It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year...

MLB 2010 Preview and Predictions

Dust off your glove and ball cap, bring out the cracker jacks, and rekindle the hatred you have for your favorite teams rivals. BASEBALL IS BACK !!! Every time I get the sniff of April's ass crack coming around the corner, I get as excited as Ralphie Parker on christmas eve, knowing that there's a Red Rider Carbine-Action Two Hundred Shot Range Air-Rifle, sitting under that tree. 

" The one constant of all the years, has been Baseball. This Field, This Game. It's apart of our Past, It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again "

And HERE. WE. GO. Once again we get another great season of America's past time coming to us, which ofcourse will be concluded in another Red Sox World Series Title. The Yankees are coming off their 27th title (down year), it feels like the Phillies already have an 8 game lead on the N.L. East., and the Pirates look like the team to beat for the bottom spot in the N.L. Central. 

After spending numerous morning hours of crunching numbers,

scouting, and analyzing the transactions made during the offseason, in the Letsmakemoves Baseball Research Lab (which can be found behind the grotto in the west wing of the Letsmakemoves Castle). The Committe and I have come up with a 3 part series over the next 3 days, with predictions on who's winning individual awards ,all the way to who's going to lose in 4 games to the Red Sox in the World Series. 

National League Predictions:

 East Division :Philadelphia  Phillies

Although making a questionable move in trading their best pitcher from a year agoin Cliff Lee, they still have an American League batting lineup, an improved bench, and are in possession of arguably the best pitcher in baseball. We believe the Phillies will have the most wins of any team by the end of September. That is if Cole Hamels has found a 3rd pitch. All this is based on the fact that the N.L. blows(not their fault), and with their lineup they will win atleast 20-25 games alone no matter who they throw out on the mound, and just flat out score more runs against teams like the Pirates, Nationals, Padres, Blue Jays, and Indians. IF healthy, Roy Halladay should have 20 wins, by the end of August. 

Central Division: St. Louis Cardinals

                      After acquiring Matt Holliday before

last July's trade dealine, the Cardinals went 31-9 in a 40 game span. When you have a perennial MVP that's in their prime in Albert Pujols, who has carried this franchise for the last 4-6 years. You have to give the Card's a nod as the favorite to win this division. Carpenter and Wainwright their 1 -2 punch at the top of the rotation is solid, but they're going to need Brad Penny, Kyle Loshe, and youngster Ryan Franklin to produce on the mound for them. Holliday's play will be the deciding factor of how well they do in the playoffs, as it did last year. 

West Division: San Francisco Giants

If there's one thing you'll learn in life, it's that nothing stays the same. Boasting the best rotation and the 2nd best bullpen in the NL, it's now time for the Giants to Make Moves into October baseball, by winning the NL's most competitive division. Mark Derosa, Edgar Renteria, and Aubreey Huff were brought in to produce runs and get on base with their timely hitting, so that slugger  Pablo" Kung Fu Panda" Sandoval can bring'm home with one swing of the bat. Health will always be the question, but as long as  Jonathan Sanchez, Todd Wellemeyer, and rookie Madison Bumgarner(4-5-and 6 pitchers) manage to eat innings, and live up to the Hype I'm giving them, the Giants should win this division by 2-4 games over the Colorado Rockies. 

Wild Card: Atlanta Braves

Going into manager Bobby Cox's last year, it's only right that he leads the franchise he's coached for 24 years into the playoffs for the last time. Owning the best rotation in the N.L. East with Lowe, Hudson, Hanson, Jurrjens, and Kawakami,  OF Jordan Schaefer having a full season under his belt, and acquisitions of of Billy Wagner, Takashi Saito, 1B Troy Glaus, and World Series Champion OF Melky Cabrera. Add that with Chipper Jones and Brian McCann They have all the ingredients, to win it all. 

MVP: Albert Pujols - Cardinals

Cy Young: Roy Halladay - Phillies

Batting Champion: Hanley Ramirez - Marlins

Rookie of The Year: Jason Heyward  - Braves

Bet you thought I forgot to mention him when I mentioned the Braves to Win The Wild Card. This "BAD MAN" can swing the stick( no homo). I expect him to blow up just like my AL MVP pick did in his rookie year. At 20 years-old, he has grown comparisons in having the Swag as a young Ken Griffey Jr, and the HR power and pop as the living legend Hank Aaron. 

JASON HEYWARD = BEAST

Bold Prediction: Roy Halladay blows out his arm in a 3-2 opening day loss to the Washington Nationals (while giving up 3 solo HR's to " The Human Intangible" Eric Bruntlett, leaving the The Phillies front office wishing they didn't get rid of their Blue Collar Veteran Base Runner), making Jose Contreras their ACE.

With eyes in the back of his head, notice how E.B. is running along the baseline. Not giving Evan Longoria an inch of an angle, to throw the ball to the catcher for the out. Championship Base Running is a gift, and CAN NOT BE TAUGHT. 

2morrow we'll cover the American League and Friday The Playoffs.

Vidddy of the week

Kid Cudi - Soundtrack To My Life

Hands down my favorite song by Mr. Cudder. So you could imagine how hyped I was when they came out with a Music Video for it. Next month he's doing shows in @ Upenn and West Chester and Baseball begins on sunday. Basically, April = Epic.

Bracket Crown Showdown

Final Four Pick: UCONN LADY HUSKIES

What a fantastic 2 weekends of college basketball we've endured. Three of the Final Four teams I had bounced before reaching the sweet sixteen, so the commitee and I have annointed this college basketball season, as a rebuilding year for your boy Dirty Peanutz. Rome wasn't built in a day, and I believe we just have to get back to the fundamentals of making moves, and not over thinking our picks. It's a learning process, and I look forward to picking Coach Calipari, the top freshmen he WILL have, ( undeclared top high school Guards Brandon Knight and Josh Shelby)  and his Kentucky Wildcat's to win it all again next year. 

And then there were 3. Big Mike vs Big Bird. The Bracket Crown Showdown I should've know that these two, we're going to go into the final week Heads Up. This rivaly between these two is as equivalent as Bird vs Magic, one is the yin to the others yang. Both are at the top of their games right now, and need each other to push their potentials to the max. Big Mike needs the Big East Tourny Champ's in West Virginia to defeat ACC Season and Tourny Champions Duke Blue Devils on Sat. Night, while Big Bird needs vice versa.

Now if West Virginia wins the whole damn thing than the Living Legend, your boi and mine, William Laffey 's name will be cemented into history as the first ever Letsmakemoves Enterprises Bracket Challenge Champion. 

Recap:

Big Mike needs:

West Virginia beats Duke and Loses to either Michigan St. or Butler

Fote Needs:

Duke to Beat West Virginia

Laffey:

West Virginia To Beat Duke and Beat Mighigan St. or Butler

Best of Luck To The Final 3, and Thank You again for everyone that participated. 

ps: 

Big Ups to my younger brother Noodles, for receiving Stockton Colleges Tim Lenahan Award, as the Most Improved Player for the 2009 Men's Soccer Season as a Sophomore. 

Vidddy of the week

 Wedding Guest attends a Russian Wedding, and decides to play Russian Roulette. The price for shooting yourself in the head, Brain damage and paralysis. Pretty rough, but that's what you get for pulling the trigger, when the barrels aimed at your head.

PS: 

R.I.P. Da Great White Hype Sports Blog. As " Hypes" enters the professional world in pistol whipping brokers and having top notch secretaries serving him Ciroc' on the rocks, his words and presence will be missed . I'm sure we haven't seen, heard, or read the last of him. But for now, GET YOURS HYPES !!!

Whatta FAHHHKIN' Weekend !

New Nickname for Alli Farokhmanesh : 

Man Overboard..... Because he's WETTT !!!!

"FAROKHMANESHHHHH "

I never had so much fun staying in the house for 4 days while the weather was in the 70's, all my time spent watching basketball. Those four days consisted of upsets, buzzer beaters, bottles of pepto-bismol, deals with the devil, and alot of people resenting the fact that they selected Kansas to be the last team standing. SUCKKKKAAASSS !!!!

The Buthead crying is red shirt senior Mario Little. Grow a fucking set bro. You haven't played a minute all year, if you're going to put on a scene like that, at least get on the stat sheet this year.

 

After the first weekend of games, it figures that the kid who would be popping the question to his queen this weekend (Congrats again DJ), would be sitting atop the standings in first place for the Letsmakemoves Enterprises Bracket Challenge. But like every other buthead, he took Kansas who lost in the 2nd round, in  a shocking upset to the living legend guard Alli Farokhmanesh and the man who's mutton cops are as serious as his PPG in Lucas O'Rear.

Your boy D-Nutz is tied for 19th place, laugh now but as long as Baylor, Cuse, and Kentucky make moves into the Final Four and Kentucky Wins the Chip, expect a parade down 96th in Stone harbor sometime in the first weeks of April, for your boy.  As for my  sleeper pick to make the title game in the Hoyas of G'town, it took 97 points from a Mid-major in OHIO U to beat my dogs. And that's what it takes to beat my Top Shelf Bracket, you have to put up heavenly numbers to defeat D-Nutz . The only true threat to my soon Bracket Crown is Suga Shane, who boldly went with Syracuse and Duke in the final game, with Syracuse winning. It could happen, just like a night of regret with these chicks could happen.

Along with Northern Iowa, Ivy League Champions Cornell Big Red and WCC Tourney Champ's Saint Marys Gails, are also the Cinderella stories of the tournament in making the sweet 16. (Butler has been badass all year, and washington though an 11 seed are in the Pac-10) Cornell, led  by another Rain Man in guard Ryan Wittman (below) has their biggest game in their programs history coming up against your boys Kentucky Wildcats, who I believe will beat the Big Red by double digits.

The Gail's of St. Mary's will ride their Egyptian Pharaoh (plays in Low-Tops) who's arguably the MVP of the tournament in Center Omar Sanhan (right), as they play a very athletic Baylor Bears team that I expect to win and be in Indianapolis next weekend. Out of all the cinderella's, I love Northern Iowa's chances of making the Final Four. They're hot( not homo), play a very average Michigan St. team without their leader Kalin Lucas, (torn achilles) and with their make-up they show glimpses of the Celtics teams in the 80's, by  having a platoon of white guys that play together(always a plus). 

Bold Prediction: Washington over West Virgina

Other Players to Watch:

Washington: Quincy Pondexter

Baylor: Lacedarius Dunn

K-State: Jacob Pullen

Purdue: Chris Kramer

Heavy Lies The Crown

Paper Champ

                                                                      VS           Peoples Champ

Class vs Ass      Winner vs Quitter     KING vs Queen.

For those that don't know, I gave up on calling Manny Pacquaio by his government name. He is referred to around the Letsmakemoves Castle as KING (as in Pound for Pound King, not of The Letsmakemoves Empire).  This past saturday, KING gave his fans something that they haven't seen in 2 years, a fight that went the distance. Winning unanimously over Ghana's very defensive minded Joshua Clottey, KING ended up throwing over 800 more punches than his opposition, in the 12 rounds. To sum up the fight, I'll reiterate what HBO's ringside announcer Howard Letterman said going into the 5th round,  "Clottey Is Fucking Scared !!! " 

And now, we sit and wait to see which welterweight fighter, Pac-Man will be making kiss the canvas towards the end of the year, in the winner of Mosely vs Mayweather on May 1st. Like the whole world, I want to see KING be the reason there's the number 1 in Floyd Mayweather Jr's loss column. But Floyd must become worthy to stand in the same ring as KING. Meaning he has to beat ESPN's and Ring Magazine's #1 welterweight Sugar Shane Mosely (Floyd is coming in at # 3 in both). IF, and that's a big IF Mayweather wins by descision, (face it, Mosely has a good chin and Mayweather's punching power is at the same level as  the guy who clocked McLovin ) we will be given the greatest fight this generation will ever see. 

My beef (no chicken, see pic below) with Mayweather is that he quit and retired, when he was still an unproven "champion". He took his millions (which is now gone), 39-0 undefeated record, and made like the UK womens bobsledder outfit and split. Saying that there was nothing left for him to prove, that he's the greatest boxer to ever live. What do you say kids ??? All that,while there were still then undefeated Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, and a younger Sugar Shane Mosely knocking on his door wanting a shot at Money Mayweather. But instead, he took the road of a coward in retiring to duck these fights, showing the exact opposite of the heart of a champion. More like a guy who's afraid to put his undefeated record on the line, but the same guy that will stand behind the same record, saying "my record, shows that I'm the best at what I do". 

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the Pretty Boy. I enjoy Floyd and his family, when the cameras are on them and their characters are shown on display. Floyd is a very talented boxer and has great skill. But to demand that KING has to submit himself to Olympic Style Drug testing (random blood testing) back in december for a fight that was supposed to go down March 13th, shows just another cowardly characteristic of Floyd. When a simple Urine Test is just as accurate. I guess the Nevada State Boxing rules aren't good enough for Floyd when it comes to KING. The Mayweather Camp believes he's on steroids, because they refuse to believe that KING is greater than Floyd, and that it's impossible to win titles in 7 different weight classes, well guys. But any way, KING doesn't like when blood is being taken from him, because it makes him feel weaker. The last time that happened, he lost in a unanimous descision to Erik Morales, who KING later fought 2 more times and KO'd Morales in both. Mayweather knows this, and when he wanted Olympic Drug Testing, KING basically told "Pretty Boy" to go fuck yourself. You want the Kings Crown ? You play under the Kings  Rules, Junior. 

After the fight saturday night, I saw something that I've never seen before. Floyd was getting called out by EVERYONE. Including King, his trainer Freddie Roach, and Boxing Analysts saying if the situation brings itslef to King vs Mayweather, that Floyd needs to quit playing with his baby nutts and to grow a set. That just shows the lack of respect that the boxing world has for "Heart of A Boy, Floyd." 

But once this fight does go down, that is if Floyd keeps his Bitch Out Card in his wallet this time. At the end of the bout, I guarentee we will be saying that Manny Pacquiao is the greatest boxer that our eyes will ever have seen. 

.....Long Live The King

Letsmakemoves Enterprises NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge

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Last night, your boy D-Nutz was in attendance slapping the boards ,Repp'n the Black and Gold, ready to watch the 2010 Winter Classic Champions against the 2010 Winter Classic Runners-up. How did it go? Different venue, same story.

Bringing what was the most admirable effort this season, with five different goal scorers, the B's easily beat the Flyers down 5-1 in the Wachovia Center to further solidify their playoff bid, which will likely be a 6th, 7th , or 8th seed. Right before the puck dropped, I told my boys that Bruins Center Patrice Bergeron was going to go off. 1 goal and 2 assists later by # 37, he proved that D-Nutz doesn't lie.

check the move he pulled on one of the top 3 defenseman in the game in Chris Pronger.

after this happened, I started chanting WE WANT THE CUP !!! (as in Stanley Cup) 

Surprisingly, I didn't really get any derogatory comments thrown my way like I usually do, when I go see my favorite teams play in Philadelphia sports venues. Probably because the game was over before the end of the 2nd period.  But all and all, it was a Legendary Night, and the Bruins are on a 1 game winning streak.

Predicting the NCAA Men's Conference Tournament Winners...

Big East:  Georgetown over West Virginia

I've been riding The Hoyas all year, due to fact i feel they're built as a perfect tournament team. They're peeking at the right time, as their size will create mismatches for opponents. Most imortantly, they have a 6'11 sophomore in Greg Monroe(above) who handles the ball better than, tiger can handle keeping bitches mouths shut. Match that with guard Austin " Diabetes Ain't Got Shit On ME" Freeman, there's a great chance they could find themselves in the sweet 16 or further in next weeks NCAA Tournament.

Big 12: Kansas Over Kansas St.

The soon to be Overall Number 1 seed in the NCCA Tournament, has  a few tune-up games called the Big 12 Conference Tournament, before they go to Indianapolis for the Final Four. Everyone knows the team leaders in center Cole Aldrich and guard Sheeron Collins, but I feel the key to their success is the play of frosh. guard Xavier Henry. He's the secong leading scorer for the #1 team in the country and was supposed to be in Memphis this year, throwing up ally oops to Demarcus Cousins and getting open jumpshots from the double teams(no homo) that John Wall demands.

ACC:  Maryland over Duke

My boy Yecco, a recent graduate of College Park, told me before this season that the Terp's were going to make moves, and moves they did make. Led by living Terp's legend guard Greivis Vasquez, and coming off the biggest win in awhile at home versus Duke. The Terp's are playing with aspirations to go far into the NCAA Tourny and winning the ACC Tournament will just be a stepping stone.

Big 10: Ohio State over Michigan St.

I was going to ride Purdue all the way to the Final Four, but once they lost the heart and Soul of the team in guard Robbie Hummel, they fucked themselves out of contending. Kind of like when Kenyon Martin broke his ankle in the Conference USA tournament, and was out for the rest of the season, leaving his Cincinnati Bearcats Doomed. But anyway, I'm going to roll with the team thats featuring this years player of the year in men's college basketball.

Other picks: 

SEC: Kentucky over Vanderbilt

Pac 10: Arizona St. over California

Sleeper: North Carolina Tar Heels....... 7 Mcdonald's All-American's just might make that run in the ACC tournament.

PS: later this week, don't forget to join the First Lets Make Moves Enterprises NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge. Details on 1st and runner-up prizes to come soon.

D.C. Redemption Trip...

In early December of 2009, your boy Dirty Peanutz and his colleagues (8-10) drove down to visit, party, and celebrate 3 of our friends turning 25 in D.C. To sum up the whole weekend, we were under the influence the whole time, there was drama, alot of creeping on nuggets, and moves that were made, that will never leave the District. Which called for a D.C. redemption trip, that happened this previous weekend, where alot of the same happened minus the drama.

If you had to make a list of the most underrated cities in this great country, The District of Columbia is coming in at Top 3. I say this because, the city is never ready for the Fucking Noise, Dirty Peanutz brings to the people. I RAGE !!!

Ofcourse, had to start off  the weekend with the Conga Line Song Momma Let Go from Weekend at Bernies 2. 


(Legendary Cities, Get Legendary Songs)

and finished at Fur Nightclub (Big Ups for First Class- Top Shelf service by Steph) with insane featured DJ Markus Schulz.

 

To use 2 words to sum up the redemption trip. WE RAGEDDD !!!! Between being the hottest dudes every where we went, getting grilled by every nugget with in a 10 yard radius (First Down), and hated on, by every chick and dude that saw, they weren't having as much fun or a  great time as us. The trip was an absolute success, and was just what I needed to kick off the month of march.

Best Quotes from the weekend that was:

(sitting outside St.Ann's school, watching the kids in the playground)

" so many prospects "

" I didn't Invent the turtleneck, Lana. But I was the first to realize it's potential as a tactical garment. The tactical turtleneck. The TactalNeck "

" that chick had warrrrts on her face "

( Screaming) " Danny Chelosss!!! Tiestoo !!!! Jonathan Peterssss !!!! Danny Tanegliaaaa !!! " 

( While Laughing Histericly)  " WoodHouse !!! He's still tied up somewhere...Hahahaha.....scared and alone......Hahahhaha......probably dehydrated !!! Hahahaha

..... Song Of The Week

Out of Office - I Luv U Baby (Darbuck & Klein remix)

( i stop listening after 4:35ish)

The whole weekend consisted of my boy Kendal aka K-Breezy playing House Music . The setting didn't matter, if we were going out to eat, at the gym, etc. ww were in the mood to pump our fist. Anyways, he bumped this on the ride to go see Markus Schulz, and the Letsmakemoves Enterprises Song Of The Week found me, like it always does.