Frodo had an outstanding point in the mining post…IT’S PLAYOFF TIME! Time to lighten up, eat some chicken wings and bask in the glory of another Patriots championship run.
I woke up this morning
Headed down to the pond
Saw and pick in hand
Cut the hole and dove in
Oh the warmth of today
Early January frigid bliss
Some big fellas from Florida
Think they know everything
This weekend – Washington, Carolina, New England, Cincinatti
The Patriots have dealt with a plague of injuries this year, but the good news is, we’ve still got Deion Branch, David Givins, Troy Brown, Tim Dwight, Corey Dillon, Kevin Faulk, Patrick Pass, Andre Davis, Ben Watson, Christian Fauria, Daniel Graham and of course Tom Brady – protected by Nick Kazur, Brandin Gorin, Logan Mankins, Stephen Neal and Russ Hochstein. This means the Jags will have to put up over 20 to have a chance.
Putting up that many points will be difficult because the Pats also have: Richard Seymour, Vince Wilfork, Ty Warren, Jarvis Green, Mike Vrabel, Rosevelt Colvin, TEDY BRUSCHI, Willie McGuinest, Ellis Hobbs, Asante Samuel, Eugene Wilson, Michael Stone, Artrell Hawkins…
In Foxboro – today – after the sun goes down. Don’t mean to sound like a dickhole, but unless you practice outside up north this time of year, you’re in for 60 minutes of hell! Everyone who ventures up to ‘The Razor’ in January learns the same thing. This Jacksonville team is most likely more of a power team than Pittsburgh has been in the past few years, and perhaps even as tough as the Tennessee Titans team who came up here two years ago.
And while I respect toughness above all else in the NFL, the Patriots can match that and then some. As a lot of the toughest teams in past years can’t execute their offense with precision when they need to, and the opposite is true for the pinball machine offenses lacking toughness. The league is catching up, but New England still sets the standard in terms of balance between these two distinct concepts – toughness and precision.
I sincerely hope everyone enjoys this weekend’s games. Don’t miss NE-JAX tonight at 8PM…Right, listen to it on Sirius and turn the sound down on the TV!
Pats Win!!!!
Go Steelers!!!
Kind of sports related, a different sport I know, but I just heard that Jim Rice did not get enough votes to make the MLB Hall of Fame.
I am a New Hampshire native and avid New England sports fan so this is a BIG DISAPOINTMENT.
He still has 2 more years of eligability left. Maybe he will make it yet. His attitude to the press during his playing days did not help but I believe he is deserving of the Hall.
Bruce Sutter, the Cubs and St. Louis picher, made it as this years only player. He is deserving and he is the founder of the split finger fastball.
Seattle hosts the Washingon D.C. Redskins and I say go Seahawks!!! It would be fantastic just to make the division playoffs.
FRODO!!!
Preach it! Rice is being snubbed because he didn’t play to the media. The voters never consider the fact that Fenway Park’s clubhouse back then was the size of a high school locker room, nor do they factor in what might have happened if Rice hadn’t broken his arm in 1975.
They completely ignore the fact that Rice began playing in Boston during a time when racism was the norm.
I’m sure the last few years when his bat speed was down, and what that did for his stats, is the justification for the continued snub…I think it’s ridiculous. Thanks for mentioning this Frodo, we should work together on a post and spread it out a bit.
Let’s tune up the rhetoric and get this out there, because I don’t think people truly understand what Rice had to deal with throughout his career. Count up the amount of times he was called a ‘nigger’ by Bostonians, subtract the amount of times he declined to talk to reporters after the game…I think you end up with a positive number. To go along with a career of positive numbers at the plate.
Jim Rice is a native South Carolinian (like me) and deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Media didn’t like him-he could be surly too. And how about another South Carolinian named Shoeless Joe Jackson whom Ty Cobb (a Georgian) called the greatest hitter he ever saw !
Chris New England will not win the Super Bowl ! Bank it !
Chris,
This is a interesting rant on the Hall of Fame voting at “The Large Regular” blog. The article is good until he dives into the UN discussion, in my humble opinion.
http://large-regular.blogspot.com/2006/01/baseball-hall-of-fame-un-and-nobel.html