Things that make me go BLECH!

Today, the Tribune Company, agreed to sell the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field and a chunk of the regional cable franchise to...we have no idea! (Pending MLB's rubber stamp)

Last year, a white knight showed up, offering buckets of money and a bright future for the Cubs. His name was Mark Cuban, who we know as the vocal owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Cuban's mantra is: "What can I do to help the team win?" Way to go Tribune Company.

You've guaranteed the fans a mediocre future, since you sold to a money dude, not a sports fan interested in WINNING. Bring the goat onto the field now and excercise the Ghost-Of-Bartman.

***a day later:

The Cubs are being purchased by a new money family.  The Ricketts Family Trust will own the Cub(bies!).  Multiple news sources indicate that the leader of the clan, Tom, is a big Cubs fan.  This Husker transplant had better serve the fans or be prepared to be Bartmanized by the public.

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.

Another NCAA selection has ended, finally, and I need a nap and I.V. drip from the hype.

The answer to all teams is to win their conference tournaments, period!

St. Mary's and Creighton have to be thinking the fix was in as Arizona(19-13) jumped over them as well as Penn State.

Sure, the upsets for the automatic berth "took their spots," but what the heck was the selection committee thinking?  Oh, Arizona is from a major conference?  Never mind.  This happens yearly.  We're used to it.

Bobby Knight's idea of expanding the field to 128 teams is ludicrous.  Why not let EVERY team play then.  It's just one more game than Bobby proposes yearly.

The talking heads are filling all the four-letter-network airwaves, discussing the disses and annointments.  I'm not watching till...

Play ball.  Thursday can't get here soon enough.  Fill out those brackets for the office pools.

Didjaknow...EIGHT Big XII teams finished .500 (8-8) or better in conference.  That's a first.  EIGHT Big East teams finished .500 or better in 18 games.  For a 16 team conference, the Big East needs to play a few more conference games.

Tomorrow is Selection Monday for the women.  Will you be watching?

3/18 update.  Those of us who watched that debacle play in game featuring Morehead State and Alabama State are dumber for having watched.  Is there a way to retroactively change Morehed State to a #165 seed.  They stink and won the game.  It looked like bad playground ball.

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?