It's been awhile

Alright it's been almost a month since posting. Should I have started that, "Bless me father I have sinned" sorry old Catholic habit. So why you ask, has it been so long. I am working, and I can't tell you where., but I am working a lot. This sometimes is a bad thing but for now I like my job, it still has that "new" job smell, so the long hours are a good thing. At my old job it was a chore to just get out of bed to get ready for work. Eight hours of misery. Now I jump out of bed raring to go. OK so I don't really jump, it's more like roll out of bed, knees cracking, moaning, well you get the picture. In the end I get to work. So what things have I missed telling you all about?
Baseball:
      I love baseball. It is the greatest game there is. It is the only sport where the defense controls the ball. I am a Yankee fan, I know some of you have stopped reading at this point but let me go on, I am a Yankee fan and I like Red Sox fans. Old time baseball fans not the new "I'm a Red Sox fan because I hate the Yankees fan". just because you could not stomach all those losing years as a Royals fan, or Padres fan so you saw all the fun the Sox fans were having in '04 (I know '07 also, they don't let you forget that one) and jumped on the bandwagon. So without too much gloating let's talk about the collapse of the Sox. On September 1, 2011 the Atlanta Braves were sitting in second place in the National League Eastern Division and had an 8.5 game lead in the wild card race over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Braves tanked the end of the season and the Cards went on to the playoffs. The only saving grace for Braves fans was the fact that they didn't do as bad as the Red Sox. On that same September 1, the Red Sox had a half game lead over the Yankees in the Division race. By the 3rd, they were a half game behind New York but still had a nine game lead over Tampa in the wild card race, again, the Sox managed somehow to squander that lead and ended up watching the playoffs from home (here to make you feel better, five games later the Yankees were also home watching the rest of the playoffs). Still, if it weren't for the Red Sox the end of the season would have been boring. Baseball relies on the Yankee/Red Sox rivalry to boost revenue each year. If it were not for the rabid fans in New England and The metro tri state area no one would care. Yes Chicagoans you are great fans also.So now that the Red Sox are done and the Yankees are done, who cares who wins the World Series (Taxes Rangers vs St. Louis Cardinals, first game Wednesday night, just in case you wanted to know) it is now football season.
Football:
     Going into week six of the NFL season, both Buffalo and Detroit were atop their divisions with just one loss for the Bills and the Lions were undefeated. I'll let that sink in for a bit. (cheesy elevator music ) Yes you read that right. The Buffalo Bills in week six brought their 4-1 record into Giants Stad, no I'm sorry, The Meadowlands Stad, again sorry, The Met Life Stadium. (side note, the Met Life Stadium, really, come on and for how long? There should be a rule that if you want to pay huge amounts of money to have your name on the stadium it should be for as long as Lambeau Field in Green Bay [named Lambeau Field in 1965 after Packer founder Curley Lambeau] or Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City [1972 -present] ) OK got that off my chest, no I didn't, really Met Life Stadium, ooohh the image of Snoopy on a blimp makes the opponents quake in their boots. It makes the Yale Bowl sound tough. Week six, the Giants improved to 4-2 with a win over the Bills and the fact that the Giants are 4-2 is a whole other matter. In Detroit at Ford Field (jeeze ) the 49ers beat the Lions to go to 5-1 and the Lions fell to second place behind Green Bay. What's the lesson here, keep the name of your stadium. No really it's that the season is now a third over and the games are getting more important as we approach the playoffs.
    So I've bored you enough with sports, let me tackle the new TV season tomorrow.