Saturday, May 19, 2012


My oh my, it sure seems there's been unusual drama in the sports world in the last seven days. Last Sunday Manchester City won the English Premier League with two goals in stoppage time. Today, Chelsea beat Bayern Munich in the Champions League on penalty kicks.  An excruciating loss for Bayern, playing on its home field. They had taken the lead in the 83rd minute but Didier Drogba tied it five minutes later. Again, a title game went into stoppage time. And then... Drogba tripped Franck Ribery in the box. Arjen Robben took the penalty and Petr Cech saved!  We would have put Cech's save on the header but:

He got it, yes he did.  So yeah, we put "I'll Have Another" on the header.

Again, it was "Bodemeister" in the lead the whole race.  This time I.H.A came down the stretch (again sans Dave Johnson's call) and just nipped it at the wire. Two-thirds of the Triple Crown are his.  The Belmont Stakes is June 9. It hasn't happened since 1978. And City hadn't won England since 1968.