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8/31/13 How was your Week?

Posted: August 31, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in baseball, basketball, football, sports, Uncategorized
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I want to start out this week by apologizing for last night’s (Friday’s) show. We had a ton of technical difficulties and ended up having the show get cut off five minutes early then we where suppose to. We didn’t get to our 9:00 p.m. live show ending and didn’t get to do our fifteen minute over run. I don’t know if it was the weather or the web site that where causing our issues but it was a rough night and I want to apologize to our listeners.

Schaumburg Stu filled in for Dan the Man on Wednesday night and we ended up talking quite a bit about professional wrestling. I started watching professional wrestling in the 1970’s and Schaumburg Stu started watching before I did. I think he’s been a wrestling fan since the late 1940’s or early 1950’s. Sadly neither of us are big fans of the new style of pro wrestling. Through the years Stu and I have seen some of the greatest pro wrestlers to ever step foot in the ring and the crop of guys wrestling right now don’t seem to be in that class. I don’t know if it’s the style they’re taught or how they’re booked but the sport just doesn’t seem the same to me. It seems like every time I turn on a wrestling show, I seem to end up watching a lot of promos and backstage skits instead of actually in ring wrestling. Stu and I have talked about if wrestling will ever go back to the style he and I used to really enjoy. Sadly, neither of us see this happening.

On Friday’s show, Mr. Fantasy filled in for Dan the Man. Dan went to the Kid Rock/ZZ Top concert, so I let him have the night off. We where trying to cover as many fantasy football topics as we could. We have fantasy drafts tonight (Saturday) and another one tomorrow night (Sunday); so we’re going to be busy. Adrian Petersen seems to be the consensus #1 pick but pretty much after that it’s wide open. Every expert seems to say that running backs will go early and often and that you can wait on a picking a quarterback. I guess we’ll see who I end up with this season. Either way, it’s always fun.

The NCAA wrapped up their investigation of Johnny Manziel and suspended him. Manziel won’t play the first half of Texas A & M’s game today (Saturday) against Rice. It doesn’t seem like much of a punishment and Manziel lawyer released a statement saying Manziel only took the suspension to “get back on the field”. When this story first broke I caught part of an interview a legal expert gave one of the many sports shows out there. He mentioned that the NCAA was going to have a difficult time proving that Manziel did what he was accused of. I’m sorry that I can’t remember this legal experts name because he was right on the money with his statement. I’ve had a lot of my Facebook friends cry about the fact that Manziel will only miss half of a game. They seem to forget that you can’t suspend him for what you think he did but what you can prove. Would I be surprised if Johnny Manziel took money for his autograph; no I wouldn’t be. Can the NCAA prove that he took money for his autograph; NO they can’t. Manziel is an exciting college football player and hopefully his name will just be associated with Texas A & M football for the rest of the season.

The St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates have back to back weekend series. Pittsburgh won the first game last night (Friday) 5 – 0. Francisco Lirano pitched eight shutout inning for the Pirates in last nights victory. Today’s pitching match up Lance Lynn for St. Louis against A. J. Burnett for Pittsburgh. If either team can take advantage of these series they could win the National League central. As long as neither team collapses they should both make the playoffs but you’d rather win the division than have to play the one game wild card playoff game.

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How was your Week (8/24/13)

Posted: August 24, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in baseball, basketball, football, sports, Uncategorized
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Ryan Braun released an apology this week and at least he admitted to using a performance enhancing drug. He used the injury excuse for turning to drugs but I don’t believe that at all. This apology was better than Jason Giambi’s years ago since Braun said he used drugs. I didn’t read Braun’s statement word for word but I wonder if he apologized to the guy who handle his sample. He killed this poor guy in the media trying to cover up his drug use. Now we’ll see if Braun’s teammate and the Milwaukee Brewers fans will forgive him. If he comes back and puts up good numbers I’m sure all will be forgotten; but if he comes back and struggles you wonder how the fans will react to him. If anyone believes that Braun only started using after he had an injury you’re really giving him the benefit of the doubt there.

On a positive baseball note it was announced yesterday that Vin Scully is coming back to broadcast Los Angles Dodger games next season. Scully is one of my favorite guys to listen to when I get that free MLB Extra Innings preview a couple of times a year. You have to wonder how many more seasons Scully can continue to broadcast games but I hope he sticks around as long as he can.

Dan the Man and I did our preview of the NFC & AFC South divisions on Thursday. It was my turn to do the NFC. So of course Dan the Man handled the AFC but I did have to help him a little. Hopefully you got a chance to listen live or you can go into the archives and listen still. The previews are fun to do and it really helps me in my fantasy drafts covering teams like this. There is so much talent in the NFC South on offense that it should be a fantasy players dream if they can land a few of these guys. A lot of the players in this division will go early at their positions. Doug Martin will be the 2nd or 3rd running back off the board. Jimmy Graham should be the 1st tight end selected. Julio Jones will be drafted early and Roddy White shouldn’t be too far behind him. We haven’t even mentioned quarterbacks as Drew Brees is a top three (3) guy with Matt Ryan being a solid fantasy pick and I wouldn’t complain if I had to start Cam Newton at quarterback. You can check out Mr. Fantasy’s mock draft to see where he has these guys going. Also look at his list of top players to see where he has these guys ranked.

There hasn’t been a lot of NBA talk on the show as of late but I saw where Chris Paul was voted president of the players union. I know there was a lot of buzz that LeBron James was going to run for this position. Paul is replacing Derrick Fischer as head of the players union. Paul is the top point guard in the NBA and I don’t know how much time he’ll have to allocate to the union, but hopefully it won’t affect his play on the court.

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8/17/13 How was your Week?

Posted: August 17, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in baseball, football, sports, Uncategorized
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So not only is Alex Rodriguez performance enhancing drug (P.E.D.) user, he’s also a snitch according to a report from 60 Minutes. The news show is reporting that A Rod’s camp released the names of Ryan Braun, teammate Francisco Cervelli and other players who were involved in the Biogenesis scandal. Of course Rodriquez denied all of these reports in a press conference yesterday but did you expect him to say anything else. It’s a good thing for Alex Rodriquez that I’m not commissioner of baseball because I would’ve suspended him for life. I caught just a second of a report that said Ryan Braun is going to come out and admit he used P. E. D’s and apologize. This should be interesting because no one has ever really admitted they’ve used anything. Jason Giambi apologized for something when he had P. E. D. issues but he never mentioned what he was apologizing for. I have to wonder how the Yankees are handling all the A Rod garbage. It’s one thing to rat out someone from another team but he threw a teammate under the bus in all this. I also wonder how pitchers from other teams will handle this. Will they throw A Rod a little bit of chin music for snitching on one of their teammates. I’d have to think he’ll be hit by a few more pitches than he normally would be.

The NFL pre-season is up and running. Last night (Friday) Fox had a national game featuring the New England Patriots vs the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I watched almost half of the game. I don’t know about you but when the third stringers get into the game I normally stop watching. Oddly I caught the highlights of the game later at night and they seemed to want to try to find a way to talk about Tim Tebow. Now being a fantasy football player the big story to me was the injury to Tampa Bay running back Doug Martin. It looked like Martin took a knee to the helmet but was able to walk off under his own power and looked alright walking to the locker room. Martin of course is day-to-day and it’s early enough in the pre-season for him to recover for week 1. Now Martin is a top three pick in most, if not all fantasy football drafts and a serious injury to him would shake up everyone’s fantasy draft board. Hopefully he’ll be fine and end up being the top fantasy player people are counting on. Just a little more on the fantasy front. I heard one fantasy expert say that C. J. Spiller should be the 2nd pick in your fantasy draft right behind Adrian Peterson. This is an interesting pick for me since Spiller has never been the full-time starter. He split time with Fred Jackson last season until Jackson got injured. Spiller is that take it to the house kind of player every time he has the ball in his hands and is very effective in the passing game as well. On my board I had Doug Martin (Tampa Bay) and Arian Foster (Houston) ahead of Spiller. In most fantasy drafts Spiller was going right around pick #6 or #7 but has started to move up most draft boards. With any fantasy football league it depends on what scoring system you use on how these players will work out.

Dan the Man and I did a special show on Thursday previewing the NFC & AFC East divisions. We’re going to continue to do these previews and next week we go through the NFC & AFC South teams. It’s always fun for us to go through and do these previews. I got to do the AFC side of the preview and noticed that two of the teams I previewed had no idea who their starting quarterback will be. It actually also helps me find those sleeper type players that help your team win your league. We’re going through all the divisions with special Thursday show and I hope you’ve had a chance to listen and they help you out.

If you’re a fan of National League baseball a lot of experts are saying your playoffs are set. It’s the Atlanta Braves out of the East. The Los Angeles Dodgers out of the West. The other three (3) playoff teams are out of the National League Central division. Either the Pittsburgh Pirates or the St. Louis Cardinals winning the division and the Cincinnati Reds claiming the 2nd wild card spot. Of course either the Pirates or the Cardinals would be a wild card team depending on who wins the division. Sadly for Schaumburg Stu he has to “wait until next year” for his Chicago Cubs.

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How was your Week? (8/10/13)

Posted: August 10, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in baseball, football, sports, Uncategorized
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So many sports stories this week it’s tough to figure out where to start. P.E.D’s, NCAA violations and football started; so here we go.

Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) got himself suspended for 211 games. By far the most out of all the other performance enhancing drug users. He of course appealed the suspension so he could play this season with the New York Yankees. The reports are that they won’t hear the appeal case until the off-season. So, A-Rod will be able to finish this season and then we’ll see. Let’s face it, this guy is guilty. His press conference was a huge joke and he just lied his way through it like every other statement he’s ever given. I think the worst part for me about this guy is he’s been going around speaking to kids about not using steroids and other type of drugs. How frightening is it that this guy would’ve been standing in front of a group of children telling them how bad something is and then turning around and doing it right afterwards. All the other players accepted their suspension which was 50 games for each player. The new story that has just come out and we didn’t get to it on the show was Jack Clark accusing Albert Pujols of using performance enhancing drugs. I’m sure we’ll cover this on Sunday’s show. The Texas Rangers and the Detroit Tigers made trades to cover the positions where they lost players to drug suspensions. The Tigers got José Iglesias in a three team deal to play shortstop while Jhonny Peralta is gone and the Rangers traded for Alex Rios to fill Nelson Cruz’s spot while he’s gone. I believe these where the only two players that were on contending teams that where suspended during this time.

Johnny Manziel found himself involved in another situation with the NCAA this week. It’s being reported that Manziel was paid for some autographs which is a violation of NCAA rules. Apparently there is a video of Manziel signing some helmets that were sold by a broker. Of course there’s nothing wrong with signing the helmets and there’s no proof on the video the Manziel was paid for the autographs. The Manziel family has hired a lawyer who’s dealt with the NCAA before, so we’ll see what else comes out of this situation. I have heard some legal experts say they doubt the NCAA will ever be able to prove if Manziel was paid for these autographs or not. Jadeveon Clowney and Teddy Bridgewater’s names have also came out during this investigation but no evidence has been found against any of these players. With the college football season just a few weeks away I doubt any of these players will miss any time at all.

Now if you’ve listened to the show you know about “The Bet.” Dan the Man and Mr. Fantasy made a bet on the show on who would be the best team in California. Dan the Man took the Dodgers and Mr. Fantasy has all the other teams. Right now the Oakland A’s are the only team standing in Dan’s way of winning. We added that the team that goes the farthest in the playoffs would win “The Bet” as well. The Dodgers are winning the National League West while the A’s are in a battle to win the American League West. It looks like the only way either of these teams will make the playoffs is to win their division. By the way the winner of “The Bet” gets a fitted hat.

The NFL pre-season has started, so football is right around the corner. It can be tough to watch an entire pre-season game. I always watch the first few series of a game but once the starters come out of the game it’s not as entertaining to watch. It looks like the biggest battle in the pre-season is who’s going to be the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. Michael Vick and Nick Foles will both get snaps with the first team offense during the pre-season. Teams don’t show a whole lot during the pre-season but we get to sit through these games.

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How was your Week? (8/3/13)

Posted: August 4, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in baseball, basketball, football
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So I’m actually a day behind getting this week’s How was your Week posted. I had another engagement yesterday that prevented me from getting it written, but I figure it gave you all one (1) more day to check out Mr. Fantasy’s first mock draft of the season.

It looks like the BioGenesis suspension are going to be announced on Monday. Of course, the big player in all this is Alex Rodriguez (A Rod) of the New York Yankees. While nothing has been officially announced yet the reports are that A Rod will receive a suspension that will not only last through this season but all of next season. There are twelve other players that will receive suspensions on Monday as well. The reports are that these twelve players have agreed to take fifty game suspensions. A Rod has denied any involvement in this and he made a statement that didn’t make major league baseball Commissioner Bud Selig happy. Selig was so upset with A Rod’s statement that he cut off all negotiations with A Rod’s camp on an agreement for a suspensions. I guess you have to wonder if this will close the Anthony Bosch, BioGenesis chapter in major league baseball.

The NFL exhibition season starts on Sunday. The Miami Dolphins take on the Dallas Cowboys in the Hall of Fame game. Reports are that Tony Romo won’t play in today’s game. Romo had off-season surgery and the Cowboys will hold him out of today’s game. Being that these two teams get an extra pre-season game you wonder how much we’ll see the starters play today. I’d guess that we’ll only see the starters for a series or two and that will be it. This means we’re just five weeks away from the NFL regular season starting. Hopefully you have your fantasy draft up and ready to go. Mr. Fantasy posted the first five rounds of his mock draft for you to take a look at. It’s a good guide to start you on your way this season. Of course these will change as we get closer to the regular season. There will be more injuries to deal with as we get closer to the regular season. Hopefully there won’t be to many more season ending injuries. It seems like we have had a few more than usual to start the season.

Something we didn’t really get to cover on the show this week was Greg Oden signing with the Miami Heat. Oden was the #1 overall pick by the Portland Trailblazers. I believe it was the 2007 NBA draft when Oden went #1; of course Kevin Durant was the 2nd player chosen in that draft. Miami is a good landing spot for Oden. He won’t be asked to try to carry a team and he’ll be able to just worry about rebounding and playing defense. Oden has had three microfracture surgeries on his knee to try to get it right. You’d have to think the Heat will monitor his minutes and not ask Oden to do too much.

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Mock Draft round 5

Posted: August 1, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in Uncategorized
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Today is round 5, but let’s break down round 4 by number of players taken by position.

1)      RB-5

2)      WR-11

3)      QB-2

4)      TE-2

Here comes round 5

Team

Round 5

Postion

Team

1

DeSean Jackson

WR

Eagles

2

Stevie Johnson

WR

Buffalo

3

Kenny Britt

WR

Titans

4

Kyle Rudolf

TE

Vikings

5

Tavon Austin

WR

Rams

6

Ty Hilton

WR

Colts

7

Mike Williams

WR

Tampa Bay

8

Lance Moore

WR

Saints

9

 Owen Daniels

TE

Houston

10

Shane Vereen

WR

Pats

11

Giovani Bernard

RB

Bengals

12

Denarius Moore

WR

Oakland

13

Andre Brown

RB

Giants

14

Sidney Rice

WR

Seattle

15

Anquan Boldin

WR

49ers

16

 Antonio Gates

TE

Chargers

17

Philip Rivers

QB

Chargers

18

Michael Vick

Phil

Eagles

19

Carson Palmer

QB

Arizona

20

 M. Bennett

TE

Bears

 

Tomorrow listen to Sports Time Radio @ 8pm CST on Blog Talk Radio.  I’m sure we will discuss the draft and tweak this so next week is better.  If you have any feedback please email us, we would like to hear from you.

Mock Draft Round 4

Posted: July 31, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in Uncategorized
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The TE position was going to evolve into the dynamic scoring position.  Last year I remember debates about if you could win, if you drafted Jimmy Graham and Rob Gronkowski with your first two picks.  The answer last year was NO and remains true today.  You can get some good production out of the position if you take one of the top 3 TEs, but after that don’t pass on a good WR or RB to take this position.

Let’s recap number of players by position drafted in round three.

1)      RB-7

2)      WR-8

3)      QB-2

4)      TE-3

It is time to start drafting round 4.  Remember this is reverse order team 20-team 1.

Team

Round 4

Postion

Team

20

Andy   Dalton

QB

Bengals

19

R.   Mendenhall

RB

Cardinals

18

Ryan   Mathews

RB

Chargers

17

Marques Colston

WR

New Orleans

16

Steve Smith

WR

Panthers

15

Dwayne Bowe

WR

Chiefs

14

Chris   Ivory

RB

Jets

13

Pierre Garcon

WR

Redskins

12

Jordy Nelson

WR

Packers

11

Cecil Shorts

WR

Jacksonville

10

 Vernon Davis

TE

49ers

9

Eddie   Lacy

RB

Green Bay

8

 Tony Gonzalez

TE

Falcons

7

Miles Austin

WR

Cowboys

6

Joe   Flacco

QB

Baltimore

5

D.Alexander

WR

Chargers

4

Mike Wallace

WR

Steelers

3

Ahmad   Bradshaw

RB

Colts

2

James Jones

WR

Packers

1

Greg Jennings

WR

Vikings

 

 

      

 

Round 4 is now complete and 80 players are off the draft board.  Now is the time in your draft where your research pays off.  This is where you start looking for those sleepers and players that people don’t see their upside.

 

Tomorrow I will post round 5

Mock Draft Round 3

Posted: July 30, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in Uncategorized
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Round 2 is in the books.  Let’s break down number of players drafted by postion.

1)      RB – 5

2)      WR – 6

3)      QB – 9

4)      TE – 0

Here is round 3

Team

Round 3

Postion

Team

1

Jimmy   Graham

TE

New   Orleans

2

R.   Gronkowski

TE

New   England

3

Jason   Witten

TE

Cowboys

4

Frank   Gore

RB

49ers

5

Lamar   Miller

RB

Dolphins

6

David   Wilson

RB

Giants

7

D.   McFadden

RB

Oakland

8

Eli   Manning

QB

Giants

9

Lavon   Bell

RB

Steelers

10

Montee   Ball

RB

Denver

11

Reggie Wayne

WR

Colts

12

Darren   Sproles

RB

New   Orleans

13

D. Amendola

WR

New   England

14

Torrey Smith

WR

Ravens

15

Eric Decker

WR

Denver

16

Ben   Rothlisberg

QB

Steelers

17

Hakeem Nicks

WR

Giants

18

Antonio Brown

WR

Steelers

19

Randal Cobb

WR

Packers

20

Wes Welker

WR

Denver

 

I think this is when you should see the Elite TE start leaving the board.  Wednesday I will do round 4 and I will release this week’s rankings by position on Friday after the completion of this week’s draft.

Mock Draft Round 2

Posted: July 29, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in Uncategorized
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Round 1 is now complete and we saw running backs coming off the board at a fast pace.  I would not be surprised if you get into your draft and people late in the draft start to panic a little and even more running backs are taken.

Let’s break down how many players from each position were drafted

1)      RB-12

2)      WR-5

3)      QB-3

It is now time to start round two.  Remember this is reverse order.  We start with Team 20 and end with team 1.

Team

Round 2

Position

Team

20

AJ   Green

WR

Bengals

19

Larry   Fitzgerald

WR

Cardinals

18

Steven   Jackson

RB

Falcons

17

Chris   Johnson

RB

Titians

16

DeMarco   Murray

RB

Cowboys

15

Tom   Brady

QB

New   England

14

Matt   Ryan

QB

Falcons

13

D.Thomas

WR

Broncos

12

Roddy   White

WR

Falcons

11

Mathew   Stafford

QB

Lions

10

Vincent Jackson

WR

Tampa   Bay

9

Can   Newton

QB

Panthers

8

Steven   Ridley

RB

New   England

7

Colin   Kaepernick

QB

49ers

6

Victor   Cruz

WR

Giants

5

Russell   Wilson

QB

Seattle

4

Reggie   Bush

RB

Lions

3

Robert   Griffin III

QB

Redskins

2

Tony   Romo

QB

Cowboys

1

Andrew   Luck

QB

Colts

 

Round 2 we find 9 QBs coming of the board.  Just don’t panic the QB position is deep this year.

Tuesday I will release round three.

Mock Draft Round 1

Posted: July 28, 2013 by Sports Time Radio in Uncategorized
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Sports Time Radio has asked me to help everyone prepare for the 2013 season of Fantasy Football. I am going to release each week a mock draft. Our mock draft will be a 20 team mock draft and is a PPR league. I will release rounds 1-5. Then based on what has transpired in preseason I will adjust my rankings and redraft each week.

Before I release this week’s mock draft I want to update everyone on key injuries that will affect your draft.

1) Jeremy Maclin – Out for 2013 season

2) Dennis Pita – Out for 2013 season

3) Percy Harvin – Looks like surgery but the time table is not clear. I think it will be significant part of the season. Monitor this closely. He currently has been taken off my board until I see he can play this year.

4) Ben Roethlisberger – Soreness on in his surgically repaired right knee. Nobody has called this a setback, but it is worth watching. He has not fallen on my board yet. He remains number 14 on my board of fantasy QBs.

Let’s start round 1

Team

Round 1

Postion

Team

1

Adrian Peterson

RB

Vikings

2

Arian Foster

RB

Texans

3

Doug Martin

RB

Tampa Bay

4

Calvin Johnson

WR

Lions

5

Marshawn Lynch

RB

Seattle

6

Jamel Charles

RB

Chiefs

7

LeSean McCoy

RB

Eagels

8

Ray Rice

RB

Ravens

9

Brandon Marshall

WR

Bears

10

Aaron Rogers

QB

Green Bay

11

Matt Forte

RB

Bears

12

Drew Brees

QB

Saints

13

Payton Manning

QB

Broncos

14

Alfred Morris

RB

Redskins

15

CJ Spiller

RB

Bills

16

M.J.D

RB

Jacksonville

17

Trent Richardson

RB

Browns

18

Andre Johnson

WR

Texans

19

Dez Byrant

WR

Cowboys

20

Julio Jones

WR

Falcons

Round one is dominated by running backs. If you draft at the top of your draft the only decision you need to make is what running back you will take.

This is the deepest QB draft I can remember, so you can wait a little on this position. I do feel the top three QBs are worth taking in the middle to late first round.

Last year Calvin Johnson and Brandon Marshall scored as many points as the elite running backs did. These two wide receivers are worth taking in the top 10.

I will release round two on Monday 7/29.

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