EMPTYING OUT THE DESK DRAWER OF SPORTS TOPICS AND QUOTES OF THE WEEK
- Summer will officially come early to the TD Banknorth Garden this year. For the first time since the 2000-01 season, both the Celtics and Bruins will miss the playoffs, thus confirming that it will be a dark Spring on Causeway Street. Of course to anyone following the fortunes (or misfortunes) of both teams all year, this isnot news to anyone that has followed the fortunes (or misfortunes) of both teams. The Bruins officially threw in the towel with the trade of Sergei Samsonov, and confirmed previous suspicions that the organization was a ruderless ship, when GM Mike O'Connoll was fired at the end of March. Of course by all indications current interim GM Jeff Gorton is the early favorite to replace O'Connell, despite the fact that candidates such as Dean Lombardi and Brian Burke are available. If Gorton does indeed get the nod, it will just confirm the fact that Jacobs likes to be surrounded by his loyal soldiers rather than someone with fresh ideas, who may not agree with the philsophies that have permeated the organization for as long as the Jacobs/Sinden regime has been in power.
- A point that is equally puzzling occured earlier this week, when Gorton closed the door on drafting Boston College forward Chris Collins. Of course there is no gaurantee that Collins would be the savior that the organization has been looking for, but with such a talented kid playing right in their backyard, isn't it worth it to atleast give the kid a shot, rather than just dismissing him as "not NHL ready", as the Bruins appear to be doing? I mean, how far would they really have to travel if they wantedto schedule a workout? This is just another mystery regarding how the Boston Bruins do business. For those keeping score at home, Collin's name can be now added to the list that includes players such as Chris Drury, Keith Tcachuk, Jay Pandolfo, Jeremy Roenick and others that played their high school and college games as close as an MBTA ride away from the Garden, yet somehow escaped the Bruins reach.
- It was good to see that the Patriots got a deal done for Richard Seymour this past week, avoiding what could have been a protracted contract standoff after the 2006 season. The contract is for four years and will make Seymour one of the highest paid defensive linemen in the NFL, and most important to the Patriots, is salary cap friendly. According to reports, Seymour will recieve a 5.34 Million dollar bonus, and a base salary of $585,000 base salary for 2006. In 2007 he will get an 18.66 Million dollar bonus and a $600,000 base salary. For '08, the base salary jumps to $730,000, and during the 2009 season, the contract calls for a 3.685 Million dollar salary escalation.
So now the Patriots have arguably the best D Limenan in the NFL locked up for atleast three more years, and have cap room to try and get a deal done with WR Deion Branch, who is scheduled to become a free agent at the conclusion of the 2006 season. It seemed to be a quick and painless negotation, as far as Seymour and his agent are concerned, but pretty painful from the Patriots standpoint when you consider the players that they had to let walk to clear out salary cap space ( David Givens, Willie McGinnest, Adam Vinatieri). That is the cost of doing business in the salary cap era. Left unanswered is the question of what will happen if a player of lesser talent signs a deal that trumps Seymour's contract (which is boundto happen eventually). Number 93 sidestpped the question when presented with such a scenario by the Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe in Friday's edition. So in the end the Patriots and Seymour's agents managed to prolong the inevitable, which when you get right down to it, that is what free agencey is all about in the NFL.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"I just saw a 20 wheel brinks truck pull up, Seymour must have signed."
- Unnamed Patriots employee commenting on Richard Seymour's contract signing
"The White House is not an intelligence gathering agency."
- White House Spokesman Scott McClellan when asked whether President Bush knew that the identification of Iraqui trailers as "biological laboratories" had already been debunked
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Fenway Park."
- Red Sox P.A. announcer Karl Bean welcoming fans to last Tuesday's opening day game
" I don't think it bothers me directly as much as it bothers me that my family has to hear that... As long as the guys in the room appreciate what I'm doing for the organization, then I'm fine."
- Bruins Defenseman Hall Gill's reaction to getting booed when he name was announced for an assist, during Thursday's game at the TD Bank North Garden.
- Summer will officially come early to the TD Banknorth Garden this year. For the first time since the 2000-01 season, both the Celtics and Bruins will miss the playoffs, thus confirming that it will be a dark Spring on Causeway Street. Of course to anyone following the fortunes (or misfortunes) of both teams all year, this isnot news to anyone that has followed the fortunes (or misfortunes) of both teams. The Bruins officially threw in the towel with the trade of Sergei Samsonov, and confirmed previous suspicions that the organization was a ruderless ship, when GM Mike O'Connoll was fired at the end of March. Of course by all indications current interim GM Jeff Gorton is the early favorite to replace O'Connell, despite the fact that candidates such as Dean Lombardi and Brian Burke are available. If Gorton does indeed get the nod, it will just confirm the fact that Jacobs likes to be surrounded by his loyal soldiers rather than someone with fresh ideas, who may not agree with the philsophies that have permeated the organization for as long as the Jacobs/Sinden regime has been in power.
- A point that is equally puzzling occured earlier this week, when Gorton closed the door on drafting Boston College forward Chris Collins. Of course there is no gaurantee that Collins would be the savior that the organization has been looking for, but with such a talented kid playing right in their backyard, isn't it worth it to atleast give the kid a shot, rather than just dismissing him as "not NHL ready", as the Bruins appear to be doing? I mean, how far would they really have to travel if they wantedto schedule a workout? This is just another mystery regarding how the Boston Bruins do business. For those keeping score at home, Collin's name can be now added to the list that includes players such as Chris Drury, Keith Tcachuk, Jay Pandolfo, Jeremy Roenick and others that played their high school and college games as close as an MBTA ride away from the Garden, yet somehow escaped the Bruins reach.
- It was good to see that the Patriots got a deal done for Richard Seymour this past week, avoiding what could have been a protracted contract standoff after the 2006 season. The contract is for four years and will make Seymour one of the highest paid defensive linemen in the NFL, and most important to the Patriots, is salary cap friendly. According to reports, Seymour will recieve a 5.34 Million dollar bonus, and a base salary of $585,000 base salary for 2006. In 2007 he will get an 18.66 Million dollar bonus and a $600,000 base salary. For '08, the base salary jumps to $730,000, and during the 2009 season, the contract calls for a 3.685 Million dollar salary escalation.
So now the Patriots have arguably the best D Limenan in the NFL locked up for atleast three more years, and have cap room to try and get a deal done with WR Deion Branch, who is scheduled to become a free agent at the conclusion of the 2006 season. It seemed to be a quick and painless negotation, as far as Seymour and his agent are concerned, but pretty painful from the Patriots standpoint when you consider the players that they had to let walk to clear out salary cap space ( David Givens, Willie McGinnest, Adam Vinatieri). That is the cost of doing business in the salary cap era. Left unanswered is the question of what will happen if a player of lesser talent signs a deal that trumps Seymour's contract (which is boundto happen eventually). Number 93 sidestpped the question when presented with such a scenario by the Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe in Friday's edition. So in the end the Patriots and Seymour's agents managed to prolong the inevitable, which when you get right down to it, that is what free agencey is all about in the NFL.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
"I just saw a 20 wheel brinks truck pull up, Seymour must have signed."
- Unnamed Patriots employee commenting on Richard Seymour's contract signing
"The White House is not an intelligence gathering agency."
- White House Spokesman Scott McClellan when asked whether President Bush knew that the identification of Iraqui trailers as "biological laboratories" had already been debunked
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Fenway Park."
- Red Sox P.A. announcer Karl Bean welcoming fans to last Tuesday's opening day game
" I don't think it bothers me directly as much as it bothers me that my family has to hear that... As long as the guys in the room appreciate what I'm doing for the organization, then I'm fine."
- Bruins Defenseman Hall Gill's reaction to getting booed when he name was announced for an assist, during Thursday's game at the TD Bank North Garden.
posted by smialek316 at 12:53 PM
5 Comments:
"The White House is not an intelligence gathering agency."
Classic!
Who "debunked" that biological labatories story? Not the MSM, which has lied about Iraq's N/B/C programs since the overthrow of Saddam.
They were DEBUNKED, because NO BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES EVERY EXISTED, AND EVEN IF THEY DID, IRAQ WAS YEARS AWAY FROM BEING ABLE TO LAUNCH THEM
That guy likes The Monkees???
That immediately tells me what kind of taste he has in general.
Yeah..The Monkees, Nascar, and he is a Conservative. So he likes a band that rips off the Beatles, a "sport" in which you watch cars go around, and around, and around, and around...and he is a George Bush ass kisser. I guess I will lay off because he is WAY TOO EASY of a target.
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