Gregg, Just Us the Truth

You have got to love Gregg Easterbrook. He continues to be on his hate-filled diatribe against your New England Patriots.

If you read any of Eastrebrook's work on Page 2 of ESPN.com you know what I mean. For some reason he cannot accept the fact that the Patriots are the best team in the league this year. He needs to stroke his ego by continuing to pile on Bill Belichick.

Easterbook's latest debacle is laced with so much animosity that he mis-portrays that facts of his latest claim that the Pats again ran up the score against the Bills. Here is what Easterbook says in his piece:

"At the end of the third quarter, the Patriots were leading Buffalo 42-7 -- more than the margin of the greatest comeback in NFL history -- yet Tom Brady was still on the field, still throwing passes like mad while the Flying Elvii were going for it on fourth down rather than attempting a field goal, frantically trying to run up the score."

Hey Gregg, take a look at the official play-by-play of the game. It shouldn't take you too much work as you can find it on ESPN.com. Here is the play-by-play of the last five plays of the third quarter and first play of the fourth:

1st and 10 at BUF 19
(3:10) (Shotgun) T.Brady scrambles left tackle to BUF 15 for 4 yards.
2nd and 6 at BUF 15
(2:29) K.Eckel left tackle to BUF 12 for 3 yards (A.Hargrove).
3rd and 3 at BUF 12
(1:49) K.Eckel right guard to BUF 10 for 2 yards (A.Schobel, K.Ellison).
4th and 1 at BUF 10
(1:09) T.Brady pass short right to R.Moss to BUF 7 for 3 yards (T.McGee). Screen pass, caught at BUF 9.
1st and 7 at BUF 7
(:28) K.Eckel up the middle to BUF 1 for 6 yards (A.Schobel).

2nd and 1 at BUF 1
(15:00) K.Eckel up the middle for 1 yard, TOUCHDOWN.

Over this period Brady threw 1 pass for 3 yards. He was in on 1 play in the fourth quarter for a total of 5 seconds...Eckel's touchdown run. Matt Cassel came in to play the rest of the game. Hardly "throwing passes like mad while the Flying Elvii were going for it on fourth down rather than attempting a field goal, frantically trying to run up the score."

Easterbrook must be one of those reporters who despise Belichick because he doesn't spoon feed the media what it wants each week. I have no problem with that. Just tell us that's the case so we can take everything he writes with a HUGE grain of salt.

The Sweet View of Success

Under the catagory: When things are going good...

It was fun to see that the Celtics' seven game season opening winning streak got top billing this morning on SportsCenter.

When was the last time a C's game was the top story on ESPN?

"It's good to be the King!"

We All Need to Take a Breath

More disturbing developments here in the greatest sports region of the country.

The discussion has been held on WEEI and Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight on Comcast Sports Net about who you would rather have on your basketball team: Larry Bird or Kevin Garnett?

Are you kidding me? Listen, KG is off to a great start in a Celtic uniform and will probably punch his ticket to Springfield if he continues on this pace under the media scrutiny of Boston. But you cannot even begin this argument until Garnett wins three NBA titles here. Case closed.

It's a case of the local media trying to engage both young and old fans into a discussion. I really don't think any level-headed Celtics fan will fall into the trap of taking a serious look at this question.

Tokyo or Bust?

I have been away for a while but now I'm back. I hope to post more often on all things Boston Sports. For my welcome back piece I must let off some steam...

It was announced today that the Red Sox will open up their 2008 season by playing a pair of games against the Oakland A's in Tokyo. The games are set for March 25 and 26. This disturbs me on a number of levels.

First and foremost, why do our professional sports leagues continue to feel that they need to shove their product before the rest of the world? Don't they make enough money? Only they would be so pretentious to think that what we do here HAS to be embraced around the globe. Like it's their birthright. Do sports leagues in other countries feel as confident that they should play regular season games in the U.S. ? I'm still waiting to see an early season Australian League Football contest held here in the states.

Pro leagues should promote their product abroad through merchandising and re-broadcasting rights. There is no need to disrupt the flow of a normal season of two teams for the outside chance that the host nation will some day have an epiphany.

The biggest drawback to this plan is that the two game series will cost the A's two home games. I'm sure they're getting compensated for the inconvenience but it puts them at a disadvantage by not having their home fans part of the game. With Dice-K and Oki playing for the Sox, which team do you think will have the backing of the Japanese?

It was a similar case this past month when the Miami Dolphins were considered the home team when they played the Giants in London. The Dolphins were gypped of one-eighth of their home games! For what?

Most associated with the teams do not like the idea. The players hate it. Curt Schilling said as much this morning on WEEI. Players for both the Sox and A's will need to play at a high level during their third week of Spring Training. Will they be ready to play then? Let's hope no one gets hurt.

Let's keep our games for us. If the rest of the world wants to join us, they know where to find us.

Do We Appreciate All Of This?

Why is it that when we are successful it is never enough? We are living in the greatest sports region in the country with our teams succeeding beyond our expectations. Yet we still look for ways not to enjoy it.

With the Sox two wins away from another world championship, the Patriots in the midst of history, the Celtics about to begin their most anticipated season in years, and the Bruins with a winning record, we here in New England are spoiled. Add to that Boston College in the BCS hunt and the Revolution beginning another playoff run, and we seem to want more.

I know our provincialism makes us the best yet least satisfied of all sports fans. Let's learn to just enjoy this and cherish the fact that one day we will look upon this period of New England sports history as the gold era. We should be soaking all this in. It may never happen again.