Happy New Years! I hope you and your family have a safe, healthy and wealthy New Year in 2011! Let’s all strive to make this year better than last year.

The Atlanta Braves have made 3 key trades this year in the 2010 Major League Baseball Season. The team’s MVP last year was shortstop Yunel Escobar. After a slow start to the season this year and getting in the doghouse of manage Bobby Cox, the tensions grew high inside the Braves locker room. Players like Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus publicly made scenes on the baseball diamond; when they felt Yunel Escobar wasn’t focusing enough. What has become funny is that Troy Glaus got sent to the minors recently to see if he can play third base again. Glaus is an automatic out in the line up and commits way too many errors on routine plays at first base. So basically his skills are not MLB level anymore, so the Braves traded for first basemen Derrek Lee from the Chicago Cubs. For Tommy Hanson’s uncalled stare down, toward the Braves former shortstop Yunel Escobar, for a dropped fly ball,  he can’t buy a win. He continues to rack up loses or no decisions and isn’t even an average pitcher coming down the stretch. Both Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus are facing the Yunel Escobar curse! This is a real curse and you can just ask Glaus and Hanson if they believe it exists. They asked for it and now they are both getting exactly what they deserve. You have to stick up for your players in the club house and these two failed to do it. So they are dealing with the Yunel Escobar curse.

Now turn to the Braves new shortstop Alex Gonzalez. Who is making a lot of fans in Braves Country miss their beloved SS Yunel Escobar. Gonzalez has been a direct cause for 2 Braves loses this year. He has done it with his glove too and he has without a doubt cost the Braves 2 wins and probably could make a case he has cause the Braves team 6 to 8 loses already. Alex Gonzalez is not producing at the plate, making errors at short stop, running into his left fielder and causing him pain in a collision, and just a lot of other silly and dumb plays. No one on the airwaves is calling the Gonzalez trade a bad move (yet), but clearly he doesn’t stack up to Yunel Escobar.

Each error Escobar committed in his last few weeks for the Braves team got hightlighted way too much. Joe Simpson has been the one spear-heading this campaign against Yunel Escobar. Now after bragging so much on Alex Gonzalez’s  glove work in practice and Simpson even going so far to say “I could just watch him all day long in practice at how quick his glove and hands are at shortstop“; he’s put his own self in a bad situation. His beliefs in how he is a better shortstop than Yunel Escobar couldn’t be further from the truth. Remember fans, the Atlanta Braves were cruising in the NL East Race; when the Escobar/Gonzalez trade went down. Escobar was helping the team to win with his glove and even the times Glaus and Hanson highlighted Escobar’s errors, they were not ones that lead to the team losing. Like Alex Gonzalez has already did 2 times and his errors resulted in direct loses for the team.

The Atlanta Braves did very little in their attempts to win a 15th straight N.L. East Pennant a few years back. They was unable to put any trades or jockey any guys around that year, so the Braves went out losers that year without even giving it their best try. Not the case this year, after the first place Braves traded away the team’s 2009 MVP in Yunel Escobar. The Braves front office knew they made a mistake for trading Yunel Escobar to the Toronto Blue Jays. So in order to cover up their mistake, they have made 2 more other trades. They are now sacrificing the future and giving away our minor league talent, for players like Rick Ankiel, Kyle Farnsworth, and now Derreck Lee. This first place team made a lot of changes and they didn’t even need to. Now our new GM has created a poor team in the ATL and over half of our regular starters wasn’t even with us last year or a true farm product of the Atlanta Braves minor league system. Check out this long list of people we are counting on to win games for us in the last 5 weeks of the season and just how long they been with the team:

*Eric Hinske

*Troy Glaus

*Derreck Lee

*Melky Cabrera

*Rick Ankiel

*Jason Heyward

*Alex Gonzalez

*Diory Hernandez

These players with 2 key rookie pitchers in Jonny Venters and Mike Minor; who are both expected to start games (Minor) for us now or pitch in critical innings late in the game (Venters). Bobby Cox is taking this cast of new comers and trying to mke them mesh; while he continues to bat our line-up out of order. Those line-up cards he submits before games need to be torn up and burned for good measure. Just by fixing the batting order, this team could have kept all their original players from the start of the season and would have 8 to 12 more wins already under their belt.

Key points Bobby Cox must be willing to do, if he expects to break the Yunel Escobar Curse and manage a NL Pennant East Title or wildcard birth in the 2010 baseball post-season.

1. Bat Matt Diaz 4th in every game for the rest of the year. He is the most “Barry Bonds” type of player we got, in terms of clutch hitting and just overall hard hits; where the ball finds the sweet part on his bat the most often.

2. All Star MVP Catcher Brian McCann must be guaranteed an at-bat in the first inning of every game. He’s a clutch hitter and batting him 5th is too far back. Let him hit 3rd the rest of the year.

3. Get your rookie right fielder Jason Heyward out of those top 3 spots. He’s just turned 21 years old and this pennant race is way too much pressure for the kid. Move him down.

4. Martin Prado is almost Superman, but struggles in clutch situations. He could help the team in the 2nd hole.

5. If your starting pitcher is leading off an inning in the 5th inning or later in a game that you are losing on the scoreboard; YOU MUST PINCH HIT! Letting Tommy Hanson lead off the 5th inning against the Cubs; while trailing by 5 runs is NOT acceptable. Especially in a tight pennant race in a game that is in the final 6 weeks of the season!

6. Must understand now, that there is no more tomorrows. Quit saving players (hitters and pitchers) for later in the game. It doesn’t get any later than this Bobby Cox. Our backs are against the wall and now we must play every game and every inning like it’s our last. Letting Eric Hinske pinch hit for Matt Diaz is a mistake in general, but doing this move with Brian McCann on your bench is not a smart decision! Yes B. Mac did get to swing in that 9th inning against the Cubs, but if Alez Gonzalez would have grounded into a double play, you would have lost a game, where you selected Eric Hinske over Brian McCann. That was a terrible decision to let Hinske bat and someone should have called you out for that one!

Bobby Cox has been slow to get Martin Prado and Omar Infante at-bats or high places in the batting order over the last couple of seasons. It has taken both of these guys way too long to get up in the proper places. If Chipper is still playing; then Infante is probably still riding the bench. You must bat these guys 1 and 2 in the batting order each game. The Braves top 6 spots in the line-up must remain the same from here on out!

Braves Final Batting Order for Post-Season Push 2010

1. Omar Infante

2. Martin Prado

3. Brian McCann

4. Matt Diaz

5. Derreck Lee / Jason Heyward (platoon situation based on starting pitcher being a Righty or Lefty)

6. Jason Heyward / Derreck Lee (platoon situation)

If Bobby Cox can not see this obvious 6 player batting order for his team right now. He deserves to be at home on the couch watching October baseball. No room for errors now, win or go home Braves Team!!!

Our Google Ranked Us surfing team has a team effort on one of the hottest matrix systems online today. I have taken each one of our referral links from the matrix program we belong to and have added it to my Fastlane Traffic rotator. Now each member on our team can show just 1 link and it will display all of our referral links randomly for the 4×1 Fortune program. This is a great way to earn easy money online and it only costs $11 to join. This is a one time payment and then you can begin showing your referral page and promoting this program. Or do like I have done and join Fastlane Traffic, so you can begin to create your own team of promoters online. This is a great and fun way to advertise online. It will keep everyone on the team interested, as each person will be promoting the same referral link. Here is an example of my Fastlane Traffic free rotator link: http://fastlanetraffic.com/rotate.php?id=7478 

You can click that link and see one of our member’s referral pages for the Fortune program. If you click it a 2nd time, you would more than likely see a new member’s referral page. The rotator links just show a variety of websites and it does it randomly, so there is no way to control how many times a certain page will be seen in each rotator link. For the most part, over a long period of time, they all get shown about the same amount.

Another example of how to use a rotator link for you’re own benefit, is to add all of your referral pages to the rotator link. If you join Help Hits, you can add up to 5 websites on your account as a free member. Once you have your websites added and verified, you can then show your Help Hits free rotator link, so it will show up to 5 different websites you have an interest of promoting online. Here is an example of my rotator link at Help Hits: http://www.helphits.com/rotator/62734

You can click my Help Hits link above and see one of the websites I promote online. If you clicked it a 2nd time, you would more than likely see a different website I was promoting online. On my Help Hits rotator link, I have 5 different websites I am promoting. So this makes it very easy for me to add it to a traffic exchange and can promote 5 different websites with only one link.

If you have more than 5 websites to promote, I suggest getting the Fastlane Traffic rotator link. You will have the ability to add more than just 5 websites there and will make it much easier on those people that have more than 5 websites to advertise on the Net. I like these two rotator links, because they’re both clean rotators. Some websites give you a rotator link, but it will come with banners or something that blocks a portion of your page. I prefer to have a rotator that will show 100% of the website I am promoting. The rotator links provided by Help Hits and Fastlane Traffic are both clean and others won’t even know you’re showing them a website via a rotator link. If you never tried to use a rotator before, you must give this a try. It’s an easy way to show multiple sites and it only takes one rotator link to achieve this easy and effective way to market online.

Go get your own rotator link and have some fun with it! It makes life on the Internet so much easier for all of us that like to promote and market various things online. I love joining new affiliate programs and seeing if I can get a referral for it. For those that like to promote more than one affiliate link, you will want to use a rotator, so you can give equal attention to your most rewarding and profitable online programs you belong to. Good luck and don’t forget to have fun!!!

Bream are a small fish and they are easy to find. Just about any lake or river, you can find schools of small bream hugging the shorelines. You don’t have to cast out to catch them. Just release about a fishing rod’s length of line out and bait your small hook with corn or worms and you can catch bream all day long. Just toss the line out by hand, keep your hands on the pole, because it won’t take these little fish long to bite. In fact, if you haven’t gotten a bite in less than 1 minute, you may want to check your hook to see if any bait is still left on it. If this isn’t the problem, then go find a new place to bream fish.

I always like to go bream fishing one time a year. The first fishing trip of the year is perfect for bream fishing. It gives fishermen a chance to develop their fish-catching skills for the upcoming fishing season. You get a chance to anticipate the bite and get to jerk your rod, while you try to hook these fish with very small mouths. A small hook is a must for bream fishing. They will have a hard time getting their lips around the larger hooks and you will just be feeding them. You can catch a lot more bream, by using the smallest hooks you have in your tackle box. Be sure to carry plenty of bait, if you plan to fish for any length of time. You can go through a whole tub of worms or can of corn in 1 hour or less; when you go bream fishing. I have been digging up worms around the house now and putting them in a 5 gallon bucket. So when I get ready to go bream fishing, I will have my worms ready to go.

Most bream are too small to keep. If you can find some that are bigger enough to string, you will want to take them home and clean them. Bream is one of the best tasting fish our fresh waters in North America offer. I love to eat bream and they are even more fun to catch. If you have a small child you would like to take fishing this year, get them set up with a bream gear (corn and earthworms). Buying the worms in the store is pretty expensive, considering how fast the bream will eat your store-bought worms. You can do yourself a favor, if you will start digging your worms now and giving them a chance to multiply, before you go fishing again. Creating a worm bed is pretty simple. I just use a 5 gallon bucket and feed them the table scraps. You can put just about anything in your worm bucket or worm bed; when it comes to food. Avoid the meats and cheeses and your worms will grow really fast and multiply faster than rabbits. A little cornmeal in the bucket every now and then is a great food source for your worms. Don’t forget to add a little water (don’t drown them), so your soil stays good and moist for the worms to thrive in.

A summer camp for softball is a great way to improve your kids skills. These camps can be a big help with hitting and defense. A special camp in Bridgewater, New Jersey is ready to help your child move to the next level in softball. Their softball academy has professional and collegiate softball players on hand to help pass along the skills they learned; while playing softball over the years. Camps like these have proven great results for the players that take advantage of them. Your child’s next season or next team they play for, will most likely see a big difference in their play and skill level.

The boys & girls who play little league baseball can also attend the academy in Bridgewater, NJ for their summer camp on baseball drills. Not only are these camps fun for the kids, they also provide all the training necessary to help your little slugger get on base more and to stop more balls hit their way. As your little athletes get better in baseball, they will learn to love the sport even more; once they’re performing on a level as high or better than the rest of their teammates and opponents. These baseball camps are nothing new, but they are a lot more advanced than when I was playing little league baseball. The coaches and instructors have a lot more to offer these young folks and the summer camp in New Jersey for baseball, is one of the summer camps that proves this.

If your daughter is serious about softball or you have a son dedicated to baseball; joining one of these summer camps for softball or baseball is a great way to go. Especially for the parents who may lack the time to help their kids improve on their ball skills. The parents that do have the time, may not offer the best advice or drills to help their young ball players improve in their development. The softball and baseball coaching drills can’t be substituted, for the summer camps that do invite pro and college athletes in to help. This is exactly the high quality of coaching and training that takes place in Bridgewater, New Jersey for the summer camps they offer each year.

Maybe for the men in the gyms that are trying to build bigger muscles, it is still their world. I just think women have taken a bigger piece of the pie and they seek to build big musles too. I guess if the men want to stay in the lead, they will need to work out a little harder. I don’t think we have seen the last woman to enter a man’s body building gym, in the hopes she will obtain bigger muscle mass too.

And getting them for cheaper rates for students you can decrease your expenses. The industry has become more competitive and using sites that allow you to search find cheap home insurance rates can save you time and money.

You can focus on 3 one loss teams to see just how much disrespect there is for the South in college football. The LSU Tigers and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets both should be ranked above the USC Trojans. All 3 teams have one loss. The Tigers from Louisiana got beat by the number 1 team in the country (Florida) and it’s their only loss on the season. The GT Yellow Jackets loss to a undefeated Miami Hurricane team at the time; which after this past weekend, they got their 2nd loss of the season with a overtime loss against Clemson. Who did USC lose to? They got beat by a Washington Huskies team that didn’t even win a football game last year. Washington has manage to win 3 games this year, but have still lost 5 football games this year. How does opponents with zero and two losses rank higher than one with 5 losses?  There is no way in the world why USC should be ranked 5th in the BCS and ranked 4th in the other two polls! Knock, knock, is there anyone home? How do you have a team ranked 5th, 4th, and 4th in the country; when they got beat by a team that didn’t win 1 single football game last year and have 5 losses this year?

Last week USC was ranked 7th in the BCS Standings. This week they move up two spots in the rankings with a 6 point win at home over an unranked Oregon State team. Georgia Tech managed to move up 1 spot (12th to 11th) with a road victory over Virginia where they beat them by 25 points and held Virginia’s offense to only 9 points; while Oregon State posted 36 points against the 5th ranked USC Trojans! No one lost in front of USC’s position in the rankings; while Georgia Tech had Miami lose in front of them. A team that loses is an automatic bid for a drop in the polls, so Georgia Tech only got the 1 spot that was handed to them by a Miami loss. USC got handed 2 spots and no teams lost, they played at home, and barely won the game! In a weekend that favored Georgia Tech in any way you choose to look at it (home or away; margin of victory, etc..), the Yellow Jackets clearly deserved more support in a move up, but USC still beat them in the bias ranking game by moving up 2 spots to Georgia Tech’s 1 spot.

Oh don’t forget about the LSU Tigers either! They did have a home game like USC did this past weekend, but they beat the Auburn Tigers by 21 points and only allowed Auburn to score 10 points for the game. For their reward of beating Auburn they got nothing in the BCS Rankings! The BCS Rankings just awarded USC two spots in their precious poll for winning a home game by 6 points against an unranked Pac 10 Team. While Georgia Tech and Auburn combined moved up 1 spot with both of their opponents combined putting up 19 points; versing the 36 points allowed by the over ranked USC defense. It wouldn’t even be a fair match up to put this Southern California team against LSU or Georgia Tech. This would be an easy 2 touchdown win for the Tigers or Yellow Jackets and they could even play the game at the Coliseum. I’m being very kind to say “2 touchdown”, I really don’t think it would even be that close.

If you’re an LSU Tigers fan, player, or coach and you’re mad with the BCS Rankings; then you should be! Not at the small schools that have perfect records to this point. Your anger should be directed at the USC Trojans for having the same record as you, but your loss was to a 0 loss team and USC was to a 5 loss team and the same team that beat USC this year, is the same team you beat on the road this year in Washington. Only way for USC to be ranked higher than LSU right now would have to do with corruption and the fact USC has the richest college program in the country. USC is under investigations by the NCAA and suspensions will be coming; due to the fact they paid Reggie Bush’s family money. Future recruits coming out of high school should avoid USC; since the chances of a bowl game suspension is very possible in Southern California.

The True Top 10 Rankings of College Football (Week 9)

1. Florida

2. Alabama

3. Texas

4. LSU

5. Georgia Tech

6. Cincinnati

7. TCU

8. Iowa

9. Boise State

10. Virginia Tech

Sorry Oregon, your 1 loss was to Boise State and your home game against Purdue you only won by 2 points and Purdue manage to beat the over ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. Only reason you have a top 10 ranking in the BCS is because USC needs this to help them. Pac 10 teams are over ranked in general with Notre Dame and Ohio State over ranked based on popularity and opponents of the USC Trojans.

Her name is Melanie Oudin and this little girl from the Peach State of Georgia won the hearts of many tennis fans all across the country. It was cool to see big time celebrities making comments about this 17 year old rising tennis star that lives just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Mel was simply fantastic on the court this year in the U.S. Open and she had a lot of support up in the Big Apple of New York. It’s not often when Georgia Peaches and Big NY Apples mix well together, but it did in this case. Melanie wasn’t just representing her city of Marietta, or the tennis club in Norcross, Georgia, but she represented so much more. The whole USA was behind this teenage superstar and it was a lot of fun to watch her play on the courts in New York. If you think a big buzz has been going around the country about Oudin’s tennis game; you should see the folks in Georgia. The tennis fans and even people that are not usually watching tennis was watching Mel hit that ball.

It was sad to see it all come to an end and it was 9th Seed Caroline Wozniacki that figured out the magical formula to beating this young star from Georgia. Women’s tennis looks to have a very bright future, because Wozniacki is only 19 years old! From what I am hearing, the tennis fans in Georgia are rooting for Caroline now and we do hope she wins the U.S. Open this year. She was very nice taking a backseat to an ESPN interview that started with Melanie Oudin first. They said they normally don’t interview the loser first, but made an exception in this case. When Caroline Wozniacki finally got her chance to speak; she actually apologized for beating Melanie, because she knew everyone was rooting for her to win. That comment went a long ways here in Georgia and she deserves to move on in the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.

To recap Melanie’s most impressive victories, check this list of women she beat in this year’s US Open.

* 29 Maria Sharapova

* 13 Nadia Petrovia

* 4 Elena Dementieva

That’s a nice list considering that Melanie Oudin is not even a top 50 player and she beat 3 Russians that were ranked 29th or better! If you’re still fascinated with this young tennis star; then you can catch Melanie on the Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show and the Tonight Show on Monday (Sept. 14th). And it appears the main thing she wants is a Rolex Watch and she will buy this with the $175,000 purse she is taking back to the South.