So...This Is My 30's?

Not Quite A Testosterone Tuesday
November 28, 2006

I'll get into my usual diatribes on sports, sex and such, but I have to admit that tonight I'm taking one for the team. I agreed to go with Batgirl to a concert many months ago. It's music that I've never been into, will likely never get into, and will have to drive 90 minutes with her to get there. It didn't really hit me until today. Not very manly; I know. I'm swamped at work and will need to leave no later than 4pm so that we can make it on time (with traffic, it's going to take me nearly an hour to get to her apartment). I look at it this way: for all the suffering I've put her through with friends' weddings and birthdays, a trip to Atlanta to see the Giants play, and my Sunday whining over my horrible fantasy football team, I owe it to her. No need to present me with a medal.

Now onto the entertainment portion of the posting...

This is now twice in one season that the Giants have forced me to say I'm embaressed to call myself a Giants fan. Sunday's meltdown in Tennessee was nothing short of disgraceful. The blame game starts from the top with the coaching staff for not having this team ready to play 60 minutes for a third straight week, and can basically end with the players for having zero ability to think for themselves.

Why is it other team with injuries woes can seem to find a way to win? Easy: Coaching. Why is it guys like Plaxico Burress continue to dog it (and get away with it)? Coaching. Why is this team continues to commit stupid penalties to keep drives alive? Coaching.
Memo to Tom Coughlin: if you're going to rip your players for airing "dirty laundry" to the press, why not practice what you preach?
I'm seeing way too many parallels between the Red Sox and the Giants. I guess now I can cite examples when people ask me how I could be both a fan of a Boston team, and fan of a NY team.
I don't know about you, but don't you find in a little unusual that all these paparzzi pictures of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton hanging out also constantly show them holding hands? Do you think the Kevin-Federline-fueld rumor that Brit is bi could be true? That's hot.
As much as I rip Michael Vick at every chance I get, I will take the time to say this week that it ain't all his fault. Vick's receivers blow donkey dick. Roddy White dropped an easy pass inside the Saints' 20 on a late drive that could have pulled the Falcons into a tie.
That said, giving your hometown fans the bird when there are kids who look up to you watching was nothing short of classless Vick. Dare I say, the Michael Vick days in Hot-lanta are coming to a close? Ask Byung-Hyung Kim what happens when a guy gives the finger to the home crowd.
Oh please! Please--say it is so Theo! I'll be the first guy pulling up to Fenway to take Manny to Logan.
Let me get this straight, though, Theo: we're willing to pay $14-million for the soft JD Drew (who is a great player WHEN healthy), but we weren't willing to pay that to Johnny Damon last winter. I guess we all learn from our mistakes, eh?
Not to dwell on the Britney/Paris Sex-press too much, but how'd ya like to see this threesome? Talk about storage for the Spank Bank!
It may be time for us to start taking the 9-2 Baltimore Ravens seriously, eh?
Sorry Bears fans, but your boys are going to suffer from the same problem my Giants have. It just hit you a little later: a gun-slinging young QB who has no confidence in his ability, and no concept of how to make decisions on the fly. At least you have Brian Griese to turn to; we have the "Round Mound of Touchdown" Jared Lorenzen.
One last Britney item (man, she's on a roll this last week): would you just please fulfill my prediction that you'd be posing in Playboy by age 30 to sve your career? These beaver shots coming out of Paris Hilton's truck is just a tease!
Please, Big Blue--would you show us some pride and lay the same smackdown you placed on the Cowboys in their house, in our own den this coming Sunday? In case you forgot, first place is on the line, and 'The Boys answered the bell to go 4-1 since that Monday Night Massacre. Who you got?