Ryan Loses Head Coaching Job

According to http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=474885&cc=5901 coach Greg Ryan of the women’s U.S. soccer team lost his job recently. He was fired even after having a record of 45-1-9, which is quite amazing and very hard to do in soccer. What was believed to be the main cause of the firing of coach Ryan was his decision in this years women’s World Cup semi-finals game to switch goalkeepers, while his current goalkeeper was doing a fine job and had only lost one game in the World Cup. In doing this his team lost the game and it was blamed on his decision to switch goalkeepers. Now in my opinion I don’t think that it was fare for them to fire him just because of one bad decision. As I said before he went 45-1-9 which is an unbelievable record and if you achieve that you should be kept around for many years to come. The U.S. Soccer president said that there was more than one reason as to why they fired coach Ryan but it can easily be believed that it was mainly for his decision to change the keeper. Not only did they lose to Brazil in the semi-final but they got crushed four to nothing which is a huge loss and that was said to be the main reason as to why he was fired. I still don’t think that he should have lost his job no matter how big the margin of loss was, it just doesn’t seem fair. Now if his record was much worse and he didn’t have as many wins then yes I think that he would have deserved to be fired, but the fact that he had such a great record means there is no way he should be fired.

Who Needs The Yankees Anyways

This past week the New York Yankees offered their manager Joe Torre a one year contract for five million dollars. Joe Torre didn’t like this offer at all so he tried to renegotiate for more money. He was content with the fact that it was for only one year but he wanted more money. The Yankees wouldn’t renegotiate and were going to stay with their offer, so Joe Torre said fine then I’m out. This was a huge shock to our society because Torre is the most well-known manager in all of baseball and no one expected this decision by him. He is the guy that coached their for twelve years and put the Yankees in the playoffs every year and he even won them multiple championships. So, did he make the right choice? I think that yes Joe Torre did make the right decision because during the playoffs there were rumors that if Joe Torre lost the series to the Indians then he would not be re-signed. So, I think that Torre is pretty much saying that fine if you don’t want me as your manager as you said earlier then fine I won’t come back. Now the Yankees have put themselves in between a rock and a hard place because now they have to find someone to replace Joe Torre the manager of all managers. Will Joe Torre continue to work as a manager in Major League Baseball, that question is still unanswered but I think he will because he considered coming back to the Yankees for money than he was initially offered.

True Confession

Recently Marion Jones a former Olympic Gold medalist for the United States track and field team admitted to using performance enhancing drugs when she set the record for most metals won by a female athlete in one Olympics. She admitted to this after she repeatedly said that she has never in the past used performance enhancing drugs. During her confession ad apology she was very emotional and even cried because she really felt like she had betrayed everyone including her teammates, fans, and family. She said that she was very sorry for the events that happened. So, the question is should we forgive Marion Jones for lying to us and then confessing to everyone about using these illegal drugs or should we be very upset. Personally I think that there should be no forgiveness to Marion Jones for multiple reasons. One she cheated the game of sports and to me that is something that is just wrong. If you can’t win the game without cheating then there is no reason that you should be playing in the first place because no one likes a cheater. Another reason I don’t think that I would forgive her is because she lied to the American people multiple times about using these performance enhancing drugs, and again no one likes a cheater at least I hope not. I mean if you think about it is that what we want to teach the kids of America that you can go ahead and cheat and lie a couple of times and we will forgive you. No, because at college if you cheat your out. So I think that there should be no forgiveness given to Marion Jones at all. She cheated and she lied and last time I checked two wrings don’t make a right.

Instant Replay In Baseball???

Did we ever think that this question would come upon us for America’s pastime the great game of baseball. I know that I certainly didn’t. When the Colorado Rockies “defeated” the San Diego Padres last earlier this week in a one game playoff to decide who would make the playoffs there was a questionable call at home plate. That questionable call was did he actually touch home plate. When looking at the replay I absolutely did not think he touched home plate and was sure that if the umpires were able to use instant replay they would have changed their mind. This does not mean that I am for using the instant replay because I am actually against using it in the MLB. It should not be used for the simple reason that baseball is a bang-bang type of sport and the umpire can see everything and he normally makes the right call. Now football is different because sometimes the referee can’t see everything like a ball touching the ground on a catch because they have less time to prepare for what it is going to happen. Where in baseball you have lots of time to prepare yourself for plays at the plate and to make sure you get the best view. I also think that it would destroy the tradition of the sport basically because it is America’s pastime, and for the most part it has been pretty much the same since it was created. So in inclusion I think that we should not use instant replay in baseball.