Tuesday Jan 18

I joked about the Christmas Tree still being up today.  Twice actually. 

Look who's kidding who here?  Is anybody really dying for the room to go back to the way it uses to be pre-tree?  I don't think so.  It's not as if the couch lights up.  The only plus is that Rocky can actually sleep on the couch.  Not so much sleeping on the tree.  At least I don't think he sleeps on the tree.

I made some tacos but I bought the wrong seasoning and they were terrible.  If I wanted bad tacos I could have gone to Carlos O'Kelley's.  They looked so good yet tasted like bad.  What a cruel dining experience.

I've been up to my neck in the tennis over these first three days of the 2011 Australian Open and I love it.  Nobody does sports like DirecTV.  NOBODY.

I'm pretty jealous of Chris Fowler.  He goes from covering college football to Grand Slam Tennis.  

You know I bet I've watched more tennis in the last three days then I will watch of baseball and hockey for the rest of the year.  COMBINED.  And it won't even be close. 

My NHL and MLB knowledge is really stuck in the 80's and 90's.  I was questioning my hockey knowledge earlier tonight and, as I suspected, it has really slipped.  So I tried to name as many players in the NHL as possible.  I got 9 Capitals and 12 guys on other teams.  That's it.

By comparison I was able to rattle off 40 high school seniors before I got tired of doing it.  The pathetic part is that it that doesn't include juniors or sophomores.  Hey high school basketball recruiting is kind of important to the future of the Hoyas program.  Why wouldn't I be up to date on it?

Australian Open Day 3

Roddick:  He got into the 3rd round without any real problems.  Straight sets.  He aced out the last game to kill it off.  That was pretty fun to watch.

Venus:  She was up 4-1 in the first and blew it to go down a set.  Even worse is that on the last point during the tiebreaker she looked to have torn her groin.  I really can't believe that she came back out to play, let a lone win the last 2 sets.  Well she did both.  She was in obvious pain but played smart and just got it done.  I can't imagine she gets past the 4th round.

Future:   Oh where oh where have the young American tennis players gone?  Venus, Serena, and Andy are all on their last legs.  Are we just waiting for the offspring of Agassi and Graf to grow up?  I guess that's not the worst plan I've ever heard.  It just seems kind of lazy.

Peace brah