Texas Tech 31 Texas A&M 27

Arrgh matey, me thinks whence a scallywag coach uses ye option offense, ye best to put on leather helmets as nether have been relevant in NCCA football for 50 years. Ye best get a new bag of tricks Coach Fran or you’ll find yourself walking the Aggie plank. A hearty Congratulations to the swashbucklers of Texas Tech, the Raiders played a tough game. Next time, don’t let me catch ye Raiders be napping though ye third quarter or you may find yourselves in Davey Jones’ Locker against Mizzou.

For those of you who have no idea what any of that means, Texas Tech, my Alma Mata beat their most hated rival, Texas A&M, this weekend in one hell of a game. Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach is the strangest man in college football, maybe even on the planet. Leach motivates/confuses his players with stories from Under the Black Flag, hence the Pirate lingo. Coach Leach is also an offensive genius.

With no computer access for the weekend, I caught no footage of the Mets-Nats series. The box scores look reassuring. Let’s hope the Mets can get on a roll for about a month or so.

Even without computer access, I heard the bad news about Pedro needing rotator cuff surgery. No Pedro until June next year at the earliest. Who knows what Pedro will be like when he comes back. The thing he has going for him is the ability to adapt to physical decline. Pedro needs to take his time coming back until he is 100%, which may be the hardest part of all of this. It is obvious from Pedro’s behavior and body language that he desperately wants to contribute and help this team win.

I hope Omar has made the acquisition of Barry Zito his top priority for November. Write it down so you don’t forget it. No media tactics like the Mets pulled with Vlad Guerrero in the hopes of a discount are appropriate or advisable. Take a blank contract and a blank check. However how much you pay for a 28 year old left-handed Cy Young winner who has never been injured and never thrown under 200 innings will be considered a bargain.

What the hell is going on with Lastings Milledge? What could he possibly be doing to upset the team? Whatever it is why won’t he stop? The Mets all need to take the advice of Rodney King when he said, “Stop hitting me!”

He also said, “Cant we all just get along?” How a team that is so close-knit and focused lets things like this happen days before the National League Division Series is troubling and bizarre. Maybe that unnamed source had it right.

Anyway, the Dodgers will be the Mets NLDS opponent in the first round. I have taken criticism about my hatred for the Dodgers. People told me I need to respect the Dodgers because they used to play in New York. Well I still hate the Dodgers, always have and always will. I wonder about the Mets fans that think we should name the new stadium Jackie Robinson Stadium and make it look like Ebbets Field and spend out lives in a living tribute to a team that abandon New York. Which team are those fans rooting for?

From the Los Angeles Times:

Roger Clemens, 44, one of professional baseball’s most durable and successful pitchers, is among six players accused by a former teammate of using performance-enhancing drugs, The Times has learned. The names had been blacked out in an affidavit filed in federal court.