SOMETHING TO ROOT FOR

Tomorrow night, R. A. Dickey goes for his 20^th win of the season!

In this sad and disappointing season, there is something to cheer about on the New York Mess. In spite of Wilpon and his money, there is this one little spot of happiness. The shame is that if Dickey had a decent team behind him he would have won a to more games than the 19 he already has!

Gio Gonzalez has already won 20, and Dickey should have been way ahead of him. Dickey deserves to win the Cy Young, based on the lack of team support and couple that with the fact that the Wilpons are the owners, and he should get the MVP too.

To think that the NY Mess has a true ace on their team and he has more than 25% of the wins and you wonder, what is going on with this team?

By the time you read this, the NY Jess will have played another game, this time in Miami, the place where their playoff dreams went to die last year. They have to win to maintain their credibility, or they will be facing a hole early on in the season. When all you play is 16 games, it is hard to grab a playoff spot with a few loses early on. Every loss eats into the season more profoundly: there are not a whole lot of games to catch up to. This is not baseball or hockey for that matter.

After the NY Giants initial loss to Dallas, they came right back and made a statement, the Jess need to do that too! If they Jess are 2-1 after this past Sunday in Miami, they are sitting pretty, if not, they are in need to win them all for a divisional title, and can’t afford to lose more than another game for the playoffs to be realized. This is the NFL mathematics of a 16-game schedule.

Looks like no Hockey pre-season this year, as teams have postponed parts of the pre-season schedule. How much will this affect the sport remains to be seen, but let’s face it, hockey does not garner the same numbers of fans as the NBA does in terms of TV revenue, so they need to play and have the exposure. Soccer has already past the NBA as the third best attended game in pro sports, and so hockey needs to be exposed even more so.

That's all I wrote, folks!