The World Series just ended with Boston winning again (I never thought I’d say that). There are not one, but two undefeated NFL teams. The NBA season is about to kick off. College football and the BCS are wide-open. And we are headed in to the meat of boxing season. Oh, in case you missed it, the NHL has begun as well. But for some reason this time of year, which is usually a sports fans paradise, is leaving me kind of blah. Perhaps if I lived in Boston where the Sox have won the series, the Pats are undefeated, the BC Eagles are ranked number two in the nation, and the Celtics are about to embark one of the most interesting seasons in recent years after adding Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen to Doc Rivers’ squad.

            My problem, this particular one anyway, is that most every move a team has made that I lambasted has proven to be a good one (so far). Daisuke Matsuzaka with the Red Sox, Randy Moss with the Patriots, Dennis Erickson at Arizona State to name a few. To quote myself, “Unless the Red Sox win the World Series, signing Matsuzaka shows that Theo Epstein should have never come back.”, “On a team where chemistry and camaraderie are more important than statistics, Randy Moss will cause an implosion to an offense forced to carry an aging defense.”, “History must not be a required course at Arizona State, if it is they better find some new professors. Notorious program jumper Dennis Erickson has been brought in after less than a year at Idaho, the school which he first left for Wyoming in 1986, which he left for Washington State in 1987, which he left for Miami in 1989, which he left for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks in 1995, after being dismissed by Seattle he returned to Oregon State in 1999 whom he left in 2003 to return to the NFL’s San Francisco 49er’s, in 2006, after a year off,  he returned to Idaho and went 4-8. It looks like a rather bleak forecast in the Valley of the Sun.”

             What does this mean? Not much really. Every so-called expert opinion launcher is just spewing what he believes. After watching a special on Nostradamus recently I have come to the conclusion that none of us knows what is going to happen. We only think we know what it is going to happen. I mean anyone can read the tea leaves and say that the last time the Bears went 13-3 they followed up with a 4-12 season. Then you factor in that they let Thomas Jones leave and decided to rely on an unproven Cedric Benson. Then you play a little “Good “Rex vs. “Bad” Rex. Add in the injuries and suspension on the defensive side of the ball and a genius you will be by stating that da Bears are in for a long season. However, you could look at the last five seasons of the Cleveland Browns, then the holdout of their “franchise” quarterback who slid about twenty spots to them in the draft. That holdout precipitated a disastrous situation at the position in which Charlie Frye, the opening day starter, was traded for a sixth round pick two days later. Immaturity and injuries plagued the receiving core and the defense was virtually the same unit that surrendered 22.25 points a game last season. Yet here they are at 4-3 and staring the playoffs right in the face. Of their nine remaining games, there is only one non-conference opponent (Seattle) currently with a winning record, and just three overall (Seattle, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore).

             I should be happy for Kentucky, South Florida, and Kansas. I should be happy for the Rockies, D-Backs, Packers, and Titans. And I am, I just want to be able to take a little credit for them.