Thursday, May 27, 2010

Spring

The Memorial Day weekend is coming on fast and furious. I've been very remiss in not posting anything since before Christmas but here's an attempt to patch a few things up. I have a few surprises and some rants to make so hang on.

Surprises
1. Boston College wins the Frozen Four - I thought that their win was stunning
2. the Boston Bruins completely blowing a 3-0 lead in their series with the Flyers. Oh my word - what the *$%@?!
3. Red Sox - moving Ellsbury to left - thinking that getting no offense will some how work out to wins
4. Tiger Woods blowing himself up - I don't know what to add to that
5. Johns Hopkins making the NCAA playoffs (I love Hop, but I have a hard time understanding why they deserved a spot over G'town or Drexel)
6. Gordon Lax beating Endicott (my alma mater finally beating that former girls school was the nicest elixir to a bad day I've had in a long time).
7. The national championship for D1 football was boring despite having two very good teams
8. nice surprise? the Colts losing the superbowl
9. Dave Cottle retiring from Maryland after 9 years of very good success

Rants
1. Washington as a sports town - can this town be more of a grasping pathetic place? You've got Redskins fans that can't get their heads around the fact that their team stinks, the owner stinks, and perhaps they stink too. Now we come to the Wizards nee Bullets. What an awful team, I mean, I thought the LA Clippers were bad but nope, no sirree! The Capitals - best offensive player in the last 6 years but hasn't produced anything of worth than awards for himself. The Nationals nee Expos - a fair amount of success so far this season but this hype, HYPE, surrounding Strasburg is just plain dumb. Reminds me of when folks like Deion Sanders and Michael Jordan came to town to save us from sports purgatory. Washington is not a great sports town, at least for pro sports and the fans here, ESPECIALLY Redskins fans are the weirdest I've seen outside of Steelers fans. I love living here but my word being a sports fan means you should really start liking other teams just so that you're not exposed to the absolute nonsense that Washington area fans spout. I've lived here for the better part of two decades and the one constant here is just prepubescent idiocy.

2. Quint Kessenich - I really like this bloke but he's begun to make himself less appealing by some of the dumb things he's said and written this past year. He's carved out a great career as a jack of all trades for ESPN and as their premier lacrosse color-man and studio analyst. However, his very strange comments during the Hopkins-Sienna match and then his no-show for the Day of Rivals were puzzling. Recently, he had a twitter account and broke the news that UVA had canceled their season after the Hughley/Love incident. Turns out that wasn't the case and within 30 minutes of his posting of the tweet his twitter page was gonzo - gone, never to return. He's also made himself very scarce on the Inside lacrosse website as well as ESPNU. I hope he doesn't flame out like Leif Elsmo did (never did like Elsmo - horrible play-by-play and worse color announcing and his introduction of the "EMO" as parlance for describing Man-up is well, unforgivable). Let's hope Kessenich can turn it around this weekend when he's going to be covering the final four and championship.

Well, that's it for now. Let's hope for a Duke vs. Notre Dame final which would do wonders for expanding the game of lacrosse. Also, Tufts University is playing Sunday in the DIII championship - GO JUMBOS!!!!