Please forgive me for the possible mood swings; I am posting here in with the Tribe up in the bottom of the 8th, 4-3, which means Joe Borowski will be coming in the game. Should be a fun rollercoaster.
Random thoughts from the past week:
1) I'm already sick of Michael Vick. He's yesterday's news. Some dumb ass reporter asked Goddell if Vick is going to overshadow the start of the 07 season.
I'll answer that..... let's say Brett Favre committed a triple murder, LaDanian Tomlinson was found to be half-man, half alien, and Tom Brady was found in bed with Terrell Owens....
I'd STILL be highly concentrating on the 3rd WR position battle for the Browns.
These are other teams' problems - not mine. Lord knows the Browns have enough problems to think about.
2) Which brings us to Brady. Peter King is urging us to start Frye and have Quinn "grow" on the bench. I understand the thought - but our primary concern should be to win games. Does Brady give us the best chance to win 9/9 vs Pit (and 9/16 vs Cin)? If yes, then he starts. No questions asked.
We can talk about the future all we want - but all we can control is the present. All the experts can say "oh, just wait......Quinn will be fine in the future" - but we don't know what will happen in 08,09 and beyond. Ask Dan Marino. Ask Reggie Miller. "Oh, they'll get back there". No they didn't. We can't bank on the future. We try to win games now.
This team - if they get a lot of breaks - can go 10-6. I believe that. It encourages me to hear that Mortensen predicted this team will win 3 divisional games. If so, we are going 9-7, 10-6. For now, I am predicted 7-9 - but something better can happen. Let's not shoot ourselves in the foot early on by playing our second-best players.
Cleveland has scored in the 8th - it-s now 5-3 Indians; the Royals lead the tigers 3-1 in the 5th.
3) Surfing Sirius the other day in the afternoon......actually stopped on the broadcast of the Urugauy vs Canada FIBA preliminary game. I was actually interested in the color commentary - the analyst was criticizing the Uruguayan coach.
Then I snapped out of it. What the hell are you doing? You bought Sirius for this? A chance to listen to this crappy basketball game that
S-SEEK Alert: "Iko Iko" by The Belle Stars
Ok, one of my top 20 songs is starting. Thank God I am rescued from FIBA....
"See that boy all dressed in green?
Iko Iko an nay
He's not a man, he's a lovin' machine
Jockono feena nay"
Borowski in, now up 6-3. Kansas City retires the Tigers finally; after 4 1/2, Royals 3, Tigers 1.
4) I forget the adrenaline of a pennant race.....gees, every game now matters from here on out. And I can't stay relaxed with this guy on the mound....thank goodness our starting pitching is carrying us so far. One more month of it - can the fivesome of CC, Carmona, Byrd, Westbrook and the rookie Laffey hold up?
DAMMIT! Leadoff HR. 6-4, Tribe.
5) A side question: if I read a post on the Browns board, mostly agree with it, and then see that the poster's tag line (his signature, I guess) is:
"Milk, Milk, Lemonade.... around the corner, fudge is made"
um....should I assume the poster is 9 years old? And be ashamed of actually agreeing with it?
One out, bunt single. Now the tying run at the plate. C'mon, Joe......
6) Golf note:
*interruption*
GEESSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
Double....2nd and 3rd, 1 out.....6-4. Now Hunter is up.
And now a Sac Fly.
6-5, 2 out. Who's up? Cmon, Sportsline......
oh God - Morneau
Ball 1
strike 1
We CAN'T blow this.
I don't even care that the Devil Rays put up an 8 spot in the 8th vs. the O's.
strike 2
foul
he strikes out looking. Game over. Somehow, we win, 6-5.
That's it. We can't go on like this. This is not a rarity, folks. It's gas on the fire every time he comes in. We can't last another month like this, can we? But what can Wedge do? Can you demote him now? Can you actually demote the AL Saves leader for the stretch run? Betancourt (ERA of 1.50 or so) is so much better than Joe (ERA of 5.50). But what can he do?
An 11-spot for the D-Rays in Baltimore. Dear Lord......Wow.
Ok, I'm done. Thanks to Joe, you get no golf updates. You will have to hear about the "best triple-bogey 7 I ever saw" (as quoted by my playing partners) another time.....
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Brady - the raging debate.
2a) If I recall correctly, your argument for drafting Brady (over Thomas) was that we need a QB a year or two from now, which means we need to draft one this year. We still don't know how the O-line is going to hold up. Show me the O-line is stable before putting him in.
2b) The 3rd string Detroit defense is not a valid test. Denver's 2nd string is a bit better, but certainly not Pitt.
2c) Which of the following is better on 9/9?
Brady with a limited offense
Brady with the full offense
Frye with a limited offense
Frye with the full offense
8-8 is a stretch goal for this team. 10-6 ...I'm all in.
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