I'M MAD AS HELL...

...and I'm not gonna---well, you know.

***ELIMINATING SPORTS PROGRAMMING NOW***

I used to like watching ESPN, but it's become a big pain in the nether regions. You have to watch all that fireworks that does nothing but rattle the windows in my house. They will spend 3 or 4 minutes describing all the special plays and stories that they plan on showing, and then spend all of 10 seconds showing it. They have two 'suits' (okay, sometimes dresses, too) that seem more like they're auditioning for Comedy Central than anchoring a sports desk. I just don't see the purpose of it all.

I finally wrote to them and told them basically to go back to a lone guy sitting behind a cardboard desk, reading scores and showing highlights. I don't need the Las Vegas show. I doubt that I'll have any effect and they probably won't change their name to the above suggestion, but I feel better.

***ACTUAL SPORTS***

Cleveland and Kansas City continue to surprise, Colorado doesn't lose and Boston is starting to look like the real Red Sox, even though Carl Crawford couldn't hit the ground with a bat in three swings.

How can CC Sabathia look like he has nothing, yet still be pitching in the 6th inning and keep the Yanks in the ballgame? Why can't anybody catch up to Mariano Rivera? Everybody in the stadium knows what he's going to throw and the batters still can't hit it.

The Yanks continue to hit home runs like they're using fungo bats (weighted bats that coaches use to hit fly balls). ESPN's crack(ed) announcing team stated that some 60% of the Yankees runs came as a result of homers. They said this was not good, but the Yanks led MLB in runs scored last year, so that's good. The bottom line, if you paid attention, is, that this is NOT good, but it IS good, which makes no sense. When did they start serving beer in the booth?

Joe Torre has made his presence known in his new position for the first time. He says the umpires are isolated from the game and he'd like to change that. Gee Joe, we'd like them to attend the game, too. We just don't like it when they think that THEY are the game. Yeah, I can see that Torre is going to be a big help.

The NBA has started it's second season, the Playoffs. They should end by, oh, middle of June? They will continue to play a style that would have Dr. Naismith sneaking into the Hall of Fame in Springfield at night, and erasing his name from all the displays. It's called: Walk, Stuff and Hang from the Rim.

I'll be calmer tomorrow.

CB-