Slight Rant, Slight Random Post

Hockey season can't come fast enough. Still. Hell, we've already had a goalie fight and the season hasn't started yet. If that doesn't get you fired up for hockey, then you have no pulse.

But hey - at least the last weekend of the baseball season will prove to be VERY interesting and well worth watching. With the Mets and Diamondbacks collapsing (The Mets just kept finding ways to lose to the Nationals...and what's up with the D-backs losing a September series to the Pirates?!) and the Rockies deciding to kick ass and take names and the Padres...uh...yeah, I'm looking forward to watching THIS whole drama unfold.

Well, there's the slight random post. Now, on to the slight rant.

*ahem*

Donovan McNabb posted a "perfect" quarterback rating on the Lions this past Sunday in what had to have been the most entertaining football game since...well...Cincinnati and Cleveland the week before. Which is great - teams posting 40-plus points on each other or turning the ball over five or six times apiece is my kinda football game.

But here's my problem: The "perfect" quarterback rating is 158.3. Where the hell did THAT number come from?! In baseball, a perfect game is the opposing batters going 0 for 27. A perfect game in bowling is 300. A perfect football quarterback rating is 158.3?! What in the world is that decimal doing there? Earth to Football "Experts": If you want a number to associate with perfection in football, please have the decency to make it a whole number, will ya? Preferably a round number. Please? For the sake of humanity. And oh yeah - you don't make your point or "analysis" clearer by yelling it at us. You just make us hate you and mute our TVs. Kinda defeats the purpose of you even talking, let alone yelling, doesn't it?

Well, that felt good. Now, who's up for a little Street Fighter?

Home Field Disadvantage

So here's something odd: Only one American League home team won yesterday...and that took a walk-off home run. This means every AL game yesterday went into the bottom of the ninth inning. Your one AL Home Team winner? The White Sox, winning on Jim Thome's walk-off 500th career home run. Every other AL home team lost.

The National League didn't fare all that better at home, either. Milwaukee, Colorado, Houston, and San Diego are your four NL home team winners.

Add that up, and MLB home teams were 5-10 yesterday. Root, root, root for the home team? I guess not...


And no, I'm not writing about football. Why? 'Cause I didn't watch any. Take that, football!

Obligatory Opening Football Week Post

I can't believe I'm about to write about football, but here goes.

OK, OK, I like the start of football season. Why? 'Cause it means that hockey season is only a month away. That and we get to see coaches bust arteries in their heads when things don't go right.

So how bad is it to be a sports fan in Western New York right now? If you saw the absolute "Why don't you just kick me in the balls while you're at it?!" way that the Bills lost to the Broncos yesterday, you would know. By the way: 15-14?! Come on! Score some points, dammit! I know some people might disagree with me, but I don't care about defense! More points, please. Or cause more turnovers. Those are fun...

But speaking as a Western New Yorker forced to follow the Bills...hockey season can't come fast enough. GO SABRES!

So, did anybody else find it strange that the entertaining games were Detroit-Oakland and Giants-Cowboys? Especially the latter?

I have to admit, I kinda started to hate myself while watching Chicago-San Diego. That game would've been more entertaining if it was Cubs at Padres instead of Bears at Chargers.

The new Minus The Bear album "Planet of Ice" is pretty awesome. Probably not the album to start with if you're getting into the band - their previous album ("Menos el Oso") is your best bet there - but pick up the new one after that. One bear claw up

DOOMED!