by Kevin Burton
Do you believe in Miracles? Yes!
Led by major league batting champion Bobby Witt Jr. (.332 batting average), the Kansas City Royals qualified for the playoffs! I’m still a little bit in disbelief.
The Royals bubbled up into the playoffs in 2014 and I said what I am saying now. Just glad they made it, not expecting them to do anything crazy like win a series or two.
Well in 2014 they got all the way to the 7th game of the World Series, and the following year they actually won it. So history could repeat itself.
Just last year they were 56-106, the worst record in team history. They improved by 30 games this year and that was good enough to make the post-season in this era when they are letting too many teams in.
When they got off to a hot start this year I was happy just to have the games be interesting again. I got more than I bargained for.
The Royals post-season begins today at Baltimore……
Have you noticed how stupid a lot of football coaches get when they have to decide to try a one-point, or two-point conversion after a touchdown?
Let’s say you’re down 22 points. You’re going to need three touchdowns and one, only one, two-point conversion. So after the first touchdown you should go for one to make the deficit 15, then go for one again the next time to get within eight. Then you need the two-point conversion to tie the score.
I’ve seen so many coaches go for two after the first touchdown, not get it, and then need two two-pointers. And if you don’t get the second one either, then you still need two scores.
How stupid is that? Or, maybe I’m missing something?……
See also, Seattle going for two on their third touchdown last night. Huh???……..
I don’t love the latest college sports conference realignments. One week you had Michigan playing USC and the next week Oklahoma playing Auburn. To me that sounds like a Rose Bowl and a Cotton bowl respectively. It’s just too weird to have those games played in September. Stanford-Rutgers? That sounds like a basketball game in the NIT.
\ Also the Arizona-Kansas State game did not count as a conference game somehow, even though Arizona has joined the Big 12.
I was just about to complain that Stanford vs Rutgers doesn’t seem like a conference game, and in fact, it’s not. Stanford is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, not the Big 10. How silly of me to temporarily forget that. Nothing says ACC football like Stanford……
Can we please, please get rid of these live quickie interview with football coaches and players just before games and just before and after halftime? They are obviously an annoyance to people trying to win games and they add nothing to my information about the game. I just cringe every time I see these interviews, which mostly I don’t, because I turn away.
Holly Rowe is pretty much the only sideline interviewer I really want to hear from. Maybe I am overlooking somebody, but her work I regard as journalism. Many of the others I have seen are mostly hairspray…..
I have never been a fan of Tom Brady. First of all, he’s a Michigan man and I grew up in Ohio rooting for Ohio State. Then, his Patriots got repeated kid-glove treatment from referees, beginning with the tuck-rule farce that pretty much eliminated my (former) Raiders in 2002.
Can’t stand the guy.
Then when he is fi-nal-ly done playing (we think) he skates right into the lead analyst spot on his network’s NFL broadcast package. Some guys have all the luck.
So I would love to tell you that Brady is doing a crappy job on the telecasts. But he’s not. He’s doing a really good job and he’s just getting started.
I would really prefer my NFL Sundays without Brady in my living room. I’ll be happy if he finds something else to do with his time. But as the late great Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray used to say, “honesty compels me to report” that Brady is shining in his new job…..
Maybe I should have stuck to the old (minutes old) saying, “if you can’t say something negative about Brady, don’t say anything at all.”
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