Fall Trend: Pigskin Is In!

It took less than 15 minutes possession time for the Colts to beat the Dolphins Monday night in the land of Margaritaville. Miami let time pass like an hourglass without a waistline. And I’m not sure what’s worse- the two opportunities the Dolphins offense literally let slip through their fingers (get some sticky gloves!), one that required just a toe tap in the endzone to result in a TD, or that Pennington looked to be throwing to the Colts D on that last play. Out of time, my friend, out of time…
Yep, my Chargers lost on Sunday. More perplexing is Norv Turner’s statement that “I don’t think right now we’re as good as you that cover us think or expect us to be; I don’t think we’re as good as what our fans want us to be.” Well duh, you lost; I expect you to win. And I doubt Miami is going to execute as poorly this Sunday as they did against the Colts last night, so get your game plan on!

Baseball’s not over with yet either and last night the Padres pulled off a hell of a game. Heath Bell gave up his third blown save in the last five opportunities, though somehow managed to give up just one run in a no out bases loaded situation in the 9th. But the Padres came back to score 5 runs in the 11th inning to beat the Pirates. And not a single one of those was a homer! How do they do it? Elementary baseball, getting back to basics. They should have tried that plan months ago; now 11-6 in September and they’ve won 5 of the last 6 series, they can be the MLB Spoilers.

And thankfully, they don’t have to deal with the whiny, self-absorbed Milton Bradley, the T.O. of the MLB, who was [sarcasm] shockingly [/sarcasm] suspended for two weeks by the Cubs management after fired off his mouth about playing for the Cubs to a group of local sports writers. Why can’t breakups become final? The Cubs are like the over-stressed spouse not meeting expectations at work. Bradley is the unsupportive spouse complaining about his partner to anyone who would listen. And by the way, the lazy bum also doesn’t take out the trash or clean up at the plate(s). The Cubs kick Bradley out and he comes groveling back, trying to make it work long enough for him to find something new to move onto; the Mets? The list of teams is growing smaller by the minute. Cross out the Expo’s, Indians, Dodgers, A’s, Padres, Rangers, and now the Cubs. I heard the Raiders could use a new water boy…