Donovan McNabb did an interview with James Washington before the season and it aired last Sunday. I have liked McNabb since he joined the Eagles and appreciated that he is a good example as well as an athlete. I was disappointed to hear that he is saying black quarterbacks get more pressure / scrutiny than white. I just don't like the race issue being used constantly but it reveals a bigger problem in the world that becomes increasingly prevelant; that is, not taking responsibility.
Even in my own job I have thoughts that blame others and I have to remind myself that I have control over more of my life than I tend to acknowledge a lot of the time. If I have a bad day I tend to have a reason or reasons why I have that bad day but it usually has nothing to do with myself. When I can constructively look at it I see that I allowed events to change how I felt. That is disturbing and something I am working on but am not that successful.
Bringing this back to McNabb, he gets critisism and it's getting worse as he is playing when he isn't really ready (although they would rip him for not coming back if he was still rehabing). Previous critisism seemed normal for the QB position. I can get why he can have thoughts that there is more pressure being a black quarterback, but like myself, if we take the time to evaluate and see what role we have we don't have to fall victim to the poor me feeling.
It's horrible to be critisized and I don't know anyone that likes it. His critisism comes with more force as he makes a lot of money and is in the public spotlight. So, I guess I am more dissapointed with the fact that he aired these grevances instead of taking the harsh treatment and show he is above it.
Without re-reading this blog I am sure I left a lot of holes and unexplained logic but, you can comment and critisize me. It's going to be true so I will be ok.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Weekend Sports Opinions 9/8-9/07
There was an abundance of sports this weekend and I didn't get a chance to watch a lot but saw a lot of highlights and watched some games. I missed a lot for good reasons - son's soccer game and church service - but know I missed it so oh well.
BYU - UCLA:
I honestly felt pretty good about the "Y's" chances against the baby bears. I have a co-worker that has had season tickets for years and she didn't know a thing about BYU so she asked what I thought would happen. I told her I thought it would be real close or UCLA would just blow us out. I felt that I was justified with the 10point win but was closer than that.
With the pick 6 in the first half UCLA had an inflated lead. Kudos for the big plays in the game but BYU dominated the majority of this game. T.O.P. was a lopsided affair as was the total yards and passing yards. I guess the most important stat was big plays and UCLA made them with the interception and fumble recoveries. HOWEVER, I didn't realize that the replay officials were as blind as the refs on the field. 1st fumble was clearly receiver's knee on the ground before the ball came out and replay?????? still fumble. I guess we need to get HD TV's for the PAC - 10 replay officials. 2nd fumble was Max Hall's arm moving forward and replay official???? fumble again. I am not blaming the refs but still feel the need to point this out. Plus, penalty yards was a lopsided affair that BYU won, unfortunately. I will say we got one call when we intercepted the ball there was clearly PI on the cougs that wasn't called so I will give that to the inconsistency to the refs for us.
Overall, I think the rest of the year should go pretty well. It was a fun game to watch other than the outcome.
Dodgers - sinking but with the weekend I just looked at finals and see they are still in the wildcard and 51/2 back in the division. We need to go on a huge winning streak and soon.
Steelers - looked great but it was the Browns. However, you need to schedule a cupcake before you get into the big games so you can get into the BCS...OOHHHH this is the NFL and they actually have playoffs. If big Ben can throw 4 touches every week, we will be in business...but again, Browns were the opponent.
NFL- Boring Cowgirls and Gigantes game. Falcons still cannot win, and this league is still overhyped. It's a good thing there are a lot of people that can follow the once a week games since they can't follow everyday sports (baseball) or everyother day sports (basektball).
BYU - UCLA:
I honestly felt pretty good about the "Y's" chances against the baby bears. I have a co-worker that has had season tickets for years and she didn't know a thing about BYU so she asked what I thought would happen. I told her I thought it would be real close or UCLA would just blow us out. I felt that I was justified with the 10point win but was closer than that.
With the pick 6 in the first half UCLA had an inflated lead. Kudos for the big plays in the game but BYU dominated the majority of this game. T.O.P. was a lopsided affair as was the total yards and passing yards. I guess the most important stat was big plays and UCLA made them with the interception and fumble recoveries. HOWEVER, I didn't realize that the replay officials were as blind as the refs on the field. 1st fumble was clearly receiver's knee on the ground before the ball came out and replay?????? still fumble. I guess we need to get HD TV's for the PAC - 10 replay officials. 2nd fumble was Max Hall's arm moving forward and replay official???? fumble again. I am not blaming the refs but still feel the need to point this out. Plus, penalty yards was a lopsided affair that BYU won, unfortunately. I will say we got one call when we intercepted the ball there was clearly PI on the cougs that wasn't called so I will give that to the inconsistency to the refs for us.
Overall, I think the rest of the year should go pretty well. It was a fun game to watch other than the outcome.
Dodgers - sinking but with the weekend I just looked at finals and see they are still in the wildcard and 51/2 back in the division. We need to go on a huge winning streak and soon.
Steelers - looked great but it was the Browns. However, you need to schedule a cupcake before you get into the big games so you can get into the BCS...OOHHHH this is the NFL and they actually have playoffs. If big Ben can throw 4 touches every week, we will be in business...but again, Browns were the opponent.
NFL- Boring Cowgirls and Gigantes game. Falcons still cannot win, and this league is still overhyped. It's a good thing there are a lot of people that can follow the once a week games since they can't follow everyday sports (baseball) or everyother day sports (basektball).
Monday, September 3, 2007
HP Book Review
So after starting 'Order of the Phoenix' in the beginning of July and then reading 'Half Blood Prince' I finally started 'Deathly Hallows'. So the first thing I have to say is I never really paid attention to the title and listened to people say Deathly HOllows...like a forest. Then as I read and realized it was HAllows that made a huge difference. For a while I expected something to happen in one of the many forest locations but how foolish a thought that was. Anyway, I finished last night so I figured I would write my thoughts down about this book and the series.
I loved the fact that all of the characters came into play during the book. I thought that we would miss great characters like Neville, Luna, and my favorites Fred and George. I was kept on the roller coaster of events not really knowing what was going to happen next. Although, I have to admit I didn't really try to figure things out and went with the flow of the book. I don't know if it was because I mostly read when I was tired at night but, it seemed the emotion flowed more in this book and there are some other obvious reasons: characters we have grown to like disappearing or dieing does bring that about.
So I haven't done a great job in my review but, skipping to the end I had one of my suspicions confirmed and that was that Snape was really on Dumbledore's side. In 'Half Blood Prince' when he kills Dumbledore I thought that was the plan and I was justified in that thinking. With all the doubt that is cast on Dumbledore I learned that if he trusted someone or a theory to go with it. I was all ready for Harry to actually die and had kind of a wierd dissapointment when he didn't. But, JK did a good job of explaining it and it made for that cool showdown with Voldemort (no I am not afraid :-)). Other than the "19 Years later" being really cheesy but kind of necessary, I really liked this book. Of them all I had previously like 'Half Blood Prince' best and 'DH' outdid 'HBP' just enough; although since the kids are older the language of "men" comes into play more which I didn't care for.
Overall the book is a 5star book. A great series with only 1 book that was difficult - 'Order of the Phoenix'. If you haven't read the series and enjoy a good, good versus evil book with great characters I reccomend you get started. They are easy reads and don't tax the brain too much or at all. Will there be another Harry Potter phenomenon type of series again? Who knows.
I loved the fact that all of the characters came into play during the book. I thought that we would miss great characters like Neville, Luna, and my favorites Fred and George. I was kept on the roller coaster of events not really knowing what was going to happen next. Although, I have to admit I didn't really try to figure things out and went with the flow of the book. I don't know if it was because I mostly read when I was tired at night but, it seemed the emotion flowed more in this book and there are some other obvious reasons: characters we have grown to like disappearing or dieing does bring that about.
So I haven't done a great job in my review but, skipping to the end I had one of my suspicions confirmed and that was that Snape was really on Dumbledore's side. In 'Half Blood Prince' when he kills Dumbledore I thought that was the plan and I was justified in that thinking. With all the doubt that is cast on Dumbledore I learned that if he trusted someone or a theory to go with it. I was all ready for Harry to actually die and had kind of a wierd dissapointment when he didn't. But, JK did a good job of explaining it and it made for that cool showdown with Voldemort (no I am not afraid :-)). Other than the "19 Years later" being really cheesy but kind of necessary, I really liked this book. Of them all I had previously like 'Half Blood Prince' best and 'DH' outdid 'HBP' just enough; although since the kids are older the language of "men" comes into play more which I didn't care for.
Overall the book is a 5star book. A great series with only 1 book that was difficult - 'Order of the Phoenix'. If you haven't read the series and enjoy a good, good versus evil book with great characters I reccomend you get started. They are easy reads and don't tax the brain too much or at all. Will there be another Harry Potter phenomenon type of series again? Who knows.
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