Taking a tour of the Detroit Sports Scene
The 3 dozen Lions fans left are mad as hell
and they’re not going to take it anymore
Big Al over at the Wayne Fontes Experience gets his snark on looking at the 5 most hated men in Detroit sports. It’s a good list. There’s no doubt who’s #1 on the list.
Millen is historically bad. Legendarily bad. The sort of bad that will be talked about for generations. When you look up bad in the encyclopedia, you’ll see Millen’s picture. Millen will be the comparison used when talking about how low a GM can take a franchise. Millen is so bad, that no other GM will ever be allowed to surpass Millen’s ineptness, as they would have been canned long before they could do Millen-esque damage to a franchise.
Yep, much like the Mendoza line in baseball I think there is going to be something called the Millen line. Any GM who gets close to Millen’s record of futility will be out the door.
“Well Bob, he just completed his 4th straight season as GM where his team hasn’t broken .500. That gets him awfully close to the Millen line. Don’t you think it’s about time they sh*tc#n that jagoff?”
“Totally, f@ck him!”
Totally.
Moving along, Christy over at Behind the Jersey has a good roundtable on what makes Detroit such a good sports city. Kurt at Mack Avenue Tigers makes a compelling case for why the past year has put Detroit at the top of the list for the best sports city.
“I’d say it’s got to be No. 1, at least this year…With the Wings and Pistons in the conference finals and the Tigers coming off an American League championship the previous season, it’s pretty hard to find any city that can match that claim. And of course, the metro area is filled with college grads who saw the University of Michigan football team have a pretty successful season and Michigan State won the college hockey national championship.
Melblog gives us five reasons why the Cavaliers beat the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals. I think the five can really be narrowed down to two, but both are included in the list.
3. Flip Saunders showed us that he really sucks in the playoffs. During the regular season, he does a great job. He manages talent, he has good plays, but he lacks the most important thing a coach needs to win a high profile playoff series, ADAPTABILITY. He refuses to adapt, much like Avery Johnson against the Warriors, he could not change his team’s play. Also, he sucks at milking, yes, milking. Milking is when you have a cow and you extract as much milk from it as possible. Milking is also when you have a player-on-fire (Maxiell, Sheed, etc.) and you keep him in the game. Flip sucks at milking. When he sees players doing well, he likes to bench them for some reason.
2. LeBron James. urgh. Yeah yeah, he’s the next Jordan, ok, whatever, moving on.
Yep, those are the two main reasons in my opinion. Give LeBron his due but also realize that if you gave Mike Brown this Pistons team and you gave Flip the LeBrons, Mike Brown wins the series in four. It’s just too bad that the only person in some way related to the Pistons who is crazier than Rasheed Wallace is Larry Brown. If we wasn’t a complete idiot the Pistons would have been in much better shape over the past two seasons. I’m not a Brown fan by any stretch, but there’s no doubt Flip Saunders pales quite a bit in comparison.
The University of Michigan baseball team knocked off the #1 team in the country in the NCAA baseball tournament. Brian over at MGoBlog linked to Blue Cats & Red Sox’s article on the team’s big win to vault them into the Super Regionals.
They had to beat NUMBER ONE RANKED Vanderbilt…. twice! And, goodness, they did! They lost the middle game, but it was unlikely that they were going to make it out of this round, because, you know… Vanderbilt! Ranked number one in the country! And Michigan DID make it out of the round, they’re on to the Super Regionals, and Vanderbilt… now they’ve fallen to THE WOLVERINES!
Head coach Rich Maloney has done an incredible job turning the program around. They are headed to the Super Regionals in his 5th season and the team is preparing to move into a brand new baseball and softball complex.
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