A Weekend to Remember

This weekend I took a vacation from my five month long vacation in Buenos Aires to a beach on the coast of Argentina called Mar del Plata. I figured I'd take in some sun and escape the city for a weekend. Limited success: the beach town was actually a very touristy beach city- so much for the escape. I had a very mediocre in Mar del Plata time eating at perhaps the worst seafood restaurant in the Western Hemisphere, and enduring chilly weather on what was supposed to be a beach filled weekend. Its a hard life being on vacation all the time.

Buried waist deep in South American soccer [I still haven't fully caught on, but I may come around] and without knowledge of American sports for 60 hours, I returned from my vacation from a vacation to find that everything I generally support in the world of sports decided to shit the bed this weekend.


1. The Red Sox lose in 11 innings to Tampa behind a masterpiece by Josh Beckett. Is he hurt? I don't get it. I didn't see the game because I was eating bad fish, but seriously, what's the deal Josh?

2. The Patriots lose 30-10? Really 30 to 10? That's just terrible. WHERE IS THE DEFENSE THIS YEAR? I know Tom is gone and the defense has been on the field longer than it is accustomed to, but c'mon guys. I'm sure I would have paragraphs worth to comment about if I actually saw the game, but again, I was eating bad overpriced fish, and busy freezing at the beach.

3. The Tyler Durdens, my fantasy football team, suffer their first loss of the season at the hands of the Tony Romo lead Ryan Hanlon squad. Major, highly unnecessary, and overly reactive roster shake up to follow Monday night.

3. I returned Monday during the 7th inning of Sox Rays just in time to see Rocco Baldelli's dagger of a 3 run bomb of off Paul Byrd. Sweet.

4. Tonight as I'm writing this Pena, and Longoria go off on Wakefield in the top of the first. Just what we needed.


Other notes:

1. Thanks to whoever voted for Manny Delcarmen 12 times.

2. The NFL is completely absurd, but I love it. Truly anybody can win any game. The league is especially fun this year because it's upside down. Atlanta and Arizona are 4-2, and Indy and New England are barely hanging in week 6.

3. Do the Red Sox enjoy being down 3-1?

4. I will not be participating in the post Thanksgiving Hudson football game due to a geographical complication. I'm not happy. Though my team may fair better with a quarterback who can actually complete 30% of his passes.

5. I may have sold my soul to the Fantasy Devil as last night I completed a trade with my struggling arch rival, Choor, to acquire my least favorite player in the NFL- Terrell Owens. [Kurt Warner/Joe Addai/Laverneus Coles for Owens/Chris Johnson/David Garrard] I felt the need to shake it up a bit. I don't know who I am anymore... An overreaction to a bad weekend in my world of sports... perhaps.


And the Sox continue to allow the Rays to score almost apathetically....

"its been so long, but I guess that's how everyone else feels... all the time..." -Keifer