Monday, November 17, 2003
RAMBLING MAN
That's what I am today.
---Alex Rodriguez won the A.L. MVP today for the first time in his career. Good deal. He was so due for an MVP award it wasn't even funny.
In Mariner-related MVP news, Bret Boone was 10th in the voting. Take that, Sodo Mojo lovers.
---YAY! Seahawks scored 35 on the pitiful Detroit Lions. I should be excited about this. But 42 or 45 points would have been better. If Anthony Wright starts at quarterback for the Ravens this Sunday, the Seahawks should win this game, Ray Lewis be damned.
---After the Chiefs defense kills Rick Mirer in Arrowhead Stadium this Sunday on the first series of the ballgame, expect Steve DeBerg to fly into Kansas City and suit up immediately. DeBerg has played for every damn NFL team, which will include the eventual Los Angeles expansion team in a few years. He can play until he's 145 as far as I'm concerned.
He's better than Rick Mirer. Then again, the JV quarterback at Klahowya High School is better than Mirer, so that's not saying much.
---In related Raiders news: Mr. Mirer, here's your cup. (No way does the REAL Rick Mirer win a football game these days. Yesterday's win over the Vikings was the first win for Mirer as a starting quarterback since the days of the New Radicals, who suck even worse than Mirer)
---Tonight's Monday Night Football barnburner features the 3-6 Pittsburgh Steelers vs the 4-5 San Francisco 49ers.
Yeah, I'll pass on this. Monday Night Raw will have more exciting moments than that damn game.
---Speaking of wrestling, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was at the WWE Survivor Series event last night in Dallas. Cuban came into the ring to confront Eric Bischoff. Then all of a sudden, Randy Orton comes out and gives Cuban the "RKO", otherwise known as a modified version of the Stone Cold Stunner. Absolutely classic stuff right there.
Before he got the "RKO", Cuban was asked which refs he liked better, the WWE's or the NBA's. He said that "all refs suck." Knowing David Stern, he would LOVE to fine Cuban for that remark. But even Stern knows that it is just wrestling.
---Two days later, Washington's 54-7 blowout loss at Cal is still funny as hell. Holy hell, the Apple Cup is going to be a great game to watch. Take the Cougs in this one, kids.
Mike Price was 3-11 in the Apple Cup series (1989-2002). Bill Doba is 0-0. If Doba isn't the Pac-10 coach of the year, then I don't know who is.
However, I take that back. Jeff Tedford wins Pac-10 coach of the year if the Cal Bears get to a bowl game. It doesn't matter if its the Silicon Valley Bowl in San Jose, just down the road from Berkeley. A bowl game is a bowl game for the Cal Bears, who were screwed out of a bowl game last year because of NCAA violations, which were total bullcrap.
---That new AstroPlay turf at the Superdome is not bad at all. Any way to get rid of all AstroTurf surfaces is fine by me.
---We should all root for Ohio State to play Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. I hate OSU with a passion, but bear with me here.
If OSU plays OU, the Sooners will put up 40 points on the lucky Buckeyes. No luck of any kind could help the Buckeyes against Oklahoma. We should want a OSU-OU Sugar Bowl.
Better to see the Big Ten get their asses kicked in the national championship game than the Pac-10...
---Enough rambling from me for now...
And no, I still don't want Raul Ibanez on this Mariner ballclub.
---Alex Rodriguez won the A.L. MVP today for the first time in his career. Good deal. He was so due for an MVP award it wasn't even funny.
In Mariner-related MVP news, Bret Boone was 10th in the voting. Take that, Sodo Mojo lovers.
---YAY! Seahawks scored 35 on the pitiful Detroit Lions. I should be excited about this. But 42 or 45 points would have been better. If Anthony Wright starts at quarterback for the Ravens this Sunday, the Seahawks should win this game, Ray Lewis be damned.
---After the Chiefs defense kills Rick Mirer in Arrowhead Stadium this Sunday on the first series of the ballgame, expect Steve DeBerg to fly into Kansas City and suit up immediately. DeBerg has played for every damn NFL team, which will include the eventual Los Angeles expansion team in a few years. He can play until he's 145 as far as I'm concerned.
He's better than Rick Mirer. Then again, the JV quarterback at Klahowya High School is better than Mirer, so that's not saying much.
---In related Raiders news: Mr. Mirer, here's your cup. (No way does the REAL Rick Mirer win a football game these days. Yesterday's win over the Vikings was the first win for Mirer as a starting quarterback since the days of the New Radicals, who suck even worse than Mirer)
---Tonight's Monday Night Football barnburner features the 3-6 Pittsburgh Steelers vs the 4-5 San Francisco 49ers.
Yeah, I'll pass on this. Monday Night Raw will have more exciting moments than that damn game.
---Speaking of wrestling, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was at the WWE Survivor Series event last night in Dallas. Cuban came into the ring to confront Eric Bischoff. Then all of a sudden, Randy Orton comes out and gives Cuban the "RKO", otherwise known as a modified version of the Stone Cold Stunner. Absolutely classic stuff right there.
Before he got the "RKO", Cuban was asked which refs he liked better, the WWE's or the NBA's. He said that "all refs suck." Knowing David Stern, he would LOVE to fine Cuban for that remark. But even Stern knows that it is just wrestling.
---Two days later, Washington's 54-7 blowout loss at Cal is still funny as hell. Holy hell, the Apple Cup is going to be a great game to watch. Take the Cougs in this one, kids.
Mike Price was 3-11 in the Apple Cup series (1989-2002). Bill Doba is 0-0. If Doba isn't the Pac-10 coach of the year, then I don't know who is.
However, I take that back. Jeff Tedford wins Pac-10 coach of the year if the Cal Bears get to a bowl game. It doesn't matter if its the Silicon Valley Bowl in San Jose, just down the road from Berkeley. A bowl game is a bowl game for the Cal Bears, who were screwed out of a bowl game last year because of NCAA violations, which were total bullcrap.
---That new AstroPlay turf at the Superdome is not bad at all. Any way to get rid of all AstroTurf surfaces is fine by me.
---We should all root for Ohio State to play Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. I hate OSU with a passion, but bear with me here.
If OSU plays OU, the Sooners will put up 40 points on the lucky Buckeyes. No luck of any kind could help the Buckeyes against Oklahoma. We should want a OSU-OU Sugar Bowl.
Better to see the Big Ten get their asses kicked in the national championship game than the Pac-10...
---Enough rambling from me for now...
And no, I still don't want Raul Ibanez on this Mariner ballclub.
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