Please, for the love of GOD, someone end this horror

Couple of random sports thoughts:

*If the Rays lose game 7 against the Red Sox it will be devastating for several reasons. First, because the Red Sox are made up of a bunch of douchebag morons (hello Papelbon) who would be well on their way to a THIRD championship in 5 years, making their team one for the ages. Right now, they are the Florida Marlins with two championships. Good for them. A third gives a group of whiny little pricks a third championship. That isn't good for baseball or for history. Second, you can't lose a game, let alone a series, when you have a 7-0 lead in game 5. You just can't. That is historic choking, pure and simple. Finally, while the Sox could lose and field a big team again next year and the year after that, only the most pie-in-the-sky fan could believe the Rays can make it back to this level again. The Sox will be good again. The Yanks are gonna retool. The Blue Jays are always a good and dangerous team. Everything came together perfectly for Tampa this year. What are the chances the stars align once again like that?
*Peter Gammons wrote an article about the "ghosts of Fenway" coming out for that game 5. The ghosts of Fenway? Did someone die off that 2004 team cause those are the only "ghosts" around. Before that, all the ghosts in Fenway knew how to do was bend over and lube up.
Don't you just love how Red Sox fans now like to try and re-write history? Suddenly, no one remembers the 86 years of futility and choke artistry that defined Beantown for two generations. That didn't exist. The complete ineptitude and inability to come up with a big win for decades is swept under the rug. Suddenly, Fenway has ghosts? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! And exactly when can we put Peter Gammons out to pasture? Has he had one interesting or informative thing to offer in the last 10 years? His gyrations over the Red Sox are all he has to offer now. Oh, and note to ESPN, if you're gonna have columnists, could you PLEASE try and find someone who isn't jerking off in a corner to lurid pictures of Kevin Youkalis and Jonathan Papelbon in the shower? Bill Simmons? Does he write about anything other than Boston sports? Peter Gammons? Rob Neyer? All these guys do is try to one up each other over whose chubby gets bigger when someone mentions Dustin Pedroia. It is to the point where you can't even read a column by one of these guys if you're not a rabid Bostonite.
*Is it me or is Jake Peavy's complete refusal to play for an AL team enough of a reason not to explore a trade for him? Oh no, those big, mean, nasty AL teams don't give a pitcher three automatic outs with a no hit infielder, no hit catcher, and can barely stand at the plate pitcher each game. How can one be expected to perform?
You know what then nancy, stay in the NL. Have fun getting big outs against the pitcher, or fielding the 200 bunts per game because each lineup only has three or four guys who can hit. I'll take Sabathia, who won a Cy Young in the AL, and even AJ Burnett, who has faced down the AL East meat grinder each year for the past several years over a guy who is peeing his pants at the prospect of coming to a real league.
*Is it me or does it seem somewhat strange to anyone else that the rise of this Red Sox team has coincided with the demise of Western civilization as we know it? Back in 2000, when all was right with the world, the Yankees were winning. Now? Stocks crashing, wars raging, unemployment rising, and all the while those pit stains are winning ballgames. Sorry, I think a blind man could see a trend there.
*Why is it that, even now, Tom Coughlin's team can still allow themselves to read their own headlines and believe them, to the point where they HAVE to have a let-down game? This drill sargeant, task master coach lets his team spit the bit at least once a season, losing to a team they have no business even being in a game with. Granted, the Browns are a better team than their record, but still?
*Just a question but does anyone still read Mike Lupica anymore? Does he know he isn't a political commentator? Hell, he's barely a sports columnist.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that we don't give a shit about their political views? I don't want or care to hear it. Lupica has spent his life stewing over how to eloquently question why a coach decided to punt on fourth down instead of going for it. Does he honestly believe I take his political ruminations seriously?
*I have decided to be an NBA fan from the beginning of the season now and I was going to adopt the New Jersey Nets as my favorite team. First, I have the YES network, meaning I could follow the team all year long. Second, I think Rod Thorn is about as good a GM in basketball and I am sure he is gonna rebuild his team to be exciting. Third, it seems the general consensus is that LeBron James, who counts himself a friend of Nets part owner Jay Z, and a big Yankee fan, may end up playing for the Nets in 2o1o when his contract ends with Cleveland and I LOVE LeBron, I really do.
Of course, all of this is contingent upon them moving to Brooklyn in the next few years. Now, I heard some rumor that the move to Brooklyn might be off. Is that true? If so, I don't think I could root for the Jersey team because their facility and their fans are, shall we say, freakin BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's like watching a game at Tropicana Field. It is depressing, it really is. But a move to a gorgeous arena in Brooklyn, the inevitable jazzing up of the jerseys and the logo, and the addition of Bron Bron would be too much for me to pass up.
So I am jumping on the Nets bandwagon this year, with Devin Harris poised for a break out year, Josh Boone, my boy from Uconn, getting better each year, Brook Lopez playing nasty defense in the middle, and Vince Carter actually trying a little bit, and they could be a fun team to root for. So I might as well start now. GO NETS!!!!!!!!!!