Cristopher Hinds's Los Angeles Lakers fan blog

Well, get ready for another season of Detroit Tigers baseball. We have been spoiled the last couple of years. The team actually has expectations and unfortunately so do the fans. Can Mo Town survive another sports team to fail miserably like the hapless Lions? Are we just a hockey town? I don't have the answer to that, but I do get excited for Tiger baseball. As a proclaimed member of the Red Sox Nation, I still love the Tigers. I watch most games and even try to get to the ballpark. I lived in misery because all my neighbors are "Tigers for Life". So my sports life is much better when the Tigers are winning.

The team has come along ways from all the 100 loss seasons. This team has some serious fire power in its lineup. With Cabrera, Maggs, Sheff, and Granderson, this team has offensive skills. The key to there success will be the starting pitching and the bullpen. Can the D-Train return to form? Can Bonderman bounce back? Can Verlander become the fire baller of old? What will Edwin Jackson Bring to the team? Can Rodney and Zumya regain the powerful control they once had? Will Brandon Lyon be a reliable closer?

Continue reading "Detriot Tigers look to impress in 2009"

Always an interesting time of the NBA season, when all of us fans sit and wonder which NBA superstars are on the move. This year, there are some really big names that are on the trading block. Lets look at a few of them, hey they just might end up on your favorite team.

Amare Stoudemire. Wow, who would have thought that Phoenix would ever trade this coveted PF/C. This guy is an absolute freak on the basketball court and has progressed really well in his short career. When Phoenix traded for Shaq last year, Amare and his talent took a backseat on the Suns team. The rumors are pretty serious. Expect him to land in Memphis, Chicago, Toronto, or Miami.

Shaquille O'Neal. This one is puzzling to me. If Amare goes, Shaq stays or vice versa. Shaq has once again shown the league and his critics that he can still play at a very high level. I think that Shaq stays in Phoenix and eventually will leave when he becomes a free agent at the end of next year.

Continue reading "The NBA Trade Deadline is right around the corner!!"

The sport of Major League Baseball just can't catch a break. The steroids era is very damaging to the game. Not to long ago the fans suffered major disappointment learning of the alleged steroid use of such stars of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. Not to long before that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa cases were presented before us. We all thought what a relief that we still have coveted stars whose names weren't implicated in any of that mess. Well fans... we were all wrong. The games savior Alex Rodriguez admittedly used performance enhancing drugs. I was indeed shocked but I almost expected this. How many more players are there out there who no in doubt cheated the game and all of us? I don't exactly know, but I am beginning not to even care. The fact that drugs have played a part in the game that I love the most, has become reality and there is nothing I can do to change it. I believe in Major League Baseball. I am confidant that the Commissioner and his office, the owners and the players association have taken enough heat to try and get the game back on track. No doubt that there will be more stars that will have there past made public, but after enduring A FRAUD's ignorant publicized apology, I believe we the fans can handle all of the rest that will no doubtedly come.

Continue reading "Are You Serious???"

The Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics have indeed renewed there once coveted rivalry. The Lakers have had a very sour taste in there mouth since last year's NBA finals and this year they have come to play against the Celtics. The Lakers, yet again must learn life without Andrew Bynum. And this year things will be different. They match up so well with the Celtics. Kobe and Gasol against Garnet, Pierce, and Allen. One of the Celtics three will always shoot themselves in the foot. The Lakers bench is devised of quick, nagging, humble assassins who have come to love there role of being Kobe's sidekicks. The Celtics bench is devised of a Big Baby, a Leon Powe and a cold blooded Eddie House. I guess you could throw in an ineffective Tony Allen, as well.

Their most recent game on February 5, 2009, was one that was won by the better team. I must say that Paul Pierce has stepped up to the challenge of guarding the most potent player in the NBA. But Paul, Kobe will not be denied. On a night where Kobe had to work for every point he scored, we all saw why he is the best player in the NBA. Mr. fourth quarter buried a trio of three pointers in the fourth quarter to keep his team within reach of winning the game. All of us Laker fans watched in pure joy as Big Baby tried to develop his NBA jump shot. We will gladly accept him with the rock in his hands when the game is on the line. The game was called like it was the Super Bowl. Whistle after whistle. Penalty after penalty. Until finally Kevin Garnet fouled out. Advantage LA. We Laker fans knew the game was ours. Those pesty Celtics did give the Lakers a run for there money, but the game was won by the better team who didn't play there best.

Continue reading "Battle at The Garden"

Okay, Man Ram, you are a superstar MLB player. You are entitled a nice paycheck. It is obvious, why you would be looking for a long term deal. Let's look at why you deserve a long term deal.

First, you are an outstanding talent. One of the best offensive talents in this generation. You have the ability to attract many people to the ball park. Your presence, in any lineup, will scare any opposing pitcher. You have the ability to take a poor offensive team like the Los Angeles Dodgers all the way to the NLCS almost single handily by the swing of your bat. You are a very hard worker on the field and you are determined to win.

Now, why you don't deserve a long term deal.

The defensive part of your game is quite frankly that of a high school player. You quit on the Boston Red Sox and became a complete distraction, ruining a team made of chemistry. You have at times played for the name on the back of the jersey instead of the name on the front of it, hence "Manny being Manny".  The track record you have made for yourself is not worthy of nothing but short term contracts.

Continue reading "What in the World is Manny Ramirez thinking?"