By Gabe Stein | Sunday October 14th 2007, 5:40 pm
So I’m sitting here in Boston waiting for the Rockies game to start, and I’m forced to watch the Patriots dominate the Dallas Cowboys. It occurs to me that they are absolutely ridiculous. They are so good that they’re not even fun to watch. Football is no longer fun to watch. Every other team in the league is playing for who will get to lose to the Patriots in either the AFC Championship game or the Superbowl. They’re sucking all the fun out of football, and by extension, life. They are, in a word, the antichrist of football; opponents of parity, excitement and everything else the modern sporting world stands for. We can only hope that an act of God will strike Tom Brady down before the apocalypse, or else I fear this world is doomed. Pray for this, people.
By Gabe Stein | Sunday October 14th 2007, 1:10 pm
Rick in Santa Fe, you are a Higher Being of comedy. Take a look at this comment on Will Leitch’s Fair and Foul blog at the New York Times:
The humidor & the Higher Being have nothing to do with the unbelievable run that the Rockies are having [...] If the Guy Above is blessing the Rockies with their winning ways, then they’re going to be in the World Series. No doubt. Go Rockies! Perhaps the Higher Being can end the war too without installing a humidor in Iraq.
For the record, my comments on yet another article citing the Rockies’ supposed clubhouse faith policy:
The Christianity angle thing has got to stop. All the Rockies players have said that the report in USA Today was totally wrong, and none of them know how USA Today came to any of those conclusions. There’s no ban on Playboys, and the players have continually said that there is never a bible out in the open in he clubhouse. Jason Hirsch, a Jew, was questioned about this and said he has never felt any pressure or any religious tension in the clubhouse, but that it was the nicest and most accepting group of guys he had ever played with.
Rick, President Bush is wondering if he can use your humidor idea, so please call him back.
By Gabe Stein | Sunday October 14th 2007, 12:58 pm
Today would be a good day for sleeves. It’s going to be cold and wet, possibly even 35 degrees and snowing at gametime today. Welcome to October baseball in Colorado. I still envy the fans who get to go to this game, but the weather does make my exile to Boston slightly more bearable. I’ll drink a hot chocolate for you.
Also, like I said in a Purple Row thread, props to anyone who can predict the first national media member to use snow as an example of why we shouldn’t play baseball in Denver. I’m going for Ken Rosenthal, who turned in this fantastic line today:
If Red Sox-Indians disintegrates a seven-game slugfest, it will benefit the representative from the junior varsity — er, National League.
Slip of the — er, fingers, surely.
Thanks to Jordan for the Rosenthal link.
