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Monday, December 11, 2006

Monday Morning Sports Report

posted by on December 11 at 9:47 AM

Seahawks: Fucking hell. A loss to the Arizona Cardinals? On a week when we should’ve wrapped up the division? Where was our D? Super Bowl caliber teams don’t give up a touchdown bomb to the Cardinals on their very first play of the game—but then, the Hawks aren’t a Super Bowl team. They haven’t been one all season.

Turnovers, an inability to stop the run, no luck running the ball themselves—it was quite the clusterfuck of a game for the Hawks. They may have lost by a single touchdown but it felt like a blowout. Our defense was slow and unable to tackle. And even when we got breaks—like Julian Peterson’s miraculous interception that really wasn’t—we managed to deliver the Cardinals a break in return. At least Nate Burleson and D.J. Hackett showed up to play. And Hasselbeck’s fumble recovery was nice.

Adding insult to injury: San Diego RB LaDainian Tomlinson broke Shaun Alexander’s single-season touchdown record yesterday—with three games left to play. That there is a real MVP.

Up next, a Thursday night game—short week: joy!—against the San Francisco 49ers. Hell, if the Hawks can cough up a 100-yard game to Edgerrin James, Frank Gore just might run for 300 on Thursday.

Mariners: Fox Sports is reporting that the M’s are close to signing pitcher Miguel Batista. Dave at U.S.S. Mariner
thinks…

…Miguel Batista is not what this team needs. He’s a durable guy that turns 36 in February who keeps the ball in the yard and won’t get you blown out of ballgames, but he doesn’t miss bats and has mediocre command. That package makes him a #4 starter on a team with a good rotation, but now, he’s the Mariners #2 starter. A three year contract would wrap him up through his age 38 season.

If the Batista signing comes through, the rotation will be Felix and four guys who profile as back of the rotation arms. They’ll be paying in excess of $20 million for Jarrod Washburn, Miguel Batista, and Horacio Ramirez. That’s just poor roster construction, and the opportunity cost is just as large as the salary.

Sonics: Luke Ridnour mustered 13 points in the fourth quarter to help the Supes beat Golden State 117-115.

Tonight: It’s Bears vs. Rams on MNF. Rex Grossman is playing for his job, and Marc Bulger has managed to piss off his entire team. But hey, at least the Chicago Fan/Mike in MO trash-talking should be entertaining.

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If Deion Branch had stuck his shoulder upfield instead of trying to do too much in the final seconds, the Seahawks would likely be 9-4 right now. And if we had a mediocre placekicker, the Hawks could be 5-8.

Our "points for" is still fewer than our "points against". The Hawks are cardiac kids. Too bad they lost yesterday, but I'm having fun watching them this year. I'm hoping for a monsoon on Thursday.

Posted by DOUG. | December 11, 2006 10:38 AM
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The Hawks will win the division, no problem. But the loss to Arizona will likely cost them the #2 seed, meaning we'll be travelling to New Orleans in round 2.

Other weekend sports action of note:
Zags annihilated the Huskies in mens hoops. At the end of a 9-year contract, the Huskies are not going to renew the rivalry. Must have something to do with the Zags winning 8 of those 9 games.

UW womens volleyball beats #5 Penn State to advance to the Final Four.

Posted by him | December 11, 2006 12:28 PM
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Fucking Seahawks!!!!!!

Posted by Beamer | December 11, 2006 3:00 PM
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RE: Seahags losing to AZ...Welcome to my world. When did the Cardinals get good?

RE: MNF...my trash talking will commence as soon as the Lambs win. which, apparently will be next season sometime.

Posted by Mike in MO | December 11, 2006 3:28 PM
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Terrible tackling, Alexander didn't run straight ahead as much he zigged or zig-zagged right into an Arizona D-liner/LB. Hard to watch.

I am excited about Chicago Fan's team vs. MiMo's team tonight. I'm always getting home at halftime, but a day off today and watching the pregame after watching the pre-pregame. Nice.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | December 11, 2006 4:49 PM
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I don't hate Miguel Batista at all (he's alright), but for the money he commanded, he really wasn't worth it. That said, Bavasi's already blown this offseason, and he had money to burn (the team doesn't roll over money saved; they'd just pocket it), so can't blame him for trying and getting someone with some capability.

The game I really liked was last night's Cowboys-Saints game. Talk about a bitchslapping the Saints gave the Cowboys. Reggie Bush's 61 yard TD, where he leaped out of about 2-3 leg tackles and ran past the clutches of basically the entire Cowboys defense, was amazing, as was the 4th Down Tony Romo pass that miraculously went through a Saints defenders hands into T.O.'s for the TD, as was Devery Henderson leaping over two Cowboy defenders to catch a bomb at the 5 and then CRAWLING the last 5 yards for the TD because he wasn't touched. And that was in the span of about 15 minutes.

The Seahawks will win the West but I don't see them getting past the divisional playoffs this year. Injuires or not, they just don't have it together; told you they were gonna miss Steve Hutchinson.

Posted by Gomez | December 11, 2006 9:30 PM
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I didn't even mention the Saints fullback Mike Karney, by no means a key player on that team, scoring the first 3 TDs of his career in that game.

GREAT blowout by the Saints. I would not be surprised to see them in the Super Bowl this year.

Posted by Gomez | December 11, 2006 9:32 PM

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