I have determined that college and pro athletes and teams have gone completely overboard on how they list the "vitals" on their websites. Let me put it this way...If I played in the NFL I would be listed as 6' 265 lbs, if I played in the NBA I would be listed as 6'4 220 lbs, and if I played in the MLB I would be listed as 6'2 180 lbs. Let me just say that my actual "vitals" are mixed in there somewhere, I'll leave you to guess what they are.
Any sports fan knows that the fudging of "vitals" has been happening for decades, but it has gotten out of hand. The breaking point for me was when I just saw on http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/team/roster_active.jsp?c_id=bos that Big Papi is listed at 6'4 230 lbs. Are you kidding me?!? 230 lbs!!! His nickname is BIG PAPI!!! He might have weighed 230 lbs ten years ago. On the same page Josh Beckett is listed at 220 lbs. You want me to believe that Big Papi only weighs 10 lbs more than Beckett? This also comes leading up to the NFL and then NBA draft. At least in the NFL the players go to the Combine and everyone agrees on their "official" stats there. With the NBA, each team will bring players in to measure them and then work them out. Someone tell me though how the Hawks can have a player as 6'6 and the Nets have them as 6'9. Did this 19 year-old hit a growth spurt in 2 weeks? Isn't this the same kind of thing that George O'Leary got fired for days after being hired at Notre Dame? I guess if it is the teams doing the fudging then it's ok, they just won't allow it from their coaches.
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