As for a quick weekend recap, my teams went nearly undefeated. Obviously Maccabi Haifa beat Rishon Le'Zion on Saturday, the Phoenix Suns beat the Portland Jailblazers on friday night, my North Dakota State Bison won on Saturday (big ups Coop), and the Arizona Cardinals dominated the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. Only loss on the weekend came by the way of the Oregon State Beavers as they beat the Arizona State football team. Overall, my squads went 4-1 on the weekend... I will gladly walk away from it with a .800 winning percentage. This week my lazy day was Sunday instead of today because we played Saturday. I did the usual which includes laundry and grocery shopping. The unusual thing that occurred was the viewing of four episodes of the Showtime show 'Dexter'. I have to add it to my list of favorite shows, it's pretty damn good, and very very addicting. Anyhow, while there are elections going on in Israel right now as well, the election I have been following the closest is the presidential election of the US. I am, by no means, a knowledgeable person when it comes to politics, BUT I have been watching a lot of Fox News and CNBC (the two American news stations I get on the cable package here) so I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what's going on. I really can't give an educated opinion on the different policies, or the whole 'spread the wealth' argument, but something is happening in the race that can very easily be analogized to a sporting event. Picture this... an up and coming team who is pretty good, but doesn't yet know how good they are is currently beating an old, veteran team who, with one more loss, will be considered past their prime. The younger team is executing better, is more athletic, and is clicking on all cylinders in the first half, and takes a big 15 point half-time lead. In the third quarter, it's the same story, but the older, veteran team keeps hanging around, making shots when they need to, basically just doing enough to stay in the game, and the veteran team then manages to cut the lead to 10 points by the end of the third quarter. Well, now it's the fourth quarter, and it's crunch time, and the young, exciting team is 'playing not to lose' the game, instead of doing what they had been the previous three quarters, which was being aggressive, and looking to score, and now they are sitting back on their heels, hoping that something goes their way. Meanwhile, the old veteran team who has been there before, knew that if they played their game the whole way, they would have a shot to win down the stretch, because they had been through the battle before, and they know what it takes to win.
That's my personal 'basketball' opinion on the US Presidential election right now... Barack Obama is up 3 points with 1 minute to go... but John McCain has the ball, and if he get's a quick bucket, it's anybody's election to win on Tuesday.
Hopefully that makes sense to you all, because it makes really good sense in my head! HAHA. Anyway, I hope you all had a great weekend, and I'll hit you up soon.
