Monday Morning Brain Fart - 11/9

Not too much to talk about in what was a pretty uneventful weekend for me. My girlfriend was sick all last week, and I tried my best to avoid contracting the plague: sleeping in our freezing living room all week, avoiding all contact whenever possible, wearing those hazmat suits you remember from Outbreak whenever I entered our bedroom. But like Rene Russo got the Motaba Virus anyway when she was pricked in the finger with the needle, I too was compromised and now am sick myself. So what is a sick guy to do? Watch sports, of course.

First, we'll begin with the Knicks to get that out of the way. They suck. Hard. Ok that's enough of them.

Second, the Rangers. They suck too apparently. In Calgary on Saturday, Chris Drury took an elbow to the head, a cheapshot that all 4 refs on the ice missed. And not only that, but one of the refs was 5 FEET FROM DRURY WHEN IT HAPPENED AND HE STILL DIDN'T SEE IT. So in hockey, when the refs miss something like that, you take justice into your own hands and beat the shit out of the guy who did it, in this case Curtis Glencross. Donald Brashear, who we never should have signed in the first place, is useless and hurt, so I figured it would be up to Sean Avery to get the job done. He did not. Did anyone else? No. So Glencross walked away scot-free, having taken our captain out of the game. Not only do we suck, but now we're soft. Fantastic. And now with Brandon Dubinsky out for 6 weeks with a broken hand, we are really screwed at the center position. Things are not looking good.

Finally, the New York Football Giants, who continued their streak of ineptitude with their 4th-straight loss, this time to the San Diego Chargers. At least this one wasn't a complete embarrassment like the previous games against the Eagles and Saints, but it was just as heart-breaking nonetheless. Lawrence Tynes began things by fucking up a simple field goal, as he is want to do a lot. This time though, he didn't actually miss the field goal, he just didn't bother to kick it. Snap was good, Feagles put the ball down, Tynes ran up - and just stood there. What an asshole. Told you this would happen.

The Giants did actually play an okay game though, with Eli looking pretty good for the first time in 4 weeks. The defense as well was decent, though they were bailed out by a bunch of drops by the Chargers' receivers, most notably Antonio Gates, that may have given the game a different look. But they did have a chance to win the game, and should have sewn it up after Terrell Thomas picked off Philip Rivers with just over 2 minutes to go in the game and returned it to the Chargers' 4 yard line. But in typical Giants fashion, they screwed the pooch in the redzone, committing a bad holding penalty and playing conservatively, ultimately settling for a field goal that assface actually made. This drove me nuts. GO FOR THE TOUCHDOWN TOM. At worst, we don't get it, and we kick a field goal anyway. At best, we score a touchdown and put the game away. But running 2 straight draw plays up the middle with Brandon Jacobs (who by the way only had 11 carries all game - inexcusable) is ridiculous and showing no confidence in your team.

Predictably, San Diego drove down the field with ease and scored the winning touchdown afterwards, which was frustrating because the defense had completely shut them down in their previous 2 possessions, but when it really mattered, they choked. The key play was the 21-yard completion to Darren Sproles that we all knew was coming because Bill Sheridan called an all-out blitz that left the middle of the field wide-open even though we always get killed in the middle of the field. What an idiot, especially because our all-out blitzes never get to the quarterback anyway. It was a depressing, heart-breaking end to a game we should have won. Oh and one more thing - WHAT THE HELL IS JUSTIN TUCK DOING COVERING ANTONIO GATES?!?!?! WE SIGNED MICHAEL BOLEY TO COVER TIGHT ENDS, NOT TO BLITZ HIM AND DROP ONE OF THE BEST DEFENSIVE LINEMAN IN THE LEAGUE INTO COVERAGE. Thank God for the Yankees, because otherwise, New York sports is in the toilet right now.

Ugh. Another week of work.