The Sports Gods Were Smiling At Me, Sort of......

Loyal readers of this post, thank you to the two of you, will have noted that I was very excited to be able to watch my first live Seahawks game since I came to Ireland on Thursday night.

In addition, the good people at Sky Sports graced me with my first Sonics game as well on Saturday night at 6 pm.

This was like I hit the Chris Tobin sports viewing jackpot! I was really excited to be able to track to of my favorite teams for the first time all year.

But then I watched the games. Sometimes sports is much better in the anticipation than the actual event. Let's just say that it was not my ideal result to see Alex Smith channel his inner Joe Montana for the second half in Seattle. After watching paint dry, er the first half, that was excruciating. When Kelly Herdon missed that sack I almost woke Paty up I was so pissed and wanted to talk to someone. Of course, it was 3:30 in the morning at that time so I wisely relented.

Then the Sonics were on last night, Saturday. We get two NBA games a week, one Monday night and one Saturday night. These are tape delayed so invariably they were from the night before. But since I don't normally know the scores they are pseudo live for me.

Well, Ray Allen was hurt and this was an away game for the Sonics so I knew it would be tough. As the first quarter unfolded, Lebron James and Larry Hughes combined to make their first 14 shots which opened a 20 point lead and that was basically the ball game. It was over before it started. The Sonics showed remarkably little intestinal fortitude. They looked like a team on the fourth of a five game East Coast road trip that was mailing it in. Maybe they were all distracted by the housing market in Oklahoma City.

So the confluence of events that led me to get soooooo excited to watch 'my boys' was a let down to say the least.

And Reading lost 1-2 yesterday at home to Blackburn in another battle of all American goalies to complete the trifecta.

At least the Husky's responded well from their first loss of the season by thumping Portland State, both school's I attended by the way. Speaking of two schools, just for the recond I was firmly cheering for the Huskies. Unlike some of my turncoat family I have no problem cheering for a school's football AND basketball team.

It has recently come to my attention that most of my family was disappointed to see Gonzaga lose to WSU for the first time in forever. So my family that all graduated from WSU, were all cheering for the Zags.

I could say more, but it is Christmas, so I will let it go. Stop picking at the scab Chris.....