Well, the ESPYs suck

I'm watching the ESPY awards for unknown reasons. In one word, let's describe it: trash.

Justin Timberlake is not a comedian. He should not be up there.

[Did he just insult the Patriots? ESPN let him talk negative about a New England team?]

And now he doesn't want to talk about his Memphis Tigers and their missed free throws. Yeah, that's Mario Chalmbers laughing at him. And now all the girls are screaming at David Beckham, and he made soccer THIS MUCH POPULAR.

By the way, in that opening title sequence, with all the champions, ya know. Um, it makes me feel that the Boston Celtics and New York Giants were the only ones who won championships.

My Detroit bias is kicking in, but there's a little team called the Detroit Red Wings who won a large Cup by the name of Stanley. All we get is a two second clip there?

EDIT: I'm not funny. My friends take sympathy on me when trying to make me feel better by laughing in that sarcastic kind of tone. So from now on I'm not going to try to be funny.

At least Rick Reilly isn't there.

Did Rick Reilly just say that?

I might have just been hearing things, but I am pretty sure Rick Reilly just told everyone who was watching that he's surprised there are no blacks at the Home Run Derby.

Rick Reilly: "I question the selection ... no disrespect, but we got eight white guys here. This is like a Kiwanis club meeting. Five of the last eight last champions have been Hispanic and we don't have a Hispanic player out here. Five of the top 25 home run hitters active, and none of them are here -- no Griffey, no Howard, no Tejada, no Abreu, no Pujols, no Manny. So I was very surprised ..."

Now what if it was the other way around?

Well, he was not very good tonight. Stick to print, dude, because trying to be funny on TV may actually hurt you more than trying to be funny in the back of a magazine.

Here's the video:

Stephen A. Smith is sick of Brett Favre

Stephen A. Smith is quite a character. Quite frankly (that show didn't last), he's the most annoying out of all the talking heads on ESPN. Check out this vid, it's S.A.S. on Brett Favre (via Awful Announcing).

Although I agree with him that all the Brett Favre news is on way overkill, calm down there buddy. I don't even know why ESPN put him on there, but we ask ourselves that question anytime we see him up on our TV screens. He should stick to the basketball department.

Home Run Derby Field Set

Aside from ESPN and Chris Berman making the Home Run Derby ridiculously hard to watch (back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back [getting annoying?], back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back), one of my favorite events is the Home Run Derby (Monday, 8 PM EST, ESPN). The field was set today, here are the competitors:

Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins (14 home runs)
Grady Sizemore, Cleveland Indians (23)
Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay Rays (16)
Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers (21)
Chase Utley, Philadelphia Phillies (25)
Dan Uggla, Florida Marlins (23)
Lance Berkman, Houston Astros (22)
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers (23)

I would love to see Sizemore win (favorite player). All of these guys have a legitimate shot to win this, but I will go ahead and say Berkman will win this.

Twins' Morneau one of eight Home Run Derby competitors [ESPN]
Home Run Derby Discussion [FYI Sports Fans - Forum]

Gone for the weekend

You're stuck with Z-man for the weekend, because I won't have a computer anywhere near me in a camp site, unless they have WiFi. But I doubt it.

Actually, Zak is away makin' it rain or watching that practice (which may or may not be one of his plans to make a profit this summer) for Senior Week. So...this site may be vacant for the weekend, but I'll try and fix that. Maybe another FYI staff member will help us out.

The big story of the day is ESPNs crap program they put out for all of us last night during the NBA draft.

Stuart Scott is, and was, horrible last night with many errors, like, you know, saying Eric Gordon went to Illinois and constantly reminding us that there were in fact many freshman picked in the first round. May we remind you that the NBA has an age limit.

Jeff Van Gundy made sure every Exec. felt good afterwards by assuring that every pick was a great one and it should turn out just fine. He was too nice. Not every pick was great. Ask New York fans (you heard the boos), and there were some other questionable choices (DJ Augustin to Charlotte when Raymond Felton is running the show?)

Jay Bilas was great as usual and was the only one of the talking heads up there that was actually knowledgeable.

I didn't really have a problem with Stephen A. Smith but some of the repeated questions got annoying.

Let's rally for TNT to host the draft instead of ESPN.

I'm not very good when it comes to the NBA so sorry for the lack of writing on this post, just wanted to share my opinion on the whole ordeal.

You will not be missing me

Even though I am leaving for Missouri tomorrow and won't be coming back until next Saturday, you'll still have Z and maybe a couple other writers.

I'll try and check in from St. Louis.

In the meantime, I leave you with Rick Sutcliffe hitting on Erin Andrews...(via Awful Announcing)