Good Afternoon....
Happy Birthday to Tom Brady....Brady turns 34 today....It seems like it was just yesterday that he burst on the scene like a supernova....I was a Drew Bledsoe guy....I thought Bledsoe should get his job back....I was wrong....I thought the Patriots should hire Buddy Ryan over Bill Parcells....Wrong....I wanted the Pats to draft Rick Mirer instead of Bledsoe....Wrong....But the fact that Brady went down in the Pittsburgh AFC Championship game that year and Drew came in to lead the Pats to victory was the icing on the cake....Of course Brady returned to lead New England to an upset win over "The Greatest Show on Turf" (St. Louis Rams) in the Super Bowl, writing the first chapter of his legacy....Tweeters were asked what they'd give Tom for his birthday....I'm partial to this one: "he's got three Super Bowl rings........Gisele.......talent........I'd give 'em a high-five."
Boston fans were spoiled by the Shaquille O'Neal Traveling Salvation Show....Then he retired....Lo and behold here comes Chad Ocho Cinco....Maybe (maybe not) he should tone it down a notch but don't lose it....Have fun like the Big Shamrock did....Just bust your ass in practice and in games and the Boston fans will embrace you....What a final act it could be....The football is in your corner....Same goes for Albert Haynesworth....Saying and doing all the right things so far but he's got aways to go to win the fans over....We know the track record and he has a sexual assault trial hanging over his head....Bust your ass in practice and in games and the Boston fans will embrace you....Interesting to see if New England switches to the 4-3 defense but the thought of Haynesworth and Vince Woolfork raising havoc on the defensive line makes a Patriot fan giddy....In Bill We Trust.
So Clay Buchholz is maybe out for the year....Stress fracture in his back....No one has questioned his toughness or inability to make it back to help the team out for the rest of the year....Not like last year when the Boston front office, media, fans and at least one of the players shit all over Jacoby "All-World" Ellsbury when he was suffering with cracked ribs....Instead of Terry "Softball" Francona writing his name at the top of the order in centerfield for the next 10 years as I suggested, GM Theo Epstein signs 37 year-old Mike Cameron and Boston puts him in CF and moves All-World to LF where 3B Adrian Beltre proceeds to run him over like a Mack truck on a pop-up down the left field line in foul territory causing his injuries....Then he was shit on by the front office, player(s), fans and media....Then they sign Carl Crawford for a King's ransom....The Red Sox better sign Ellsbury soon and for a boatload of dough or he's gone after 2013....Imagine how good he'll be in 2013....He has Most Valuable Player potential....His agent is Scott Boras and they both won't forget how he was treated in 2010....He's gonna get his money....The question is will he still want to play in Fenway....Sox blew this one and the only way to make amends is to get All-World's John Hancock on the dotted line of a new contract....And Buchholz thinks he can take 4 months off, come back in time for the playoffs and help the team....Dude, the team is gonna shut you down....It's the right thing to do....Take the time to go home, look in the mirror and realize you're not anything special.
Is Tony LaRussa having a nervous breakdown?....I know he's pals with Belichick and Bobby Knight and I'm sure it would be interesting to play for Knight or Bill but I don't get the same vibe from LaRussa....He seems unhappy all the time....Maybe it's time to call it quits, Tony....A couple of days ago he threw Colby Rasmus under the team bus....His diatribe before the media last night was lame....He's mad at Milwaukee for hitting Pujols....But it's okay for his team to throw at Ryan Braun....He's upset with the Brewer fans for having the audacity to boo in their home park....I believe the word he used was "idiots"....Tony, shut the fuck up!....Keep it in the clubhouse....Go Pirates!
And speaking of the St. Louis Cardinals, how about that Rick Ankiel....Ankiel began his career as an up and coming star pitcher in the Cardinal organization until that fateful playoff day when he couldn't get the ball over the plate to save his life....He reinvented himself as an outfielder and has bounced around with several teams....Tuesday night he hit 2 home runs and added another last night....Bombs....And he unloaded a bullet throw on the fly to home plate that no other player could do....Good story....Brendan Ryan of Seattle last night hit a ball in the hole and beat the throw....Then noticing there was no one covering second base he took off and made it safely....Oakland recovered but I think all nine players ran to second because third base was left empty and Ryan took off making it to third base easily....A triple, the hard way....Ah, there's nothing like hustle....And if I'm the Oakland manager I'm left pulling whats left of my hair out of my head.
"Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win the pennant every year." - Sparky Anderson
....talk to ya..........................................
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