I get asked a lot by friends of mine and readers of this site if I’d like to be in the main stream say in a magazine or a web site like ESPN or SI or even do a shift on WFAN or WEPN? And I answer of course, who wouldn’t. If WFAN or WEPN contacted me t do a shift on their station I wouldn’t be able to zip my pants due to my arousal but then I read a story like this about ESPN personality Dana Jacobson and I wonder if by going main stream do you give up your right to free speech?

I’m sure most of you have heard about Jacobson. She was at a roast for Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic of Mike and Mike in the Morning in Atlantic City and it seems she had a little too much vodka and when it was her turn to speak she took to the podium yelling out “Fuck Notre Dame, Fuck Touchdown Jesus and Fuck Jesus. Now I am a Roman Catholic who tries to practice his faith but I have to say if I were at that event I probably would have peed in my pants watch this amazon drunk chick carrying on like that.

Well, it seems that some folks were offended by Jacobson’s remarks. You see in America everyone is always offended. You can’t say God Bless you to someone who sneezes I was told at a sensitivity training class I had to attend because myself and fellow co-workers used profanity in the work place. Not at anyone in particular but at a printer that was “too fucking slow” and my physical state as ” I was fucking tired” someone over heard these statements and we were all called on the carpet. Oh yeah don’t even think of having a Christmas Party it must called a Holiday Party. When this was brought up in a meeting I raised my hand and asked if anyone wanted to attend a Kiss My Ass party that I will be having so I guess you know why I was in the first seat first row at sensitivity training.

Anyway back to Jacobson, here she is at a roast, which if you have ever been to one saying Fuck Jesus, is pretty tame, for Mike Golic who went to Notre Dame so you can see why Jacobson went the way she did. But of course she got suspended for saying this because in America in 2008 you can’t say things that might offend someone. I think that’s why blogs are so popular because it’s seems to be the last place freedom of speech can be exercised.

I can come here and tell you how I think the Skill Sets are doing good or bad. I can call out the GM of the Mets and tell him to wake up and get to work. I can tell manager Willie Randolph to read Earl Weaver’s book WEAVER ON STRATEGY and he can’t do shit to me. But isn’t that what free speech is? If Don Imus wants to make fun of a women’ basketball team can’t he just say he’s sorry and move on and not lose his job? Can’t we just sit back and laugh at Al Sharpton as he becomes a real life Foghorn Leghorn? Can’t we allow Anne Coulter the right to speak as we try to figure out how she straps down her penis? Can’t we look at Keith Olberman and say gee Keith your so much smarter than us but you still coundn’t get laid in an Amsterdam whore house with Guilders on your forehead . Don’t you laugh Bill O’Reily with your pants around your ankles making sex calls on the phone. What’s that President Bush? Yes Elmo is a “funny little fellow”and no I don’t know how he goes to the bathroom without a pee-pee.

Sorry for the rant today boys and girls but I can’t get worked up over signing a fourth outfielder to a 2 year deal. The long slow off season continuesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

Don’t forget to tune in tomorrow night at 9PM EST to SPORTSTALKNY as our guests will be NY Post Hockey Writer Larry Brooks as we get ready for BRAIN LEETCH NIGHT at MSG on Thursday. Leetch’ 2 will hang with honor in the Garden rafters

Also on the show will be Aviva Kemper the producer of a fabulous documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and Kent Strong the inspiration for the film The Final Season.

Of course we will talk about the New York Football Giants, the two other teams that play hockey in the tri state area, the two lousy basketball teams (the one that slums in East Rutherford needs as much a house cleaning as the heartless bunch from Manhattan) the J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS who are in their familiar position of sitting out the post season and waiting for the April Draft. No team in football is better than the ex-Titans in April and August, it’s September to December where the problems lie.

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NYC has always been a baseball town. But right now, both the Mets and Highlanders are hard pressed to get any ink, radio or TV time as the New York Football Giants have taken over this city.

Yesterday I was at MSG to watch the Celtics smack the Knickerbockers around as the Knicks, especially Eddie Curry who was scared of Kendrick Perkins, played so uninspired that even though I was sitting in section 408 in what was a full house at the World’s Most Famous Arena, I could hear not just the bounce of the basketball but  Rajon Rondo call out plays for the C’s.

But the quiet of a holiday afternoon ass kicking was interrupted by the introduction of NY Giants players on hand. Plaxico Buress (who held up his hand to the Jumbotron and pointed to his empty ring finger) RW McQuaters, Steve Smith and Aaron Ross all took bows and hand shakes from Paul Pierce and Ray Allen as the Garden crowd rose from their seats and cheered.

Many in the crowd had nice fresh Giants caps on and bright red and blue ny sweatshirts. Even out on Broadway after the game I saw many a New Yorker sporting Giants colors. Just proves my point that this is an event town and many of my fellow city dwellers are great bandwagon jumpers.

I saw this on MetsBlog and nearly puked up my lunch: 

{According to Impacto Deportivo, free-agent LHP Odalis Perez will meet with executives from the Mets, who had been scouting him this winter in the Dominican Republic.

In 26 starts for the Royals last season, Perez was 8–11 with a 5.57 ERA through 137 innings, during which he struck out 64 and walked 50.

He has not finished a season with an ERA below 4.00 since 2004, when he was 7–6 with a 3.25 ERA in 31 starts for the Dodgers.}

Are you fucking kidding me? Is this Rip Van Minaya’s idea of an upgrade? Mets management better hope the Giants win the Super Bowl and the Celtics win the NBA Championship (I have no hope of the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup) so as to take the edge off the foul mood I’m in about my favorite baseball team.

Oh yeah, Endy Chavez signed for 2 yrs. Go back to sleep now Omar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t care if your the biggest Giants fan ever. Or if your last name is Mara or Tisch, no one predicted that the New York Football Giants would be the NFC rep in this years Super Bowl, hell it was a miracle the made the playoffs.

I’m still shocked. It’s like siting in casino and every dollar you put in a slot machine comes 7-7-7 you can’t believe your luck. I was supposed to be draped in NEW YORK METS 2007 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS apparel not NY GIANTS NFC CHAMPS threads. I’m not complaining by any means any time I can buy a shirt or hat with a team I root for that says CHAMPIONS on it I’m giddy but the GIANTS? Who’d a thunk it?

While Rip Van Minaya sleeps through the winter, the San Diego Padres are ready to swoop in and grab Matt Murton from the Cubs. If this deal goes through they could be a world record set on this site for the use of the F-word set back on the day Scott Kazmir was traded. 

With 25 days until pitchers and catchers report to Port St Lonesome, the off season of our discontent crawls on. Sure Aaron Heilman settling for a million and change is good news but Jose Valentin? Seriously? I know it’s just a minor league deal but is this Omar’s idea of solidifying the bench? We all know that ‘Stache as a bench player is non-productive and with Jose Castillo firmly entrenched at 2nd base  the only position ‘Stache should be up for is infield coach.

I’m very much down on Minaya this off season as he has done nothing to improve this team and the one area that they need the help- a right handed bat who can play first base- has not been addressed.

The only thing that could save Minaya from a good Kranepool Society thrashing will be to bring the lefty from Venezuela to Shea and I don’t mean Hugo Chavez.

Enjoy Championship Sunday everyone, and I don’t know if you heard but it’s cold in Green Bay. No shit really!

Again the winter of my discontent continues as the Mets off season crawls along.

So it’s because of that I turn my attention to football and this weekends championship contests. So if you’re here for Mets news sorry to report there isn’t any. If you want to know my opinion on the NFC and AFC Championship Games read on.

I want to pick the New York Football Giants to win Sunday and I will be rooting like a mutha’ for them to win but with their secondary that wasn’t so good when healthy, decimated by injury, I just can’t see them containing Brett Farve and the Packers spread offense. If I’m Mike McCarthy, I come out with a four WR set and Donald Lee in the backfield to block and attack, attack , attack the Giants DB’s which could consist of R.W McQuarters-a kick returner-and Geoffrey Pope-a practice squad player-playing a key role at CB.

On offense, Kevin Gilbride has to go to a strict ball control offense. Run Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw and send Plaxico Burres and Armani Toomer on post patterns to free up the underneath and let Eli get the ball to Steve Smith and TE Kevin Boss. If the Giants do win this game Sunday, Smith and Boss will be the ones the come up big.

My heart says Big Blue but my head says Cheese. Pack 31 Men of Mara 17

In Foxboro the San Diego Super  Charges limp into Foxboro and after three hours they will limp on out. Philip Rivers, LaDamian Tomlinson and Antonio Gates are far from game ready and they are the main cogs of the Charges O.

The Patriots on offense are a site to behold.  They beat you long with Randy Moss or Dante Stalhwoth or underneath with Wes Welker and Benjamin Watson. They’re like an Arena Football  team.

Boys of Belichick 35  Nervous Norv’s 17

Another great show on SPORTSTALKNY last night as author Peter Golenbock had some great anidotes on the Highlanders and specifically Mickey Mantel and Billy Martin. Check out the archive page here and you can download SPORTSTALKNY right from iTunes. Next week NY Post hockey writer Larry Brooks will be a guest on the show, as we go back to our Wednesday night 9PM slot. We will be talking about Brian Leetch Night which will be on this Thursday January 24^th  

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I have to admit I’m in full football mode as I am pee in my pants giddy over this weekends Championship Games. I’d be shocked if the Patriots don’t come out on top Sunday and if the G-Men win the Tundra War in Lambeau but both are shaping up as fine viewing for a cold Sunday afternoon/evening.

The Johan Santana stalemate is still ongoing and from what we are reading out of the Twin cities, it seems GM Bill Smith is just looking at the deal that puts him in the best light with Twins fans. It’s thinking like that that will make Smith an ex-GM real soon. As the great Bob Knight (congrats on win number 900 last night by the way) said when you start listening to the fans in back of you, you soon join them.

But after reading this story it still seems that the Mets are the front runners in getting Santana.  It looks like a game of high stakes chicken between Minaya and Smith. Minaya does not want to give up both Carlos Gomez and F Mart and Smith and the Twins keep leaking stories of the Highlanders and Red Sox showing not only interest but the better package. With the Highlanders out as of today (and that changes by the minute) and the Red Sox not really needing Santana that leaves just our Metsies ready willing and able to deal.

Give Santana credit as he hasn’t busted balls to be dealt and dealt now but the longer this drags out the ultimatum will be coming as he has to get ready for not only spring training but the regular season as well as far as setting up a home. At this point I would be very surprised if Santana is not a Met.

Maybe this is the beginning of more moves this off season as the Cubs have signed John Lieber to a nowadays bargain basement deal of $3.5 mil/1 yr. The deal frees the Cubs to deal either RHP and Staten Island native Jason Marquis or closer Ryan Dempster.

When you think of the classic “swingman” a pitcher who is sorely missed in baseball today, the name Don Cardwell comes to mind. Cardwell a big part of the 1969 Mets success died yesterday at the age of 72. I would have sworn he was older. In 1969 he was 33 years old and looked about 20 years older than that.

I’m worn out over the Johan Santana cock tease but it just seems to me that as soon as the Highlanders say “no-mas” the stories come out that the Red Sox are just in it for shits and giggles and the Mets are the front runners for Santana’s services. Pack a Day Hank reads that and pulls hard on a Lucky Strike and tells Pee Wee Cashman get us “back in the game” even though Pee Wee and Hank the Horseman want no part of the deal. But Pack a Day Hank is a chip off the old block head and has to keep the Highlander name in the paper. I wish I could meet Twins GM Bill Smith so I could grab him his shirt collar and tell him to SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT ALREADY!!!!!!

Tom Nieto was named the Mets first base coach yesterday. Let’s hope he doesn’t lend his bad habits to Jose Reyes.

Looking at the transactions in the paper this morning I saw that the Milwaukee Brewers named Wally Whitehurst, as pitching coach for Lake Elsinore and Duffy Dyer was named as a roving instructor.

Whitehurst was a journeyman Mets pitcher back in the early 90’s. He came to the Mets along with Kevin Tapani (who went to the Twins in the Frank Viola deal so you could play six degrees of separation with Johan Santana and the Mets) in a three way deal with the Dodgers who got Jesse Orossco from the Mets.

Dyer was a first round pick of the Mets in the secondary phase of the 1966 entry draft (the famous Steve Chilcott over Reggie Jackson draft) and turned into a very good defensive catcher. Dyer lasted until 1974 when he was dealt to the Pirates for Gene Clines who was supposed to be a great leadoff hitter but of course in the grand tradition of Mets history this was another failed transaction.

Can someone break the news to Mike Piazza that he is D-O-N-E? That fork stuck in Piazza’s side is from the Florida Marlins telling him they are not interested in a reunion tour.