Eat a dick.

I won't defend that performance.  It was ugly.  It was uninspiring.  It was sloppy.  But you know what?  A major college football team had a chance to make a field goal, and it missed.  Then the same team got another crack at the ball, and it settled for a field goal.  Its opponent marched down the field and scored a touchdown, so eat a dick.

If there are three or more (excluding Louisville, as if anyone cares) undefeated teams, I'll understand if Notre Dame gets left out of the championship game.  You know what though?  There probably won't be three or more undefeated teams.  And the ones who didn't find a way to win, kinda like the way Notre Dame did find a way to win, well... they can eat a dick.

And so can ESPN.

I was 17 years old once.

The night that I watched Notre Dame beat Florida State in '93 was pretty incredible.  My girl that night wasn't quite up to speed, but I got a pretty decent tug out of her.  More importantly, the Irish were the frontrunners for the national title.  Those Jesuits from Chestnut Hill went and screwed it all up a week later, but at least we had our night.

It's been a long time since then. (19 years? Fuck.)

It feels good to be one of the big dogs again though.  It really does. 

Even though the Tigers are about to get swept out of the World Series, at least I have my Irish.  I'll take the wins where I can get them.  The people around here hate Notre Dame and love the Tigers.  I love Notre Dame and love the Tigers.  What can I say?  I'm a lover, not a fighter.

So obviously I can't write the script, but  you can bet your ass that I'm enjoying the ride.  This football season has been fun.  It's going to be more fun, and then it's going to be more stressful.  Just keep winning, guys.  For fuck's sake, please just keep winning.

We'll deal with the Tigers next year.

One More Crack At It

Addendum to my previous post:

Joe Girardi might as well shut the hell up as well.

Has he forgotten that there's a digital trail of all of this stuff?  I agreed with him at the time, for what it's worth.  Baseball is not football.  Perhaps it's logical to replay the missed homerun calls and whatnot, but the umpires have always been a part of the game.  Unless you want to do away with them entirely, you're just going to have to deal with a bad call from time to time.  (We know a thing or two about blown calls here in Detroit, of course.)

So a play that was obviously a double by Joe Mauer, in the 11th inning, of a tie game, wasn't cause to call for replay.  Got it?  But a flukey play where Omar Infante overran second base and then slipped on his way back, during regulation, in a game that the Tigers were already winning, a game in which the Yankees scored a grand total of zero runs, is cause to call for replay.  Got it?

So here's the deal - just shut up.

If you manage to dig your way out of this hole - down 0-2 and sending Phil Hughes out to face Justin Verlander tomorrow - people will be singing your praises for years to come.  If you don't, then you'll be on the hot seat just like every other New York coach who fails to finish the job.  In neither case will that play at second base have made the difference.  Robinson Cano and Alex Rodriguez combining to bat .100 (or whatever it is) will have been the reason you lost.  Or [insert hero here] going on a hot streak and beating up Tigers pitching will have been the reason you won.