The Professor plays with his Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford dolls during bathtime…
Carl Crawford doll: Carl Crawford is better. I get on base first and score lots of runs.
Evan Longoria doll: Evan Longoria is better. I hit home runs and drive in lots of runs.
Carl Crawford doll: Oh, really, fool?
Evan Longoria doll: Really!
The Professor: (noticing swan on edge of tub) Stop looking at me, swan.
BJ Upton and Justin Upton have started a website (theuptonbrothers.com) and they are running a contest for somebody to design their new logo.
Register and upload your logo below and show us what you got. The winning logo will be on everything Upton, including our new website. Plus the winner receives cool prizes.
We don’t want to give ours away, but it has something to do with BJ Upton’s back and a flyball landing on the warning track.
Portfolio.com looked at 82 different US and Canadian markets to determine which cities are best suited to support professional sports franchises. Tampa did not fare so well (thanks Jordi)…
Nineteen areas are overextended, with Denver, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Tampa facing the worst problems. The income bases of these overextended markets are inadequate for their existing teams, let alone any new ones.
Of those 19 areas, 12 of them are home to MLB teams (San Francisco-Oakland has two teams). Only two markets without baseball teams (New Jersey and San Bernardino, CA) were deemed to be able to support big league baseball.
Meanwhile, remember the ABC group that released it’s final report on the Rays stadium recommendations? The same group that was formed by the mayor of St. Pete? Well now that ABC has basically said the Rays should be in Tampa, the city of St. Pete no longer wants anything to do with the ABC group.
“We appreciate ABC’s efforts,” City Attorney John Wolfe and Senior Administrator Rick Mussett wrote Tuesday in a memo to the council. “However, any relationship the city may have had with ABC has been effectively severed.”
Politicians fighting. And the only ones that will lose are the fans. Thanks assholes.
DEVIL DOGS WEBTOPIA…
