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October 4, 2004 Eruptions are Inevitable By: Marty Coultas Greetings Milwaukeeworlders, as we have seen over the past seven days, Mount Saint Helen’s is not the only one ready to blow her top this week! Welcome back to yet another fine and dandy week of news in the world of professional sports. Oh what a week of eruptions we have seen! Since we last met, the Brewers not only finished their lackluster season, (FINALLY) but were also sold in the meantime. We saw our Green and Gold suffer their third consecutive loss in even more embarrassing fashion than last week, and we also saw the trade (FINALLY) of one Mike to the land of Cajun cooking. With that eruption done, we have one Mike down with one to go. So let’s begin with the debacle we saw Sunday at Lambeau. Brett went down and the Packer team went with him. Doug was a little off on some of his passes but that was to be expected coming into the game with no warm-up. But he got better. Unfortunately, the receivers decided that they no longer needed to get separation and the offense just couldn’t function any more. It was another opportunity wasted and another example of a team in disarray that is held together by the will of its leader, Brett freakin’ Farve. He is the only one with any direction, when in all reality, the person who should be giving the directions and controlling the game is the other Mike this team needs to dump. That of course, Milwaukeeworlders, is Sherman to be exact. Where the hell was he in the fourth quarter on Sunday? Cause I can guarantee you one freakin thing, he was not watching the same game all of us were. God, I cannot stand this guy. The corners got burned (AGAIN) and Michael Hawthorne (I am not picking on him, okay yes I am) is slow and afraid to go belly up with top receivers. Therefore Shockey schooled him on the end zone corner route. Is any of this a surprise? Not to me. The only surprise was that Kurt Warner didn’t school Jason Horton during that last touchdown drive by the Giants. I have mentioned the fact that Darren Sharper is playing too close to the line of scrimmage much of the time, so Tiki got to run off a 52 yarder because there was no one there to stop him. Great defense, isn’t it? And, am I the only one pondering this situation or can anyone explain why we have a roster position being occupied by a second punter? Does anyone else think that a defensive lineman could possibly be a better fit? Just wondering? “Who, you ask? Anyone is the answer. Anyone is better than a punter who doesn’t play and isn’t needed. This season isn’t over because we get a break on the upcoming Monday night game with Tennessee but things will have to change quickly. The season gets MUCH harder after next week. I have hope, but it is fading fast. Thank goodness Sherman had on a nice looking sweater vest and didn’t look like a tourist in Guatemala while he stood idly by on the sidelines looking like George Bush trying to answer a question. Really people, all this stuff has been obvious for weeks, if not months. The press just seems to give all the accountable people a pass. But I suppose it could be worse, we could be from Kansas City and have a coach who cries. We then see the eruption from team headquarters on Monday that Mack is going to New Orleans. Thank the freakin’ world that he is gone. He was nothing but a cancerous tumor that was paining the team both emotionally and financially. Remember people, all the games that Mack was a “Green Bay Packer” this season, we were shelling out over $160,000 for his overpaid ass to sit in Green Bay while the other boys suited up and attempted to play some football. Losing Mack is nothing but a blessing in disguise. This guy was as useless, arrogant and self-centered as they come and hopefully in NO, he will fit in with the structure of their franchise. Cause let me tell you this people, although he is an athlete with overwhelming talent and drive, he was about as valuable to our team as Tim Couch was. We will be nothing but a better overall organization without him and thank you to the Saints organization for taking this jackass off our hands. Because people, its going to take a Saint to tame this lion back into action. That is one eruption we should be HAPPY about.
Another eruption we should be happy for this week is the sale of our Brewers. With a new owner here we have a new set of eyes and determination that this team has been lacking for so many years. Hopefully this new outlook and new perspective will bring nothing but gold to our oh-so-sad Brew Crew of late. We need this new perspective to get us to the level we are able to achieve. We have the players and we have the coaches. All we need now is someone who is willing to risk spending the money to better the organization as a team and not as a moneymaking opportunity for themselves. God, I hope this guy is good, cause I am not sure how much longer we can handle this. It is season after another, year after year, and game after game that we watch our beloved boys lose and lose and lose. Lets hope that this is one eruption that will ultimately wipe out the ominous and bring back a conqueror. Some more interesting eruptions that have occurred since we last met:
Oh you guys, so many eruptions, so little time. The world of professional sports is as unpredictable as the explosion of a volcano. Take that into consideration as you watch our state and national favorites play this coming week. Remember that nothing is guaranteed and certainly nothing is predictable. Our lives as well as our pastimes are as unpredictable as Robert Downey Jr.’s next arrest. With that said Milwaukeeworlders, as always keep your ears open and your noses clean. Ciao, Marty the Sports Chick
And Another Thing....... By: Marty Coultas Hi. You guys, I just could not stop. Please allow me to vent a little while longer.......... The RCA Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana; it is about 3:45 in the afternoon on Sunday the 26th and I wonder where Gruden and Garcia are. Not Jon and Jeff but Jay and Aaron. Oh that's right, I am at an NFL game not the Arena League. One wouldn't have thought so after the sloppy first quarter with no defense from either team that lit up the boards with so many points that we were wondering where the nets behind the goal posts had gone. Never in the history of the “real National Pastime” has so much mediocrity been the subject of so much adulation by so many. “It was a great game.” That is the word from the idiot talking heads on the radio and TV and don't even think of listening to the moron fans from Indianapolis that think that there was an exhibition of greatness displayed. Puhleeze, it was just a joke. The Green Bay Packers defensive game plan and execution of same are a disaster and what was hinted at against the Bears became glaring in its failure in Indy. Frankly, our defensive secondary might not be as good some Arena League teams. Darren Sharper, one of the best guys at his position in the NFL gets burned three times in one quarter because he is too slow running backward and he has to spend too much time too close to the line of scrimmage in our new defense. This game was not about two great teams shooting it out, it was about which one had the worst defensive unit on the field and the Packers won that one hands down. I am not about to tell you that all these guys are not good players because that is not the case. While Al Harris is not capable of playing against a Marvin Harrison one on one, he is a good corner. In Roman and Sharper the Packers have two quality safeties. So something else is wrong and it can pretty much be explained as a screwed up defensive game plan. It is pitiful to watch as Harrison, Reggie Wayne and that Stokely just intimidate us and run right past our soft coverage. We don't have a single guy who can go belly to belly with even ordinary receivers. Oh, that's right, yes we do, but McKenzie was in Green Bay this weekend. Not that it would have changed the outcome but having a tough corner who didn't need help would have changed the game. Too much helping out was being done by too many guys who were out of position and you can't do that when Peyton Manning is looking at you. Just pitiful. It was embarrassing. Thanks for listening. I feel better now. Marty the Sports Chick
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