Thursday, October 28, 2004

Hell Freezes Over Red Sox     3 Cardinals   0 File under From The Sports Desk. 1:33:37 AM

	Thursday, October 21, 2004

Credit Where Credit Is Due I've got to hand it to the Red Sox. They sure kicked the ass of my Yankees. It should be an interesting off-season. George ought to start placing the blame any day now. I hope it doesn't come down on Mel Stottlemeyer's head. He held that pitching staff together all year with smoke and mirrors. It's too bad the Expos won't be around anymore. I'd like to trade Kevin Brown to that baseball purgatory. One last thing. The Bambino's curse isn't dead yet. The curse has kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series, not being in the World Series. LET'S GO CARDINALS (at least it's nice being able to hate Roger Clemens again). File under From The Sports Desk. 9:15:07 PM

	Sunday, October 17, 2004

Is April The Cruelest Month? I guess if you're a Red Sox fan you'd have to say that October is. Even though I'm a Yankee fan, I didn't take a whole lot of pleasure in the savage beating the Yanks gave the Bosox last night. Boston's a much better team than that. My son plays fall baseball and has a doubleheader every Sunday. Today I was watching his team play against a backdrop of fall colors on the Ramapo Mountains. I got to thinking about something I've always wanted to do but still have never gotten around to doing. I've always wanted to go down to Florida during spring training and follow the Yankees around the Grapefruit League. See the teams play while the hope of every fan, other than those rooting for the Mets, is still new, before the reality of the long season sets in. Everybody's still in the pennant race and the "next year" that all but the fans of the World Series winner has begun.  When I was a kid one of the sports writers for our local paper used to go down to Florida and follow the Phillies, a team I detested. But I still used to enjoy his articles about the trips from one town to another, the restaurants he'd eat in, and the weather. I particularly enjoyed his stories about dinners with the other columnists at Bern's Steak House in Tampa. To me, getting to do that would be like a kid loose in a candy store. I've been lucky enough to have visited Bern's, although not during spring training. I doubt I'll get around to it this coming spring but, who knows? When pitchers and catchers report hope always springs eternal, even in the hearts of the Red Sox fans. File under From The Sports Desk. 4:16:02 PM

	Wednesday, October 13, 2004

Hey Boston! There's nothing like shutting up 55,000 New Yorkers. Who's your Daddy? File under From The Sports Desk Curse of the Bambino. 11:49:17 PM

	Monday, September 20, 2004

pwn3d! (again!) File under From The Sports Desk Curse of the Bambino. 1:06:24 AM

	Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Yawn The National Hockey League will lock out its players Thursday, threatening to keep the sport off the ice for the entire 2004-05 season. Do you think anybody will notice? File under From The Sports Desk. 9:32:39 PM

	Monday, September 06, 2004

So I'm A Racist? So, just because I think that that the overpaid, underachieving team of NBA crybabies who got their asses handed to them by Argentina suck, that makes me a racist? You know what? Jason Whitlock, the jackass that wrote that article, is the racist. And he's just as clueless as that team was about what happened to them and why. Still Wondering What Hit Them File under From The Sports Desk. 1:02:31 AM