Just some things I'm pondering while reflecting on taking my nearly 2-year-old daughter to her first Red Sox game on Sunday for Clay Buchholz' near no-hitter...
1. When will the Boston Globe invite Leigh Montville back to write a weekly column?
I love the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe Sports section and it has become even better since introducing a weekly column from the recently retired Bob Ryan but that only makes me wonder why the Globe has not reached out to the greatest sports columnist who ever put ink on paper. Luckily, Montville still writes for Sports on Earth and if you wondered whether or not he still has his fastball, read this column on yesterday's tragedy at the Boston Marathon.
2. What are the Patriots going to do in this year's draft?
This is always a good topic to discuss when you consider that Bill Belichick is the man calling the shots but if you take a quick look at the Patriots roster, there are very few glaring needs. Yes, receiver is a position of interest now that the Steelers matched the Patriots offer to Emmanuel Sanders but that doesn't mean it's so pressing of a need that Belichick will take a receiver if he doesn't feel that player will be able to help the team. The one thing that I've always admired about Belichick is his confidence in the team's player evaluation process and his refusal to draft or sign players just because everyone else around the NFL believes a certain player could help the Patriots. Belichick is far from perfect and he has made more than his share of personnel mistakes but it's hard to knock his decision making process considering the team has not had a losing season since Bill Clinton was President.
3. Speaking of the Patriots, who is going to write the book about how Robert Kraft, Bill Parcells, and Drew Bledsoe saved the franchise from near certain "death" back in the early 1990's?
It's funny to think that today we argue over what the Patriots need to do in order to win their sixth AFC championship and fourth Super Bowl championship of the 21st Century when just under twenty years ago, it looked like the team was going to relocate to St. Louis. Kraft is obviously the link between the two eras but Patriots fans should not forget that Parcells and Bledsoe brought credibility and success to a long-running joke of a franchise well before Belichick and Tom Brady were winning Lombardi Trophies and that they, along with Kraft, are responsible for keeping the Patriots safely secured on Route One in Foxboro. I nominate Ron Broges to be the author.
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