NFL Draft

Am I the only one that can't get excited about the NFL Draft considering all the circumstances surrounding the upcoming season?  I usually love the draft, it's one of my favorite events of the year, but I can't get all hyped up about drafting players for a season that is in such serious doubt right now.  I am so angry at the players that I don't even want to think about bringing more divas to the show.

And the meeting on Tuesday left me with more questions than before!  The result is apparently that it was decided that a lockout would be illegal, which would seem like a victory if you are an NFL fan, but in fact this is really a victory for the players, as all it really means is that the owners will not be able to prevent the season from happening no matter what the players are doing.  At least that is the way I understood it all.  Why do we allow our professional athletes to act like this?  Why is it acceptable to us as a culture for pro sports to be such a joke and money pit in so many ways?

Week in Review

Pros
-Invited back for third/final interview with Echo
-Cards finally show some life and reach .500
-Blackhawks almost out of playoffs
-BMA 452 project just about wrapped up

Cons
-MTG 490391 projects nowhere near wrapped up
-Still need to apply for more jobs (I want to find a happy medium instead of two extremes!!!)
-Bulls keep winning
-Had to write film analysis on The Virgin Suicides aka one of the most depressing movies of all time

Perfect World
School was over with and I got a 1 year grace period on my loans....I need a break

Hockey Sucks

Like I have said before, I would not consider myself a Blues fan.  However, I would consider myself someone who thoroughly enjoys watching Chicago sports teams of any kind lose and suffer.  When my friends from the Chicago area watch their sports teams, I will be the first to admit that I am that guy that will sit and root for the other team harder than they are even rooting for their own teams.  I can be somewhat of an ass.  

But last week an event took place which reminded me why I hate Chicago sports.  The Blues and Blackhawks were playing in a game that could either keep the Hawks' playoff hopes alive or take them out completely.  Now let me remind everyone that Blues fans don't get a lot of chances to celebrate, especially when playing the Blackhawks.  So needless to say it would have been considered a tremendous success for the Blues to take them out of the playoffs in return for all the beatings we have taken at their hands over the last few years.  This particular game was tied 3-3 in OT, an immense moral victory being so close Blues fans could almost taste it.  But what happens?  The Blackhawks score a questionable goal that needed to be reviewed.  To make a long story short, one of their players kicked the puck (illegal) and it could be seen after further replays and reviews that the puck did not actually cross the line (not a goal lol).  Not surprisingly, it was ruled a goal.  The next day, sports reviews and news stations all over discussed how it was a total scam and Chicago had been put through to the playoffs because it was good for the NHL (Chicago being the 3rd or 4th largest sports market, especially for hockey).  

Outside of being a total jerk to my Chicago friends, I am one of great passion for MORALITY in sports (e.g. I hate Barry Bonds) and this royally grinds my gears lol.  I have also discovered through news sources since this incident that it is pretty well-known that the NHL is among the most corrupt sports leagues in existence, in terms of situations like this.  I would sit on the couch and root for every team they play in the playoffs, but I can't bring myself to watch that much hockey.  Fortunately, I believe they're losing as we speak : )

Get it together, Cards

I get a worse feeling about the 2010 Cardinals season every day.  Atop all of the controversy with Albert and losing Wainwright for the year, they have now lost Holliday for 4-6 weeks to an emergency appendectomy, and have begun the regular season 1-3, including a loss today to the PIRATES!....are you kidding me!!  The Cards are gonna need great showings from people like Kyle Lohse and Jaime Garcia on a consistent basis in the absence of their number one starter in order to have a shot at the division title.  Lohse started out strong today, but the Pirates got to him later in the game.

Outstanding performances are gonna need to come from unexpected places this year, or the Cards are gonna be left out of what most thought would be a pretty level playing field in the NL Central.