I wrote a while ago here that I post much more often when my sports teams are doing well. Hence the gaping void that inhabits the time between November 4th and now should tell you something about how my teams have done. But one requisite part of preparing for the baseball season is apublic flogging of myself over my relevant sports thoughts from the past few months, so here goes.
Football. The Broncos collapsed. Griese was inconsistent at best. Ray Rhodes' defense failed to show up oftentimes. The second Broncos game I've ever seen in-person turned out to be just as much of a disaster as the first. And even with all of these shortcomings, the Broncos still had a chance to make the playoffs on the last week of the season if the combination of an engagement party and Dan Reeves hadn't screwed me over. So now the Broncos have gone and cut Brian Griese and signed Jake Plummer. Griese's got betternumbers than Plummer, but:
- Griese's been playing with a better team.
- Griese has stated publically that his fire for football is waning.
- Plummer can actually move further from the pocket then the distance it takes to fall to the ground when you're sacked.
- Plummer has shown a bunch of heart, leading some pretty miserable Arizona teams to reasonable levels of success.
- Clinton Portis is awesome. (Oh wait, that's not about BG or the Snake. Sorry.)
College football. PenndestroyedHarvardin that clash I mentioned in my last entry, but who cares? Harvard won The Game!. And who cares about that, either? It's baseball season!
The game with the bouncy big orange ball. The Nets have been playing pretty bdaly since the All-Star break a few weeks ago. They're still in first place in the Atlantic Division, however, and tied with the Pacers and Pistons for the best record in the East. Still, to have a chance come playoffs, we're going to have to figure out how to step it up a bit. But that's not that important, because, well, because it's baseball season!
The game with the small, heavy, cylindrical black "ball." The Devils are also mired in a streak of medicority, and also still sitting in first place in their division. Blah, blah, blah let's wait until the playoffs, at which point we won't care too much anyway because it's baseball season!
College basketball. Penn's destroying everyone in the Ivy League. They've got the country's leading 3-point shooter. That's pretty impressive.
March Madness. I hate the fact that it's March and yet there's still a week and a half to go before the NCAA Tournament starts. At the same time, that gives me an opportunity to actually learn something about this year in college basketball. ... TBC.