Rants and randomness

• A-rod alledgedly used steroids in 2003. Yawn. I'm so ready for the media to turn the page on steroids in baseball. Dont they have better things to focus on such as why Bud Selig gets paid $18 million per year for overseeing a league full of juicers?
• I will say this about Selig, whether this is his doing or not, I for one am glad there seems to be some new blood in the World Series each year and we have some decent parity in baseball.
• My son is going is wearing his YMCA hoops jersey from last summer to bed tonight. Not sure what that's all about.
  
• Favorite song in my ipod this week is "Sometime around midnight" by the Airborne Toxic Event. Check out awesome performance from last month on Letterman show.
  
• Sun Devil hoops swept the Oregon schools this weekend. Unfortunately so did Tucson which diminishes the achievement. At least the Devils got back on track after their lost weekend against the Washington schools. Nice game from Harden in Eugene against Oregon and Jamelle McMillan stepped up for injured Derek Glasser. Hope that is a sign of things to come from the sophomore and he didn't play well just because the Portland Trailblazers coach was in attendance.
  
• Survived my long weekend as a single dad. Wasn't too bad. Kids were pretty good for the most part. It did suck being away from Tricia on our anniversary. 11 years in the books as of yesterday.
  
• Someone asked me today at church if I thought the Cardinals were a one-hit wonder. My initial reaction is I think they are. Until the organization proves that they are willing to step up and keep the nucleus together. Both offensive and defensive coordinators are gone, Boldin says his relationship with team is not fixable and Warner is on the fence about coming back. With that kind of activity already in the first week post-Superbowl, initial indicators are a quick slipslide back into mediocrity. I want to be an optimist, I really do, but as long as Bidwell family remains in charge, I'm afraid I have to err on the side of pessimism. Funny how you haven't heard a peep out of the Steelers this week.
  
• If this year's version of the Cardinals were a computing platform, I'm pretty sure they would be AMD's "Dragon" platform. You have the QB (Warner) who despite not being the overall raw performance leader, gets outstanding results and is the right fit for the team. Oh and he was the 15th highest paid QB in the league. You surround him with all-pro receivers and a good enough running back and offensive line and you have the NFC champs. Think of this way: Warner = Phenom II, Fitzgerald and Boldin = Radeon HD 4870 X2 and strong core of RBs are the 790 GX chipset. Hey, I have to figure out some way to get mileage out of my post-graduate sports management schooling.
  
• Took the kids to see Paul Blart: Mall Cop yesterday. Didn't suck that bad. Kind of like Home Alone in a mall.
  
• I'm so disgusted by the play of the Phoenix Suns and the direction of the organization, I foresee a much longer rant on them this week. Sad that the All-Star game will be in Phoenix too and the fans there can't get excited about the home team.
  
• I'm trying really really really hard to get excited about the Astros this season.