The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.
Baseball Commissioner Buddy McFly is once again at his infernal best, finding a couple of new and exciting ways to screw up what used to be America’s Pastime. “Hey, let’s move the Astros to the American League, and let’s add yet another two teams to the playoffs (so, ostensibly, we can become more and more…
Read MoreFootball surpassed baseball in the mid-90’s as my favorite sport; combination of the fact that I just came to enjoy football more and more, and the fact that baseball is run by a dog’s breakfast of the ignorant, the greedy, and the self-important. Which makes it fitting that the NFL season kicks off on my…
Read MoreOops…it dawned on me that there was one other sports moment that had to make the list: Phil Mickelson winning the 2004 Masters. If you could watch that event unfold and say that golf on TV is always boring, well, I got nothing for ya. Phil Finally Wins a Major Honorable Mention in my little…
Read MoreContinuing the ten coolest sporting moments I’ve witnessed live: Kerri Strug’s Gold Medal Vault, 1996 Atlanta Weird that three of my top ten involve Olympics, which I’m not a huge fan of, but they all were feats of tremendous courage and fortitude. The Epic in Miami – This was possibly the greatest football game I’ve…
Read More