Coming soon, the switchover from analog to digital.  It can't come a day too soon.  Viewing analog broadcasts on HDTV is a painful watch.  The picture is actually worse than on an old television!  Whatsupwitdat!

NFL and NBA games have been digital and beautiful.  Hey, you can even adjust the HDTV hue to more red or green depending on the sport.  NFL and golf get more green.  The NBA gets more red; prison tats show up better.

The Texas Rangers are beating down the Orioles and the analog picture stinks and looks like there's a bit of smoke.  Ian Kinsler hit for the cycle in the 6th inning, though it looks like he's playing in a San Francisco fog or I've been "over served."

Digital, Get You Some!

There's still the possibility that the Obama administration will yield to lobbyists and payoffs to force a FCC delay in the digital switch.  Maybe his cabinet will take the cash and pay their taxes!  Nah, not likely.  Most of these Dems don't pay taxes.  The little people do.

Ok, we had some great March Madness games Thursday.  The best teams won and a team from a pretend conference lost.  Is this a surprise?  It appears the NCAA got these seeds right!

Pitt vs. Xavier : A knife fight in a phone booth.  This was a great game!

UConn vs. Purdue:  This was a game of TAG and Purdue just couldn't catch up.  Close but no cigar, Boilermakers.  A close friend is crying tonight.  Then again, he flew out of town to meet his g'fren, so the crying is over and the begging is on!

Villanova vs. Duke:  Duke was stomped on like a  recently downed duck.  2/3 of North Carolina is celebrating tonight.  This was a serious beat down.  Only a couple minutes was broadcast in Texas.  We had the Mizzou game.

Mizzou vs. Memphis:  Mizzou did it's best to give away the game with pathetic free throw shooting; Memphis did it's best to return the favor.  Mizzou's Carroll is a freak with his short dump and hook shots.  Look out for Mizzou!

How can the Big East have 16 teams and only play 18 conference games?  This isn't a conference, it's a loose confederacy. 

Now to the populist story.

Ryan Moats, an NFL player I've never heard of, was popped for running a red light in Dallas/Ft.Worth.  Moats jumped out of his car and claimed his Mother in law was dying and he was near her hospital.  His wife ran from the vehicle.  (Can you say, "fleeing felon?"  I bet you can." ) Later the dying turned out to be the truth.  SO WHAT.  Moats did the crime.  Eat the ticket, fool.  This week four Oakland area police officers were killed during and after a routine traffic stop and it's aftermath.  The police have heard every lame story possible during stops.  The opportunistic TMZ media will jump all over this Moats story.  I'm sick of it already.  This could have been avoided if Moats had acted withing the law.  Now the left wing media will scream for this cop's job.  Let's see who's there to protect a reporter whose just been robbed at an ATM!

Look for Moats on Oprah and other terrible talk shows this week.  "I told the po-po the truth, so he should believe me."  I just threw up in my mouth.

Like many, I invested some time watching the WBC, the World Baseball Classic, not the World Boxing Council.  Not anymore.

What immediately puzzled me was the citizenship of the players.

Why do so many Netherlands players have Spanish surnames!

Surprise!  Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao are all former Dutch colonies and are supplying players under the Dutch flag.   Ladies and gentlemen, I call a party foul.  This fact eliminates any discussion about the "Greatest Upset Ever" over the A-Roid-less Dominicans!

This isn't the wooden shoe crowd on the field.  They're ringers.  You don't see Puerto Rico importing dudes from New Jersey.

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"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch." 

----Nigel Powers in GOLDMEMBER
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You'll notice U.S. citizens playing for Italy and others.

Mike Piazza is a coach for Italy.  The dude's not an Italian, but a grandparent probably was and loose sports citizenship rules allow teams to load up with foreign born and bred players who've never set foot on the motherland.  Plenty of these guys weren't good enough for their own nation's team, so they're playing mercenary.  Whatever these sellouts endorse, I'm not buying, ever!

Whassupwitdat!

There's no true David vs. Goliath here, so I'm off to do other things.

Sorry Bud(Selig), I'm through with this baseball farce.  Until you turn this into RollerBall, I'm gone.

I'll be following March Madness until MLB begins.

Hey, what's the latest T.O quote?

Last night I was talked into watching an 'exciting' Big Ten(they can't count) basketball game.  This game featured the same drama as a trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Can anyone that saw the game remember a more poorly played college  basketball game. 

Look at these stats:

Final Score- PSU 38  ILL 33       This set an ILL home game low total score record.  If not for some garbage free throws, the total would have been below 70 points.

Shooting - PSU .283 (13-46)   ILL .300 (15-50)

Free throws - PSU 9/11   NO ILL Free throws    This was a Vegas fix.

To put this in perspective, the Dallas Mavericks scored 40 in the third period on the same night Illinois scored 33 in the game.  I watched both games, so I'm still 'basketballically' confused.

I am dumber for having watched the terrible game.  My brain is smaller and I'm suddenly feeling like calling a talk radio station to discuss anything, especially the NFL franchise tag or bass fishing.

To bring myself back to reality, I'll read some quality thoughts from Hanahan, JokersWild or the recent parolee, B&O.

Here we are again.  The NFL season is over and this fan is already bored to tears.  I have time on my hands and am afraid to open my broker statements.  The $3000 maximum loss clause has been lapped in the down market.  What to do, what to do!   Let's see, there's plenty of strange going on.

I can now watch an entire episode of rhymes with "Warts Center" in 14 minutes, courtesy of the DVR's skip button.

It's time to speak to the spouse or girlfriend, but not both.

There are short people living in the house that I was unaware existed.

The NBA Slam Dunk festival has officially jumped the shark and insurance carriers are getting nervous.  Any competition involving a fork lift without a union guy is just plain dumb. There was a one hour lead-in featuring past contests.  I think I just threw up in my mouth.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is now officially lame compared to other items on the news rack and cable.  Stop protesting, people.

Of all the All Star games, only MLB means anything.  This should be hint to the NBA.

John Smoltz in a Red Sox uniform is kind of an disheartening.

The Duke/NC halftime score was higher than most other final scores.

The PGA's Pebble Beach Pro-Am will be boycotted by me until the professionals are the only players.  I'm not interested in Ray Romano's pre-match preparation or Kevin Costner's comb over.

The Daytona 500 marks the beginning of the Left Turn season.  I'm not saying these drivers aren't smart, but three drivers got lost and two of those had Garmins.  At least the drivers talk smack and have the 4000 pound tool to back it up.  I have a suggestion: souped up bumper cars.  I'll watch all day long.  Better yet, make it a Pro-Am.  I'd pay to see Kid Rock and Puff Daddy put into the wall @ 200 mph.

Catchers and pitchers, you're late to report.

Manny Ramirez is still unsigned.   Hmmm...it's a Boras free day.  I like it.

Since it's slow this time of year, the media goes completely tabloid.  A-Rod, this is part of the reason you've knocked T.O. off the front pages.  Texas Rangers fans already knew A-Roid was dirty.

Michael Phelps and the bong picture have been blown out of proportion.  A hack writer claimed that if "Phelps were black, the public reaction would have been much stronger."  Get real you hater.  Write about reality, not skin color.  If this were a major sports league, the player would receive counseling and an endorsement contract from a rehab clinic.  Scott Boras would have negotiated the deal.

Elgin Baylor claimed the Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, has  a "plantation mentality" and sued after being fired.  Could this termination have been due to the terrible record since Baylor has run the team!  Ty Willingham could have done better.  I think the over use of Grecian Formula has gotten to what's left of Elgin's brain.

Did you know the NHL is still in business?

The Big Ten Network actually has an 11 built into the logo.  I guess they actually can count.

Tiger Woods and his hottie wife have a son, Chuck Axel Woods.  That kid will have more media pressure than Michael Jordan's kid, who stinks up the hard wood.  Axel?  What's wrong with a nice American name, like D'Brickeshaw!

In Columbus World Cup qualifying, the U.S. team beat Mexico 2-0  The stadium actually had U.S. fans.  I always thought Columbus was a hot sport for Mexicans.  My bad.

Friday night was so sports boring that I ended up in an Oklahoma casino.  There's a story in that, but I'll skip it.  The summary of my night was my final hand where I had split Aces to the dealer five.  Of course I received a three and four while the dealer had a five card 21.

We now resume 24/7 Yankees reports on A-Rod and the chase for the pennant.

I now yield the floor to Lisa H and the USC song girls who will sing a medley of Boomer Sooner and Rocky Top.