Baseball

Baseball is great at this time of the year. There are a bunch of teams still playing for a couple of playoff spots and the season is down to a couple of days. This is mostly because of the wild card. When the wild card was first introduced in 1995 I didn't like it because baseball had never had wild cards and I liked baseball the way it was. It only took me one season to begin to like the wild card because the Yankees won the first American League Wild Card. It didn't end well for the Yankees though when they lost 3 games in a row after winning the first two to get knocked out of the playoffs. i was devastated because this was the first time I saw the Yankees in the playoffs and it was the last season of my favorite player Don Mattingly's career and it was the only time he made the playoffs. This year the Yankees are the American League Wild Card. Hopefully its good luck since wild card winners have been very succesful in the playoffs in recent years.

Whatever

I really can not think of a single thing that i want to write about so I'm just gonna type anything that comes into my head. Sitting here at 1:30 in the morning trying to think of something to type really isn't much fun, especially since I hate writing. Ive hated writing for as long as I can remember. That's probably why I always procrastinate when it comes to writing papers and things like that. I'll sit at the computer for hours and find stupid things to distract me from actually writing. I really don't even intend to do this it just always seems to happen. I actually want to get the work done. I really don't know what my problem is. Youtube is a great way to distract myself for a couple of hours. Ill go on the site intending to watch one specific video then three hours later I'll realize that I am watching something totally unrelated to what i went on the site for in the first place. Espn.com is another one of my favorite ways to kill time. I'm a huge sports fan so I can spend all day reading that stuff.

The Giants Suck

I've been a New York Giants fan my entire life and I have never seen their defense look as pathetic as it did during the first 2 games of this season. Everybody has been worried about losing Tiki Barber and how that was going to destroy the Giants but it has not really been an issue so far. Derek Ward has stepped up and has done a pretty good job. The defense has been a joke. They have set a franchise record by giving up 80 points over the first 2 games. This is sad being that the franchise has been in existence since 1925. Everybody always blames the coaches but this is the players fault. The Giants fired their Defensive Coordinator Tim Lewis in the off-season because the players didn't like him and replaced him with Steve Spagnualo who they have obviously not responded to. It's time for a complete overhaul of the entire team this off-season. The entire coaching staff and a lot of players, especially defensive players, should be let go. The team is only getting older and it is obviously not going to win as presentlly constructed. They seem to have a quarterback that they can build around and that's about it. Eli Manning has stepped up and looked like a different quarterback this season now that Tiki Barber and his big mouth is out of the locker room. Its time for the Giants to bring in a new coach and build the team around Manning.

First Time Blogging

This is my first time blogging, so I basically had no idea what i was going to write about. I figured I would just write about the first thing that came to my mind and that turned out to be the Yankees which wasn't a suprise since the Yankees are something that I think about a lot, especially this time of the year. The Yankees have won the division every year since 1998 and this is really starting to look like the year the streak ends. It sucks but its not as bad as it would be if there was no wild card in baseball. The Yankees are 5 games behind Boston for the division and they play them 3 more times so they still have a shot but its going to be really tough. They've built a 4 game lead over Detroit for the wild card. Normally I would be a lot more upset that they Yankees probably aren't going to win the division but the way that this season started its a miracle that Im even thinking about them making the playoffs.