George Rogers Show Link, Tuesday Blues, and Wrestlemania in Kansas City

If anyone is interested in listening to my appearance on the George Rogers Radio show yesterday, go to www.georgerogersradio.com. You can either download the audio directly from the site or download it from itunes as a podcast (search george rogers or just hit the link on the george rogers site). My appearance lasts about 15+ minutes and runs from about ¼ through the show until about halfway through. Looks like I will be a weekly guest.

Yesterday was Tuesday. Tuesday sucked. Thursday through Monday was like sports heaven. September baseball. Opening NFL weekend featuring the opener Thursday Night, a full day Sunday including Manning vs. Manning Sunday Night, and a doubleheader Monday Night. A great day of Saturday college football. And Nascar’s Race to Decide the Chase! Then Tuesday hits, and nothing. No football. The Phillies got rained out. Nothing. It was like trying to quit heroin cold turkey (errr, so they say…). Cold sweats and dry heaves.

The Phillies did get some good news in the Wild Card chase when San Diego and Cincinnati both lost (the Giants did win, ugh). With 19 games left, two out in the wild card lead, and a bunch of teams still scrunched together, the Philberts probably need to go 14-5 (maybe 13-6) from here on out to get in. Not likely. But sweeping their doubleheader today would help.

Speaking of baseball, the Braves were officially eliminated from winning the NL East yesterday, ending their 14 year reign as Divisional Champs. Yes it was a great run. I ask the following however: who is the more successful franchise over the past 14 years, the Braves, who won 14-for-14 division titles and ONE World Series, or the Marlins, who have never won a divisional title in their history, I think only been to the playoffs twice, but won TWO World Series? I say Florida. If you are in it to win it, then two beats one, and I say Florida has been more successful than Atlanta. I am sure a lot of you disagree with me here, so feel free to comment and get some banter going.

It is a sad day in Philadelphia for Flyers fans. Keith Primeau, heart and soul of the team and the Captain, is going to have to retire from concussions. Primeau had a nice run for the Flyers, but leaves with potential unfulfilled in the way of a Stanley Cup. He was traded for Rod Brind A’Mour and viewed as the last piece to Cup win. He brought his best to the playoffs, scoring the game winner in the 5 overtime game against Pittsburgh in 2000, and nearly single-handedly carrying this team to the Cup Finals in 2004 before falling to eventual champ Tampa Bay in the 7th game of the Conference Finals. Ironically, while Primeau and his Flyers came up just short in typical Philadelphia fashion, Brind A’Mour was fortunate enough to drink from the Cup this year as Carolina won it all. Peter Forsberg is expected to be the next Captain to try to get the Flyers back to their glory days of the mid 70s….

A pitcher and catcher on the Royals brawled in the dugout on Tuesday. I would tell you their names but I do not like to publicize Triple-A players (the Royals cannot possibly still be in the Major Leagues, can they?) Anyway, my suggestion for the Royals is that if they want to start building attendance, they should take this stuff out of the dugout and make it a between innings event, kind of like the sausage race in Milwaukee. I am telling you this could triple their attendance, to like 1,200 a game.

That is all for now. Thank God Tuesday is over, at least for this week!