Seahawks have effective draft

So last weekend I was up at my aunt and uncle's house in SLC and was lucky enough to catch the first round of the draft. I'm also lucky to have an amazingly understanding girlfriend who understands my love of sports and of the Seahawks, as she is a fan herself. It was actually productive for all of us as the TV was on in the background for most of the draft as I was able to chat with the family and watch the draft at the same time. Of course nobody else cares about football but I was loving life because I didn't feel bad watching the draft as I would carry on conversations with the fam and then look up to check out who was getting drafted where. These are secrets every sports fan should learn to do if they want to make their families happy along with fulfilling their sports needs.

Anyways onto the Seahawks. I was celebrating the pick of Aaron Curry (pics above). He is widely considered the best player in the draft, and we got him with the 4th pick! I started screaming when the Chiefs didn't take him with the 3rd pick cause I knew we had lucked out. This kid is going to be a stud...just check this youtube video of when he was drafted (it also has a few clips of football highlights). The kid seems like he has a passion for the game from his balling his eyes out plus he seems exited to come to Seattle...he's also a freaking heat seeking missile. Plus, along with the signing of Leroy Hill and Lofa Tatupu to long term deals, we now have three stud linebackers for at least the next 4 years.

Another move I loved was trading away our 2nd round pick for Denver's 1st round pick next year. Denver is going to be terrible next year (maybe even in the top 5 worst). So we have the possibility of getting another top 5 pick next year which we could use on a QB if Hasselbeck doesn't stay healthy or a great tackle if Walter Jones wants to retire. Sam Bradford and Colt McCoy are possibilities. Just root for Denver to suck next year.

We then made up for the 2nd round pick by trading back into the 2nd round and selecting who the Seahawks wanted anyways in the 2nd round, Max Unger (pic above), a great center out of Oregon. I expect this kid to be starting next year at center. He's that good. We needed to get younger and better on the OL and this is a step forward as Chris Spencer was just not the answer.

We traded up in the 3rd round to get Deon Butler (pic above) who looks like he could be a very good WR out of Penn St. He should fill the void of Bobby Engram quite nicely. Ironically they're both from Penn St.

So basically we traded a 3rd, 5th, and 7th round pick for a 1st round pick (probably in the top ten) next year. That's great value if you ask me. Hopefully, along with the signing of Ken Lucas (pic below) yesterday, this Seahawk team will be back winning divisions and advancing into the playoffs for years to come, as they should be.

Vegas Here I Come!!!

Well I haven't written on my blog in forever. Thats what happens when you have 16 credits of ridiculously hard science classes, a job, and of course an amazing girlfriend. A guy's gotta have priorities right? Luckily in three weeks I'm finally graduating from BYU. Which means all that time spent on studying will be focused on having an amazing summer and actually enjoying myself. It also opens up time to actually write about the Mariners, who I will be following very closely as always. I'll also be posting about other thing besides the Mariners over the summer, mainly providing previews for the Seahawks, and BYU football and basketball.

I wish I would have had time to write about all the great sporting events that have gone on over the last couple of months. I've failed to write about the World Baseball Classic, which I absolutely loved! Even though my Dominicans or Americans couldn't take home the gold, I was still happy to see the USA actually put up a fight this time (pictured below). Hopefully next time both the Dominicans and the USA will take it even more seriously and show people who the real baseball countries are. People who say that event shouldn't be played don't love baseball. It's great for baseball

Then there's March Madness. I can't say enought about college basketball. It's so full of emotion every year. I still can't get that picture out of my head from 3 years ago when Gonzaga's Adam Morrison was just crying his guts out on the floor (pictured below). I love it almost as much as college football. In my mind, college football has a better product but fails to provide the fans with what they want, or what should be done, which is a playoff similar to college basketball. I'm not saying 64 teams, but I think an 8, 12, or 16 team playoff is a drastic improvement over the BCS.

When I have more time to post in the summer, I'll go over BYU's basketball season and discuss what needs to be done to take this team to the next level of advancing in the NCAA tourny. They had a great year though. Three straight conference championships is an amazing accomplishment and coach Rose (pictured below) should be proud. He, in my mind, is an amazing coach and has done miracles with the BYU program, which I cannot say about Bronco.

Finally, I going to Vegas for the first time and its going to be amazing! We're going to see the Mariners play their final game of spring training on Saturday so hopefully I'll have some pictures up next week about the trip. It'll be good to actually get an unnofficial spring break and catch some rays! Oh ya, we'll be staying at the Mirage (pic below) if anyone wants to party it up.