The National Peyton League gets underway
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Sep 06, 2007 
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I’m watching the Saints-Colts game in my hotel room here in Kansas City and I’m now more convinced than ever that the Patriots will win the AFC.
Why?
Because there is no way Peyton Manning can be ready for the season since he obviously spent the last seven months making commericials.
Can we see a few more shots of his parents too? How about his dog? His high school coach? I can’t wait for Tedy Bruschi and Richard Seymour to plant him on Nov. 11.
UPDATE, 11:05 p.m.: This game is now making me sick. Meanwhile the best NBC can do this fall is remaking The Bionic Woman? Why not Love Boat or Gilligan’s Island? When did network TV get so useless?
JETS!
Forget the Patriots, GO GIANTS!
Are you a Pats fan, Pete? I was really hoping for the Giants.
I don’t see any team that can beat New England either. Indy was a fluke last year, San Diego has Norv Turner(awful coach who’s been fired twice), and Baltimore’s offense is pathetic. Maybe Rodney Harrison can also get in a shot on Peyton on Nov. 11 because the suspension ends way before then.
It’s simple really. The Patriots winning makes most of Sawx Nation happy.
Anything that makes Sawx fans happy is evil.
Thus one must root against the Patriots as allies of all that is unholy.
Go Giants. GoJets, Go RestoftheAFCEastorwhatevertheheckitisnow. Go Bears. And yes, if it comes down to it, Go Peyton. Nothing better than watchin Peyton put the smackdown on all of NE. Unless it’s watchin ARod and Jeter do the same.
Bitter: Party of One
Rodney Harrison what a classy guy! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.
Commercials or not, Peyton Manning is still the best quarterback in football.
And he’s 13-23 with 206 yards a 2 TDs and they’re in the 3rd quarter. Not exactly shabby.
The schedule makers picked the perfect night to give the Yankees off, that’s for sure. Go Giants.
stick to baseball pete
peyton manning is 10x the qb brady is
Manning’s okay. If you like 6’5″ 250 pounds, Laser rocket arm. Too funny! Love Peyton Manning.
Pete,
While I don’t hate the Patriots nearly as much as the Sox, it is unfortunate that you root for them.
Pete’s a Pats fan, 23 grannies. I am a Giants fan and I know that they are going to suck so whatever hahah.
I get the most pleasure out of listening to WIP 610 (I go to school in Philly) and the crazy Eagles fans who actually think they have a shot of making it to the Super Bowl. Whenever I get down about the Yanks or any other Metro sports team I just turn that on and laugh like Mr. Burns.
The Folly of Free Agent signings.. It is a slow day so I wanted to ramble on the fact that almost all signings are bad signings. I am not talking about teams signing there old guys but guys moving to new teams.. I am going to try to focus on this yrs signings, feel free to disagree..
Baltimore; danys Baez(disaster) jamie Walker (decent but too long), Bradford do not know the details. Ramon Hernandez(along time go on it, not looking as good as it did last yr. Tejada(brought them many wins111)
Boston; JD Drew5 yr and $70 mill, Disaster.
Lugo 4 yrs mucho dinero(disaster). Okajima(great and lucky signing) Matsuzaka(long way to go but he is a legit pitcher and an innings eater, to early to tell but he can pitch..Manny at the end of the day probably a reasonable signing…
Yanks;; Kei(disaster).. Pettitte from Houston(good signing).Minky(bad but minor)Damon(not great but not Drew like..)
Toronto; Burnett(mucho dinero and many yrs. great talent but a knucklehead who cannot produce, Frank Thomas(I think 3 yrs, bad deal), BJ ryan(ouch), and Vernon wells resign(too early to tell but alot of $).
This are just off the top of my head for the east, most FA signings stink add to it Jason Schmidt, zito, Nomar,sexson, beltre, and tons of other bad signings..
SOme good signings have been; vlad, magglio, Hideki Matsui, Kelvim Escobar, Joe Borowski, Ichiro, and a few others.. My point is most of these signings are for way too much money and especially for way to many yrs and really do not help teams when you factor in there lost draft picks…
yeah Pete, i just lost a ton of respect. Shame.
I dont think you can be Pats/Yanks fan, legally
ps- YFiC hit it on the nose: Pats winning = sox fans happy = I hate Pats(even more)
I live in freakin NH and I still don’t root for the Pat’s. Jets, Jets, Jets. Still not sold on Chad, but he does have guts!
Is Tedy Bruschi’s walker ready for the game next week?
Pete’s a fan of good baseball. That’s the cardinal rule of being a writer in that specific sport.
Are you kidding me? Another Peyton commercial?
This is exactly why i love this blog. I love the Pats and the Yanks. And the Pats could easily go undefeated this season. Though 13-3 or 14-2 is more likely.
Yanks win the WS and Pats win the superbowl. That would be quite a year in sports for me.
You may want to look at Lugo’s stats before calling him a disaster. He’s been solid since the ASB.
No argument on Drew. I am hoping that his family issues are the reason for his performance, otherwise it’s going to be a long 4 years.
I am not prepared to bury the Damon signing quite yet. His long rest during the season (as well as Giambi’s) may leave the Yanks with some very good fresh offensive players come October. If they perform well in October, they are arguably worth the money (at least for a team with the Yankees’ resources), no?
And Pete, I wouldn’t count on Richard Seymour this season. It sounds like his knee is in pretty bad shape.
can we rebuild Pavano??
… mirabelli is fat
Aw Pete – Gilligan’s Island was a classic – lets do a remake of the Bob Newhart show also!!
Ignore the Steelers at your own peril…last year was the post-Super Bowl flop. But this season it’s gonna be a different story….
And I cannot WAIT to be in my endzone seat November 18 and watch Pittsburgh DESTROY the Jets. Utterly. Completely.
Didn’t the minnesota vikings try to remake “The Love Boat” a of years ago ??
Yankee fans should not be rooting for the Patriots, ever… Its the same “that guy” that roots for both the Sux and the Pats.
NFL MVP and future HOF QB leads team to resounding Super Bowl win…
Yeah, must be a fluke of some kind
Seymour won’t be planting anyone any time soon pete.
Rex Grossman gift-wrapped the Super Bowl to the Colts last year. The Bears would have had a better chance to win if Jim McMahon would have been their QB in that game!!
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Lugo stinks. he is a bad fielder.. jeter is a better fielder then him………..
he is hitting 260 for the yr..
Lugo is 30+. he will not adjust in Boston, they will be looking for there 5th SS in 5 yrs next yr…..
Dude, I’m about to go 1-0 on my football picks this year and I’ve never done it before!
Brady has spent the past 7 months buying baby clothes!
Cleveland just went up 3-1
pete, you’re killing me. go giants.
network tv got ruined by the reality show crze. mtv’s real world ruined it for everyone.
Ponder your reaction to Manning for a moment and perhaps you’ll understand why so many non-Yankee fans dislike Jeter.
“Lugo is 30+. he will not adjust in Boston, they will be looking for there 5th SS in 5 yrs next yr…..”
Julio Lugo’s post-ASB OPS: .762
Derek Jeter’s post-ASB OPS: .752
I am by no means saying that Lugo is better than Jeter, but saying that Lugo is a “disaster” or “not adjusting” is demonstrably false.
I’m pleased, Reggie Wayne is on one of my fantasy teams. I was a little worried after the first half.
So which seed do we play if we get the WC? There’s conflicting answers.
Hey, wasn’t Tom Brady caught wearing a Yankees cap this summer?
Mel: Either the Angels or Cleveland. We can’t play the Sox cos they’re in our division.
Others may disagree, but I’m wanting very much to play Cleveland in the ALDS because we swept Cleveland IN Cleveland (which says something), and Carmona pitched one of those games….
And I’d still rather face Boston in the ALCS. Aside from the fact that my hatred of the Angels knows no bounds, we have some SERIOUS SERIOUS SERIOUS payback for 2004. If we can beat Boston, I think it’ll go a long way to healing the wounds of that year…
wow, you serious peter?
peyton stomped the saints, without breaking a sweat.
sure brady has won 3 rings, but manning is the best QB any of us on this blog will ever see.
Easy Pete,
Look what happens when you are away from baseball for one day…trash last years Super Bowl QB, trash NBC, trash all TV. I do wonder if there is any truth to the new reality show…Peyton’s favorite Gas Station Attendant on VH1?
I’m not afraid of Cleveland because the Yankees have Joe Borowski’s number. Then again, most teams have Borowski’s number!
Dustin- Brady wears a Yankee cap into the Patriots locker room quite a bit. He wears it until someone makes him take it off.
Thanks, Rebecca.
But which seed? Law said the number 2 in his chat. But others here are cheering for Cleveland to take the 1 so we could play them.
dont forget heroes commin on 9/24 pete, cant miss that!
Irish Car Bomb?
Best QB we’ll ever see?
How about Marino?
Unitas?
Namath?
Don’t knock Peyton, Pete….
I’m still relying on the Peyton Manning-Alex Rodriguez mojo to take us all the way in October (Best player in the league, destined to always fail miserably in the postseason, finally comes up and wins the big one just when everyone thought it would never happen…etc).
Once Peyton won the Super Bowl earlier this year, I’ve never gotten it out of my head that somehow, someway Arod would also be lifting a championship trophy this season.
Pete, my man, is this not a NEW YORK Yankees blog? NEW YORK. Please, keep your thats Pats nonsense to yourself man.
BTW, I heard Tommy missed some practice today? Little shoulder problem? I can’t wait to see Dwight Freeney tear it off for him.
Best QB of all time= Joe Montana. Set all stats aside, if there was one game that you had to win and you could pick any QB present or past, Joe gets my vote.
mel: Depends where Cleveland and LA finish. Can’t tell you now, don’t want to hazard a guess.
We’re pulling for Cleveland to have the two seed, though.
The one thing I hate about Tom Brady is how he always talks the same BS after postseason wins in press conferences… “No one ever gave us a chance”, “Everyone disrepects us”. God, I hate all that “faux outrage”.
And don’t get me started on Bellichick. Sure, it’s okay to be upset when you lose a football game, but there is a thing called decorum. Check out how this clown speaks after a loss.
Another reason to love the J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS
They weren’t allowed to utter the playoff word last year till they actually made it. Curtis Martin, who just retired, is the guy you never heard of with 4th place rushing all time.
Yeah. I go green football season.
Rebecca: You may be pulling for Cleveland, but not everyone else is.
Is our collective amnesia so bad that we can’t at least remember as far back as one measly year? This blog was borderline delirious last year that we drew Detroit. I’d hazard a guess that it was near unanimous that everyone wanted Detroit and not those nasty Minnesota Twins.
How’d that wish fulfillment work out?
No thanks, I’ll take whoever comes our way, but I’m certainly not going to fall into that trap of rooting for one team over another. If it’s the Angels, so be it.
Secret Special Intangible Winning Tips and Advice For Young Pitchers That Influences Them to Become Winners, by Roger Clemens:
1. Gotta get Paid. As much as possible. Always. Paid. I’d go anywhere for the most money, even freaking Canada. Seriously, I actually did that once! As long as they pay you in American dollars, that’s what it’s all about. Just remember to talk about how you really care about some other crap like family or home or “winning,” the fans eat that stuff up. But Priority #1, Rule #1 is Gotta Get Paid.
2. Pretend to be from Texas. It doesn’t matter where you were born or where you grew up, just tell everyone you’re from Texas. This will make people think of you as a Good ‘Ol Boy, and they won’t call you a diva when you insist on special treatment that your teammates don’t get. And Good ‘Ol Boys don’t get much grief for coming up small in big games, they just don’t.
3. Your team’s down in the playoffs and the pressure’s on? 3 words: Ninja Turtle Shoelaces and Eyeblack. This will intimidate the other team and make you Look Tough. Looking Tough is important.
4. Playoff start not going well? Get yourself thrown out of the game, so people will blame the umpire instead of you.
5. Always go out of your way to publicly state how you could never leave your current team, and if you ever left it would only be to pitch closer to home and family. The stupid chumps will buy it until the day you bolt for a division rival that’s in a different country than your “home and family.”
6. The catcher on the other team hitting you pretty hard? Bean him. Drill him in the head. If you’ve paid attention to Rule #2, pretending to be Texan, then you are allowed to hit batters all the time, and people will praise you for it. This is a key part of Looking Tough.
7. If a player you are terrified of (see Rule #6) breaks his bat on a swing and the shard lands near you, pick it up and throw it at him. Sure it could really injure him, but who cares? Just explain that you thought it was the ball that you were hurling at his head, and you won’t get ejected from the game. Everyone will just chalk it up as part of being a Tough Texan.
8. If you have a bunch of injury-filled subpar years and thus don’t Get Paid as much as you want, then make sure you get into the Best Shape of Your Career. This was much easier to do in baseball a few years ago than it is now, but it can still be done. Talk to good ‘ol Jason Giambi or some football payers, they should be able to steer you in the right direction.
9. If you’ve got a paper cut on your finger in an elimination game in the World Series, ask out of the game. Just don’t ever admit that you asked out. And make sure you go out to the on-deck circle before your turn at bat, so that the pinch hitter won’t be announced right away. This gives you what as known as “cover” for asking out.
10. Speaking of “cover,” it’s important to publicly talk about your injuries everytime you have a subpar start. Some players would be attacked for this, but as long as you’ve successfully accomplished Rule #2, Pretending to be From Texas, you should get away with it just fine.
11. Take it from me kid, you’re in the big leagues now, you shouldn’t have to carry your own bags.
12. People starting to talk about how you’ve never won a championship? Then force a trade to a team with a huge payroll that’s loaded with superstars and ride ‘em to a ring. Just make sure you never have to start an elimination game in the playoffs and you’ll be all set. You might even get a reputation for being a Winner and a Big Game Pitcher if you hang around long enough! Just make sure you don’t take any sort of “hometown discount” (ugh!) to stay there. Ride to as many rings as you can in a couple years, then remember Rule #1: G.G.P.
13. If you always talk about retirement, you can keep a bunch of different teams waiting and kissing your butt for months after the season starts, and still get the biggest contract in baseball– in your 40′s! You’d think that teams wouldn’t just wait around for you and keep throwing money at you in hopes that you’ll join them for only two-thirds of the season, but they do. I know it sounds crazy, but trust me it’s true. You might need to pretend to retire 3 or 4 times to pull this one off, but that’s no big deal, you can actually get a bunch of standing ovations the first few times you announce that you’re probably going to “retire at the end of the season.”
Jenny Craigs Yankee Pitchers and Buck Tooth babies–You have nothing better to do, but to insult someone late at night. I bet your head hurts after thinking of all that crap and actually typing it.
I don’t care who we play, if we make the playoffs. We have a chance against any team we play at this point. Things are coming together right now with our starting pitching turning the corner.
Darrin: I wasn’t celebrating drawing the Tigers. Had a bad feeling about that one.
Actually, had a bad feeling about the entire year, really…
It’s just I hate Anaheim so much right now, we just never beat them…and winning would be so sweet, yes, but I’m not sure I can deal with the catharsis a game five Yankees/Anaheim match up would bring!
Jenny Craigs: Rocket has a ring.
2000. NYY vs NYM
Or do you not remember the bat?
” Just make sure you never have to start an elimination game in the playoffs and you’ll be all set.”
LOL, yeah, game 3 of the 2001 World Series wasn’t a big game at all…
Peter is a Pats fan so what? Is it a crime to have a favorite football team? Oh, and just because this is a Yankees blog doesn’t mean he can’t add his 2 cents on some aspects other than baseball.
Peter did not actually say he is a Pats fan. He said he thought they’d win the AFC based on Peyton wasting time making commercials. I think you can be sick of Peyton and also not be a Pats fan, no?
Network TV is awful – HBO is a must.
Entourage kicks…. loved the Sopranos and Rome.
Can’t wait for the final season of the Wire!
Curb is coming back too!
Any word on Deadwood? Season 4??
Looks like the Colts are better than ever, and no the Patriots will not win the AFC. They won’t even come close.
The Chargers, Colts, Ravens are all superior to the Patriots. Your aging Linebacker core will not hold and Randy Moss will plant his seeds of Cancer into the team. You’ll still win the division because the AFC East is pretty pathetic but not much else.
P.S if you kill Manning for his ads, you might as well do it to Jeter too. I’m sure they are 1a and 1b when it comes to ads.
I came of age in Connecticut. Fortunately for me, when I was a young boy I fell in with the right crowd – baseball players who liked the Yankees. So I remember Mel, and Lou, and Sudden Sam McDowell et al, from my youth. Didn’t care much for football, winters were time for trading baseball cards. Then as I grew older and gained admission to the mighty UConn, I latched on to my NE identity, and with it the Patriots.
So one can be a Yankee fan and a Patriots fan and hold those strange opposing views and not go insane.
Question: How many Jets fans are there here?
I’m curious as to the split…
It really is disgusting how many Peyton commercials there are. And I don’t even dislike the guy. The sprint commercial with him has to be the worst ad I have ever seen. The pre-game show was also horrendous. What a mess.
Lugo is hitting less then 250 and has 17 errors.he makes $8.25 mill per yr. he is 31 and was a bad signing. think what you want I will remind you he was a bad signing in a couple of yrs…
he is not a good fielder and has never played in pressure packed games unless you think the devil rays play playoff games….
yeh, lugo is a walking disaster, someone call up that hanley kid… oh wait…
I don’t have any problem with Pete talking about football on here at all. I’m a huge NFL fan. Randy Moss won’t cause any problems in New England, because Belichick won’t let him. Corey Dillon had a reputation as a troublemaker when he came to the Patriots, but he was always a good citizen for Belichick. It’s amazing how Belichick has pushed all of the right buttons in New England, because he was pretty bad when he coached the Browns outside of one playoff appearance.
P.S. Since it’s a baseball blog, I’ll add something. I’m looking forward to Kennedy’s start against the Royals. Hopefully he can follow up that debut with another good performance.
Yankees magic number to clinch WC:
21.
‘S not too bad. Specially with Detroit and Seattle beating each other up….
AL GOLD GLOVE WINNER 3 YEARS RUNNING… DEREK JETER, OWNER OF THE FLIP AND THE DIVE.
Forget the NFL, go BPL. Go ARSENAL!
Our number for the Wild Card is 21, that’s not very far away. For some reason I have really good vibes for us in the playoffs if we can make it.
ANKIEL A JUICER?
http://www.nydailynews.com/spo.....pages.html
Lugo isn’t fit to lick the grime of Derek Jeter’s cleats and this is not knock on him. He was a stand out scrub on the Devil Rays and on the Red Sox his scrub factor stands out a thousand times more.
im not even surprised
Whats the Daily News doing sticking it’s noses in St’s Louis’ business. I’m sure there are others going to be brought up now. Can we get off this whole steroids and drugs deal. It’s getting tired.
From what I read somewhere, it was USA Today that broke the story.
“Ankiel has not been accused by authorities of wrongdoing, and according to records, stopped receiving HGH just before Major League Baseball officially banned it in 2005.”
this is boring.
Dude, leave Ankiel alone. Let him have this season…
ok, and i will also let michael vick have this season too, you know… don’t wanna be too hard on people that do wrong.
Question for thought:
If Ankiel was taking HGH for whatever reason BEFORE MLB BANNED IT, then it was legal within MLB, correct? That being the case, exactly HOW was it wrong? Partaking of a little revisionism?
LOL, BREAKING NEWS: Ankiel bought a 12 month supply of HGH. If you can’t prove that he took HGH, why print the “story?” This crap is getting tired and annoying. Next, they’ll write a book about him, lol.
Right, cause HGH and Electrocuting and hanging dogs is comparable.
with all the hoopla over bonds, you start to wonder.
Bonds is getting stick cause he’s breaking ridiculous records. Vick on the other hand is in another stratosphere.
in any case you are getting into specifics, they both did wrong. ankiel is cheating the game and toying with everyone by making them believe this is all legit, and if its true why should i let him have this year?
Because according to the article he stopped getting the HGH in 2005. To say that he did it does not prove that he is doing it now. It can be nothing more than speculation and therefore would be a waste of anyone’s time to debate it.
well yeh i say it if it is true that he did receive it, right now im ok with him playing but still (devils advocate here) you cant buy enough HGH over a year or two to have it last beyond the time you bought it? and really, when you take an artificial boost, you dont stop and think to yourself “ok this is wrong its going to give me an unfair advantage im gonna pass on this”? or what?
Oh no. Here we go. Man, this is agonizing. Nothing worse than having your favorite Yankees writer be a Patriots pimper on the side.
Pete, before you start rhapsodizing about your “mighty” Patriots winning the Superbowl, wait and see if they can even get by my Jets this weekend, OK?
Jenny Craigs Yankee Pitchers and Buck Tooth babies-
What a touching love letter. I know it’s hard, but it’s better if you let go. Rocket loves us more than he loves you
You are wrong, Pedro.
You’re just all uppity because the Colts put on a dominating performance against who many consider a team capable of going to the Super Bowl (yes, the Saints).
Hate his commercials all you want, but at least his last name isn’t the same as one of the worst 80′s t.v shows of all time…yes The Brady Bunch.
NBC has it’s fair share of misses, but it’s the only network TV I watch anymore. Just considering The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, and Heroes … that’s four more shows than I’ll watch on any other network this year.
But yeah… Bionic Woman. Got me, there.
just read this entire thread, and here is my efficient response to what needed to be responded to:
*football*
“peyton manning is 10x the qb brady is”
10x is an understatement. Brady = over-rated. and i don’t hate the patriots like most of you seem to. The Patriots star is their coach.
“I get the most pleasure out of listening to WIP 610 (I go to school in Philly) and the crazy Eagles fans who actually think they have a shot of making it to the Super Bowl. Whenever I get down about the Yanks or any other Metro sports team I just turn that on and laugh like Mr. Burns.”
Hilarious. I’m a Giants fan, but yes, I think I get just as much joy, probably more, with an Eagles loss than I do with a Giant’s win. How their coach hasn’t been fired after so many post-season meltdowns/failures is beyond me…
“Didn’t the minnesota vikings try to remake “The Love Boatâ€? a of years ago ??”
lololol
“I’m pleased, Reggie Wayne is on one of my fantasy teams. I was a little worried after the first half.”
me too!
*baseball*
“SOme good signings have been; vlad, magglio, Hideki Matsui, Kelvim Escobar, Joe Borowski, Ichiro, and a few others.. My point is most of these signings are for way too much money and especially for way to many yrs and really do not help teams when you factor in there lost draft picks…”
do you think Cleveland will pick up Borowski’s 2008 option or buy him out for 250K?
*other*
“network tv got ruined by the reality show crze. mtv’s real world ruined it for everyone.”
pretty much :/
Tom Brady would have 6 or 7 Super Bowls if he had weapons like Joseph Addai(Edgerrin James before last year), Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, and Dallas Clark at his disposal. Brady won his with receivers such as Deion Branch and David Givens, who weren’t exactly the second coming of Jerry Rice and John Taylor.
“Irish Car Bomb?
Best QB we’ll ever see?
How about Marino?
Unitas?
Namath?”
better then all 3 of those gentleman