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For many teams simply selling seats at their respective stadium is difficult. Many turn to (as most companies do) to the world of advertising. Now I may be a little hyper-critical in this realm because I have worked for an Ad Agency and I think what I created there was pretty darn good. Or perhaps we should first look at the teams that did not come up with slogans: The Angels, Astros, Athletics, Brewers, Cardinals, Cubs, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Indians, Padres, Phillies, Rays and White Sox. I’m sure we can come up with some good ones for those teams, but wait, most of them finished last season above or around .500. Perhaps you don’t need a catchy slogan if your team isn’t TERRIBLE? It’s just a thought….

The Good:

Boston Red Sox - “2007 World Series Champions”

Colorado Rockies - “2007 National League Champions”

New York Yankees - “All-Star Summer”

New York Mets - “Last Season at Shea”

Cincinnatti Reds - “C You There”: Probably the best one from a creative stand point. Although if for some reason a person didn’t know the Reds play in Cincinnati (which is possible) they would be confused. But I think for most of America, the message will be understood.

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After reading about all the “interesting” situations going on with this preseason and major league baseball teams traveling to Asia (Chan Ho Park incident, Red Sox incident), the Sportsblahg feels it is necessary to help Major League Baseball better pick locations for next season’s pre-season run around: Read the rest of this entry »

While everyone is trying to tell you who is going to win the Big Dance, the Sportsblahg is going to take a different stance and tell you the teams that are NOT going to win the tournament. Granted 64 teams won’t will (well, 63 now), but the Sportsblahg is comfortable that the following teams will not be the ones dancing to “One Shining Moment” by David Barrett: Read the rest of this entry »

My parting thoughts after watching the championships are pretty simple ones: Basketball is awesome no matter where it is played. The men’s and women’s championship games in the Mountain West Conference were both slugfests between teams that left it all on the court. It’s amazing to think that next week, these teams will likely get crushed by a major conference team, but presently that couldn’t be further from people’s thoughts. It’s can’t believe how exciting basketball (and sports in general) can be when you get two evenly matched teams in a packed arena full of excited fans.

Basketball in Vegas? Well it is something truly special isn’t it! My thoughts on the pros & cons of this past weekends Mountain West Conference Championships: Read the rest of this entry »

In the beginning with these conference tournaments, there’s more basketball than you can handle (4 to 5 games from noon to midnight). But as the tournament goes deeper the number of games shrink, and that leaves you with the ultimate question, “what does one do with his/her time while in Vegas”?

Well, there are the obvious answers: Gambling at one of MANY casinos, taking in a “Vegas Show” or stand up comedian, you can take a bus/car/helicopter ride to the Hoover Dam or the Grand Canyon, or you can just walk the strip. But the Sportsblahg digs deeper. We try not to be tourists when we’re in a city (especially since The Nate visits it so frequently) and thus went out in search of fun activities to do before Friday night’s Men’s Semi-Final games. These are some of the fun things we found: Read the rest of this entry »

The Sportsblahg is live and on location for all of your enjoyment from beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada, home of the Mountain West Conference championships. Through contacts of mine that are big time, I’ve been able to enjoy much of the basketball (both men’s and women’s) here in Las Vegas over the last week, and I’ve got to tell you, it’s been amazing.

Sure it’s not the Big East/ACC or Big 12 Tournament (I’ve been to two of those), but it’s March Madness and let me tell you that translate to any piece of the Division I basketball universe. In watching this tourney unfold I have come to a stark realization: The NCAA Final Four needs to start including Las Vegas as a host city. Read the rest of this entry »

The ladies traveled to the country of Bangkok, Singapore for the HSBC Women’s Champions tournament and it really wasn’t much of a contest on the golf course, but as always, the Sportsblahg can find competition in a blow out, because the ladies were looking well:

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Week 2 of the LPGA tour and FINALLY the hotness comes out!! Despite the fact that we had co-champions this week (a hot list FIRST), don’t be fooled because the hotness was in full effect this week, probably because it was warm in Hawaii (as opposed to EVERYWHRE else). Read the rest of this entry »

Since I am partial to the East, I figured we’d start with them both. You may be asking, “Why not be partial to the west, since you’re the west coast fan?”. Well truth is I’m a transplant, and though I enjoy watching the A’s, Giants, Dodgers and Angels. I can’t deny that my first two loves are on the eastern seaboard. You can try and guess which two teams I grew up watching (hints: 1 is AL, 1 is NL. One of the teams have recently relocated).

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As many websites, newspapers, magazines and talk show hosts will try and tell you every little detail about what will make a World Series champion this year, we here at the SportsBlahg wanted to get in on the act. But while most people will give you minute details (i.e. The battle for the 5th starter spot on the Royals could mean the difference between winning 40 games and 42 games), we are going to give it to you straight up and with lots of zingy one-liners, because let’s face it, we loves sports, but we love ourselves more!

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