Posts Tagged ‘Sports’

The Washington Nationals – Yes, they are an embarrassment

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Home of the worst team in baseball!

Home of the worst team in baseball!

Driving home from work today, I was flipping through my regular three station rotation on my radio. This rotation features DC 101, WJFK, and ESPN Radio, because I forgot how to set my presets and just have these stations  on the three bands. I was halfway home when I heard Steve Czaban try to tell me that the Washington Nationals are not an embarrassment. I almost crashed my car.

Really Czaban? The worst team in baseball by a mile1 this year isn’t an embarrassment? The team that had that had a massive scandal involving its dominican operation? The team that had the wrong spelling of its own name on the front of its jerseys this year? The team that sent me an invite to buy tickets than had a totally overloaded server so I couldn’t even buy any?2 Sorry Czaban, that is most definitely an embarrassment in my book.

1. On June 16th they are 8 games back of the second worst team in the whole league
2. They sent emails that claimed there would be a virtual waiting room. If by virtual waiting room they meant an error page, than I guess they weren’t lying. And how you send out more invites than your servers will handle, I don’t know.

The end of seasons

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Today Manchester United lost.  This marks the end of a great, but now wholly disappointing season for the Red Devils.  I knew Barca were dangerous.  I knew Xavi and Iniesta could spring a perfect pass at any moment or that Messi would unleash a moment of brillance, but I just felt like today wouldn’t be their day.  It was.  And it most definitely wasn’t the day for anyone on United.

And so ends the season of the last team I support with my heart (usually over my mind) in the span of about three weeks.  First the Bruins, then my beloved Celtics, and now United.  Now a long summer awaits, with thoughts of a Tom Brady lead comeback in New England or the possiblity that maybe, just maybe, Big Papi isn’t totally done (I’ll be focusing on the former).

Here’s to you United, B’s and C’s, for taking me just a little short of where I’d hoped, but keeping me highly entertained for the last nine months.