So, I'm working late tonight and its dead here so I thought I'd write a little bit about this season for our beloved Fighting Irish. The only thing I can describe this season is a disappointment. It really has. We had a couple of great come from behind victories, Michigan State & UCLA(which now doesn't seem so bad cause they just beat USC) but we got killed in our two big games this year. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh is all I want to say. Its been so disappointing. Its like the team was on auto-pilot the whoel season. I will say that I'm really happy with what Brady Quinn did this year. His one bad game really wasn't his fault.

As everyone is probably aware of right now, Mr. Tom Glavine is back in a Mets uniform. I'm glad he is, he's been really good for us these past 4 years. It'll be nice for him to get his 300th win with us next season. What are the odds that he'll go into the Hall of Fame as a Met???? Probably pretty little, but that's okay. Now we can focus our attention on getting Zito to come to NY. If we do, this will be our rotation until Pedro comes back:

1. Zito
2. Glavine
3. El Duke
4. John Maine
5. Oliver Perez

Now, when Pedro comes back after the all star break, where do you put him? I'm thinking inbetween Zito and Glavine.

Okay, so this weekend really sucked in regards to my sports teams. They either blew a big lead against a team they shouldn't have, or they lost big in a game they needed to and could have won. So, it got me to thinking about an article that I wanted to write for a while. What are the 5 worst losses that I have lived through? Sadly I knew what they were right away. So here they are in order of how much they hurt to least. Well, they all really hurt.

1) Notre Dame versus Boston College - 1993. This game came 1 week after the first "game of the century". ND had just defeated Florida State, the #1 ranked team in the nation the week before in an amazing game. All ND had to do is squash unranked BC. Easy task, right? No. Some how ND's defense just couldn't stop BC at all. What is this? Is Doug Floutie playing qb? Nope. I guess ND was looking ahead towards the National Championship game. Well, they looked too far ahead. ND came back in the last two minutes to score to take the lead. Less than a minute left, BC drove down the field and hit a 40 yard plus field goal to win the game. And the worst part? ND had a chance to pick off an easy pass to end the game, but it slipt right out of their hands. Just like the National Championship. This was the first time that I learned what true heartbreak. It was horrible. I didn't think I could survive or feel anything like it.

Okay, I think the college football gods will finally agree on something. We need to get rid of the BSC. Its horrible. There's no point to it. It needs to be done with. Right now we have 2 undefeated teams and like 8 one loss teams in college football. We need a tournament to figure out who the best team is. Its not that hard, I promise. You just need to take the 6 conference winners from the bcs conferences and then have 10 at large teams. I think actually we should could come up with a mid major conference winner two, so we could have 7 automatic wins and 9 at large bids. It wouldn't be that complicated or bad.

Yeah, I finally got my internet set up at home again. Yeah, I'm just really lazy. Sorry about that. I'll try and post more now. Anywho, last saturday's ND game was pretty good. Once again our defense got beat up on in the first half, but then we were able to make adjustments at half time and completely shut down navy, who has the 2nd best rush defense. It was nice to see Brady make some of the throws that he did, like the TD pass to David Grimes. McKnight had a really good game and I liked how Darius Walker ran. We're looking pretty good. Its nice to feel like we can win any game we're in.

Okay, since the amazin's are out of it, and since I don't have a blog for my favorite college football team, I'm going to write about Notre Dame in this blog. Plus, other random stuff. Should be interesting. Hopefully I can get up more blogs than the past few weeks. Sorry, my hard drive crashed and I've been lazy getting my internet back on. So, I'm at work now, staying late so I can write this. Last Saturday's game was amazing. Well, at least the ending was. I just knew that once we stopped them three and out and got the ball back that we could win it. I just didn't think it could happen the way it did.

Okay, I'm not over last night. I know I never will be. I'm not able to write about it yet, I'm still waiting for the pain to subside. I'll eventually be fine, but I'll carry this scar with me forever. I'll have a write up about things later on, I just need some time so I can clear my head about everything. Since we're done, most of my columns will be on other things that are on my mind. When I hear news about my beloved Mets I'll put up something. I have some columns in my head that I've been wanting to write for a while, so I'll get those up in the next few months.

Okay, so this weekend was a very up and down and up and down and back up weekend. Let's take game 2 for instance. Mets go up 3-0 in the first. St. Louis Scores 2. We score 1. They score 2. We score 2. They score 2. Then they finish us off with 3 more. Then, game three started and man was it horrible. Steve T just couldn't pitch. I think we got lucky that he got hit by the ball and could be out of the rest of the playoffs. And so I continued on my downward spiral. Then a ray of hope came in the form of Darren Oliver and his spectacular pitching that pretty much saved our bullpen. Then came game 4.

So, I was at game 1 yesterday. It was absolutely amazing. I couldn't believe it. The crowd was pretty into it and it was a great game to watch. Beltran's homer was awesome. The whole place was shacking after he hit it. I don't know why Willie started Floyd yesterday? It made no sense. The cardinals should have tried to hit it to him in the beginning of the game because anything hit outside of 3 feet of him would have fallen in for a double. I was really impressed with Glavine. He hung in there even though he didn't have his best stuff after the third inning. He's now at 13 scoreless innings this postseason.

Okay, here we go. We got passed the dodgers and now we just have the Cardinals in the way of us going to the World Series. I was pretty surprised about what Delgado did this series and what Endy Chavez did also. It made me pretty happy. He he. Lets hope that the starting pitching can do something for the rest of the post season and I think we have a pretty good chance of going pretty far this season.