Monday, October 29, 2007

Monday Morning Sports Talk

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox. Any suggestion that the curse wasn't over is now washed away. Great team, great season, great Series for them. I'm thinking that the 'hot' Rockies had to cool off and 9 days off did it for them.

Alex It's All About Me, Me, ME!!!, Rodriquez is amazing. He chooses the day of the fourth game of the World Series to announce that he's not returning to the Yankees. They seemed to have been poised to pay him up to $27,000,000 a year and it simply was not enough. Soooo, he decided to become the 'big story' on Sunday and announce he's going to leave the Yankees. The Yankees, to their credit, are quickly saying, 'adios,' to this fool. It's funny, but A-Rod has never been to the World Series. Of course, he has great regular seasons hits below the Mendoza line in the post-season.

I'm a Giants fan and therefore my DNA strongly dislikes the Cowboys, Eagles, and Redskins. But, Joe Gibbs of the Redskins is one of the truly classy individuals in sports. Watching the Patriots run the score up against him was sad and pathetic. Makes me truly hope that the Colts literally smear the Pats off the field next week.

The Giants are 6-2 after sliding to a victory in London. I was following the game online and was frustrated by Eli's inability to complete passes. In seeing some clips and in reading the paper today, however, it sounds like the rain was driving and the turf was awful making it difficult to throw the ball or for receivers to run. What is always frightening is that when your team plays a winless team that has nothing to lose and you have EVERYTHING to lose and you are playing with jet lag on a field in dreadful condition, it becomes a set up for a disaster. Thankfully the Giants won. It was ugly but a win is a win.

I hope that the Mets don't sign A-Rod.

I believe that Eli Manning is doing fine. If he were judged simply on his own he'd be seen as a fine young quarterback. Instead he's judged against Peyton as Peyton is now. If I had to build a team right now and had to choose any quarterback in the NFL to be the quarterback on my team, I'd choose Peyton Manning. What people who jump on Eli need to realize is this. Eli is not Peyton and ought not be judged always in comparison to Peyton, and that Peyton is truly one of the game's all time great quarterbacks, if not the greatest of all time. He has even surpassed Johnny Unitas as the Colts all time great quarterback (tho' I caution the game has changed a great deal.) Eli might not live up to Peyton at the moment, but who does?

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