Oh Ray & A Lot More!!
Yeah Ray, we get it! Ok, that was a cheap shot...wait so was that? I'm done. Here we go!
To take a David Chappelle line and bend it to my own needs - "What can be said about Ray Rice that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan?" Ray Rice has been bombed out, depleted and left for dead in the middle of a field of blood thirsty ninjas whose only job it is to claim the souls of their enemies to increase their power. I am not going to go too far into the Ray Rice thing because it has been covered by everyone from Oprah to Opie and Anthony, Rush Limbaugh to David Letterman, Howard Stern to Stewart Scott. It's one of those stories that people love to read and then I think kinda get tired of.
Today it was announced that the folks over at EA Sports will be wiping Rice from the recently released Madden 2015 game. That really means nothing to anyone in my opinion. Isn't he suspended anyway? Could you really use him? Isn't he a free agent right now? What position would he play? In other corporate news, the Baltimore Raves are offering a Rice Swap. You can trade in your Baltimore Ray Rice jersey and get a brand new legends of the field and court room Ray Lewis jersey. See how I just did that there? The double standard (read some here)
BUT! What I am really looking forward to is what Rutgers University - Ray's alma mater is going to do with their stadium and surrounding campus. Rice was the big man on campus during and after his fantastic career there. He led the program to relevancy after decades of less than mediocre play. This situation is kinda like the Penn State University/Joe Paterno thing from a few years back after it came out that he turned a blind eye on that whole Jerry Sandusky molester situation. Oddly enough...Saturday's home game is in New Brunswick against Penn State to open up Rutgers' first game in the Big 10 (which now has 14 teams, dumb). It will be interesting indeed. So there you have it, the Ray Rice sitch has a lot of semi-off the radar things going on around it.
Fins Beat Pats
(above is an old photo of the two teams but it sums up Sunday's game quite well)
Pats were leading 20-10 at half time, couldn't score in the second half and gave up 23 unanswered points. That's pretty much it. I am moving on.
Grilled Cheese Round Up
++ Eli was Eli Manning Monday night...the Eli from 2013, not the one from 2011. This could get ugly fast as Giants Nation gets antsy and eventually calls for Coach Tom Coughlin's job and probably a host of other unreasonable demands. Sports radio the first week of October could golden...don't touch that dial!!
++ Steelers wide out Antonio Brown tries to take a punt return to the house but there was a pesky punter in his way. Solution?? Front Ninja Kick to the face mask...didn't work. Did get slapped with a 15 yard penalty for unnecessary roughness.
++ The US Open finals over the weekend were a complete snooze fest. Serena Williams beat Caroline Wozniacki 6-3 6-3 bleh. On the mens side Marin Cilic beat Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-3 6-3, again bleh. Apparently no one watched and ticket prices being scalped on StubHub were the lowest for a US Open Finals in a loooong time. Even they don't look stoked -
++ OK one last thing - baseball is still going. If you have the chance to tune in over the next few weeks, try to watch Clayton Kershaw pitch. He pitches for the LA Dodgers. His stat line is phenomenal and it's a really enjoyable watch. Just catch like 2 innings...I am sure he will be on the ESPN Sunday night game at some point. The Dodgers are rolling so you can probably catch him in the playoffs...I recommend it...highly.
--> 18 wins, 3 losses, 210 strikeouts in 177 innings, 6 complete games, 1.67 ERA and 0.82 WHIP...and he missed a month with a back injury. SICK!
HAPPY WATCHING!!
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