Football Irony

August comes, you start counting down the days until football pre-season starts because football rocks, and even pre-season football is better than no football, and then the first pre-season game starts… and you realize that pre-seasson football absolutely sucks and is basically unwatchable.  But at least it gives you a new countdown to start, the countdown to the beginning of the actual season. Its like a...

Golf: Sport or Lame?

More proof that golf is indeed not a sport, but a game.  An activity Tom Watson, a 59 year old guy, almost won the British open.  If not for some poor putting on the lat hole, he would have won.  (Or so I hear; I can’t stand  golf, but its all ESPN is talking about these days) I’ve always contended that golf is not a sport.  It doesn’t require any athletic ability.  Skill, yes.  Athletic...

The Doctor Is In

My name is Brad, and I am a dentist. When people first hear that I am a dentist, the look on their faces says it all:  Failed out of med school, didn’t you?  I know, bad old joke. Actually, the look says:  How boring.  You must be boring.  You must be a geek.  And some of that may actually be true.  But I never allowed my profession to define me.  Do I like to talk dentistry?  Sure.  When I’m...

Baseball update for July 11th

Just a few thoughts from yesterday: Ryan Church to Braves, Francoeur to Mets.  Both managers were sick of what they were seeing from them.  Church and his mental errors (missing third base for the winning run), Francoeur with his inability to stop swinging at balls out of the strike zone.  Both guys may benefit from a change in scenery and new managers.  but in the end, does it really matter?  The Phillies...