Weekend thoughts

Damn, this really is the best time of the year for sports. So much happened this weekend:

You know, I'm not excited about Tom Brady getting hurt. More than anything, I hate to see great athletes get injured in the prime of their career. I don't think of Brady as part of any Evil Empire or a recipient of bad karma or anything. I just hope he returns as soon as possible so that we can watch him play quarterback. And we all know how few effective NFL quarterbacks there are...

Carlos Delgado is NOT the National League Most Valuable Player. IS NOT. Since his two-homer, nine-RBI game on June 26 at Yankee Stadium, Delgado is hitting. 293 with 20 homers and 56 RBIs. Good numbers. But he's batting just .273 with a decent .349 OBP in his past 20 games. Sure, he has seven homers and 22 RBIs in that stretch, but six of those homers and 13 of those RBIs came in just three games. Aside from a five-hit, three-RBI performance also during the streak, Delgado has just four MVP-like games in his last 20 contests. Sorry, but an MVP has to be more consistent than that to get the award...

Sort of like Albert Pujols. Chew on these stats from his past 19 games, a time in which the Cardinals are only 9-10: Pujols has 10 multi-hit games, has hit safely in 17 contests and he has nine multi-RBI efforts, with eight home runs in the stretch, including four in his last eight games. THAT is an MVP, folks. How far under .500 would they be in that stretch without Albert's efforts?...

I don't like Reggie Bush, and not just because Kim Kardashian is one hot mama right now (no matter how awful she's destined to look in five-10 years). I don't like Bush because of the way he carries himself, an attitude evident in a comment he made on Sunday after juking a defender who had been talking trash to him earlier in the game. When asked about blowing past Tampa Bay Bucs defender Jermaine Phillips for a touchdown, Bush said, "The play before he was talking trash and the next play he was on my highlight tape." I mean, seriously, SHUT UP! Bush has 16 career touchdowns, including one return TD, in 29 games, so he hasn't exactly been lighting the NFL world on fire. He didn't even have a rush or a reception longer than 25 yards last season, kind of an odd statistic for someone who's supposed to be one of the NFL's biggest playmakers. I don't know what's in the food of the student cafeteria at Southern Cal, but their football program sure has put a lot of busts and muscleheads in the NFL the last few years, haven't they? Matt Leinart, Bush, Dwayne Jarrett, Mike Williams, LenDale White...