I've got to tell you that maybe the greatest invention ever is the Red Zone Channel, which features a good friend Andrew Siciliano taking you from game to game when they get interesting and when a team is in the...duh, RED ZONE. Great feature to have when you have trouble focusing like I did today. Andrew does a great job as well.
Watching the Chiefs/Cowboys game today, I listened intently to the color analyst and former NFL Coach Brian Billick. He's good. I hated him as a coach, but he knows his stuff. Listening to him explain the subtle rules of the game and why coaches don't challenge certain plays and do on others was very interesting stuff. Stay in the booth Brian, and they won't be able to make anymore of those Coors Light commercials at your expense!
Congrats to the US team in the President's Cup, good to see the rather easy win over the "Internationals" in San Francisco...
Then there was Jonathan Papelbon, the extremely cocky closer of the Boston Red Sox blowing the game in the 9th. After watching his antics in 2007 (remember his lame "River Dance"?), I couldn't help but pump my fist when he gagged the game today. The Angels are a far better team anyway, and deserved to win the series, but come on you know you did the same thing watching Papelbon-bon give it up. Didn't you? Also serves TBS right for allowing the Red Sox TV crew to do that series. Network impartiality, ever hear of it?
More Beantown Bashing...
Sorry to pick on the New England area today, but I also found it nice to see the Broncos and their coach Josh McDaniels beat the "hoodie" in overtime. By the way, as somebody pointed out on Twitter today, why were the Broncos wearing the Padres 1972 jerseys out there today? I've heard of the NFL's throwback weekends, but watching those uni's go up and down the field, it may as well have been an NFL throw UP weekend.
That's about all I've got for you now...MAYBE more later after Twins/Yankees, Rockies/Philies and Indianapolis/Tennessee...
Andy
