Chip Shots: It's The Mid-Summer, All-Star Break Blues

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Chip Shots: It's The Mid-Summer, All-Star Break Blues

It's The Mid-Summer, All-Star Break Blues

I hate this week. It's known in the business as the dullest sports week of the year and today is the dullest sports day of the year. The only story is the All-Star game and since I give a rat's backside about that, it makes it even more dull.

I don't watch home run derby or the celebrity softball game or the All-Star game because I really don't care. The All-Star game, even with the Bud Selig mandated home field advantage is pretty much a carnival with players leaving early (you know who you are Barry Bonds) and very little of the pomp and circumstance of the past. Back in the day, you used to watch the All-Star game to watch Mays share an outfield with Aaron; today, you just wait for free agency and they are together on the Red Sox or Yankees. It just isn't the same to me. And so, I don't care. You know, kind of like Joe Buck.
Yes, the Brett Favre soap opera is going on, but living here in Wisconsin that's all people want to talk about. "Do you think Brett will play? Do you think Brett will get traded?" I hope he does get traded. To the CFL. The whiny bastard deserves it. Don't you love how he does his tell all interview with Fox News to avoid someone who actually knows something about sports asking the questions? Of course, Greta Van Sustren is actually a tougher test for Favre than John Madden or Peter King. Maybe we could get Favre on with Barbara Walters. "Bwett, if you were a twee, what kind of twee would you be?" "I don't know, m'amm. What kind of tree do dogs crap on, because that's how I feel." "Don't cwy, Bwett. Can someone get Bwett a tissue?" Cry me the Fox River #4. (Awful Announcing)
The Bears signed Kevin Jones yesterday to give rookie Matt Forte some competition. Jones, who underperformed for many years in Detroit, does not own a boat, which makes him an improvement over Cedric Benson already. Add to that the Bears have had good luck recently with running backs named Jones.
CBS has shown Billy Packer the door. Let's face it, the demographic that Packer appealed to either does a lot of fishing or works as a Walmart Greeter. Besides, Billy was exposed as a fraud the second Al McGuire announced his retirement. I'm not convinced Clark Kellogg is the man for the job, but anything is better than Packer who was like one of the old guys on the "Muppet Show." Stay off his lawn kids.
Former FCC Chairman Newton minnow once called TV a "vast wasteland." This would confirm it.
Just as "The Chairman" has won over fans (well some fans, not this one) so apparently has "The Boss."
Anyone who can rip the Elderly Hillbilly and PETA in the same shot is my hero. (Serious Sports Network)
What did Peyton Manning have done again? (Kissing Suzy Kolber)
There is no doubt about it: This is one of the most talented bunch of Dicks you'll ever find. Dickie Knowles was surprisingly absent, however. (Bugs & Cranks)
Ted Nolan, a very good hockey coach, was out of work for almost ten years, then finally found a gig and now gets fired. Let's hope he doesn't have to wait another ten years to find another gig. We'll see if his two years with the Islanders are enough to overcome what seem people think was a "blackball" against him in the NHL.