One Year Anniversary

Before we get to sports news, somwhow Michelle and I just completed our fisrt year of marriage! It has gone by so fast I cannot believe it. I am a very lucky man and to all those who are supporting us....a big thank you....


On to the sports and I have to say MLB is getting greedier and greedier all the time...first to make the fans of Phiily (and those who were there for the Devil Rays) wait in the freezing cold Saturday night until 10pm local time to start a game that ended at 1:47 am was horrid but then for Bud Selig to determine he had the authority to change the rules of baseball during the World Series....that was even worse....the NY Post Post ran a story October 28 that the Vegas b00kmakers paid off on the rules baseball that the Phillies won, based on the fact if a game is called in the middle of an inning the score reverts to the last complete inning, which had the Phillies winning 2-1 after 5 innings which is an official game.....if the Yankees were getting screwed like this a lot of us would be screaming holy hell....but we all know if the Red Sox were winning like the Phillies were the parade would have been held today.....the incredulousness of Bud Selig to say he has the authority to change the rules in the middle of the game....and more so to me the lack of outrage by not only the Phillies owners, but all other owners and anyone else I think is reprehensible....as a teacher and a coach of middle school aged kids I preach to them to follow the rules or face the consequences....we need only look at baseball, a supposed kids game, which is now run by the money it recieves from Fox sports, to wonder why rule following does not happen so much in our world today.....

NFL Sunday

Bizzare endings in the NFL today, but thankfully none involving the J-E-T-S who now stand a half game behind the Patriots and one game behind the Bills in the AFC east....did not see the game but seemd like a Favre special....three TDs, couple of intercetions, a lost fumble, but a W.....Coach Wisenhunt almost outsmarted himself in the suburbs of Phoenix, negating a blocked punt by his team at the end of regulation but his special teams bailed him out in OT...including a former star of an HGTV episode.....Dolphins coughed one up late in Houston and the Patriots got pounded in one of the top five most beuatiful cities in the US of A...the Giants seemed to strengthen thier own cuase without evening playing....Jets are out to Oakland next week and then home to host former HC Herm Edwards then off to Buffalo for a game that could put them in the drivers seat for a division crown and a first round home game come mid January.....Tampa Bay came through last night beating the Red Sox....can someone tell Jonathan Papelstiff he is pitching in a baseball GAME for a living and lose the "scary face" trust me his face may make opposing batters laugh, not be fearful of him....Go Rays!!! Joe Torre's Dodgers got back in their series tonight...so the FOX prayer (and everyone else's nightmare) of Dodgers-Sawx is still alive....goalie controversy on the Island??? Joey MacDonald backstops an Isles W against a sad St. Louis team....Isles are an 11 am local start tomorrow against the western NYers....hope everyone who has Columbus Day off tomorrow enjoys it....we are set to be at 85 degrees here in the valley....nice day to be off.....

Initial Thoughts

Hello to all who are reading....my intial thought on this blog is to write about sports....something I have wanted to do for a long time.....I am not sure if I will work in other topics but for those who know me the teams will be about the Yankees, Jets, Islanders and 76ers.....with some thought on the local Phoenix teams and other sports as well...hopefully it will steer clear of the Red Sox but somehow they will make it as well....I am sure other non-sports topics will make the rounds too....



The Islanders opened their season this afternoon Phoenix time with a loss to the Devils...interesting that DiPietro did not play in goal and that the Guerin, Weight, Sim line seemed to get a lot of play in the third period (the one I wathced)...I hope that they have a successful season but the head part of me says not....surprised the Leafs beat the Wings last night....still think Detroit will repeat but I am sure the Toronto papers have given Ron Wilson coach of the year all ready....the Coyotes open their season tomorrow....lots of local optimism for them...would be nice to see the local ice men do well.....upset special of the weekend for the NFL I have the Cardinals beating the Cowboys....continuing their home domination....Jets catch a break with Bengals not starting Carson Palmer....thankfully the national games on ESPN and NBC do not involve the Pittsburgh Steelers or Philadelphia Eagles this week.....will the Chargers who played the Jets show up against the Patriots or the ones who played the Dolphins....I hope to the former...a little late on the baseball predictions but I would like to see the Phillies in the series.....not rooting for Tampa Bay but just hope the Red Sox do not make it.....can someone tell me who, outside reporters looking for a quote, still care about Curt Schilling's opinion? Why did the AP quote him in a story about the Rays-Red Sox rivalry??? Does anyone, outside his family and my Boston sports fan G-no, care what he says.?...weather in Phoenix for Columus Day weekend is 78 for Sat and 85 for Sun and Mon...nothing like fall in the desert southwest of the USA....