Ranking the Winter Olympic Events According to My Interest Levels

According to NBC there are 15 types of Winter Olympic Sports in 2010. Here's a quick run down of the 15, where I rank them, and how much interest I will have in them.

15. Cross Country Skiing - Nobody watches the marathon in the summer games and nobody watches cross country skiing in the winter games.

14. Figure Skating - The Men's are complete fruity nut jobs and really I don't care about the women at all either. For whatever reason I enjoy some of the gymnastics in the summer games but none of the figure skating.

13. Biathlon - Introducing a gun into cross country skiing is interesting, just not interesting enough for me to watch.

12. Speed Skating - Speed Skating #1 is on the big track where it's two at a time and nobody is ever next to you. This to me is pretty damn boring. It's like watching the 400 meters on ice. Not really that exciting.

11. Nordic Combined - It's like the decathlon of the Winter Olympics or... who really cares?

10. Alpine Skiing - I've never really gotten into races against time. I much prefer the Ski Cross events where they all come out of the gate at once and go down the hill at once.

9. Bobsled, 8 - Skeleton, 7. Luge - These are pretty much all the same... man gets on sled slides down ice doesn't die.

6. Ski Jumping - Ski Jumping is a good time if solely because it could potentially provide epic crashes.

5. Short Track - Short track is much better than Speed Skating because all the competitors are right next to each other and this leads to many a crash and many a skater dumped into the wall.

4. Freestyle Skiing - I don't particularly care for Moguls but Aerials could be enjoyable with the right amount of tricks.

3. Snowboarding - I actually prefer Snowboard Cross to the half pipe but both are quality entertainment.

2. Curling - How can you hate on Curling? It's essentially bocce ball on ice/ The Jersey Shore Guidos love it.

1. Hockey - Olympic Hockey to me is the best of any Olympic sport for the reason that all of the stars are there and the teams are relatively even. In basketball the USA has a considerable advantage, in hockey the Russians, Swedes, Fins, Canadians and Egyptians all can win.

Numbers On Steroids: Mickey Mantle

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you. This week it's throwing a curve ball and looking at All Time Great Yankees. Players that we know did not take steroids to see if this gives a defense to any of the players 'convicted' by Numbers on Steroids. Time to look at my dad's favorite athlete of all time, Mickey Mantle. Averages Say: What's with the mysterious dip at 27 and then the uptick? At Bats Per Home Run Says: That's a mighty jump from 22 to 24 Explaining As If It Was the 90s If you take a look at the numbers there are two time frames which in the 1990s would be questioned. First would be the incredible leap he took from his first year in the big leagues to his first MVP season in 1956. His batting average jumped 50 points. His slugging percentage jumped 90 points and he hit 15 more homers than his previous high. This wouldn't merrit a conviction nowadays though because the young age he...

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Guest Post: Thoughts on Sabathia Signing

I asked Grutt what his thoughts were on the Sabathia signing and I thought his response pretty much nailed it. So here it is. I don’t know. Every year I get a little more disenchanted with baseball. Yea, it’s great we signed the top pitching free agent. But we were supposed to. No team was even in the ballpark of the Yankees offer yet they still needed to jump from the already ridiculous price of $140 million to $160 million to close the deal. Now I hear we are going to sign more pitchers who will also get large contracts and the position player gaps are still glaring. Each new, large contract just adds to the feeling that the Yanks are supposed to win it all. “I think we have a good chance this year.” That is a lost feeling. If they don’t win I’ll wonder why, like there has to be some other reason besides that it’s a sport you can never predict how things will work out and some years just aren’t yours to be won. If they win I will be pleasantly smug. It gets a little more...

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