Rob has to be pretty psyched about the Saints’ chances this year. Have to admit they looked pretty good today.

Gotta pick the Yankees to take it all this year. As much as I hate to see it – and you’ll excuse me if I don’t watch them play the Phillies for all the marbles – they just seem to have all the good karma this year.

…when it comes to national broadcasts of baseball, I just can’t watch if it involves the Yankees. Everyone just kisses their asses and you can bet they’ll be fawning over Alex Rodriguez (oh A-Rod, isn’t he wonderful!!!) and Derek Jeter. The Phillies won’t even exist. It just makes me want to puke.

Although I’m only a casual follower of the NBA, I’m picking the Celtics to go all the way this year. I think the addition of Rasheed Wallace trumps the Lakers picking up Ron Artest.

Reading Tom Piazza’s Why New Orleans Matters. It’s an interesting read.

And I’m slowly working my way through The World At War. When it comes to World War II documentaries it’s hard to beat this. I remember seeing it whe it first came out thirty years ago; it looks great on DVD.

Me, I’m gonna pass on “This Is It”. The whole hoopla surrounding Michael Jackson’s death still eludes me – I mean, I get it, right? But I don’t get the extent of it. Of course, same thing holds true for the “balloon boy” and his family thing. Maybe it goes back to the fact that I was never a big circus fan – I guess freaks never really interested me.