Friday, October 14, 2011

It's your call. Make it.

Peter King, a senior football writer at Sports Illustrated, picked the Atlanta Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers 24-20 in the Super Bowl. A lot of people, including many football reporters and talking heads, seem to think PK is some sort of Nostradamus. Others think King couldn't pick his nose with a power auger. Which is it? You make the call.

Hockey fans in Philadelphia recently booed an ad on the big screen for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, because Sydney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins was one of the spokespeople. They've thrown snowballs at Santa Claus and cheered when opposing players got injured. Philly's the so-called City of Brotherly Love, but evidently only if you're one of THEIR brothers. Conversely, one could say those fans paid big bucks for those seats and can cheer or boo whoever and whatever they feel like. So which is it? You make the call.

If you've been watching the baseball playoffs on TV, you've no doubt seen the computer generated "strike zone" which shows where each pitch was. Thing is, something's wrong here. The umpires are calling balls that the computer says are strikes, and vice versa. The computer is unrelated to the angle we, the viewers, get to see. So are the umps blind or does the computer need some serious recalibrating? You make the call.

Do you believe in jinxes -- specifically the one supposedly connected with whoever's on the cover of Sports Illustrated? In the August 15th issue, Dustin Pedroia of the Red Sox was the cover boy. Look what happened to THOSE guys. August 22nd saw the Nebraska Cornhuskers featured as the Big Ten's new bully. Wisconsin beat them like red-headed farmboys. September 19th featured Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers. While being almost super-human during the regular season, he's been merely average since. Uh oh. The Detroit Lions are undefeated and they made the cover on October 10th. Is there really something sinister going on with the SI curse? You make the call.

The NBA is still in lockout mode with no end in sight. Owners say they need a hard salary cap so small market teams can compete. This would obviously mean lower salaries for a lot of players. On one side there's billionaires in a world we'll never comprehend, and on the other side there's multi-millionaires making obscene amounts of money for playing a game. So who's right? You make the call.

On a non-sports related note -- how proud do you think Cher is of Chastity/Chaz right about now? And what would Sonny think? You make the call.

Dammit. Just realized there's no leftovers. Pizza or Chinese?

Hmm. Looks like I have to make a call too.

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