Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Labor Day Pains 0/1/08

So Tom Brady has an injury issue. Big deal. It may as well be considered a fifth preseason game having the 4-12 Chiefs to begin the season, at home no less. New England could put Kyle Brady out there at QB against the vaunted Kansas City defense. Heck, for that matter Marcia Brady. It'd still be a two touchdown spread.

USC crushes Virginia to open the season. The rash of jock itch reports held no lingering effects. No pun intended.

Cliff Lee should be a lock for AL Cy Young, but if Brandon Webb has any competition for the NL award it should be Dave Duncan, pitching coach for the Cardinals. Tell me during Spring Training with a straight face that the St. Louis pitching staff would have performed as they have and I'd have recommended a psychological evaluation.

My only lasting memory of the 2008 Summer Olympics is the strategic marketing campaign of womens beach volleyball. Male attention naturally gravitates to women. I think an American team won, but I'm positive of Kerri Walsh and Speedo.

Vikes fans are really going to like Jared Allen. I hope he has beaten his demons and can do for the Minnesota defense what he did for the Chiefs. Best of luck to you, and thanks for keeping last season interesting.

Let's get creative about Olympic cheating. If the Chinese gymnasts were truly so far underaged, how about penalizing China by making them field a team equally geriatric for 2012? Geezer uneven bars. I'd buy that ticket.

Rex Grossman. Kyle Orton. The Bears backfield is so bad they can't even direct snap to the halfback now that Thomas Jones has left. Steal a page from the Chiefs playbook and try punting on first down.

The American women lost the gold to Japan, in perfect sync with the announcement that womens softball would be eliminated as an event because the US was too dominant, I'm not sure why this makes me think of Sheriff Andy requiring Barney carry the bullet in his shirt pocket, but it does.

I'm not sure what is going on in Cincinnatica anymore now that Rudi Johnson has been released. The guy quietly did his job with no off-field issues. The fumbling and bumbling going on in the Bengals front office nearly qualifies as Carl Petersonesque. Maybe the plan was to bring in Travis Henry. Ooooooooooooooops!

Actual college football headline 'Kentucky dominates with defense'. I bet those words haven't been put together to describe Wildcats football since the Art Still days.

Andy Roddick is surprisingly still in contention at the US Open. When his career is finally done he'll be known as the Paris Hilton of tennis.

The Knicks have traded for Patrick Ewing Jr. One small step closer to respectability. Considering the sorry state of basketball in New York the other steps may need to be Willis Reed III, Walt Frazier IV, and Dave DeBusschere V.

Frito Lay stock has jumped fifteen points with the announcement that the Dolphins have signed Ricky Williams to a one year extension. Dude! You gonna eat those nachos?

Condolences to the families of Frank Cornish and Kevin Duckworth.

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