Live Blog Saturday! a.k.a. Sabado Gigante!

I’m going to try some live blog posts during the Eagles game, which is a first. It’s a first because aside from the old days in pads nearly 20 years ago, I’ve forgotten more about football than I know. The biggest thing I remember is the yelling from the coaches. I can’t stand yelling. Why yell when I was standing so close and a normal conversational voice would have done just as well?

Besides, it’s not like I didn’t know I messed up. Did they really think I needed them yelling about it? Luckily I was well adjusted enough not to let it affect my self-esteem. Plus, little did those coaches realize at the time that I will soon parody them in some skewering creative writing projects.

Looks like I get the last laugh.

Speaking of last laughs, the game-time news coming out of New Orleans is that wide receiver Joe Horn will not play for the Saints tonight. Neither will Lito Sheppard for the Eagles, but we already knew that.

Nevertheless, I’m going to focus on the football here, because I don’t profess to be one of those guys who knows everything about sports. In fact, I don’t even like sports. Just baseball and running, though the running has been a bit of a struggle for me lately. I think my legs (and mind) are tired.

Perhaps I need some motivation – anyone know a coach that can come over and yell at me?

Game 5: Live updates

Are the Cardinals the worst team ever to win a World Series? Are they the worst team to ever be holding the cards in a World Series elimination game? Some think so, but I don’t. At the beginning of the season if one were to say the Cardinals would win the World Series, it wouldn’t be crazy. That was especially the case after watching them rip apart the Phillies in a season-opening sweep at Citizens Bank Park in April. The Cardinals were really good back then. They were also pretty good through the first half of the season. But then the injuries came and the Cards limped into the playoffs with many believing they wouldn’t get past the first round of the playoffs.

They’re lucky they didn’t have to play the Phillies.

Then again, maybe it didn’t matter. The Cardinals appear to have gotten healthy while tightening up the play at just the right time. And as someone much smarter than me once said, “Once you get into the playoffs anything can happen.”

Maybe that was Charlie Manuel who said that? Sounds like something a lot of baseball people say.

Nevertheless, the top of the first opened with California kid Jeff Weaver striking out the first two hitters with a curve ball that bent like a wiffle ball. Weaver might have it tonight. The perfect inning ended with a weak fly to left.

As for the worst team to win the World Series – How about the 1969 New York Mets? They ended up winning the supposed superior Baltimore Orioles in five games.