarships are great and should continue but if a kid is going to college and practicing every hour of every day and is only getting enough money to last him the weekend while the University are just draining the profits dry for themselves.
The argument I would use is that the whole system would be simplified if you pay each sport according to profit made. For instance Football makes the most money out of all the other sports so each in player should get paid an equal wages. This would eliminate agents ruining players careers because they cant afford to be living on there own. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=shanoff/lipsyte/050316 this link talks about how March Madness made a ridiculous amount of money during March Madness and now they are expanding the tournament to attract more sponsors. The players deserve a piece of the action because there the ones attracting fans and paying them enough to live away from home isnt going to kill any of there profit margin.
The other side of this argument is illustrated through http://www.imprintmagazine.org/sports_and_recreation/other_side_college_athletes_shouldnt_be_paid if anything this should prove that college kids should get some sort of cash incentive. Scholarships are great and should continue but if a kid is going to college and practicing every hour of every day and is only getting enough money to last him the weekend while the University are just draining the profits dry for themselves.
M. Night Shyamalan
Here's my rant and it has to do with a director/writer who continues to create horrible movies. He has created an ulcer in me that continues to grow every time I see a movie trailer with his name in it.
At one time I did enjoy Shyamalan's movies the Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs wasn't half bad either. Then the Village came out an it looked great and it had such potential for a director whose stock seemed to be on the rise. The Village was such a huge screw up that I didn't know how to react after I watched it. The plot twist was so out of the blue so random that I just get pissed off thinking about how that movie ended.
Then I regained my composure and I justified Shyamalan's screw with that he will just bounce back with another movie that would be great. This was not the case he somehow got worse with "Lady in the Water" which he said was a bedtime story that he told to his daughter when she was younger. I wonder if she thought it was as crappy as I did.
Then he created the "The Happening" which the trailer looked awesome and I was so pumped to see it only to find out that it was actually when plants attack. He took a cool scientific discovery and made it into a Hollywood flop. They were running away from the wind the entire movie how can that be a plot.
Then probably his crown jewel of his movie downfall. The Last Air bender got an eight percent on "Rotten Tomatoes" that is so astonishingly bad that you couldn't break ten percent. Even Peter Hammond Hated it and he loves everything literally.
Shyamalan got me hooked again on his awesome trailer of that movie "Devil" which looked so good until it said "from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan." I got so super depressed that im probably going to see this movie and be disappointed. So my suggestion is this to Shyamalan, stop making movies.
At one time I did enjoy Shyamalan's movies the Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs wasn't half bad either. Then the Village came out an it looked great and it had such potential for a director whose stock seemed to be on the rise. The Village was such a huge screw up that I didn't know how to react after I watched it. The plot twist was so out of the blue so random that I just get pissed off thinking about how that movie ended.
Then I regained my composure and I justified Shyamalan's screw with that he will just bounce back with another movie that would be great. This was not the case he somehow got worse with "Lady in the Water" which he said was a bedtime story that he told to his daughter when she was younger. I wonder if she thought it was as crappy as I did.
Then he created the "The Happening" which the trailer looked awesome and I was so pumped to see it only to find out that it was actually when plants attack. He took a cool scientific discovery and made it into a Hollywood flop. They were running away from the wind the entire movie how can that be a plot.
Then probably his crown jewel of his movie downfall. The Last Air bender got an eight percent on "Rotten Tomatoes" that is so astonishingly bad that you couldn't break ten percent. Even Peter Hammond Hated it and he loves everything literally.
Shyamalan got me hooked again on his awesome trailer of that movie "Devil" which looked so good until it said "from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan." I got so super depressed that im probably going to see this movie and be disappointed. So my suggestion is this to Shyamalan, stop making movies.
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