Yes The Cody is back with yet another blog. This is a very special edition, an all sports edition so besides the Q&A at the end, there will be no porn or girlfriend rant this edition lol. Let's skip the introduction and let's get to it.
Tampa Bay Rays:
I am a huge Rays fan, but this off season kind of has me scratching my head. I am glad that we have David Price for another year, but Grant Balfour? Jose Molina? Sean Rodriguez? What in the bloody blue hell. Rodriguez is a guy that I have wanted to see gone since we got him, sure his infield ability is not bad but he is atrocious on the offensive end, so why we gave him a one year contract, I have no idea. Let him go. Jose Molina, same thing. You know how you win a game? SCORE. You really think Molina & Rodriguez are gonna score you a lot of runs. Hell, let me play then if your just handing out contracts bro. Grant Balfour, I can not hate on him too much because he did fairly well in Oakland. But, when he was with the Rays, there was a lot of times his one dimensional pitching cost us games. Why we resigned him, I am like bro, my grandpa has an arm on him too if you are up to signing old men. I do like that we resigned James Loney, I thought Loney would blow town after the season but I am glad we still have him. Now, as a true Rays fan, I am saying WORLD SERIES BABY! But realistically speaking, Rays may make the Wild Card again but that is it. As shown last season, hanging with a tough team for 5 games is not something we can do with the roster we have. Our power is pitching, it is what got us to the World Series before, it is what we still rely on. But at some point we have to start spending money to get a few big bats. But in the St. Pete market, that is not likely to happen. I have said this FOREVER we need to find a billionaire and move to another CENTRAL Florida market. When spread that they may move to Orlando, I was excited that is my hometown. the Magic suck, so I would love to have a good professional Orlando team. If we moved to the Orlando market and got a owner with money to spend, that is when we can pay big bats and that is when we will be the most dangerous. Then we will have the pitching and the bats. A true winning equation for baseball. I will ALWAYS believe in my team, but as a guy who dreams of being a sports analyst one day, realistically we need to get a better market to get better players. Our luck finding unknown great talent like Evan Longoria, Matt Joyce, Bj Upton, Carl Crawford and Carlos Pena will not keep up, forever.
Tampa Bay Bucs:
Well if there is one team that I have a lot to talk about, it will always be the Bucs. And there is a lot to talk about, the signing of a Lovie Smith, the unveiling of the new helmets, the inducting to the Hall of Fame of another former Buccaneer, Derrick Brooks. I was requested to kind of give a sketch on what I think the new helmets would look like, well I can not draw but I can describe it the best that I can. Too be honest, I think the most they will do to the logo is maybe add the ship with the flag, perhaps. Or kind of have a newer pirate similar to the one on the old logo but just different. Hell maybe they will use Jack Sparrow's face lol. But I just think they are going to involve the ship and that is pretty much it. As far as the helmet goes, I am kind of thinking maybe they will make the helmet red....but then I was like, that would look stupid. So I thought maybe black but there are so many black helmets in the NFL. So, I think they are probably going to be white like the old days. I don't like the idea but I think that is what they are going with, if they are changing the helmets that is the only thing that would make sense, what are you going to do, make like Oregon and make it a mirror titanium or something lol. In other news, we signed a great coach in Lovie Smith, I think Lovie will be the key to getting good players in the free agent market because Lovie is a player's coach and players like to play for a coach like that. I think we could easily sign Micheal Vick if we do not draft a QB (If Bortles & Manziel are gone we wont take one, at least we better not) which I do not think we could of signed Vick if we still had Schiano. I know, every Bucs fan is like why in the world would we want to sign Vick, shut up, I am a Vick fan and any body is better than Glennon. I also think we could resign guys like McCoy & M. Williams who's rookie contracts are coming to an end. People think a head coach is overrated in the pro level. Ha! Okay, so then you tell me how New England always makes it to the playoffs with average players at best. It takes more than an elite QB to make a team good. Belechick is a main reason behind that team's success. They have not had a good defense in years, and they did not have Gronkowski, Hernandez or Welker. They had average players with an aging QB and still made it to the playoffs, that is the result of good coaching and strategy. Lovie Smith, is our best chance (coaching wise) to make it to the Super Bowl. Like I said, he is a players coach, players will want to play for him instead of give up much like they did last season. Oh shut up, you know players just quit after they started getting demolished come on. But the most important thing is we need to get a Quarterback, period. NOT Glennon, Glennon is career back up at best, we need either someone from the draft like Manziel or Bortles. Or we need a established veteran like Michael Vick, end of story. Keep in mind, the last time we were in the playoffs we had an older, mobile, Quarterback in Jeff Garcia. And Jeff Garcia, came from the Philadelphia Eagles before his stint with Tampa. Hmmm....maybe signing Micheal Vick would be an omen for a playoff appearance. Who knows.
WWE:
I had a Wrestlemania 30 rant in my last edition. But I want to speak more on that, well because I have nothing else to talk about when it comes to the WWE lol. I was hoping maybe it was a ruse, but it looks like CM Punk really has quit the WWE. Which really hurts the WWE, because like I have stated before, their roster as far as established stars is the shortest I think it has ever been. Especially, since they are not smart enough to give a bigger push to guys with the talent TO Main Event. Cody Rhodes is a prime example, Rhodes should be in the Elimination Chamber NOT Christian. This seems to happen a lot to the wrestlers who spend most of their WWE career as a heel and then turn face, they fall off the map. MVP & John Morrison are two guys that fall into that category and it looks like Cody Rhodes will soon be there too. Dolph Ziggler as well, when he was a heel, he won the Heavyweight championship. Since then, I think he has had ONE Pay Per View match. Do not quote me, I could be wrong. I just do not like the product that WWE has become. I said this once, and I will say it again. If WWE continues down this path, they will end up just like WCW. Like I stated in my Wrestlemania 30 rant, Wrestlemania 30 is supposed to be the BIGGEST Wrestlemania to date and it looks like it has the potential to be a big flop. Losing CM Punk, you lose a good match up between him and Triple H, that I did want to see. But you have to realize that Batista is NOT who the fans want to see main eventing mania. HOWEVER, I am starting to sense that due to CM Punk leaving they have changed up their plan a little bit. I think Daniel Bryan will win the Chamber this Sunday, but Randy Orton will find his way into the match up and it will be a triple threat. I MUCH rather of it been Orton, Bryan and Cena or Orton, Bryan and Punk. But a triple threat is better than a one on one match between Batista & Orton or Bryan. I am also hoping that they change this whole Wyatt vs Cena thing too. I think John Cena should be facing Undertaker. You HAVE to have your biggest star challenge the streak before Undertaker retires for good. It is just not "good for business" to leave Cena out of that mix. The Wyatts vs The Shield is an amazing match up to put together but it is at the wrong Pay Per View. It should of been at Wrestlemania, but I still think they are going to use Wrestlemania to begin the push of Roman Reigns. I am predicting Shield lose to Wyatts and the falling out between The Shield really begins. I am wondering if it will just be Roman vs Ambrose for the US title or will it be triple threat between all three Shield mates. Because it seems like Ambrose & Reigns are going at it, and Rollins is just kind of in the rear view. I dont know what happen to WWE, but I hope it rectifies itself soon. Wrestlemania 30, I think will speak volumes. Trust The Cody on this, if you want to rectify yourself WWE here is what you do. Find a way to get CM Punk back, I would say, hey look we want you to wrestle Triple H but we will give you a title run soon after Wrestlemania or something like that. Second, have Bryan win the Chamber. Keep Daniel Bryan out of the Main Event of Wrestlemania just is not smart, he should of been in and won the Royal Rumble. Period. The Chamber is your chance to change that wrong. Make the battle for the WWE World Title a Triple Threat or Fatal 4 Way at Wrestlemania. This is Wrestlemania 30, 10 years ago the main event was a Triple Threat match and will go down as one of the greatest matches of all time, relive that moment. Bryan, Batista, Orton, Cena, Lesnar Make a 4 way or Triple Threat using those 5 guys. If you don't use Cena for the Title match, put him up against Undertaker. Cena is the face of the WWE hands down, you can not leave him out of the most notorious streak in the company and leave him out of the match that every one looks forward to every Wrestlemania. It does not have to be exactly all that but that is a good line to start on.
UFC:
There is a lot of talk about the UFC lately, and not about the fights and I thought I would throw my hat into this conversation. Tito Ortiz was the very first (that I know of) that I spoke out about how UFC treated their fighters. But he was the Huntington Beach Bad Boy who ducked Chuck Liddell forever, and did nothing but complain (that was everyone else's view on him, not mine) so people paid no attention. The next big name to speak out was Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, again no really paid attention. But now, more and more fighters are speaking out about it. The latest was Nate "Rock" Quarry. Now unlike Tito & Rampage, Nate comes off as a very respectable individual, very humble and stand up. Why would he say something that was not true about the UFC, what would he have to gain, and even if he did have something to gain, he doesn't seem the type who would do that. So now your ears kind of perk up, and you're like okay then. Something isn't right, and if you have seen the interview, first posted on BJ Penn dot com, what he says really makes the UFC look real bad. Now I trained in MMA for a while, so I kind of know how the sponsor thing works. Sponsors pay you money to wear their logo on your shirts and shorts, and if you have time, thank them after fights. What you make with your sponsors and your fighter's pay for fighting, a slice of that goes to your trainers, your gym and so on and so forth. So in reality, if you make $10,000 to fight, in reality only $5,000 of that goes to you. Maybe less depending. I am not 100% accurate on that maybe but that is the just of it. According to Nate, the UFC has who ever sponsors you pay them a HEFTY fee to sponsor you, other wise you won't be able to wear their logo to your fight with the UFC, and the sponor has to be approved. There was more said but go read the interview to get the whole story. Now, I am a UFC fan. I will always watch the UFC no matter what. But check this out, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is my all time favorite fighter, the moment he whooped Kevin Randleman's ass I was a Rampage fan and I have followed him every where. Now, I am going to be honest, I told myself I would never watch Bellator for reasons I do not wanna say. But you did something to piss of my favorite fighter, and I am more of a fan of Rampage than I am of the UFC itself. So of course I am going to go watch him fight else where, where ever he is fighting I am tuning in to watch. Now, I have not always been a Tito fan but ever since the Ultimate Fighter 3, I have been. I respect Tito a lot, and now I am starting to realize that what he has been saying about Dana White all along, is not some hatred toward him, it is the truth. Rampage has said it, Ken Shamrock has said it and now Nate Quarry has said it. Now, I have backed Dana for a while, however ever since the GSP debacle, I kind of realized that he is more of a dictator than a UFC promoter. GSP needed time off, he was asking for time off from the sport, and Dana White was belittling him and attacking him and saying oh no no, you are going to fight Hendricks again. And I realized then, Dana don't give a shit about his fighters, he wants to put that bread in his pocket and move on. If all of this is really true, more and more of your top fighters are going to start fighting for Bellator, Melendez made the jump, Rampage made the jump, Eddie Alvarez won't leave. Bellator may just become a serious threat, it is just a matter of a time.
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