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About ContractBud.com
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Welcome to ContractBud.com, a site devoted to making suggestions and comments on the state of sport, providing unique but feasible solutions and commentary regarding every sport.
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| Current 2006 NFL Draft Order |
| # | Franchise | Strength of Schedule | Last Week |
| 1 | Houston | 0.535 | 1 |
| 2 | New Orleans | 0.523 | 2 |
| 3 | Tennessee | 0.512 | 6 |
| 4 | NY Jets | 0.527 | 3 |
| 5 | Green Bay | 0.531 | 4 |
The first five teams are in order, with Tennessee making a huge last minute leap, thanks to wins by Green Bay, San Francisco, and the New York Jets in the final week of the season. San Francisco and Oakland will vie for the #6 pick, with their fate being decided by the flip of a coin...
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Updated January 1
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| How to Save Hockey — Introducing the Hockey League of the Americas |
The National Hockey League is over, buried under the weight of overpriced player contracts, underpriced revenue streams with broadcast, small stadiums, limited marketing, poor expansion choices, and general mismanagement. To solve hockey's woes, I propose disbanding the NHL and replacing it with a new league, the Hockey League of the Americas (HLA), and will set it up in the following manner.
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posted January 23
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| Stealing Third |
Baserunning has become the lost art in the major leagues. Rickey Henderson was the last of the great basestealers, not because the knowledge of the art disappeared with Atlantis and the Tigers, but because the game changed. With the increased focus on power baseball, risking the out by stealing second or third becomes less of a palatable option. It makes just as much sense, so goes the logic, to drive in the runner from first base as it does second or third.
The decline in basestealing skills has corresponded with decreased baserunning skills — and basecoaching skills. Wendell Kim, for example, has been around the league far too long to not see the change in the game. Yet he keeps sending pokey baserunners around third. Most recently, it was Damian Miller, catcher. Six foot, three inches. Listed as 220 lbs. Three, count them, three career stolen bases in seven seasons. Three career triples. Earlier this season, it was pitcher Matt Clement (6'3", 210 lbs). And these aren't Kim's first ill-advised waves, either. Ask Red Sox fans who dubbed him "Windmill Kim" and the Expos fan who dubbed him "Wavin' Wendell". Even Boog Powell would get the wave around from Kim.
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