The Lion's share of the media and fans would get a hernia trying to lift 75 pounds two times. Their own personal athletic highlight was Little League baseball, often as a non-starter.

All these college football teams have some big, fast, ornery dudes now. Everyone has speed and talent at the skill positions. Good coaching everywhere. No matter who you are you better anticipate any road game being tough. And if you turn it over a few times any home game could be in doubt.

And the nerds who would get a hernia trying to lift 75 pounds gather around the scores like a group of chimpanzees gawking in amazement at a bright red polka-dotted beach ball.

And as I have also pointed out before, take the guy who made fun of Hawaii's opponents to any one of those teams practices and pitch him the ball on a sweep, he'd wet his pants, then intentionally and limply fall to the ground before the tacklers got there.

Nay impossible, any other aspect of our society sports or otherwise, where there is a greater degree of seperation between observers and participants than football. You basically have wimps, wannabes, and sheer obesity plopped down on the couch, in the sportsbar, or in the stands with beer in hand (the fans), or in studio with make-up or considering 4 years of college and a keyboard to represent player-coach credentials (the media)........all serving as the evaluators and experts.

How much these guys get paid to stand in front of the camera and say--"Unbelievable." Sign me up. Heck, I'm too much of a pussy for real football too, but I could do that every Saturday.

I've stopped counting the "unbelievables." First off what exactly is unbelievable? And when are they going to start believing?

And often the only component has been the name of team. Certain names had vast power associated with them. And the only time they were challenged was against another big-name. That was very simple, tidy, and mentally effortless--about all the fan or media brains could handle.

Now that component is no longer serving well and there's almost nothing left to fill the void.

Is the bad guys are sticking with their God too. And a lot of people are dying in the cross-fire.

Is not being able to distinguish what parity is. Everything is W's and L's.

Parity has been proceeding forward for a long time. More and more close games that aren't supposed to be close. But as long as the name team wins it's not parity. Stanford lost to one of the USC monsters 31-28 but that was forgotten, didn't mean a thing. Stanford beats them 24-23 and it's "what the hell is going on here? This is nuts."

In other words if the entire top-25 beats unranked teams but 10 of them were by one point everything is fine and in dandy. If 10 of the unranked teams win by a point then it's "Is this finally parity, or just a fluke?"

It's so Americano.

They should put more Boise States in the BCS. If not for them there would have been very little evidence of parity, at least at the so-called top. The other 4 BCS bowls were decided by an average margin of 20 points.

A homemade bomb underneath a jacket detonated in a public place is not terror. No one knows it's coming. Just KABOOM and it's over. Everyone in the vicinity is dead, injured, or dazed.

Jet bombers and helicopter gunships on their missions truly are terror. There you have innocent families and children and elderly huddled up somewhere terrified. As they swoop in and swoop out firing and bombing. Probably anything in the air terrifies the survivors after that.

I must have hit a nerve. The exaggerating is out of control.

The one aspect of pure parity in sports is the parity among the fans and media. They are all experts. Put them on the field in front of 50,000 and they'd faint.

That the live TV media, knowing that the fans are incessant bitchers and second guessers about managing, will be on lookout for an example to give them. Hopefully one so egregious that it can be isolated and exaggerated into the cause for defeat. If they can't find or invent one to feed the seals, then the seals will be responsible for making their own excuses and second guesses for defeat, which is their full time hobby and life's passion.

Todd Helton comes to the plate------He's been one of the great hitters, yeah everyone says 'sure but he plays in Colorado' but he's been the same on the road too.

Is this?

A.) An outright distortion-lie

or

B.) He's making it up as he goes along.

Usually the boys behind the scenes present graphics to substantiate the blabbing, but no graphics this time.

You watch these dink richochets off that green monster over and over. Been going on for decades.

And they call Bonds stats a fraud.

So all these Mickey Mouse Boston hitters that hit a ton of doubles throughout the years would have led the league in home runs if they had just not been in Boston.

Drew hit one down the left field line, the other way for the lefty. When it came off his bat it didn't look like anything. No stunned yelp from the announcer at contact. The camera follows it and it sails well higher than the wall a little bit foul.

Red Sox won last 4 games 43-6.........1996 Braves won last 3 of NLCS and first two of World Series 48-2. Braves had next 3 games at home and lost the series.

Part of it may be that come World Series time, they go into ass-kissing mode. The stars are SOOOO good, and any of the previously expressed doubts have to be rebuked.

They could put up the stats which show the serious career differential AND say that his career road stats are still damn respectable, as King has pointed out before.

Chip Caray