Olympic Fever

It's the dog days of summer and the MLB season is meandering along. No disrespect to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays or the Rays or the Buccaneers or whatever else they are called these days, but when they are on top of the AL East, something is upside down in the baseball World and fans need some time adjusting to the new realities. I am not complaining since my long-term dream might finally come true - no Yankees and no RedSox in the playoffs. The Yanks are done, but the Sox might still make it. I am going to keep an eye on for that.

But this is the best time for the Olympics. I mean I have not seen a single complete baseball game since the Olympics started and the games have been very good theater. It's always the same story with the Olympics. Most American mainstream sports fans think "who watches the Olympics" before it starts. But then when the games begin, it's hard to not follow it. Especially these games with all the Michael Phelps hype. While the Phelps-hype did get to be a bit too much at times, his finger-nail finish was amazing. NBC ran the Olympics coverage like Phelps was the only guy in the entire games for a couple of days, but I guess he deserved it. Now that swimming is all done, it should be interesting to see how the Olympics do on TV now.

The only guy who is a bigger freak than Phelps is probably Usain Bolt, the World's fastest dude. I couldn't believe that this guy just gave up after 80 meters and still crushed the competition and set a new World Record. This 21 year-old is going to dominate this sport for a while. I wonder what's the best time he could have clocked if he had broken a sweat in this race. Bolt is a great name for a sprinter too! The other person of interest for me is Nastia Liukin. This cute-looking gymnast is too good on the floor and also carries herself with a lot of class. I was very impressed with the way she carried herself after the tie-breaker with the Chinese chick. Speaking of Chinese, they are crushing the Americans in the Gold medals tally. This has truly been a coming-out party for China in every which way and it's pretty impressive how they have completely turned around their sporting fortunes in the last 10 or 20 years. The other country thats making headlines is Jamaica with their World-class sprinters. The Jamaican girls went 1-2-3 in the Women's 100. Impressive. Lets see how the games end for China. It has definitely started real well for them.