While doing a recent search for some What's Happening trivia, I stumbled onto this new blog. It's from some grizzly old-timer who worked on 60s and 70s sitcoms. It's some good stuff. It's called www.thebadpitch.blogspot.com
If you get a chance, check it out.
By the way, sorry I haven't blogged lately, but I've been busy watching TV and playing PS2 with the Pendleton kids.
A few notes real quick.
-- It's amazing how "great" Tom Brady is when he doesn't have take to his team 30 yards in a tied game to kick a field goal. Sorry, I'm still bitter from the Rams-Pats Super Bowl.
-- Beer count still at 5, but some serious threats exist before the March 17 deadline. The biggest one is a family friend from Ireland will be arriving on March 11 and staying in the NYC area until the 26th. While I may make the 17th deadline, the beer count could be in triple digits by the 26th.
-- Gotta say I'm totally not interested in college hoops this year, call it the Schiano hangover. I mean, after being so close to the team that finished 3rd in one of the worst conferences in the country, how can I get fired up for college hoops. I think this may be the year I stay out the office pool and see if I even give two craps about March Madness.
-- Congrats to Willie Randolph and his new extension. Imagine how much he would've gotten if he hadn't botched the bottom of the 9th in Game 7 of the NLCS. A quick review, the Mets, down 2 runs in a game they had to have, have first and second with no outs with the pitcher's spot coming up. Instead of doing what any manager in his right mind would do (bunting the runners over with Jose Reyes and Paul LoDuca - the team's best singles hitters - coming up), he sends up a hobbling Cliff Floyd. The best case-scenario is a 3-run homer, which everyone in the park knew wasn't going to happen since old Cliff could barely stand. There's a shot of a double, but again, Cliff can't hit and walk. As it turns out, Cliff whiffed, which was a good thing for most Mets fans who were expecting an easy DP. That puts Reyes up in a position where he has to drive the ball, instead of just getting a hit. He drove the ball, but James Edmonds made a nice play. Then came LoDuca, who instead of being in a situation where a hit ties the game, he's now in a spot where he's just gotta get on base. He does, working out a walk. Which brings up old bat-on-his shoulders Beltran. I heard Randolph say on the fan this week that the inning worked out perfectly, since he had Beltran up with the bases loaded. First, he didn't mention it was with two outs and two, if you ask me, a better situation is second and third, one out, and Reyes at the dish. Or man on third, two outs and LoDuca up. Anyway, I like what Randolph has done in changing the ARt Howish attitude on the Mets, but I just have a feeeling this guy will botch any big spot we get put in.
-- SOrry for the rant. I got wound up.
-- Anyway, top 10 overrated bands list is losing steam. I started it, and realized it was going nowhere. So, you may or may not see it soon.
-- In it's place, you will soon get the 10 hottest babes on TV shows I watch and have watched in the course of my life.
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8 comments:
I was mere feet from Willie today. It's unfortunate I didn't read this rant prior to the banquet. I'd have been happy to pass along your thoughts.
You're back in town already. How long were you in Hawaii?
Nowhere near long enough. In fact, since returning from Hawaii, I've already flown to and from Florida.
"One of the worst conferences in the country."... I expect more from you, Joe. That's simply not even close to being accurate by any objective measure.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin/fbc06.htm
http://realtimerpi.com/football/ncaaf_conf_Men.html
Otherwise, your shtick is top-notch as always.
Schill: I never though you'd stoop to use Gannett numbers to back up your case.
Big East top conference? Please. How would RU fare in the SEC or Big 10 or Big 12? Let's get serious. There were three good, not great, but good teams in the big East - Ru, Louisville and W. Va. That's it. I don't know what those cats are going on, but the Big East was mediocre at best. True, there wasn't a shitty team in the Big East, but not a great team either.
Now I know why they call you localschill.
This isn't the appropriate forum to go in depth, but the Big East was far superior to both the Big 12 and ACC this year by any measure. The only conference that you can clearly say was better is the SEC.
To answer your question I think RU would finish would have been no worse than the third-best team in either the Big 10 and especially the weak Big 12. Look at the teams based on what they did on the field this year not the name on the jersey.
To give you a quick example here ar the teams Wisconin (the Big 10's third place team beat in the regular season this year):
Bowling Green
Western Illinois
San Diego State
Indiana
Minnesota
Northwestern
Purdue
Illinois
Penn State
Iowa
Buffalo
Only Penn State and Purdue finished with winning records and neither of those two would have beaten Rutgers this year. The Big 10 was vastly overrated this year and the numbers bear that out.
The SEC might be a different story, I'll grant you that.
Schill: The big thing you are missing with this argument is these team play each other each week. Rutgers played a cupcake schedule until the final four weeks of the season, when it went 2-2. Remember, RU got throttled by Cincy and you claim it would've beaten Penn State and Purude.
Let's look at Penn State's sked and you tell me how RU would've fared.
September 2 Akron: W
September 9 at Notre Dame: L
September 16 Youngstown State: W
September 23 Ohio State: Big L
September 30 Northwestern: W
October 7 Minnesota: W (barely)
October 14 Michigan: Huge L
October 21 Illinois: W
October 28 Purdue: L
November 4 Wisconsin: L
November 11 Temple: W
Saturday, November 18: Michigan State: W
So that's 7-5 and that's on the optimistic side. You see, after playing Michigan, RU would have just 6 days to get ready for another Big 10 team. And then another. You bring up Wisky's schedule, give me - besides Louisville - any of RU's quality wins this year.
The same goes with the Big 12. You're telling me if RU had back-to-back-to-back games with Texas-Ok-Nebraska and Texas A&M, they would cruise through. C'mon dude, get real.
Even the PAC 10. USC, Cal, Oregon, UCLA would probably beat RU.
If you look at the big 3 Big East teams, the only big wins they had were over each other. RU beat Louisville, Louisville beat WVA, WVA beat RU.
And it's funny you mention the awful ACC, when Ru barely, barely beat an awful UNC team on opening day.
I don't mean to rain on RU's parade, because, for RU, it was a great season, but everyone is acting as if they won the Rose Bowl or something like that. Bottom line, they were three minutes from the Orange bowl against a WVU team playing without its starting QB, and ended up in the Texas Bowl.
There's a better chance of me giving that scumbag Paterno a reacharound than RU losing to all three of South Bend, Purdue and State Penn on neutral fields.
If only your beloved Nittany Lions had the stones to schedule a home-and-home with RU, this could all be settled on the field.
Bottom line, 12th in both polls, ahead of Chaz Weis' and Joke Pa's overrated outfits.
And Purdue? The same team that got its ass handed to it by an ordinary Maryland team in its bowl game.
Hopefully you can lambast me about this some more over a taste at the South Side sometime. Take good care.
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