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This does not bode well for Brock Lesnar. Mir has habitually showed up out of shape for his fights, and now that he is in shape, I’m even more confident in my prediction that he’ll submit Lesnar.
Wow. We can see his abs. I’m shocked. I truly think that Lesnar has almost no chance.  Tags: alt, bet, Brock Lesnar, chest, crap, fact, frank mir, Holy, href, img, Jon Jones, prediction, shape, verse, Categories: MMA One comment so far Ryan Church has been traded to the Braves for Jeff Francoeur according to Newsday’s David Lennon. My first reaction to this trade is confusion. 1) It’s the rare inter-division trade Church was a player who seemed to fall into Jerry Manuel’s doghouse (for no apparent reason) and was never able to crawl out. Sure he’s under-performing this year (.280/.332/.375) but a lot of those struggles can be attributed to Citi Field being a pitcher friendly park. His home-run per fly ball ratio is 3.5%, a disturbingly low number compared to his career average of about 16%. He also has an OPS of .803 on the road as opposed to .575 at home. Church is never going to be a star but he’s a guy who is going to give you an OPS of around .800. In fact his June numbers were more in line with career norms (.307/.361/.453). Francoeur is a very talented player who was never able to top his rookie season. His rookie season (70 games in ‘05) he hit .300/.3336/.549 and seemed poised to be a breakout player. However since ‘05 he hasn’t managed to put up an OPS higher than .782 and for the past two years he has struggled to crack a .650 OPS. Francoeur sees about 3.3 pitches per plate appearance and has struck out 46 times this year. A patient hitter he is not. The Mets must think they can somehow salvage Francoeurs career. At five years younger than Church, the 25 year old Francoeur obviously has a much higher ceiling. Contractually Francoeur has two more years of arbitration before reaching free agency and makes $3.375 million this season. Church makes $2.8 million this season and also has two more years of arbitration before hitting free agency. How the Mets think they can fix Francoeur is beyond me. He’s an all or nothing type slugger who is only going to be hurt (A LOT) by Citi Field. He’s going to strike out a ton, not get and base and I guarantee you as the Mets fall deeper and deeper into a black hole he’s going to become a target of the Mets fans ire. This is a terrible, terrible trade for the Mets. They don’t save any money, don’t get any prospects and most likely will waive Francouer at seasons end. Unless they can justify paying Francoeur over $4 million next season to put up terrible numbers. Tags: apparent reason, arbitration, atlanta church, black hole, braves, career average, doghouse, fly ball, jeff francouer, mets, Newsday, norms, ops, pitches, plate appearance, rookie season, ryan church, s david, storied rivalry, talented player, Categories: MLB 2 comments - be the next! Who knew that Jon Jones is a father at age 21? He’s three years younger than me and has a kid. That’s just shocking. Steve Cofield and Cagewriter asked him a bunch of questions and I can’ get over how humble Jones is. My favorite answer is when he is asked how he was exposed to MMA, and his response was playing as Wanderlei Silva in the PRIDE video game. 
I <3 Jon Jones. Yann Danis officially became an ex-Islander today, signing a contract with the New Jersey Devils. It was clear he wasn’t coming back, and if there was any chance of him re-signing, it went out the window when the Isles signed Dwayne Roloson. Danis now takes his trade to the Devils, where he’ll likely back up Martin Brodeur. Danis didn’t have much help last season with the Islanders, but still put up fairly respectable numbers. Now, he heads to the Prudential Center, where he’ll make a handsome salary to operate the door of the bench. He actually might see more playing time than is customary for a Devils backup if their next coach wisely gives Brodeur a rest every now and again. And no team will make Danis look as good as the Devils will. There’s one absolute certainty in all of this. The Devils will sit Brodeur for at least one Islanders-Devils game this year, and Danis will come in and absolutely stonewall his former team. How could Islanders fans expect anything else?  We here at The 3rd String Safety would like to introduce you to the latest contributors to our website. These two men have been writing about the NHL for almost a year now and through a stroke of genius and tedious late night negotiations at some of our favorite watering holes, have agreed to syndicate their blog posts. These two men that I speak of are Zach Schiff and Bryan Berg. Both of these gentlemen have a passion for Hockey that the rest of us here at 3ss cannot fully appreciate, since to be honest, most of us simply aren’t interested. From today forward, you will be able to find all of their latest posts both here on our blog and over at their original nesting location The New York Hockey Rivalry. Also be sure to click on the NHL category at the top of your screen to check out all of their older posts which are now hosted here on our website. Please welcome these men to our team and we hope you enjoy the insight on the NHL that they bring to our website! If your a long time golf fan, you probaly know who Lee Janzen is. If you’ve ever read Although Janzen is not one of the more prominantly featured players in the book. Feinstein talks a lot about how Janzen skyrocked to fame after a U.S Open win in 1988, but never quite reached the pottential that man thought he had. Janzen’s career has been a gigantic roller coaster- fluxuating between the highest of highs and absolute mediocrity. Case in point- Janzen has not won since his second U.S Open triumph in 1998. Now, I don’t know if day one of the John Deere classic in Silvis, Illinois would qualify as anything close to a U.S Open win. But for a guy that hasn’t won in eleven years, at least its something. Janzen shot a seven under 64 yesterday. This tied him at the top with Darron Stiles. Stiles has had a brutal year, making only two of twelve cuts. His highest finish came at the Zurich Classic when he tied for 34th. Something tells me that this will be a one day bit of glory for Darron. Janzen actully had an outright lead on the 18th hole yesterday, but boggeyed it to allow Stiles to creep into the first place cabin. J.J Henry, Matt Bettencourt, and Dean Wilson are one stroke off the lead. Defending champ and my pick for player of the year, Kenny Perry, shot a three under 68 and sits tied for 24th. Tommorow will be about making a move up the leaderboard to put him in striking distance for the weekend. Perry had three bogeys in the first round. Early returns are that David Duval has not returned from the dead. It looks like the U.S Open may have been a fluke after all. Duval shot a four over 75 in the first round and sits tied for 140th place. He has to play vertully perfect golf today to even think about the weekend. Looks like we may be looking at Duval’s 10th missed cut of the season. Hey, I hate working weekends too. Tags: a good walk spoiled, a long walk spoiled, cut, David, david duval, duval, feinstein, janzen, john, john feinstein, jordan, jordan lauterbach, kenny, kenny perry, Lauterbach, lee, lee janzen, Long, long walks, missing, missing cuts, perry, pga, pga tour, player, player of the year, player of year, tiger, tiger woods, trunk slamming, walking, weekends, woods, Working, year, Categories: PGA 3 comments - be the next! |
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