A recent SI players poll posed the question of who is the most overrated player in baseball. The answer: Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod has long been criticized for his lack of production in clutch situations and his defense is less than stellar. What is also interesting to note is almost all of the players come from the northeast, the media hype capital of the world. The Yankees have five of the the 16 on the list and all but two of the 16 hail from the AL or NL East, though one, Alfonso Soriano, did earlier in his career. The list in order:
1: Alex Rodriguez - Yankees
2. Joba Chamberlain - Yankees
3. Derek Jeter - Yankees
4. Jayson Werth - Nationals
5. Jonathon Papelbon - Red Sox
6. Nick Swisher - Yankees
7. BJ Upton - Rays
8. David Ortiz - Red Sox
9. AJ Burnett - Yankees
10. Manny Ramirez - Rays (Retired)
11. Carlos Beltran - Mets
12. Alfonso Soriano - Cubs
13. Evan Longoria - Rays
14. JD Drew - Red Sox
15. David Wright - Mets
16. Albert Pujols - Cardinals
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When I see this picture, her legs slightly agape, all I can think about is Carrie saddling me up and riding me til the sun comes up; then singing me a lullaby until I fall asleep.
With the Big Aristotle retiring it is only fitting we turn to him for the quote of the day. Actually, we turn to him for ten quotes of the day, each one of a reminder of how much we'll miss him in the NBA.
Sorry for the lateness of this, we had a little group authorship confusion. I'll make up for this gem of pure #fuckfail.
A little back story. I met this girl on the day of my 20th birthday party at my mom's work and six hours later she was riding me as I was alternating between consciousness and blackout. We ended up doing that thing a couple of times later but this story would turn to be the last time.
One night, a couple of weeks after my birthday, a couple of friends and I were playing beer pong. I had been blowing her up all night and finally convinced her to let me come pick her up. She lived about a half hour away and be being 20, with only one thing on my mind and a couple of beers in me, decided the hour round trip was well worth it. After the trek up and back to where we were playing, the night went exactly as expected: drinking, touching, waiting to get back my friend's house where we were staying. After drinking more than is healthy and stopping to get hoagies we made it back to my friends house. He had the basement, a large finished basement, to himself complete with beds, sofa, etc. He turned the room over to me and our lucky lady friend with the one rule of "don't use the fucking bed". So, after a few awkward moments on the couch and a move to my friend's bed, it was on. What I remember for the rest of the night is some awkward sex and then waking up with just a t-shirt on and her sleeping next to me sans clothes. After the always uncomfortable waking her up because my friends and I were going to take her home (three of us were going to drop of papers at our college and her house was on the way) I asked what happened. She started giggling which is NEVER a good sign and went on to tell me I fell asleep mid-sex. On top of her. Inside of her. She then said she let me sleep because I looked really happy. We dropped her off and haven't seen her since.
A LOT happened yesterday in the world of sports so today's Eyeopener might be long enough, and boring enough, to be today's Eyecloser as well. Let's get to it.
-Shaquille O'Neal, perhaps the most dominant force in basketball history on and off the court, has hung up his gigantic sneakers after 19 NBA seasons. O'Neal's name will be all over the record book for years to come: 28,596 points (5th all-time), 13 seasons with at least 20 ppg and 10 rpg (most ever), grabbed 13,099 rebounds (13th all-time), won four NBA Championships, three NBA Finals MVP, one NBA MVP, 15 All-Star game appearances, won two scoring titles, was a three time All-Star game MVP, and made eight All-NBA first team. That, coupled with the fact he moved like a 7'2" ballerina who broke backboards, makes him arguably the best center ever to play.
-Apparently Lance Armstrong's doping test from the 2001 Tour de Suisse was deemed "suspicious" by the lab chief in the land of clocks and anonymous bank accounts. The lab director, Martial Saugy, went on to say the test results were "consistent with EPO use". If true, it is one more piece of evidence mounting against Lance Armstrong's claim of riding clean.
-Can someone help out the Phillies starters with some runs? The Phils dropped a 2-1 decision to John "Lannen" which featured Laynce Nix doing it all from hitting go-ahead home runs to Superman-ing for a slicer in the gap to save two or three runs.
