The World I Know

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm at a loss for words lately. Everything I know about sports has changed since I started this damned website.

Let's review, shall we...

*The New York Yankees & Boston Red Sox both lost in the first round of the playoffs.

*Jose Contreras, Freddy Garcia, Jon Garland & Mark Buerhle became the most dominant pitching staff in nearly a decade.

*The New York Rangers are on pace to win the Presidents Trophy for NHL Regular Season Champion.

*The ever nimble Matt Leinart ran the ball twice in the final 10 seconds of a game his team was losing in order to win the game, instead of handing off to one of his two all-world RBs, or kicing a FG & going into an OT where the inexperienced ND would surely screw up & lose the game before USC would.

*Martin Brodeur has been revealed to be human.

*Eli Manning, in trying to escape a sack last week, used a spin move, which worked, and then threw the ball 20 yards downfield into triple coverage for a completion. He did this with 30 seconds left in the game. While down by 7 points. On the road. Against a defense that had held him to 55 yards in the previous 59 minutes.

*He followed that play up with a 26 yard strike for a game tying TD connection with Jeremy Shockey.

*The previous two prove that suddenly Eli Manning is clutch, even though still going through growing pains? Huh?

*The Anaheim Angels roll over & die in a way that Mike Scoscia would never permit, which means somebody has kidnapped Mike Scoscia.

*Mark Brunell to Santana Moss is the most lethal QB to Wr combo in the NFL.

*The 2-3 Detroit Lions are in first place, while the 3-2 Philadelphia Eagles are in last place.

*Cubs fans are rooting for the White Sox (or, atleast they were, until the Cardinals got eliminated.

*The 3-2 New York football Giants, after getting embarrassed all game long against the Dallas Cowboys, now host the red-hot Denver Broncos, arguably the second best team in the NFL, and the Giants are 3 point favorites.

*And lastly, the Houston Astros get the life taken right out of them on Monday night, and have a full 48 hours to think about how they let a great oppurtunity slip away, and then instead of playing dead for two games, like 99.9% of other teams in that situation would have, they roll last night to their first ever World Series appearance.

So forgive me for refusing to acknowledge that there is a World Series about to begin in two days. A preview for it you will not get from me. I'm having a hard enough time grasping what's going on in the sports world as it is, I don't need another big series to come into play. Anything I may say about it will be completely wrong, anyway.

That said, I expect LaDainian Tomlinson to have another 7 TD performance FRIDAY NIGHT against the Dolphins, in what will be the beginning of the sports world I know returning to normal.

Is that normal?