Summer In Review

Okay, let me start out by saying that I had no idea that it had been over a year since I last blogged. I'm actually a little surprised that Blogspot kept my blog up. Anyway, I guess it's true what they say, "Time flies when you're karate chopping fools left and right."

So, with school starting up again, I feel like this is a perfect time to review the summer in sports. Now if I could remember back to the beginning of summer. Hmmm...

Let's start with the Copa Mundial 2010. Who wasn't super jacked up to stick it to the Brits Lexington and Concord style??? (With the notable exception of one Kirtis R. Woodman) Anyway, the United States' publicity was their own worst enemy. Any soccer person would have told you prior to the World Cup that advancing to the round of 16 was a fair and challenging goal. However, Timmy and Tommy Football player latched on and expected the U.S. to the whole thing with a goal differential of +4,873. I will admit that Landon Donovan, who finally showed up in an international tournament, put U.S. soccer on the map with his goal against Algeria and if you haven't seen this video yet, what the heck were you doing this summer??

All in all, great Cup for the U.S., but I am left to wonder how they will do with expectations going into the next tourney anyone will care about, The Olympics!!!

What else to talk about??? Baseball?? Alright, the year of the pitcher. That's been fun. I do give major props to Armando Galarraga for not tearing Jim Joyce's head off.

Ummm...other than that, not much has really happened. The Cubs won't win a World Series, The Rockies refused to make a move at the trade deadline, Cliff Lee was traded...again, all things we are used to.

Side note: With Roger Clemens being tried for perjury, we are at the precipice of the leader in hits, the leader in homeruns and one of the top 10 winningest pitchers of all time not being in the Hall of Fame. Oh, Bud Selig you've done for baseball what Augusto Pinochet did for Chile. (Look it up, it's a funny reference. Not funny ha-ha, more funny sad)

Basketball, well the less said about Basketball this summer the better. In case you didn't know I decided to take my talents to Roxborough this year. Oh, Bron Bron, you have become such a douche. In fact, with your move to Miami you became the heir to the Massengill fortune. (Another funny joke to look up, this one was stolen from How I Met Your Mother) If you know anyone who is going to root for the Heat punch them in the suckhole twice for me. On to Melo. My Twitter friend, Benjamin Hochman of the Denver Post, made probably my favorite comment of the summer when he referred to Lala Vasquez, Melo's wife, as the Yoko Ono of the Denver Nuggets. Truth be told, other factors have contributed to Melo's indecision, lack of GM ability to do things, being east coast for life, playing with J.R., all great reasons to leave. However, he was not willing to even bring up leaving until ol' Yoko and him tied the knot. So, that should be fun.

Football: I'm always interested in football. I feel like there is a lot of hype around Tim Tebow. I'd like him to be our not third string quarterback, before I think about buying a jersey. Other than that, the Bengals just get more and more dysfunctional with T.O and Pacman Jones. The Jets are overrated but fun to watch on Hard Knocks. Dallas will start out strong and fail at the end, S.D. will do the opposite until the playoffs and then Norv will suck again. Jay Cutler will probably do something dumb, and, big shocker, Brett is back!! Hooray for pre-lockout football!!!

Hockey: Congrats to The Blackhawks...I mean future free agents for every other team in the league. The Blackhawks have made the Florida Marlins seem classy.

Realignment: Realignment had all the makings of a huge summer blockbuster film, until it ended up being directed by M. Night Shyamalan. (Slight tip of the cap to Jon Stewart for that one) We went from the potential of 4 super conferences of 16 teams each with teams moving everywhere to 6 schools switching conferences, three of which were Colorado, Nevada, and Fresno St. or as I like to call them: The Lady in the Water, The Happening, and The Last Airbender. I was kind of hoping for some awesome realignment, but it looks like I'll have to wait a couple of years for the Big 12 (10) members to get sick of being kicked around by Texas again.

Well, that's all the summer I care to discuss. I promise not to make you wait 14 months for my next post. And I'll leave you with one last embedded video:

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