Hey, finally, football is in the air. Soon, the weather will change
too. Then we’ll be able to once again say “It’s football weather.”
Translated that usually means cool, crisp and sometimes damp.

I’m tired of baseball. The sports news on TV spends the whole newscast
trying to give an update on the 50 games played yesterday. Enough!
It’s overkill. That’s probably one reason I don’t like baseball - too
many games and too much information. Each baseball team plays over 100
games and then the newscasters try to give us an update on each team,
every day - wow - see what I mean.

The NFL teams combined barely play over 100 games in an entire
season. That gives us an opportunity to take it all in. We can spend
all week thinking about each game, talking the stats and absorbing all
the information about each team.

One thing I haven’t quite gotten used to is the Monday Night Football
change over. It’s different now, and I don’t mean that in a positive
way. ABC did a great job for over 25 years on Monday nights. It’s not
just the announcers, altho’ they’re tops. It was the way they shot the
games. The close-ups were excellent. They always seemed to be in the
right place at the right time.

In all areas they made better usage of the cameras than ESPN does now.
ESPN uses too many overhead wide shots. Very uncreative. The whole
atmosphere of Monday night has changed - but it’s better than Monday
thru Sunday baseball! Thursday night games — don’t like them either.
They’re midweek, not the same as Monday when you need that jump-start
for the week.

The sounds, the grunts, the thuds, the cheers are all almost back.
Can’t wait!

Baseball:    San Francisco just built a huge memorabilia facility which is great for players and fans alike.   What makes it so interesting is that there is no sign that Barry Bonds ever played baseball for the Giants.    With all the memorabilia on display, there are no Bonds jerseys, shoes, hats, bats…nothing.   Up till now the question was whether or not to have an asterisk after Bonds’ name - it appears that San Francisco’s answer is to just delete his name.   What’s up with that?

 Basketball:The Phoenix Suns are on a roll, but my Shack has disappeared.   He seems to have run out of steam, but I hope he’ll be getting fired up again soon because the Suns will surely need him if they have any hope of holding off the Lakers for the western championship.  

Now we’re down to the Final Four - this is real college basketball.   My take, the Jay Hawks.   The high profile teams in most sports don’t usually show up for the big game (i.e. New York, Chicago, L.A.).   New York just broke the jinx in football, but that’s the exception not the rule.   I figure Villa will fold and Kansas will win it all.