Just A Bit Confused

Well, here we are less than 2 hours from free agency, and I have virtually no idea of what the Birds will do to improve the team. Key veterans B Dawk and Tra remained unsigned as we head into free agency. I also haven't heard any rumors of anyone the Birds are interested in signing.

I'm starting to wonder...is there anyone home? Are Banner and Reid asleep at the wheel? If they fail to re-sign Dawkins and Thomas, they will be losing the heart of their defense and D Mac's blindside protector. To make matters worse, it doesn't appear that a viable replacement for either is currently on the roster or available in free agency.

Personally, I'd love to see the Eagles resign both of their free agents, sign TJ Housh, add a RB and TE via the draft. It will never happen though. They would require too much of an upgrade to the skill positions and the Birds are never too keen on that. They seem like they get off on doing more with less.

The Birds are doing their best to take over the title formerly held by the Phils as the City's most frustrating front office.

Reminder: We Still Own You Guys

In an 82 game season, most games mean absolutely nothing, but tonight's Caps/Flyers game stood out just a bit more than your ordinary regular season game. Whenever the two teams get together, the Caps still try to exact some revenge for last year's first round playoff loss to the Orange and Black. Plus, the Caps, along with Pittsburgh, are the media's darlings, so the Flyers always seem to have a little extra incentive to knock them off. Finally, Mike Richards and Alex Ovechkin just don't like each other so these games always have a little extra intensity and lead to some pretty decent hockey games. Thankfully for the Orange and Black, these games (the important ones at least) always seem to end up in our favor.

Tonight's game got off to a slow start with the Flyers trailing by 2 until potentially season changing rookie Claude Giroux cut the lead in half heading into the final period. In the third period, the Flyers showed more jump than Nancy Pelosi at last night's State of the Union address. (Is this thing on?) (Seriously, was anyone else completely distracted by Nancy Pelosi jumping out of her seat to applaud the second Obama completed each and every phrase of his speech?) The Flyers scored three times in 3:19 to take complete control of the game and remind the Caps who's the hammer and who's the nail in this relationship.

Overall, you have to like how this team is starting to shape up. There is more forward depth than any Flyers team in my life. The defense is competent. It's not great, but definitely serviceable. As we are all painfully aware, this season is coming down to goaltending, like it has every season since Ron Hextall's rookie year. I'm still not sure exactly what to expect from Biron and Nitty, but you have to hope one of them gets hot.

Almost forgot, it would really help to totally avoid the Devils in the playoffs. We simply don't beat that team, but we can deal that topic another day.

About To End My Hibernation....

Yes folks, my long winter's nap is just about over and I am finally about to get back to updating my blog. Hopefully, I can get the word out to my former readers and see if they're ready to join me to discuss the wonderful world of Philly sports and anything else that piques my interest.

I'm just about settled in to my new place. I have a new desk top and my office is just about complete. At this point, there is really no reason for me to not start writing again unless I have to get a part time job to afford this joint. Plus, if I start writing again, it will help me recover the multitude of brain cells I've lost wasting time on that ridiculous Face Book web site that we're all spending so much time on lately.

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I also have to thank D Mac for spurring my come back with his ballsy "get me more weapons or trade me" stance. If this moron did the same thing when T.O. said he wanted more money after the '04 Super Bowl, I'm sure we would have celebrated at least one Super Bowl championship, but instead he waits until now to play the "I won't be pushed around" role. Once you couple these comments with how he threw the defense under the bus after the NFC Title game loss, you have to think Donovan will be looking long and hard for friends in the locker room next year.

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By the way, as I write this, I realize that if I had it to do all over again, I would love to have Todd McShay's job on ESPN. I really blame Rutgers. If I could have just majored in "NFL Draft Analysis and Reporting", I would have never wasted so much time getting my JD and MBA. I've just watched this nit wit (with great hair, by the way) drone on for five minutes about draft prospects and not offer anything I didn't hear Mike Mayock or Peter King say in the last week. I'm convinced I could have replaced this guy as Mel Kiper's apprentice.