Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Category: Sports

  • Aaron Rodgers is Ridiculous

    The best tweet I saw about the Packers/Cardinals game:

  • Michigan State Craziness

    https://twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/status/668215153444409344

  • Aaron Rodgers is Ridiculous

    Via Skeptical Football from fivethirtyeight.com, here’s the career touchdown to interception graph for QBs since 1960:

    Followed by a chart for the current year showing how well a quarterback is playing (Rodgers, very) compared to how much the team spends on his offensive teammates (Packers, not much). As an example, the receiver for the Packers with the most TD catches was cut by the Giants in the pre-season…

    Ridiculous…

  • Rain Wins

    It should have been a great sports night in NYC. Yankees hosting division rival Toronto and Serena playing at the US Open.

    Rain, rain, go away.

    Guess I’ll have to watch the cheating Patriots tonight…What’s the over/under on mentions of ball pressure?

  • Somebody Get Katie Ledecky A Time Machine

    A great headline by FiveThirtyEight.

    If you don’t know who she is, she won the 2012 Olympic gold medal for 800m freestyle swimming. At 15. And it wasn’t close.

    She recently broke a world record in a qualifying heat. Meaning when she wasn’t really trying.

    In April she swam a 400m freestyle heat in  4:02:67 (off her record pace). Michael Phelps swam it in the same time that day.

    And FiveThirtyEight.com just took it a little further:

    In other words, it’s not just that she can play with the boys. If you took Katie Ledecky in a (backward) time machine to some point before August 1961, she would quite likely be the fastest human being in water in the history of the Earth — over any distance.

    She’s 18.

  • I Know Nothing

    Tom Brady channels his inner Sargent Schultz.

    Brady also said he was not aware of the rules that govern the inflation levels of footballs until after an Oct. 16, 2014, game against the New York Jets.

    Yet in 2006:

    Brady sought Manning’s help because he felt a change by the competition committee would be advantageous for quarterbacks since most have specific preferences for how they like the football.

    Former Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer told AZCentral.com that Brady also reached out to him several years ago regarding the footballs. He signed a letter for Brady to show support for a rule change.

     

  • Tom Brady – Cheater

    At least in the eyes of Jets fans…

    A plane flying above Patriots practice:

  • Tabloid Fun With Brady

    I had high hopes for the NY Daily News and NY Post today after Brady’s suspension was upheld, but smashing a phone just isn’t as funny as talking about his balls.

    The Daily News was pretty conventional with bad puns:

    Front:

    DNFront

    Back:

    The NY Post ignored it on the back cover and had this strange hybrid Gisele/Tom front cover.

    Can’t say I understand it, but if it sells papers…

  • Yankees?

    I think all Yankee fans approached this season with great trepidation. If the bullpen was as good as we thought, the starting pitching stayed healthy and a bunch of old guys returned to form we had a shot.

    I listed those in decreasing order of likelihood at the beginning of the season. A-Rod and Teixeira playing like All Stars? Who saw that coming?

    We’re all still holding our breath when Tanaka pitches, hoping his arm holds. CC Sabathia looks washed up. But the bullpen is everything we hoped and more. Betances/Miller covering the 8th and 9th with ERAs of 1.40 and 1.62 respectively and WHIP of  0.82 and 0.69 (Mariano who?).

    So I’m slowing getting enthusiastic. Perhaps there will be September baseball this year…

  • Canyon of Heroes

    Ticker Tape parade for the US Women’s Soccer team: