Well…have been working all day trying to find something to write about in politics, but I think I’ve covered most of the interesting ones this week…so, let’s talk about something else…how about some sports? Okay, let’s do that…I feel bad for the Wings with them losing Hank for the rest of the season with back surgery…but, he needed to get it done with the chunk of disc that broke off and stuck in the nerve…so now the youngsters have to really step up…might be interesting to watch…after the debacle of the US mens hockey team this morning, I can’t wait for the Wings to get back to playing…I will be rooting for the Swedes tomorrow morning to take the gold….boy, the new racing season has started out quite boring…the twin 150′s and the truck race were basically follow the leader all race…and the Nationwide race is just the same…might be a good time to take a nap…Man U did win this aft so that was cool…maybe I’ll just head back to the couch and watch the rest of the race…more later…not really…
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Just some stuff…
Well…even after reading three real newspapers and 8 more online, I have not been able to come up with a topic that grabbed me today…so, I am just going to talk a bit and see what happens…it has been a long sports day today and the good thing…or two good things is that the Wings won and looked good doing it…and that Manchester City lost…yay….that means that Man U can go up 12 points in the BPL if they win their match in the morning….I have been having a pretty good day today but still feel crappy….have gotten much more cleaning done than I expected and that will make tomorrow an easy day….I really don’t like the weather channel naming winter storms…it just seems weird to say ‘snowstorm Nemo” and I think there will be backlash…but, who watches that anymore anyway? Since I got my smartphone…my weather comes from the internet from many different sources and I never turn the tv to weather anymore since you can’t get what you want when you want it….one question…who runs political attack ads against someone who is not running for anything? Oh…it’s the idiot Rove….who has an ad up attacking Ashley Judd just in case she decides to run against Mitch McConnell….a real case of someone who has more money than brains…and who is giving ole Karl more money…after all, he burned through hundreds of million in the last election and everyone he supported lost….keep it up…geez…
Haven’t done a sports one in a while…
Well…I’m sitting here with an eagle eye on the roast that I’m cooking for the big meal of the day (don’t want it to get over 130 degrees) and thought that I’d say something about sports…wait, better go check to see if I’m missing anything from the BPL…okay, just re-runs so I’ll continue here. First, I am getting used to there not being any NHL this year and I think that may be a problem for the league if they continue this disastrous lock out much further….and, I blame the whole thing on the owners and their greed; thinking only of squeezing more and more money out of the players with no thought to the thousands of people who are the support network for the league and whose livelihood depends on the games being played. Shame on these rich assholes…just more of the same form these folks…the same types who have said they will hurt their employees just to avoid Obamacare…what a bunch of idiots. Hmmmm….oh, the Lions…I think we have another Barry Sanders thing going on with Megatron…the best player in the league being wasted on a team that looks like it has quit…losing 7 in a row? Fire the coach and GM and let’s get rebuilding again so maybe they will be good for the first time in my long lifetime….Hmmm…okay, Man U. What the heck is wrong with these guys? I know they are top of the chart over in the BPL but tying Sunderland? With Rooney, VanPersie, and Chicharito on the team? Another case of a team underperforming for the talent they have…it seems like that is a pattern for the teams I follow….maybe I should stop and they’ll get better? We’ll see tomorrow when Man U plays….
How about a little sports?
Well…I was going to come back and add to the one from earlier today but thought I’d do one on sports instead…there have been lots of games/races to comment on so I think I’ll start with the games. First, Manchester United finally looked a little like themselves today with a 3-0 win over Newcastle United…it’s about time they did something with the addition of Van Persie and it looks like RVP and Rooney are starting to mesh a little…it might make it fun to watch over the winter. Then, there was the Tigers game today…so very exciting when they went into the bottom of the ninth tied at 4-4 with Oakland and proceeded to load the bases with one out…and the very little used Don Kelley, who was hitting .186, came up and hit a sac fly to the outfield to win it 5-4…pretty cool. The last thing was the Talladega race that was on this aft….and the 20 car wreck on the last lap that had Tony Stewart upside down and bouncing on the top of a few other cars as the wreck unfolded. One of the coolest things about the wreck was the Tony didn’t make any excuses for his mistake…taking responsibility with no weasel words or qualifying…I wonder why no one else does that? Oh, well…just asking…
Quite a bad sports weekend…
Well…it’s a pretty bad sports weekend when all of the teams you follow but one lose. The Lions game just ended with a loss to The Falcons….looked like the same old Lions to me and the mistakes are starting to make me believe that they are not the real thing; just pretenders that might not even make it into the playoffs…and that is too bad, too, since they were so exciting at the start of the season..oh, well….then we have the Wings getting pummeled last night by the Caps but the good news is that it is only the 6th game of 82 and there is plenty of time to get things fixed…and they get to have a bad day every once in a while so I’m not going to get too upset about it. The really bad surprise was the beating that Man U took at home against Man City…it was their worst loss at home since I’ve been alive and, as you know, that is a long, long time. I am really kind of glad that the sports are done for the weekend…I don’t know how much more disappointment I can take…but, the race is till on and the last 25 or so laps should be fun to watch…so I’m going to go back to it….probably not more later…
I am kind of glad that Michigan didn’t play this weekend…couldn’t have taken another loss…
Haven’t done a sports one in a while….
Well….it’s been a couple of weeks or so since I did one on sports so I guess it’s time to go over a few things….one really cool thing that happened this weekend was all four of the teams that I regularly follow won..Michigan, the Tigers, the Lions, and Man U…but the greatest one was the Michigan win where they scored the winning touchdown with 2 seconds to go…and they beat Notre Dame which was just a huge bonus….and then we have the Tigers who have won 11 in a row and are 11 1/2 games up with the magic number being 6…and they are making me smile when I see them play…the Lions even survived their huge mistakes on defense to beat Tampa….but they should have beaten them by at least three touchdowns….I can’t wait to see how they do this week….
But, right now..or in about an hour…Man U plays a match in the Champions league against a team I’ve never heard of so it may be another rout…8-0 would be nice with another hat trick by Rooney or Chicharito….maybe more later….or maybe not…I did get 5 resumes out today….and I’m feeling better so maybe things are looking up? Oh, and I caught up with this one so maybe things are getting better…
Gonna do one on sports in a little while…
Well…wasn’t planning on doing two of these today so the prospect of three is a welcome surprise….I’ll be back later to talk about some sports….even soccer just to warn you..
Okay…had to read the rest of the online papers and now I’m ready to go with sports for a little while…I am going to start with soccer since the EPL is now in full swing and my team, Manchester United, is at the top of the standings and looking like they are going to be the one to beat again this year with their 8-2 pummeling of Arsenal this past weekend…there are lots of new faces on the team that I haven’t seen before and the youngsters seem to be taking over which looks like a good thing. And, Wayne Rooney is looking better than I’ve seen in a long time…I’m not sure if they even need Berbatov anymore….Oh, I did find out something about Rooney that I thought had happened…he spent 50K on hair transplants over the off season…looks kind of strange to see him with hair…
Next….I have been getting sucked in to watching baseball again with the Tigers 6 games in front and playing well….I get nervous when Valverde comes in for the last inning, even though he has saved 40 games in a row….there is always some drama that happens that he works out of but sometimes it’s not pretty. I think they did well to get some help for Verlander when they traded for Doug Fister from Seattle…he looked great in his last start but I find it weird to have someone who 6 foot 9 playing baseball….I’ve always thought of baseball as the refuge for guys like me…just normal height…..I will keep watching and hoping we make the playoffs and they get off Leyland’s back…
What can you say about the Lions? I’ve been hoping for a good team since I was little…that was the last time they were any good….well…they did make the playoffs once in the 90′s I think….I do have to temper my enthusiasm a little and I should know that they will probably disappoint me by not living up to their potential….but, Stafford has looked remarkable in the first three preseason games and someone mentioned in the paper the other day that if we go back to the last four games of last season, the Lions have won 7 in a row…..is it okay to hope just a little? It would be so cool to finally see them in the playoffs with a real chance to win….
I was going to do a Red Wings part of this one….okay, I think I will….it was really hard to see Kris Draper and Chris Osgood retire this summer…they were two of my favorite Wings and such underrated players….It is nice that they will both have places with the Wings in management and again shows the class of the entire organization….I wonder if it is the Ilitches that make both the Tigers and Wings such class organizations….if I ate fast food, I’d want to go out to Little Ceasars to support the family for what they’ve done for Detroit and our teams…I am going to savor this season a pay close attention when Nick Lidstrom plays since this will probably be his last one….it will be quite weird to not have number 5 on defense…but I guess things do have to change…
Let’s do a little sports….
I’ve been thinking that I need to lighten up a little for a while, or for one post, whichever comes first, so I think I’ll throw out some thoughts on sports….I am getting so tired of Napcar, or Nascar to the rest of the world…can’t we have another champion? The TV ratings are way down and if you look in the stands at the races, you’ll see that they are 30% or more empty no matter where the races are. In my opinion, it’s a result of the sanitizing of the design of the cars they race…they’ve taken the innovation out of it by having such a stringent set of rules. Where are the days when Curtis Turner showed up with a 3/4 scale car that no one could figure out until he parked it next to a rental car of the same make? It used to be an exciting time when you never knew who was going to show up with the next big thing….but now, cars are being disqualified for being 10 thousandths of an inch out of spec…less than the width of a human hair…
Basketball…nope, don’t care about basketball…
Football…well, the Lions are still the Lions but I am hoping that they will at least be competitive on t-day. And, we have Michigan vs. Ohio State Sat but I’m just hoping it’s not a blowout…hmmm…I’m not really offering any insights here…so I think I’ll just stop for a while…I could get to Manchester United but I don’t think any of you out there know or care about soccer…I will say this..they were playing against Wigan yesterday and two Wigan players were sent off with red cards…but Man U only won by 2-0…they have looked terrible all year and I’m tired of hearing about Wayne Rooney bitching about his contract, etc…what has he done in the last year?
That’s about it for now…
Go Man U…
Well…this one won’t be of much interest to anyone but us soccer geeks…but Manchester United went into the lead in the EPL over Chelsea today with a 3-1 win over Tottenham….even without Wayne Rooney! Yay!!!