Results tagged “Ryan Howard” from Robert Littal Presents The Infamous BlackSportsOnline

As we already know I am right 99.9% of the time (just kidding), but the one thing that all the writers of BlackSportsOnline do is admit when they were wrong and seeing that the NFL season is coming down the stretch I think it is safe to talk about a few things I have been wrong about.

1- Matt Ryan

I was definitely way off with this one. I thought there was no way shape, form or fashion that Ryan of the 19 INTs in his senior season at Boston College would be a good quarterback in the NFL. Lets be honest I thought he was going to be garbage and I thought the Falcons had a solid chance of winning 2 or 3 games.
Having the NFL Sunday Ticket Package on the NFL (a must have for any true NFL Fan) I have watched every single one of Ryan's games and he is the real deal. I would venture to say he is better than 75% of the QBs in the NFL. He has shown skills that 4 or 5 year veterans have not shown. I was wrong about this kid.

2- Bill Parcells and The Miami Dolphins

The Dolphins went 1-15 last year, so I figured there would be some improvement, but nothing like this. I thought Bill Parcells was still living in 1988 not 2008 and his way of thinking would just plunge the Dolphins in a bigger hole.
But then the Dolphins got a real QB in Chad Pennington and then got creative. Out of all the teams I would have expected to come out with the "Wildcat" the Dolphins would have been way down on the list. But it is working and they are fighting for a Wildcard spot.

The Phillies first baseman is making a serious late push for NL MVP. The boy is hitting the cover off the ball in the month of September when his team needs it most. The man leads major league baseball in homers with 45, Adam Dunn a distant 2nd with 37 long balls. He also leads the majors in RBI's with 137 and remember he had a slow start. The next best NL run producer is David Wright with only 114 RBI's. He's simply the games best power hitter and has been since his rookie year.

You'll hear haters chirping that he strikeouts too much and his batting average is low. Yes he does, but the problem with that arguement is the fact that he hits in the four hole and his sole objective is to produce runs and he does that better than anybody in the game. Maybe it's good that he does strikeout some because if he cut down on them and made more contact, he'd probably hit a consistent 60 homeruns and drive in 170 runs per year. Imagine that? He still wouldn't get any props because they'd say he's definitely on 'roids.

No signs of steriods with this man, he's just country-boy strong and he's actually has brothers that are bigger than he is. He has put the Phillies on his back and got them back into first place in the NL East. No one is more clutch them him in the month of September since he came up to the bigs and to think the Phillies we're trying to crying about paying the man more than 7 million dollars. Phils management should consider the 10Mil they pay him a year a bargain. I understand that he's not in the top 10 in slugging % and his on base % could be better but if Philly wins the division again you just have to give him a serious look.