random sports thoughts

Random Sports Thoughts

1. How amazing is that the soccer team representing a country whose

leader is a Holocaust denier (Iran) played its first game in

Nuremberg?

2. While watching some of the World Cup action, I've decided that in

most cases, two hours for a sporting event is perfect. Part of the

charm of baseball is that a game could go on for hours and hours.

There is nothing more tense than an important game that goes extra

innings. However, I've seen way too many 9 inning games that go three

and a half sluggish hours - in fact I think 50% of them are Orioles

vs. Yankees games. How great is it that you know a game will be over

about two hours after it started? Baseball games used to be much

shorter years ago and I wish they were shorter today. I still like to

blame Tony LaRussa.

3. If Roger Clemens isn't implicated in the next few months in this

human growth hormone thing, I will change my blogger profile to one of

these images at some point in 2006. You can hold me to that.

I think I might be sick.

Clemens and a shirtless Joe Perry!

This picture was the first image that appeared when I typed in "Roger

Clemens steroids" into Google images.

I'd love it if Jeter were implicated but I think the most egregious

thing he's probably done to enhance himself is to put in green eye

contact lenses. I have no factual basis in making that claim but I'm