The weather played havoc with the World series and it finally ended yesterday with the Phillies winning. At least thats what I am told! I didn't watch the later part of this series and neither did America. Between the rain delays and Obama's infomercial, the World Series had nowhere to go and ended up with the worst rating ever. Bad times for Fox with these ratings and with their favorite republicans sinking in the polls. I guess Philadelphia doesn't care. They are getting ready to throw a parade on Friday. Pedro Feliz drove in the winning run and he will be a hero in Philly forever.
Bye bye baseball for now. NBA is in full flow. The Suns are 1-1. They beat the Spurs, but where clearly inferior to Chris Paul and the Hornets. This is what I mean by the Window closing. They may be finally good enough to beat the Spurs, but both of them are not as good as the Lakers or even the Hornets. The defense is still as bad as it has ever been. Suns can't stop most of the guys and that gives confidence to everybody to the point these guys start shooting 3's and never miss. The threes were raining and the home opener went under the loss column. Dallas lost their home opener as well with Houston and Ron-Ron looking good. This should be an interesting season in the West. And East doesn't look too shabby either.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Welcome Back
NBA came back today and not a day too soon. These are good times as the World Series, NFL and the NBA are all on simultaneously. Boston hosted King James and opened the festivities. It was odd to see Paul Pierce cry during the ring ceremony. It's not like he just won the championship today. He has been a champion for months and I can't imagine he is still so emotional about it. But he did have a great game and the Celtics kicked off the season in style. Loss 1 for King James as the Cavs are hoping his growth, team chemistry and Mo Williams will put them over the top this year. Unlikely, but anything can happen with the king.
Kobe and the Lakers kicked off the West coast activities. The big news was the debut of Greg Oden that lasted about 12 minutes. He hurt his foot and had to leave the game. Hope it's not too serious. Lakers and Kobe looked good and won the game. Looks like it's their conference to lose. The Suns have a few interesting games this week and are on TV a lot. But honestly their window is pretty much closed. So is Dallas's and may be even San Antonio. The changing of the guard happened last year when the Lakers and the Hornets came out of nowhere to take the torch from the Suns, Mavs and the Spurs. The Spurs are probably the best placed among the 3 oldies and the Suns open the season against them. Lets see if the games are still fun with the Suns under the new coach.
The weather is playing havoc with the World Series. I lost track of when the previous game ended and when the next one is scheduled. It's a mess, but Philly is sitting pretty anyways. They should wrap it up soon, in the next 3 months. In the NFL, the new Niners coach Mike Singletary is the story. He kicked Vernon Davis off his bench during the game and gave an emotional, impassioned speech after the game. I feel like he is burning too hot right now. At this rate, he will be tuned out by the players by week 14 especially if they don't win more than they lose. He needs to handle himself very carefully. It's easy to coach a winner. It's that much harder to coach a losing team with little talent. He better play this thing tight.
Kobe and the Lakers kicked off the West coast activities. The big news was the debut of Greg Oden that lasted about 12 minutes. He hurt his foot and had to leave the game. Hope it's not too serious. Lakers and Kobe looked good and won the game. Looks like it's their conference to lose. The Suns have a few interesting games this week and are on TV a lot. But honestly their window is pretty much closed. So is Dallas's and may be even San Antonio. The changing of the guard happened last year when the Lakers and the Hornets came out of nowhere to take the torch from the Suns, Mavs and the Spurs. The Spurs are probably the best placed among the 3 oldies and the Suns open the season against them. Lets see if the games are still fun with the Suns under the new coach.
The weather is playing havoc with the World Series. I lost track of when the previous game ended and when the next one is scheduled. It's a mess, but Philly is sitting pretty anyways. They should wrap it up soon, in the next 3 months. In the NFL, the new Niners coach Mike Singletary is the story. He kicked Vernon Davis off his bench during the game and gave an emotional, impassioned speech after the game. I feel like he is burning too hot right now. At this rate, he will be tuned out by the players by week 14 especially if they don't win more than they lose. He needs to handle himself very carefully. It's easy to coach a winner. It's that much harder to coach a losing team with little talent. He better play this thing tight.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
World Series
The World Series has started and not sure how many people care or are watching. Both the Rays and the Phillies are deserving participants and are great teams and have both won a game. As expected, Cole Hamels won his start, but the rest of the rotation is really "advantage Rays". The gritty, gutty Rays were not just going to go away after they lost game 1. They came back in style and won game 2 rather easily. David Price and the the Rays bullpen closed the door on the Phillies. Now the scene shifts to Philly.
In the NFL, just way too much drama surrounding the Dallas Cowboys. It's amazing how ESPN and the 24 hour sports outlets are just creating news out of anything and everything. They want to make this Cowboys story bigger and messier than it really is. The real story of the league should be the mediocrity of the Colts and the Chargers and the resurgence of the Titans and the Bills. Luckily for the Chargers, the Broncos are not pulling away either. The Colts on the other hand are already 3 games behind the Titans. Go figure!
In the NFL, just way too much drama surrounding the Dallas Cowboys. It's amazing how ESPN and the 24 hour sports outlets are just creating news out of anything and everything. They want to make this Cowboys story bigger and messier than it really is. The real story of the league should be the mediocrity of the Colts and the Chargers and the resurgence of the Titans and the Bills. Luckily for the Chargers, the Broncos are not pulling away either. The Colts on the other hand are already 3 games behind the Titans. Go figure!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Rays shine through
Game 7 today was a thrilling baseball game that went just like you would expect any game 7 to. It was well-pitched, tense and very well-played and managed. More importantly, it saved us all from watching the stupid Sunday night football game between Seattle and Tampa Bay. Big sports day all around in Tampa, but which moron picked this game for Sunday night? I mean, even if Seattle was as good as originally thought and even assuming we didn't have to endure Seneca Wallace at QB, this was not a marquee match-up in my book.
Anyways, the Rays trailed 0-1 for most of the early innings, but got to Lester in the middle innings and scored just enough runs to win this game 3-1. Matt Garza out-pitched Jon Lester, but barely. The Rays bullpen did what it had to and David Price got them a 4-out save. It was all good in Tampa and it was strange to see all 30 year old front-office dudes on the stage. A modern-day, money-ball era team with a manager who is in to new-age stuff and flawed math. Nice to see them win. What the hell does 9 = 8 mean anyways? Now 9 = 2. Also great to see a new face represent the AL-East in the World Series. I thought this day may never come. Toronto has always been my hope for parity in that division, but Tampa surprised everybody this season. Now onto the World series.
Anyways, the Rays trailed 0-1 for most of the early innings, but got to Lester in the middle innings and scored just enough runs to win this game 3-1. Matt Garza out-pitched Jon Lester, but barely. The Rays bullpen did what it had to and David Price got them a 4-out save. It was all good in Tampa and it was strange to see all 30 year old front-office dudes on the stage. A modern-day, money-ball era team with a manager who is in to new-age stuff and flawed math. Nice to see them win. What the hell does 9 = 8 mean anyways? Now 9 = 2. Also great to see a new face represent the AL-East in the World Series. I thought this day may never come. Toronto has always been my hope for parity in that division, but Tampa surprised everybody this season. Now onto the World series.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Roach-Sox
Gone are the days when the Red Sox were anything but clutch. We were so used to seeing the Red Sox choke away all their talents and opportunities in the most crucial late season or post-season games year after year. The weight of 86 years of the curse always came crashing on the Sox and their fans at the worst times and they always lost when it mattered the most. The fans then wallowed in their sorrow and wore that curse proudly like it was some sort of a badge of honor. They blamed everybody else for their team's ineptitude and they got to a point where they didn't expect or even want to win. The pressure of the whole situation was too much for the players and the coaches much like it still is for the Cubs with their curse.
Then 2004 happened. As always, they fell to 0-3 against the hated Yankees, but a bunch of players who called themselves "idiots" somehow found a way to stay lose, play well and win the series 4-3. Then they went on to eliminate the curse and win the World Series for the first time in forever. Now you can even kill a roach, but you just cannot beat these guys in an elimination game. They are 9-0 in elimination games lately and thats just amazing. They won 4-2 today behind Josh Beckett to force a game 7. But I still can't believe they won game 5 at Boston after trailing 0-7 in the 7-Th inning. They better lose game 7 tomorrow. Otherwise I am not sure if I can handle the realities of this new World thats been going on for 5 years now. Plus I wanna see MLB and Fox deal with a Philly-TB World Series.
In the campus today, no major upsets except for the 9-Th ranked BYU losing to TCU. Texas beat Missouri easily and USC beat WSU 69-0. Texas now moves on to the next challenge and USC probably has no more challenges left. The best play of the entire day was a ref tackling the South Carolina QB in the LSU game. The QB was running straight into the ref and may be he wanted to protect himself or something, but he clearly lowered his shoulder and leveled the poor QB. May be the ref had some money in the game and was trying to pull a Donaghy on us. Who knows, but it was an awesome tackle.
Speaking of awesome, the Ozzie Guillen skit on Mad TV on Fox is a must-see. Pretty funny.
Then 2004 happened. As always, they fell to 0-3 against the hated Yankees, but a bunch of players who called themselves "idiots" somehow found a way to stay lose, play well and win the series 4-3. Then they went on to eliminate the curse and win the World Series for the first time in forever. Now you can even kill a roach, but you just cannot beat these guys in an elimination game. They are 9-0 in elimination games lately and thats just amazing. They won 4-2 today behind Josh Beckett to force a game 7. But I still can't believe they won game 5 at Boston after trailing 0-7 in the 7-Th inning. They better lose game 7 tomorrow. Otherwise I am not sure if I can handle the realities of this new World thats been going on for 5 years now. Plus I wanna see MLB and Fox deal with a Philly-TB World Series.
In the campus today, no major upsets except for the 9-Th ranked BYU losing to TCU. Texas beat Missouri easily and USC beat WSU 69-0. Texas now moves on to the next challenge and USC probably has no more challenges left. The best play of the entire day was a ref tackling the South Carolina QB in the LSU game. The QB was running straight into the ref and may be he wanted to protect himself or something, but he clearly lowered his shoulder and leveled the poor QB. May be the ref had some money in the game and was trying to pull a Donaghy on us. Who knows, but it was an awesome tackle.
Speaking of awesome, the Ozzie Guillen skit on Mad TV on Fox is a must-see. Pretty funny.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Dallas in trouble
The Cowboys lost a fascinating game yesterday to the Arizona Cardinals. I like it every-time the Cards win and every-time the Boys lose, but this one was especially sweet. Both Warner and Larry Fitzgerald were awesome and the Cards lost the toss in OT, but still won the game. In fact they won the game on a blocked punt. It was not even a blocked punt. They got the hands on the ball even before the ball hit the punters feet. It turns out the Cards also broke Tony Romo's pinky. Now Dallas is in a serious grip.
I don't know why Dallas seems to think they have to win every game, but seems like thats what they expect this season. Much like their idiot receiver TO who thinks every pass in every game should go his way. Now both TO and his fans have to re-calibrate their expectations with Romo out for 4 weeks or so. Romo is also getting some criticism for potentially losing too much time for a pinky injury. Lets see when he actually comes back. Brad Johnson will take over and I like him, but I am not sure how much he has left in the tank. I feel like I am also a star like Romo since I broke my thumb playing basketball and I have a grotesque cast on my hand much like Romo's. Now all I need is a Jessica Simpson to take care of me. And a few million dollars of course.
Dallas still has 4 wins and they should be fine. They are part of one of 2 divisions with 3 teams with 4 wins each. The other division surprisingly is the NFC south with Atlanta, Tampa Bay and Carolina. Matty Ice is a stud. I can't believe this guy is a rookie. I don't remember seeing too many rookie QB that are this poised and under control. He obviously has the physical talents, but it's amazing to see how good his "mental game" is in just his 6-Th game -check that, actually since game 1. Matt Cassel on the other hand sucks and seems to be going the other direction with every game.
Cassel and bunch of other QBs are DESTROYING my fantasy season. I am in multiple leagues and between Matt Cassel, Matt Hasselbeck, Jack Delhomme and Derek Anderson, I am dead. I have never been this off with all of my QB picks. Derek Anderson finally had a good game tonight as the Browns beat the Champs in MNF. Eli had a bad interception at a crucial time that finished the game off for the G-men. His brother Peyton finally seems to have got back in the groove as he and Marvelous Marvin shredded the vaunted Baltimore D. It looked like 2002 all over again. Manning-to-Marvin was cooking and the DOW was in the 8000's!
In the baseball playoffs, Tampa Bay evened it up against the reliable Jon Lester. Dodgers on the other hand let a great opportunity slip though their hands. Now they are down 3-1 and in trouble. I wish both series were tied 2-2.
I don't know why Dallas seems to think they have to win every game, but seems like thats what they expect this season. Much like their idiot receiver TO who thinks every pass in every game should go his way. Now both TO and his fans have to re-calibrate their expectations with Romo out for 4 weeks or so. Romo is also getting some criticism for potentially losing too much time for a pinky injury. Lets see when he actually comes back. Brad Johnson will take over and I like him, but I am not sure how much he has left in the tank. I feel like I am also a star like Romo since I broke my thumb playing basketball and I have a grotesque cast on my hand much like Romo's. Now all I need is a Jessica Simpson to take care of me. And a few million dollars of course.
Dallas still has 4 wins and they should be fine. They are part of one of 2 divisions with 3 teams with 4 wins each. The other division surprisingly is the NFC south with Atlanta, Tampa Bay and Carolina. Matty Ice is a stud. I can't believe this guy is a rookie. I don't remember seeing too many rookie QB that are this poised and under control. He obviously has the physical talents, but it's amazing to see how good his "mental game" is in just his 6-Th game -check that, actually since game 1. Matt Cassel on the other hand sucks and seems to be going the other direction with every game.
Cassel and bunch of other QBs are DESTROYING my fantasy season. I am in multiple leagues and between Matt Cassel, Matt Hasselbeck, Jack Delhomme and Derek Anderson, I am dead. I have never been this off with all of my QB picks. Derek Anderson finally had a good game tonight as the Browns beat the Champs in MNF. Eli had a bad interception at a crucial time that finished the game off for the G-men. His brother Peyton finally seems to have got back in the groove as he and Marvelous Marvin shredded the vaunted Baltimore D. It looked like 2002 all over again. Manning-to-Marvin was cooking and the DOW was in the 8000's!
In the baseball playoffs, Tampa Bay evened it up against the reliable Jon Lester. Dodgers on the other hand let a great opportunity slip though their hands. Now they are down 3-1 and in trouble. I wish both series were tied 2-2.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Typical A.L.
Tampa Bay evened up the ALCS today in 11 innings. Every post-season you have several games like these which go on forever with a bagful of runs scored by either side. In other words, a typical AL game, only slower because of the playoff pace and more frequent pitching changes in the post-season. This game went on for 5 hrs and 27 mins and surprisingly, a sizable number of fans hung around. Both Josh Beckett ad Scott Kazmir were getting hit all over the park and were still allowed to hang around a little too long. The Bsoton bullpen was a lot more effective than the Rays (yes, I have to stop calling them DevilRays now that they are in the playoffs), but still the Rays pulled this one at the end 9-8. Great drama and this series just got a lot more interesting. Now it's up to the Dodgers to make a contest out of the NLCS.
In College today, Oklahama and Texas played a memorable game. Lot of scoring in this game and the Horns actually had to come back from behind in the 4-Th quarter to win this one 45-35. Great win for the Horns and it qualifies as an upset because it's 5 over 1. This set the tone for another day of upsets. Number 1, 3, 4 and 20 lost. The biggest shocker was Florida embarrassing LSU 51-21. Missouri lost to Oki State and Auburn to Arkansas as well. So Texas should be on top come Monday. The team thats moving up silently is Penn State. This could be a huge comeback year for Joe-Pa as they beat Wisconsin 48-7 today. Lets see where they end up in the polls.
In College today, Oklahama and Texas played a memorable game. Lot of scoring in this game and the Horns actually had to come back from behind in the 4-Th quarter to win this one 45-35. Great win for the Horns and it qualifies as an upset because it's 5 over 1. This set the tone for another day of upsets. Number 1, 3, 4 and 20 lost. The biggest shocker was Florida embarrassing LSU 51-21. Missouri lost to Oki State and Auburn to Arkansas as well. So Texas should be on top come Monday. The team thats moving up silently is Penn State. This could be a huge comeback year for Joe-Pa as they beat Wisconsin 48-7 today. Lets see where they end up in the polls.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Phillies come through
The Phillies won game 1 of the NLCS against the Dodgers 3-2. It was another one of those typical, well-pitched, NL playoff game. Cole Hamels was awesome. He is fast becoming a superstar ace. America should keep an eye on this kid. Derek Lowe was not too bad either. He was shutting fools down for 5 innings, but then the train came off the tracks a little bit. Chase Utley and Pat Burrell went back-to-back jack to put the Phillies up for good. Man-Ram had another solid game and went 2-4. He almost hit one out off Hamels. It was weird to see Greg Maddux pitch in relief. It might be time for the professor to retire.
This game followed a unique day in the Sports calendar. There was absolutely nothing going on yesterday (Wednesday) because of the day off during the MLB playoffs. NBA pre-season was the only major sport going on and of course pre-season doesn't count. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some college football game somewhere because it does look like they have made College football a 7-day a week sport, but nothing that mattered happened yesterday. I think they had a college game Tues and Thurs, but nothing Wed. This kind of a "dead day" is usually confined only to the day after the MLB all-star game in the summer, but it was noticeable yesterday.
Sports Radio of course needs something to yap about on such days and Adam Pacman Jones readily obliged. He fought with his own "body-guard" in the bathroom and broke some glass. I find it odd that Jerry Jones had employed people to accompany Pacman and keep him straight. Unfortunately Pacman apparently didn't like one of the guys and might have found trouble through the very same guys hired to keep him out of trouble. Excellent ! May be Jerry Jones should accompany and shadow Pacman himself. Might be worth his time. Now it's up to Roger Goodell to make another call on Pacman. Seems like Jerry Jones has bought people off and kept the cops off of Pacman, but I am not sure how he's gonna massage the Commish. For the Cowboys, at least Pacman is keeping TO off the news. I am sure TO will bounce back strong with his own act of stupidity.
This game followed a unique day in the Sports calendar. There was absolutely nothing going on yesterday (Wednesday) because of the day off during the MLB playoffs. NBA pre-season was the only major sport going on and of course pre-season doesn't count. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some college football game somewhere because it does look like they have made College football a 7-day a week sport, but nothing that mattered happened yesterday. I think they had a college game Tues and Thurs, but nothing Wed. This kind of a "dead day" is usually confined only to the day after the MLB all-star game in the summer, but it was noticeable yesterday.
Sports Radio of course needs something to yap about on such days and Adam Pacman Jones readily obliged. He fought with his own "body-guard" in the bathroom and broke some glass. I find it odd that Jerry Jones had employed people to accompany Pacman and keep him straight. Unfortunately Pacman apparently didn't like one of the guys and might have found trouble through the very same guys hired to keep him out of trouble. Excellent ! May be Jerry Jones should accompany and shadow Pacman himself. Might be worth his time. Now it's up to Roger Goodell to make another call on Pacman. Seems like Jerry Jones has bought people off and kept the cops off of Pacman, but I am not sure how he's gonna massage the Commish. For the Cowboys, at least Pacman is keeping TO off the news. I am sure TO will bounce back strong with his own act of stupidity.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Live Another Day
The Angels and the White Sox won today to live another day. The more impressive win was the Angels since they did it on the road in extra innings. It took them 12 innings, but at least they get to play another 9 tomorrow. They almost gave this away as they let 3 runs get in on a pop-fly single. A fly ball that fell in-between 3 guys and none of them went for the ball. Thats freaking 3 runs in a tight playoff game. Thats like gifting 3 TDs in a football game or 30 points in basketball. Poor Joe Saunders was slapped with 3 earned runs because of his idiot teammates. The Angels have to thank Mike Napoli for winning this game. He hit 2 majestic home-runs off Josh Beckett to save the day.
It should be an interesting game tomorrow as John Lackey and Jon Lester are on the mound again after their impressive game 1. In the NL, the Phillies dispatched the Brewers today. I am kinda sad to see the young, exciting Brewers with an energetic fan-base go away, but the Phillies were clearly the better team. I can't believe how good they pitched in this series (or was it the Brewers hitting?) and their hitting is top-notch with J-Rolls, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Pat Burrell, who had 2 homers today. It should be a fun series against the Dodgers who are also on fire right now.
In the NFL, I was disappointed with Chad Johnson not scoring in Dallas. I wanted the whole "kissing the star" drama to go down today, but we were all not that lucky. TJ Housh had 2 TDs and for Dallas, TO scored and had a strange news conference after the game. In Houston, Sage Rosenfels had a horrible day. He was getting the job done and Houston had pretty much won the game when he fumbled the ball twice and let the Colts score 21 points in less than 3 minutes. He went for a dive instead of a slide for one fumble and held on the ball way too long for another. Colts still look shaky as they are repeatedly snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.
The other elite team that looks shaky is the San Diego Chargers. LT looks completely shot and the Chargers are inconsistent at best. They lost today at Miami. Can somebody figure out how to stop the direct snap to Ronnie Brown? Thats seems like the most potent play in the entire game right now and I have no idea why. Arizona Cardinals are leading the NFC West after beating the Bills today. Adrian Wilson crushed Trent Edwards and gave him a scary concussion early in this game. It reminded me of another Cardinal secondary, Aeneas Williams, blitzing and ending Steve Young's career few years back. That injury to Trent killed one of my fantasy teams today. Matt Hasselbeck and the dogs called the Seattle Seahawks are destroying my other team. The Seahawks absolutely suck. They were crushed by the Giants 44-6 today. The Giants and the Titans are the only un-defeated teams in the league. Who would have Thunk.
Here's a news flash. Big Ben is a stud. He steered the Pittsburgh Steelers to another big win today. He is getting killed back there, but he always seems to pop back up and calmly score touchdowns when they need them the most. He is fast becoming the most reliable QB in the 4-Th quarter when the game is on the line. The Steelers are one of the top favorites in the AFC since the injury to Tom Brady. The Pats did win today though at San Francisco though they didn't look dominating or anything. Too many mistakes by JTO for SF and Casssel seems to be learning how to find Randy Moss consistently for the Pats. Eagles lost again, this time to the Redskins who just seem to win games for some reason. I don't know what's the deal with the Eagles. Their offense is just too good for them to be just 2-3 at this point. Hope they figure it out.
It should be an interesting game tomorrow as John Lackey and Jon Lester are on the mound again after their impressive game 1. In the NL, the Phillies dispatched the Brewers today. I am kinda sad to see the young, exciting Brewers with an energetic fan-base go away, but the Phillies were clearly the better team. I can't believe how good they pitched in this series (or was it the Brewers hitting?) and their hitting is top-notch with J-Rolls, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Pat Burrell, who had 2 homers today. It should be a fun series against the Dodgers who are also on fire right now.
In the NFL, I was disappointed with Chad Johnson not scoring in Dallas. I wanted the whole "kissing the star" drama to go down today, but we were all not that lucky. TJ Housh had 2 TDs and for Dallas, TO scored and had a strange news conference after the game. In Houston, Sage Rosenfels had a horrible day. He was getting the job done and Houston had pretty much won the game when he fumbled the ball twice and let the Colts score 21 points in less than 3 minutes. He went for a dive instead of a slide for one fumble and held on the ball way too long for another. Colts still look shaky as they are repeatedly snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.
The other elite team that looks shaky is the San Diego Chargers. LT looks completely shot and the Chargers are inconsistent at best. They lost today at Miami. Can somebody figure out how to stop the direct snap to Ronnie Brown? Thats seems like the most potent play in the entire game right now and I have no idea why. Arizona Cardinals are leading the NFC West after beating the Bills today. Adrian Wilson crushed Trent Edwards and gave him a scary concussion early in this game. It reminded me of another Cardinal secondary, Aeneas Williams, blitzing and ending Steve Young's career few years back. That injury to Trent killed one of my fantasy teams today. Matt Hasselbeck and the dogs called the Seattle Seahawks are destroying my other team. The Seahawks absolutely suck. They were crushed by the Giants 44-6 today. The Giants and the Titans are the only un-defeated teams in the league. Who would have Thunk.
Here's a news flash. Big Ben is a stud. He steered the Pittsburgh Steelers to another big win today. He is getting killed back there, but he always seems to pop back up and calmly score touchdowns when they need them the most. He is fast becoming the most reliable QB in the 4-Th quarter when the game is on the line. The Steelers are one of the top favorites in the AFC since the injury to Tom Brady. The Pats did win today though at San Francisco though they didn't look dominating or anything. Too many mistakes by JTO for SF and Casssel seems to be learning how to find Randy Moss consistently for the Pats. Eagles lost again, this time to the Redskins who just seem to win games for some reason. I don't know what's the deal with the Eagles. Their offense is just too good for them to be just 2-3 at this point. Hope they figure it out.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Busy Saturday
October is a busy month in Sports. Football starts in September and we all focus all our energies on it for a month and forget about baseball. But then when October starts, football is already in full flow, but you got to keep an eye on the baseball playoffs as well because playoffs are always fun. Today was the first weekend of the baseball playoffs and I felt like there were way too many things to watch on TV. Fortunately or unfortunately, some of the football games ended up being blowouts and I watched a lot of playoff baseball.
I was very curious to see Manny in the playoffs at home. He got a hit, but it was not a home-run. But he scored a run with a spirited sprint home from first base. Dodgers swept the series anyways and put the dying Cubs to rest. Second straight sweep for the lovable losers and at least last year, they lost the first two games at Arizona. This year, they won 97 games and had home field throughout the NL playoffs. Still they couldn't even win a game. As for the Dodgers, they look real good. It's amazing how they are doing this behind Manny and a bunch of guys without much help from the "name" guys like Jeff Kent, Nomar Garciaparra, Brad Penny, Jason Schmidt and Anduw Jones. Guys who take a lot of the "green" from the Dodger blue and almost got GM Ned Coletti fired at one point.
Now the Dodgers wait for the winner of the other series thats now a contest. The Brew-crew won their game at home and tomorrow, they can actually tie it up. They didn't hit all that well in game 3 either, but they did enough to support Dave Bush who bottled up the Phillies. Tomorrow should be an interesting day with both the AL series resuming as well. BoSox have a chance to do exactly what the Dodgers did today and sweep the team with the best record in their league. How awesome would it be if Manny and the Dodgers play the RedSox in the World Series. I want that to happen badly, though I am always pulling for the Sox to lose. I will make an exception this year if somebody assures me they'll get to play the Dodgers in the World Series.
Another busy day ahead tomorrow as NFL comes to a living room near you along with the 3 playoff games. Many good NFL games as always, but the one I am looking forward to is Cincinnati @ Dallas. Not so much for the football, but because Ocho Cinco has said he would kiss the star if he scores a TD. I sure hope he scores, because I would love to see that even more than Manny at Fenway. The only thing more ironic than Ocho doing this in Dallas after what TO did there many years ago is the fact that the Dallas fans are now cheering for the same TO and he is one of the biggest stars in town. So now what? Why are the Dallas fans even upset? Speaking of TO, that boy is stupid. He got the ball 20 times last week and still complained about not getting the ball enough. Jerry Jones better fix this thing soon like he fixed his face a few years ago.
College today was kinda quiet. ASU lost as usual and there were no shocking upsets. The best game was the Miami-FSU game, but too bad nobody cares about these 2 programs anymore. The surprise of the day was Vandy beating Auburn and leading the SEC East ahead of Florida and Georgia. Lets see how long they last up there. Alabama almost lost to Kentucky, but survived. The bad news of the week was the Suckeyes beating the Wisconsin Badgers 20-17. That was a minor upset much like South Florida losing to Pittsburgh and Fresno State losing to Hawaii. Number 4 Missouri dismantled Nebraska 52-17 and coach Bo Pelini apologized to the fans. I guess Bill Callahan was not the only problem at Nebraska. In other Big 12 action, both Oklahoma and Texas cruised to big wins today. The red river shootout next Saturday between these 2 teams will be the news all of next week.
Of course the bigger news will be the economy if another 26 financial institutions collapse.
I was very curious to see Manny in the playoffs at home. He got a hit, but it was not a home-run. But he scored a run with a spirited sprint home from first base. Dodgers swept the series anyways and put the dying Cubs to rest. Second straight sweep for the lovable losers and at least last year, they lost the first two games at Arizona. This year, they won 97 games and had home field throughout the NL playoffs. Still they couldn't even win a game. As for the Dodgers, they look real good. It's amazing how they are doing this behind Manny and a bunch of guys without much help from the "name" guys like Jeff Kent, Nomar Garciaparra, Brad Penny, Jason Schmidt and Anduw Jones. Guys who take a lot of the "green" from the Dodger blue and almost got GM Ned Coletti fired at one point.
Now the Dodgers wait for the winner of the other series thats now a contest. The Brew-crew won their game at home and tomorrow, they can actually tie it up. They didn't hit all that well in game 3 either, but they did enough to support Dave Bush who bottled up the Phillies. Tomorrow should be an interesting day with both the AL series resuming as well. BoSox have a chance to do exactly what the Dodgers did today and sweep the team with the best record in their league. How awesome would it be if Manny and the Dodgers play the RedSox in the World Series. I want that to happen badly, though I am always pulling for the Sox to lose. I will make an exception this year if somebody assures me they'll get to play the Dodgers in the World Series.
Another busy day ahead tomorrow as NFL comes to a living room near you along with the 3 playoff games. Many good NFL games as always, but the one I am looking forward to is Cincinnati @ Dallas. Not so much for the football, but because Ocho Cinco has said he would kiss the star if he scores a TD. I sure hope he scores, because I would love to see that even more than Manny at Fenway. The only thing more ironic than Ocho doing this in Dallas after what TO did there many years ago is the fact that the Dallas fans are now cheering for the same TO and he is one of the biggest stars in town. So now what? Why are the Dallas fans even upset? Speaking of TO, that boy is stupid. He got the ball 20 times last week and still complained about not getting the ball enough. Jerry Jones better fix this thing soon like he fixed his face a few years ago.
College today was kinda quiet. ASU lost as usual and there were no shocking upsets. The best game was the Miami-FSU game, but too bad nobody cares about these 2 programs anymore. The surprise of the day was Vandy beating Auburn and leading the SEC East ahead of Florida and Georgia. Lets see how long they last up there. Alabama almost lost to Kentucky, but survived. The bad news of the week was the Suckeyes beating the Wisconsin Badgers 20-17. That was a minor upset much like South Florida losing to Pittsburgh and Fresno State losing to Hawaii. Number 4 Missouri dismantled Nebraska 52-17 and coach Bo Pelini apologized to the fans. I guess Bill Callahan was not the only problem at Nebraska. In other Big 12 action, both Oklahoma and Texas cruised to big wins today. The red river shootout next Saturday between these 2 teams will be the news all of next week.
Of course the bigger news will be the economy if another 26 financial institutions collapse.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Sabathia loses
MLB playoffs is in full swing and in 2 days we have seen a little bit of everything and a lot of bad defense by the Cubs! The Cubs kicked the ball all over the yard and did not give the Z-man any help. Zambrano is a shaky "concept" at best and he did not have a great day, but then with the kind of work the Cubs did on the field, he had no chance. The Cubs have not won a single game since the Bartman game. Poor guy, he is still shouldering the blame for all of the Cubs ineptitude. Dodgers are sitting pretty at 2-0 and going back home. Man-Ram is crushing a home run a day and life is good in Torre-land.
Philly is also up 2-0, but they have to now go on the road to Milwaukee. The Brewers are really struggling and their savior CC finally came down to earth. It was bad timing for the Brewers as they need him to win a game or 2 in this series to advance. Sabathia didn't get past the 4-Th inning and wife-beater Brett Myers won the game for Philly after Cole Hamels did the same yesterday, only Hamels did it with a even more impressive showing. Brewers need a shot of energy from the home crowd to turn this around, but I hope the team doesn't show up expecting the crowd to do all the work. Brewers have a lot of work ahead of them and they need a spirited performance to stay in this thing.
Both AL series are at 1-0 with Boston winning behind a superb performance by Jon Lester. This is what I love about the playoffs. - you get to see the best pitching out there every day. Jon continued his great regular season with an even better game 1. Game 2 tomorrow should be interesting. In Tampa, Evan Longoria showed us once again he is an absolute stud. The 3-Rd baseman went 3-3 and hit 2 HRs to stop the 2-game "almost-playoff" winning streak of the WhiteSox.
Philly is also up 2-0, but they have to now go on the road to Milwaukee. The Brewers are really struggling and their savior CC finally came down to earth. It was bad timing for the Brewers as they need him to win a game or 2 in this series to advance. Sabathia didn't get past the 4-Th inning and wife-beater Brett Myers won the game for Philly after Cole Hamels did the same yesterday, only Hamels did it with a even more impressive showing. Brewers need a shot of energy from the home crowd to turn this around, but I hope the team doesn't show up expecting the crowd to do all the work. Brewers have a lot of work ahead of them and they need a spirited performance to stay in this thing.
Both AL series are at 1-0 with Boston winning behind a superb performance by Jon Lester. This is what I love about the playoffs. - you get to see the best pitching out there every day. Jon continued his great regular season with an even better game 1. Game 2 tomorrow should be interesting. In Tampa, Evan Longoria showed us once again he is an absolute stud. The 3-Rd baseman went 3-3 and hit 2 HRs to stop the 2-game "almost-playoff" winning streak of the WhiteSox.
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