I find myself reading, hearing or seeing things and saying "I'm gonna write a letter to somebody about that!" Dave says he will know when I've really reached my limit when I actually write the letter. For now, it is a list in my head of things that make me go "Are you kidding me?"...
My most recent outburst was over the consideration of instant reply in baseball. I mean really. Just typing the words makes me shudder. What would Phillies fans have to fuss about if calls could be 'corrected' by instant reply. Ok, bad example, if Philadelphia fans can boo Santa Claus they are certainly not going to be deterred.
And then there was the vote in the Big East earlier this week to allow all the teams in to the tournament. Then, I learned that back before 2001 that's how they always did it and I didn't realize that. But still, what's the point of having a season if you are just going to let anybody into the playoffs. They justify that by giving multiple byes to the first four teams and single byes to the fifth through eight place teams. Being a fan of the underdog I suppose I should be excited about the prospect but for some reason I'm not.
Speaking of the Big East, Villanova won its opener against Stoney Brook last night. Go Cats!
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As much as instant replay galls me in baseball, the way the new parks are make it difficult to know sometimes whether a home run is really a home run. Even though they won, my Red Sox got cheated out of a couple runs that way during the playoffs. As long as it doesn't slow the game down too much, I think it might be OK. Now if we could just get the pitchers and batters to speed up a bit, we might have a game under 4 hours!
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