This Month In Sports

When the Texans passed on Reggie Bush (the equivalent of passing on the bacon guy at Fogo de Chao) I choked on a chunk of pastrami and lapsed into a meat-induced coma (my favorite kind).

I awoke 10 days later and wondered what I missed:

Well the Royals are 8-22, but they really blew it by not winning their first game or at least 2 of their first 3 games. Thus insuring another year without a winning record. 2005 came and went and the best mark they posted was 3-3. The last time the Royals had a winning record was April 13th, 2004. (4-3) Maybe next April.

Barbaro wins the Derby. Because the only thing worth watching for is to see if a horse will win the Triple Crown, the Derby has almost become less exciting. It was still the most watched sporting event of the weekend, but ...zzz...zzz...

Leinart and Young have reported to mini-camps on teams that could be rebuilding! Except that both teams are going to do everything they can to keep them off the field in 06.
Which puts a lot of pressure on:
Vick-Bush, Falcons-Saints, Monday Night, Week 3, First Home Game in New Orleans. If Bush and Vick don't combine for 700 rushing/return yards it will be a disapointment.


Is there a bigger curse in football than the Madden Curse? Maybe the Super Bowl losing Curse. Or maybe the slump that follows a record breaking performance in a contract year. So what I am saying is that if Shaun Alexandar doesn't die on the field, he should consider himself lucky. Oh and I'm not drafting him for my fantasy team. I'd rather take Slowy McBrittle (who went undrafted but then was signed to a 50 million dollar deal by Isiah Thomas, who then traded him to the Bears).

And the incredible Hulk hit another asterisk out of the ballpark.

But I was too busy watching the Suns come back from 3-1 against the Lakers. And now the Suns have a huge advantage over the Clips that no one is talking about - they have just played 3 games in the Staples Center. They are used to the locker room. Going back and forth between LA and Phoenix. This will be like a second home to them, if only they can get Frankie Muniz out of their head.