Happy Big Bad Birthday!

I know this maybe a silly thing to keep up with but in September Big Bad Sports Daddy will start it's third year of operations. Happy Birthday BBSD!

We have had a lot of fun styling and profiling and grown more then I could of imagined over the past 2+ years. I would like to take this blog and relive some of our better moments via video and thank everyone who has got Big Bad Sports Daddy to where it is today! There is no doubt that we will be here to serve you for many more years to come! You know if it's beer,women or sports Big Bad Sports Daddy is there!

First I want to thank everyone that has supported bigbadsportsdaddy.com this far. Seriously we couldn't do what we do if you didn't support us. So for you that read our big bad blogs or for those of you who listen to our podcast or you guys who love the Random Bikini Girl contest or those of you who waste some time on our hot links page while clicking and surfing from the bottom of my heart Thank You for the clicks and support!

I also want to thank my friends and family. My Folks Nita and Booby my life long friends Shawn,Betsey,Duck,Andy Bowles,Andy Meadows,Bert,Ally and the everyone else you know who you are. All of who have been very supportive over the past two years! They may have questioned my sanity at times and not understood why I was spending so much time and effort working on "some stupid website" but never the less they remained supportive.

As we celebrate our 3rd birthday at BBSD I thought I would pull the curtain back a little bit and let you know where and how it all started. Here's your history listen drink up and enjoy,

BigBadSportsDaddy was stated over drinks when I was hanging out with my cousin Dora. We came up with the concept and the name and she actually registered the domain name first and transferred it over to me. She felt she didn't have the time to invest in the project. Boy she was right about it being time consuming. So thanks Dora for helping come up the concept.

Once I had the domain locked down it was time to find an investor and some one to build it. Enter Joe the investor and Mike from KellerWerks internet designs. They did everything they could to make sure BBSD was ready to launch September 4th 2008 which was the start of the NFL season that year. We were up and running Pow! POw!

Back then BigBadSportsDaddy wasn't much more then just another handicapping website. It didn't take long for people to start coming to me telling me it could be so much more. Big Mike Wallace told me we should do podcast. Becky Brune and Jessica Trober convinced me to start producing videos for the site and they worked as our first big bad sports daddy reporters. Joe Rainer talked me into doing a weekly football broadcast which former LSU Tigers ALL American Cornerback Denard Walker jumped on board with and started the first weekly bigbadsportsdaddy show. The first big bad sports daddy producers where James McCormick and John Conner.





So Joe,Mike,Becky,Denard,Jessica,John and James here's a big bad Texas Thank You!

During the 2008 football season sometime JCall approached me and pitched a Wrestling show. We talked about the WWE all the time so it made perfect sense to bring it to the air. A few meetings and a brain storming beer session or two later The ShowStoppers podcast was born. Jcall was one of the first voices heard on bbsd and continues to be a valuable member of the BBSD family, Even when he had to relocate from Dallas to Iowa and could no longer be a part of ShowStoppers his first question was "How can I still be involved with the site?" That's when he offered up his writing talent and The Raw Blog was born. JCall is also a knowledgeable sports addict and will share his knowledge and his hot sports opinions with us in his other sports blogs. JCall thank you for everything you have done to help build Big Bad Sports Daddy.

As they say in the biz The Show must go on. When JCall left for Iowa that opened the door up for John Connor to step up and show us how Big and Bad of Sports Daddy he was. Jon had produced and worked as a camera man for bbsd prior to joining the SS podcast. John was a valuable behind the scenes member of bbsd early on. John quickly proved he could be an asset behind the mic and in front of the camera as well. It didn't take John long to figure out he was awesome and start telling everyone about it. He quickly demanded his own show. After hours of mind numbing negotiations he agreed with the new anonymous BBSD GM to co host a show with another young BBSD talent Eric Ringel.

Eric had displayed a great work ethic and natural talent in his hsort time with BBSD. Eric up until then was a BIgBadSportsDaddy Orphan looking for a home. Eric would fill in whenever needed then do whatever he could to make sure any project he was working on was a success. Eric was giving us all a lesson on what it took to be a real Big Bad Sports Daddy.. The John and Eric showed signed on and quickly became one of the most popular independent sports podcast on the net. John and Eric also provide the strong backbone for BBSD handling more day to day task then I have time to type out. So John and Eric Thank you!

With the success of The first two podcast adding the third one was a no brainer. Steph Quinn and I tore up the airwaves on 1360 am Retro Radio in the Summer of 08. The Larry Stanley show was born on that little old am station in the gheto. Steph was grabbing major attention from other radio stations in Dallas for her one of kind ENEWS segments. Luckily for us at BBSD Steph turned them all down to continue doing the LSS even if was on some Sports website. Steph not being into sports has become the queen of pop culture here on BBSD. Steph also is dedicated to giving back and doing a lot of charity work in the community. Steph Quinn thank you for bringing your talents to BBSD.

As our podcast were growing the demand to get them out in public was becoming overwhelming.We had to come up with a way to do live broadcast from remote locations. Terry VnderHayden from withinfilm.com was serving as Technical Director for BBSD at the time. Terry was responsible for the great action shots you see in the bbsd videos and 90% of the BBSD editing. When the subject of live broadcast came up Terry proved yet again why he is the best in the world at what he does by overseeing BBSD's live broadcast and making them what they are now which is Kick ASS. Terry VanderHayden Thank you!

Somewhere in the middle of all the podcast stuff going down Steven Kirby from Cyberblueprints.com saw this little sports website that was fighting and clawing to delivery quality entertainment on the web. Steven took pitty on us and came up with the all new redesigned bigbadsportsdaddy.com 10.0. The new designed has changed our lives at BBSD. Since the redesign the amount of compliments we get on the sites layout has been shocking. Steven Kirby thank you for being the big bad web designer you are and helping BBSD look as good as it does. Steven also has worked countless hours on bbsd including all the time he has spent fixing our mistakes at BBSD. We might of accidently crashed the site a time or two.



I also have to thank a few other people that have been involved with the little sports website that could over the past two years. Teshia and Thomas where a part of our first film crew that we ever sent out. They helped shoot and edit some of bbsd's most popular videos still to this day. Courtney Barton is another one that has lost days of her life working on bbsd. She is a former Dallas Television Sports Reporter that keeps promising us she will start blogging for us one day but hasn't yet. Jimmy Christopher covered the Dallas Cowboys from the inside for BBSD the first two years. Heather,Adella and Michelle (last names with held) have all went above and beyond the call of duty to help BBSD also. Tim V you rock! Marie from the Burb in Las Colinas remains one of our biggest supporters of our cause! Of course I can't leave out our new talent! Like our most controversial Blogger Lucy Skywalker and our newest podcast host Andre from The Sports Daddys, A Extra Big Bad Thank You goes out to all of you for the time and effort you spent working and helping with BBSD stuff.




Over the past two years we have been lucky enough to develop great relationships with several great organizations such as The Dallas Derby Devils,MPX Wrestling, The Burb News, The Press Box Grill Wings at AMF in Euless and The All Star Sports Bar and Grill in Fort Worth. Thank you for partnering up with BigBadSportsDaddy for all of our special events over the past two years.

Now that all those necasary Thank Yous are out of the way it's time to laugh! Here's a list of my top 5 BBSD videos over the past 2 years.

5) The Man Song- Steph Quinn lost a bet on The LSS and had to write a song about how smart men are


4) Jobless to Topless- A Job fair at at a Strip CLub BBSD is there!



3) Dallas Derby Devils- LAst June there was a lot of drama going down with the DDD and BBSD was there to cover it



2) Rachel Stacy on the LSS- Rachel Stacy stopped by the Press Box Grill in downtown Dallas to hang with the LSS and play some tunes


1) Drunk Girls at Texas Motor Speedway- BBSD goes camp site crashing and hangs with drunk girls at Texas Motor Speedway

2010 Fantasy Football Sleepers and Bust

If you listen to the Sports Daddys Podcast this week I went over my fantasy football sleepers and bust for 2010. I know you might need something to copy and paste and save to your computer so here you go. You’re Welcome!

This is going to be an interesting year fellow fantasy footballers. You are going to see some big names fall off as other young players rise and take there place. Gone from the top of the fantasy football food chain are your LTs and your LJs. Here to take their place are your CJs,APs and Ray Rays.

2010 could be the turning point if you are in a rebuilding mode in your keeper league. Or if you are just playing in a hit em and forget em one year wonder league you may need to do some extra home work. This is not the year to go into your draft ill prepared.

Here you go Big Bad Sports Daddys and Mamas! My 2010 Sleepers and Bust!

Sleepers
1) Matthew Stafford- The Lions added some great weapons for this young QB. Including rookie RB Jahvid Best and Veteran WR Nate Burleson. Expect Stafford to take a huge leap in 2010. Draft him in rounds 9 and later.

2) Ben Tate- If you are not familiar with Tate he is the starting Rookie RB in Houston. HE doesn’t have the flashy name like the other roookies Best, Mathews or Spiller but has a realistic chance of out producing 2 out of 3 of them. Look for him in Rounds 5-7 of your draft

3) TJ Houshmandzadeh- He has a decent QB back in Hasselbeck and no one else to compete with him for targets. Look for Housh to be a candidate for the come back player of the year in 2010.

4) Dustin Keller- Keller had a very strong post season and Mark Sanchez seems to have found his dump off TE. I would suggest not wasting an early pick on Gates or Witten. Look for Keller late in your draft.

5) Michael Crabtree- Crabtree has a chance to be the next break out WR in the NFL. If you are drafting in Big 12 country or in a keeper league expect him to go a little earlier. Crabtree should be there in rounds 4 or 5. You might think about reaching with a third rounder if there is not a solid superstar is there.


Bust
1) Jay Cutler- This guy sucks! He can’t read a D or protect the ball. Don’t buy in to the Mike Martz will make him better crap you are reading! Do Not Touch Cutler! Buyer beware!

2) Eli Manning- There is no way Eli repeats his 2009 numbers. Look for him to fall back to earth this year. Let some other sucker get stuck with him

3) Anquan Boldin- I lke Anquan as a player. I even like The Ravens Offense this year. I question his health. I think he goes way to early for a guy who has only played 16 games once since 2005. Don’t target him early. I am hoping he slips into the 6th or 7th round in my draft and you should too

4) DeAngelo Williams- I am the only writer in America with DeAngelo on my bust list. He is not worth a 1st rounder this year and that is where you will find him going. He has to split the carries with Jonathan Stewart . Also look for Defenses to crowd the box and not respect Matt Moore’s arm. This going to be a down year for DeAngelo

5) Pierre Thomas- My problem with Pierre is he is to inconsistent. The Saints spread the ball around way to much for him to have a productive season.

There you go. Do what you will with my advice. Happy Drafting!

larry@bigbadsportsdaddy.com

Fantasy Football Advice

Fantasy Football season is here! It’s by far my favorite season. I am not one of those ridiculous people who have 50 different fantasy football teams on every football website known to man. I have one. That’s right one. I play in a 20 team keeper cash league. We are going into our 10th year. I play in one league and one league only because I don’t want my attention diverted from the prize. I keep my mind on the money and the money on my mind.


I was spending a Sunday last year catching the games with my buds and one of the co players started yelling for Frank Gore to score. I thought this was odd since I was playing him and I had Frank the Tank. I had to ask “Why are you wanting Frank to do well? Are you trying to lose this week?” Which he replied “No but I have him 3 other leagues.” 3 other leagues WTF? Ok I have had two teams and even 3 teams but 4? He then informed me that he had 10 teams in 09. All of them were money leagues. That’s a little overboard! How can you stay focused on any team when you have ten to manage?

I have owned two teams in the past. I get conflicted when I am playing a guy with my other team’s players on his team. Does that make sense? I don't like it therefore I do not do it anymore.

Back in 07 I tried to manage 3 teams and I hate to admit it but my ESPN.com team became a dreaded dead team. I am very ashamed. If you are not going to play don’t commit. There is nothing more annoying then not being able to get a hold of other owners for trade offers or you and another team battling it out for first and seeing the team he his playing hasn’t set their line up since week 3! Which happen to be the week you played Mr. Dead Team and lost!


So for you preparing for the 2010 season remember it’s ok to say no. Do you want to play in my fantasy football league with a bunch of guys who think Ben Tate is a new sports bar? NO! Play fantasy football and play it right. Please keep up with your teams and stay active America.


Best of luck to you!
Lar