Sports Woodshed
by Bodog Sportsbook | Sep 4 2008
The Woodshed has always been known as the long-since banned place where people who found themselves in trouble went to get their punishment. Sports figures have been given a free pass far too often for their behavior and performance in and out of the arenas… until now. Bodog Sportsbook is taking anyone and everyone in the sporting world who has done something socially wrong, suffered a monumental collapse, gotten their ass kicked or just plain embarrassed themselves to the
Sports Woodshed for some sporting comeuppance.
Sports Woodshed1. Chad Ocho CincoHmm...Maybe I should change my first name to Numero...In what is probably the most unprecedented clown move of the decade, Chad Javon Johnson legally changed his last name to Ocho Cinco. Right now two things can be assumed about Mr. Ocho Cinco: First, he clearly did not receive enough hugs or attention as a child. Secondly, no one, we repeat, NO ONE is having more fun in the NFL than Chad
Johnson Ocho Cinco. Normally such tomfoolery on the world stage would warrant a proper verbal shellacking here in the Sports Woodshed, but we ain’t mad atcha, Ocho. It should suffice to say that Mr. Ocho Cinco’s antics have earned him permanent residency in the Clown section of the Sports Woodshed.
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2. A-Rod
Hey New Yorkers, I got two words for you.... Cha-ching.
The Yankees fans have turned yet again on the $275 million dollar man. It’s so bad that in one instance this year at Yankee Stadium, with a runner on first base and none out, Rodriguez hit into a double play. Crazy thing is, the Yankee “faithful” were damn near booing A-Rod off the crack of the bat! Now that’s harsh. Or is it? Guess that’s what you get when you make around $50K per at-bat, refuse to represent your team and city in the final and historical Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium, cheat on your wife with Madonna (we’ll be fair and put an asterisk beside that one) and wear lipstick—OK, we threw the last one in there to be inflammatory, but you get the point. Now, because the Sports Woodshed is always a fair, unbiased court, we will include the following current stat line for the material boy living in the material world with his material girl: batting average .315, HR 31, RBIs 90… Maybe with how much he’s getting paid he should be either leading the league in every statistical category or be in the top three, but those are still some damn good numbers. On any other team they are talking MVP considerations; albeit, any other team is not currently paying him more than many of us common folk’s base salary for an AB. It’s New York and it’s the Yankees… but Jimminy Christmas, 31 jacks… and boo birds? You gotta love the Bronx.
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I always feel like somebody's watching me...
Tell me is it just a dream...Right about now you might be stunned and have a few questions for the Woodshed sports court officials. Beginning with, why Roger Federer? Why is a guy who was ranked No. 1 for about four years on this list? Why is someone who's a five-time Wimbledon champion, a four-time U.S. Open champion and arguably the greatest tennis player of our generation in the Sports Woodshed?
Answer: Because he’s slipping. And we think Rafael Nadal has him rattled. Add to that the fact that he has been getting beat by people who have never even come close to him before. This year alone, Federer has lost to Andy Murray and Andy Roddick, someone who hadn’t beaten him in five years. Also, some cat named Radek Stepanek got him this year, James Blake even got in on the Federer gang-bang when it counted the most at the Beijing Olympics and we all know what Nadal did to him at Wimbledon. Some may think this is crazy talk. It’s not. Crazy talk is saying that Federer loses on purpose in early rounds to avoid facing the Spaniard… Don’t get us wrong, he’s still one of the best, but there is a noticeable chink in his armor and it’s not in his game—it looks like it’s in his head. Should he win his fifth straight U.S. Open title then maybe we’ll eat our words, but until then he’s in the Woodshed.
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