Marktopia

A number of reports are coming in that José Mourinho is no longer the manager at Chelsea. I guess when you have a billionaire as an owner, 2 EPL titles, an FA Cup title and the League Cup isn’t enough if you also don’t win the Champions League. Out of all this Lloyd Carr and Charlie Weis still have jobs. Maybe the coaching carousel in the States isn’t as bad as it could be.

I havn’t posted much recently because I had to reload my mac and havn’t reinstalled ecto yet and I have been too lazy to go to the web interface to post.  That is in conjunction with having about a billion things going on with the house, the kitten and softball over the last two weeks.  That being said, I have a few comments about stuff that has happened and is noteworthy.

• The EPL started, besides Iowa football games, Saturday mornings are up for some debate as to start with college football or soccer now.  Also, Everton won, so that is a bonus.
• The new iLife is cool.  Rebekah and I are getting used to the new Events thing in iPhoto, but we think we like it.  We havn’t given iWeb a look yet, but we think it holds promise for some family sites we have.
• Gas weed-wackers are tough on the arms if you are not used to them.
• The 4400 continues to be one of the best shows that few people know about.  If you like Heroes, then you owe it to yourself to get all of The 4400 and watch it.
• It hasn’t been cloudy all weekend and has been very hot.  With hours before a great meteor shower, it is cloudy.
• 54 holes of golf in 48 hours is always a good thing.

That kind of sums up the last couple of weeks.  Posts will come faster now that my mac is up and going again and I am feeling motivated to post.

I have really gotten into soccer over the last year, so much so that I watched most of a Chicago Fire match last weekend that had no offense at all in it (other than the lack of quality play from both teams). While watching all this soccer, I have gotten interested in other leagues, specifically the MLS (kinda) and Serie A in Italy (it got picked up by FSC for this season). Is it wrong to cheer for teams in other leagues? I am a big Everton fan, but some other teams are fun to watch in other leagues so is it bad to cheer for them as long as they are not playing Everton? I am open to thoughts on this because soccer is not quite the distinction of different sports in the US, but also isn’t quite like cheering for two teams in the same sport. In any case, what do you think?