Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Rrandom thoughts

     Hello all. It has been a little while since the last twitter style update or any update at all.  I blame this on the winter Olympics. The winter Olympics has had most of my attention. I can not put my finger on it but for some reason the winter Olympics are much more interesting to me than the summer Olympics. I tried to explain to someone the other day but I could not. On that note, I will jump into some thoughts about the Olympics and other thoughts I have.

NBC's coverage of Olympics

     If anybody reading this did not know this, the winter Olympics are in Vancouver. It is annoying the amount of tape delayed events I have seen. Vancouver is only two hours behind the central time zone and it seems hard to get any live coverage of the events. It really killed the excitement of Shani Davis and Bode Miller winning gold knowing that I had already heard they won their races.
   
     The next thing that has been annoying is the coverage of the biggest USA hockey game in years against Canada. How could they place that game on MSNBC? Over ice dancing? Poor choice. The people who want to watch ice dancing will watch ice dancing wherever it is on. Skating is not as popular as it use to be in the mid-90's. The hockey game would have been ratings gold for NBC that night, but also for future NHL hockey games on NBC.  The USA vs. Canada match-up is highly possible and hopefully NBC gets it right this time.


Spring Training has started

     All Cubs fans are pumped about spring training. It is chance to believe the Cubs will actually do something this year. I do not get excited as I use to about because I have become a more realistic cubs fan. The Cubs really did not do a lot to improve the team except make moves that will hopefully improve their team. Xavier Nady could be a really big signing for the team, but again if he is healthy. How will his arm hold up in the outfield? How often will he play? There are so many questions with him, but also many other Cub players, i.e. Carlos Silva. Spring training should hopefully help answer some of them. There will be more Cubs thoughts during the year as spring training continues and it gets closer to the regular season.

March Madness

    It is about that time to start thinking if favorite team will make it into the tournament. Luckily for me, my favorite team, Mizzou, will be in this year. Mizzou clinched it with a 2-0 week by beating Texas and Nebraska. Unfortunately there is also the other side of things where your favorite team has a crushing lost that keeps them out. I feel for all the mid major teams that lost games during bracket buster Saturday or teams that have to win their tournaments to get in. Even if they are solid teams, getting solid win will always be tough because the bigger schools do not want to play them.  After watching lots of College basketball it will make me angry if the Pac-10 gets more than one team in or if the ACC gets more than four. Neither of those conferences really deserve more than that.

That is it for now.

-Mike Moreau

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Twitter style updates #2

Not sure what is going on with Texas. They did not play well tonight and have not really played all that well in big 12 play period.

North Carolina could become only the third defending ntl. champ to not qualify for the tournament. The others are 2008 Fla. Gators and 89 KU

The Who looked old and stiff during the super bowl performance. Thank you Janet Jackson and JT for this. More current artist needed

Somewhat surprised to see the Super Bowl was most watched program ever. It must have helped the whole state of New Orleans was watching

Just finished reading the Blind side. I wish they would have played up Sean Touhy's role more. Touhy had a role in Oher's life as well

1/2 way through big 12 season for MIzzou (5-3). I expected them to be 6-2. The loss to A&M hurt. The Tigers still have work to do.

More on the Tigers. A win @ Baylor would be huge. Going 2-0 this week would be fantastic. Actually road wins in general would be nice.

Why did the Cubs sign Kevin Millar? What good does he have for this team? Maybe he recall his inner Gary Gaetti

I Almost forgot to mention something about the Boost Mobile shuffle; It sucked.

Now that the Super Bowl is over, we can focus on college basketball. March Madnss is on the way

Chase Daniel has a Super Bowl ring. That is pretty weird to say.

Bar goes crazy after pick 6.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0LEBo_4RUA I hope one day the Bears can get to this point again

The winter olympics start this week. GO TEAM USA. I am hoping for a good performance out of our Hockey team

The Big East is a mess. I still say the Big 12 gets more teams in (7) then the Big east (6) get. Joe Lunardi agrees with me. I hope ND is in

Can Tyrus Thomas stay a Bull? Can they trade him? His behavior is not helping either of those two questions. Tyrus get your head checked out

Trade deadline is approaching in the NBA. I wonder who on the Bulls will go. Deng? Salmons? Heinrich? Bard MIller? All for the hope of 2010

Speaking of the Big East. How does Georgetown lose to South Florida and then dominate a very good Villanova team. Hard to figure them out.

I think I am going to keep doing this. It is a good way to get a lot of thoughts out there quickly.

-Mike Moreau