Random Sports Thoughts 5

July 29, 2009 by mindpinball
Filed under: MLB, baseball, cycling, following the locals, football, swimming 

Around and about the world of sports…

  • Brett Favre retired. For good this time. Or so he says. I’m surprised; I really thought he was going to go on and join the Vikings. But he didn’t, and I’m actually relieved. Let’s hope he sticks to it; he’s done the league proud and he has nothing more to prove by coming back.
  • If I’m Tavaris Jackson, I’m breathing a lot easier, but I would still be a little salty. After all, he’s spent just about all of the offseason practically being thrown under the bus while his organization courted Favre (maybe he commiserated with Jason Campbell in Washington). Now, he will go into training camp as the man, but still with Sage Rosenfels wanting the job as well. He’s probably on a short leash though, so he will have to produce or he may see a quick hook.
  • Lance Armstrong did NOT win the Tour de France. Apparently, his third place finish didn’t sit well with him; immediately after the race he informed the world via Twitter that he was forming a new team for next year’s race sponsored by Radio Shack. Do you think it was because one of his teammates this year happened to win? I don’t know, I’m just sayin’…maybe Lance was a bit jealous that the spotlight wasn’t on him.
  • Michael Phelps lost a race at the swimming World Championships this week, and his coach threatened to pull him from the rest of the competition. Sour grapes or something about the swimsuit the winner wore, which will be banned from competition at the beginning of next year. Someone needs to remind the coach that this is swimming…pulling Michael Phelps from the second biggest event in the sport isn’t exactly the way to get more folks to get interested. So he got beat. Great competitors come back the next time and handle their business, which he did by setting a world record in the 200-meter butterfly. If Phelps is as great as they say (and eight gold medals in the last Olympics pretty much cements his greatness), he’ll bounce back without his coach’s unneeded protection.
  • At last, what can I say about the Orioles? Has the swoon begun early this year? Granted, the schedule makers did not do the O’s any favors after the All-Star break. Road games with the White Sox, Yankees and Red Sox (with two wins to show for it). And they don’t seem to have snapped out of it against the Kansas City Royals at home, losing the first two games of a four-game series and losing 3-2 as I write. Still trying to keep the big picture, and hoping that this isn’t the swoon Oriole fans have been accustomed to.
  • Finally an interesting debate…is Steve McNair a Hall of Famer? I’m glad I don’t have to make the decision, though I can see the case for and against. Aaron Wright, writing for the Baltimore Sun’s Toy Department blog, makes the case for here; Sports Illustrated’s Peter King, as part of his Monday Morning Quarterback column, gives his early impressions against here (No. 5 in his Ten Things I Think I Think). We’ll see which one is right a few years down the line.
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One Comment on Random Sports Thoughts 5

  1. JUS_chillin on Thu, 30th Jul 2009 10:43 am

    2. Man,u really know how to pick em..lol And yes im glad”Favre Watch” is over! Also,Lance Armstrong will b doin more drugs than scarface to win the next Tour de France,he might need to hang out with Phelps to slow him down…lmao Ok,im through!

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