Wow

I didn't get a ton of sleep yesterday. I stayed up to watch the whole Red Sox- Yankee game, plus in the morning, a car parked near my apartment was having "alarm trouble", meaning it was going off for about thirty seconds for every minute. That pretty much sucked, I have to say.One word about the series. I don't blame Terry Francone. Schilling's ankle was far worse than they obviously expected. The relief pitching all simutaneously melting down in game three is not his fault either. The one move I really fault him for is staying with Mark Bellhorn for so long. I realize that Pokey is not exactly Ryne Sandberg at the plate at second, but he's far closer to Bill Mazeroski defensively, certainly more than Bellhorn. At least two plays last night would almost certainly have been made by Reese, plus a few that were not even attempted at the Stadium. Bellhorn has not produced offensively, so why not improve the defense? Of course, if Bellhorn gets a big hit tonight, I will be the first to agree that I am a moron.

If the Yankees are Pedro's daddy, does that make Bill Mueller Mariano Rivera's?

Rmember, before any potentially Democratic voters get despondent, particularly with the Gallup poll, remember that Gallup showed Bush with a 13% lead last time, on Oct. 26.Now, Gore did not exactly run a terrible campaign, but he didn't run one good enough to make up a 13 point gap in a week and a half either. Besides, if by the weekend the tracking polls show movement to Kerry, then will all the pundits say the race is Kerry's?

I agree with a lot of what John said about the Packers, though they certainly didn't seem to need anything yesterday as the crushed the Lions. I agree that Slowik needs to go. The defense is a gimmick, and gimmicks typically don't work for very long. Right now they are either blitzing everyone or blitzing no one, putting everybody in coverage. There has to be a happy medium. THe secondary is obvoiusly the issue. Darren Sharper has looked like he's been playing in sand so far this year, and the corners are young and need the safety help, and he's not providing it. I would say that they need to invest their next first round pick in either a defensive end, possibly David Pollack or Marcus Spears, or perhaps someone bigger like Dan Cody. Put Kampman and KGB on one side, becasue Kampman is much better against the run, and get KGB going on third down. If none of those ends are available, or they don't want to reach, I would take a safety, and moe Sharper to strong. Keep Bubba Franks. Take the heir to Favre in the Second round, someone like Dan Orlovsky of UConn, Kyle Orton of Purdue, David Greene of Georgia or Alex Smith of Utah. The big names like Andrew Walter, and potentially Leinart and Rogers will be gone already anyway. They also should look at drafting another corner, or adding Depth at DT and along the O-line.

The Lions need to add another defensive end opposite James Hall, since it has become obvious that Kalimba Edwards is not going to be a big time player. They also may need a safety badly, because both their safety's are old and slow. Shazor would look good, but if they end up drafting really low in the first round, I would hope they would take David Baas out of Michigan to play Left Guard.