http://majorleaguejerk.com The daily ramblings of men with no professional experience and even less social tact Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:52:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you'll allow me, I'd like to take a minute to praise my favorite sports blog. I'm talking about a sports blog that has devoted itself time and again to providing nothing but quality over and over and over again. A sports blog that would rather alienate even ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/under-the-lights-greatness-incarnate/ Nothing To Click Here is the collective effort of the entire MLJ staff. These are just some of the things we come across in our daily reading. The links contained within are either extremely well-written, thought-provoking, funny, weird or simply awesome. If you have any suggestions please send them here. Autistic ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/nothing-to-click-here-270/ P.S. Someone please hook me up with those headphones. Thanks. http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/write-up-a-short-description-for-this-62/ Good morning, friends of excellence, it is I your faithful leader once again dropping troof bombs all over the ignorant world of sports fandom. Here's a couple to start the day off: Chris Bosh is a cyborg sent to the NBA to break Lebron's knee in the one year where ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/quality-start-what-exactly-am-i-reviewing/ I was walking home from the bar the other night. About an 8 out of 10 on the drunk scale. Wearing my earbuds for my imitation i-Pod and rockin out to some Pearl Jam, NIN and Days of the New. A couple people of another race walk by and bump ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/under-the-lights-164/ BJ Upton...so good, so young. He's got a long ass chaw career ahead of him, that's for sure. (taken from front page of MLB section on SI.com) After the jump...a future HOF'er in his prime. http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/tobacco-hall-of-fame-update/ Say you're a whore and you're thinking to yourself, "bitch, I wanna make some real fuckin' money." Now, say there's an upcoming event scheduled with people flocking in from all across the globe where a person of your line of work could potentially make a large sum of money.  But say ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/random-wednesday-hypothetical/ What the hell is the matter with you that you need me to write up a reminder to sign up for the MLJ Bracket Challenge?  Are you stupid?  Is that the issue?  Or do you not like the opportunity to win free stuff that is at least partially related to ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/dont-forget-to-sign-up-for-our-ncaa-bracket/ Bud Selig commissioned a group of 14 to discuss on field matters a few months ago and one of the ideas that's being considered is a floating divisional realignment to improve competitive balance, especially in the AL East. As with most issues of competitive balance, floating realignment involves finding a work-around to the ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/im-not-sure-how-i-feel-about-this/ With the announcement of his retirement today, Major League Jerk has decided that from now on, March 10th will be known as Nomar Garciaparra Appreciation Day.  Every March 10th we will observe the following rituals: We will shout Nomah! at the top of our lungs every half hour from 12 noon ... http://majorleaguejerk.com/2010/03/mlj-salutes-nomar/ 571dffss