Well I was all fired up to do a show today until the White Sox and Angels decided to delay the inevitable and force their respective series to Game 4.  After a busy weekend of baseball, Arizona football, NFL and college football I was ready to rant for a good 2 hours.  Oh and I almost forgot, the NHL season opener and the WNBA Championships!  So for now, it will have to wait until tomorrow, when Happy Hour returns for a full two hours.  In the meantime, a quick preview of what we’ll be talking about:

MLB Playoffs

• Fairly shocked that the Cubs rolled over so easily until I realized the Diamondbacks did the same to them last yea
• Why are they such an easy playoff team?  Its gotta be the pressure, there’s no other excuse
• Philly versus LA couldn’t be bigger contrast in fan bases.  Philly fan’s lives are at stake in this series; meanwhile there’s a good chance 5 out of 10 random people you would meet on the street in LA have no idea the Dodgers are in the playoffs.
• Let’s hope we get a competitive series, though it looks like the early line (according to, well, me) is for a Dodger win in 5 games
• Sure, the Angels may have won last night but they lost as well.  The game should have been over in 9 innings, but instead the Angels, and the Red Sox, were forced to use up most of their bullpen.  Its not as big of a deal for Boston, considering they are at home and have the series lead.
• When I saw the play in the top of the 2^nd that led to the Red Sox clearing the bases and tying the game at 3, I had to check to make sure the Red Sox weren’t playing the Black Sox.  Bases loaded, 2 out and Jacoby Ellsbury skies a routine pop up a beyond 2^nd base.  This wasn’t one of those bloop singles that lands in short center before anyone can get in good position to catch it but rather a pop up that stayed in the air for enough time for me to microwave my dinner, check my fantasy football leagues and play a game of Spider Solitaire.  Instead of being caught and ending the inning, 3 Angels including perennial Gold Glover Torri Hunter watched the ball drop between them, when all 3 had a legitimate shot of camping underneath it.  Just inexplicable.

NFL

• How about them…Redskins?  Wow, talk about a physical, smart football team.  What does this say about Joe Gibbs?  Why do I feel the need to bring up a negative for team with so many positives?  This used to be the team that saw its best player dress up in costumes for press conferences and overpay middling talent.  Now it’s a team that doesn’t back down, overpowers you and has plenty of weapons offensively and defensively.
• How do people forget so easily that the Chargers are still a team coached by Norv Turner?  Shame on anyone who predicted them to win the Super Bowl.
• Who’s the best team in the NFL?  Still too early to tell.  The Giants schedule is about to get absolutely brutal.  The Titans won’t get the attention they deserve because they are, afterall, the Tennessee Titans.  And the Cowboys are too combustible to forcefully assert themselves as the best.
• Who’s the worst team in the NFL?  I couldn’t imagine the Lions, the Rams or the Benglas doing anything to take them off this list.