Road Bump For the Aging Aussies
It's been a rough couple of days in sports for me and I'm getting razzed from my friends on all sides. It was bad enough when the Rams (yes, I still love the Rams even though that bitch Georgia Frontiere absconded to St. Louis with my team years ago) lost to the hated San Francisco 49ers in their NFL opener.
But the Rams will have a chance to avenge their loss late in the season. Australia, who turned over the Ashes to England for the first time in almost two decades, will have to wait a year and a half for revenge. While it's a sad day for Australian cricket, it's a joyous one for the long frustrated English fans and I congratulate them, especailly my good buddy Phil, a transplanted Yorkshireman living in London. It's about time the Ashes were competitive.
It's funny. I don't feel that bad about the loss. It's just sports and as much fun as it is for my teams to win, it's not such a big deal when they take one on the chin. I've got bigger fish to fry I suppose. Or it could be that I didn't see a single over on TV and could only follow it online here in the States, a cricket wasteland. Take your pick.
Australia have some soul searching to do. The aging team that includes a handful of players including Shane Warne, Damien Martyn, Matthew Hayden and Glenn Mcgrath who were playing Test cricket for the Aussies when I lived in Melbourne back in 1993. Most likely it's time for these boys to retire and make some places for up and coming talent that Australia, depsite its relatively small population, continues to develop at an astonishing pace.
