Well today is the day that former Patriots video coordinator Matt Walsh wil meet with Warden Godell to discuss what was or was not on the tapes.  Then Godell will release those tapes to the media, then go meet in Washington with pissed off Eagles fan, Sen. Arlen Spector, to put a finish on the entire Spygate cloud that has been over the NFL for the better part of the last calender year.

My question now has been my question since the Spygate story broke, "Who Cares?"

Honestly, this is only the first time someone taping signals has been caught doing so.  As much as people want to think that the Patriots were the only team taping signals, need to remove their rose coloured glasses and see what advantage this can give a team.  Then you're going to tell me that only the Patriots are the ones taping signals?  Really?

The Pats and Bill Belichick were just the first ones to get caught, after his protege Eric Mangini went to the league and told the NFL what the Pats were doing.  What is stopping Mangini from taping signals?  Didn't he come from the Belichick school of coaching?  Wouldn't he have learned from the master and put it into practice?  Just asking some questions.

Next we have this so called smoking gun, that turned out to be shooting blanks.  Former Pats employee Matt Walsh claimed to have video tape of the Rams walk-through before they faced the Patriots in Super Bowl 36.  Then he gives Godell the tapes and it shows us exactly what we already know.

Thank you for wasting my time.  Your big atom bomb that was supposed to blow up the Patriots dynasty turned out to be a dud that was well beyond its relevancy.

Then, finally we have the Eagles fan, Sen. Arlen Spector who was looking for any reason to say that something was fishy about the Patriots beating his beloved Eagles in Super Bowl 39.  He is grasping at straws looking for a reason to try and get his first championship as an Eagles fan.

This is almost as rediculous as Congress being involved in whether or not baseball players took performance enhancing drugs or whether or not Roger Clemens "misremembered" his whereabouts at Jose Canseco's BBQ.

Spygate was a non-story from the beginning, the league disciplined the Patriots, and the story was closed.  Since everyone loves to delight in others people misery, when somone has a little bit of success, they want to tear them down and say something was up and they achieved thier success while everyone played by the rules.  Doubt that they were the only team taping signals.

Time for everyone to put Spygate in the rearview mirror and move on.

Baseball season making headway into May, and the NBA and NHL Playoffs are getting closer and closer to a champion, all we are seeing is great team after great team playing, that I know I sometimes forget about the terrible franchises in professional sports.

There are a lot of teams that are or have been in disarray for a long time in professional sports, so I am going to give you all the teams that are as the french say "Le Garbage"

NFL
Washington Redskins
Two words, Daniel Snyder.  The owner of the Six Flags franchise proves he can run an amusement park, but not when it is the most valuable sports franchise in the world.  When you start trading away draft picks for cheese sandwich's, a ride on Superman and player who past their prime ages before they arrive at the Redskins.  Mark Burnell was the quarterback even though they had Jason Campbell waiting in the wings, and there are questions around him.  That was their first round pick a few years ago.  Then this past draft he was willing to part with more picks to acquire Bengal hater Chad Johnson.

I love Ocho Cinco, he makes the league fun, but when he can't produce with a A-list quarterback like Carson Palmer, what chance does he have with Campbell.

Miami Dolphins
1-15, need I say more?  Now we have your star player dancing the night away to "DUH-DUH-DUH-DUNNNNNNN"  Then he attempts to extend the olive branch to the coahc who shuns him.  I know they had a great draft with Michigan south by drafting Jake Long and Chad Henne, but as of right now, not such a good franchise.

NHL
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Leafs run thier franchise the way they do because no Leaf fan questions what they are going to do.  With a packed building every night, regardless of what kind of team they are fielding or icing, but I digress.  Now they fired a coach who was put in a no win situation with players who would be hard pressed to make the second line on most other N HL teams.  This team is run like a business, which is the way it should be done, but it is an unsuccessful business in terms of W-L, not $ and sense.  41 years since a championship proves it all.

And the Grand Prize winner is.............

The New York Knicks
When you hire Larry Brown, one of the best coaches in NBA history, and replace him with a person with limited coaching experience.  Then you make that coach the GM or the other waya around who makes questionable deals as general manager and let him run your team, while he sexually harasses employees of your organization.  Then the Knicks fire said person as preident and GM, but continue to allow him to coach a losing team rather than letting your next coach come in and attempt to fix the situation so there are no growing pains for next year.

But then you tell that previously employed coach that he still has a job, but he has no title and no responosibility and can not talk to any of his current players.  Where do I sign up for that job, being kept on the payroll while doing nothing, sounds like a good deal, does it come with benefits?

That doesn't even cover the players on the team.  Starbury selling shoes while babbling about nothing on a certain video, and the other bunch of overpaid stiffs they have playing for the Knicks right now.

What organizations do you think are in complete disarray and why.  Post it in the comments

With the recent revelations of Roger Clemens different associations with a country singer and one of John Daly's ex-wife, I go back to the days follwing the Mitchell Report and when Roger came out and began his denials of ever using steroids or other performance enhancing drugs.  Roger should have taken a cue from a lot of the players named in the Mitchell Report and just kept his mouth shut.

Roger's denial was after his training partner Andy Pettitte admitted use, but Roger continued to deny even though they used the same trainer.  Roger wanted to have us believe that his trainer injected Andy and not him.  He did it to me, but he didn't inject me at all.  Roger wanted us to believe that?

Next we had the absolute joke of the congressional hearings where Clemens introduced everyone in the world to a brand new words, that turned out to be a real word "Misremembers".  Some people believed Roger after the hearings, and that is your opinion to do so.  I disagree with you but I can't say you are wrong.

Now we have allegations against Clemens by one of the New York papers about his relationship with country singer Mindy McCready and now with one of John Daly's ex-wives.  Clemens, who is a self proclaimed family man, has had two alleged relationships outside of his marriage.  Now his defamation lawsuit against Brian McNamee is looking just a little more flimsy.

I like Clemens, but I have been losing respect ever since he has come out with a lot of flimsy denials for every situation. 

He could have saved himself a world of hurt if he had just pulled a Mark McGwire and went into hiding.

UPDATE FOR POST MAY 5

Roger has just given us this kinda, sorta, maybe I didn't do this, ok just a little bit guilty.  I admit I did some of the things but the other things I didn't do.

This apology sounds like that girl who says I got myself "kind of" or "a little bit" preagnant.  Either you did it or you didn't do it.  Something just doesn't fit with this story.  He just admits to a few things then another thing.

I will say it again, Roger could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he had just closed his mouth.

There is a reason no General Manager in Major League Baseball has signed Barry Bonds to a contract, and it is not as Donald Fehr has suggested as "collusion" between thirty GM's

Barry's production has been declining for ever since the alegations of his steroid use was brought to the surface with the book Game of Shadows.  Barry is still a feared hitter in the game, but only to a certain extent.  Teams aren't givng Barry a free pass as frequently as they used to, because nobody is that afraid of his power.  Since Barry has gotten older he his hitting less and less home runs and playing in less an less games.  That doesn't mention all of the off-field issues.

For years, since signing with San Francisco, Barry had that organization over his knee and constantly spanking them.  There was a ton of rules that dictated whether or not Barry could play on certain days.  Any day game following a night game, don't pencil Barry into the line-up he wouldn't play.  I don't know if there was a clause in his contract, but Barry wouldn't play.

Another one, is his numerous lockers where he kept his tv's and his rather large message chair.  Also you are going to have an increase in your staff.  None that you hired, they are Barry's entourage and his handlers.  If you want an increase in staffing and higher traffic within your locker room, sign Barry.

Next, do you really want to sign a .225 hitter who will be batting 8th in you lineup and is going to cost you quite a few million dollars.  15 home runs and 100 hits for $5 million?  Sounds like a good investment, but then again so did Baer Sterns.

Then there is the Public Relations and the hit from the media.  To describe Bonds's relationship with the media as frosty is putting it nicely.  Do we really need Pedro Gomez following Barry around until he finally finishes his career.  That is just something that i don't want to go through with.  Barry's march to pass the hammer was the most excruciating two or three years of my life.  I don't want to go through that ever again.

There is also no indication that Barry wants to change his ways and he would be receptive to change within many organizations that he would sign with.

We saw you get the record that you wanted, no just fade away into the background.  No ones wants your service becasue you just have to much baggage.

I didn't get to see the Rangers vs Devils game on Sunday, but watching the highlights Monday morning I saw Sean Avery set a screen on Martin Brodeur, he was using his stick as a little bit of an extra screen.

All I heard from different analysts was that what Avery was doing was not illegal, but it was not "kosher" and that is was unsportsmanlike.  I have seen a bunch of different highlights of this and I have found nothing wrong with what Avery is doing.  Avery is being a pest to goalies, that is waht he gets paid to do.

Aside from the analysts saying that Avery was wrong, it is mostly goalies who are poo pooing his actions.  Dallas goalie Marty Turco was one to say that what Avery did was wrong.

I like Turco, but he is not the most objective source to go for to an opinion on an issue like this.  All goalies look out for other goalies.  If every goalie had a say on what was allowed in front of them, they would want to make setting screens illegal.

Avery was just trying to level the playing field between he and Brodeur.  He was trying to make it more difficult for Brodeur to make a stop.  He was trying to heklp his team win the game.

I notice that when I see the talking heads on TSN and Sportsnet saying that Avery was unsportsmanlike, they look over the nice shot to the groin that Brodeur and most goalies give to the players setting the screens.  Nobody came to Avery's defense and said that Brodeur was wrong.

Maybe they say that Avery was wrong because there has been some questionable decisions made in the past.  This is sort of the same talk I heard when Chris Simon stomped on Ruutu's leg, and one analyst said that "It's Ruutu!"

Nobody likes the pest.  Everyone will stick up for the guy who is being bothered by the pest.  Everyone is going to protect the stars like Brodeur and crucify guys like Avery.

If it was another player like Darcy Tucker, people would be calling him an innovator, saying why don't more players use their sticks like that.

Take your opinion of Avery out of the equation, then look at the highlight again.  Then make your decision and see what's wrong.