Loading ...Bowls and Xmas Wishes
I’m a big fan of spring, summer and fall… winter, not so much. But the best season by far, as a sports fan, is bowl season… as in college football bowl games.
Starting Thursday, Dec 20th, there will be 32 games played over the course of 19 days, starting with Utah vs Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl, and culminating with LSU vs Ohio State in the BCS Championship Game. During that time, there will be at least one game every day except for Dec 24th and 25th, and Jan 4th (when the college teams take a little break for some league called the NFL). There are three games on Dec 22nd, three on Dec 28th, three on Dec 29th and six on both Dec 31st and Jan 1st!!!
It’s pretty much as good as it gets for a college football fan. Of course, I wish there was an eight-team playoff to decide the National Champion, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
Speaking of wishes, make sure and email me your Christmas sports wishes at thereitisjake@gmail.com and I’ll read them on Friday’s show. Here are some other wishes I have as a sports fan:
I wish MLB players named in the Mitchell Report would stop saying, “I took steroids or HGH to combat an injury, and I only did it that one time.”
I wish Roger Clemens would stop speaking through lawyers.
I wish the NY Jets would win a Super Bowl in my lifetime (I wasn’t born when they won in 1969).
I wish the NY Mets would trade for a top flight pitcher.
I wish owners in sports cared more about their teams than their wallets.
And if you’re not sure your wishes can come true, just remember, I wished that Lloyd Carr would either resign or be fired as football coach for my alma mater, the University of Michigan, and it happened.
THERE IT IS!
Enough wish discussion. Who is the Jakemeister picking via the LSU/Ohio State game. I know he is rooting against OSU given his Michigan degree, but as an analyst I want to know who he thinks is going to win.
While we’re at it, who is he picking in the Giants v Bills game?
Here are my predictions.
1) LSU in a close one.
2) Giants in a close one.
Also, with regard to the listed steroids users, commentators should get off their case. Here’s are two tangential points.
1) TAYLOR AND THE HOs. Lawrence Taylor on Sixty Minutes admitted that he would send over prostitutes to opposing running backs the night before a game to keep them up so they weren’t well rested. He got the idea when it was done to him.
Is this cheating? It is illegal, although I don’t know if it’s against NFL rules. Anyways, guys like me think this is just shrewd planning.
2) JAKE AND INTEGRITY. Jake knows full well that when faced with ferocious competition in MLB and the NFL and the belief that a significant number of his competitors were taking steroids (including HGH), he would take it as well. For those who don’t know him, Jake has a high degree of integrity as well as a sense of humor.
- Jake would take steroids.
- Jake has integrity.
- Hence, taking steroids is compatible with integrity.
- Hence, he should get off the case of Rocket and the other superstars who took steroids upon pain of inconsistency.
Jake,
Feel free to keep ragging on Roger Clemens – his actions clearly deserve it.
Mr. Kershnar’s argument is logically structured, but rests on hidden (and false) assumptions, leading to a false conclusion. The main one being that someone with integrity will always use that integrity.
What is true is that you have integrity, and that you’ve said you’d take steroids. You’ve also said that you think it wouldn’t be right, but that the pressures of the competition would force you into the position of cheating. The _logical_ conclusion is that the pressure cooker of professional sports is such that even the best integrity can get bent, rather than that those taking steroids have integrity. Mr. Kershnar is just being silly, and flat wrong, to suggest otherwise. Perhaps he’s trying to provoke argument?
Oh, and I forgot to give you my Sports Wish — that people would stop ragging on the Pats just because they’ve been wildly successful this season. Every bitch and moan I’ve heard so far has boiled down to simple sour grapes that their team isn’t doing as well.
I wish Jessica Simpson would come visit me. I would gladly take the lame QB rating Tony Romo pulled in exchange.
I wish Peter Angelos would vanish and let the Baltimore Orioles break free from his tyranny and his making the team the most expensive laughing stock in the MLB.
I wish that the new Michigan coach will make Jake happy (so he’ll stop complaining about the coaching staff and can actually enjoy the games!).
I wish that I will get the #1 pick again, for the 3rd straight year, in my Fantasy Football league.
I wish that the NBA … snore…snore…snore (Could there be a more expensive and more boring sports league out there?!)