My Sports Thoughts

Ok so my apologies for not writing anything new in nearly a month. But sometimes you just run out of things to discuss or write about and sometimes you just don't have strong enough opinions to write anything. That's where I've been for the last month. I've been around doing my job at Sports Talk 1460 ESPN and doing my Sunday Morning Gospel Hour radio show too. But I just haven't really had much of an opinion related to sports as of late. But I think I'm ready now to write something new. So here we go.

*The World Series begins tonight between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox. I'm excited. Not because my team is in the Series (Rangers loss in the Tie Breaker game) but because I'm a baseball fan. There ain't nothing better than watching the World Series. Every game is great and every game means so much. So this year I'm rooting for the Boston Red Sox. Anytime the Sox are playing I want them to win except for when they play the Rangers. Former Ranger Mike Napoli is with Boston and I'd like to see him get a ring. My real hope...is that Napoli is back in a Ranger uniform at first base come opening day 2014 against the Philadelphia Phillies. That's what I really am hoping for. But my prediction is that this series will go the distance with the Red Sox winning in 7 games. But just like I predicted the Chicago Blackhawks/Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Finals to be epic back in June, I'm predicting the same thing for the World Series. It's going to be a classic series for sure.

*The Dallas Cowboys are in first place in the NFC East. That's awesome...until you realize that they are only 4-3 on the season. Granted I'm glad they are in first place. I really am. But they have looked absolutely horrible at times this year. They were pitiful against Kansas City and San Diego and defensively look horrendous against Denver and Washington. It's not been pretty for the Cowboys, however being that the entire NFC East is extremely weak this season, the Cowboys normal 8-8 season might just be what they need to reach the playoffs. We shall see.

*The Dallas Stars have gotten off to kind of a rough start so far. As of today (10-23) they are 3-5 on the season. Not really very good. But when you consider that starting goalie Kari Lehtonen has missed 5 of the 8 games played so far this year and they are considered one of the youngest teams in the NHL...3-5 ain't too bad. They got some really good, talented guys in Alex Chiasson and Tyler Seguin with great veteran leadership by Sergei Gonchar, Ray Whitney, and Jamie Benn. They have played really well for the most part of the season. Hoping they can get it together a little bit more and make a serious playoff push. We can't blow 2-goal leads like we did against the Ducks on Sunday night (10-20) or give up 3 straight goals in the 3rd period when we were tied 2-2 going into the period like we did against the Kings on Saturday night (10-19). But I think Lindy Ruff has his guys beginning to believe and when it's all said and done we will see the Stars back in the playoff picture.

*Now I saved the story that I have the biggest opinion on for last. This past Friday night (10-18) Aledo defeated Ft. Worth Western Hills in football 91-0. Yeah you read that score right...91-0!!! When I first saw the score, I thought "man...how could Coach Buchanan do that?" But then as the story began to unfold, I realized that Coach Tim Buchanan did the right thing. His team was extremely superior to Western Hills. He started substituting his back ups and third string guys into the game in the 1st quarter, his starters only played 16 snaps all game long, his punt returners were told to always call for a fair catch, they only passed the ball 10 times, and the clock never stopped running after a certain point in the 3rd quarter. What else could Coach Buchanan have done? You can't tell players to stop playing hard because that's when you get kids hurt. You can't take a knee the entire 2nd half because that's disrespectful to the other team. You can't ask your 2nd and 3rd string kids to not play hard because they want some playing time too and have earned it by their practice and hard work during the week. So what else could Coach Buchanan have done? In my opinion...absolutely nothing. He did everything he could to put the brakes on his offense. It isn't his fault that the Western Hills defense was that bad. But because the society we live in is too afraid people's feelings will be hurt, they can't just accept that Western Hills got their butts whooped and let it go. No...a parent of a Western Hills player filed a formal complaint against the Aledo coaching staff accusing them of "bullying" the Western Hills football team. That's absolutely ridiculous and absurd. Thank goodness the Aledo ISD found today that there were no grounds for the claim and threw it out. The Western Hills parent needs to just shut their mouth and accept that their kid's football team sucks. Deal with it.

And that's my opinions of what's been going on lately in sports. Hope y'all enjoy and I hope y'all will check out the new and improved www.sports1460espn.com. It's looking very good.