Just call me BISdom

Again, I've found it hard to start blogging again after some time off. I'm hoping to start blogging semi-regularly again, but we'll see.

I love live Sportscenter in the morning. It's so much better than live Cold Pizza in the morning. It's also much better than non-live Sportscenter in the morning. Sage Steele and Hanna Storm just made fun of Josh Elliot for being a Lakers' fan, in light of yesterday's debacle. Elliot responded by ignoring them and talking about Big Baby's last-second shot-and-shove at the end of the Celtics/Magic game. If you didn't see it, Davis followed up his game-winning shot by pushing – probably inadvertently – a 12-year-old or so Magic fan on the sidelines.

Bryan and I were talking the other day about nicknames that pretty much replace real names, like Big Baby or K-Rod or even the Cole Train. I think Big Baby has to be the worst. But that's only because my suggestion of F-Rod hasn't really taken off for Francisco Rodriguez. As cool as that name would be, it might be more embarrassing than Big Baby. I'd say D-Pad would be somewhere near the bottom, too.

I'd put the over/under for Brett Favre returning next year at about 65%. I'd put the over/under on me actually caring at about 6.5%. I will admit, though, that I began to plan a blog that started with a comment about both Bretts coming out of retirement again. But, since his return is unofficial again, I don't know that it really worked. Plus, I didn't really retire from blogging.

The Cardinals' bullpen is still just silly. Yesterday, Ryan Franklin gave up a game-tying 3-2 home run to pinch hitter Micah Owings. I really want to refer to Owings as a "pitch hitter," since he's a pitcher and all. Does that work for you guys? I don't know. Anyhow, the Cardinals' pen is really scary and frustrating right now. My parents' friend Al brought us an article about Dave Duncan from USA Today. Basically, the article raves about Duncan's ability to turn supposedly washed-out pitchers into quality starters, like Kyle Lohse, Todd Wellemeyer, and Joel Pineiro. It even quotes La Russa calling Duncan "the Albert Pujols of pitching coaches." I don't understand why this ability doesn't seem to extend to the bullpen. Frustrating. But, the Cardinals won the game and Chris Perez got his first save of the season, so I guess I can't complain.

While I was writing this blog, this commercial came on ESPN. It reminds me of the Lil Penny commercials, except not as funny.

Since this is my first blog since Matthew started his own blog, I definitely need to give him a plug, just in case any of the few people who read my blog don't already know. It's got a pretty bad name, but it's definitely worth a look. I think he should come up with a daily feature or something, though. Like...

QotD:

What should Matthew's daily feature be?

My take: I'd like a stat of the day or something like that. But I like having some way for my (few) readers to actually get involved, hence the QotD. So, maybe he should go with something like that.