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?

Reader's Comments

1. meowmix | 04 Oct 2005 11:09 am

   You’re a man after my own heart. Go Cardinals!!

   Doris and I have enjoyed watching the Travel Channel a lot. They sometimes have really interesting stuff about castles, amazing vacation homes, yachts of the rich and famous, motorhomes that have been pieced together and now look wonderful, etc. Imagine our utter disappointment when we flip over there and they are having, guess what, a poker tournament!!

2. cwinwc | 04 Oct 2005 11:51 am

   Here are my picks:
   Padres vs. Cardinals - Cardinals
   Red Sox vs. White Sox - “Red Dawn”
   Yankees vs. Angels - Angels - Doesn’t everybody hate (Brady started it) the Yankees?
   Astros vs. Braves - Braves - This goes against my better judgement since the Braves enjoy breaking my heart during the playoffs.

   Interesting note - Our school receives a news program directed at kids called “Channel One News.” Today they reported that gambling among teenagers is increasing due to the proliferation of popular poker shows. I agree with meowmix, to watch ESPN or the Travel Channel only to see a “Texas-Hold-em” show sets a dangerous precedent. It glorifies gambling and as we all know, it’s a very small, small percentage of people that actually “profit” from gambling.

3. Thurman8er | 04 Oct 2005 11:55 am

   Thanks for rooting for my boys. I’m saving my predictions for my post today.

   MAN, I love October!

4. Brady | 05 Oct 2005 2:40 am

   Son 2 is in a SCRABBLE club. He’s so good, he can play it in FRENCH. Blind-folded!

   How ’bout that Chelsea? kfuwe

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