Sean Comerford’s Kick Arse Blog

Cheat to get into the World Cup? Check!

Star players frequent under age prostitutes? Check!

Send a top player home from the World Cup for being a douche then have players refuse to practice in protest which leads to a coach quitting the team mid tourney? Check, check and check!

Go winless in the world cup? Check!

After all that and being officially eliminated, coach refuses to shake hands with opposing coach after the game? Check!

As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill goes on and on and on and all BO does is talk like a street thug about “finding an ass to kick”, I can’t help but laugh about how different this story would be getting covered if good ‘ol Dubya was still in office.

… stay classy BO, stay classy…

To be clear, I’m not saying the response would be any different under another administration (they’re all corrupted by the same corporate goons).

But no matter which side of the political fence you’re on, you’re either oblivious or lying if you don’t think the press would be absolutely CRUCIFYING Bush for this.

In fact this would have been a liberal media’s dream come true if it had happened 6 or 8 years ago when they could exploit it to stop Bush from getting re-elected… “species being wiped out daily and bush does nothing but embarrass America abroad by threatening to ‘kick ass’”, “bush and his oil baron cronies ruining the environment so they can make millions”, “gulf coast small businesses ruined by evil corporate greed”, etc etc etc. It would literally be a nonstop, 24×7, bush is in bed with big oil feeding frenzy.

But since a dem do nothing is in office instead of one from the GOP, it’s all just BP’s fault and they’ll just use this to try and ramrod in some cap and trade nonsense that will further ensure my kids grow up in a 3rd world country.

And no one is even mentioning that the federal agency responsible for inspecting the rig for safety FAILED to perform required monthly inspections 33% of the time since Obama has taken office. Or that it cited the Deepwater Horizon as a model of safety just a few months before the disaster (despite not actually bothering to inspect it most of the time or noticing a slew of safety documents were never filed on the rig).

I think back to Katrina… that was somehow all the Bush administration’s fault. New Orleans, a city built where a city never should have been built gets hit dead on by a once in a century storm…. but the media acted like there was some magic wand to make the flood waters recede that Bush was too incompetent to use.

The by and large complete free pass BO is getting is only slightly less surprising than the apparent fact that BP never actually planned for a disaster like this.

Sigh… the sooner people realize how utterly corrupt BOTH SIDES and, more importantly, the mainstream media are, the sooner we can start rebuilding a government that actually works. I just hope it’s not too late already.

Yeah, yeah… this is a few weeks late but been busy. And after pretty much nailing it last year (ARod didn’t hit a walk off but he was big for once) I’m giving myself a little leeway.

AL East
Yankees – Won’t be quite as good as last but still the team to beat in AL
Rays – After a step back last year, two steps forward and a wild card
Red Sux – The old guard of Varitek, Lowell, Pedro, Manny is all but gone… replace by JD Drew, Mike Camoron and Adrian Beltre?
Blue Jays – Better pitching than people are giving them credit for and enough bats to avoid the basement
Orioles – Some good young players but too green

AL Central
Twins – Another division title, another first round playoff exit
White Sox – Somebody’s gotta finish 2nd in this awful division and BO’s team has ok pitching
Royals – Dare I say a .500 season for KC?
Tigers – No hit, questionable pitching
Indians – No hit, no pitch… glorified minor league team

AL West
Rangers – As long as Josh Hamilton and Ron Washington stop hanging out after games, this team will step forward and surprise.
Angels – Their pitching is nowhere near as good as people are saying it is and they’re overdue for a down year IMO.
Mariners – Figgins and Cliff Lee are nice signings but Milton Bradley and Griffey are the heart of their order… scaring only the beat reporters Bradley will inevitably choke
Athletics – How’s that money bal working out these days Billy?

NL East
Phillies – Signing Yankees killer Doc Hallady pretty much ensures a 3rd straight WS appearance
Marlins – Florida is back on the upswing part of their champs to firesale cycle
Braves – No happy ending for Bobby Cox in his last run
Mets – Last place is only out of the question because…
Nationals – Washington is still realllly bad

NL Central
Cardinals – Carpenter, Wainwright and of course King Albert more than enough here
Brewers – If they had any kind of pitching, it wouldn’t be hard to like the Brew crew but until they’ll just lose a lot of 8-7 games and finish a little above .500
Cubs – If Lee, Soriano, Zambrano and ARam stay healthy, they could win the division… but that’s not happening.
Reds – Getting better but very slowly
Pirates – Some nice little moves like Iwamura will at least get them in the 70+ win range
Astros – Their stars are getting long in the tooth and there isn’t a whole lot of young talent to get excited about

NL West
Rockies – Colorado will take the west as the most balanced team
Giants – They’ll surpise and hit enough to best their tinsel town rivals
Dodgers – Last year Ortiz showed us what happens w/o the Juice, this year it will be Manny
Diamond Backs – A sleeper… made some nice moves like Kelly Johnson, Edwin Jackson and Ian Kennedy
Padres – We know San Diego is finishing last… the only question is where Adrian Gonzalez gets traded to?

AL Playoffs
Yankees over Rangers
Rays over Twins
Yankees over Rays

NL Playoffs
Phillies over Cardinals
Rockies over Marlins
Phillies over Rockies

World Series – Halladay move pays off, Phillies win the rematch

Warmer weather is ok but everyone knows the best part of spring is the NHL playoffs.

And while my call of a Red Wings repeat last year came up just short, that’s not going to deter me from tabbing the Penguins to repeat this year.

Places your bets ladies….

Round 1

• Caps walk all over Habs in a no contest sweep
• Devils outslug the Flyers in 6
• The toughest series to call: Sabres vs Bruins… I’m thinking Boston doesn’t have enough scoring to beat Miller… Boston in 6
• Pens will have no trouble with Ottawa… Pitt in 5
• Sharks have no problem with Avs in a sweep
• Blackhawks only need 5 to dispatch Predators
• Canucks struggle in the playoffs as usual but sneak by Kings in 7
• Tough break for Phoenix drawind Detroit…. Wings over yotes in 6

Round 2

• NHL gets its wish with Sid vs Ovie again in the playoffs. I’d like to see the Caps advance but they won’t… Pitt in 6
• Devils-Sabres will be the kind of defensive battle that make some people call the NHL soccer on skates and real fans will love it… Devils in 7
• The ultimate regular season team vs the most post season savvy… another year, another disappointing end in San Jose. Wings in 6
• Blackhawks have too much horse power to be stopped by a struggling Loungo and Vancouver… Hawks in 6

Round 3

• Jersey will give Pitt a scare but the Devils just can’t match Pitt’s star power. Pengiuns in 6
• Blackhawks take the next step in this old school rivalry beating the Wings in 7

Stanley Cup Finals
So it’s Pittsburgh vs Chicago… and everyone knows that the young team needs to lose before they can learn to win it all. Pens repeat by beating Chicago in 5 as the Hawks youth + lack of goaltending finally catches up with them.

Ahhh, nothing quite like the sounds of a 3 year old and 16 month old fighting in the morning. Lightning McQueen laptop starts the brawl every time…. just throw it on the floor in between them and watch the fun ensue. Someone should probably break this up.

While it was painful to watch, I would like to commend Team USA for “doing the right thing” and allowing Canada to win the gold in men’s and women’s hockey.

Let’s face it, even without the debacle that was the first 2 weeks of the Vancouver Olympics (not being able to light the torch properly at the opening ceremonies AFTER actually trotting Bryan Adams out there to perform; building a sliding track so fast it killed someone and a women’s downhill course so hard it produced at least a dozen spectacular falls; having to take back 20,000 tickets; etc etc), Canada as a country really couldn’t have survived losing at its own precious game.

A Team USA victory would have resulted in a Canadian mass suicide that made Jonestown look like a tea party. I’m guessing “Hockey Place” probably started switching the Molson taps out for the “special” purple Koolaid ones as soon as the US tied it with 20 seconds left in regulation… so let’s all just thank the lord they didn’t have to start serving it up.

And an especially noble move by Ryan Miller letting that whiny punk Crosby get the “winner”. I honestly expected Crosby in his post game interview to say “Thank god we scored and I’m not going to get lynched by an angry Vancouver mob tonight” and then complain that he was getting slashed / tripped / held and the refs wouldn’t call it and that the US players were “really mean men”.

My a**…. here’s BO the candidate on his “politics of change”:

“We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project.”

Here’s BO’s today on his precious health care reform… his White House chief spokesman explained all the recent kick backs (aka bribes) given to Senators (such as Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Chris Dodd, Bernie Sanders, and many others) on the fence about health care as follows:

“Every senator uses whatever leverage they have to help their states. That’s the way it has been. That’s the way it will always be.”

I don’t know what’s sadder – that so many people were gullible enough to believe this guy in the beginning or that some of them still do. “Yes, we can all have cheap health care, high standards of living, affordable half million dollar homes, big screen TVs, cheap transportation and green energy AND save money too!”. There’s some saying, can’t quite remember, about when something sounds too good to be true….? Ah whatever, pass me my bailout money and free health care!

I feel bad for my kids… they’re the generation that’s probably going to have the painfully realize the federal government (the same one that under the guise of the USPS lost 3.8 BILLION dollars last year alone putting envelopes in mailboxes) cannot spend a TRILLION on health care and somehow have it end up saving us money. They’re the ones that are going to end up living in a province of China when the people financing all of our drunken sailor style spending call in their debts.

Sigh……

Been awhile since I blogged so what the hell, another post while I’m here.

Another Turkey Day is here and time really does fly as they say…. been working at ESPN and living in CT for 2+ years now, James just turned 1 a week or two ago and my oldest Ryan is deep in the midst of the “terrible threes” (not to be confused with the non-existent terrible twos) wherein he often alternates between incessant whining and violent knocking over of things until being sent to his room. The bank just bought a great house they let my beautiful family and I live… bday #34 for me is looming close…. I can honestly say I never considered that I would someday be this age :-)

Think this classic pretty much sums it up…. this is not my beautiful life…
Talking Heads… Once in a Lifetime

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I for one am adding one more thing to the festivities…. burning a few tires in celebration!

You all remember “global warming”… that’s the one where leftist tree huggers blame evil America for killing the planet and make wild speculations (framed as hard scientific “facts”) about the 4.5 billion year old earth’s climate based on the (maybe) 200 years we’ve actually been measuring it.

I say remember b/c some of the foremost “global warming experts” have been caught red handed colluding to fabricate evidence of warming and suppress their own data showing the earth has actually started cooling!!!! The dominoes in this massive fraud are starting to fall… the obvious logical answer that we don’t truly understand how the earth’s climate cycles works (we know there was an ice age millions of years ago so clearly there has been global warming before fossil fuels no?) and, in fact, much of the data shows the earth is actually once again COOLING is starting to be proven to be the right one.

And while it’s great to see these Al Gore worshipping nut jobs exposed, it’s also scary to be reminded of how effective and pervasive the old marxist MO of taking over a “respected” organization to lie, cheat and slander anyone who dares oppose can be.

ClimateGate may be biggest scientific scandal ever

The end of summer is always bittersweet… September always leaves me wishing I’d had more time to enjoy summer (especially since it rained half the summer this year) but taking solace in the return of football Sundays and 12 hours on the couch.

I totally bombed my NFL predictions last year picking the Cowboys over Jags… neither made the playoffs.

But this year will be better… I can feel it. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.

NFC
East = Giants (11-5), Eagles (9-7), Redskins (7-9), Cowboys (7-9)
North = Bears (11-5), Vikings (9-7), Packers (8-8), Lions (2-14)
South = Panthers (12-4), Saints (11-5), Falcons (9-7), Bucs (4-12)
West = Cardinals (9-7), Seahawks (8-8), 49ers (6-10), Rams (3-13)

AFC
East = Patriots (11-5), Dolphins (7-9), Jets (7-9), Bills (6-10)
North = Steelers (14-2), Ravens (8-8), Browns (8-8), Bengals (6-10)
South = Colts (12-4), Titans (11-5), Texans (9-7), Jaguars (6-10)
West = Chargers (11-5), Raiders (6-10), Broncos (4-12), Chiefs (4-12)

Playoffs
Bears over Saints in NFC championship, Steelers over Colts in AFC

Super Bowl
Hate to say it but Pittsburgh repeats… Steelers 23 Bears 13