1. We spend a lot of time here at The Back Seat Drivers bashing the hell out of sports reporters/commentators and for good reason. Today I come to praise them not bury them. Well sports reporters turned real news commentators. Behold I give you Bob Costas. First of all I Costas is one of the finest sports commentators of our generations. He's incrediably knowledgable, well spoken, even keeled and he doesn't take himself that seriously (I would point out his interview with Conan O'Brian where Bob ridicules the hell out of himself). Here's the catch, Costas has been filling in on occasion for Larry King, i.e. doing real interviews on REAL subjects. He takes it seriously which is why he refused to cover when the show was about Natalie Holloway. Now I'm all for following the doings of a missing upper class white woman but given the state of ACTUAL news CNN might as well as be covering TO 24-7. Exploiting the situation in Aruba (its been 57 odd days since she disappeared what kind of breaking stories could you have) is the type of sensational tabloid journalism that might get ratings but cloaks this country in ignorance on issues that are actually important. Thanks Bob for at least acting like a journalist with ethics.
2. If this week hasn't exposed the Dirty Soxs for the frauds that they are nothing will. Its coming down stretch and the Chi-Sox have dropped 7 in a row. Without Posdenik this team has no offense and the pitching is no longer putting on Cy Young type performances every night. In other words the SS South Side of Chicago is taken on water faster than I can eat a hot corn beef sandwhich. Would be apropos if this was the Big Choke err Big Hurts last season.
3. For those outside the Cleveland area you might not be hearing enough on Jhonny Peralta, the Cleveland Indians up and coming short stop. At age 23 (ie young enough to be MJ's son)Peralta is batting .306 with 19 home runs and 62 RBIs. Not bad for playing most of the season hitting out of the 9th spot. This kid is the real deal and should and WILL be discussed in the same breath as Tejada, Jeter and the rest of great offensive shortstops in the game today in the near future. Unless this post jinx's him which it assuredly will unless I add he still plays for Cleveland therefore it won't happen.
4. A few preseason football thoughts (note the preseason has slightly less predictive powers than a flaming bag of poop). Pennington's arm has not yet fallen off. That should be good news for Jets fans (although the year is still young). Carson Palmer hasn't looked too good the last 2 exhibition games. The Bungals have high hopes and what has held them back from the playoffs the last 2 years is bad starts coming out of the gates. I think Brandon Jacobs (of the NY football Giants) reminds me of a young Christian Okoye. The Browns, under Romeo Crennel, seem to be making progress in that they at least have some fundamentals down (like tackling and not driving motorcycles into walls). Does ESPN.com have any reporting that does require insider registration?
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ESPN's move to premium service is beyond ridiculous. Pretty soon you'll have to be on PayPal just go see the headlines. They're reprihensible. I'd be very curious to know how many people are actually signing up for this once they get to a page that they can't view without paying for. How many sales are they making a day? They're giving out Insider service for buying a subscription to ESPN Magazine, which should give you an idea about how poorly that piece of crap is selling nowadays.
PS - Here on the east coast we ARE aware of Peralta's stats. He's doing good things and is buoying one of my fantasy baseball teams at a weak position. However, it would be nearly biologically impossible for him to be my son. Not only was I not able to produce children at the age of 7, I thought girls were icky so I very much doubt that the future Mrs. Peralta and I would have been able to produce little Jhonny.
If I'm to be credited with being anyone's father, I'd wish my son to be Nate Robinson of the Knicks. It's impossible to root against a 5'8" sparkplug that can dunk better than Larry Bird.
Nate Robinson will be like Earl Boykins and challenge for 6th man of the year. Yeah short people.
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