Good Vibes from NYC

 Have to thank CC in NYC for thinking David Stearns, now the General Manager of the New York Mets, will make a run at Craig Counsell for manager.

It's a good, valid consideration CC. However, I don't think Counsell will head to the Big Apple. Yes, it's a chance to manage a big market club with big, big bucks to throw around. But would the Mets play with the desire and back-to-basics style that Counsell has with the Milwaukee Brewers?

Don't think so. Way too many high priced contracts.

Meanwhile, the Brew Crew has a chance to end the post-season hopes of the Chicago Cubs this week. With a 90-69 record heading into the final three-game series, the Central Division Champion Brewers will be hosting the a wild card round next week.

I will give the announcers who handle Green Bay Packer games on Fox, etc., just one more week before I start getting testy. About what, you might wonder? Just having the name of our Former Quarterback Now Out For The Season in New York rammed down our throats, er, ears.

For the first two or three games, I get the sense of the story line. It's a big one. BUT enough is enough, folks. It's time to put it to rest and find something else to enlighten us on.

Wrote the above section prior to the third game of the season, the thrilling and improbable come-from-behind 18-17 win over New Orleans. And I must say that the announcing team was much, much better and only made a handful of Former Quarterback references.

There's a local sports columnist who produces a lot of copy. He's happy to share his opinions. In fact, down right giddy. He seems to me like a guy who doesn't see the glass as half-full or half-empty, but as smashed to bits on the floor. Give him any situation and, like Eeyore, it's an oh-me-oh-my response.

Maybe I'm just wired a little different, but as I came up as a 15-year-old sportswriter covering my high school for a nearby daily paper, I had to look for positives. After all, I lived and went to school with the athletes I was covering. Couldn't very well come down too hard, right?

Those hated St. Louis Cardinals have had a lot of success in their storied history. This season, not so much. They are currently 69-90 -- they haven't had 90 losses in a single season since 1990. On top of that, they will finish last in the Central Divison. That basement finish is only their second since 1918!

During the 34-20 thrashing the Detroit Lions were administering to the Packers, the graphic was posted that the Lions have won only a single playoff game in 68 years. But then, you have to GET to the playoffs in order to WIN there. This year's Motor City Kitties look like a team that will reach the playoffs and have success there. After years of struggling, all those high draft choices should finally pay off with a coach like Dan Campbell lighting the fire.

That would be nice, sine in reality the team hasn't been relevant for ages. Hell, the last won the NFL championship in 1957 (following a win in 1952).