(Get) A Sporting Life

If you didn't watch baseball last night you missed it. There will never be another night like it while you or I are still breathing. Granted, what made it even more special for me is that every team I wanted to win (Cards, Phillies, Orioles, and Rays) did so... but still, even if one of your teams lost you had to think last night was special. The most thrilling night in baseball history Generally I'm very much against instant proclamations of "best ever" — but Wednesday night was unquestionably the most thrilling night of baseball in my lifetime. It doesn't matter who you root for. I've just seen the pinnacle, and I'm going to savor it. I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep for a while. I'm not going to try to sum up the night at length, you surely had an eye and an ear on the action. You saw Evan Longoria(notes) and Dan Johnson(notes) playing hero in Tampa Bay. You saw the scrappy Orioles breaking Jonathan Papelbon's(notes) heart. ...

I keep watching the disintegration of the Big 12 with a growing sense of horror. At this point the league is no longer tenable, though not everyone wants to admit it. However, as far as I'm concerned, there are no other options that I am willing to live with as far as the fate of Missouri athletics are concerned. Move to the Big 10? Fuck that shit. I loathe and despise the Big 10. Always have. Always will. And this isn't the good kind of loathing and despising - like the way I loathe and despise Kansas for example - its the I'd rather have my eyes gouged out with a rusty spoon than watch Big 10 athletics kind of loathing and despising. You might as well ask me to become a Cubs fan. It simply ain't gonna happen. The SEC? I'm sorry, but what the fuck do I care about Auburn or fucking Mississippi? The only people in the state of Missouri who would care about a "rivalry" with Arkansas are Ozark hill people. Besides there is no way Missouri would amount to anyt...

I hate the L.A. Galaxy. Loathe and despise them I do. However, having just watched one of the more blantantly biased referring "jobs" I've ever seen, I have to say tonight I feel sorry for them. I've had it with CONCACAF. It is obvious they hate "gringos" down there, and U.S. teams are gonna get screwed no matter what. Fuck 'em. We ought to try to join UEFA and they can have their rinky dink fucking backwater - no gringos allowed - and get one team in every World Cup. I'm sick of their racist bullshit.