The one thing I can’t stand is how Rotoinfo posted this list.  This is all they posted before the list “Rumored 2003 Steroid list leaks out? at on June 29, 2009 Rumored steroid list (UNCONFIRMED)”

That’s it.  I mean at least give a back story on it.  Like a friend of a friend knows someone who used to work for the MLB or something.  Did Rotoinfo make this up to get new readers?  Maybe?  Should TheRopolitans have published the list?  Who knows, but they can do whatever they want to as they are beholden to no one.  Does this deserver an Outside the Lines Story?  No.  All it is fans talking about people taking steroids.  If some dumb fans want to take this as fact, then that is their problem.  For those of you that haven’t seen the list, here you go:

1.Nomar Garciaparra
2.Manny Ramirez
3.Johnny Damon

4.Trot Nixon

5.David Ortiz
6.Shea Hillenbrand
7.Derek Lowe
8.Pedro Martinez
9.Brian Roberts
10.Jay Gibbons
11.Melvin Mora
12.Jerry Hairston
13.Jason Giambi
14.Alfonso Soriano
15.Raul Mondesi
16. Aaron Boone
17.Andy Pettitte
18.Jose Contreras
19.Roger Clemens
20.Carlos Delgado
21.Vernon Wells
22.Frank Catalanotto
23.Kenny Rogers
24.Magglio Ordonez
25.Sandy Alomar
26.Bartolo Colon
27.Brent Abernathy
28.Jose Lima
29.Milton Bradley
30.Casey Blake
31.Danys Baez
32.Craig Monroe
33.Dmitri Young
34.Alex Sanchez
35.Eric Chavez
36.Miguel Tejada
37.Eric Byrnes
38.Jose Guillen
39.Keith Foulke
40.Ricardo Rincon
41.Bret Boone
42.Mike Cameron
43.Randy Winn
44.Ryan Franklin
45.Freddy Garcia
46.Rafael Soriano
47.Scott Spiezio
48.Troy Glaus
49.Francisco Rodriguez
50.Ben Weber
51.Alex Rodriguez
52.Juan Gonzalez
53.Rafael Palmeiro
54.Carl Everett
55.Javy Lopez
56.Gary Sheffield
57.Mike Hampton
58.Ivan Rodriguez
59.Derrek Lee
60.Bobby Abreu
61.Terry Adams
62.Fernando Tatis
63.Livan Hernandez
64.Hector Almonte
65.Tony Armas
66.Dan Smith
67.Roberto Alomar
68.Cliff Floyd
69.Roger Cedeno
70.Jeromy Burnitz
71.Moises Alou
72.Sammy Sosa
73.Corey Patterson
74.Carlos Zambrano
75.Mark Prior
76.Kerry Wood
77.Matt Clement
78.Antonio Alfonseca
79.Juan Cruz
80.Aramis Ramirez
81.Craig Wilson
82.Kris Benson
83.Richie Sexson
84.Geoff Jenkins
85.Valerio de los Santos
86.Benito Santiago
87.Rich Aurilia
88.Barry Bonds
89.Andres Galarraga
90.Jason Schmidt
91.Felix Rodriguez
92.Jason Christiansen
93.Matt Herges
94.Paul Lo Duca
95.Shawn Green
96.Oliver Perez
97.Adrian Beltre
98.Eric Gagne
99.Guillermo Mota
100.Luis Gonzalez
101.Todd Helton
102.Ryan Klesko
103.Gary Matthews

I’m live from the 2009 NBA Draft. I’ll be posting live analysis and thoughts as the draft unfolds today. 

4:02  Live look into the T-Wolves war room. Some guy is stuffing his face with macaroni salad. Not a good sign for a team who gave away Kevin Garnett two years ago on draft day.

4:05  Vince Carter is traded to the Magic, and they give up Courtney Lee! Idiots! Lee is just as good and makes 1/100th of the money.

4:07  Possible Amare Stoudemire trade to the Warriors.  Just what the Warriors need…a head case who will clash with the head coach AND management at the same time! Fun times all around! Let’s call it Chris Webber part deux.

4:10  Espn is letting us know about the impact of the Shaq trade to the Cavs. Here’s a fact they didn’t mention: Shaq will come into training camp 30 lbs overweight and sporting a Lionel Richie mullet.

4:13  Jay Bilas called Blake Griffin “special.”  This will become “special needs” after the Clippers ruin this kid who has the talent to be a  Tim Duncan-Amare Stoudemire love child.

4:15  Coming to theaters this fall… “Twins II” starring Blake and Taylor Griffin.

4:17   Ricky Rubio looks like a mutant Paul McCartney.

4:20   Best future NBA players  in this years draft 1) Blake Griffin 2) James Harden 3) Tyreke Evans.

4:22  It’s only 4:22 and I’m already annoyed by Stewart Scott’s lazy eye.

4:27  Looking into my crystal ball…Hassem Thabeet= Shawn Bradley, Stephon Curry=JJ Reddick.

4:28  Dick Vitale is reporting live from an air conditioned, quiet retirement community in Florida.

4:33  Commissioner David Stern hasn’t aged since he shaved that horrible mustache in 1987.

4:39  2 winning seasons for the Clippers in the last 30 years; Blake Griffin’s hair starts falling out today.

4:47 Coming to a poster near you in 2009…Haseem Thabeet! This guy is getting dunked on twice a game next year.

4:51  James Harden to OKC.  He really is the most NBA ready player in this draft, I see Paul Pierce in him.

4:53  The Thunder are making noise in the playoffs as soon as 2010-11. Durant-Westbrook-Harden is beautiful.

4:56  Harden takes the award for ugliest suit in this years draft.

4:57  The Kings take…Tyreke Evans.  He’ll make a quicker impact than Rubio and will be a better leader faster.

4:59  Ricky Rubio looks like he wants to choke his agent for letting him slip to #5.

5:04  Rubio and Love…coming to a Twin Cities pool hall near you! The women of Minnesota are licking their chops, don’t let the girls spike your orange juice Ricky!

5:06  “I’m Ricky Rubio” says Rubio when asked what NBA player he plays like.  Take it easy Mr-I’m-Too-Young-To-Buy-Alcohol-Or-Lead-An-NBA-Team.

5:13  Nice suit Johnny Flynn. You must be playing “Pinkie” in the next Friday movie .

5:15  Warriors select Stephen Curry, awesome pick G-State. The combined weight of your backcourt is now 300 lbs.

5:17  Get used to riding pine Curry…Don Nelson hates rookies and you basically play the same position as Monte Ellis.

5:17  Curry must be for someone else, like trade bait. Either that or the Warriors are idiots (what else is new).

5:21  Knicks select Jordan Hill and his “Predator” haircut.  “Jordan…get to the chopper!”

5:30 DeMar Derozan aka “Lil Romeo’s Pal” goes to the Raptors. Pop that zip on your face buddy.

5:31  Who scored more off the court last year at USC? DeRozan, Lil Romeo or his Dad Master P. UUUGGGHHHH. Na-Na-Na-Na!

5:33  Brandon Jennings and his crappy Under Armour ads get drafted by the Bucks. Bring lots of Under Armour to Milwaukee buddy, I’ve heard the weather sucks there during basketball season .

5:35  Rafer Alston traded to New Jersey. Vegas just posted odds at 3-1 that he’s involved in a shooting at Rucker Park this summer.

5:39  Terrence Williams to the Nets. As soon as Ty Lawson and Tyler Hansbrough get drafted in the next four picks…America changes the channel.

5:44  Bobcats on the clock. The good news, they can’t fail as bad as they did with the Morrison pick two years ago, the bad news GM Michael Jordan is calling this pick in from a craps table in Atlantic City.

5:45  Gerald Henderson to the Bobcats, if he gets a jump shot he’s the next Corey Maggette; over rated and over paid, can’t dribble and plays no defense.

5:50 This is not a deep draft. Some guy is going to get drafted soon who has to come down from the upper deck, and not the green room.

5:50  Hansbrough drafted by the Pacers. They are throwing out a white wash next year with Diener, Dunleavy, Hansbrough, Murphy and Foster. That same lineup heads to straight to Dave and Busters after every home game next year.

5:54  Metrosexual Espn reporter Ric Bucher tells us the Warriors are pushing hard for Amare Stoudemire. He’ll have more on this story after he gets his nails done and more blonde highlights in his hair.

5:56  Brandon Jennings IS in the house ladies and gentlemen. Brandon becomes the first player to come out of the same door as Commissioner Stern, and not from the audience. He looks like he’s an hour late for the prom. 

5:57  Apparently the tears after being drafted by the effing Bucks have been wiped away with money from his agent, Bill Duffy, and the 5% he takes from Jennings contract.

5:59  Wipe off that frown Jrue Holiday…you’re going to get drafted by a good team and not a crappy Lottery team in the freezing Mid West. Winning is more important than money kid.

6:03  Austin Daye with a blue vest from the Bill Cosby collection gets drafted by the Pistons. He weighs 190 lbs and will be out of the league in three years! Good times for another Gonzaga alum.

6:06  With the 16th pick the Chicago Bulls select…Lil Romeo, multi platinum kid sensation from USC, Beverly Hills High School, New Orleans & Richmond, California. Romeo is the first No Limit Soldier to be drafted by an NBA team. UUUUUGGGHHHH. Na-Na-Na-Na

6:12  Jrue Holiday just cried on National TV after falling to 17.

6:13  I’m writing this blog, watching the draft live, listening to the new Eminem CD, drinking a Corona, AND texting my boy Dustin. Now that’s muti-tasking. Take that Generation Y!

6:20  Roy Williams caught texting Mike Krzyzewski on live TV, telling him that Duke players never pan out in the NBA.

6:25  FACT: Only one Duke alum has ever won an NBA championship; Danny Ferry while with the 2003 Spurs.

6:26  R.I.P Michael Jackson. “Thriller” is the best pop album of all time. Period.

6:27  Okay, we’re not even out of the first round yet and most of the guys aren’t  in the building. This draft is garbage. I’m out in two picks.

6:39  Blazers select the first Euro-Stiff in this years draft, Victor “Who Gives A Shit” Claver.  Must Improve: Tan.

6:40  Arizona Wildcat Chase Budinger should get drafted by a winning team, learn from seasoned veterans, and become a better NBA player with this draft slippage.

6:45  Okay, the live blog is over now that another Euro trash player has been drafted by the best team in Northern California, the Kings.  Final thoughts tonight…

Final Thoughts…

New nickname for Brandon Jennings; “Mr. High Maintenance.” He bails on Arizona, plays in Europe to get paid, watches the draft from his hotel room because he’s not guaranteed a top 7 pick, and now he shows up a half hour after being drafted to take his picture with the Commish. GFY Brandon Jennings.

Chase Budinger drops all the way to the 44th pick  in the second round. This guy was a Lottery pick two weeks ago. It’s a hard knock life.

Jack McClinton goes in the second round, and the first thing out of Stew Scott’s mouth is  “McClinton has 16 tattoos.” Thanks.

Since this draft was so bad, there will be monster trades this summer. Count on it.

OK…thats it. I’m off to Men’s Warehouse to buy two suits for $199, take the first plane to Europe , become the Jerry Maguire of basketball and sign Ricky Rubio’s illegitimate son who is 6 months old.

On another note thanks to the SF Giants for letting all the fathers and their children run the bases.

In 2006 ESPN extended Simmons’ contract to 2010 so I am not sure which negotiations will be more important.  Bill Simmons and ESPN or Lebron James and the Cavs/Knicks.  As a part of his extension Bill was going to contribute more on the TV end of things through ESPN Original Entertainment.  ESPN Original Entertainment is now gone along with ESPN Hollywood which Bill was a part of.  He has done some TV stuff but I would guess he hasn’t been able to get any projects he has truly liked off the ground.

Many people have pondered what it would take to lure him away but I decided to come up with a list of things that would get him to leave.

• High 6 figures (I have no idea how much he makes.  Maybe it needs to be 7 figures)
• Free rein (Simmons can write about whatever he wants)
• Ability to work behind the scenes in Television
• A hot assistant
• Give all his friends and cousins jobs
• No column deadlines (Bill writes a column when he wants to write)
• The company hiring him would not have a conflict of interest with sports leagues therefore Bill can say whatever he wants about all sports leagues

“People say, ‘What will you do if you don’t play football?’ Why would I even think of doing anything else? What would I do instead of run out in front of 80,000 people and command 52 guys and be around guys I consider brothers and be one of the real gladiators? Why would I ever want to do anything else? It’s so hard to think of anything that would match what I do: Fly to the moon? Jump out of planes? Bungee-jump off cliffs? None of that s— matters to me. I want to play this game I love, be with my wife and son, and enjoy life.”

Gladiator?  Command 52 guys? Wow.  I didn’t realize how full of himself he really is.  A quaterback in the NFL is no gladiator and he sure as hell doesn’t command 52 guys.  He definitely commands the offense but not the defense or special teams.  Does he really think the guys on special teams think of him as their leader?  Does he really think they go out and put their bodies on the line for him?  No way.

Maybe the personality Tom Brady has is what it takes to be successful in the NFL but man his ego is sure big.

Thoughts from the game and the rest of the series:

• Since when does Kobe only take 20 shots in a Laker’s playoff loss
• Kobe will take no less then 25 shots a game for the rest of the series
• The Denver crowd will be going bucknutty on Saturday
• Derrick Fisher is old
• Lamar Odom needs to step up his game
• The Lakers have no heart:  their defense shows
• Chauncey Billups may be the most underrated player in the NBA
• Anyone want to know the last time Chauncey Billups has not made it to the NBA conference Finals?  2001-2002 Amazing

Inital Reaction from Blogs:

LA Ball talk whines about the refs

The Hype-Ness has some quick thoughts and gives credit to the Chauncey and Melo

Motivations tells Laker Fans to stop whining

Random Twitter Reaction

Update:  Had to ad this.  Its Hilarious

Thanks @bakespace

With all the new blogs that have come aboard on SportsBlogNet over the last couple of months I thought it would be a good idea to write a post on how to get more readers to your site.  Just writing posts isn’t going to do it.  Yes, you have a community of readers on SportsBlognet but at this point in time we are small but growing. To get the full benefit out of blogging you will need to promote your site outside of SportsBlogNet.

There are a couple ways of doing this.

1. Submitting your Articles:  Here is a good post on Submitting your articles to Sports Sites

2. Linking to other sites:  This is very easy.  Many of the best Sports Blogs link out to other sites and if you link out to small blogs I can gurantee they will come to your site because everyone loves getting a link to their site.  Example:  The Big Lead does a roundup every morning and they post a bunch of links with a hot chick.   IMPORTANT:  Make sure you find smaller blogs to link to.  The bigger ones won’t care and don’t have time to come read your site. Also, don’t bother linking to Espn or any other big site unless you have to.  There won’t be any benefit to your blog if you do this.

3. Social Networking:  Make sure you are promoting your posts on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.  If you don’t have a Twitter account get one.  If say for example you are writing a Brewers Blog you can use the twitter search and search “Brewers Fan” .  Then you can follow all people that come up in that search since you are targeting Brewers Fans.  TheRopolitans have done a great job of utilizing Twitter and use their twitter polls to drive people to their site.

4. Forums:  Are you a part of any Sports Forums?  Promote your stories there.  Don’t just join forums to post articles as they will ban you for sure.  Make sure you become a quality member of the forum before you start posting links.

5. Link Bait:  This is a tough one. You need to be very creative.  You need to think of the future, target a top blogger, be creative, or do some research.   You want to write something that will give all the top blogs no choice but to link to you.  Obviously a player review or a game recap is not going to cut it.  This needs to be very original.  Today Deadspin linked up No Guts No Glory because they found out Notre Dame ommitted proof of Charlie Weis’ losing season in their 2009 spring prospectus.

6. Interact:  Make sure you join the conversation especially here at sportsblognet and other blogs that you like.  They won’t mind if you leave a link to your site as long as you are making good comments.  Smaller sports blogs love to see comments on their sites.

Here are some of the new blogs that have joined SportsBlogNet:

Heights Sports Corner

Alex Gasick

3 Young Fans: A Milwaukee Sports Blog

Greenyt24

Hat tip to The Ropolitans, A New York Mets Blog.

Barry Zito’s Twitter Account