Monday, March 5, 2012

ANOTHER BUDDY RYAN INNOVATION OTHER TEAMS HAVE FAILED TO SURPASS: Updates you probably already knew, to two sports stories we've been following:

  • The New Orleans Saints and Washington (football club) have admitted to maintaining a bounty pool under defensive coordinator Gregg Williams to reward players for inflicting game-ending injuries on their rivals. The NFL is still figuring out the proper discipline, but, yeah, this too does not make me feel better about being a football fan.
  • MLB did add the additional wild card teams, with the twist being that because of scheduling concerns the 2012 Divisional Series will give the seeded team home games 3-4-5, rather than 1-2-5.  As previously stated, this is one of the rare instances where adding playoff teams makes things fairer, because it gives some real advantage to winning one's division.