The Giants are all right

The Giants crushed Baltimore 30-10 yesterday and having personally attended the game I can attest to the fact the Giants are not 30-10 better than the Ravens. The score should have been much higher. A missed extra point, a terrible kickoff out of bounds that resulted in a Baltimore field goal, horrendous defense on third and long, a couple of awful efforts from Plax, and the icing on the cake from offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride. Ahmad Bradshaw ripped off a run of 77 yards down to the Baltimore 2. The Giants called timeout, presumably to rest Bradshaw in an effort to get him into the end zone. Coming out of the timeout, the Giants frantically were switching personnel, Eli was looking to the sideline in confusion, and just before the play clock ran out they ran a poorly conceived fade route to Burress in the corner of the end zone. Seriously, coming out of a timeout and they didn't even have the right people on the field, much less the correct play called. These are things you can get away with against an overrated Baltimore team (best victory to date over the Miami Dolphins) but will probably come back to haunt them come playoff time.

That was close

The New York football Giants squeaked out a win against Seattle 44-6 this afternoon. Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride enjoyed the freedom of being able to call whatever the hell he wanted whenever the hell he wanted knowing that at any time he could just hand the ball off to Brandon Jacobs, Derrick Ward, or Ahmad Bradshaw and pick up 10 or so yards. It turns out the Seahawks defense just isn't very good.

In baseball news, both the Phillies and Dodgers closed out their division series this afternoon meaning I might have to root for a beer league softball team in the World Series. Fuck that. Is it hockey season yet? Sweet.