sports update

i'm not a real big sports fan, but i am a fan of baseball, hockey, the chamcar world series and university of louisville ________.  occationally i'll post something of interest from either of those worlds.  for example:

CUBS WIN!!!

• um, the cubs win their game tonight against the philadelphia phillies 5-4 on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth.  coupled with the brewers 8-5 loss to the mets, the cubs take a percentage points lead in the central, their first lead all year long.  look out national league, these aren't your typical cubs (at least not yet.  and hope it stays that way!).  uncle lou getting himself thrown out of the game on june 2 has turned out to be the move of the season.  since that time, the cubs i believe have lost somewhere in the vicinity of 15 games.  come playoff time, the cubs are going to be a hard out, because this team is now scoring runs and pitching effectively for a good portion of the season.  
  
  and i don't think they've peaked yet.
  
  the cubs are winning without the benefit of the long ball.  last week against the fucking cardinals, the cubs scored all of their runs on singles only.  in st. louis.  besides, if we're flawed now, i'm not too worried.  look a the title the fucking cardinals fluked into last year.

• in champcar related news, or will be i predict, scott speed and scudiera torro rossa look to be parting ways.  i think its fair to say the american involvement in f1 turned out to be a bust on all fronts- the us gp was a failure but i believe that that has more to do with that coked up moron and destroyer of open wheel racing anton hulman george than bernie ecclestone or max mosley.  because of geroge, that contrived form of racing that most people find popular, nascar, has destroyed most of everyone's conceptions of real racing.   real racing doesn't constantly turn left for 3 long boring hours  for 500 miles every week for 36 weeks, nor does it have to manufacture championship chases because one team nailed it and ran away with races during the season. but i digress...  

              i believe there are only three logical places scott will end up: nascar, sportscars, or champcar.  and considering  all options, i think there is a 55-45 against that he goes to champcar, the money in nascar is  something that champcar now can't offer and probably never will be able to due to management's ineptitude.  

              but then again, champcar is far closer to f1 than nascar, so you never know.


listening to :  bart ehrman - misquoting jesus (which is not a song by the way, its an audio book.  go listen to one, you may learn something)