Thursday, February 12, 2004
Life has been far from satisfactory as far as sports are concerned. What with my boys conceding six goals in the last two games to scrape a last minute win over Everton and an unlucky loss to Middlesbrough I'm, like, here...and happy is, like, way the fuck over there, a long, long way away.
footy
P3, W2, D0, L1, F9, A8, GD0, Pts6.
That's United's League record since Rio Ferdinand started his suspension on January 20th.
Prior to that United were:
P22, W16, D2, L4, F40, A15, GD25, Pts50.
And with only counting the games Rio played in:
P20, W15, D2, L3, F39, A14, GD25, Pts47.
Of those 20 games, nine of them were clean sheets for Tim Howard, who Rio apparently gets along famously with.
This is terrible. I'm, for the most part, a realist, and I can see United losing two, possibly all three points to Fulham, City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Blackburn and Chelsea before the season's out; not to mention Cup games against Porto and City in the next two weeks.
You can close my season now, I'll take third at this point.
beisbol
Ah, the Braves, surely there must be some joy to be had with the mighty twelve-in-a-row Braves...
As it turns out, not so much of the having of the joy.
Right now we have Ortiz, Hampton, Ramirez and...who...? We've got another two starting pitchers in there somewhere, haven't we...?
Sure we have - we've got Jaret Wright who's had two separate operations on his shoulder. That won't change his pitching, though, will it? And we have John Thompson, late of errr...no-one, who says "I'm not here to replace Greg Maddux". Well, John, you just better be here to replace Mad Dog because we need a pitcher who can win fifteen games this season. I'm not expecting the same range of pitches, but I'm expecting that you're going out there to win with whatever you have in that throwing arm. Then we have the unremarkable Trey Hodges, Paul Bird and last (and least) Jung Bong whose ERA is consistently over 5. And all of those guys blew leads as middle relief last season.
So we have some choices for starters, but the bullpen is, if it were possible, even weaker than last year. The only highlight for me is that Will Cunnane signed a one-year deal which should see him take over from John Smoltz as the guy to close the coffin on a great many teams.
Come April 6th we'll see if the Braves have the right stuff to finally get back to post-season success or if this will be another season of being the big fish in a very little pond.
pucks
The Thrashers continue to free-fall.
After his crash in September, it was January 22nd that Dany Heatley next put on a pair of skates. On Boxing Day he watched the team for the first time this season as they beat division leading Tampa Bay 3-1 in Atlanta. They've only won twice since.
Two wins in twenty-one games. Two wins since Boxing Day and a winless streak of ten games. No wins in seven since Dany started playing again. They're all but out of the playoffs (even though it's still a statistical possibility).
There are twenty-four games left in the season. I don't want to think about it.
But maybe the EA Sports curse isn't done with the Heater just yet. Perhaps it's working its voodoo on the rest of the team. Who knows...
hoops
Finally....
A week ago the Hawks logged wins against Boston and Minnesota. Consecutively. They become the final team (by several weeks) to record two victories in a row, putting to be a terrible, terrible record.
They're still second bottom of their conference and don't look like getting above that position.
shortball
For those who are uninitiated, the Arena Football League is like a minime for the NFL.
Imagine a 50 yard field (inside, of you would) and a smaller line of players, but everything else more or less the same.
Scores can be incredibly high. On opening day, the Georgia Force lost 54-28 against the New York Dragons. Tomorrow there's a game against Tampa Bay Storm. I'm going to try to get to a game or two before the end of the sixteen game season in late May.
So, as you can see, my sporting life is a bed of roses right now. An inordinate number of pricks and it stinks of shit.
footy
P3, W2, D0, L1, F9, A8, GD0, Pts6.
That's United's League record since Rio Ferdinand started his suspension on January 20th.
Prior to that United were:
P22, W16, D2, L4, F40, A15, GD25, Pts50.
And with only counting the games Rio played in:
P20, W15, D2, L3, F39, A14, GD25, Pts47.
Of those 20 games, nine of them were clean sheets for Tim Howard, who Rio apparently gets along famously with.
This is terrible. I'm, for the most part, a realist, and I can see United losing two, possibly all three points to Fulham, City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Blackburn and Chelsea before the season's out; not to mention Cup games against Porto and City in the next two weeks.
You can close my season now, I'll take third at this point.
beisbol
Ah, the Braves, surely there must be some joy to be had with the mighty twelve-in-a-row Braves...
As it turns out, not so much of the having of the joy.
Right now we have Ortiz, Hampton, Ramirez and...who...? We've got another two starting pitchers in there somewhere, haven't we...?
Sure we have - we've got Jaret Wright who's had two separate operations on his shoulder. That won't change his pitching, though, will it? And we have John Thompson, late of errr...no-one, who says "I'm not here to replace Greg Maddux". Well, John, you just better be here to replace Mad Dog because we need a pitcher who can win fifteen games this season. I'm not expecting the same range of pitches, but I'm expecting that you're going out there to win with whatever you have in that throwing arm. Then we have the unremarkable Trey Hodges, Paul Bird and last (and least) Jung Bong whose ERA is consistently over 5. And all of those guys blew leads as middle relief last season.
So we have some choices for starters, but the bullpen is, if it were possible, even weaker than last year. The only highlight for me is that Will Cunnane signed a one-year deal which should see him take over from John Smoltz as the guy to close the coffin on a great many teams.
Come April 6th we'll see if the Braves have the right stuff to finally get back to post-season success or if this will be another season of being the big fish in a very little pond.
pucks
The Thrashers continue to free-fall.
After his crash in September, it was January 22nd that Dany Heatley next put on a pair of skates. On Boxing Day he watched the team for the first time this season as they beat division leading Tampa Bay 3-1 in Atlanta. They've only won twice since.
Two wins in twenty-one games. Two wins since Boxing Day and a winless streak of ten games. No wins in seven since Dany started playing again. They're all but out of the playoffs (even though it's still a statistical possibility).
There are twenty-four games left in the season. I don't want to think about it.
But maybe the EA Sports curse isn't done with the Heater just yet. Perhaps it's working its voodoo on the rest of the team. Who knows...
hoops
Finally....
A week ago the Hawks logged wins against Boston and Minnesota. Consecutively. They become the final team (by several weeks) to record two victories in a row, putting to be a terrible, terrible record.
They're still second bottom of their conference and don't look like getting above that position.
shortball
For those who are uninitiated, the Arena Football League is like a minime for the NFL.
Imagine a 50 yard field (inside, of you would) and a smaller line of players, but everything else more or less the same.
Scores can be incredibly high. On opening day, the Georgia Force lost 54-28 against the New York Dragons. Tomorrow there's a game against Tampa Bay Storm. I'm going to try to get to a game or two before the end of the sixteen game season in late May.
So, as you can see, my sporting life is a bed of roses right now. An inordinate number of pricks and it stinks of shit.
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