I see on the news this morning that the BoSox have won the World Series having defeated the Rockies 4-3 last night to complete a four game sweep. While not much of a fan of either team, I suppose it's a good thing that they were able to bring the Major League baseball season to a close before the NHL season was more than three weeks old and even before the NBA started playing regular season games. (With a playoff system that allows virtually everybody in--Knicks excepted--I can't say "games that count" for the NBA.)
My pet peeve re: the World Series:
Why the heck can't they play the weekend games during the day? Are the networks and MLB offices so afraid of competing with college and pro football that they dare not go head to head. It's bad enough the weekday games are played at night and run 'til nearly midnight. The same can be said about the playoff games.
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Hey dude, don't dis the Knicks. The new line-up has some potential. Curry and Crawford can really work the pick and roll and Lee is a rebound machine. We have depth and youth off the bench and Randolph is a power scorer. I think we will excell. And by the way, the Red Sox Suck. Just so you know.
Trooper, just so you know:
1) I hate pro basketball. You can miss the whole damn game and watch the last two minutes only. THe rest is all show. Worse than pro wrestling.
2) I totally agree with you about the Red Sox. I'll only root for them when they play against the Yankees. (I, sir, am a Mets fan from 1962.) But they certainly looked like the best team in baseball as they went through the playoffs AND the Series.
Hey I can respect a Met fan who has hung in since 1962. I called Doyle (who is a big Met's fan) a commentor on the Althouse blog, the Choo Choo Coleman of the Althouse Blog. He thanked me. That was pretty funny. I am sure you remember what Casy said about him; "I have a young catcher, just twenty years old...and in about ten years...he has a chance..to be thirty."
As a real Met's fan, do you really want your team to go after A-Rod?
It would be interesting to see what a real fan thinks and not the idiots on the radio.
I hope and pray that the Mets will stay away from A-Rod--far, far away.
They have no where to play this overpriced vagabond anyway. Wright at third and Reyes at short for the next umpteen years. Who would want to break that combo up?
I also liked Casey's reason for choosing a catcher first in the expansion draft (to paraphrase): "Without one we'd have lots of passed balls."
As far as basketball, I know that is the sterotype of the game. But if you really know the game, any game can be very interesting. Most people grow up on baseball and understand the nuances and can follow it closely and enjoy it a lot more than other sports. But the other sports such as basketball, hockey, soccer, etc. requires enough knowledge to understand what's going on in front of your eyes. You know, I once went to the freaking ballet, and these skinny broads would come out and stand on their toes for about 20 seconds and everyone would go crazy. So I asked the chick I was with, what am I missing. She tried to tell me, but I made her put it in baseball terms. "This ballerina is the Cal Ripkin, 1425 straight performances. This is the Reggie Jackson who came in and took over the company with her performance while this other one is the Thurman Munson." So it all comes down to your fund of knowledge of the game. If we sat at a game, I am sure you would enjoy it if I went into detail as to the nuances of what is going on. Just sayin'.
I enjoy watching college basketball, Trooper, but for some reason, I can't fathom the pro game. It all looks like it's one-on-one to me. At least in college I can follow the plays that are being set up for the best shooters and match-ups.
I could do the same with the old Knicks of Frazier, Bradley and Willis. It's just today's game that I find incredibly boring.
ps. Like the ballet story.
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