Stories about people are usually the most interesting parts of sports, and today we have all sorts of interesting people stories to keep us interested:
I’m not surprised to hear that the Vikings have decided to put Tarvaris Jackson on the bench. He hasn’t been helping his team at all so far, and the team has to do something now before it is too late to salvage the season. That seems ridiculous to say after just two games, but that’s how the league is. What I am surprised about, though, is that the team has name Gus Frerotte the starter for the rest of the seasonn. If the team was willing to get rid of Jackson that easily then why did they wait until now, and why didn’t they find a better option than Gus Frerotte? This move doesn’t give me a ton of faith in a coaching staff that I thought was ready for big things before the season started.
Gilbert Arenas has gone through a third knee surgery and is out until the end of November. I wish that that was more surprising. I like Agent Zero a lot, and I don’t think the Wizards made a bad move by signing him to a big new contract this year. I just don’t like to hear about this. He rushed back from his first surgery. That necessitated the second, and now the third is because the second hasn’t responded as well to rehab as hoped – some debris in the knee is causiing problems. I hpe that he can get back to top form, but I will be holding off betting on him when he returs until we get a good assessment of where he is at. I know that his problems are much different than micro-fracture surgery, but I can’t help but think of how long it took Amare Stoudamire to return to top form after he came back from a knee issue. Some of that was physical, but a bigger part of it was mental. Arenas is as explosive and creative as Stoudamire, so a mental impediment from not entirely trusting the knee could be a problem for a while.
Bob Sanders is going to miss at least six weeks with knee and ankle problems. Needless to say, this is not good news for the Colts. It goes bigger than a hole on the defense, though. The Colts have been lethargic and disinterested this season (except for in the last few minutes of the comeback against the Vikings). Sanders is a spark plug player, and the type of guy who can fire up a team that needs firing up. I have been less optimistic than most about the Colts anyway, but this makes my view even dimmer.
The Tigers announced yesterday that Kenny Rogers wouldn’t pitch any more this year. I laughed when I read a couple of media sources saying that the team had declined to disclose any injury information about Rogers. I can tell you exactly what the injury information is – Rogers is a dick and the Tigers, in the midst of a horrible year, are sick of his crap. He’s not under contract, and my guess is that the name plate is already off his locker.
