A few things before the NFL season

As excited as I am about the NFL season starting tomorrow, I have to talk about baseball, a divorce, a bad movie and golf first.

I’ve tried not to talk about Indians recently because it’s football season and they have been playing so well I didn’t want to jinx them. But winning 10 of 11 and opening a 7 game lead on Detroit warrants a few comments.

Their pitching has been good all year and has only got better (second best team ERA in the majors since the All-Star break). And now the offense is starting to hit (Travis Hafner’s bombs last night were a welcome sight. I hope it means he is locked in for the stretch run). A week ago, the Tribe was only 2.5 up and it looked like it was going to be a classic division battle. Instead, the Tigers forgot they were in the World Series last year and the Tribe forgot they finished 115 games under .500 in 2006. The Tribe the division all be wrapped up. Their magic number sits at 19. Even if they play .500 ball in their last 24 games, the Tigers would have to go 19-5 to match them. Not likely to happen. So Cleveland fans get ready for October baseball again. Let’s rock the Jake like it’s 1995 all over again. Now if Seattle decides to start playing baseball again and the Yankees remember Joe Torre is their manager, it could be a perfect October.

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The O’Neal’s are getting a divorce. Shaquille wants to get rid of Shaunie (I always found it weird that a Shaq found a Shaunie). How would you like to be the guy who tries to follow up Shaq in dating Shaunie. Is there any possible way you can live up to what Shaq did in the bank account, bed room or coolness?

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This FedEx golf stuff is such a joke. They can’t get the best players to show up for every tournament, you can win the thing without playing in all four tournaments, no one understands the points that are in the hundred thousands, the ten million for the winner is a ridiculous amount of money, but it isn’t even paid right away. The $10 million is a retirement purse. The winner won’t see the money until he turns 45, at the earliest, 60 at the latest. That’s all well and good that you are giving someone a comfortable retirement but these are the best golfers in the world. They have plenty of money. I don’t think a retirement package is something they are too worried about. Even if they are, they win it one year, what motivation do they have to come back and win it again. In 20 years no one is going to care how many FedEx Championships someone one. People are still going to care if they won a major. The only sport that needs a retirement package like this is the NFL. Maybe a $10 million retirement deal should be given to the Super Bowl winners each year.

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After my horrible weekend (that ended yesterday with Michigan, rightfully, falling out of the rankings), I something Monday night to make me feel better. That’s when me and the girlfriend decided to go see Superbad. If you ever need something to make you laugh, this is the movie for you. I would say 20–25 laugh out loud really funny parts and plenty of other comical pieces thrown in. I’m not going to try and recap all the best parts since, one, I won’t do it justice, and two, I don’t want to ruin it if you haven’t seen, but let’s just say the dance/period scene will live on like the pie scene in American Pie, only four times funnier. Go see this movie (and if you do, let me know because I want to see it again.)

So in conclusion, Tribe’s in the postseason, Go Seattle, ladies of Miami look out because Shaq is on the loose, golf playoffs are as big of a joke as NACAR’s and Superbad is super sweet.

INDIANS MAGIC NUMBER: 19