Dem's fightin' Phils

First and foremost, I am by no means a fan of any Philadelphia team.

But when the Philadelphia Phillies adopted the "Goosebumps" campaign this season, I don't think they had any idea how apropos it would become. The Phillies are without a doubt the most exciting team to watch this season.

And talk about coming down to the wire...The American League has been figured out for almost a week now, if not more (but God bless the Yankees for making the playoffs for the 13th straight year). Not very exciting. But man oh man, that National League sure knows how to make the end of September exciting.



Oh, and let's all let out an enormous "haaahaaa" for those M'azing collapsing Mets. Up by seven games with 17 left to play, tsk tsk. Just had to win those four games, right David Wright? I guess that champagne he was planning on drinking got rolled into the Phillies' clubhouse this afternoon. It sure looked tasty being dumped all over Charlie Manuel's body.







Now, a Yankees v. Phillies World Series seemed awesome to me at first, but I'm really hoping it doesn't happen. If the Phillies somehow beat the Yankees in the World Series, we the Yankees fans will never hear the end of it. But if the Yankees beat them, Philadelphia fans will just cry and say, "Oh, the Yankees bought that World Series," and a slew of other excuses.

I'm not trying to be a hater, I'm just saying... I've been waiting seven years for the Yankees to win their 27th World Series. That's a really long time to wait for your team to win a championship.

booo BET and Black History, hooray blogging!

--This is one way to get people to read your blog...
I'm sure Tyra won't be offended at all.

^duuhhhhhh^

Safe to say she's one vacuous beauty? I think so.

Predictions

This isn't going to completely be a sports blog, really, it's isn't.
But with the end of the regular season approaching, here are my favs for MLB honors.

Please, feel free to comment. Whoever's right gets bragging rights.

Rookie of the Year
Ryan Braun
Daisuke Matsuzaka

Cy Young
Jake Peavy
C.C. Sabathia

MVP
Jimmy Rollins
Alex Rodriguez

Anyone have any World Series champ predictions?

The force is strong with this one...

I guess I wasn't the only one who thought Coach Greg Ryan made a mistake:

"It was the wrong decision, and I think anybody that knows anything about the game knows that. There's no doubt in my mind I would have made those saves. And the fact of the matter is it's not 2004 anymore. It's 2007, and I think you have to live in the present. And you can't live by big names. You can't live in the past. It doesn't matter what somebody did in an Olympic gold medal game in the Olympics three years ago. Now is what matters, and that's what I think." - Hope Solo.

The "greatest" team you've never heard of

Not sure if this will be the post to win me the most frequent visitors, but I just have to ask...

Did anyone even realize the World Cup was going????

The Women's World Cup, that is.

And if you did, was it because of those Nike commercials with the weird PR manager, poking fun at the well-known fact that though there are a few people in this country that even care about soccer, there are even less who care about women's soccer?


The #1 ranked U.S. women's team had a shot to make people care about them this morning when they took on Brazil in the semifinals. They went into the game with a 51-game unbeaten streak and a wonderful all-time record against the #8 ranked team. If they won, the girls would face Germany in the finals, a game they were favored to win.

But could they grab underrated soccer glory and at least have people think, "Our men's team sucks, but at least our women can win something"?

NOPE.

Instead, the team lost its momentum after an own-goal in the 20th minute. They were completely outplayed and the best female player in the world (no, not Mia Hamm), Brazil's Marta, made them look like spectators.

And Coach Greg Ryan...nice managing calls, idiot. Not only did he start a goalie that had started less than 10 games since he took over the team, but when they needed goals, he wasted his subs on defensive players. Hope Solo deserved to start that game; terrible, terrible coaching job.

There was a really bad call by one of the referees that led to Shannon Boxx being ejected (which left the already outplayed US playing a man down), but anyone who uses that as an excuse is as dumb as Miss Teen South Carolina.

What a huge disappointment. But then again...if you don't get up at 4:55 a.m. when the games are on, the Women's World Cup is probably news to you. So then...carry on.

You're their best seller

So this is my new blog. And I've never had a real blog before, just a crummy online journal documenting my teenage angst and college adventures. But I think now that I've moved on to the real world it's time to start talking to the real world, and hopefully the real world will talk back.

I have no idea how to classify the content of this blog. I'm a reporter, so I love stories. I'm a recent college graduate, so I'm still learning. I'm a sports fan, so I'm crazy (and a NY fan at that, so I'm an asshole). I'm a reality television junkie, so I'm an idiot. And above all, I'm a woman, so I love to bitch. (I'm somewhat kidding, sorry feminists.)

So read what I have to say and mull it over. And please, sing my praises or rip me a new one, but speak up.