A Few Thoughts

Blogging will be light until January 5th or so. Internet access is variable at my parents house and part of the whole "winter break" means time away from the blog as well.

On Favre...notice how the media won't talk about how he helped blow the Jets season. Six weeks ago, the Jets were going to the Superbowl. Now they won't even make the playoffs and in a game where they controlled their own destiny, he tossed three INTs. It doesn't come as a surprise to me - Favre is the most overrated player in football. But I suspect the sports media - who are in love with the guy - will bury the story.

On Hamas...how stupid are these guys? They start lobbing missiles into Israel that don't kill anyone or set the stage for any type of military strategy. Israel says "stop lobbing missiles at us or we're going to attack you and kick your ass." Egypt says "stop lobbing missiles into Israel, what's the point?" Hamas keeps lobbing missiles. Then Israel attacks today and kills 250+ people and the UN condemns both Israel and Hamas. Palestinians try to flee into Egypt and Egyptian border guards shoot at them. Hamas says "All right, the gloves are off, we're going to unleash suicide bombers again." Greeeaaat.

On the Lakers beating the Celtics on xmas...it surprised me...Gasol stepped up. Do the NBA teams realize the Lakers are worse when Kobe "goes off?" It causes all the other guys to stop playing hard. Why doesn't a team try the inverse of the we-won't let-Stephon Curry-beat-us tactic and say we're-going-to-let-Kobe-go-off and get the four other guys to sit on their asses, get lazy, get cold, and endure Kobe making fun of them during time outs and then in crunch time shut Kobe down? Just a thought.