Good Morning....
The times they are a changing....A few years ago Direct TV was the way to go because of their NFL package....Watch the game you wanted to, not just the one your local TV market was showing....Very popular and rightly so but you risked whiplash if you tried to follow all the games at your favorite wateringhole....Pricey, but enjoyable....But now there is NFL Redzone....Whiparound action of all games as they happen....All the action and no stiff neck....Perfection....Inexpensive....And no fucking commercials....In the end they show all touchdowns scored that Sunday....A little slice of heaven.
So the McCourts have settled their battle over the Dodgers....Frank keeps the team and continues his steel-cage match with Bud Selig....I think they should let McCourt sell the TV rights and keep the team but there is no way Battlin' Bud lets this happen....McCourt is fighting a losing battle but it's fun to watch....Jon Lester comes out to defend himself and Josh Beckett and John Lackey after Curt Schilling calls them out for not answering the critics....But no matter what Lester said it seemed he stepped into the shit a little deeper....Ah, when things go bad....Lester seems like a good man, Lackey is dysfunctional and Beckett is from Texas....Lackey and Beckett let Lester be the front man instead of standing up for themselves....What does that say?....I don't know how Lackey and Beckett can put the Red Sox uniform on again without clearing the air in Boston or else they may as well call Johnny Damon to find out what they can expect at their first appearance at Fenway in 2012....Let's call off the dogs as far as Francona and Lester are concerned....Theo Epstein too, once this protracted compensation matter is finished....Boston set the bar high, asking for Matt Garza in return....Thats not gonna happen....A Boston establishment is offering a new lunch special...."Rally" beer, fried chicken and a video game at a reasonable price.
How sad about the horrific IndyCar crash in Las Vegas that claimed the life of Dan Weldon....What were they thinking?....I'm talking about the organizers and the folks that run the IndyCar series....These cars usually run on a 2 1/2 mile track with 22 cars involved....This past Sunday they ran on a NASCAR track (1 1/2 miles) with 34 cars in the race....A recipe for disaster....And disaster is what happened.
I thought I was watching NFL Films Follies when Jim Schwartz and Jim Harbaugh had their little catfight after the Detroit-San Fran game....Both overreacted and both looked like a jackass....Harbaugh is passionate and Schwartz is intense....This had its roots in a dinner this past summer where Schwartzie told Harbaugh that if the lockout didn't end soon Harbaugh had no chance to build a winner with no time to prepare his team....Harbaugh bit his tongue....When Sunday's game started with a boatload of false starts by the visiting 49ers it didn't look like San Francisco had a chance....The 49ers came back to upset the Lions to go to 5-1....Harbaugh overreacted when celebrating his team's victory and when he smacked the Detroit head coach on the back Schwartz took exception....I found it very amusing.
Who said Al Davis was dead?....With the rumors flying that the Raiders were going to deal for David Garrard, Davis reaches from the grave to make a trade with old school Mike Brown of Cincinnati for Carson Palmer....Yes, that Palmer....The one that Brown repeatedly said he wouldn't trade....Two reported first round picks will change that way of thinking....Carson wins his holdout, goes back to the west coast and joins a lineup that includes Darren McFadden and tons of speed on the outside....And Al Davis was quoted as saying "just win, baby".
College football enters its meaty part of the schedule as this old-timer tries to keep track of which conference teams are in....Its gotten crazy....Looking forward to the LSU-Alabama slammer....Papa Joe going to his 38th bowl with Penn State....I've got Oklahoma State as a darkhorse for the BCS Championship....Stanford hopes that with any Luck the Champions will be the Cardinals.
Have the Boston Bruins finally woken up from their Stanley Cup slumber?....Terrible start....Lethargic play....This team needs to hit and fight....One of the unfortunate results of winning the Cup is that they kept Claude Julien as coach....The guy who tried to bury Tyler Seguin....Seguin is playing right wing on the third line 'cause we are told there are four better centers on the team in front of Seguin....Bullshit....Seguin is their best centericeman and should be playing on the top line....He's smart, super fast and has got a helluva shot....Pencil him in at C for the next 10 years and then just let him play....Putting him on the third line at RW is like the Red Sox putting Jacoby Ellsbury in left field when they signed Mike Cameron....Seguin is a potential MVP....Let the superstar be the superstar.
We've got the Tea Party out there, the Occupy Wall Street protest, the Republicans just saying "no" to everything, the ineffective Democrats, Herman Cain wanting to electrify fences, Barney Frank, Eric Cantor and everyone has an opinion....BUT NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE NBA!!....cool.
NFL Top Five
1. Green Bay
2. Baltimore
3. New England
4. San Diego
5. San Francisco
"I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the Biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter." - Michael Ventre, LA Daily News
talk to ya........................
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