Weekly Mail October 15,2017

Hey:

OK, so if you read this blog you know that I have tried to stay away from watching NFL football,for a variety of reasons, but mainly because I want to spend more time with Timmy and Tara and not glued to the TV all day Sunday.

Well, Timmy had a playdate and Tara and her mom went out for a bit. so I stayed with my father in law and watched the Jet-Patriots game with him. And 3 hours later, remembered why I hate the NFL so much.

The Jets jumped out to a 14-0 lead that anyone with half a brain knew wasn't going to last against Tom Brady. Sure as hell, it was 14-14 at halftime, with a second half blowout on tap.

But hold the fort..

The Patriots scored an TD and a FG, and after their FG, the Jets drove down the field and scored what was a very apparent TD.

As CBS was coming back from commercial where I assumed the Jets would be kicking the extra point,. I heard the referee saying that after reviewing the play, it was determined that the receiver fumbled the ball out of the end zone, so not only was there no TD, the Patriots were getting the ball at the 20!

What the hell?

The receiver never lost possession of the ball. Ever. He may have bobbled it, but I didn't see that in the replay, nor did any of the commentators. Under no definition of the word was that a fumble. 

I've been watching sports for a long time. That was without a doubt the worst call I have ever seen. The only call that I think was worse happened before I was born, the 1972 Olympic Men's basketball final between the US and the Soviet Union when the refs kept replaying the last three seconds of the game till the Soviets scored to win by a point. That's what this reminded me of. 

I sometimes joke that the officiating is WWE worthy. What happened here looked like corruption. I truly believe someone or some people were on the take here. This could be a Tim Donaghy situation. I really believe that.

BTW: When our friends dropped Timmy off after his play date, the dad asked me how the Jets did, I told him not to read my Facebook page with all the F bombs I dropped, he might not let his daughter near Timmy or his psycho father again. 

Good news was the Yankees won!!!

FLASHBACK: From WM's October 1 edition....

But before my Yankee fans friends get their knickers in a twist, let me also say that I believe the Yankees will win on Tuesday and I wouldn't be shocked if they found their way to the World Series. I think they are better than Boston, and Cleveland is due to falter. Houston has a really good team, but the Yankees played them tough this year. The Yankees had their period of sputtering, but are now playing as well as they have played all year. They could be peaking at the right time.


So all you people who like to break my chops every time I get something wrong better start giving me my props for getting something right.

Of course there are caveats to this whole thing.

1) I'll admit after the disastrous Game 2 in Cleveland, I had a tough time thinking the Yanks would come back. I never thought they'd knock Cory Kluber out of the box once never mind twice.

2) I also wouldn't have bet that the Yankees could have won with Aaron Judge doing his Dave Kingman impression. 14 strikeouts in 5 games is almost as impressive as 52 home runs as a rookie.

3) And let's hear it for CC Sabathia. He dominated the first three innings before he ran out of gas, but he struck out 9 guys in 4 1/3. Gutsy.

The ALCS now matches the Yanks with the Houston Astros who I still can't believe are playing in the American League. (Among my first acts as commissioner of baseball would be to put the Astros in the NL Central, the Brewers in the AL Central and the Royals in the AL West.  but that's for another day.)  Again this is a tall order for the Bronx Bombers, and once again they are down 2-0 after a pair of 2-1 heartbreaks in Houston, but you bet against them at your peril.




SPOILER ALERT -If you are a fan of CBS shows Kevin Can Wait, NCIS Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-O or Blue Bloods, and you haven't seen all the shows this season, please scroll to the stars to skip this story.


TELEVISION- WTF?

In the second to last episode of NCIS Los Angeles last season, agent Sam Hanna's (LL Cool J) wife Michelle (Aunjanue Ellis) was kidnapped in exchange for letting a terrorist out of jail. Michelle was locked in an almost airtight box and the team was unable to get to her before she died.

On the season premiere of Kevin Can Wait, Kevin Gable (Kevin James) opens a letter from the gym where his wife (Erinn Hayes) works out, saying they miss her. Kevin remarks that he misses her too, and we find out she's been dead for "almost a year"

On the season finale of Blue Bloods, members of a drug cartel that Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) put away got revenge by burning his house to the ground. Thankfully his wife Linda (Amy Carlson) and sons Jack and Sean (I just noticed that technically the Reagans named both of their sons John) survived. In the season premiere, Danny is strongly contemplating retirement, no doubt feeling guilty about the job costing him his house. Only to find out that in the meantime, Linda died in a helicopter crash.!

We seeing a trend here people? Maybe CBS should add a K at the end of it's name, CBSK Cold Blooded Spouse Killings.

The stunt that Blue Bloods pulled seemed to really smack of desperation. It's still a good show, but maybe getting a bit long in the tooth. Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck)  has now been NYC Police commissioner for 9 TV years, that's longer than most administrations. He has buried his wife, one of his sons (killed by a fellow cop nonetheless) and now, a daughter in law.  Nobody who goes through all that stuff, looks as good as he does at 72 years old.

As previously reported here in June, Hawaii Five-O got rid of two main cast members, Chin-Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) and Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park). They replaced Kono with a hot new female cop Tani Rey*  (Meaghan Rath), and another ex-navy SEAL Junior Reigns (Beulah Koale) to eventually replace Chin. At least they had the common decency not to kill them off. Kono is off fighting human trafficking and Chin is leading a Five-O type task force in San Francisco.


I don't really watch Kevin Can Wait, but killing off Hayes to bring in Lean Remini seemed a bit heartless and short sighted. And also brings up another pet peeve of mine..

What the hell is with bringing back all these old shows? Now I admit, I love Hawaii Five-O (a remake) and McGayver (same), but did we really need to bring back Will and Grace for crissakes? I didn't like that show to begin with. There was a reason Ameircan Idol bit the dust, and it wasn't because people were clamoring to watch it. They brought back Dallas a couple of years ago, so it stood to reason that Dynasty would make a comeback as well.

I realize that part of the issue is that with hundreds of channels on cable, plus Netflix, Hulu and Amazon,there are now more channels than shows to put on them. But it just seems to me like there is a total lack of imagination on TV nowadays.

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I know I should be more riled up about Harvey Weinstein than I am, but to me it's just another Hollywood sleazeball doing what Hollywood sleazeballs do.

As mad as I am about the Jets game, there were no hurricanes, mass shootings, or beloved music icons dying, so at least we have that. 

On that note, Have a Great Week






*if you think I'm being sexist referring to her as "hot" please refer to the previous paragraph in regards to Tom Selleck)