Recent News and Notes

Yesterday's post was boring and bad. I am sorry. I was tired, needed to do stuff and had to throw something together in a hurry. Today, I have to do stuff, but am not as tired. Winner.

First, this is the last time I will touch on a Mike Vick off the field incident. I said earlier that it doesn't matter what he does, he will always have a job. The Falcons are going to lose Vick after this year...if they were smart they'd go get the now available Daunte Culpepper since Vick isn't going to play much this year I don't believe...but he will sign a contract similar to the namesake of this blog with a low salary, high incentive package. Vick's absence won't hurt the Falcons, it won't hurt the NFL. Dogfighting is bad I suppose, but I have seen horses shot on a track because they broke a leg. I mean, seriously, where are the animal rights protesters at the Derby?

News is that Barry Bonds hasn't gotten a hit in over a week. Me neither. And I don't have the pressure of breaking the all-time home run record. I'd give Bonds the edge on getting a hit before me...4-1.

The People's Republic of China is not allowing that Yi guy to go play in Milwaukee. They fear his commercial development will not be as strong as if he was playing in a big city. Maybe they need to realize that all the big city teams picked all of the players in the draft better than Yi so he went to the best team available! Wait a second! Could it be true their player wasn't the best in the draft? Could it be true that our government doesn't control where players are drafted? Or doesn't control who people watch on the TV? The blasphome of democracy!

On that subject, have you noticed how respectfully, for the most part, Japanese teams are about losing their players to America and how much the Chinese go Ivan Drago on it? I mean, yeah, DICE-K cost the Red Sox quite the penny just to get the chance to have him, but it's all business for the most part. And the Japanese fans flock to see him pitch and even just the place he pitches at with his picture outside. The Japanese show some class. We've already talked about Drago. I won't go there. Neither will Paul Stankowski.

I hate Phil Mickelson.

Apparently, his poor little wrist is ready to go. Then he said this.

"I have really struggled in the past off the tee," he said. "But I have been working on those low drivers that have been able to keep it in play and not have the crosswinds blow it off line. That's the key. Missing out on the playoff by one shot at Royal Troon was a big point for me because I finally had a good performance where I felt I could win — and was inches away from doing it."

Blah blah I felt I could win, blah blah, I finally had a good performance, blah blah. Feel sorry for him. Go ahead and do it. I'm not going to. I don't play his sympathy game. "Inches away..." Give me a break.

Finally, did you notice the Tour de France is going on? You didn't? Oh.

Neither did anyone else. The lack of an American makes the Tour a non-event in the US. A lack of Lance makes it go away. Even with Lance, after the first couple I was like, "This is cool." Then I tried watching it and realized that I'm not European, so it's not cool. Then it just went back to being really boring. Kind of like it is now. Sorry EU.