Phightins

I get why fans of rival teams don't like DeSean Jackson, but the league as a whole needs some thicker skin. Omg, 50 yard penalty for flipping the ball and wiping his jersey!!

Justin Verlander wins AL MVP. I am cool with this, although personally my first place vote would have been for Jose Bautista.

Terrible news about Greg Halman, who was stabbed to death. RIP.

Winter Classic jerseys!! (Pics from Broad Street Hockey ) http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/vcgvt.jpg http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/wybmwx.jpg

A bright spot in a pathetically underwhelming season. I'll take it.

JP Morosi reporting the Phillies have traded for Ty Wigginton. For a PTBNL or cash. Awesome awesome awesome awesome. I have always been a big fan. This also means that (I hope) the Phillies won't be overpaying for Cuddyer.

Not much to be excited about here.

I am happy that he is healthy, but I am not particularly happy that the Flyers will be facing him 6 times. Just being honest.

Sidney Crosby will be in the Penguins lineup tomorrow night.

If they make the playoffs, it will be their defense leading them, not Tebow.

The Flyers are pretty good, but when they are bad, they are mind-numbingly bad.

Also with the new CBA, teams will no longer lose draft picks for signing free agents, effective immediately (but teams will still get compensation picks for losing them). But, alas, the Phillies will still lose their first round pick for signing Papelbon, since it happened before the new CBA. Ruben Amaro, you are truly a terrible GM.

Totally forgot to post about this the other day, but some major, major news going down in the past week. The best news is that there is a new CBA in place, which will be announced officially on Tuesday. Such a relief that baseball fans don't need to deal with the bullshit NBA and NFL fans have had to deal with in the past year. But with the new CBA (and the sale of the Astros to Jim Crane) comes the news that the Astros will move to the AL West, making two 15 team leagues. Obviously this has been speculated for a while, now it is official. The bigger part of this is that interleague play will now have to be a season-long thing. Mixed feelings here, but I think this can grow on me. Also, the playoffs will officially be expanding to 5 teams per league, with two wild cards in each league playing a one game "series" prior to the division series'. This has also been speculated for a while. This will be great for TV, but I really don't think the playoffs needed to be messed with. But this has the potential to grow on me as well.

Happy he is back.

Haven't been around much the past few days, but here are a few injury updates... -Erik Gustafsson will be out for 6 weeks because of wrist surgery. Isn't a terribly huge issue right now, but it will become one if another top 6 defenseman goes down. -Jaromir Jagr did something to his groin last night. Obviously this sucks. Hopefully it isn't a long term thing. I was at the game so I didn't get to hear all of the TV chatter, but it looked like they tried out JvR and Couturier on the Giroux line in Jagr's place. Both seemed to do fine in my estimation. -Brayden Schenn is probably still 2 weeks away from returning

Haha "Prada" . I also hear the Rockies are the most interested team in Grady Sizemore. I would love to see the Phillies take that risk if it didn't mean cockblocking Dom Brown, which I am sure it would.

Haha I was just about to post this. Pretty good.

RAJ's reasoning for overpaying Papelbon as opposed to Madson is "Papelbon has more experience closing". *Barf* Ruben Amaro Jr. really is a terrible GM. He'd never last in a small market.

RIP whatever was left of the 2011-2012 season.

Cardinals name Mike Matheny manager.

Um...wow, I am speechless. Matt Barkley/Landry Jones in 2012!

Kurt Coleman is [expletive]ing horrendous.

Yeah, pretty remarkable that the Eagles let a rookie cover Fitz.

I have come to the realization that perhaps this is not the Eagles season...

Maybe Desean had the right idea. He is lucky he doesn't have to watch this garbage.