Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Black Hole Of Bay Area Sports


I was listening to the San Francisco 49ers radio broadcast as they were being shelled by Craig Stadler's Seahawks squad who entering the game had won one game and looked miserable in every other game this year.  Until they arrived in San Francisco.  As the game got further and further out of reach the commentator and analyst became more and more jaded and dark.  They started off criticizing only a few things to eventually making runs at everyone on the team, the coaches, the fans, the beer guys, and the city itself.  It was fun to listen to if it wasn't so absolutely sad to listen to a spoiled franchise continue to wallow in the black hole of professional sports that the Bay Area has become.  The 49ers are down to Shaun Hill as their quarterback who can not throw the ball longer than ten yards.  This will suit offensive coordinator Mile Martz perfectly as he relies on a passing game that forces the quarterback to be able to throw the ball twenty five yards or more.  The Raiders are being run through the ground by a crypt keeper of an owner who lost touch with reality when he forces Jon Gruden out setting the stage for him to destroy the Raiders the next year in the Super Bowl.  The Raiders and their fans are the biggest jokes in the league with little hope in sight until the Crypt Keeper dies and hands the team over to whom?  The Giants went to the World Series and 2002 and have fallen apart a little more every year since.  The nightmare of Barry Bonds is over, but his curse still hangs over the team like Tom Brady's infected knee still hangs over the S&M parlor he frequents in L.A.  The Giants stink and so does the A's.  The Oakland A's are grossly irrelevant and the only people that show up for their games in the clearly the worst stadium in baseball are people simply too lazy to make it into San Francisco.  To top it all off their hats match absolutely nothing in anyone's wardrobe...except Craig Sager.  The Warriors lost their best player to the Clippers of all teams which only shows how irrelevant they are.  If you lose your best player to one of the worst sports franchises that have ever existed then you should be kicked out of the league.  The fact that they signed their coach for an additional two years proves that they have no clue what they are doing or simply don't care or both.   The Sharks and Earthquakes both play in San Jose, which does not in the grand scheme of things.   All in all things are going great for Bay Area sports.  The fun thing there is that there more teams that can go into the toilet than in Atlanta.  Two teams in football and baseball that are as putrid as baked squid left out in the sun for five days make double the fun than watching the same thing happen in Atlanta.  So I guess I can feel lucky that I'm an Atlanta fan in that respect.  It can be worse!  I could pull for the Raiders!

By the way, Mick the Cat went 4-1 with his football picks.  I, of course, went 3-2.  So Mick is coming back for another week.  Dippy is busy with his hooker...er...lawyer...er...probation officer...er...dealer.  Whatever.  Dippy is busy.  On wagerline.com, I am 48% with pro picks for the week.  I have lost another 1,000 "units" and I am in the hole for 10,000 total for the season. Things are going well.  

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