Coming off the heels of the loss of one of the internets best free football pools (football-pool.com), now ESPN's Gregg Easterbrook (AKA Tuesday Morning Quarterback, AKA TMQ) has been relieved of his post on espn.com's page 2. More than likely due to his poorly worded but essentially true harsh criticism of Disney's Michael Eisner and Miramax's film Kill Bill. I guess you don't diss the boss publicly and expect to be around for very long (disney is ESPN's Parent company). I suppose I'll have to find more entertaining ways to pass my tuesday mornings now. (SIGH).
So are the Bears the worst team in football? Probably not, but pretty damn close. Is it just me or has pro football become a watered down talentless shell of it's former self. Where the hell are all the "Star" players (and if anyone says Brett Favre, i will beat them to death with their own shoe) Maybe I'm missing it, but I just don't see the awesome players of yesteryears being replaced by new Stars. It seems like the NFL may be going through a rut similar to the post Jordan NBA. Maybe it's the up and coming stars such as Michael Vick, Chad Pennington, etc are injured. Maybe the older guard i.e. Brett Favre, Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, are hanging on too long. Whatever it is, the number of games that I actually want to watch this year has dwindled from a few to just about none.
In baseball news: excite.com reports that ratings for Game 1 of the world series are up 19% wow, sounds like ol JC was wrong about the ratings drop. Well when you actually read the article and not just the headline you learn that Game one was the 3rd lowest rated World Series opener EVER. The ratings were up 19% from last year which was THE lowest rated world series opener in history. Hmmmm, sounds like ratings went overnight from the highest rated league Championship series to the third lowest World Series opener. Translation: Nobody Cares anymore. There's no curse to overcome, theres no overcoming demons from the past. There'sno thrilling who's gonna make it all the way. What it comes down to is that outside of New York, and Florida (Miami) nobody's watching this thing, because no one cares. Why, cause we all know that the Yankees are gonna win it all for the billionth time, and to be honest, even if they don't, Florida has done so much to destroy whatever fan base it had developed back in 1997, that few people there even care all that much, after all there were probably as many cubs fans watching down in florida during the LCS. But I guess thats expected when you completely dismantle a world series team and go from first to worst in 1 season. But I suppose I'm totally understanding of this being from Chicago, where this is like an annual thing for us. Ever wonder why there's so many Packer fans at a Green Bay Chicago game in Chicago. Because ladies love cool Brett? Nah, cause the stoopid a$$ bears can't fill the seats with die hard Chicago fans. It's kind of hard to do when you havent won much in the past 15 years.
Go Blackhawks???
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