One of the rights of passage of die hard baseball fans is the offseason “hot stove league” as it is referred to. A time when hope springs eternal for most teams as they have the ability to start making moves to improve their teams as they look ahead to next season.

 This period of time starts in November, as free agency kicks in, and typically runs for several months. But a lot of moves in the past have been made in the period between mid-November and mid-December.

This year, however, you wouldn’t even know such a period exists.

I remember several years ago sitting in my truck at a stoplight and ESPN reported on the radio that the Red Sox had just come to terms with Curt Schilling.  This occurred days after Red Sox GM Theo Epstein decided to personally visit the pitcher at his home in Arizona on Thanksgiving Day to talk about coming to the Sox.

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Well, after the first week, Barnesy has the early lead, with C Gal and Big Ed right on his tail. Lot’s of big spreads this week will make things interesting for Week 12.

	The GMan	Tim B	Big Ed	Greg	C Gal
Last Week	10 - 6	13 - 3	12 - 4	9 - 7	12 - 4
YTD	10 - 6	13 - 3	12 - 4	9 - 7	12 - 4
Green Bay (-11) at Detroit
Oakland at Dallas (-13.5)
NY Giants (-7) at Denver
Indianapolis (-3.5) at Houston
Cleveland at Cincinnati (-14)
Chicago at Minnesota (-11)
Washington at Philadelphia (-9)
Miami (-3) at Buffalo
Arizona at Tennessee (-2)
Seattle (-3) at St. Louis
Tampa Bay at Atlanta (-12)
Carolina at NY Jets (-3)
Jacksonville at San Francisco (-3)
Kansas City at San Diego (-13.5)
Pittsburgh at Baltimore (-2.5)
New England at New Orleans (-3)

By this time, my wife and kids know the drill on Sunday’s during football season. At 12 noon, I can be found in but one place for the next 12 hours…in my man-cave! Each weekend it is the same: move the laptop over to the coffee table next to the couch, crank up the surround sound and yell at the TV when my starting fantasy QB misses yet another open receiver.

Before this season began, I pulled the trigger on a purchase that I had been planning for awhile. I broke down and bought a new 47″ HDTV to replace the 25 year old Sony console that had been through the wars (although the darned thing still works pretty well!).

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Yes, we are getting a bit of a late jump, but that is what happens when you decide to build a new site in the middle of football season. It will be a sprint to the finish between the boys of Tru Fans Sport and a couple of cohorts to see who can claim victory.

	The GMan	Tim B	Big Ed	Bud	C Gal
Last Week
YTD
Miami at Carolina (-3)
Cleveland at Detroit (-3.5)
Buffalo at Jacksonville (-10)
Pittsburgh (-9.5) at Kansas City
Indianapolis at Baltimore (PK)
Atlanta at NY Giants (-6)
San Francisco at Green Bay (-5.5)
Seattle at Minnesota (-10.5)
Washington at Dallas (-11)
New Orleans (-13) at Tampa Bay
Arizona (-7) at St Louis
NY Jets at New England (-10)
Cincinnati (-9) at Oakland
San Diego (-2.5) at Denver
Philadelphia (-3) at Chicago
Tennessee at Houston (-4.5)

So I am sitting there on my couch last night around 11:30 starting to come up with a layout for this morning’s article. I mean, let’s face it…no matter the outcome of last night’s game between the Patriots and Colts, there were major implications.

At that particular time in the game, the Colts were down by 13, Peyton was playing more like Eli having thrown a couple of horrid looking ducks to the opposition, and the defense hadn’t really stopped Brady for the last three quarters (save for the pick in the end zone).

Watching the Colts play defense is a serious test of patience. The primary philosophy for years has been to play a cover 2 scheme, which keeps most of the plays in front of them, makes the other team have to sustain a drive, and hope that somewhere during the course of a drive that a turnover or penalty occurs that prevents a touchdown. It is not often that they force the tempo, it is usually dictated upon them.

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It’s about @#$% time that someone made this guy accountable for what he has done….years of being a “me first” player and several off field problems the KC Chiefs did the right thing and cut this clown before he could get the club rushing record.

Maybe they should have done that in April when it was ruled that since he plead guilty of disturbing the peace they would be justified in releasing him without paying him the 3.5 million dollars they owed him, they chose to keep him instead.

The latest issue with his negative comments and gay slurs was too much for the orginazation to overlook. So they released him!! Kudos to KC.

My hope is no-one picks him up but in this day of “we can fix him” and “whatever it takes to win” attitudes he will once again be burdening some organization with his tired game of bitching and moaning…This is yet another case of  ”buyer beware”!!!!!!

I feel better now…