Tuesday, May 18, 2004
The Bachelor, Final Post!
The finale to The Bachelor is tomorrow. I suspect few, if any, Eagles fans watch (it is mostly a girl thing: at my law school the girls were clustered around the TV in the study lounge watching when we were up at school studying one night), but my fiancee loves the show and I've been entertained this season: they found this model from Miami who thought she had the Bachelor (Giants QB Jesse Palmer) in her hip pocket before things went awry. Last week, despite being cut the previous week, she showed up and basically begged him to ditch the girl he was with and go up to her bedroom. Wisely, he refused. The finale will be boring because both girls are carbon copies of each other (blonde, thin, young), but I wonder if Mr. Palmer will even have a job with Mr. Manning entrenched at the No. 1 slot and the prospect of a veteran backing him up might mean the end to his tenure in the Big Apple.
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Survey of the News...
It is hard, during the spring to come up with stuff to talk about. I've been concentrating on my Phillies blog, studying for the bar exam, searching for a job, and helping my fiancee plan our wedding. Here were a few things I noticed:
Deion Out, Shannon In: I almost missed this news nugget from the other day: Deion Sanders is finally out at CBS and will be replaced by Shannon Sharpe, formerly of the Denver Broncos ’97 and ’98 Super Bowl teams (and the Ravens 2000 squad). I never liked Sanders, whose faux-posturing, incoherent yelling and out-sized ego just grated on my nerves. Sharpe is a funny guy and I'm sure he has 50X the insight into the game that Sanders, who just came across as stupid, did.
I feel bad for A.J. Feeley: the Dolphins look like they are a real mess, and the shame of it is that I think A.J. will really help them out. Their problem is that Fielder [sic] was never a guy to inspire confidence, but the comments comparing Jay to A.J. are ridiculous: A.J. is a winner and he'll win in Miami, unless the coaches screw it up. The Dolphins perpetual late-season swoon isn't a function of a warm-weather team in a cold climate: they get out-coached. Their 27-24 loss to New England in the 2002 campaign was ridiculous: they blew an insurmountable 11 point lead with just a few minutes to go because they made terrible play-calling decisions.
More later, ya'll!
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Deion Out, Shannon In: I almost missed this news nugget from the other day: Deion Sanders is finally out at CBS and will be replaced by Shannon Sharpe, formerly of the Denver Broncos ’97 and ’98 Super Bowl teams (and the Ravens 2000 squad). I never liked Sanders, whose faux-posturing, incoherent yelling and out-sized ego just grated on my nerves. Sharpe is a funny guy and I'm sure he has 50X the insight into the game that Sanders, who just came across as stupid, did.
I feel bad for A.J. Feeley: the Dolphins look like they are a real mess, and the shame of it is that I think A.J. will really help them out. Their problem is that Fielder [sic] was never a guy to inspire confidence, but the comments comparing Jay to A.J. are ridiculous: A.J. is a winner and he'll win in Miami, unless the coaches screw it up. The Dolphins perpetual late-season swoon isn't a function of a warm-weather team in a cold climate: they get out-coached. Their 27-24 loss to New England in the 2002 campaign was ridiculous: they blew an insurmountable 11 point lead with just a few minutes to go because they made terrible play-calling decisions.
More later, ya'll!
Thursday, May 13, 2004
A Quick Word About the Berg Tragedy...
I know that a lot of people in the Philadelphia area are really stunned by the Berg tragedy.
Nick was my age (26; I’m 27), and he grew up in the same area (West Chester; I grew up in Downingtown, about five minutes away). After I heard about his death I was stunned and saddened, thinking about how terrible it must have been for the Bergs to have their son stolen from them. Seeing the media descend upon West Chester, I felt even worse for them for having to deal with their grief upon the public stage.
I don’t want to comment on U.S. policy in Iraq or on the War on Terror because I want The Bird Blog to be a refuge from the sea of insanity that seems to be gripping the world: I just want everyone to keep the Bergs in their prayers this week. God bless.
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Nick was my age (26; I’m 27), and he grew up in the same area (West Chester; I grew up in Downingtown, about five minutes away). After I heard about his death I was stunned and saddened, thinking about how terrible it must have been for the Bergs to have their son stolen from them. Seeing the media descend upon West Chester, I felt even worse for them for having to deal with their grief upon the public stage.
I don’t want to comment on U.S. policy in Iraq or on the War on Terror because I want The Bird Blog to be a refuge from the sea of insanity that seems to be gripping the world: I just want everyone to keep the Bergs in their prayers this week. God bless.
Monday, May 03, 2004
An Apology....
I apologize to all readers of The Bird Blog: I haven't posted much these last few days due to law school finals and the fact that my laptop is infected with the Sasser Worm and (I suspect) other viruses. I'll have to get things ironed out here in the next two or so weeks before I can get back on. I haven't forgotten about you guys ... things have just been tough.
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