Random Thoughts Today

There is a few things that I would like to touch on before I watch the elimination game in the CWS between Miami and Stanford. Without delay let's get right into my random thoughts today.

Like the saying goes and I have been a firm believer of, even though some of you are convinced that times have changed, but "Defense wins Championships!". This has always been the case, just people have chosen to forget about it. The Boston Celtics who won the NBA Championship last night with a defensive threshold on Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, became the third team to win a major professional championship with their defense. The New York Giants absolutely destroyed the New England Patroits offense on Super Bowl Sunday. And the Detroit Red Wings (I won't pretend to know anything about them), from what I have read was the best defensive team throughout the entire NHL season, winning it all. No matter how bad David Stern changes rules of the NBA game, or the NFL helping out the offense by penalizing the defense; defense will still prevail! I'll even go as far as saying that pitching in baseball is just the same as defense. Good pitching beats good hitting and offense wins games while defense wins championships...words to live by!

I am very happy for the "Big 3" from the Boston Celtics to finally win a ring and get an enormous monkey off their backs. Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett have never been to the NBA Championship having both lost a Conference title and were brought to Boston to bring them back to Championship glory and both did not disappoint with the numbers they put up in the series. But, I am happier for Paul Pierce! Pierce in my eyes has always been the great player that has never gotten the recognition that he deserves. He has been with the Celts his entire career which is hard to find now a days, 10 years to be exact. Now, making it to the top of the mountain with a Finals MVP to show for it. Good for you Paul, I believe that you have now guaranteed your number 34 being retired and hung in the rafters in The Garden.

After thrilling fans with a U.S. Open win for the ages, Tiger Woods will undergo season-ending knee surgery. We have just witnessed a Major for the ages that lasted 5 days that had incredible ratings, and now the PGA will have to rely on the parity in the rest of the professional field to keep golf going until Woods comes back. I am not mad at Tiger for pressing his knee to play on his favorite course for a major. He won and now it is all worth it for Tiger. Because majors is all this guy really cares about and he just won his 14th to move closer to Jack Nicklaus' 18. One quick stat that I found intriguing to get off the surgery subject...Tiger needs to finish in the top 10 of every major until 2019 to catch Jack's record of 79 top 10 finishes in majors. WOW!

For my College World Series update...two teams moved on to a 2-0 record that really no one thought was coming. Fresno State, the Cinderella team that was a 4 seed in their Regional, has not stopped defeating teams that are suppose to be handling them. Defeating the likes of Rice and North Carolina yesterday has put the Bulldogs in a great spot now waiting either LSU or a rematch with the Tarheels. Georgia in bracket number 1 has gone undefeated as well beating the likes of Miami and Stanford, who square off in a elimination game tonight at 7 on ESPN. Still not sold on this Bulldog team, but that is why the College World Series is so great. Last year's champ Oregon State barely made the field of 64 but still ended up defending their title and winning it all. Hope that you all were able to catch the LSU/Rice game yesterday afternoon...instant classic!