Ok, I really hate Boston.  I'm already sick of the current successes in major sports.  For decades, Boston fans have been the ones we really pitied.  No more.   Via recent sports emergence, we fans now hate Boston.  Congratulations Boston, you can't use the 'pity card' any more.  Please drop it off at the public library.

1 The Red Sox ARE the new Evil Empire.  With the second highest sports payroll in the western hemisphere, why should a fan feel sorry for the Red Sox.  The current Santana Sweepstakes is a prime example of Red Sox' deep pockets.  Winning may make the country hate the Sox more than King George's Yankees.  

2 The Boston Celtics(love em') are the darlings of the NBA and media.  Add in the cute new uniforms and we have a Malibu Barbie sighting in the Fleet Center, or whatever it's called after the latest corporate takeover.

3 The New England Patriots.  How can fans not dislike a team that won three SuperBowls because of a frickin' kicker!  Then the team let the guy go to Indy, where he picked up another Ring.  Way to go.

4  Did I mention three SuperBowls won by a kicker?  All the wins could have been losses.  Ok, it's the Salary Cap Era and only NE has dominated.  I can't respect a NFL player who can perform his NFL duties and fire up a smoke at the same time.  Sorry, that's how I feel.  Hey, I saw that movie.

5   Junior Seau, the Dennis Erickson of players, jumped from the Chargers to Miami, to wherever, to retirement, then to New England, where he suddenly had the desire to play again.  Sorry Junior, you lost my first ballot HOF vote for that panty waisted activity.  Man up and admit that the Pats recruited you while under contract.

6  Video Gate!!!   Did we need this atrocity to distort our beliefs of fair and pure competition in the NFL.  Oh, the humanity(whatever that means).   How could the Pats brass have the brass to give a coach a video camera during the game.  Now all the Super Bowl wins are tainted in many eyes, forever.  Pats fans will be forced to defend all those wins in bar fights.  Wait, that's a normal Boston activity called Tuesday.

7  Randy Moss was stolen from the Raiders for the price of a slightly used lobster!  The Pats coughed up more for Wes Welker, yes, Wes Welker, than they did for Moss.  Blame the Raiders for helping New England re-load!

8 Coach Belichick.  First, the spelling of the name and name itself is an issue.  'Chick?  Then "The Hoodie" comes to mind.  Ever heard of clothing named after a coach, other than the Tom Landry fedora?  Nope.  Who cares if the coach is a slob.  We like to see chili sauce on the front.  That makes us believe Coach B is human and has his wife yell at him too.   What? Oh, really?  Mrs. Coach B filed for divorce?  See Bill, you should have dressed better.

9  Tom Brady  Baby Daddy!  This guy has the pick of the litter with all the kittens out there.  That should be reason #1, yet I'll cut him some slack since Bridget probably yells at him enough.  Baby Daddy!  At least he doesn't have a bunch of bad prison tats of his family all over him, I hope.

(she cleans up nicely)

10 A major sports network is bombarding us with self-serving promo commercials, featuring a 'Boston guy' who is smarter than you.  It comes off as poor man's Dennis Leary and was old after the second commercial, my friend.

The past four World Series have been bad revenue news for FOX.
Fox' annual MLB rights fees, estimated at $250 million per year through 2013, aren't worth the current return.
The almighty advertising dollar has taken a hit as the cumulative World Series record the past four seasons is 16-1.
That's right, one game over the minimum.  Ouch!
 
2007 Red Sox win 4-0
2006 Cardinals win 4-1
2005 White Sox win 4-0
2004 Red Sox win 4-0
 
 
Small market teams making the World Series drive down the ratings and advertisers don't like small market teams.  Four game sweeps kill Fox advertising revenue.
Denver is the 18th largest market.
Boston will bring a huge demographic, yet it's not enough.  The final ratings should be interesting.
 
The coma inducing 2007 World Series pales compared to the NL Rockies/Padres play-in and ALCS Red Sox come back from a 3-1 deficit.
 
The viewer has too many cable television options.  A blow out or quick series sends viewers elsewhere.  Channel surfers may not come back.  I didn't in the first or third game.   Ooooh look!  Tyra is on and it's not a repeat.

In the eighth inning of Game 4, broadcasters couldn't resist ruining the game by announcing A-Rod is opting out of his contract.  Scott Boras is a punk for sending the news out. Way to go guys, take away from the Boston win by talking up A-Rod.  Let's see how many times Joe Buck can work it into the play by play.

Oh yeah, congrats Boston.   click-click-click
This just in...the ratings are the 2nd lowest, ever.

Yes, it's now proven that God, father of the Lord almighty, hates the New York Yankees.  As many sports aficionados will remember with glee, on 10/5, God sent a fleet, covey, flock or whatever, of bugs to unleash his vengeance on the New York Yankees.   Insect specialists at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, NE, have identified the bugs as Canadian Flying Ants.  OK, what the heck is Border Control doing.  Isn't this a department of Homeland Security!  How did millions of Canadians sneak across Lake Erie into Cleveland!  Better yet, how did I know it was Lake Erie?  The nickname, stupid, you know, Mistake on the Lake!

If you don't believe that God hates the Yankees, look at A-Rod's batting average in Yankees-Away-Playoff-Games.  That should be proof enough.  He's batting about 0.111.  Multiply that by six, the number of bug swarms sent 10/5,  and you have .666!    Sp-ooky.

When they do it in New York, they do it big!   Congratulations, METS!  You've given sports fans the greatest collapse in MLB history, that cable TV knows of.

We sat in the front row and watched you p-iss away a seven game lead with 17 to go.  Only the Red Sox could s-crew up a lead like that.

After the METS coughed up the first few games of the lead, how could we fans NOT cheer for the Phillies to catch up to you.  Sure, you're both East coast teams and flyover country doesn't respect either of you; NYC is the city that snubs its nose at the rest of us and the Mets don't play in the NFL's NFC East.  So, way to go Mets.  You got what you wanted and are in the history books.!  Hey!  Glavine even hit a pitcher for the first time in his career.  You can't make this stuff up.  Good Times!  This just in...The Mets have  been eliminated from the 2008 MLB Playoffs.

Oh, to be a Mets fan today.  I heard from a co-worker that Eckards, CVS Pharmacy, Target, Walmart and Tru-Value Hardware have taken all knives and razor blades off the shelves.   OUCH! OUCH! 

Maybe this is karma for the 1969 and 1986 Mets.   Still, I'm tempted to buy a life insurance policy on a few of the Mets players.  Someone may drop dead after catching a stray bullet in a drive-by.  YaNeverKnow.

So, Mets fans, Fughedaboutit!  Cheer on the N.L. teams in the series, or anyone, as long as it isn't the Yankees.

Don't forget to watch tomorrow's 1-game playoff in Denver.  The Padres and Rockies are playing for the Wild Card Berth.  Rocky Mountain Oysters anyone?  I didn't think so.  Yuck.

Recently, a blogger has repeatedly referred to a 'clique' within the FOX Sports world.  I have searched the FOX Sports databases and have found no membership application.

I'm opening the 'clique' to new members.  No One Will Be Refused!

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FOX SPORTS Blogger Clique Application - Valid Thru 7/31/2007

Copy/Paste the line below into your reply; that's it! :

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I, STATE YOUR BLOGGER NAME, apply for membership to that Blogger Clique thingy.

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That's it, you're done.

sg/as1988 rc&d                                              
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Kim IL : "Wait, this some American trick!  I'm eligible?"

SLS  :  Yes, Kim, you're accepted automatically.

Kim IL: "I'm happier than a little girl.  Don't I get a secret question so we can keep the riff-raff out?"

SLS:  OK, How do you feel about steroids and HGH?

KIM IL:  "Are you crazy!  You think I want my nutzak any smaller!"

SLS:  Welcome to the clique.  There are no membership dues or fees.  Attempt to act with a little class when disagreeing.

It's time for a song.  Let's sing it together to the tune of The Brady Bunch.

                  Makes you wonder?

Here's the story, of an alleged doper

Who was using steroids and HGH.

All of them had side effects, like no other,

The last one was little nuts.

Here's the story of a company named Balco,

Who was busy with new drugs of their own,

They were illegal drugs, working together,

Yet they were barely known.

Till one day when Barry met this Balco

And they knew it was much more than a hunch,

That this group would all dope up together.                            

That's the was they became the Balco Bonds Bunch.

The Balco Bonds Bunch.

That's  the way they all became the Balco Bonds Bunch.

The Balco Bonds Bunch.

(Apologies to Sherwood Schwartz)

Bonds when he arrived at San Francisco           Bonds soon after

Shoe:    10.5                                              
                13(yeah, right)

Jersey:   42                                                
                52(muscle only?)

Hat         7 1/8                                               
             7 1/2

Reality.  The MLB's negotiated drug policy has not allowed blood tests which would show HGH and designer steroids.  Wink, Wink!  

I don't want to hear anything about "no tests have shown Bonds to be a doper."

Leave that logic to Dr. Evil.    

 "Barry is our love child with my head!"      

 "Don't mess with my baby boy!   Scott, come massage Mommy's bunions!"                       

Curlin won the Preakness by a nose, which is about 12 inches if you're a horse or saw the replay.

The payout was $8.80 on a $2 bet.

I picked Street Sense to win; I didn't bet the race since the odds s-u-c-k-e-d.    I won't take virtually even money on a favorite, ever.  Too many bad things happen.   Since I didn't bet the race, I bet myself I could drink two beers from the start to the end of the race.  I still got it!

I don't expect many to respond to this instant BLOG and I don't care.  Yet, I know Nostradamus will be here.

Some of us were fortunate enough to grow up near a track.  In my case, it was Ak-sar-ben(Nebraska spelled backwards...rocket science from the Midwest and a popular Johnny Carson comment).  The track used to have the largest mutuel handle in the nation, yet wasn' regarded as a national player.  It was in Omaha, NE.  I worked in a sporting goods wholesaler/retalier while in college and was fortunate enought to have plenty of doggy owners, er, racehorse owners come into the store and talk about their horses.

The first track bet I ever made was on the Maiden Race for a gelding.  She went off at 40-1.  I bet $50 on her twenty years ago.  She won.  You do the math.   The owner said the horse set an unofficial track record.  I mentioned this to the lawyer(####)brother of my best friend.  Suddenly, I had lawyers calling me at home for racing tips.  My Dad laughed his A-S-S off and my Mom was concerned.

Right there, I was hooked on horse racing(not harness racing, which is fixed...hahahahaha).  When I hit that first bet, I went home and dropped $100 dollar bills in my Dad's hands, telling him that I was re-paying him for paying my college tuition.  I told Dad that I would always pay him half of my winnings to pay for college. 

You can watch movies about the racetrack and you'll laugh, yet the stereotypes are correct.  Plenty of fools are hyping a horse they don't bet on.  They're trying to increase their odds.  That's the real world.

When I did graduate, the track had paid for my 4 years of college and I was proud every time I brought my Dad cash.  I know he was really happy.  I still remember the first and only time my Dad poured me a drink of Whiskey, three fingers and three ice cubes.  His advice was priceless.  "Put the same effort into becoming a better man as you have into paying Mom and I for your college."

Since then, I have loved horse racing.

I've gambled on Quarter Horses in Vinton, LA.  I'm so ashamed.

To this day, I watch every Triple Crown race, hoping that some lucky horsey will win the big enchilada....all three races.

It's become apparent that winning the Triple Crown is harder than winning Back To Back NCAA Football National Championships.

This year, no horse will win the Triple Crown, again.

It's springtime.   NCAA Basketball and the Masters are over.   Hopefully, by June the NBA and NHL playoffs will be complete.

You know wha that means!

ESPN and FOX hire additional staffers, who have always lived in the New England/NY area, to talk about what they will force down the throats of sports fans for the next six months.  Yankees vs. Sox.

Here we go again.  Non stop, till the end of  World Series, it's SportsCenter, leading off with the lastest Jeter/A-Rod love triangle.   The crowd chants Jee-tuh, Jee-tuh, and on the network feed it's Alex crying and asking, "When will I be loved!"

FOXSports will fan the same flames, feeding us drivel about Dice-K and his translator's parallel parking issues.  Tim McCarver will rent a Kia or Hyundai and show us how to parallel park, all the while, talking down to the viewer.

Whatever the MLB network contract limit is for national telecasts of one team, rest assured that the Yankees will max it out, and a way will be found for every Yankees vs. Sox game to be broadcast nationally.

There are twenty something other MLB baseball teams out there, not counting KC; we don't hear about other teams, unless a player is busted for DUI or caught in a Yugo with a transvestite-midget-hooker-wrestler.(Thanks Eddie Murphy.)

The reality is that the majority of baseball fans don't care or are sick of  the Yankees and Red Sox.  Ever heard of over exposure?  Have you listened to an East Coaster complain about the starting time of West Coast games?  It's comical. "Cricket and I had to stay up till 2am to see the Yankees beat Seattle 27-0.  How do those West Coasties stay up so late?  Is it the coffee?  We watched Seinfeld during commercials."

It's humerous when any Red Sox fan mentions the unfairness of the Yankees payroll, which is the highest in the Western Hemisphere.   The Red Sox, historically, have the second highest.  Hey Boston, relocate and force reallignment!

Game on!

Make me pick a team and I'll cheer for Boston, every time, because they're not New York, home of the media and network control.

Calgon take me away!

The United States is the Galapagos Island of sports.

Euro Guide to why soccer is not important here.

As we grew as a nation, so did our desire to play  and watch sports.   We created new sports and they evolved in unique nature.  This infuriates some, still.

The seasons dictated the creation of new sports for every season and the male culture said, "booh yah."   The weather has always impacted where the better outdoor teams are located.  The south dominates NCAA baseball.

The result of sports passion was an evolution, far away from the origins of europe and asia.

Basketball was created by a Canadian, Naismith, in America.  The world plays basketball.

Football evolved from rugby and became the national passion.  This is a tough export.

Baseball came along and is nicknamed "the national past time."  This is a passion in many countries of the Americas.  The Japanese pro leagues are fantastic.

Hockey still holds its european origins.  We hijacked plenty of Canadian teams to the southern United States, and a northern U.S. team, too.   Team rosters are filled with Canadians and Euros.   We don't care where the player is from as long as our team wins.

NCAA sports balooned with the growth of the nation and the desire for more sports action.   Many alumni/booster Clubs control university sports hiring and firing.  Even hockey has womens teams now and is an Olympic event. 

Professional Wrestling evolved constantly.  Wrestling 'franchise' owners went before Congress and declared it to be an entertainment industry, not a sport, just to keep the government out.  I'll give you two words why you should watch wrestling:  Torrie Wilson.  A bikini clad girl or hot cheerleader never hurt a sport.

Radio fueled the sports expansion, later replaced by television, which was complemented by the explosion of sports on cable television.

We go to football games and yell at the opponent's fans.

We attend baseball as a kind of social event and talk to those around us.

Basketball fills the blogs every day and the playoffs go on forever.

We have sports for all seasons and something is always on cable.

Add Fantasy(name a sport) and it's 24/7 sports.

Thanks to Fox Sports and ESPN's many channels, we never go without our sports.

I remember Sunday mornings after church.  We watched the regional wrestling matches with names that later became national.  Look at the evolution of wrestling.  It went from small time gyms into a multi-million dollar industry. 

Soccer never had  a chance.  Why? The best athletes chose the other major sports instead.  Add parental pressure to play one of the 'real man' sports as a reason soccer is trailing and doesn't have a strong footprint on the masses.

Fathers and sons bonded discussing sports, listening to baseball on the radio and watching on black and white television.  My dad explained why the Mick was so great, and he didn't understand why I liked Sal Bando.  He accepted me anyway.

Our sports are in our genes and run deep in our blood.

Count the number of sports jerseys you have.  I have NCAA Football, NCAA  Baseball, NHL,  NFL, even FIFA jerseys for Deutschland and Argentina.  Why those soccer jerseys?  Because they look cool, that's why.

Sport is international.  I was stopped in the street of Paris and asked about the Dallas Stars, because of my ballcap.  We talked NHL hockey at a cafe,   Some Germans at Oktoberfest knew who the Huskers were and asked about the Thanksgiving Friday game with Oklahoma.  Still, they also asked if Texas was filled with people like JR Ewing.

People pick and choose which sport they want to love, regardless of  their home continent.  That's not going to change.  The U.S. has created new sports and exported them to the world.  It's time for a couple new sports to be created.  February is a slow sports month compared to the rest of the year.