MY TURN! My Opinion On What's Going On

Thought's from the week that was

With so much fun stuff going on this week, how could I limit this installment to just one topic? I couldn't, so I will touch briefly on few subjects:

Bobby Knight gets canned for telling a student how to properly address someone. I'm not going to defend Knight and say that he is the perfect person, but let's think about this. The acusation was brought up by a student who is the step-son of one of Knight's biggest detractors. Bobby also had a witness who said that situation was more of a casual passing heading into the building.
If I was that kid who started this whole mess, I'd watch my back the rest of the time while at IU.
Darryl Strawberry is now on house arrest for violating his probation. Do you feel sorry for this stiff? I sure as heck don't. All Darryl is, is Steve Howe revisited. Except Strawberry gets sympathy because of his cancer. Cancer aside, he has made some stupid choices and had a lot of second chances to straigten out his life. Don't bet on it that he ever will.
I know his addiction is an "illness", but come on....don't you think cancer would have scared him straight? I know it would put me in my place.
Monday, September 11, 2000. What is so special about that day you ask? Well, nothing really. However, it did have the chance to be a very good (or bad) day for us Boston sports fans.
At 6:05 PM, in the Bronx, the Sox and Yankees played a makeup game which was also the 4th time the teams had played in four days. The Sox came off an awful weekend, in which they scored only 5 runs in 3 games. Not only had they fallen to third place in the division, but also fourth in the wild card.
Shortly after 9 PM at Giants Stadium, the Pats and the Jets played another Tuna Bowl game. Most of us realistic fans realize the Patriots are not a good team this year and would have trouble winning in hostile territory.
The Boston teams ended up splitting the night (the Red Sox won 4-0 and the Patriots lost 20-19). Imagine what could have been had the Sox lost? (Ok, if your not a Boston fan, you can't really so pretend your two favorite teams played against their two arch rivals on the same day) It would have been a very dark day for many of us from Red Sox Nation. What if the Pats hadn't blown a 12 point 4th quarter lead? Mini celebrations would have erupted around the city that night and a sense of pride would have followed people to work or school on Tuesday.
Pete Incaviglia was cited for assualt for verbally threatening a child at his sons hockey game. Good thing he didn't take a swing at the kid. Well, he probably would have missed anyway!

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