An advice column for people who live with people who live for sports
Tuesday, October 21
Pittsburgh win, Houston loses: The Monday Night Football game was a game of streaks. The Texans had the first streak during which they opened a 13-0 lead against the Steelers. Then, the Steelers had the next one when they scored 21 points in the final two minutes of the first half! That was the decisive streak. After that, the teams traded points in the fourth quarter but the game was really decided in those last two minutes of the first half. Line: Sometimes, you can play well enough to win for 58 minutes and bad enough to lose in the other two.
U.S. Women perfect through three: The U.S. Women’s National Soccer team is perfect through three games of World Cup qualifying. They beat Haiti 6-0 last night to advance to the semifinals on Friday against the winner of the Mexico v. Jamaica game tonight with a 3-0 record in the group stage. This isn’t surprising, the level of competition in North America and the Caribbean, with the exception of Canada, is not at the U.S.’s level. Line: No surprises here. What’s Next: A semifinal game on Friday against Mexico or Jamaica. The winner will qualify for the World Cup.
Baseball’s long wait is over: Nothing happened yesterday in the baseball playoffs, just like nothing happened on Sunday, Saturday, or Friday. That’s right, just before the World Series, baseball took a four day break from having games. I don’t know about you but any momentum I had as a casual baseball fan to watch the games feels like it has dissipated. It also feels a little cheezy because it seems like baseball was trying to avoid having the first game of the World Series go up against college or professional football because their ratings would look bad in comparison. Line: Thursday to Tuesday is too long a wait between games. What’s Next: Game One of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.
