Day: July 28, 2009

Eat My Sports: Trade winds

That’s right kids, it’s that magical time of year where I am going to start talking baseball every week because FOOTBALL DOESN’T EVEN START UNTIL SEPTEMBER. I know you lonely Redskins fans out there can’t wait to see Jason Campbell squander another year’s worth of rooting for you, but face the facts, baseball is all that matters right now. Friday marks the non-waiver trade deadline for Major League Baseball, which basically means its the pseudo end for teams to make a big splash. So, keeping that in mind, as long as you’re checking updates on your sweeeeeeet iPhone, look for the following things to pan out.

Cliff Lee will be traded before Roy Halladay
Don’t sleep on the fact that while Roy Halladay has been marketed as the Jesus of pitching, Cliff Lee of the Indians (even in a down year) is a cheaper version that won’t cost your team nearly as much. The Blue Jays want one of your team’s starters, your top pitching prospect, and pretty much your best position player. That’s why the Phillies aren’t dumb enough to unload all that talent for a guy who A) is 32, and B) has never pitched in the postseason. Lee, while a commodity, at least is a proven one and won’t cost you your future. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Trade winds

M&Ms dying to be called medicine

Although it's also in blue Gatorade, which is now called "G" ...You know how some people claim to be able to taste the difference between different food-colored M&Ms? Or how the green ones make you look like a sad pervert?

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, may have found a link between the dye used to make M&Ms look blue and reducing spinal injuries. (Goodbye, lumbago!)

Known as Brilliant Blue G or BBG, which still doesn’t explain the G, the dye is oxidized ATP, which is an abbreviation in which all the letters really mean something. This oxidized stuff blocks the non-oxidized stuff that the body normally dispatches to a spinal injury scene from making it worse.

The most noticeable side effect from blocking your body’s stupid is turning it blue. Willy Wonka is reportedly kicking himself for giving his flawed gum formula away to his competitors, Mars, Inc.

OH SNAP! It’s not over until it red-rings!

We’re no stranger to athletes needing cause for attention and thus making insanely large jackasses of themselves regularly in the public spotlight. So, of course, when recently signed Seattle Seahawk, T.J. Houshmandzadeh found out his rating on Madden NFL 10 was only a 91, he became upset. And decided to let the world know that he was upset. Because you’re apparently allowed to do that when you make more than a million dollars a year, even in this economy.

EA Tiburon wasn’t having any of that. Nuh-uh.

Just last week, two developers for the game, Ian Cummings and Donny Moore went on to ESPN First Take to set the record straight. Houshmandzadeh (thank you copy and paste combinations) also appeared on the show.

It was predictably anti-climactic. No names were dropped, no fists were thrown (a little hard with Houshmandzadeh appearing via telephone, mind you), no challenges were uttered, but a resolution was sorted of sorts. Houshmandzadeh (once again, thank you Command + V) wishes very much for a mid-season update. Let’s just hope he’s earning his money by Week 9.

Is there a lack of miners or something?

Canada has vast natural resources. So much of the untouched wilderness is ripe with minerals, all they need to be is mined. But sadly, the country’s only marijuana mine is in danger of being closed, a potential victim of the recession.

For nearly ten years, a mine in Manitoba, buried under the tundra, has been serving as the country’s only legal marijuana farm. Why? That is not exactly clear, but it’s for medicinal use, of course. The problem is that the farm just isn’t producing enough weed to stay in business. Demand is simply too high–heh.

In other news, a secret, government-run, subterranean marijuana mine sounds like it is just begging to be used in a movie. Someone call Michael Bay.