Cliff Lee --- WOW. He looked all that Yankee mystique right in the eye ... and spit. Watch the video at that link if you didn't see the game. Guy's got ice water in his veins.
The first paragraph of a Sporting News piece:
The NFL has no reason to fear anything Major League Baseball does. Ever. Even a World Series that features MLB's most popular team can't put a significant dent in football's audience. Yet for some reason the NFL is caving by not scheduling a Sunday night game this week to go against Game Four of the World Series.
They're right, of course, but I like that the NFL is yielding the stage.
I don't know that Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article started it but the concern over NFL players with significant head trauma has picked up considerably. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testified before Congress yesterday. Some of the testimony heard yesterday doesn't make any sense. From the MSNBC article:
Gay Culverhouse, former president of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said NFL team doctors are not advocates for the players and called for an independent neurologist to be on the sidelines.
The problem isn't the doctors in those instances. It's the players. Doctors need truthful information from their patients. The patients/players know there is a guy on the bench just waiting for a chance to take his job. He is likely to say or do whatever he thinks will keep him in the game. An independent doctor isn't likely to get any more truthful information than the team doctor but I'm not opposed to having more than one doctor, a specialist in concussions, on the sidelines. A second opinion is always valuable. I'm all for making the game safer. More study and more data is needed. Congress should perhaps tone down their wrath. Threats from Maxine Waters aren't helping. Want wrath? Outlaw football.
Today's QOTD is about the Cincinnati Bengals Carson Palmer. He completed 20 of 24 passes and had 5 touchdowns. Four incomplete passes, five touchdowns. Man, what happened to the Bears?
Quote of the Day
If your QB has a game where he throws for more touchdowns than incompletions, he's had a good day.
Blog of the day here.
Quote from said blog: "Which is the more impressive victory, the Saints' 48-27 over the New York Giants, who had the NFL's No. 1 defense going into last week's game, or this Sunday's win over the Dolphins? New Orleans has now scored 46 or more points three times in six games."
I like 'em both but the win versus the Dolphins was awesome. -Rob
Yeah, Lee pitched one heck of a game. The Phillies also got well into the Yankees bullpen but still have theirs fully rested. And they have lost home field advantage for now. The odds are that the Yankees will bounce back, but that was a perfect game to set them back on their heels.
I am pleased.