Premature Jock-ularity

   It's hard to feel angry about the bitch-slapping the Patriots took Sunday at Buffalo. Yeah, the defense was about as porous as SpongeBob after a deep-sea expedition, and Tom Brady looked like a raw rookie instead of a guy who won a Super Bowl. But karma, the Curse of the Bambino, or one of those strange Eastern concepts Bill Lee loves to speak of reared its ugly head.

   For a guy who loves to talk about avoiding distractions, Bill Belichick gave us the mother of all distractions last Tuesday by dumping Lawyer Milloy and trying to defend it with a lot of jazz about the salary cap. I'll let others debate whether Lawyer was really a $4.5 million-a-year player at this point in his career.

   I may only be the son of an MBA, but what kind of management was this? The kind that sent our nation's economy into the dumper, probably. If Milloy's contract was such an issue, Bill, why didn't you dump him before training camp started? Piss or get off the pot. You could've brought a replacement in, or gotten one of the young guys up to speed. Instead, you had to be one of these people who destroys the sand castle it took all day to build even before the high tide rolls in.

   When the Red Sox made stupid moves like this, at least they got Danny Cater or Stan Papi in return. I guess Belichick has big plans for the third- or fourth-round draft choice Washington MAY have to fork over for tampering.

   POOL NOTES: @#$% Eagles! If they had at least bothered to show up last night, I could've gotten into a tiebreaker in my pool, and maybe even won my wife's pool. On Sunday night, I said to myself, "There's no way I can pick the Patriots to win at Philly next week." After last night, to quote the great philosopher Wayne Campbell, I said, "Way."

   STEP INTO THAT HYUNDAI: Just when we thought Mr. Kim (or, in homage to the two walkoff homers he threw at Yankee Stadium in the '01 Series, Well-Hung Kim) was finally morphing into a reliable, smooth-running Nissan out of the bullpen, he turned back into the inferior Eastern hunk of junk last night in Baltimore (the other guys in the bullpen were American-made lemons).

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