04 Oct 05 Sports Day

For those of you who care about baseball it’s time to make the first round of picks:

Padres vs. Cardinals (I’m choosing the Cardinals)
Red Sox vs. White Sox (I’m choosing the Sox . . . the Red ones)
Yankees vs. Angels (How could I not choose the Angels?)
Astros vs. Braves (Sorry Greg and Josh, I’m going with the Astros)

For those of you who don’t care about baseball, repent. Can you believe I turned on ESPN over the weekend to discover they were televising a SCRABBLE match? Yes, the board game. Yes, a scrabble match. Now we know why they are pulling women’s softball from the Olympics - to make way for scrabble. There is something seriously wrong with this picture.

The board game federation is running amuck, unchallenged. Must be all that leverage and Monopoly money. Hey, if you can print your own you might as well spread it around.

Nothing like a lazy Saturday afternoon and watching a stimulating game of Chutes and Ladders on ESPN. How long before Parcheesi is an Olympic sport?