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The alarm went off for those fans that are hungry for some football news. The NFL just announced the rule changes for 2008.
There was a lot on the table to discuss. For starters, the NFL Playoffs seemed to include an awful controversy as some were proposing a change on the tradition of division winners having home field advantage on the first Playoffs game. The Playoffs reseeding would’ve been weird. Fortunately, most of the owners thought it was nonsense and left Playoffs just the way they are. I mean, if your football team finishes as Division leader and can’t even count on a home advantage, what’s the point?
But the changes that did kick in were the elimination of forceout on receptions, and the “coin toss power” that now will allow the coin-toss-winning team to defer its decision to the second half (just like in college). This rule will be a good one when it comes to strategy (and our betting strategy too): this gives the team another option to plan the game. Also, replay will be allowed to review field goals and extra points. This one will be really useful, I actually think how dumb not having it is.
There’s still a while left before seeing these new rules in practice, but at least we can have an idea of how our games will be from now on.
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Yesterday we were just talking about the famous Sidd Finch and his outstanding pitching skills as he was supposedly being hired by the Mets. Well, now the Mets could use that guy (too bad he doesn’t exist) to make it up now that pitcher Pedro Martinez is injured.
Let’s be honest: this just sucks. At least for New York. Martinez got injured on his MLB Season’s debut against the Florida Marlins. He just reached the fourth inning and that was it! His left hamstring left him out of the game. Now he is waiting for the MRI exam to determine how bad it was and how much this could keep him off the games.
This was just one of the few times when Pedro Martinez has started since his surgery on 2006. If they play it right, maybe it doesn’t affect the team that much. But this definitely call the other MLB teams to spot the Mets’ weaknesses and take advantage. We’ll see how many of them make it.
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For this April Fool’s Day, I was thinking of creating a fake shocking story and wait for the reactions. But that’s what everbody does. So, instead of trying to play joker, I’m talking about other people’s hoax.
Sure, today you were probably amazed by Google’s plan to gather a few people and travel to Mars, YouTube featured videos or even with the Legend of Zelda movie trailer. But good old sports fans (especially baseball betting fans) will never forget the best April Fool’s Day sports hoax ever: Sidd Finch.
The Sidd Finch hoax was so damn cool and clever that it’s listed as #2 in the Museum of Hoaxes’ Top 100 April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. Sports Illustrated published Sidd Finch’s story on the April issue in 1985. Sidd (from Siddharta) was supposed to be a rookie training to play with the New York Mets, a yoga freak who could throw a ball at 168mph. His story was really weird: he was a Harvard dropout who went to Tibet and learned from the great Lama Milaraspa the techniques that allowed him to throw at that speed. He was an amazing potential pitcher for the Mets, even when he hadn’t even played baseball in his life.
Lots of people were taken in, and even called to know more information about the rookie. Baseball bettors were probably saving all their money to put it on the new star! So be careful with this month’s issue of any magazine. TV hoaxes at least are just for 1 day, but monthly editions can be tricky.
In the meantime, just play it cool at BookPerHead where all bookies sign up and receive 1 year totally free!!! ….
… Ok, ok, I just had to try the hoax thing. But you do get a free week when you sign up, that’s for real!….
Source: Museum of Hoaxes
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