Musings from a long weekend...

Okay, so I don't really feel like looking for a job just yet, not a crime in most circles. Good news is I won't be broke anytime soon. Oh, and I just got a 3 week gig setting up tv's and video games for a hospital. It could be worse, I could've gotten bed-pan duty...yuck!!

So Friday night the Sox lost, all because of bad bullpen management. Tito, I love what you've done with the boys this year, but you can't keep throwing out Okijima to face Giambi....the law of averages dictates that eventually someone will get a hit. That and the guy just might be flat out tired. Saturday was a 10-1 game, but Youk got hit in the process. His loss will hurt, as you'll see below. Sunday night's game sucked, for oh so many reasons. Mostly because Schilling shouldn't have been out there in the 8th. He just doesn't have that stamina right now. This was like his 5th or 6th start since being hurt, and eventually that lineup will get to you. And don't go pitching to Jeter with 1st base open. Have you not been watching baseball for the last 10 years???? All this guy does is deliver. Here's another note from watching Sunday night baseball-Hey Joe Morgan, just get it over with, go down to the dugout, and blow Joe Torre. There, I said it. Enough is enough, how tough is his job? The guy can't manage a bullpen to save his life, ask Ron Villone, Scott Proctor, and Tom Gordon. And all you do is gush over him, while wishing he'd gush on you...pathetic.

Currently the Sox are up 2.5 games. Yes, I'm getting antsy, enough is enough already. Where the hell is Manny Ramirez? I love the guy, but this sideshow business has got to stop. No Coco or Youk tonight either. No one can expect Papi to carry the team this late in the season, not without a solid lineup in place. Manny, get back, and do it now. The band needs you!!

As for watching football on Sunday, man, do I love sitting on my ass doing nothing but flipping channels. I leave my comments for Cameragate or whatever the fat media slobs are calling the Patriots cheating "scandal" to its own paragraph later, but for now, here's my take on some other teams that I either got to see, see highlights of, or tracked on this here trusty laptop on Sunday....
NY Giants-their season is just about over, since they can't stop anyone. 80 pts in 2 games?? Why do you have Strahan and Uminyora? They didn't even get close to Favre on Sunday, he picked them apart. It's clear they've tuned out their head coach. And the fact that I had to see Tiki Barber's goofy-ass smile Sunday night makes it even worse. Fuck Off you fumbling prick. If it weren't for the coach, whom you're now blaming for not wanting to play anymore, no one would know you for more than anything other than costing the Giants games. You're the definition of a loser.
2. Green Bay-not sure if they're for real, but they've beaten 2 supposedly decent teams. Yes, Favre looked like a kid again, and I'm happy. But does this mean I have to listen to every windbag over 40 sound like they are going to blow him?
3. Pittsburgh-I'm not convinced yet, because you beat a clearly unprepared Cleveland team and a Buffalo team dealing with a teammate in the hospital that may or may not walk ever again.
4. Denver-the luckiest 2-0 team in the league. They almost lost at home to the Raiders. And you can mark it down, you read it here first, they might make the playoffs, but they're going to get killed when they play a running team. Oakland busted open holes all day against this defense, and they still have KC and San Diego twice to go, along with Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Chicago and Minnesota. All run-heavy teams.
5. Indy-I know everyone else thinks they are great, and their offense is phenomenal, but Tennessee and Jacksonville seem to punish them. I don't think they'll be as great if someone figures out that they'll need to block Bob Sanders, who is playing great. Manning, as always, just keeps impressing me with his accuracy and his ability to out-think everyone.
6. Tennessee-Get Vince Young some help!!!! Eric Moulds is 4 years past being any good. Can't you find the guy someone decent to play pitch and catch with? He almost won last week by himself. And their D is brutal, Indy better hope they have the division wrapped up before the last week, or else it could be ugly.
7. Cincy/Cleveland-last one to score turn off the lights.
8. New Orleans-you guys know the season started, right? I think they spent too much time pass-blocking in camp. You've got nothing but road-graders up front, use them already. Reggie Bush is dancing too damn much, and not giving the Deuce enough touches is plain stupid. Pound Deuce (he-he) and it sets up play-action. As for their defense...ouch.
9. Chicago-look, you had a couple of weeks to sign Leftwich, why didn't you do it??? That guy makes way too much sense, a good QB with a cannon who doesn't make a lot of dumb mistakes...funny, you have the exact opposite right now.
10. San Diego-You know what, keep flapping your gums, Chargers. You got your asses handed to you on a platinum platter (yes, we've upgraded from silver to platinum). How could no one see this coming? Norv Turner is a hell of an O Coordinator, but a crappy coach. He's never succeeded, ever. He has no killer instinct, no fight, and soon, he'll have lost a team with basically the same roster as the one that went 14-2 last year. Keep yakking away LT2, I'm sure you meant that the "next, next time" is when you'll beat New England. At this rate, you'll be lucky to make the playoffs, there I said it....and here's why

11. the New England Patriots are the best team in football. Crown their asses. After 2 weeks, it's not even close. I can't wait to see what happens the rest of the way. Thank you so much, Roger Goodell, seriously. You couldn't have pissed off a nastier bunch of guys. They love BB and the hoodie. Oh, and all you teams claiming that you want all the Super Bowl wins rescinded, boo-frickity-hoo. Ain't happening, and the ass-whoopin' tour has just started. You big talkers in Pittsburgh and Philly are coming up, and I can assure you that the boys will have a mud-stomping party ready for you, and in your honor. The real beauty for the shit-talkers? They get to go to Foxboro. Oh, and the drunken degenerates will open you all with open arms and 2 middle fingers extended. Look, BB broke the rules and is being punished for it. He videotaped something that other people just look at and write down. Same difference, if you ask me. And just as I thought, once the ass kicking of SD happened, the story died down. As I told one of my buddies, screw 'em all and run the table.

This weekend vs. Buffalo, so I guess I should start feeling bad for Dick Jauron. Tough job there, coach. But the rookie RB is good. And in all seriousness, I do hope that sometime this season, Kevin Everett gets up out of bed and walks. That alone would be the best victory your team could get all season. I can't imagine it being easy to coach with that on everyone else's minds before, during, and after every kickoff.