The Ramble: Instant Replay, NFL, Plummer's 'Stache, Ryder Cup, Ryan Howard, And More
Published September 23, 2006
I’ll keep it short and sweet as space is short and the topics are many.
Get Rid Of Instant Replay. Instant replay sucks. Su-su-su-sucks? That’s right, sucks. The only reason I’m here is that I might buy this crummy snobatorium (name the movie). Anyway, instant replay was supposed to fix problems but all it has done is add another layer of human involvement in the process of officiating football games. The instant replay system does nothing more than provide another opportunity for human error — high-tech aided human error, but human error nonetheless. The system still depends on people, and as we all know, people screw up everything that they lay their hands on.
Jake Plummer’s Mustache. The mustache must go. Jake can keep his starting job, but the “Porn 'Stache” needs to be shaved off ASAFP. It’s really awful looking and can’t engender support or earn respect from his teammates.
Bad NFL Teams. There’s nothing worse than a bad NFL team. Teams that leap to mind; the Raiders, the Redskins, the Lions, the Packers, the Titans, the Texans.
Daunte Culpepper. Brand new knee, same bad head. With all the attention spent on the Dolphin quarterback’s miraculous recovery from major knee surgery everyone seemed to forget that Culpepper has been pretty bad ever since he lost Randy Moss a few seasons ago. Even though is knee is all better, his decision making still stinks. Can we expect a Joey Harrington appearance?
Terrell Owens. Now that he’s back on the field he actually has to live up to the hype. During the first two weeks of the season he hasn’t even been the best receiver on his team, never mind on the field. All eyes will be on Owens when he and the Cowboys check into Philly on October 8.
The Washington Redskins. What a great failure story. Owner Daniel Snyder has thrown money at everyone from Steve Spurrier to John Hall as well as guys at almost every position on the field and has little to show for it. This season he joined forces with deposed movie star/Scientologist Tom Cruise. Based on this association with Snyder, Cruise’s career is in jeopardy.
The Ryder Cup. It was played in dreary old Ireland this past weekend and the Americans lost.
Sal Marinello is a National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer, a U.S.A. Weightlifting Certified Coach, a full-time, private Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach, an assistant football coach and a Head Strength Coach for a suburban New Jersey High School. He writes a lot and has no free time. 
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- The Ramble: Instant Replay, NFL, Plummer's 'Stache, Ryder Cup, Ryan Howard, And More
- Published: September 23, 2006
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I'll admit ignorance here: What did Kenny Rogers do that was so awful in the 1996 playoffs? He was a Yankee then, right? And the Yankees won the WS that year over the Braves, right?
I guess he had a bad start in ONE GAME during the 1996 WS, but that's all I know of. There must be more to this story...
he also choked as a rental with the mets in '99 and was then banished to texas, minnesota, texas again and detroit where he flourished where there was no pressure. he also turned down a trade to go from an also ran team to a contender somewhere in there.
and of course he attacked the cameraman last year.
so he's a great guy to pick on.
Rogers' numbers in the 96 playoffs:
4 games (3 starts), 7 innings, 11 ER, 6 walks, 14.14 ERA
woa...those numbers are worth at least two cameraman smackdowns.
Yeah hockey is back. Finally get to watch a real sport.
Rogers screws the Tigers BEFORE the playoffs even start!
Here...
He shouldn't have been in the game in the first place.
Inge's error. Rodney's 8th-inning jam.
Well, that link doesn't seem to wanna work right now...
Anyway...in extra innings (in a relief appearance), he pitched 2 innings, gave up 3 hits, walked 3, gave up 2 runs (both earned), and had 0 strikeouts. He was hit with the loss, which knocked the Tigers out of 1st place for the first time since, like, January or something.
It was also the last game of the season, which means the Tigers lose the AL Central to Minnesota and have to stagger into the playoffs as a Wild Card team on a five-game losing streak, at Yankee Stadium.
but did he punch any cameramen???
I'm well aware of the ramifications of the loss, which was credited to Rogers, but it's hardly his fault. Not when you blow a 3-run lead in the 8th inning.
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The Tigers won't have to rely on any one pitcher. In a seven game series they will be able to throw seven starters at you: Kenny Rogers, Justin Verlander, Jeremy Bonderman, Nate Robertson, Wil Ledezma, Mike Maroth, and Zach Miner.
Three of those -- probably the latter three -- will all come from the bullpen and can fill in for two or three innings if young Verlander allows two or three runs after five innings, for example.
if they had to rely on Rogers -- he has a WS ring despite blowing in the '96 playoffs -- then yes they'd be in trouble.