Great day for Boston
This is the second weekend in a row that I've been able to say this: it's good to be a Boston sports fan. The Red Sox completed another sweep in the World Series. It's almost hard to believe that a few years short years ago Boston was bemoaning 86 years without a baseball championship. Now, with two championships in four years, the Red Sox are a model franchise that people can't figure out how to beat. The only thing that would've made this win better would have been beating the Yankees on the way. Oh well, there's always next year. 
And of course, as I predicted a few weeks back, my Patriots systematically dismantled the Redskins (sorry Richy). The scary thing is that the Redskins are one of the better defenses that the Patriots have faced. They pretty much took away the long ball, with Brady completing only one long pass to Moss. The Patriots just did it around 10 yards at a time. A pass here, a run here, and they were down the field. It was great to see Maroney back and looking incredibly fast and tough, we're going to need the run game against Indy. It was also great to see the defense step up and play the way that they were playing in preseason. Vrabel was huge with three strip-sacks. I was bummed that they gave up a touchdown in the fourth quarter, but oh well.
Next up: the Colts. For the first time, I believe that the Patriots have more offensive weapons than the Colts, especially if Marvin Harrison can't play. The Patriots needed only one more first down against the Colts in last year's AFC Championship game to go to the Super Bowl, and they couldn't get it because they just didn't have the personnel. This year, they have it in spades. My official prediction: Patriots by at least two touchdowns.
November 2nd, 2007 - 05:22
What can I say? Your Pats totally kicked our asses. Biggest Redskins loss since 1961. Didn’t see the game, which is probably a blessing, really, but I gather it wasn’t pretty. From a Washington perspective, at least.
Still, at least there were points – unlike the poor showing at Wembley. The Dolphins and Giants COMBINED gained 6 more yards than the Pats did. The weather was atrocious (59 yards passing from Manning) but even so… not the international advert the NFL was hoping for. Good day, though (Redskins result not-withstanding).
And of course the Sox won – yay!