Cleaning out the Inbox

The inbox is quite full and some of this stuff is less than timely,but in any event,it needs dumped...

The Pirates appear to close to signing Jose Tabata and Neil Walker to contract extensions.
Later tonight,I hope to have time on why this could be a good idea for one and maybe not for the other....

Thanks to the rain and resulting delay,I only was able to see a few innings of the Pirates loss to the Reds,so not going to bother with coverage.

To those of you that have written about the lack of pre-season football coverage,it does not look any better as I just cannot stand the stuff for the most part.
There will be pre-season previews for both the Browns and Seahawks before the opening Sunday.
Look for more Seahawk talk this season,although not to the level of the Browns.
With my work schedule allowing Sundays off,I will be able to devote more time to the late game than last season and no,I do not plan on working a lot of Sundays during the season,either!

Good news,bad news for me on one of our favorites-Kathryn Tappen,who is leaving NESN and her job as studio host for the Boston Bruins.
But the better news is that she left for NHL Network,which could give her more time on a network that could use some zap on a less than interesting studio bunch.
If NESN lost Jack Edwards,they would be perhaps the best local coverage in the league!

I am glad to see hockey return to Winnipeg and I certainly do not think Atlanta could make a solid case to keep their team,but I do feel for the hardcore fans there that lost the Thrashers.
This article looks at some of the jilted Atlanta hockey fans that there just were not enough of.
Between the Flames and the Thrashers,Atlanta's chances of ever having NHL hockey again looks very dim.

The Iowa-Iowa State football game has always been played for the "Cy-Hawk" trophy,which makes sense as a name,but a new trophy for the series has been designed.
Check this out and tell me that despite it being a fine piece of artwork,what exactly it has to do with the Cyclones,Hawkeyes or even football?
Sometimes change for the sake of change is not the best idea.

Finally,the obscure parking garage that Bob Woodward met "Deep Throat" Mark Felt in for information on the Watergate scandal has been marked with a historical marker in Rosslyn,Virginia.
I have always been a casual observer of the scandal and it is nice to have the marker raised.

Photo Credit:WTOP/Paul D. Shinkman