Orioles Slugger Chris Davis Suspended 25 Games

Baltimore Orioles 1st Baseman Chris Davis did a no-no. He managed to get suspended for 25-games by Major League Baseball after testing positive for an amphetamine.

And it appears it all could easily have avoided.

Davis mentioned in a statement released by the MLBPA that he made a big mistake by taking Adderall and that he had permission to use it in the past but did not seek the exemption this season.

Interesting.

The Orioles are leading the AL East by 10 games with 17 games left to play. Which means in theory, if they have any playoff success, Davis would be eligible before the end of the playoffs.

That being said, Davis hasn't exactly replicated his monster 2013 season where he hit 53 homers with a .286 average. In 2014 he has hit 26 home runs, but is hitting a Dan Uggla like .196.

Hmm....

Best Rob Bramblett Lip Sync To Date...

((HT: Kaitlyn Reed)

We all know how the game ended...Kaitlyn has her perspective...


Told you...

25-year-old North Carolinian Kaitlyn Reed needed 10 takes to get it right, according to the War Eagle Reader's Jeremy Henderson.

And, now, she's converted...

The Unheard Iron Bowl Final Play Call (VIDEO OF THE DAY)

This is fantastic.

By now, most of you following College Football either know of or have seen and heard the final play of this years Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn. So we'll spare you the set up and explanation (Auburn won on a fluke play---109yd missed FG return by Chris Davis of Auburn-- that never happened before)

Without spoiling it, here's a version of that play you haven't seen. And a call made by someone new...

Nick Of Time: A Lesson In Ego And Hubris

Okay, let's go back to the end of it all...
((HT: Auburn Athletics/Auburn IMG Sports Network))


The HQ will readily admit that the refereeing was out of sorts...
Auburn was getting over six yards a carry and decided to go away from that running game- inexplicably...

But, the visitors had more issues...

Cade Foster pull-hooking two field goal attempts and having a third one blocked led to Adam Griffith being the other field goal attempt with :01 left. But it went a little deeper than that...

Earlier in the game after the first miss, Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who is notoriously quick-triggered with his kickers, would decide to go for it with a 3-point lead with 5:32 left. That was instead of giving Foster an attempt at getting the Tide a 10-point lead.

Put the game away...???
Nope...

Go for it with a run up the middle that was diagnosed immediately and gave Auburn momentum all over again...

Even as his special teams had failed him three times earlier- two misses and a field goal attempt that was blocked...

But the largest failure was on the Griffith field goal attempt- and the HQ did the math... other than the kicker, going with what CBS color analyst Gary Danielson said: it was just a bunch of fat guys- with the exception of tight end Brian Vogler and two other skill position players...

11 on 7 for a punt return...
You tell me those odds... and it had happened before in the Ess-E-Cee...
Odell Beckham, Junior against UAB
((HT: SEC on ESPN))


And it looked like the UAB players did less watching than the Alabama players did in trying to defense the return once it was on...

So, add it all up...

Whether it's Eli Gold...


Or Uncle Verne...
((HT: SEC on CBS))


Or Rod...

Saban will learn the lesson on his special teams gaffe, but he will still make his kickers walk home...
But, sometimes, the lesson is learned too late to maintain perfection in a self-perfect atmosphere...

Cade Foster has already seen the silliness of fanaticism through his Twitter machine...

Saban shall hear it on sports talk radio for quite some time...

But, he has already moved on... he's getting ready for his bowl game... and (insert divine being here) help his opponent... unless there's a repeat of the Utah Sugar Bowl game...

And the second-best decision that Auburn AD Jay Jacobs has ever made...???
Opening the gates and getting the white jackets out of the way to focus on not getting his head coach, players, and television live shots from getting trampled...

Wild Reactions to Crazy Iron Bowl Ending

Watching the reactions pour in on YouTube and other places to the crazy ending to the Auburn-Alabama game has been nothing short of hilarious.

And intriguing.

Listen and watch as Rod Bramblett loses his mind making the Auburn radio call as Chris Davis runs 100-yards with the missed Field Goal for the win--a win that happened in a way that nobody we know of has ever seen before.



And then there is the fan reaction:



Check out this woman in a Sports Bar freaking out:



Then there's this Alabama gathering in Destin, Florida:



Here's a fan video from the lower bowl. Crappy video, but great feeling:



And finally the compilation of videos from YouTube's Video Producers:

Miracle At Jordan Hare 2, Auburn Wins The Iron Bowl Over Alabama

How can you top Auburn's hail mary win over Georgia two weeks ago?

Running back a missed field goal the entire length of the field on the last play of the game against Alabama. Officially Chris Davis ran the missed field goal attempt 100 yards but who cares, that run defeated the Crimson Tide.

Watch and if your a Auburn Tiger fan, enjoy.


That gets a colossal "War Eagle!"

Chris Davis' run is etched in the great chapters of the "Iron Bowl."

Here's how the voice of the Auburn Tigers Rod Bramblett call the final play.  It's a classic.



With Auburn's last two football games Bramblett will have the best resume reel in the history of radio.

Chris Davis Outduels Darnell McDonald

And, yeah, that's the first time that two position players have squared off against each other since (believe it or not) Ty Cobb and George Sisler went toe-to-toe out of position on the last day of the 1925 season.

The Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox ran out of pitchers- enter Davis who had gone 0-for-8 at the plate with five strike outs by the time the game was over. Davis found a fastball in the high 80's and went against outfielder Darnell McDonald for the 17th inning...

Here's how the Orioles won... McDonald hung one...


Scott Atchison couldn't have been more proud of McDonald sticking it out there all for his teammates...
((HT: NESN))


Apparently, this wasn't the first time someone matched Davis' performance. Rube Waddell went oh-fer and got the win on July 4th, 1905 against some guy named Cy Young...

But Davis striking out Adrian Gonzalez was really something...