Deflategate punishment: Ty respectfully disagrees with idiot sports commissioners .

I recently stated my opinion on the non story "deflategate". Now that suspensions have been given, I have a take on what was handed down by the NFL.

First of all, taking away picks doesn't bother me. Teams aren't made with first round picks, they're made with fourth, fifth and sixth round picks(like Tom Brady). So, who cares about the loss of first round picks. No big deal. The thing that bugs me the most is the four game suspension handed down on Brady. I'm not upset about the suspension, he deserves something for lying. I take issue with the amount of games. He got four games a season after Ray Rice only got two for knocking out cold his then fiancee in an elevator.  Why is the sports media not focusing on this issue. Four games for under inflated footballs, but only two for hitting a female. WHAT THE HELL! Are you kidding me Roger Goodell! Are you out of your mind NFL! When did under inflating a football become more of a crime than physically assaulting a women?! This is complete nonsense! I can't believe how STUPID both the NFL and, Satan himself, Roger Goodell are.

When are they going to get their act together? I've said it once and I'm sure I'll say it again, but the country's most popular sport is only going to go down a black hole until Roger Goodell is let go. I love pro and college football, it pains me to see the NFL being run by an incompetent, power hunger, boob. He needs to be fired now. Let's start a trending topic on Twitter everyone, #fireRogerGoodell.. All my football fans out there, let's get the NFL to wake up and get rid of the anchor holding professional football down

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture Editor for Seed Sing.  He loves watching football and gets ill when he has to think of the commissioner. 

Can Alex Rodriguez ever measure up to the greatness of A-rod? Sports thoughts by Ty

Can someone please tell me why certain people and networks (ESPN) are celebrating Alex Rodriguez since he's passed Willie Mays on the all time home run leaders list?

Did everyone forget that he missed all of last season due to a PED suspension? Did we all forget that he's, by all accounts, a garbage person? Did we all forget that he's a prima donna? Did we all not see that even his own GM doesn't want to pay him his bonus for passing Willie Mays?

Let's get one thing straight, Alex Rodriguez will never be the player, or person, that Willie Mays is. Not now and not ever. Rodriguez was great as a rookie in Seattle. He looked to be, and turned into, a perennial All Star. It seemed as if he'd win every MVP award for a long time. Eventually he was ready to leave Seattle and, in my opinion, only look for the big payday. I don't think wins mattered much to him, all he wanted was the big contract and the Texas Rangers gave it to him. They gave him 250 million dollars over 10 years.  Let me write that again, 250 MILLION DOLLARS over 10 YEARS. Twenty-five million dollars a year to play a game. He proved in his time there that he couldn't turn Texas into a playoff contender, just like he couldn't turn Seattle into a contender.

Rodriguez eventually left Texas and signed with, you guessed it, the New York Yankees. The Yankees were the only team who could take on the rest of his contract. In New York, not only was he not the best player in baseball anymore, he was not even the best player on his team. That title went to Derek Jeter. Jeter was a much better baseball player and person that Rodriguez. The Yankees moved Rodriguez to third, which proved to be difficult for him. This was rightfully done to keep Derek Jeter happy. Rodriguez did play on a team that eventually won a World Series, but he didn't have much to do with it. He was just part of the eight position players, not the star anymore. Now (I assume) he has taken steroids and other PEDs throughout his entire career, but I bet when he realized he wasn't the star anymore, he took more and more. And that still didn't help. He was eventually named in the reports, denied like all cheaters do, and was finally and mercifully suspended. He tried to repeal the charge, but to no avail. Now he's back this season and he's hitting at a very pedestrian rate, but he was so close to Mays on the home run list that it was inevitable that it would happen this season. The Yankees have moved him to DH, since his fielding is sub par at best It seems like Brian Cashman(the GM) is doing everything in his power to get rid of him and it looks like his own teammates don't even like him. So let's not get ahead of ourselves people Alex Rodriguez will never, ever be on any kind of level with Willie Mays. Never.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor of Seed Sing.  He enjoys watching baseball.  He does not enjoy the endless Yankees / Red Sox coverage on ESPN

Is Tom Brady the biggest disgrace of an athlete ever? Ty gives an opposing view

Editors note: Seed Sing was founded on the principle that everyone deserves to have their voices heard.  In our brief history I never thought we would find ourselves defending Tom Brady against the onslaught of the idiotic sports media.  It is also important to note that no one at Seed Sing lives in the greater Boston area.  We are not here to absolve Tom Brady.  We are here to expose the ridiculousness of the NFL and its sycophants in the sports media.

RD Kulik

I guess since everyone else is giving their take on "deflategate", AKA the dumbest. most fabricated story ever invented, I will give my take as well.I will give at least a few more words than I just said. I don't understand the outrage over some under inflated footballs. When this story first broke before the Super Bowl I thought it would be over and done with in a snap. Boy was I wrong. I suppose ESPN needed to fill coverage for the week in between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl, so they brought up "deflategate" constantly. It was to the point of annoyance. So annoying in fact, I stayed away from all ESPN channels until after the Super Bowl.

So the Super Bowl is played, a story comes out that only one of the twelve balls was under inflated and the Patriots were the champs. Time to move on, right? Well, as of May Sixth 2015, the story is back and bigger than ever. All the lead ins on all the sports channels are about "deflategate" again. On one channel you have pundits showing you email and texts exchanges between Tom Brady and a staffer about under inflating footballs. On another, does this tarnish Tom Brady and Bill Belichek's legacy? And on another, the Patriots are cheaters and will always be cheaters. 

Here's one take not to many people are saying, WHO CARES! So what if some footballs were under inflated. No, it doesn't tarnish the Patriots or Tom Brady or Bill Belichek. As readers of this site now know, I'm a Packers fan, so don't take this as me defending the Patriots. I could care less. I remember stories coming out when this first broke, from former football players, all quarterbacks, saying they used to have balls altered to their liking. This wasn't a big deal in the 60s 70s 80s or 90s. Why is it such a big deal now? Is that the reason the Colts got beat by 38 points? Why would the Patriots feel the need to do anything to the balls anyway? They were the far superior team. The fact that this is such a big story is complete nonsense. The NFL has much bigger fish to fry. Issues like domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, steroid use and the most appalling of all, their commissioner. Roger Goodell is by far the worst commissioner that I've seen in my thirty two years watching sports. He needs to go, he is the problem. He doesn't care for the well being of players or coaches. All he cares about is lining his own pockets and helping all the rich owners get richer. He's a joke. Unfortunately, until he's relieved of his duties, stupid stories like "deflategate" will get more publicity than the real problems that need to be addressed in the NFL.

The county's most popular sport is suffering because of Roger Goodell and it will only get worse. Much, much worse.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture Editor for Seed Sing.  He likes watching football, and dislikes watching the commissioner.

Let me respectfully explain why your team stinks: Sports Thoughts by Ty

The NBA playoffs have just recently started the second round. I'm an Oklahoma City Thunder fan and since they're not in the playoffs this year I didn't think I'd be paying as close attention as I have been. I was racking my brain the other night trying to figure out why I was invested even though my team is not playing. It finally hit me, after thirty plus years of watching sports, not only do I like rooting for my team, but I also enjoy rooting against teams that I don't care for. I've never liked any team in any sport from Los Angeles, so rooting against the Clippers was a natural fit. It doesn't hurt that they are the most arrogant, whiny, good for nothing team that's achieved ZERO in their history. They complain about every single call, either for or against them and it's gotten to the point of embarrassment to watch them. They are a very good team and if they remained focused on the goal of winning a championship that would be fine. But, the constant complaining is utterly ridiculous. Also, Chris Paul is the dirtiest player the NBA has had since John Stockton. I always assumed, at least it's the unwritten rule in my weekly pick up basketball games, that it was out of line to hit a guy in the groin region. But, apparently Chris Paul and before him, John Stockton, get off on doing this. There's video evidence of these two being repeat offenders.

My hatred of my teams rivals has bled into other sports that I watch. I'm a St. Louis Cardinals fan, so I enjoy seeing the Cubs out of the race by September. I'm a Green Bay Packers fan, so seeing the Bears being led by Jay Cutler is phenomenal entertainment. But the one sport that's been very challenging to me is college football. I'm a die hard Michigan Wolverines fan. Some of my earliest memories as a child are watching Wolverine games with my father. Being a fan as a teenager was great since 10 wins was a given, as was beating Michigan State and all the UM and The University of Ohio State, as former "road scholar" Terrelle Pryor called it while committing there on national TV, were hyper competitive. But recently it's been much tougher on me. The Michigan State stuff will pass because, as the old saying goes, even the sun shines on a dog's butt some days, so that doesn't worry me. But The University of Ohio State(I will only refer to them as this because it's hilarious) is going to be tough. It will be tough that is, until Urban Meyer has another fake heart episode and has to retire again, or until he recruits another convicted murderer(that's right folks, he recruited Aaron Hernandez to Florida when he was coach there and only suspended him when the NCAA put his feet to the fire). Until that time though, it's going to be tough. The University of Ohio State is a talented team and I'm one of the skeptics about Jim Harbaugh. I hope he sticks around long enough to fix the program where he once was the star quarterback. All I'm basically trying to say is, it's okay to hate watch sports like I do. It took me thirty years to realize this and it makes me feel better. So, Thunder Up, Go Cards, Go Pack Go and most importantly, Go Blue.

Ty

Ty Kulik is the Pop Culture Editor for Seed Sing.  He does not like that his brother lives in Ohio, his least favorite sports state.