3-point potshots

Questions:

1. Brett Favre has come out of retirement yet again, signing with the Minnesota Vikings. What the hell is he thinking?

2. Ah, another fall sports season: football, volleyball, cross-country, soccer, field hockey. What Yale sport are you most looking forward to?

3. With a .639, the Yankees have the best win percentage in all of Major League Baseball. Will they win the World Series?

Jay Lundeen:

1. Brett Favre is probably as egotistical as Michael Jordan. Neither can stand not being talked about, but at least Favre’s never tried to play baseball. Look, Favre is old as hell, has injured himself a million times, and has enough money to buy a gold-plated jet. I see only two reasons for Favre’s “unretirement.” One, he loves playing football to the point of obsession, or two, he loves seeing his ugly mug on SportsCenter to the point of obsession. I vote the latter.

2. Women’s volleyball. There’s nothing quite like picking up the opposing team’s roster, finding the name of the girl who missed her serve, and heckling her mercilessly.

3. Maybe. But if they do, Nietzsche was right, God IS dead, and Derek Jeter killed him. The Yankees represent all that is soulless and wrong. Plus, they’re choke-artists. World Series 2001, Game 7, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, game tied, Louis Gonzales hits a single past Derek Jeter and Jay Bell scores to win the Series. I don’t even need to mention the Yankee’s abysmal loss in the 2004 AL Championship Series to the Red Sox, the wild-card team that year. The Sox are headed for a wild-card spot this season, too. Just sayin’.

 George Harris:

1. I think Brett Favre is only thinking about one thing: how much he loves playing the game of football. As someone who will never be anywhere near the level he plays at, I can identify. I mean, if teams were willing to keep paying you millions of dollars to run around, throw a ball, and wear Wrangler jeans, wouldn’t you keep going?

2. Intramural sports. Trumbull College is going to be running through people all year. If Trumbull doesn’t, I promise I will.

3. I honestly don’t know much about baseball. I don’t even know what all the fuss is about. The Yankess pay their players more than anyone else right? I sure hope they win, because there’s nothing worse than a bad investment. Hey, if they can manage to keep winning and not have any breakdowns, they just might pull it off.

Andrew Kaufman:

1. Brett Favre is dead to me.

I take that back, I think he’s a pretty good guy.

Nope, he’s dead to me again.

He’s actually not that bad.

Completely dead to me.

(Annoyed yet? Now you know how I feel, Brett.)

2. Of course it’s football. Our boys may be reloading, and the volleyball team may have all the glory right now, but nothing beats The Game at home.

3. I feel the same way about the Yankees that one of my mentors, Pierson C Hoops official statistician and cheerleader Dan Kanter, PC ’09, feels about the University of Michigan: I hate them. Which is why I couldn’t be more thrilled with the recent injuries to their rotation. I say The Sawx bring home the rings again.

 

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