With 3 games left, the Cubs stand at 65-94, which is awful. Brutal. For a team that had the talent to win their division, to fall to one of the worst teams in MLB is inexcusable. The Chicago Cubs have the same record as the Pittsburgh Pirates. Is that a joke? Are you kidding me? [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Merciful Ending of the Baseball Season
Friday, September 29th, 2006Seahawks radio announcers suck
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006Because we just moved to Seattle and hadn’t gotten our cable installed, I resorted to listening to the Seahawks v. Giants game on the radio. What a mistake. I didn’t expect too much from Warren Moon. Former great football players rarely become great broadcasters. Steve Raible was consistently awful. His use of only player’s first [...]
Sports displacement
Friday, September 22nd, 2006Recently my wife and I moved from Chicago to Seattle. For a lot of reasons this was a big move, and one of the big ones is sports fandom. I’ve lived in Chicago since 1984, so I was there for the Cubs ‘84 playoff collapse, of course the ‘85 Bears, early Greg Maddux, all of [...]
2006 NFL Season Predictions
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Well, today is the day. Not only do I celebrate my 30th birthday, but the NFL season kicks off this evening. No better time to take some time and make some predictions. I’d love to hear your thoughts on how the NFL will play out this year. It should be interesting.
AFC
North
Cincinnati Bengals – Carson Palmer [...]
Michigan vs. Vanderbilt at the Big House
Monday, September 4th, 2006Adding to the many sporting events we’ve been to this year, we made the trek to the Big House on Saturday to see the Michigan Wolverines take on the Commodores of Vanderbilt
Now Vandy has never been, and probably never will be a football powerhouse. This is precisely what scared me. I knew that Michigan wasn’t [...]