2013 MLB Preview

Ah, isn't it wonderful? The daily countdowns to pitchers and catchers reporting followed by the daily joke about the pitching and catching slur. The NFL playoffs coming to an end (although for me, they are far from over! GO RAVENS!) and the NBA season approaching All-Star Weekend. This all points to the baseball season coming quick! And with it, my annual preview that will just fall short and likely embarrass me. I can't break tradition, I owe it to my seven readers.

NFL Conference Championships Preview

The division round of the postseason taught us a lot about what to expect from the Conference Championships. That you can't expect anything.

Everyone expected Seattle to waltz into Atlanta and knock off the NFC's number one seed. Matt Ryan and the Falcons are still playing. More people were picking the Packers to march into Candlestick Park and handily beat the 49ers because "you don't bet against Aaron Rodgers." While the loss can't be blamed on Rodgers, a loss is a loss and San Francisco moved on. 

If I Had A Vote...

The past is the past, and it can not be changed. This is a fact. The Steroid Era of the 1990's has come and gone in baseball. It has saved the game and, at the same time, given a black eye to it. It has been the topic for many conversations, ranging from would this guy get your vote to how do you base who gets in and who doesn't.

NFL Division Round Preview

No real big surprises came from this past weekend's slate of games, but will the divisional round produce different results? Me think yes.

Have you ever been out to eat at a really nice restaurant? Hah, what am I saying, my fans are all wealthy and pompous pricks, of course you have! (I'm gonna try to insult all you guys like a boy who is mean to his crush in middle school, but know that I appreciate you all and I hope you enjoyed my personal Christmas cards from me this year) Did you find yourself pointing out all of the flaws of the place, despite it being regarded as some five-star, gorgeous institution for perfect cuisine? The food was too expensive. The service was worse than that found at Good Burger. The lights were so damn dim, how do they expect me to see my food, they probably poisoned it. The music they played went out of style centuries ago, unless you want to fall asleep, don't bother going there. The waiter was gay, I thought that was illegal.

NFL Wild Card Weekend Preview

Some interesting games and matchups are slated for the kickoff weekend of the NFL playoffs. Do the wild cards have the upper hands?

This season was as unpredictable as any in recent memory in the NFL, as upsets seemed to be the norm week in and week out. Well, now the postseason has arrived. Will upsets continue in the second season? As a Ravens fan, I hope not.

2012 Belongs To....

As 2012 comes to a draw, I got to wondering who can claim they were 2012. Its a tough question that can only be answered with a bracket. 2012 belongs to.....

The other day while I was at work, I asked someone if they would be spending their New Year's making dead pool gags about Dick Clark when I was reminded that Dick Clark died earlier this year. This really has nothing to do with my story though.

My idea is to come up with a winner for 2012. You might be saying that's a pretty vague statement. How does one win a year? I thought the same thing after I came up with the idea, but after a solid thirty minutes of trying to come up with a criteria that would help me definitively declare a winner for the year 2012 and how I could tie it in with a sports/kindofpopculture blog, I finally had somewhat of an idea on how I was going to do this. Now if any of my readers commented on my blog, those comments for this story would probably be insulting to my criteria, the fact that I didn't know the difference between Honda and Hyundai until around three years ago and that I own Mike Greenberg's biography Why My Wife Thinks I'm An Idiot  and I am not even old enough to legally drink a beer yet. Alas, no one will leave a comment so my self-esteem remains intact.