CC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure I put enough exclamation marks down. CC Sabathia is going to be a Yankee, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. They'll need to dot the i's and cross the t's but if Sherman's correct, the long national nightmare is over. And to Mike Francesa, who was adamant on Monday about how CC was playing the Yankees and didn't want to come; I'm deeply ashamed to call you a fellow Yankees fan. I listened to you yesterday (today, who knows?, it's 5 in the morning) and was flabbergasted. You, sir, are an idiot. Let's see you backtrack later today. Happy days are here again. Now go get Sheets!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12102008/sports/yankees/yanks_close_in_on_sabathia_deal_143481.htm

Sean Avery Article

http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2008/12/04/one-fans-vulgar-confrontation-with-sean-avery

Just scroll down and read what he said to the fan.

Do you think Plax has seen this?

A video of a policeman doing a demonstration on gun safety in front of a class of students that goes horribly awry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj4yUpR1PB0

All the Giants have to do is avoid shooting themselves in the foot...ohh wait.

All I'll say is this, at least Tank Johnson was a man who knew how to handle his firearm, if not properly conceal it. C'mon Plax, you were a third round pick on one of my fantasy teams slated to be my no#1 wideout. Now you impale your own thigh fumbling around in your pocket at a nightclub. 

Shame.

Safeties of the N.F.L. variety apparently aren't the ones that cause you the most trouble. 

As for Antonio Pierce and Derrick Ward, remember in public school, because some of us on the show wore polo shirts to private school everyday like pussies, myself not included, when the policeman came in and warned everyone about the dangers or drugs and hanging out with a bad crowd? If I'm Roger Goodell I would make every NFL player who commits a crime and or drug offense redo the DARE program.

And I would give Plax a coupon for a free game of paintball. Clearly he could use the practice.

Big Blue Domination

We have exceeded unchartered waters with the New York "football" Giants. At the moment, most Big Blue fans are in state of complete shock and amazement at the season the team is having the year after unexpectedly winning the Super Bowl.

If you took a trip down memory lane, you could start after week two last season when the Giants defense had given up 80 points to the Cowboys and Packers, and resorted to avoiding the media's questions by blowing air horns in the locker room. This stunt was meant to deflect criticism of the team's awful defensive performance in its first two-games, and midway through Week 3, with the team trailing 17-3 against the Redskins, most Giants fans were resigned to the thought of a season without a first-round playoff loss, a mid-season firing of coach Tom Coughlin and the dream of benching our quarterback Eli Manning. Most fans were ready to quit on defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, and could not wait for the season to end. But than a funny thing happened to this team. They started playing with an "Us against the World," mentality and went on to beat the Skins in that game with the famous defensive stop of Gibbs' Skins on the one-yard line for four straight plays.

Since that emotional victory, the Giants have gone 24-5 which includes their playoff victories last season, and their "loss" to the Patriots in week 17 of last season. They are doing what the last two unexpected Super Bowl Winners could not do; repeat. The 2001 New England Patriots were the unexpected AFC representative in the 2001 Super Bowl in Tom Brady's first full season. We all know the magic they displayed against the greatest show on turf and Vinatieri's kick could have propelled them the next season to greater heights, but instead they crashed back to earth (albeit for just one season) going 9-7.

The 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers were led to the Super Bowl with a superb running attack, stellar defensive play and the mistake-free execution of rookie quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. They went on the road and defeated the 3,2,and 1 seed in the AFC (all on the road) before dismantling the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. Most figured Big Ben would be able to replicate the success they had in the playoffs with the core nucleus returning the next year. What transpired, though, was an 8-8 season with no playoff berth for Cowher's crew.

Why bring these two teams up as examples? They personify the difficulty level of repeating the next season the way the Giants have at the moment. Only twice in the past 18 years have teams posted a record of at least 10-1 the season after a Super Bowl Victory. The 2004-05 New England Patriots and the 1998-99 Denver Broncos, both of whom went on to repeat as Super Bowl Champions.

Not much is certain in today's NFL, and parody runs amuck week in and week out, but ths year one thing has remaine constant: Even with the losses of Strahan, Umenyiora, Wilson and Mitchell on the defensive side of the football, the Giants as a unit have had the depth and consistency to withstand these losses and are in a position to do what has been done just seven times prior; Repeat as NFL Super Bowl Champions.

Half Jewish Sports episode 10

We regret to inform you loyal listeners that our show today will not start until 4:30 today due to Production maintenance taking place at the station.

We will though spend the majority of the afternoon previewing the GW Basketball season, giving our final predictions and discussing the baseball hot-stove, the upcoming NFL week and finally some discussion of the NBA which we have not done yet this year.

We will be hearing from Steve "Herve" Hadley at 5:40 to give his final take on both the Men's and women's season as well as all other things GW basketball.

Please tune in at the SPECIAL TIME: 4:30 p.m. for a shortened version of Half Jewish Sports at gwradio.com

Yankees Offseason Plan

Obviously, the Yankees had a down year. Of course, 89 wins is nothing to scoff at. Chien-Ming Wang missed more than half the year, as did Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy (who struggled when they were up anyway). Andy Pettitte pitched the second half of the year with a bad shoulder. A-Rod had a down year and missed a few weeks, Hideki Matsui missed much of the season with a balky knee. Johnny Damon crashed into the outfield wall and missed a few weeks. Brian Bruney missed much of the season. Joba Chamberlain missed a month. Robinson Cano had a terrible season, as did his BFF Melky Cabrera. Let's put it simply; Sidney Ponson, Darrell Rasner, Dan Giese. They started 38 games for this team combined. So with all that said, 89 wins isn't too bad. But missing the playoffs is inexcusable and it's time for this team to retool. With that said, here is my realistic expert plan to fix the team for next year and beyond.

Lineup

LF Johnny Damon

SS Derek Jeter

DH Hideki Matsui

3B Alex Rodriguez

RF Xavier Nady

C Jorge Posada

1B Nick Swisher

2B Robinson Cano

CF Melky Cabrera/Brett Gardner

Bench

Melky Cabrera/Brett Gardner

Jose Molina

Cody Ransom

Nick Punto

Starting Rotation

C.C. Sabathia

Chien-Ming Wang

Derek Lowe

Joba Chamberlain

Andy Pettitte

Relief Pitchers

Mariano Rivera

Brian Bruney

Damaso Marte

Edwar Ramirez

Jose Veras

Jonathan Albaladejo

Dan Giese

Knocking on the Door

Phil Hughes

Phil Coke

Ian Kennedy

Alfredo Aceves

Sergio Mitre

Chase Wright

Kei Igawa

Chris Britton 

David Robertson

J.B. Cox

Mark Melancon

Humberto Sanchez

Steven Jackson

Juan Miranda

Justin Christian

Austin Jackson

Francisco Cervelli

Additions

C.C. Sabathia

Nick Swisher - Trade w/Chicago

Derek Lowe

Nick Punto

Subtractions

Mike Mussina - Retired

Jason Giambi - Oakland

Bobby Abreu - Chicago (NL)

Wilson Betemit - Trade w/Chicago

Ivan Rodriguez - Houston

Carl Pavano - Florida

SIGN SABATHIA!!!!!!!!!!!

With that out of the way, the Yankees will take a gigantic leap forward if they can get C.C.. Give them each 6 years and blow them out of the water with the offers. 6 for 150 for Sabathia. Derek Lowe would also be a nice piece for the next few years. Give him 3 for 48. I am not married to the idea of Lowe if he wants more than that. I am just as willing to plug in one of the young starters we have in AAA. The amount of money they are going to gain from the new stadium and the contracts that they will be rid of this offseason should leave more than enough money for these players. These simple moves must be done in order to create a new dynasty. The core is there. There are very few spots open on the 25 man roster. It's time to return to glory.

P.S. I wrote this 2 1/2 hrs before the Yankees traded for Nick Swisher. Some changes have been made accordingly.

Star Studded Episode 9

In the spirit of the presidential election, all of you will want to vote for Half Jewish Sports tomorrow and tune in as we have a star studded show.

For the first hour tomorrow, we are pleased to join former GW President Steven Joel Trachtenberg for a discussion about his new book "Big Man on Campus," as well as discuss what it was like to preside over the University during the Jarvis era as well as the Hobbs era and what his take is on athletics in college.

We than will be joined for the second hour of the show by GW's Associate Athletic Director Dominic Perno who will discuss the upcoming GW season as well as the schedule, Smith Center renovations and any question we receive from listeners during the second portion of our show.

Please email any questions you have for either guest to jayg33@gmail.com and tune in tomorrow at 4 PM at gwradio.com

Half Jewish Sports Episode Eight

We have quite a different look for you today as we have multiple guests and will spend the second half of the program bringing you live-coverage of todays GW men's Open Practice.

At around 4:15 we will be joined by Worcester Academy Head Coach Edward Reilly to discuss one of GW's newest recruits for the 2009 season Daymon Warren. We will also be joined live at the Smith Center by Steve "Herve" Hadley during the second hour of the program to discuss the new recruits, the A-10 rankings and where he thinks GW really belongs.

We also will discuss the World Series, the start of the NBA and the upcoming week in the NFL and College Football so make sure to tune in to Half Jewish Sports on WRGW (GWradio.com) at 4 today.

Half Jewish Sports Episode Seven

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a superb show on tap for you this Thursday. We will be joined this week by none other than Deadspin.com editor-and-chief A.J. Daulerio at around 4:15 to discuss all his work for the extremely popular blog destination as well as some of his fantastic adventures that have been chronicled in detail on the site.

We also expect to hear from our resident A-10 correspondent Chris Disano, editor of CollegeChalktalk.com, to continue our preview of Atlantic-10 basketball.

We will also discuss Game one of the World Series and some big games in both the NFL and NCAA FB.

Please feel free, as always, to be a part of the show by calling in at (202) 994-9749 and make sure you do not miss this jam-packed episode by going to gwradio.com and clicking the listen live button.

Today's Half Jewish Sports Episode

Welcome back for another week of Half Jewish Sports. We have much to cover today including the Phillies in the Fall Baseball Classic, the Dodgers demise, the ALCS, the parody in the NFL and GW basketball.

At 5:40 PM today, we will be having Steve "Herve" Hadley, creator of GWhoops.com on with us to discuss the GW basketball program. Today we will focus on the schedule and discuss the impact of the new players coming into the program this year. We will touch upon GW's newest recruit Kinley Branch and speak a bit about the GW coaching staff as well.

Steve will be joining us every other week throughout the season to speak about the team and the A-10 as a whole and we look forward to having him join the program.

Feel free to call in to the show today to ask questions at (202) 994-9749 and we will also allow you to email questions to me at jayg33@gmail.com for Steve during the last segment.

Join us from 4-6 today at gwradio.com for all the exciting stuff we have on tap.

A playoff without NY

I'm over it. I know the Yankees sucked this year. Our offense was horrible. A-Rod and Giambi couldn't hit with RISP. Our rotation usually had guys like Darrell Rasner and Sidney Ponson in it and Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes combined to win 0 games. And yet, we finished with the same record as the New York Metropolitans. And we played in arguably the best division in baseball history. So I'm over it. I've been prepared for my first October without baseball since 1994 (and that was only because of a strike) for a while now.

Mets fans are not over it (cough...Julian). And when I say, Met fans are not over it, I mean they can't stomach the fact that they went out and got Johan Santana, paid him more than any pitcher ever, had him pitch a Cy Young caliber season, and had the team collapse for the second straight season in September. I asked Julian today if he was watching the Brewers-Phillies game today. His response? "Nah too soon." Nah too soon indeed. I completely understand where he's coming from. If I had a bullpen that contained such luminaries as Luis Ayala, Pedro Feliciano, Scott Schoenweis and Aaron Heilman, I might not want to watch playoff baseball either. If I could give a struggling Mets fan one piece of advice, it would be to get over it. Clearly this team was not built for October. There's a reason your team hasn't made the playoffs two years in a row. He was just signed to a four year contract extension. Have fun with Omar!

Half Jewish Sports October 2nd (Episode 4)

We have got quite a show for you this Thursday afternoon from 4-6 PM. We will be joined by former ESPN Writer and current Sporting News Blogger Dan Shanoff for a discussion on all things sports and his ascension to ESPN and than his decision to go off on his own. We also may hear from Gregg Rosenthal from rotoworld.com to discuss the fantasy football season so far and discuss the two firings this week. Finally Chris DiSano of the A-10 website collegechalktalk.com may be joining us at the end of the program to discuss some A-10 basketball. Chris will be a regular caller during A-10 basketball season.

We also will be making picks, talking mlb playoffs, week 5 football and everything else relevant in the world of sports today. Make sure to tune in at 4PM and do so by going to gwradio.com and clicking listen live.

Thanks and see you on the air tomorrow.

Picks

For anyone who did not see the second episode of season four of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," the gang devises an idiotic get rich quick scheme in which they buy barrels of gasoline, store it until gases prices shoot up even further so they can sell it off for profit. It's decided that Mac is the brains of the operation, Dennis is the looks, and Charlie is the wild card. 

I'm like Charlie. I'm the wild card. I picked the Astros to win the wild card with Brian Moehler as their number two starter. I picked Kevin Craft and UCLA to pommel BYU with an aerial assault that would make Texas Tech look like Auburn. It's so crazy it just might work. 

It didn't.  

For the record, If I would have known Julian was actually counting the picks and that this was a season long competition, I would not have picked the Astros to go to the post season. That being said, there is still no assurance that I will not make totally idiotic picks in the future. Also, I'm not exactly proud of my BYU UCLA pick, however UCLA probably had a better chance of winning that game than the Astros do of playing October baseball.  

Half Jewish Show Interviews

We finally discovered how to upload audio onto the site and have begun posting audio from the first two weeks of the show. Keep looking on the right-side bar for our interviews with our guests and keep looking for more Half Jewish audio to be posted in the future.

Half Jewish Sports Episode 2

Welcome back to the second episode of Half Jewish Sports. This week we are thrilled to welcome beck a friend of Half Jewish Sports, Rick Magnante who is a scout for the Oakland Athletics and has managed both the South Africa team in the 2006 WBC and currently manages the Athletics A-ball team the Vancouver Canadians.

We will also spend time this week discussing the pennant races, the week ahead in football, college football and we will re-introduce the Half Jewish first-year faceoff. Picks are in line and as always you guys have the opportunity to be a part of the show by calling in or im-ing our producer.

Join us from 4-6 PM Thursday Sept. 18th as we discuss all the aforementioned topics and more here at GWRadio.com

HALF-JEWISH SPORTS DEBUT!

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen to the Official Half-Jewish Sports blog. I anticipate this being the best year yet for the longest running sports show at WRGW and in our first show we plan on having Dan Woike of USCFootball.com (A rivals.com affiliate) as our guest to discuss the USC-OSU football game this Saturday evening.

Please click here and listen in every Thursday afternoon from 4-6 PM to hear great sport-talk both nationally as well as becoming the flagship at WRGW for GW and A-10 basketball coverage.

Lofty goals, for sure, but ones I believe we will achieve this year and it all begins tomorrow September, 11 at 4:00 PM EST