Message for Hans. The Heuvleton Bulldogs won last night. Woot.
It's that kind of sports day. There is a gap between the end of football season and the beginning of baseball season. Sure there are seasons for European soccer, NHL and NBA but they are not doing it for me. I had to drop the soccer channels as I was actually too aware of the Mexican league, too familiar with the regional cups of Brazil. That can make your head funny, wondering things like why everyone at work or in the office is not dressed up in bright primary colours or jumping up and down sing "oh-yea-oh-yea-oh-yea-oh-yea" and stuff like that. Hockey? I have kids and have a desire to keep them from watching fist fights.¹ The NBA has one real problem, too, but it's not the fights...it's the junior leagues. What other sport is there that the 20 year olds still playing at university are better to watch than the 25 year old millionaires? And I am still waiting for The Cricket Channel. Where is my jet pack?
So we wait for baseball. Oddly, A-Rod wrote a kids book and took guff yesterday as he was signing it. Who gives guff at a kid's book signing. Maybe that is another season, Giving-A-Rod-grief-tide.
¹ But I may gather the family, though, to catch on of the last SLU hockey games weekend after next. Where the heck is Union and how many goals can SLU score against them?]
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gr - February 7, 2007 8:45 AM
Union is outside of Albany in Schenectedy, and SLU should have a nice game against them. Cornell played SLU and Clarkson last week for an interesting split....
http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/sports/m-hockey/corn-m-hockey-body.html
Hans - February 7, 2007 9:28 AM
"The Heuvleton Bulldogs won last night. Woot."
I too am in a post SuperBowl sports hangover phase. It is next to impossible to get excited about mid-season NBA or NHL and the only soccer competition my brain can understand is World Cup.
Interestingly, election talk is heating up in Quebec, PEI and Federally. Is the timing merely coincidental? Or does this "down" period in sports lead to humans to fill their need for competition elsewhere?
Way to go Bulldogs? What sport do they play?
Alan - February 7, 2007 10:27 AM
That is the high school team. It was men's b'ball on the news this morning.
gorthos - February 7, 2007 10:31 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wcU1y9uco0
gorthos - February 7, 2007 10:56 AM
Yeah, I'm in a sport funk myself. I watch my Man U games, plus the occasional scouser, chelski or arse game just to cheer on whoever they are playing.. I skip other nation's games as one coudl fill the day with soccer but best to focus on one team and their enemies :)
I like watching surfing but other than that, I am scuppered for sports that interest me until NFL starts up again. I would however start watching cricket if a cricket channel was available.
ry - February 7, 2007 4:05 PM
Yeah, the NBA has suffered since it relaxed the rules on pleading hardship and allowed anyone to join the league at any time. Players don't seem to realize that they need to sublimate some of their own glory for the team anymore. So you get tons of isolation plays. Which are interesting for the first 5 minutes or so and then get boring.
College ball is okay. Team concept really makes the difference. Teams that ride one big dog may get to the elite 8 but they rarely win. I just hate the 20 minute halfs and long shot clock. I love that they have the 5 second rule. It's so easy to screw the defender by not moving for 8 seconds. It's a really cheap trick when guys do that. They just wear out your fast twitch muscles. There's no strategy or talent to it. It's about the same as the Charles Barkley back in---which is actually different than the Shaq O'Neill dropstep.