Monday musings

Pretty big development out here -- I am looking out my front window here at Dave's World HQ in West Seattle and see a big patch of blue in the sky. This is the first piece of non-grey sky I have seen in the week since I've come back from Boston.

I moved out here right around the time rainy season ended, so I forgot how dreary it can get here, especially right after you turn the clocks back and it is dark at 4 p.m.

So right now I'm going to head off and do what I call The Seattle Stare, where you stop what you're doing and look up at that rare patch of blue sky and ponder the fact you haven't seen the sun for weeks and probably won't see it again for another several weeks unless you jump into your car and drive to California or something.

*OK, I'm back. What an awesome finish to Kansas City-Oakland yesterday. When the second-to-last play got stopped at the one-yard line, I was all but screaming at my television for the Chiefs to go for the touchdown instead of a game-tying field goal, and I could care less either way about the Kansas City Chiefs. The best part of this is that it took about four seconds after the final play for Dick Vermeil to start crying. I know Dick Vermeil cries about everything, but it has been awhile since he's done so in the national spotlight. God bless Dick Vermeil.

*T.O. is back in the news, and … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz … *yawn* … what was I talking about?

*The New England Revolution are playing in Copa MLS? Am I reading this right? When did this happen? Here's my take on soccer: I love World Cup soccer. I love following the U.S. men's national team. Some of my fondest sports-viewing memories involve the men's national team, including the time my friend Chile (of Dave's World Chile's Corner fame) accidentally got us tickets in the Jamaican rooting section for the US-Jamaica qualifying match at Foxboro Stadium. Or the time Chile and I went to a Gold Cup doubleheader in Foxboro, and the El Salvadoran fans claimed the section we were sitting in as their rooting section for their match with Costa Rica, and I was unwittingly wearing Costa Rican red.

MLS? Not so much. The last MLS match I was at was a Revs-Burn game I covered for the Ft. Worth newspaper last fall. The last MLS game I attended as a spectator was a D.C. United-Revs game in April or May of 2004. There was a crowd of about 25,000 there to see Freddy Adu. DC scored on a Revs own goal about five minutes in and then spent the next 85 minutes clogging the midfield. It was as if they were making a deliberate attempt to turn off a huge crowd to the MLS product so that they never came back.

But, who knows? Maybe it has gotten better. I'll flagrantly jump on the bandwagon and check out the title game.

*Spike TV is replaying their Ultimate Fighting Championship special from Saturday night tonight. I missed it the first time out, but the buzz on the 'net is that this was one of the most exciting fight cards in mixed martial arts history. I'll be checking that out at least during the commercials of Pats-Colts. They are also re-airing the two-hour Total Nonstop Action wrestling two-hour special from last Thursday afterwards. I've been meaning to write about this for awhile now, but, in short, TNA wrestling on Spike gets two big thumbs up from Dave's World. True, the group has a fraction of the WWE's budget, but the product is infinitely better and they're starting to get a buzz as the in-thing in wrestling, with the WWE going the way of the hula hoop.

*Check this out.