Top American Sportswriter Explains Why Baseball is Better than Football

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According to a 2010 Wall Street Journal report, the average NFL game lasts 3 hours, 12 minutes. Game time is broken down thusly: Game action, 11 minutes. Replays, 15 minutes. Shots of the coach, crowd, and cheerleaders, 36 minutes. Commercials, 63 minutes. Shots of players standing around, 67 minutes.

 - Patrick Daugherty, San Diego Reader

Also, in football you never see the players scratching their testicles, which is a feature, not a bug.

Giants Third Base Coach Tim Flannery to Hook Up with Boston

Tom Scholz live with Boston 13 June 2008 Hinckley, Minnesota (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Insiders have shared hot new info with TSIBIWWSG that, contrary to earlier reports, the "family" Giants Third Base coach Tim (Yellow Light) Flannery is quitting to spend more time with is none other than geriatric rockers Boston, whose popularity in Japan has never been higher.

Flannery's duties won't be limited to hot licks on the mandolin.

"Tom Scholz is hitting 280 on the nearest truck stop scale," Flannery said. "So when he heads toward the buffet for once in my life I'll be comfortable putting up the stop sign."

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Sandoval Trade Huge Boon to AL Fantasy Players

"A plan of the town of Boston with the intrenchments &ca. of His Majesty's forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from those of other gentlemen." (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Using our latest state-of-the-art up-to-date prediction matrix, you can count on Pablo Sandoval for 100+ rbis and runs, at least 30 jiminy jacks, .350 average and a cool dozen sbs since the bases in Boston are only 85 feet apart.

Recommendation: Buy high. Fifteen dollar range in $50 leagues. Don't lowball. No one will be asleep at the switch on this one. No pussies need apply when El Loco Pando's name is dropped.

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