Wednesday 1/17/24
I think the Packers have a decent chance to knock off the Forty-Niners this weekend. They're playing loose, feeling no pressure, and their quarterback is growing into someone who can get it done.
Looks like Atlanta, Dallas, or Philadelphia for Belichick, but the last two teams would need to fire their coaches, of course. All three destinations could work for him. More buzz if he's in the NFC East, given the market and that it's his old stomping grounds.
Heard a meathead the other day say, "Yeah, Belichick is gonna go to the Jets to fight the Patriots and bring everything full circle. Think about it."
One of the things that meatheads love the most are so-called hype videos. Hype videos are always embarrassing. Again, I think about the analogy of playing tour guide for a day for a couple of aliens. You take them around, show them how humans are. Play the aliens a hype video, and they'd be like, "Is this serious? These are the adults of your species? They find meaning in this?" Hype videos are "deep" to meatheads. They "get what it's all about" and "why we're all really here." Just in sports terms. The hype video is also often the only time the meathead might be exposed to classical music, if there's something like Carmina Burana.
Noticed yesterday that in one of the North End cafes I frequent there's a framed photo of Larry Bird shooting over Michael Jordan in the bathroom. "Stick it to him, Larry!"
There was a lot of bad football played over the past weekend. Americans, though, are like, "Give me my football! I can't tell what anything is anyway."
The Bruins' goalie situation--I'm going to stop short of calling it a problem--may have resolved itself with Ullmark getting hurt and Swayman continuing to play well.
Alexander Ovechkin's game has really fallen off. He is thirty-eight, but the drop is still precipitous in terms of production, which is what value his game had last year. Eight goals at the halfway mark this season. Looking like he's going to limp to Gretzky's record, barring a second wind. Or get their via the dreaded "compiling."
A few years ago, Marc-Andre Fleury was a borderline Hall of Fame candidate. A lot of hockey historians had him on the outside. Then he gets the second wind, wins that Vezina, kept playing well, continued to rack up the wins, now he's an absolute no-doubter. I had him as going in some time back, because he'd just won so much. The Vezina cinched it, but he continues to add to his career. Impressive.
Jayson Tatum sounds more locked and clued in this year to me. Just going by his comments when I do catch them.
The Boston College men's hockey team's dicey third period that cost them the game against Providence at the Friars' rink on Saturday knocked them back to the number two in the national ranking. The number one team? Those BU Terriers. That's what you want. Or it's what I want here in Boston. Give me the rival at full-blast with both teams having excellent seasons. I like to imagine future days of taking the train in from Rockport to attend the Beanpot, the snow swirling outside, then departing afterwards to stay a day or two in the Boston residence.
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