Off To A Brilliant Start Here

Arizona lost to a New England Patriots team without Tom Brady, in Arizona on Sunday night. Excellent work guys, great hustle. Maybe they bought into the hype of all those different magazines picking them to win the Super Bowl. I'd love it Arizona actually did, as Sports Illustrated predicts, beat Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl this year, but I think they're nuts to predict it. Fine, the NFC East is still a trash fire, and I need to be convinced anyone other than Carolina is worth a damn in the South (and if the refs don't start calling roughing the passer penalties Cam Newton is dead and so are the Panthers), and the Packers barely beat fucking Jacksonville. But there's still Seattle. Narrowly defeating Miami, but still, when they needed a game winning drive, they got it, even though Russell Wilson was immobile.

As for baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals are still muddling along. Win a few, lose a few. They're behind the Giants and Mets in the wild card race now, and are almost certainly going to finish the season with a losing record at home. Of course, I fully expect them to win 3 out of 4, or 4 of 6 here soon, just to put themselves back in the conversation. I'd really like for their season to just be over already.