Good News, Bad News 04/29/09

Good News – Los Angeles is still a city.
Bad News – April 29th marks the day of the LA riots many years ago.

Good News – The US Supreme Court has ruled broadcasters can be fined for cursing on “live” T.V.
Bad News – Matt Vasgersian, of the MLB Network, just dropped 2 Tax Brackets.

Good News – “Matty V”, who is know for his humor and wit, tried interjecting some humor into the video of Rockies OF Brad Hawpe getting hit in the neck/head with a baseball and having to leave the field on a stretcher.
Bad News – Sometimes humor is just simply not appropriate, especially when your “joke” has a hint of racism.

Good News - We’ve made it to the 100th day of Barack Obama’s presidency!
Bad News – This is a very sad day for all those “Tea-Baggers”.

Good News – General Motors has announced a detailed plan to try and prevent the company from going into bankruptcy.
Bad News – They’re going to kill “The Bandit’s” car! GM will phase out several brands, including Pontiac — who made the Trans Am, which is the type of car Burt Renoylds drove in those Smokey and the Bandit movies.

Good News – From what I’ve heard, the Fantasy Sports Channel’s coverage (which included 2 Johnny Archive shows) of the NFL Draft went well this past weekend.
Bad News -  Apparently, ESPN’s coverage of the NFL Draft that includes Chris Berman — who has been thought of as the king of draft for many years — has lost some of it’s coolness.  Many sports fans are turning to alternatives like the NFL Network and The Fantasy Sports Channel at BlogTalkRadio for a fresh look at NFL Draft coverage.

Good News – I bit the bullet on Carlos Gomez and waived him in a couple leagues, the ones with shorter benches.
Bad News – It’s always hard when you tout a guy all spring and he gets off to a slow start, but better to look at the situaton openly, rather than to keep a guy out of pride.

Good News – Twins All-star catcher Joe Mauer is close to returning, which means owners who gambled on him have to feel good.
Bad News – A ton of owners who tried to avoid the risk of Mauer and take “safer” picks like Brian McCann, Ryan Doumit and Chris Iannetta are being reminded why Catcher is such a tough position for fantasiers to handicap.

Good News – New York City residents were in no danger from that huge government airplane that was buzzing the city the other day with 2 military jets following close behind.
Bad News – Everyone remembers the George Bush photo-op when he appeared in front of that “Mission Accomplished” banner, but this one was worse.

Good News – Twitter is really getting popular and you can find a lot of people using it now-a-days.
Bad News – Sadly, the spam is increasing so fast that it’s almost making Twitter overly trendy and useless.

Good News – The government seems to be doing a lot to prepare the citizens in case this Swine flu starts to get out of control in the United States.
Bad News – Some news outlets are spedning way too much time on the political correctness of what to call the flu.  Swine-Flu insults pigs, Mexican-Flu insults Mexicans so now they’re call it a bunch of numbers.  Bar codes are people too!

Have a great day!

-Johnny Archive