1.  A-Rod
   
2.  A-Rod
   
3.  A-Rod
   
4.  A-Rod
   
5.  78-84

1.  People who don't like A-Rod
   
2.  Embedded Giants reporter Pedro Gomez
   
3.  Steve Phillips being paid to make ridiculous trade proposals on ESPN.
   
4.  The insufferable NE sports dynasty
   
5.  78-84

1. Young Musial - Jeff Gordon drove me nuts with this thing.  Ankiel is 27.  At best, he's 'Old Francoeur'.
2. Joe Buck's broadcasting - was it ever good?  I can't remember.
3. MLB TV package on Mac - frustrating ordeal that in the end really wasn't worth it.
4. Continued failure of the Cardinals to honor Mark McGwire properly.  The guy made those owners so rich '97-'99, helping to build the new stadium with the revenue brought in. And now...we hide his statue in a warehouse instead of displaying with all the other Cardinal greats at Bush III.  
5. Ron Santo on the radio - kind of love/hate here.  Living in Chicago gives me the chance to listen to Ronnie tell me how he missed the last play because he didn't have his glasses on.  Frustrating mostly, occasionally hilarious.

 The way they sell tickets for Opening Day. The internet will be busy on Saturday, but a sure helluva lot of scalpers on eBay from California.  Seriously, this pisses me off so F*ING much.  There needs to be walk-up sales for Opening Day tickets.

1. Not so much Boston sports teams, as Boston fans.  It used to just Midwestern Boston fans, until a true Boston fan showed up at my work...much worse.
2.  Somehow hanging around the central long enough not to be in "sell mode" at the deadline.
3.  The BCS.
4.  Starting pitching (except the wagonmaker).
5.  Over-emphasis of terms applied to white players that lack natural ability (e.g. grit, scrappiness, heart, grittiness, etc. etc.)
6.  Popularity of any new MLB gear (see spring training caps.  I'm sorry.  They are ugly.  And what's the point? Do you love spring training, but think the regular season/postseason is just 'ok'?)
7.  Pretty much anything else mentioned above.  I could go on and on...
   

It's like these 2 teams are the only teams that matter to most of the media (ESPN,and others).
The coverage they get is just overwhelming and I would think everyone not on the Eastern Seaboard are just about at there wits end with the "evil empires".

At some point MLB has to find a way to slow these 2 teams down from just getting all the big players and signing them to these outragious contracts. It's not fair to about 85% of the rest of the teams.  

A big effect right now is that agents for free agents (Scott Boras, ect.) expect their clients to get these big contracts that the Yankees & Red Sox hand out and expect the other teams to do the same.  It's going to get to a point in a couple of years where there will only be the same 6-7 teams that will be able to sign the stars and in turn they will make the playoffs every year.

There really needs to be some kind of cap at some point or else the Yankees or Red Sox will be in the World Series every year and at some point that is going to turn most of the rest of the country off of baseball for good and the other teams will be loosing money.
I know I didn't watch the World Series near as much as usual because it involved the Red Sox.

The Red Sox & Yankees can get away with it now because most teams are still making money but that is going to change soon if there is not something done to even the playing field.

1. Mark May and Lou Holtz giving college football "expertise"; still waiting for Holtz' official Florida senate announcement, and still waiting for Mark May to play in traffic.
2. Ron Santo's broadcasting.
3. Another Red Sox World Series.
4. Ohio State in anything, Oklahoma in anything.
5. The BCS picking KU over Mizzou.
6. Nick $aban and $abanation.
7. 78-84.
8. The realization that this offseason we won't get any better, and that we will probably suck (even in a crappy division) for the next few years.
9. Lindsey Lohan! Lindsey Lohan, up there on stage, jumpin' around with your little outfits, up there....with your little outfits. Ya know, you're up ther jumpin' around, and I'm just sittin' there with my beer, so, you know, what the hell am I supposed to do about it? Are we gonna go out?! What do you want Lindsey? TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT!!!! Well I'll tell you what you want, you want NOTHIN'! YOU WANT NOTHIN'! Because we all know that no woman anywhere wants to have sex with anyone. And to tittleate us with any thoughts otherwise is, is, is, is just bogus.

1.  Boston fans that weren't fans 3 months ago.
   
2.  Football (yeah, I said it) and everybody's obsession with it.  
   
3.  +1 on "best baseball town"...this town is a sickening bandwagon town just like the rest.  I've never seen so many Mizzou and RedSox hats around here in my life.  Well, the Mizzou shirts will die down now.
   
4.  People that complain about big contracts and "only watch college cause those kids play for the love of the game"
   
5.  People treating every prospect like they're going to play like Barry Bonds on Steroids.  We can't give up our Single A Short Stop for Johan Santana!!! We can't mortgage the future!!!  

1.  NE Sports
2.  East coast media bias
3.  The Orange Bowl and the NCAA
4.  Bad logic in general
5.  The fact that Mo doesn't get more leeway starting off
6.  Individual baseball honors
7.  Dan Haren's value
8.  Gas companies
9.  The rising cost of baseball

1. The Cards' late-season run. I gave up on them on opening day when Carp got hurt, and again in May, and finally gave up for good at the All-Star break... but then they gave me hope. I knew it wasn't for real, but I was still hopeful.
2. Don Garber for jerking around Jeff Cooper and refusing to award StL an MLS franchise by now.
3. People who think they have any idea what goes on in trade/FA negotiations. (yes, this sometimes includes me.)
4. People who expect that Cardinals to contend to adopt a LA/NY/BoSox model of roster management. We're in the Twins/A's tier, and should recognize it.
5. Pundits. All of them.

1.  TLR for two, three, or however many more years.  
   
2.  Joe Morgan
   
3.  College football non-conference schedules
   
4.  Dave Dombrowski casue he's not on our side
   
5.  Whitey overlooked again

1. East coast sports coverage bias.
   
2. Ranting and raving sports personalities (here in Chicago it would be Jay Mariotti or the afternoon sports show on ESPN Radio 1000)
   
3. The BCS
   
4. "Feuds" between players and managers
   
5. Entitlement and privileged attitudes from athletes
   
6. Baseball's All Star game determining the WS home field advantage
   

1. 1972 Dolphins Team (quit bein pricks about it guys)
   
2. playoff commercials (dane cook and "this is ouuuuuurr country")
   
3. east coast bias everywhere on espn
   
4. dickie v suckin off coach k
   
5. kornheiser in the booth

1. that ligaments in the elbow are so weak
   
2. that shoulder capsules don't heal easily
   
3. that our team doesn't have a designated driver
   
4. that our hitting coach prefers our hitters to stand still
   
5. that our owner treats the team like Ballpark Village, "I'll spend the money to make it great...when the time is right"

1.78-84

2. people that hate on the red sox because they ponied up the bucks and paid for players that were worth the money in the stretch (jd drew not withstanding)- i work with a great guy from boston, and he suffered for very many years with craptastic teams and wasn't a jacka$% about the sox winning the series in '04 or '07- and many of us were bitching about the cardinals ownership not pulling out all the stops and breaking the bank on free agents
   
3. mlb hijacking the extra innings package and forcing me to swith to dircttv- this really pissed me off... and every time i think about the great service i had with dish network, i get all pissed off again!
   
4. scott rolen and tony la russa feud- stop it already and act like adults!
   
5. my cardinals not playing baseball deep into october...

E) (B/c a was actually a-d) The 07 Cardinals season...bad record, a player dying, the whole damn team getting hurt at some point.
F) The billion bandwagon Cardinals and Mizzou fans that make it impossible for me to get tickets.  
G) The 07-08 Rams and all things Scott Linehan.  Has there ever been a more unconfident coach ever?  Well, Norv Turner I guess...
H) Mizzou getting the Cotton Bowl while KU got a BCS Bowl, even though Mizzou played Texas Tech, Ok twice, and Illinois...AND they beat KU.
I) Did I mention Scott Linehan?