Thoughts on Spy-Gate, A-Rod and the joy in a loss

Glad to hear that Bills TE Kevin Everett is making some progress from his injury, best wishes from this end of the world for a recovery.
If you read this blog you know I detest Notre Dame, I think it was from back when I was a kid and Gerry Faust was the coach, folks used to talk so much about how great Notre Dame was and they really weren't I have friends who are Notre Dame apologists adn who were quick to remind me how many Heisman trophy winners and national championships that they have. My lothing reached a peak in the late 80's and early 90's after they won a national championship in '88 and the whole Catholics vs Convicts thing was in full effect. I used to hate hearing Lou Holtz whine that despite being 24 point favorites against Navy that they were in deep trouble and would be lucky to steal a one point win. Then after they blasted some hapless opponent Holtz would act like they were so fortunate. When an opportunity came up for Notre Dame to join the Big Ten, I was actually very much in favor of it, have them join the Big Ten who had just recently added Penn State and call it the Great Midwest (The name Big 12 was already taken) but Notre Dame turned them down, thought they had been a member of the Big East in all other sports. Irish fans bleat about how their football team is a national team and play who they want to. They play Big Ten and Pac Ten teams, but they also have their fair share of patsies on their docket.
Being partial to Michigan, I was always happy to see the Blue beat the Irish and I was never more than I was yesterday to see them hand out a 38-0 drubbing. The Irish looked inept and lost. I was happy to see the chickens finally coming home to roost. The Notre Dame fans ran a good coach in Ty Willingham out because he hadn't brought a national title in two years and it should be noted that Charlie Weis started fast using Willingham's players. Now Weis has his players and the Irish are bad, and the apologists have nothing to say. You think NBC is looking to get out of having to broadcast weekly beatings and the Irish will pay for its long standing arrogance. Uh-Oh, there are no patsies on this schedule either at least not in the forseeable future. Michigan State, Purdue, UCLA, and BC are all lined up and aside from UCLA who took a puzzling rout from Utah, all are rough tough and waiting to take their pounds of flesh. Oh and who comes to town on the 20th??? USC who is looking quite frightening. Look for Navy to have their first real shot at beating the Irish for the 1st time in 44 years.
OK, now some quick hits: A-Rod to Yankee Nation. "Please love me now???" He is the runaway choice for AL MVP his numbers as of Sunday 52 HRs 141 RBI's and a crisp .314 batting average. In any other city, A-Rod would be rightly lionized. But in NYC where he will always be second fiddle to Yankee captain Derek Jeter who rightly so is the megastar. And the thing that Jeter will have that A-Rod does not is four World Series rings and he has performed in October. The Yankees have been pulled from the depths of mediocrity due to A-Rod's clutch play, but if he has another forgettable October he will get blasted...again. And anything short of winning the World Series in New York is a failure, the only way the A-Rod gets a pass is if he plays great and the Yanks meltdown but he still will be labeled unfairly a loser.
Finally, lets take a look at the whole tape-gate, spy thing that Belichick and the Pats are still recovering from. The pundits are trying to question how much the Pats benefited and are questioning the integrity of their wins. I say, let it go. The Pats were and still are a good team, their players are top notch and I'm tired of hearing opposing teams whine if some of their wins should be vacated. The Pats players are what got them the wins, the coaches can only do so much. Stop whining. I'm not a Pats apologist, and I think that Bill Belichick should have been made to serve a multi-game suspension for his part in it, but whats done is done.