The current BCS setup is stupid. Everybody knows this. Even if the whole bowl thing is pretty cool, which it certainly is, it has commonly been accepted that a playoff system would be a much better and saner way of going about things. A simple 8 team, 3 round affair would do. Nothing complicated, just a straight up single [...]

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Well, I can’t say I didn’t see that one coming.
I was thrilled when the Yankees didn’t make the playoffs this season. This was the first time in 14 years I could watch the postseason without the constant fear that Derek Jeter would somehow make my sports life even more miserable. Year after year, I have lived each playoff [...]

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Okay, so I’m officially terrified of the Phillies winning the World Series.
It’s a 1-in-8 chance, I kept telling myself. They’ll never do it. Sabathia’ll shut ‘em down. Manny is waay too hot to lose right now. The Rays are awesome.
All wrong.
I must be prepared to face the inevitable: the Phillies will be the 2008 World Series Champions. I [...]

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Wow… what a weekend in sports!
I don’t know what was the most exciting– between the thousands of late finishes in the NFL, the Rays taking out the Sox in 11 innings on Sunday, the Dodgers and Phils fighting, and Sarah Palin getting booed in Philadelphia (the only time I have watched NHL highlights all year), [...]

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Well, perhaps I’m a little angry. After all, losing to the Marlins on the last day of the season to be eliminated from the playoffs at home two years running is hard on a person. But let’s be honest, we all saw that coming. If I’m really angry about something, it’s that the Mets resigned their GM [...]

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I have to admit, I’m one of those Mets fans who takes great pleasure in seeing the Yankees fail. It’s not that I’d rather see the Yankees lose than the Mets win. It’s just that the Mets seem to lose so often (and in such mind-numbing ways) that come October, there is little left for [...]

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My, oh my, how the Brewers have fallen.
A few weeks ago, when the Mets swept Milwaulkee in three games (in Milwaulkee, mind you), I thought perhpas the Brewers might be in a bit more trouble than they bargained for. Prince Fielder wasn’t hitting. Ben Sheets was hurting. And the bullpen was argueably the second shakiest [...]

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Now I try not turn turn my blog into a series of complaints about the Mets, Jets, Knicks, and Fighting Irish, but today I have to make a special request: can the Mets PLEASE beat the Washington Nationals. I really can’t afford this level of agita any more.
As of this writing, the amazing Amazin’s are [...]

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So, of course, the great question of the week: Did Mike Shanahan make the right call? (Or, if you are a Chargers fan, perhaps the question is did Ed Hochuli make the right call?)
Reviving memories of Boise State-Oklahoma (still the greatest game of anything I have ever seen), the Broncos ignored the conventional wisdom and played for [...]

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Plus 65: that’s the run differential of the supposed best team in baseball, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the club with more letters in its acronym (5) than starters with On Base Percentages over .340 (4).
Just so everyone is aware of how not impressive that is, five teams in the American League have played [...]

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