This is just plain sick (and very enjoyable for Jet fan like myself). Pro Football Focus recaps the only 10 passes completed by the opposing team through the first seven games of this season to a receiver being covered by Darrelle Revis, resulting in a mind-boggling 2.9 QB rating on passes thrown in his direction.
Deion Sanders was a dominant cover corner but I haven't seen a defensive back this complete since Darrell Green.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Pictures of New Wall and Dimensions at Citi Field - Metsblog.com
They're bringing back the Blue Walls!!! ESPN.com has some great pictures too. The issue of the blue walls is something that was widely discussed and endorsed by the fan base on Metsblog.com and other blogs. In fact Alderson was surprised in September when a beat writer asked him about it but seems like his team did their research on the fan support for this.
Hopefully they can bring back winning baseball too. (That will probably take more work but at least they seem to be on the right track.)
Hopefully they can bring back winning baseball too. (That will probably take more work but at least they seem to be on the right track.)
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Why Obama Should Pay Attention To Occupy Wall Street’s Critique Of Higher Education | The New Republic
Interesting op-ed in The New Republic:
"...for most college students, debt is a legitimate and growing problem. As recently as the early 1990s, most undergraduates didn’t borrow. Now, two-thirds emerge from college with a loan. Over the last three decades, college tuition has grown far faster than inflation, in good economic times and bad. Even health care costs have grown slower by comparison. Colleges like to blame feckless state legislators who won’t financially support higher learning, and in states like California they certainly have a point. But much of the guilt lies with higher education institutions themselves. They have spent billions on vanity building projects, administrative overhead, and money-losing sports programs in order to compete for status and fame. Students and parents have been left with the bill.
At the same time, the economy has increasingly organized itself so that people require a college degree in order to pursue a decent career. Unemployment rates during the great recession have been catastrophic for the uneducated even as graduates have mostly kept their jobs. So students and parents have little choice: pay what colleges choose to charge you, and if you don’t have the money in the bank, take out a loan."
For what it's worth, the White House is trying to get the message out that it's making an effort to Help Americans Manage Student Loan Debt.
"...for most college students, debt is a legitimate and growing problem. As recently as the early 1990s, most undergraduates didn’t borrow. Now, two-thirds emerge from college with a loan. Over the last three decades, college tuition has grown far faster than inflation, in good economic times and bad. Even health care costs have grown slower by comparison. Colleges like to blame feckless state legislators who won’t financially support higher learning, and in states like California they certainly have a point. But much of the guilt lies with higher education institutions themselves. They have spent billions on vanity building projects, administrative overhead, and money-losing sports programs in order to compete for status and fame. Students and parents have been left with the bill.
At the same time, the economy has increasingly organized itself so that people require a college degree in order to pursue a decent career. Unemployment rates during the great recession have been catastrophic for the uneducated even as graduates have mostly kept their jobs. So students and parents have little choice: pay what colleges choose to charge you, and if you don’t have the money in the bank, take out a loan."
For what it's worth, the White House is trying to get the message out that it's making an effort to Help Americans Manage Student Loan Debt.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
New York Mets Do Wright Thing, Plan To Move Fences In At Citi Field | Rich Coutinho « CBS New York
WFAN's Rich Coutinho gives yet another explanation as to why it makes sense to move in the fences at Citi Field:
"Players talk to other players. I firmly believe most major leaguers knew the Mets were spooked by this park. If for no other reason than they were spooked by it as well. I remember Alex Rodriguez looking out at a screaming line drive he hit to left-center and appearing shocked when it did not leave the yard. And so the baseball world knew what a player would be up against offensively if he came to call Citi Field home."
I remember watching that game this season and as much as I enjoyed the look on A-Rod's face when he went into his home run trot only to watch the ball hit high off the wall and force him to hustle it to second base. However, the Yankees were only there for a three-game series and once the weekend was over A-Rod was going back to his little league ballpark in the Bronx to hit 40+ homers on a bunch of half swings again.
"Players talk to other players. I firmly believe most major leaguers knew the Mets were spooked by this park. If for no other reason than they were spooked by it as well. I remember Alex Rodriguez looking out at a screaming line drive he hit to left-center and appearing shocked when it did not leave the yard. And so the baseball world knew what a player would be up against offensively if he came to call Citi Field home."
I remember watching that game this season and as much as I enjoyed the look on A-Rod's face when he went into his home run trot only to watch the ball hit high off the wall and force him to hustle it to second base. However, the Yankees were only there for a three-game series and once the weekend was over A-Rod was going back to his little league ballpark in the Bronx to hit 40+ homers on a bunch of half swings again.
Climate change skeptics running out of excuses...
Eugene Robinson's column today talks about a climate change skeptic that decided he would disprove all the global warming science and ended up proving it himself.
I'm guessing the Republican Party will disavow this guy pretty quickly now that he hasn't fallen in line with the ideology. The future will talk about today's Right Wing like the way the church is described today for executing Copernicus for saying the sun is at the center of our solar system. Of course, if there is a future since we may not survive it based on the science proven in the op-ed.
I'm guessing the Republican Party will disavow this guy pretty quickly now that he hasn't fallen in line with the ideology. The future will talk about today's Right Wing like the way the church is described today for executing Copernicus for saying the sun is at the center of our solar system. Of course, if there is a future since we may not survive it based on the science proven in the op-ed.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Work has started on Citi Field’s new dimensions
Now I really feel like taking that new Citi Field ballpark tour.
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