Return of the Blog

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to The Mendoza Line.  A sports blog that will feature a number of writers sharing their views on anything and everything sports.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the Mendoza Line it is normally applied to hitters that can't break a .200 batting average.  Mario Mendoza, our namesake and the player in which the Mendoza line is named after (obviously) spent 9 years in the majors and his career average is .215.  The cutoff for the line has since been moved to .200 and I must say if you're a major league baseball player and you can't crack the Mendoza Line then you are an incompetent hitter and don't deserve to be playing professionally.  You should actually probably be working at Wal-Mart, unless you're a pitcher and in that case your worthless batting performance is justified. 

Throughout the fall, the writers of The Mendoza Line will bring you week by week predictions on college and professional football.  I'll have a weekly post on the top 5 college games you should be watching each week while you drink beers and eat brats because let's be honest, football is so much better if you're slightly intoxicated.  We'll also have polls on a regular basis that mean absolutely nothing but we would love for the readers, if we have any, to take part in.  Also, we'll be partaking in a fantasy football league and talking about that here.  The last thing we'll be doing is a random "where are they now" segment and if you have any athletes that disappeared off the map and want to know what they're up to these days let us know and we'll write about it even though you could use that google thing.  That's pretty much what will be up on this site along with random posts about stuff that pisses us off in sports like the two previous pieces on east coast bias and the bullsh*t ncaa garbage.

I'll end this post by saying the ncaa is in a world of hurt after Nevin Shapiro spilled the beans on his dirty deeds as a Miami booster.  The ncaa has to change something because these boosters should not be able to give these "student-athletes" drug and prostitution money without some repercussions.  Does Miami deserve the death penalty? Absolutely yes. The ncaa needs to send a message to these schools that they aren't willing to stand by while traditional powerhouses get away this garbage.  The idea of "student-athlete" is no more in my opinion.  These athletes are essentially already professionals while at school (I'm looking at you Mr. Pryor).  I don't know how many times I went to class and saw a player sign in and wait for the person they reported to leave and then follow right behind them.  Millions of students are paying their way through school or racking up thousands of dollars in loans and these athletes can't sit through a 50 minute under grad communications class, give me a break.  It's a broken institution and the rules need to be changed.

Thanks to everybody that will inevitably read this blog and hopefully ya'll stick with us as we attempt to hopefully bring you barely above average sports writing.