Monday, 5-Nov-2001
Spurious
thoughts and idle musings from the sports week just past ...
Mariano
Rivera blew a World Series save. Forget
everything else that went on during this delightful World Series ... Two
straight ninth-inning, game-tying, boyhood-dreaming dingers. Bonehead manager moves. Little names outplaying big names. The falling-off-the-ski-jump agony of
Byung-Hyun Kim. Nasty split-fingered fastballs. Sentimental swan songs. Rudy Giuliani's travel itinerary. Craig Counsell's weirdass batting stance. None of it means a thing. Mariano Rivera Blew The Save. Snakes win.
Snakes win. Th-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Snakes win.
Loveland
High School, Colorado's defending Class AAAA football champeens, beat Greeley
Central last week but apparently will not have to forfeit the playoff win
despite getting caught with their uniforms coated with a non-stick cooking
spray. However, coach John Poovey was
suspended from coaching in any more playoff games for the next year. No truth to the rumor that "Pam"
Poovey will be in charge of the marching band's bake sales until he can return
to the sidelines.
Coupla
weeks ago, I saw in the paper that Kentucky had set up a new toll-free hotline
that anonymous callers can use to report recruiting violations and other NCAA
allegations. Well, guess which small
Charlotte-based consulting firm designs and develops the software for a leading
third-party compliance line vendor ???
Yep, you got it ... During last week's business issues meeting, the list
of new November programs was discussed and, much to my delight, the Jellies are
indeed the newest client of my client.
Man, this could be epic.
Well, one
good thing about seeing November baseball finally end is no more of those
uncomfortable close-up shots that FOX insists on shoving through our
eyeballs. I swear this Series had to
break all the records for horrific facials ... Even without the mullet, Big
Unit is still the big ugly. Same goes
for Joe Torre and Bob Brenly whose pores I really had no interest in
examining. And it seemed like every
time Matt Williams was hatless, I had to readjust my tube's brightness and
contrast to reduce the Uncle Fester glare coming off his cueball.
More on
this toll-free hotline thing ... Upon learning that Kaintuck was on board, I
felt it was important to tell my client's sales managers that the Jellies are
just the first college in what I believe can be a very lucrative new market for
the hotline service. However, I also
made sure they understood that, from a technical support standpoint, I need to
know well in advance if they're gonna sign a deal with Clemson because in that
case I'll have to calculate all new disk space requirements and throughput
capacity loads. Heh-heh.
When it
gets kinda quiet at Yankee Stadium, why do they play the opening "DAY-O"
chant of Harry Belafonte's classic "Banana Boat Song" at
ear-shattering decibels ??? And why do
they always play it just twice ??? Why
is that ??? How come the Yanks don't
play the rest of the song so we can find out if Mr Tallymon really can tally me
banana while daylight come and me wan go home ??? Does anybody know ???
NFL Week
8 wrap-up ... Da Bears pulled off another OT miracle shockjob, the J-E-T-S just
might be the worst 5-3 team in NFL history, Brett Favre tortured Tampa Bay one
last time and the Steelers missed four figgies and thus kicked away their
winning streak. Also, Bill Belichick is
definitely not on Terry Glenn's Christmas card list anymore, Mike Holmgren
might not be on anybody's guru list anymore and Steve Mariucci certainly ain't
gonna call 20 pass plays for Terrell Owens anymore. And all Cris Carter does is whine and catch touchdowns.
"According
to the scouting report on Luis Gonzales, because he hit 57 home runs for the
Diamondbacks this year, the Yankees have decided to play him deep in the
outfield." "It's better to
have a fast leadoff hitter who can run the bases than a slow one." And thank you, Tim McCarver.
See ya
nexted week ...
Robert E Hunt Jr
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