Fit him for a Red Sox uniform

Christian Haupt was just two when his mom posted a video of his remarkable baseball skills on youtube last year.  The casting director for a new Adam Sandler film "That's My Boy" saw it and a star was born.  Athletic or acting star, I am not sure, but a star.

It's Super Bowl Sunday and there is one question in the collective consciousness of America

How much will the Patriots win by?

Wait. What!?

Screen grab from the Giants website:

Oops.  I thinking Bill Belichick has already posted that sucker in every Patriot hotel room.  Kinda funny, really.  We all know they have no chance of actually beating the Pats!

I am not a big golf fan

But I think I like Bubba Watson.  He just bought the original General Lee.  It is the one in the opening to the Dukes of Hazard TV show that jumps the cop car.  It was wrecked, but Lee 1 has been restored.  PGA tour pro Bubba Watson was the successful bidder at a mere $110,000.  If he drives this up the tony azalea bordered drive in Augusta, Georgia to tee it up for the Masters, he will become my favorite golfer.

My favorite NHL goalie and no this is not a post about sports

You may have gathered that I am a somewhat ardent New England sports fan.  Plus I grew up in Maine, so I like hockey.  And I certainly like the (reigning Stanley Cup Champion) Boston Bruins.  Furthermore, I have very much liked their goalie, Tim Thomas.  Thomas has won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goalie for two of the past three years.  Without his superhuman play, the Bruins do not win it all last year.  You even have to like the guy's story.  He played at the University of Vermont, but really got no good offers out of college.  He toyed with giving up his dream, but instead played in Finland for a while.  By all accounts he was outstanding, but still nothing.  He finally caught on as a back up.  Maybe it is because his style is unconventional that the hockey world never appreciated him.  He charges out at players instead of waiting back in the goal.  He spins, flicks and dives instead of dropping and spreading like a classic butterfly goalie to block shots.

So there is much to like about Time Thomas.  But now, I like him even more.  The Bruins went to the Whitehouse today to receive the President's congratulations on winning the Stanley Cup.  All the Bruins except Tim Thomas, that is.  He refused for "political reasons."  Way to go Timmy.

Tom Brady is always right

Even back when he was first drafted in the sixth round.

You can't call it arrogance if he is right, just ask his boss, Bob Kraft:

“I still have the image of Tom Brady coming down the old Foxboro stadium steps with that pizza box under his arm, a skinny beanpole, and when he introduced himself to me and said ‘Hi Mr. Kraft,’ he was about to say who he was, but I said ‘I know who you are, you’re Tom Brady. You’re our sixth round draft choice,’” recalled Kraft.  “And he looked me in the eye and said ‘I’m the best decision this organization has ever made.’ It looks like he could be right.”

The Prayer vs. The Player

 

And The Player won.

Lakers

I am I a bad person for reveling in the Lakers blocked trade? 

Answer: No, I'm a Celtics fan.   (Admittedly a few people might claim the two are the same thing, but they are Lakers fans, so their opinion is irrelevant.)

Pujols signs with the Angels

$250 Million for ten years.  At 31 years old.  Sounds an awful lot like the unmitigated disaster of a contract the A-rod signed when he had just started his decline.