Last weekend confirmed what I’ve already known for several years: college football rankings don’t really mean anything. Three top-five teams went down, two of them to unranked opponents. I had the pleasure of watching the Alabama-Georgia game at a restaurant among diehard Dawg fans. I’m from Alabama, so naturally I was pulling for the Tide. Believe it or not, I wasn’t very popular with the majority of the people surrounding me.
Alabama didn’t waste any time pouncing on Georgia. They led 31-0 at the half, but if you listened to the Dawg fans you would have thought the score was 31-0 Georgia. You have to love their enthusiasm! By the end of the night, most of them felt as though their national-title hopes died with that loss, but I tried to reassure them that all is not lost. They need only look to Florida (in 2006) and LSU (in 2007) for inspiration. Georgia is still very much alive at this point, although the schedule doesn’t get any easier moving forward.
The Milwaukee Brewers clinched the final spot in the National League playoffs behind C.C. Sabathia pitching on three days rest. That final game was actually the third game he had pitched in nine days. If you do the math, that’s one game every three days. There are not many players who would even attempt to do something like this. And there are even fewer managers who would allow it. Sabathia is going to ask for a king’s ransom this winter – and he deserves it. He has been brilliant since joining the Brewers and he got them into the playoffs for the first time since 1982. He’s probably going to ask for a Barry Zito-type contract. Hopefully after signing it, he won’t start to pitch like Barry Zito. Nothing good can come of that.
Read more from C.C. at http://coco-vents.blogspot.com. C.C. can be reached at cfelicec@yahoo.com.
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