The View From Wisconsin
Just a random set of rants from a Sports Fan from Wisconsin.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Wins, Losses and .500
- Big win for Bucky on Saturday. First ever W for Barry Alvarez against Lloyd Carr, and the first W in forever against the Wolverines.
- Looks like former Badger Brooks Bollinger will be getting his first NFL start on Sunday, after the Jets lost both Chad Pennington and their backup QB to shoulder injuries. A word of advice: this is about 20 times bigger than the Iowa game from a few years back. Don't mess it up.
- The Brewers are back to .500, thank you very much. The odds are looking better that they will be able to go at least 3-3 over the remainder of the season; that final start next Sunday (which would be Chris Capuano's last start of the year, by the way) is looking bigger and bigger as possibly "the game" that would put them over .500 for the first time in NL play.
- As for the Packers – I think it would be a major accomplishment if this squad came close to .500 this year. Realistically, when you put your best effort out there and you still can't win a game, you're looking more and more like a non-playoff team. And we're still in the running for the Matt Leinart sweepstakes – though you'd have to bet that he wouldn't care much to come to Green Bay.
- It was great to see Paul Kariya finally getting into a game on Sunday against the Jackets. You can't put too much into the pre-season, but the Preds are playing pretty well with the cast of characters we have. That bodes well for my Admirals, too; I'm going to have to brush up on some of my Finnish goaltending phrases to keep Pekka Rinne focused in net. How do you say, "great save" in Finnish?
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