A lot of inexplicable and surprising things happen in life. We're not sure where "After 7 games, the rebuilding, retooling, imperfect Patriots will have the best record in the NFL" ranks on that list, but it's up there.
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In a small and faint way, you have to feel bad for Phil Kessel. Not only was he traded to the Leafs, not only has he utterly and completely failed to take any sort of revenge against the Bruins (one assist in seven games) - but last night, he had to be there while his replacement became a full-time player, scored a goal, and launched the Garden crowd into a rousing chant of "Thank You Kessel". Ouch.
Well, that was a lot more exciting than it should have been, huh?
It was three-plus hours of shaky football, unforced errors, and mental miscues - from both sides - and when the dust settled, the Patriots' uncharacteristic lack of focus turned out to be no match for the early blunders of Norv Turner's Chargers. The Pats, as Bob Ryan so succinctly put it, were happy just to get out of town alive.
Can 1 p.m. Sunday get here quick enough? No. You change one player on your roster, and everybody loses their mind.
Sure, the Colts just did the world a great service by not inflicting the Jets and their fans on the Super Bowl. But you can't root for the Colts. You just can't. Even if we're grudgingly acknowledging Peyton Manning's clutch performance, and saw coach Caldwell kind of almost crack a smile, we just can't.
Mike Mennonno points out a disturbing article in the Wall Street Journal offering scientific evidence that injury machine Tom Brady isn't the hottest quarterback in the NFL. He isn't even in the top five. In a study showing that every starting quarterback in the NFL had a better-than-average facial symmetry, "a trait that shows a strong correlation to a person's perceived attractiveness," Brady's face scored an impressive 99.14% symmetrical—the average face is about 90%—but that was only good enough for 8th place. According to the study, Matt Ryan is the most attractive QB in the league, and Brady loses out to Brett Favre, Matt Hasselbeck, and, um, Ben Roethlisberger. So, if you have Brady on your "fantasy" roster, consider trading high.
Red Sox fans, though spending the entire month of August being tossed around in the Dryer of Emotion, could at least pretty much count on a win when Josh Beckett pitches. Even, apparently, when Josh Beckett pitches lousy.
Were the folks at Fenway disappointed last night? 24 hours after the zany madcap roller coaster 19-17 win, the Red Sox came back and dispatched Texas in a much tidier fashion. They did it by riding a Kevin Youkilis hit parade and a (mostly) solid Jon Lester start to an 8-4 win.
- Chicagoist snapped up some stunning images and a severe summer storm.
- LAist is still on the health beat. After following the regional city ban on new fast food restaurants, the county is proposing calorie counts on fast food menus.
- DCist caught an awkward but funny typo in the Associated Press story about conservative columnist Robert Novak's retirement after having been diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor.
Was this team really in turmoil four days ago? (Yes.) Were we convinced that the swagger was gone for good? (Yeah, pretty much.) Did we think that losing a Hall of Fame slugger would come back to bite the Red Sox in the butt (We still kind of do, to be honest.)
Guess it was too much to expect for James Posey to be a Celtic for life. The C's didn't want to commit to a fourth year, the Hornets did, and Posey's on his way to New Orleans. We'll miss you, BGJ (Big Game James). You were a fantastic sixth man and a defensive killer, you sparked some of the most critical rallies of the playoffs, and you were an integral part of the soul of this year's team. Who's going to provide the pregame hug/pep talk for all the starters, is what we want to know. Scalabrine?
It felt great for a second or two, flipping the pages of the local dailies to check in with the Bruins. Win, win, shootout win, come from behind win, win...and then that Monday night game against the Capitals happened. The Bruins came back home to Boston last night a little humbled, but we'd hoped that they were ready to kick it up a notch and not make absolute fools of themselves again deliver a quality game against Florida.
The Pats flubbed another one this weekend in the Bostonist satellite office down in Foxboro, to the hated Jets of all teams, 17-14. This one was a mud bowl, and one would think that would benefit the home team, seeing they have control over their field. But, not this time around. And speaking of field conditions, can anyone respond and tell Bostonist why in the world the field at Gillette Stadium looked more like...
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