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10/15/2007: "It's Monday ... It's a Sports Rant!"

It's late on Monday, so we get today's sports as well as the weekend ...

- I'm not sure what they're feeding the Colorado Rockies, but I'll take a heapin' helping, thanks. The Rocks just finished off a sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks - which follows a similar sweep of the Phillies. For those of you keeping track, that's 20 victories in 21 games - unf-rakking-believable! The Rockies came into existance the same time as my beloved Florida Marlins, so we always wanted to do better than they did. Once we won that second World Series, though, I figured that was over. Now that Colorado is headed for the Series, it might be on once again ...

- It's looking more and more like the folks who get to run into the Rocky buzzsaw next will be the Cleveland Indians, who rolled the Red Sox this evening. That comes on the heels of their extra inning victory in Game 2 where they scored 7 (!) in the 11th. Daisuke Matsuzaka wasn't the answer for the Sox, who paid over $100 million for the right to put him on the hill in games just like this one. Not much of a return on investment, if you ask me.

- Ever since 1972, the members of that seasons Miami Dolphins squad - the last to go undefeated for the season - have celebrated with champagne when the last umbeaten team falls. They might not get the chance this year, as the New England Patriots are now 6 and 0 after humbling the previously unbeaten Dallas Cowboys. This was billed as the "Game of the Season", and it was for about 2 1/2 quarters. But then Tom Brady and Co found another gear and buried the 'Boys. This is how to run a football team: last year, the Patriot receivers couldn't find their asses with both hands ... and damned well couldn't catch the ball. So they flushed the whole bunch and brought in three of the leagues premier wideouts, and now Brady is making a run at Peyton Manning's single season TD record. Don't bother icing the bubbly quite yet, Csonk - if the Colts don't take them out on Nov 4th, the Pats just might run the table.

- By now, we were supposed to be talking about what a waste of effort the whole Beckham experiment had been for the Los Angeles Galaxy and MLS. But a funny thing happened on the way to missing the playoffs ... the Galaxy learned how to win without their captain. On the brink of elimination, the Galaxy have rolled off 5 straight wins - including their first three MLS road victories of the season. Now with two games left, it appears Becks is back from the knee injury that's benched him since August. Will the star make a difference, or will he poison the newly-found chemistry. I don't know, but it at least makes the games worth watching ...